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Old 12-28-2009, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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Another hint. I syndicated a stock photo service, with a catalog of over 400,000 photographs for publication, which were widely used in textbooks and other publications that needed illustrations but did not want the expense of producing them in-house. Each one had my name printed beneath it as a photo credit.
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Old 12-28-2009, 08:20 PM
 
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Another hint. I syndicated a stock photo service, with a catalog of over 400,000 photographs for publication, which were widely used in textbooks and other publications that needed illustrations but did not want the expense of producing them in-house. Each one had my name printed beneath it as a photo credit.
H. Armstrong Roberts?
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Old 12-28-2009, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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H. Armstrong Roberts?
Certainly in the right field, but not me. I can't find a bio of him, so I don't know how well he would match my clues.

I'm going to declare you the winner for coming so close. I am Ewing Galloway, and here is my bio:

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/g/galloway_e.htm
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Old 12-29-2009, 06:39 AM
 
Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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Oh, of course. That famous historical figure, Ewing Galloway.

That's really in the spirit of the game, right jtur?

Who is next? The person who invented the spork?
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Old 12-29-2009, 07:23 AM
 
Location: Everywhere and Nowhere
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Who is next? The person who invented the spork?
Now that would be unfair! Everyone knows that while the modern one was designed in 1996 by Hubert Gagnon and Aldo Balatti, the inventor of the spork is unknown.
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Old 12-29-2009, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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You're right, the spork was much more important to our culture than the idea of stock photographs to illustrate almost every school book. Probably even some of your own school books, but now there are sour grapes because you were too incurious as a child to notice the credit captions beneath the pictures.
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Old 12-29-2009, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Parts Unknown, Northern California
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You're right, the spork was much more important to our culture than the idea of stock photographs to illustrate almost every school book. Probably even some of your own school books, but now there are sour grapes because you were too incurious as a child to notice the credit captions beneath the pictures.
Blame everyone but yourself, that way you are certain to never learn a thing.
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Old 12-29-2009, 08:57 AM
 
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Blame everyone but yourself, that way you are certain to never learn a thing.
That always works for me. "Liiving better through denial".
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Old 12-29-2009, 09:32 AM
 
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Wow, this could be a lot more fun without the grumping...

I knew it had to be someone providing photos for school books, but couldn't figure out who it was...and I had more than my share of '50's textbooks!

I thought it was a good question.

Forget the spork, I wanna know who was the first guy brave enough (or more accurately, hungry enough) to eat a lobster....
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Old 12-29-2009, 09:44 AM
 
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Forget the spork, I wanna know who was the first guy brave enough (or more accurately, hungry enough) to eat a lobster....
Famous last words: "This looks tasty".
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