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Mangesh & Jason
Cash In Your Karma In Our Ridiculous Game Of Chance (see update)
by Mangesh & Jason - October 17, 2007 - 1:45 AM

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Mangesh is out of the office today. He and mental_floss co-founder Will are headed west to Mountain View, California, where tomorrow they’re giving a speech at the Googleplex. But we’ve got shirts to unload, which means the Ridiculous Board Games must go on.

Before he left, Mangesh selected an author and depicted this person on the whiteboard. If you’ve missed the previous three installments, here’s how this works:

1) This is a complete game of chance, the equivalent of saying “We chose a number between 1 and 1,000,000. Guess.” But simply drawing a number would be an insult to Mangesh and his artistic integrity. Today, you’re guessing an author. Any author.

2) You may guess four times, but all four guesses must be in separate comments.

3) Along with one of your guesses, tell us which t-shirt you’d like if you win (look below or browse our store).

4) Comments don’t appear on the site until we moderate them. But we’ll be able to tell who was the first successful guesser.

If nobody’s guessed correctly by tonight, I’ll give a few hints. Best of luck.

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Update: We have a winner! (Two, actually.)

Comments (937)
  1. Dumas

    The Pluto T-shirt please

  2. Philip K Dick

    The Pluto T shirt please

  3. Ian Fleming

    The Pluto T shirt please

  4. Anais Nin

    The Pluto T Shirt please

  5. Neil Gaiman (the Pluto shirt is pretty)

  6. ezra pound

  7. (author) Mishima
    (shirt) Rhesus

  8. Edward Abbey

  9. Margaret Atwood

  10. Greg Bear

  11. Bill Bryson

  12. Ayn Rand (Pluto shirt)

  13. James Michener (Pluto shirt)

  14. Geoffrey Chaucer (Pluto shirt)

  15. Joseph Heller (easy as pi shirt)

  16. Haruki Murakami (pluto shirt)

  17. Thomas Hardy (easy as pi shirt)

  18. Patricia Cornwell (pluto shirt)

  19. Oscar Wilde (Soap shirt)

  20. Salman Rushdie (pluto)

  21. Milan Kundera (pluto)

  22. Umberto Eco

  23. And the fourth in my top four favorite authors (hopefully one is lucky)

    Aldous Huxley (pluto shirt)

  24. Gunter Grass

    Pluto (W)

  25. Doris Lessing

    Pluto (W)

  26. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Pluto (W)

  27. kurt vonnegut (karl marx shirt)

  28. Mario Puzo (Achilles)

  29. And fourth totally random guess:

    Enid Blyton

    Pluto (W)

  30. Kurt Vonnegut (Achilles)

  31. Margaret Atwood (Achilles)

  32. Upton Sinclair {Rhesus}

  33. Orson Scott Card

    (Women’s Pavlov shirt)

  34. Ernest Hemingway

  35. Tim O’Brien (Achilles)
    My favorite author
    BTW…Peter beat me with Vonnegut by 4 minutes : (

  36. Charlotte Bronte

    (Women’s Pavlov shirt)

  37. JRR Tolkien

  38. Mark Twain

  39. Guy Gavriel Kay

    (women’s Pavlov shirt)

  40. Chuck Palahniuk

    (Simple as Pi)

  41. i would have picked doris lessing, but i’ll go for franz kafka instead…
    (i’d love the idioms t-shirt.)

  42. Ernest Hemingway

    Mental Floss logo t-shirt, please!

  43. franz kafka

    pluto shirt, por favor!

  44. second guess: mark twain

  45. Jane Austen

    Mental Floss logo t-shirt, please!

  46. marcel proust!

  47. Flaubert

    Mental Floss logo t-shirt, please!

  48. Ray Bradbury

    Mental Floss logo t-shirt, please!

  49. or maybe arthur c. clarke?

  50. last try: isaac asimov

  51. er, soren kierkegaard?!

  52. Salman Rushdie

    (Rhesus)

  53. David Foster Wallace

    (Rhesus)

  54. George Saunders

    (Rhesus)

  55. Samuel Johnson

    (Rhesus)

  56. Beethoven (Beethoven t-shirt)

  57. tolkien

  58. James Frey

  59. Groucho Marx (Beethoven t-shirt)

  60. anne mccaffrey

  61. terry brooks

  62. oh, and the idiom shirt

  63. Noam Chomsky

    (Women’s Pi)

  64. William Gibson

    (women’s pi)

  65. George Orwell

  66. Dante Alighieri

  67. I can never see these things, is there something I have to do, all I ever see is the white board with a question mark.

