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Interesting facts! I've never read anything about Newton's angry disposition before so it's nice to learn something new today. @DATo

But my guy was a real chemist. - Hint#3
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Post by María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda »

I don't have such a fancy explanation as @DATo 🤭. I just remembered a famous physicist and I knew he suffered from OCD so maybe that had to do with the sickness part...🤔
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Mindful Wordsmith wrote: 25 Sep 2021, 02:57 New Riddle

I was clever and humble but this sickness got me.
Some like it but some dislike it when I fly into a rage.
I was a chemist but preferred being known as a physicist.

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@Mindful Wordsmith
Could it be Dr. Jekyll ?

@Susan Francis
I apologize for having missed your earlier post asking about my "cousin" clue in the previous riddle. I'll repost my response to Mindful Wordsmith below ...

Hint #4 - I am often compared with a distant cousin of mine who reminds people of a can .... or is it a cane?
(Careful, this is a play on words. Think "city".)
This was a reference to The Cannes Film Festival which takes place in Cannes, France. Some English speaking people pronounce it "can" (correct) and others say "canes". Another slight clue is the expression "distant cousin" as geographically distant from USA where Oscar lives.
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DATo wrote: 25 Sep 2021, 14:33
Mindful Wordsmith wrote: 25 Sep 2021, 02:57 New Riddle

I was clever and humble but this sickness got me.
Some like it but some dislike it when I fly into a rage.
I was a chemist but preferred being known as a physicist.

Who am I?
@Mindful Wordsmith
Could it be Dr. Jekyll ?

@Susan Francis
I apologize for having missed your earlier post asking about my "cousin" clue in the previous riddle. I'll repost my response to Mindful Wordsmith below ...

Hint #4 - I am often compared with a distant cousin of mine who reminds people of a can .... or is it a cane?
(Careful, this is a play on words. Think "city".)
This was a reference to The Cannes Film Festival which takes place in Cannes, France. Some English speaking people pronounce it "can" (correct) and others say "canes". Another slight clue is the expression "distant cousin" as geographically distant from USA where Oscar lives.
Oh, I like that guess! Very nice. 8)
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Not Dr. Jekyll. @DATo

And not Tesla either. @Lunastella
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Dang! I thought he had it!


I don't think this is correct but I'm gonna throw it out there....
Dr. Frankenstein?
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No, @Gravy. Not Dr. Frankenstein either.

And the physicist part is important.
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@Mindful Wordsmith
Dr. Robert Bruce Banner aka The Hulk ?

If not, may I ask, is the answer to the riddle a real person or a character of fiction?
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So I'm thinking a fictional character, a physicist who had something to do with flying?
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To answer both DATo and Susan Frances' questions:

A fictional character.

He was a chemist and not a physicist.

He was a normal human (not a superhero, neither supernatural, etc.)
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Just reposting it in case it was overlooked.
Mindful Wordsmith wrote: 25 Sep 2021, 09:52
Hint#1: I'm a fictional person.
Hint#2: The line '...fly into a rage' has a special meaning here.
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Perhaps the main character in The Fly?
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Gravy wrote: 26 Sep 2021, 19:31 Perhaps the main character in The Fly?
Good guess Gravy. :tiphat: That never would have occurred to me.
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Oddly, the first thing to pop in my mind was Albert Einstein. But he wasn't fictional.

I was thinking maybe Ironman- because he wasn't actually a superhero without his suit.
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I haven't read The Fly. :oops2: @Gravy
And the answer isn't Iron Man either. @Mounce574

This chemist used the name of a famous physicist as an alias to hide his real identity (that's why ''preferred being known").
And can you guess why he would use an alias?
Or why anyone would use it?
(A mini riddle within a riddle LOL).
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