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RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Leg End Reject - 22-10-2021 I had the Bridge on Spies album ... on cassette! I loved Friends Like These and You Give Up. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Trigger - 22-10-2021 (22-10-2021, 04:36 PM)nothing Wrote: Holy smokes! @Trigger your guess was spot on!Don't thank me.. Thank wheelofnames.com RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Barna77 - 22-10-2021 (22-10-2021, 02:16 PM)ShaneU Wrote: I thought Bridge of Spies was a movie? Tom Hanks in it maybe? Was it based on a book?I had read recently about the bridge of spies in Berlin, and there was some mention about an album called after it, but I couldn't remember the band. The 50/50 narrowed it nicely RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Declan A Walsh - 22-10-2021 Like a lot here, I was able to rule out The Cure and Depeche Mode as I knew they had albums before 1987. It didn't really matter at that point, but I was also pretty sure that Depeche Mode did not have an album with that title. That just left two possible answers. I knew that the Saw Doctors became well-known later than 1987, but that did not rule out the possibility that they were an unknown act at that stage. However, I was pretty sure I had in fact heard the name of their first album (which I could not remember!) and it wasn't Bridge of Spies, if it was their first! Besides, that was not the kind of album title I would expect from The Saw Doctors! That just left T'Pau. They were big in 1987. In fact, they had a few hits. Heart and Soul was their first hit, but, understandably, everyone thinks of China In Our Hands, because it was a massive hit for them. I heard a few of their singles - repeats of Top of The Pops on BBC4 help to remind me in the last year or two - and I have to say that I particularly can't stand China in Our Hands! Anyway, given the tiny possibilities with The Saw Doctors, I was about 95% certain it was T'Pau, so I took a slight risk on it. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Kol - 26-10-2021 Welcome back, hope you all had a good weekend and listened to Bridge of Spies. Let's play, Who wants to be a FoG millionaire? RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Kol - 26-10-2021 RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Neowise - 26-10-2021 Smug face RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Leg End Reject - 26-10-2021 I think I know this, but I'm doubting myself. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Trigger - 26-10-2021 I've submitted, I'm 99% sure.. submitting early so that I don't overthink it and get on with my day ha RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - nothing - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 09:53 AM)Trigger Wrote: I've submitted, I'm 99% sure.. submitting early so that I don't overthink it and get on with my day ha Same, though only 25% sure! RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Leg End Reject - 26-10-2021 Answered, I'm only 50% sure now. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Neowise - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 10:00 AM)Leg End Reject Wrote: Answered, I'm only 50% sure now. Ive yourT’pau level of confidence and i used your exact wording to repay the favour if needed, but as you’ve answered already, can’t do that anymore, good luck. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Leg End Reject - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 10:28 AM)Neowise Wrote:I've already used my phone a friend, but I did notice that so thank you.(26-10-2021, 10:00 AM)Leg End Reject Wrote: Answered, I'm only 50% sure now. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - E.N. - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 09:53 AM)Trigger Wrote: I've submitted, I'm 99% sure.. submitting early so that I don't overthink it and get on with my day haSimilar, but far less confident RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Kol - 26-10-2021 Everyone has answered, standby for the results. We have our first wrongs answers. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Wichita Lineman - 26-10-2021 RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - E.N. - 26-10-2021 RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - quickbeam - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 04:27 PM)Kol Wrote: We have our first wrongs answers. I Phoned A Friend. If it turns out I got the wrong answer there'll be hell to pay. Never mind that they gave the same answer that I was leaning towards anyway. It'll be 100% their fault. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - E.N. - 26-10-2021 Has to be the dusty old bookshop, surely...? RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - aaronjennings - 26-10-2021 Had to use my 50/50 today... left me with the two answers I was torn between RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Kol - 26-10-2021 RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Kol - 26-10-2021
RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Trigger - 26-10-2021 Boom boom! RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - aaronjennings - 26-10-2021 Mmm... happy to be throught, but annoyed that I wasted a lifeline, I probably would have come to the same conclusion without it RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - quickbeam - 26-10-2021 Thanks Trig. Never doubted you I'm the first to have used all lifelines now. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - E.N. - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 04:41 PM)E.N. Wrote: Has to be the dusty old bookshop, surely...? Whoo-hoo! Guessing it's then Google, Facebook, Netflix, in that order...? RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Trigger - 26-10-2021 Netflix before each Google and Facebook I thibk.. they started ages ago mail order dvd's.. you can still buy/rent dvd's in the states Google was end of the 90's I'm sure while Facebook was definitely 2000's RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - E.N. - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 04:50 PM)E.N. Wrote:(26-10-2021, 04:41 PM)E.N. Wrote: Has to be the dusty old bookshop, surely...? No, Netflix was dvd rental from 97 Amazon 94, Netflix 97, Google 98, Facebook 04 RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Kol - 26-10-2021 I think its amazon 1994 Netflix 1995 Google 1197 Facebook 2004 RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Zaph - 26-10-2021 Phew, I asked the audience. Thanks, you did well folks. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - quickbeam - 26-10-2021 Maybe I should have gone with my gut and saved a lifeline These were my thoughts at 10.16am: quickbeam Wrote:Again, need to think this out... Until deciding to Phone at 12.05pm. Just checked, and: Google - 1998 Amazon - 1994 Facebook - 2004 Netflix - 1997 RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - E.N. - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 04:52 PM)Trigger Wrote: Netflix before each Google and Facebook I thibk.. they started ages ago mail order dvd's.. you can still buy/rent dvd's in the statesAs soon as a I read it I knew that too. Lucky they weren't the answer! RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Declan A Walsh - 26-10-2021 My first thought was to ask for 50-50 and then I dismissed it and headed down the cul-de-sac, rather like a lot of contestants in the Jeremy Clarkson era! I did not realise that Amazon had a pre-internet existence, likewise with Netflix. At least, you know I wasn't cheating! RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Neowise - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 05:09 PM)Declan A Walsh Wrote: My first thought was to ask for 50-50 and then I dismissed it and headed down the cul-de-sac, rather like a lot of contestants in the Jeremy Clarkson era! I did not realise that Amazon had a pre-internet existence, likewise with Netflix. At least, you know I wasn't cheating! Amazon did not have a pre internet existence. It started as an online bookstore, that is, selling books over the web. Later expandin into selling everything, not just books. Netflix was dvd movie rental via the post, before it became movie streamer. RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - nothing - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 04:53 PM)Kol Wrote: I think its 1197?! I know google are all powerful, just didn't realise they'd been around so long The relief! RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Wichita Lineman - 26-10-2021 But how did anyone find Amazon if they couldnt Google it? RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - nothing - 26-10-2021 yahoo or ask jeeves! RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Neowise - 26-10-2021 (26-10-2021, 05:25 PM)Wichita Lineman Wrote: But how did anyone find Amazon if they couldnt Google it? well, they would gopher them, or use altivista or yahoo search on there netscape browser. yahoo was like a directory back then, where you'd submit the site into the books category. altavista was like a predecessor to google, where it scraped the web, but finding stuff was just a chore. google redefined internet search so much so that it gained the term, to google for stuff RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Trigger - 26-10-2021 Yahoo was indeed the big search engine back in those days, failing that you just had to ask in the yahoo chat rooms for a link and hope for the best RE: Who Wants To Be A FoG Millionaire? - Zaph - 26-10-2021 I remember in the early days of the internet Guinness installed PCs for anyone to use in a few pubs, including McGowan's in Phibsboro. We were there one afternoon and we decided to have a play with it and within minutes we were chatting with someone in Ohio or somewhere like that. Accessing it was a bit of a chore iirc, it was all done through Netscape, but it was so incredible we didn't care how long it took. Kids these days would lose their minds waiting for a 28.8k dial-up modem to get going. |