  68. Stephen King

    Pluto shirt

  69. Upton Sinclair

    Retro mom

  70. Bertold Brecht

    Retro Mom

  71. Larry McMurtrey

    Retro Mom

  72. S.E. Hinton

    Retro Mom

  73. Robert Jordan

    mental floss

  74. Orson Scott Card

    mental floss

  75. Thomas Perry

    mental floss

  76. ian mcewan

    (rhesus monkey)

  77. Dean Koontz

  78. orhan pamuk

  79. dr. seuss

  80. Eric Van Lustbader

    (Pluto shirt)

  81. tolstoy

  82. Anton LaVey

  83. Charles Dickens

    Rhesus Monkey!

  84. Janet Evanovich

    You’ve Got Male T-shirt, please

  85. Ray Bradbury

  86. Anne Coulter

    Pluto please

  87. Agatha Christie

  88. John le Carre

  89. Malcolm Gladwell

    Pluto shirt please

  90. Allen Ginsburg

  91. Frank Herbert

    Let’s try the Pluto shirt …

  92. Sneaky Pie Brown

    Nix-on, Nix-off

  93. Dick Francis

    World Physics Society, please

  94. S.E. Hinton

  95. S.E. Hinton t-shirt:Pluto

  96. Stephen Ambrose T-shirt:pluto

  97. Jules Verne T-shrit:pluto

  98. William Archibold T-shirt:PLuto

  99. JOHN TIMPANE

    I would be proud to wear a Mental Floss shirt!

  100. Robert Heinlein

    Pluto, please

  101. Tom Robbins

    Pluto, please

  102. F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Pluto shirt, please.

  103. C. S. Lewis (author)
    idioms (t-shirt)

  104. Erma Bombeck (author)
    idioms (t-shirt)

  105. Alice Sebold, the easy as pi shirt

  106. Dan Brown (author)
    idioms (t-shirt)

  107. Chinua Achebe (Pluto)

  108. Laurence Sterne

    plain mentalfloss shirt

  109. Stephen Hawking

    Rhesus t-shirt

  110. Martha Stewart

    Rhesus t-shirt

  111. JD Salinger (women’s fitted Pavlov tshirt, please)

  112. JD Salenger

  113. Harper Lee
    mentalfloss shirt

  114. Bram Stoker

    Rhesus

  115. John Knowles

    Pluto shirt please

  116. Kurt Vonnegut
    MentalFloss shirt

  117. Adriana Trigiani

    Pluto shirt please

  118. God

  119. Ernest Hemingway

  120. Judy Blume

  121. William Faulkner

  122. Douglas Adams

    Rhesus t-shirt, please

  123. F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Pluto shirt please

  124. J.M. Barrie (Lady Macbeth. please.)

  125. Luke the Evangelist

  126. Shel Silverstein

    The “Easy as 3.14…” shirt

  127. Katherine Paterson

  128. Edgar Allan Poe

  129. William Shakespeare

    The Easy as 3.14 shirt

  130. Tom Clancy

    Pluto Shirt

  131. Richard Dawkins

    Pluto Shirt

  132. Stephen King

    Pluto Shirt

  133. O Henry

    Lady Macbeth hand soap

  134. L. Ron Hubbard
    MentalFloss t

  135. Roald Dahl

    The ladies’ Easy as 3.14 shirt

  136. JK Rowling

    Pluto Shirt

  137. A A Milne

    Easy as Pi please

  138. Ben Franklin

    Easy as Pi please

  139. John Grisham

    Easy as Pie, please

  140. Jack Kerouak

    Easy as Pi, please

  141. Augusten Burroughs

    Idiom tshirt

  142. J.D. Salinger

    Idioms

  143. Victor Hugo (Idioms shirt)

  144. William S Burroughs

    Idiom tshirt

  145. Jane Austin (idioms shirt)

  146. Flannery O’Connor (Mental Floss)

  147. Arthur Miller

    Idiom tshirt

  148. Bram Stoker (idioms shirt)

  149. H.G. Wells (idiom shirt)

  150. John Steinbeck

    idiom tshirt

  151. 2nd guess:

