The Prodigal Places Revealed

I was sitting in my literature class today, trying to balance the tip of my pen on the desk.

(That is what I do in literature class--that or play that game where you fold a piece of paper in half, draw army guys on opposite sides, and then draw in little dots, which, when the paper is refolded, show if you hit an opposing unit.)

It wasn't as hard as you think, because the tip of my pen is pretty wide when the pen itself is contracted inside the casing.

So I got the pen to stand in about two minutes, which left me with 73 minutes to stare at it.

When I got bored with that, I started sliding my folder over and knocking it down. Then I would set it back up and knock it down again. That kept me going for a solid half hour.

And I noticed something while doing that. When I slid the folder slowly into the pen, the pen would fall down away from the folder, but when I slid it quickly, the pen would fall back onto the folder.

Why is that?

Anyway, do all of my precious readers remember that post about John Judge? Well, as you'll recall, I was very dismayed that I couldn't find a picture of Lazar Wolf. I mean, the guy looked just like him.

Well, it turns out one of you craaaaaazy commenters had managed to find a link to one (or maybe just a file of the picture itself--I'm not sure).

I was, of course, thrilled when I read this. But there was a catch. . . Eh, explaining this sucks. I'll just show you the comment:

Here's the skinny,

The challenge is such, if you consider it challenging. Brother shall be pitted against brother in a battle of the utmost consequence. The natural skill and physical acumen required dictate that only the finest shall rise to victory. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to name all the stops that Indy makes in his globe-spanning 'map quest' during Raiders. The winner shall receive the well-coveted picture of the Mann-- Lazar Wolf.

MulletMan

For those of you not familiar with the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark (which is, by my estimation, none of you, so I'll end this thought now.)

I did, indeed, find the names of all the stops--though I have to admit that I cheated.

From memory, I knew that he traveled from the west coast to Hawaii, to some Oceania island, to Nepal (and after a shootout with the Nazis--highlighted by a fight with a large Nepal man who he would fight later in the movie--though he looked a tad different) then to Cairo for an extended stay, and finally to Mysterio island (somewhere in the Aegean sea), home of the Judland wastes.

I cheated by popping in my favorite dvd and skipping to the map scenes. But even that did not provide enough information, as some of the stops were not named. Finally, I used an old atlas to fill in the blanks.

Thus, Indy's route is as follows: San Francisco to Hawaii to Wake Island to the Philippines to Nepal to Karachi to Baghdad to Cairo to the small island in the Aegean sea (and then, of course, to D.C., but that isn't part of his map-travels).

So, Mr. Mullet Man, I hope that is sufficient. I eagerly await the link to Lazar Wolf's picture (and, I'm talking about the Lazar Wolf from the actual movie Fiddler on the Roof--not some crummy 20 year old in a gray beard doing a "basement theater" version of the play. I can find about five thousand pictures of that).

So don't let me down.

You Never Can Tell with Bees is counting on you.