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Retrosteve:
Okay, so she Rip Van Winkled herself as a young woman. Attended weekend parties in the Nevernever and popped back out 40 years later to find everyone else much older. Yeah, that makes more sense. Thanks.
Now I'll keep out of the reference sections.
Lawgiver:
Since we're talking dates... in TC, as Eb is escorting Harry out after the action is done, they're talking about who's getting the open position on the Senior Council. Eb makes a comment regarding Langtry, saying,
--- Quote ---"He's never been easy to read. And I've known him since I was sixteen years old.
--- End quote ---
TC, Ch. 49.
Eb could not have been born much if any later than 1738. This comes from
a. His admission to Harry in TC that he first met Langtry when he was sixteen, (Ch. 49), combined with
b. JB's comments that the two of them were on opposite sides of the French and Indian War (1754-1763), and
c. JB's indication that Eb is roughly 250 years old.
If Eb were only sixteen at the beginning of that war then he was born no later than (1754 - 16)= 1738. The older he was at the start of the war, the earlier his D.O.B.
The 1738 year would put him at 276 as of SG (2014) and thus 252 as of SF (2000), which seems pretty close to the bull's-eye to me.
Would an addendum in the Timeline between
--- Quote ---1731 (269 BSF): Aleron LaFortier is born.
1754 to 1763: The French and Indian War. According to Jim, this was an eventful time in Ebenezer’s life!
--- End quote ---
posting 1738 the latest reasonable date of Eb's birth be reasonable?
Quantus:
--- Quote from: knnn on July 11, 2016, 06:43:07 PM ---Looking at Wikipedia, Krakatoa happened in 1883, so either Jim was mistaken about Eb's getting the Blackstaff, or there's some time-shenanigans going on (not completely crazy, since it sounds a little like what might have happened had the "banefire" gone off).
Either way, this seems to have been one of the first missions of Ebenezer as Blackstaff (perhaps the one in which his predecessor died?).
--- End quote ---
Good catch. In BR Eb claimed credit for Tunguska (1908), New Madrid (1811-1812, 1895, or 1968), and Krakatoa (1883). In the case of Krakatoa I guess it's possible that he did something to destabilize it that resulted in a delayed eruption a couple years later. But my inner child is hoping for Time Travel (because Time Travel!)
AndiSue:
* CON: Butters assures Harry that he's vaccinated against smallpox, but routine vaccination of the American public stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the United States.
Someone (or even I) may have already said this, but I was born in 1974, in the United States, and I had the smallpox vaccination (and I have the scar to prove it).
Priscellie:
--- Quote from: AndiSue on October 29, 2016, 08:18:33 PM ---
* CON: Butters assures Harry that he's vaccinated against smallpox, but routine vaccination of the American public stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the United States.
Someone (or even I) may have already said this, but I was born in 1974, in the United States, and I had the smallpox vaccination (and I have the scar to prove it).
--- End quote ---
I'm not suggesting that people born after 1972 couldn't have been vaccinated, but at a time when Butters barely knows Harry, he states "You're vaccinated" with zero hesitation whatsoever. It's Butters' certainty that causes me to pause over that detail. Unless Butters assumes Harry is a few years older than he really is (maybe the same age as Murphy?), I'm considering it a conflict.
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