    Truman Capote

    idioms shirt

  152. John Irving

    Pluto shirt

  153. John Berryman

    Idioms shirt

  154. Jane Austin

    Pluto shirt

  155. Fourth and final guess,

    Karl Marx and the Karl Marx shirt please

  156. Henry James

    Pluto

  157. James Joyce

  158. Robert Louis Stevenson

    (Lady Macbeth shirt)

  159. Terry Pratchett

    Scurvy tee

  160. Edwin Abbott Abbott

    Pavlov tee

  161. Stephen Colbert.

    I fancy the MentalFloss tee.

  162. Newton

    Pi tee

  163. H.G. Wells

    (Lady Macbeth shirt)

  164. Augusten Burroughs

    Pluto

  165. Willa Cather

    Lady Macbeth Soap shirt, please…..

  166. John Irving

  167. Albert Camus
    Women’s Scurvy tee

  168. Aeschylus

    Pi tee

  169. Sinclair Lewis

  170. Kate Chopin
    Women’s Scurvy tee

  171. Edgar Allan Poe
    Lady MacBeth shirt please

  172. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
    Women’s Scurvy tee

  173. John Stewart

    pluto

  174. Ernest Gann

  175. William Shakespeare

    (of course, Lady Macbeth shirt!)

  176. Harriet Beecher Stowe

    pluto

  177. Rachel Carson
    Women’s Scurvy tee

  178. Christopher Moore

  179. Hunter S. Thompson

  180. annie proulx

    easy as pi

  181. Mary Shelly

    Mental Floss logo tee, please

  182. Judy Blume

    Pavlov T-shirt

  183. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    mental floss logo, please

  184. Brian Jacques?

    Rhesus, please.

  185. Italo Calvino

    (Rhesus)

  186. Philip Roth

    (Rhesus)

  187. John Steinbeck

    (Rhesus)

  188. Louis L’Amour
    Pluto R.I.P.

  189. Michael Crichton

    Pavlov T-shirt

  190. How about Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel)?
    (I like the Rhesus t-shirt–XXL please)

  191. Dickens ?

    You’ve got Male – womens

  192. Arthur Conan Doyle

    (Rhesus)

  193. Hmmm… Mary Shelley?
    (Lady Macbeth Hand Soap – XXL)

  194. Homer

    Rhesus (women’s fitted, please)

  195. O Henry

    You’ve got Male – womens

  196. Sir Thomas Malory
    (the idioms shirt–XXL please)

  197. Andrew Weil

    Pavlov T-shirt

  198. The anonymous guy who wrote Beowulf?
    (Easy as 3.14… – XXL, please)

  199. Shel Silverstein (Male) XL please

  200. Oscar Wilde

  201. Jodi Picoult

    Pavlov T-shirt (men’s)

  202. Margaret Mitchell

  203. Second go at it….
    Flannery O’Connor

    (Soap) XL please

  204. Mark Twain

    Rhesus t-shirt, please

  205. Mr. T

    Rhesus t-shirt, please

  206. Pietra Rivoli

    Mental floss logo XL please

  207. Piers Anthony

    Rhesus t-shirt, please

  208. It’s Will!

    Easy as Pie!!

  209. Charles Darwin

    Rhesus t-shirt, please

  210. Robert Ludlom

  211. Kurt Vonnegut

    Idioms – large

  212. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    Pavlov t-shirt (as big as they go)

  213. Last go of it….

    Katharine DeBrecht (if you don’t know her you should look her up…amazing what people come up with)

    You’ve got Male (XL please)

  214. It’s a self-portrait of Mangesh!

    Easy as Pie!!

  215. Gaston Leroux

    and the Scurvy T

  216. Dr Seuss

  217. P.G. Wodehouse

    Beethoven shirt

  218. John Feinstein

  219. H.P. Lovecraft

  220. Mark Twain

  221. Rachel Carson

    You’ve got male – large

  222. Henry David Thoreau

  223. Stephen King

    The Beethoven shirt please.

