If Answers were Years

[brachiopod]

Take the number of answers* you have posted on AB and treat it as a year, then name a significant event from that year.

(Bernardo, loosehead et al - you have to predict an event that will occur in your Answer-Year!)

(* - Click on my profile in top left to find out the number of answers you have posted.)

[dotjhawkes]

2874

Wigan Athletic win the inter planetary Cup for the 500th year in a row, Celebrity Big Brother is the number one TV show on Mars (again) and Elvis is number one.

[Narolines]

BCE or CE? If the former, Dionysius of Syracuse founded the city which is now Taormina, Sicily. If the latter, Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, convened the Synod of the Oak. Impressive, huh?

I've had 2 answers banned too, and I've no idea why - one said that I didn't fancy the idea of mint custard, and the other was a reference to the nursery rhyme "I had a little nut tree". Offensive stuff, eh? Now I'll probably get banned again for mentioning mint custard!

[Narolines]

BCE or CE? If the former, Dionysyius of Syracuse founded the city that is now Taormina, Sicily; if the latter, Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, convened the Synod of The Oak. Impressive, huh?

I've had two answers banned, too, and I've no idea why. One said I didn't fancy the idea of mint custard, and the other was a reference to the nursery rhyme "I Had A Little Nut Tree". Offensive stuff, eh? Now I'll probably get banned again for mentioning mint custard......

[Narolines]

Sorry about that double posting - something very odd happened to my computer when I hit the Submit button......maybe I'll get banned twice now!

[dotjhawkes]

No, in the furture! Banned questions? what are they! lol

[brachiopod]

Happy 1000th, joko !! Now blow out the stars I've lit for you.

Dot, love your answer, but only one star, as I don't want to ruin joko's moment!

Narolines - you are just double posting because you were stuck on a year when nothing happened, weren't you ?!! ;o)

[dotjhawkes]

Come on you lot, catch up! I only get on here occasionally too! Well, most nights and never in the day, well, only on my day off, and Sundays.

[maxi29]

Constantine drives the Goths out of Thracia.

Not much else seemed to happen that year - the 323 end of year quiz would have been a doddle. :-)

I've had one answer removed too - I can't think what I've written that could be offensive.

[geo0939]

AD 587. Only three interesting events this year. The Visigoths in Spain are being converted to Christianity. The first Buddhist temple was founded in Japan. I started my first year of secondary school.

I've just realised that for the last 16 years I've been a VISAgoth. Sad,eh?

[geo0939]

Narolines. How did you find out which of your answers had been removed?

[CT]

701 AD
- Japan's first laws promulgated
- Monks from Jarrow visited Rome at the invitation of Pope Sergius.
- Evesham Abbey founded about this time.
-Crown Prince **** and Princess Yongtai die. Buried in tombs near Qianling.

[dilligaf]

1781

Only another 163 years before dilligaf is born

[Narolines]

Brachiopod - I wish I'd thought of that!

Geo - as it happened, I noticed they'd been removed within a day or so of their disappearance, and by going to My Profile/Q's I Gave Answers To to check that I had in fact posted them, I found they were sitting there with a yellow banner saying "This answer has been banned" - no explanation, no nothing. They were easy to find, of course, because they were so recent. I guess you could, if you were really keen, simply trawl back through all the answers you've given till you find the "banned" ones, but personally I can think of better ways to spend an hour or two!

[bernardo]

9389

bernardo, Peter Phillips, Prince William, Prince Harry, Matt Damon, James Alexandrou, Sean Maguire, Kyal Marsh, Gabriel Thomson and Amir Khan will have a mass orgy in the Celebrity Big Brother house

[woofgang]

5639

federation wide conference because the dilithium is running out. Some one suggests using nuclear fusion to power interstellar transport

[Otrere]

In the year 421 A.C. (38 S.C. in the new year nomenclature), a strange storm courses through Krynn, beginning the War of Souls, covered by the trilogy of the same name. The end of the war brings the return of the gods, the death of Takhisis and the departure of Paladine as head of the good gods in order to maintain the balance between Good and Evil.

The Book of Mormon account stops about the year 421 AD. That leaves nearly 1600 years between the end of the record and current genetic studies.

[ezapf]

c.456 - Probably fictitious, but entirely believable event in which Saxons massacre 300 leading British noblemen at phony "peace" conference. Ambrosius' father, who may have been the leader of the pro-Roman faction, was probably killed either during the Saxon uprising or this massacre.

[jimmer]

Santa died in the year 346.

jim

[gessoo]

279 AD

279 AD
Birth of the Emperor Maxentius

[gessoo]

279 BC

Italy, Apulia, Battle ofAusculum
Pyrrhus wins but is unable to take Rome