# The President Elimination Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 24, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317 "2009-09-24T01:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 60
**Author:** ![CyclopticXander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@CyclopticXander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CyclopticXander)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1181 "2010-01-21T12:00:48Z")
Darn, my lack of participation changed the outcome of the game ☹ Anyhow, still couldn’t have gone wrong with either of the final choices. Good game! ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1182 "2010-02-02T01:25:59Z")
If I had voted I’d have picked Lincoln because my original intent was what the President did in their administrations. ☹ Plus I’m planning to create a new game based on Michael Hart’s 100 most influential people in history. Elendil’s Hair hasn’t created her thread yet so can I go? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1183 "2010-02-02T01:51:49Z")
It’s “Heir,” not “Hair,” and I’m a he. Check this out: [Greatest American elimination game (setup thread) - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550191) ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1184 "2010-02-02T02:09:11Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > It’s “Heir,” not “Hair,” and I’m a he. Check this out: [Greatest American elimination game (setup thread) - The Game Room - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550191) Sorry and thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1185 "2010-02-02T14:25:15Z")
“Elendil’s Hair” would be a funny username, though. _snort_ ---
**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:** [February 2, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1186 "2010-02-02T15:15:20Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > … I’m planning to create a new game based on Michael Hart’s 100 most influential people in history. Elendil’s Hair hasn’t created her thread yet so can I go? Playing “Elimination” with Hart’s List sounds like fun. Is the idea to come up with a better Top 100 List, or just to sort the 100 already on his list? One of Hart’s changes in his 1992 revision of the original 1978 list was to replace William Shakespeare with Edward de Vere (Earl Oxford). That’s a fun debate but you wouldn’t want it to hijack your thread. Where do Dopers debate Shakespeare Authorship, anyway? Cafe Room? Humble Opinion? … or perhaps it belongs in BBQ Pit? (By the way, if he were a she, wouldn’t she be _Elendil’s Hairess_? 🆒 ) ---
**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:** [February 2, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1187 "2010-02-02T15:22:12Z")
I’d guess Shakespeare debates should probably go to Cafe Society, though I guess there’s an argument for Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1188 "2010-02-02T17:35:04Z")
Earl Oxford instead of Shakespeare? Lunacy! Screw GD, we oughta Pit him! ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1189 "2010-02-03T01:44:05Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Playing “Elimination” with Hart’s List sounds like fun. Is the idea to come up with a better Top 100 List, or just to sort the 100 already on his list? > > One of Hart’s changes in his 1992 revision of the original 1978 list was to replace William Shakespeare with Edward de Vere (Earl Oxford). That’s a fun debate but you wouldn’t want it to hijack your thread. Where do Dopers debate Shakespeare Authorship, anyway? Cafe Room? Humble Opinion? … or perhaps it belongs in BBQ Pit? > > (By the way, if he were a she, wouldn’t she be _Elendil’s Hairess_? 🆒 ) I’d be using the list already there. Plus I’d use Shakespeare instead of De Vere. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2010, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1190 "2010-02-03T11:16:30Z")
> [@Curtis LeMay](#): > > … I’d use Shakespeare instead of De Vere. For those of us who do _not_ find anti-Stratfordian theories to be clearcut lunacy (and this group does include septimus along with many serious thinkers), may I suggest the substitution \* the Author of Shakespeare’s works\* for “Shakespeare”? ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317/1191 "2010-02-04T00:12:48Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > For those of us who do _not_ find anti-Stratfordian theories to be clearcut lunacy (and this group does include septimus along with many serious thinkers), may I suggest the substitution \* the Author of Shakespeare’s works\* for “Shakespeare”? Maybe or I could just put quote marks around “William Shakespeare” to indicate it may be a pseudonym. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-president-elimination-game/511317.md?page=59)