  224. Homer

    Easy as 3.14…. – large

  225. Larry McMurtry

    Lady Macbeth T

  226. Lucy Jago

    Pluto tee shirt

  227. Sir Walter Scott

  228. Sun Tzu

    Nobel – Dy-no-mite – large

  229. Richard Brautigan

    Pluto tee shirt

  230. and finally…

    Christopher Marlowe

    (and to clarify the T-shirt choice since people are specifying – it’ll be an XL, please)

  231. Emily Bronte

    lady macbeth T

  232. Ruth Kligman

    Pluto tee shirt

  233. Gertrude Stein
    (Freud shirt)

  234. Ralph Ellison

  235. Khaled Hosseini

    Lady Macbeth T

  236. James Joyce?

    Rhesus shirt

  237. Dan Brown

    Pluto tee shirt

  238. Henrik Ibsen?

    Rhesus

  239. Kahlil Gibran

  240. Khaled Hosseini?

    Rhesus

  241. Herman Melville

  242. Scott Adams (Comic books are books!)

    Lady Macbeth T, please

  243. Lewis Carroll?

    Rhesus

  244. Edward Rutherford

    Simple as 3.141592 T-shirt

  245. Michael Stusser

  246. David Sedaris

    woman’s Pluto

  247. Robert Ludlum

  248. Kathy Reichs

    Simple as 3.141592 T-shirt

  249. George Elliot

    Simple as 3.141592 T-shirt

  250. Dave Eggers

    (Mental Floss shirt)

  251. Walt Whitman

  252. Charles Dickens

    Pluto

  253. Henry James

    (Easy as pi)

  254. Elizabeth Peters

    (Mental Floss shirt)

  255. e e cummings

    Pluto

  256. Alspaugh Represents!

    Author (Berkeley Breathed)
    Pluto Tee

  257. Brad Thor

    T-Shirt – Hip to Be Square

  258. Jean Auel

    Simple as 3.141592

  259. Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb

    (Mental Floss shirt)

  260. James Patterson

    (simple as pi – Large)

  261. Malcolm Gladwell

    Pluto Tee

  262. Steven Levitt

    Pluto Tee

  263. Thomas Sowell

    You’ve got male – XL

  264. Jan Karon

    (Mental Floss shirt)

  265. Marion Zimmer Bradley

    (simple as pi – Large)

  266. Steven King

    Pluto

  267. Carl Sandburg

    Pluto

  268. Dr. Seuss

  269. John Fowles

    Pluto

  270. Joseph Campbell

    You’ve got male – XL

  271. Clive Cussler

  272. Jane Austen

  273. Ayn Rand

    Pluto

  274. David Halberstam

    Rhesus – L

  275. Danielle Steel

    Pluto

  276. Last one…

    Gregory Maguire

    (simple as pi – Large)

  277. Stephen Covey

    Rhesus – L

  278. Robert Frost
    Pluto

  279. Willa cather

  280. Darby Conley

    Pluto

  281. 1st guess – Ken Jennings

  282. Jack London

  283. Dickens

  284. Aldous Huxley

  285. stephen king (pluto)

  286. Christopher Moore PLUTO PLEASE

  287. j.k. rowling (pluto)

  288. tom wolfe

    Simple as 3.141592

  289. Al Gore (pluto)

  290. Jim Butcher Pluto

  291. Margaret Weis (Pluto, please)

  292. Marion Zimmer Bradley (Pluto, please)

  293. Italo Calvino

    Idioms t-Shirt, please.

  294. ovid

    scurvy t

  295. David Eddings (Pluto, please)

  296. author: Mary Shelley (well, Halloween is coming up)
    shirt:Rhesus please

  297. Sarah Ash – Pluto

  298. Charles Dickens

    Simple as 3.141592

  299. Ernest Hemingway

    Simple as 3.141592

  300. Gore Vidal

    Achilles t-shirt

  301. Harry Crews
    Rhesus

  302. yogi berra (pluto)

  303. author: Bram Stoker
    shirt: rhesus

  304. Dr. Seuss – Pluto

  305. Chuck Klosterman

    *Marco Polo shirt

  306. David McCullough

    Achilles t-shirt

  307. Mitch Alborn – Simple as Pi

  308. John Grisham – Simple as Pi

  309. Mortimer Adler

    Achilles t-shirt

  310. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Rhesus

  311. Edgar Allan Poe – Simple as Pi

  312. Barbara Kingsolver

    (Women’s Idioms – ha!)

