# In Search of a Feud by 42fish \[Game Over\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 14, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479 "2010-03-14T21:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/41 "2010-03-15T16:33:43Z")
1. Fringe 2. J.K. Rowling 3. Bermuda triangle 4. D.B. Cooper 5. Nostradamus 6. unicorn 7. King Tut’s curse 8. Elvis 9. weather balloon 10. Mission: Impossible ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/42 "2010-03-15T16:52:10Z")
1. Twilight Zone 2. Dan Brown 3. Bermuda Triangle 4. Jimmy Hoffa 5. Nostradamus 6. unicorn 7. The curse of Tippecanoe 8. Hamlet’s father 9. balloons 10. Wrote “I Am Not Spock” ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/43 "2010-03-15T17:04:17Z")
1. The Twilight Zone 2. Michael Crighton 3. Area 51 4. DB Cooper 5. Nostradomus 6. Bigfoot 7. Curse of the Bambino 8. Tom Joad 9. Military planes 10. Simpsons guest appearances ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/44 "2010-03-15T17:18:06Z")
1. _The Twilight Zone_ 2. Whitley Streiber 3. The Winchester Mystery House 4. Aimee Semple McPherson 5. Nostradamus 6. Dragon 7. The Hope Diamond curse 8. Jacob Marley 9. Weather balloons 10. A really bad Bilbo Baggins video \*10 (Oh, he was on Mission: Impossible, too, but that video is impossible to get out of your mind once you’ve seen it) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/45 "2010-03-15T18:26:20Z")
1. Supernatural 2. H.P. Lovecraft 3. The Bermuda Triangle 4. Judge Crater 5. Jeanne Dixon 6. Unicorn 7. Tecumseh’s curse 8. Abraham Lincoln 9. Weather Balloon 10. “Saved” Springfield from a runaway monorail 11. Presidents elected in years ending with 0 die in office 12. to be honest, I’ve never heard of anyone allegedly coming back as a ghost 13. in a Simpson’s Episode ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/46 "2010-03-15T19:21:41Z")
1. Twilight Zone 2. Dan Brown 3. Area 51 4. Ambrose Bierce 5. Nostradamus 6. Unicorn 7. King Tut’s tomb 8. Anne Boleyn 9. weather balloon 10. Director of “Three Men and a Baby” For #10 I’m tempted to put “The Universe and I,” an instructional TV series produced where I work, but I am forced to admit that this is probably not one of Nimoy’s better-known credits. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/47 "2010-03-15T19:57:02Z")
1. _Unsolved Mysteries_ 2. Dean Koontz 3. Bermuda Triangle 4. Jimmy Hoffa 5. Nostradamus 6. Bigfoot 7. Curse of King Tut’s tomb 8. Abraham Lincoln 9. The planet Venus 10. Written the book _I Am Not Spock_ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/48 "2010-03-15T20:11:16Z")
Woot, I knew that that stupid Bilbo song would be widely-known among Dopers! It’s the perfect score opportunity: Enough people answering it that it’s worth good points, but not so many that everyone gets it and it becomes irrelevant. Tut-tut to how few people are going with Tecumseh, though (does the Curse of Tippecanoe count as the same thing?). ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/49 "2010-03-15T20:17:13Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > 1. The curse of Tippecanoe > > 2. Wrote “I Am Not Spock” 1. Same as the Curse of Tecumseh/Presidential Deaths curse mentioned by others. Tecumseh fought William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe (in the county where I’m typing this) in 1811. Harrison died in 1841 after one month in office, thus becoming the curse’s first (alleged) victim. 2. Hope that this answer and my essentially identical one get lumped in with the more general “author” and “written a couple of books” responses. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > 1. curse of the billy goat Same as the reference to [Cubs never again winning World Series](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sianis). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/50 "2010-03-15T20:18:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Woot, I knew that that stupid Bilbo song would be widely-known among Dopers! It’s the perfect score opportunity: Enough people answering it that it’s worth good points, but not so many that everyone gets it and it becomes irrelevant. A week ago I’d have probably gone with the song. But I was thinking Peter Graves’ death might push up the Mission: Impossible votes. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/51 "2010-03-15T20:57:58Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Tut-tut to how few people are going with Tecumseh, though (does the Curse of Tippecanoe count as the same thing?). I would think so to the latter part. To the former, well, that’s the price of going a bit too high-brow in your reference. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/52 "2010-03-15T21:18:51Z")
Heh, my first inclination was the Hope Diamond. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/53 "2010-03-15T21:19:38Z")
I guess I’ll go with “singer” \, director, author, narrator/host, and break out specific acting roles such as the Simpsons and Mission:Impossible. I’ve never seen that Bilbo Baggins video, and I’m not clicking on that link either. You can’t make me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/54 "2010-03-15T21:23:46Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I’ve never seen that Bilbo Baggins video, and I’m not clicking on that link either. You can’t make me. 😉 To tell you the truth, I’ve never seen the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/55 "2010-03-15T21:28:29Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Woot, I knew that that stupid Bilbo song would be widely-known among Dopers!.. I thought I was just being funny with that answer. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/56 "2010-03-15T22:33:40Z")
1. Fringe 2. Dean Koontz 3. Bermuda Triangle 4. Jimmy Hoffa 5. Nostradamus 6. Bigfoot 7. King Tut’s 8. Elvis 9. Weather Balloon 10. The Simpsons 11. If I ever win big in the Lottery, I’m going to claim that the ghost of Elvis told me the winning numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/57 "2010-03-16T01:30:26Z")
I thought Elvis was rumored to be _still alive_, as opposed to being dead and appearing as a ghost. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/58 "2010-03-16T02:04:36Z")
No, no, see, there are multiple Elvises. Fat Elvis is still alive and shows up occasionally in supermarkets, but Thin Elvis died early in his career and turned into a ghost. That’s why they had to replace him with Fat Elvis in the first place. You didn’t think those were actually the same guy, did you? I mean, really. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/59 "2010-03-16T04:16:33Z")
I thought Thin Elvis replace Paul McCartney after he died. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2010, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479/60 "2010-03-16T10:02:27Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > No, no, see, there are multiple Elvises. Fat Elvis is still alive and shows up occasionally in supermarkets, but Thin Elvis died early in his career and turned into a ghost. That’s why they had to replace him with Fat Elvis in the first place. Reminds me of [“The Three Ages of Elvis”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BGOkVaJ8Pg) in Father Ted. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-search-of-a-feud-by-42fish-game-over/532479.md?page=4)