On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:30:42 -0400, Ubiquitous <
weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:
In article <101dj2a$oe93$1@dont-email.me>, dtravel@sonic.net wrote:
Ubiquitous wrote:
What did you watch?
Fringe S3E12 'Concentrate and Ask Again'
Fox Publicity sez: When a scientist falls dead after ingesting a lethal >>cloud of blue powder and his bones disintegrate in his body, the CDC >>suspects a biological attack. As the Fringe Team investigates further, a >>subject from Walter's past with ties to Olivia reluctantly agrees to >>assist with the intense case.
The glyphs for this episode spell out: HATCH
Dr. Walter Bishop: Why would anyone kill a scientist? What did we ever do? >>Peter Bishop: [sarcastically] Really?
Dr. Walter Bishop: [wearing hazmat suit, enters room with body] Oh, my. >>Look at this. I feel nauseated.
Peter Bishop: [sincerely] Yeah, this is pretty disgusting, even by our >>standards.
Dr. Walter Bishop: [abashed] I'm not talking about the body. I fear I
may have broken wind inside my suit.
(Walter clearly has his priorities straight!)
Concentrate and ask again is one of the 20 possible answers provided by >>the Mattel "fortune-telling" novelty toy the Magic 8-Ball.
Twenty? I remmeber the polygon with the answers being pyramidal, not a >dodecahedron!
I've seen both types. No idea whether they were all made by Mattel.
Besides - a dodecahedron is a 12 sided object made of pentagons. You
are referring to an icosahedron (20 sides - faces are triangles)
This may be more detail than you were looking for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
(Ex-high school math teacher here...)
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