  313. Micheal Crichton

    (woman’s simple as pi)

  314. Dr. Seuss (Pluto)

  315. Neil Postman

    Achilles t-shirt

    Thanks!!

  316. Tom Clancy

  317. Joel Osteen

  318. Anne Longston

  319. Niccolò Machiavelli

    lady macbeth-medium

  320. Lemony Snicket

    (Pluto, please)

  321. William Shattner

    Karl Marx XXXL

  322. 1st guess – Louisa May Alcott

  323. Sappho

    (Women’s Idioms)

  324. Agatha Christie

  325. Homer – Simple as Pi

  326. Nick Hornby – I want the Rhesus, pleasus!

  327. Pat Conroy

    (mental floss logo, please)

  328. 2nd guess – George Eliot

    (tshirt: Easter Island –same for 1st guess)

  329. Anne Rice

  330. Joan Didion

    (pluto, please)

  331. 3rd guess – Barbara Kingsolver

    (shirt: Easter Island)

  332. Khaled Hosseini, PLEASE send me the Rhesus!

  333. Ellen Raskin

    (Women’s Idioms)

  334. 4th & final guess: Edith Wharton

    (tshirt: easter island)

  335. Last guess: Paulo Coelho

    (mental floss logo, please)

  336. Herman Hesse, I’m craving a Rhesus!

  337. Ed McBain

    Scurvy – xl

  338. W.E.B. Griffin

  339. Ray Bradbury and this is the last time I’m telling you, I need a monkey fix!

  340. JR Tolkien
    Rhesus Monkey T

  341. Thomas Pynchon

    WPSRT-SHIRT

  342. issac asimov
    alfred nobel T

  343. 1. John Kennedy Toole
    2. Truman Capote

    Freud

  344. Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket)

    idiom shirt

  345. Donald E. Westlake

  346. Benjamin Hoff

  347. Clive Barker

  348. Saul Bellow (Rhesus (W))

  349. Jonathan Lethem

    Mental Floss t-shirt, please.

  350. Stephen R. Donaldson

    Pluto Tshirt

  351. DH Lawrence (Rhesus (W))

  352. Mary Shelley
    RIP Pluto

  353. Victor Hugo (Rhesus (W))

  354. Jeff Lindsay

  355. Thomas L. Friedman

    Pluto tshirt

  356. Washington Irving

    Women’s Pavlov T-Shirt

  357. Joyce Carol Oates

    (Women’s Idioms)

  358. Carl Sagan

    Pluto tshirt

  359. Norman Mailer

    Pluto tshirt

  360. Jasper Fforde (Rhesus (W))

  361. Shel Silverstein

    Rhesus

  362. Cecil Adams

    (Karl Marx shirt)

  363. Christopher Hitchens

    (Karl Marx shirt)

  364. Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Marco Polo

  365. Richard North Patterson

    mental floss

  366. Robert Fulghum :)
    women’s rhesus

  367. Buckmaster Fuller

  368. Salmon Rushdie

    Pluto all the way, baby.

  369. William Gibson

    WPSFRT-SHIRT

  370. Saul Bellow

    Rhesus

  371. Al Franken

    Rhesus

  372. Sarah Gruen

  373. Lawrence Richette
    I’d love the rhesus shirt please.

  374. Robert Jordan

    Rhesus

  375. Piers Anthony

    Women’s Simple as 3.141592

  376. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  377. Leo Tolstoy

    Rhesus

  378. Mark Twain

    Rhesus please

  379. Steve Colbert
    (is from)
    Pluto

  380. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Lady MacBeth – please

  381. Christopher Paolini

    Rhesus

  382. Poppy Z Brite

    women’s pluto

  383. Ayn Rand

    (Rhesus t-shirt, please)

  384. mark twain

    simple as 3.14 shirt…ooh la la

  385. Neil Gaiman

    women’s pluto

  386. Thorton Wilder

    Lady MacBeth – please

  387. Leonard Cohen

    women’s pluto

  388. Shakespeare

    Lady MacBeth = please

  389. Bret Easton-Ellis

    women’s pluto

  390. