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In article <MPG.35b5da58fa0841db989b1e@news.kolumbus.fi>,
Juho Julkunen  <giaotanj@hotmail.com> wrote:
>In article <pBwyrw.nrM@kithrup.com>, djheydt@kithrup.com says...
>> 
>> In article <ttlmkddol4r55clv86r6mr6j0u69n0vt9d@4ax.com>,
>> J. Clarke  <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >I see that with a lot of sites--"enter your birth date" as if nobody
>> >ever lies about their age.
>> 
>> I suppose it's so the site owner can say, "Hey, we *asked* them
>> if they were of age.  How could we tell if they were lying?"
>> 
>> Maybe a better gate process would to be to ask a question that
>> no one under age would know the answer to?  I don't know what
>> such a question could be.  Ask questions about Y2K?  No, I'm not
>> serious.  Ask questions about 2000-era rock music?  *I* couldn't
>> answer those, and I'll never see eighteen again.
>
>I think one of the early Leisure Suit Larry games did that. Of course, 
>it also doubled as an "are you American" test.

I seem to remember reading *about* a Fredric Brown mystery story
from the 1940s that someone thought of reprinting decades
later... but it turned out that the solution to the mystery
required detailed knowledge about a radio program that was
popular back then but no one had even heard of later.  And in
mystery-land, not giving the reader a fair chance at guessing
whodunit is considered cheating.  No, I don't know the name
either of the radio program or the story.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Garfield July 8 peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2018-07-10 21:36 -0700
  Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 05:05 +0000
    Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-11 04:30 -0700
    Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 13:12 -0700
      Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-11 20:18 +0000
        Re: Garfield July 8 Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-11 14:00 -0700
          Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:50 -0700
            Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:00 +0000
        Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 06:53 -0700
          Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 14:04 +0000
            Re: Garfield July 8 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:20 -0400
              Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 15:23 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0300
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 20:41 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:59 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:14 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 14:07 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 23:26 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-15 17:20 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 20:37 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 17:27 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-16 11:29 -0700
                Re: Garfield July 8 djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 19:48 +0000
                Re: Garfield July 8 Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-07-15 17:57 -0600
            Re: Garfield July 8 Wolffan <akwolffan@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 10:53 -0400
            Re: Garfield July 8 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2018-07-15 13:58 -0700

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