Obscurity of reference?

[undyingking]

A quick bit of market research for something an author has sent in for one of the games.

Have you heard of the late 19th century American figure George Graham Rice? If so, what do you associate him with? (No Googling etc, just what comes off the top of your head please.)

And, if you've got this far, please do comment with "Nope" if that's the answer (rather than just not commenting), will give me a better proportion of recognition level!

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Edit: OK, that's enough now, thanks! See next journal entry for explanation.

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm afraid. There's a faint bell ringing in the back of my head but nothing that immediately comes to mind.

[triskellian]

Nope ;-)

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

No

[kauket.livejournal.com]

Nope

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him. If pushed to guess, I'd expect him to have been the inventor of Rice Krispies, or something equally silly.

[metame.livejournal.com]

Likewise, haven't heard of them but combination of Grahams (as in Golden?) and Rice made me think of cereal makers too...

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

Glad it wasn't just me...

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

Or me. Nope, by the way.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

No idea. Inventor of the famous Rice pudding?

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Who?

[mooism.livejournal.com]

Although, if you change American to British, drop the Rice, and change 19th to 20th, you get the former Arsenal and Spurs manager George Graham. Unless I’ve remembered his name wrong.

[rotwang.livejournal.com]

Nope!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Big fat nope from me.

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

Nope

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Yet another nope for the nope collection.

[thecesspit.livejournal.com]

Nope.

[purpleheather.livejournal.com]

Nope!

[secondhand-rick.livejournal.com]

Not a scooby.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Nope. Unless he invented Rice Krispies.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

bibliogirl beat you to that one by an hour!

[jadeent.livejournal.com]

Not a clue. A vague voice in the back of my head suggests he might have been a politician but I learned a long time ago to ignore the voices in my head :-).

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

the name sounds like it should be familiar, but off the top of my head i have absolutely no idea who he is.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Nope, and nor had Wikipedia, so he can't exist!

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

Google otoh leads to some interesting stuff on him, so i'm fairly sure he did exist !

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Oh my god he's been ERASED FROM HISTORY !!!

[queenortart.livejournal.com]

Nope - nothing on my radar even

[example22.livejournal.com]

Nope, me neither.

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Nothing here from either dezzikitty, a real live 'Murkin, or I.

[cuthbertcross.livejournal.com]

no idea!! At least lots of other people don't know either!

[brixtonbrood.livejournal.com]

No (and I consider myself really pretty hot on general knowledge trivia (like several of the other respondents I expect), though admittedly 19th century USA is not my thing).

[timlagor.livejournal.com]

Another ringing at the back of the brain but no one is coming in.

[timlagor.livejournal.com]

...and having read the other comment, that was not the guy who was ringing.