# Internet Detective (Game) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 28, 2003, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658 "2003-11-28T02:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/181 "2003-12-06T09:26:06Z")
Morning everybody, thought this would be easier so I’ll give you a little bit of help. Before the question, I said that I was in my mate’s garage - this was very important - if you find out who my mate is and look in his garage the rest is relatively easy. The clue was relating to the identity of my mate not the artist. Hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/182 "2003-12-06T13:16:31Z")
Just checking in to see how everybody is gettting on and nobody is here! :eek: I presume you have solved the first part and have rushed off to search for the correct reference for the second part. If not, may I make a suggestion: Since you may not know me, there is very little information in my profile and Liverpool is a big place, you can deduce that in order for you to have any chance of working out who my mate is, there must be some clue or hint in a post on the SDMB. Thus, a search such as [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=1038808&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) might prove beneficial. BTW: being a relative newbie, I don’t really know whether this link will work so please bear with me :o ---
**Author:** ![BuddyToBud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@BuddyToBud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuddyToBud)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/183 "2003-12-06T14:27:06Z")
Gotta go…catch you monday ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/184 "2003-12-06T17:36:15Z")
Oh lordy. That was a hard one. Even with all the tips I still couldn’t find who he was talking to. Ok, so your mate is guinnessguzzler. It took me a while to find his username since you spelled it guinessguzzler in your post. Kinda hard to notice the missing n. After that I found his profile and his webpage. The garage was an easy find. 17th favorite album? ‘O’ by Damien Rice. So far so good. I enter the Damien Rice Website and search for gigs. The Witness Festival seems like a good choice, within the time frame specified, big with lot’s of artists. Then came multiple window hell. As I tried to find who he was spotted with I opened searches and more searches, all to no avail… I was about to give up when I tried Google on “before his set” “damien rice”. [Bingo.](http://damienrice.blogspot.com/) He was seen talking to Badly Drawn Boy. I’ll sit tight till monday for confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![GuinnessGuzzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@GuinnessGuzzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuinnessGuzzler)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/185 "2003-12-07T00:42:07Z")
Well Done ! I don’t think I’ve got it iin me to set a question of such complexity. …but did u like my website ? All the best Graham - alias GuinnessGuzzler (NB: 2 'n’s in Guinness - lovely stuff). ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/186 "2003-12-07T00:52:24Z")
Thanks **GuinnesGuzzler** , how does it feel to be made famous in a thread without participating? 😉 Your website’s cool, I especially dug the design. I’m going to try and think of a complex question, but I’m going to wait till Monday so that **B2B** can give me confirmation. ---
**Author:** ![missing\_link](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@missing\_link](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missing_link)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/187 "2003-12-07T01:52:22Z")
Darn, I missed the second hint, so I had absolutely no idea where to start. Well, lets wait till Monday for another chance. Great question by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Gmork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gmork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gmork)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/188 "2003-12-07T03:58:50Z")
I found the album, and **GuinnessGuzzler** ’s site (very nice, btw) - though I did have similar troubles to **Chavardz** with the missing ‘s’ - and tried to locate the information about who Rice was seen talking to. Somewhere along the way I got a lot of 404s, swore a bit, and went to bed. 🙂 Congrats **Chavardz** , I look forward to your monday challenge! ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/189 "2003-12-07T06:21:50Z")
I’m having trouble coming up with one, specially since the bar has been raised so high. I’ll see if I can come up with a good one on monday in the afternoon. Otherwise, I’ll pass on the challange. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/190 "2003-12-07T06:42:25Z")
I’m going to be offline monday morning, and **Macrophage** has asked me if he can post the next question. So, as soon as **BtoB** confirms the correct answer, **Macrophage** can post the next one. I hope I’ll get back in time to solve it. Good fight, good night. ---
**Author:** ![Gmork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gmork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gmork)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/191 "2003-12-07T11:52:22Z")
Very well then, I’ll look forward to meeting **Macrophage** instead. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/192 "2003-12-08T20:13:49Z")
Sorry it took so long. I tried to find sumthin really hard… and failed. You guys have seem to have gotten very good at this, so it shouldn’t take long to solve. How many campus does my uni have, and which one do I attend? ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/193 "2003-12-08T20:34:36Z")
The University of Guadalajara (guessing) since it was the first one that came up in Google. You didn’t have many posts so there wasn’t anything that I could really comb through there. A search on your email found nothing. I am going back to hotmail to see if I can find a user profile. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/194 "2003-12-08T20:39:14Z")
It’s all there, in black n’ white. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/195 "2003-12-08T20:48:57Z")
No user profile under the email you listed as your email address. And I am not going to dig around 20 pages of profiles of leet kiddies in hotmail. Care to point us in a general direction. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/196 "2003-12-08T20:49:24Z")
Holler if ya need a hint. ---
**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/197 "2003-12-08T20:50:28Z")
The first private uni in Mexico. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/198 "2003-12-08T21:01:44Z")
he Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara has four campuses and if you are in the med school you will be studying at the Jalisco one. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/199 "2003-12-08T21:47:11Z")
Damn dorkus, that was really really fast… I can vouch that that’s the right answer, the campus is located in Guadalajara Jalisco, where my brother is in his second year of med-school. 😃 You’re up ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658/200 "2003-12-08T22:14:04Z")
I got lucky. The private school is what cinched it. When I was doing searches for universidad + mexico + med school that is the one that kept popping up. I am not 100% sure if I found all the campuses. There was one in San Antonio (Texas I assume) of all places so I won’t be posting until Macrophage says I got it all right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-detective-game/215658.md?page=11)