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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
nope nope nope nope and nope.
The *other* one.
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
Clue: It was in the news a while back....
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
The other, other one, with the funny name.
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 17, 2009
is the connection that they are known by other names/ different names in different places??
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
No that's not the connection but your sailing in the right stream shall we say.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 17, 2009
The funniest name I can think of is Lake Okeechobee
GT
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
Not that one but it's almost as weird: 9 consonants, 4 vowels.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 17, 2009
has it got a canadian name and an american name?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 17, 2009
The lake is not in Canada - almost as far from Xanada as it's possible to get without falling off the other side, but - and my this diversion has been interesting - it's has a tenuous and very tangentially relevant link to our story, but which, unless your are particularly brilliant, shall not help you towards getting the link between the 3 men and the book.
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 17, 2009
so its not one of the great lakes???? and its south
texas maybe???
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Jul 17, 2009
Found in my Atlas
Lake Pontchartrain....
Loiusiana.
French sounding. Did our man found St Louis?
GT
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 18, 2009
GT's research pays off 
Lake Pontchartrain. +3
I'll explain why when we get to the end - and it's not at all relevant to what links 3 men and a manual, albeit except in a very peripheral way.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 18, 2009
they are all connected by being in HP lovecraft books
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 18, 2009
No.
I actually surprised given all the ground we've already covered that no-one has stitched it all together yet.I could give you all a really easy clue or would you prefer to toil on and work it out for yourselves?
QI - Bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 18, 2009
can you re cap all the relevent points please
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 18, 2009
What quite interesting fact links these people and object:
1) Antoine Laumet, born 1658. Son of a lawyer; educated by Jesuits; enlisted as a cadet in 1675 age 17 but fled France 8 years later.
Changed his name and his identity.
2) Chief Obwandiyag of the Ottowa Indians, born 1712.
AKA Chief Pontiac
3) Son of a Swiss watchmaker, born in 1878. Worked as a mechanic in Paris in 1898 and as a Chauffeur in Montreal in 1900.
His name was Louis Chevrolet.
4) A U.S Army Technical Manual [TM-9803]
In the TM-908 the vehicle is referred to as the Willys-Overland Truck Model MB and Ford Model GPW.
the G stood for Government The P denoted the size of the wheel base. This got synthesised to 'Jeep'
Detroit and Lake Pontchartrain both feature but are features of the story not directly related to the link.
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Jul 18, 2009
they are all car manufacturers
did laumet become chrysler??
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Jul 18, 2009
Nope.
Jeep isn't a car manufacturer
and no.
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