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   Message 31,202 of 32,813   
   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCINO13 Game 8, Rounds 9-10: slog   
   17 Dec 22 11:27:06   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > ** Game 8, Round 10 - Challenge Round - April Fool   
   >   
   > * A. What a Fool Believes   
   >   
   >    A2. The Ponzi scheme that he ran is considered to be the   
   >        largest financial fraud in US history.  He was arrested   
   >        in 2008.  Who """is""" he?   
      
   Marsden   
      
   (My mind is not really able to find the exact name. I believe that is   
   actually the name of a rock'n'roller. But I can at least try it.)   
      
   > * D. I Pity the Fool   
   >   
   > In each case, name the trash-talking boxer.   
   >   
   >    D1. He had these words for his opponent Lennox Lewis in 2002:   
   >        "My style is impetuous.  My defense is impregnable.   
   >        And I'm just ferocious.  I want your heart.  I want   
   >        to eat his [sic] children.  Praise be to Allah."   
      
   Mick Tyson   
      
   >    D2. In 1975 he said his opponent Joe Frazier "is so ugly that he   
   >        should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife".  Later,   
   >        in the build-up to the notorious Thrilla in Manila, he said,   
   >        "It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when   
   >        I get the gorilla in Manila."   
      
   Muhammed Ali   
      
   > * E. Fool's Gold   
   >   
   >    E1. By American standards, fake gold is anything with a purity   
   >        below what threshold in karats?  Answer within 2 karats.   
      
   14   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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