Scioly Assassination 77: Coup d'état

[AlphaTauri]

I just looked it up, your story's pretty much right, except that they threw him out instead of him running away. The coat was a sign of how much his father favoured him over his brothers, I think.

I'm tempted to protect myself because of the H2G2 reference (I tend to quote H2G2 rather frequently) but we don't even know if that's the correct train of thought.

Edit: "favoured"...so British. >.<

[Kokonilly]

I just looked it up, your story's pretty much right, except that they threw him out instead of him running away. The coat was a sign of how much his father favoured him over his brothers, I think.

I'm tempted to protect myself because of the H2G2 reference (I tend to quote H2G2 rather frequently) but we don't even know if that's the correct train of thought.

Edit: "favoured"...so British. >.<

Yay! And the H2G2 reference could just as easily be me; heck, I have Salmon of Doubt right here next to me.
And yes, very British.

[zyzzyva980]

I protect amerikestrel because I don't want to lose those two protects each round- I mean, because that portmanteau of a nick could really irk someone if that's something they dislike.

[space scientist]

2. Both old and new, this victim is perfectly balanced. I like that.

This could refer to me since an the first complete Einstein Ring was discovered in 1998 while the light seen in an Einstein Ring could have easily traveled for decades to over a millennium. In addition, I am a relatively new member here while my first avatar, the X-1, is a relatively old airplane.

Does anybody have any other ideas about the clues?

Edit: Assassin, which protects are correct, and which clues have been solved?

[paleonaps]

As far as clue 2, I think it could refer to me, because paleontology is the study of ancient life but only recently emerged in its modern form. It could also refer to dox or hftf because the statement is a paradox.
Just my two cents. I protect myself for the aforementioned reason.

[Assassinator]

zyzzyva98, amerikestrel, and quadratic have been saved. Due to the dumb luck nature of these protections {that is, you protected for a reason of your own, rather than solving a clue}, however, I am instituting a new rule.

All protections must have a valid, clue related reason to save the victim. You may make them based on nothingness, but you must actually come up with a solution to actually protect validly.

To clarify, if the clue was ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, you could not protect yourself based on the fact that a letter contained in your nick was in the series of letters. The actual solution would be that alphabet came from the Greek Alpha and Beta, and thus would point to AlphaTauri.
Despite this new rule, it is perfectly OK to be protected based upon a clue that pointed to someone else.
This new rule will take effect at the conclusion of this clue burst.

[mingtian]

I believe clue 1 pointed to amerikestrel and clue 3 pointed to Z and 4 to quadratic. We need 2 and 5.

[PacificGoldenPlover]

Just to put it out there, Joseph could also refer to Joseph of Wuthering Heights, who spoke with a very hard to understand Yorkshire accent. Wuthering Heights popped up at several spots near the top when I googled "joseph accent" and "joseph dialect".

[fmtiger124]

zyzzyva98, amerikestrel, and quadratic have been saved. Due to the dumb luck nature of these protections {that is, you protected for a reason of your own, rather than solving a clue}, however, I am instituting a new rule.

All protections must have a valid, clue related reason to save the victim. You may make them based on nothingness, but you must actually come up with a solution to actually protect validly.

To clarify, if the clue was ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ, you could not protect yourself based on the fact that a letter contained in your nick was in the series of letters. The actual solution would be that alphabet came from the Greek Alpha and Beta, and thus would point to AlphaTauri.
Despite this new rule, it is perfectly OK to be protected based upon a clue that pointed to someone else.
This new rule will take effect at the conclusion of this clue burst.

You make me laugh....these power grabs are getting old. All 3 of those protects were made off of a solution that the person came up with. There's no way the quadratic one was wrong so I'm going to ignore that (also blows a bit of a hole in your "dumb luck nature of these protections" statement). Anyway, mingtian interpreted clue one to mean someone with a nickname based on their user...Z is probably the most used nickname on the forum (and if I may expand, if you were to see his whole username after only seeing him called Z it'd be a bit of an O_o). As far as the kestrel protect, I don't know about you, but if I don't notice a pun at first it can be BAM when I do notice it. I would presume that could have something to do with z's reasoning (z...next time don't word it like that...I don't care if you're grasping at straws...put in an effort). Point is, your rule is not at all effective. Every protect made this round has been clue related based off of a solution that person came up with. Luck has played a major role in these games throughout their history. It was only recently that these "valid protect" rules came up. When used reasonably, i.e. to prevent people from simply typing "i protect myself" they are a good rule but when used in this fashion, i.e. making it because people didn't come up with the exact solutions to your clues (and with this style clue coming up with your exact solution is unlikely) and use perhaps not the greatest of reasoning looks like nothing but a power grab. /end rant

[Assassinator]

I meant to include a disclaimer about having actually solved the clue for quadratic. As for the others:

I protect Z because of clue 1. Nickname

I simply don't understand the reasoning there. But what really prompted the rule was this:

I protect amerikestrel because I don't want to lose those two protects each round- I mean, because that portmanteau of a nick could really irk someone if that's something they dislike.

I understand the second part, but he protected based on fear and tried to justify it. It should be the other way around.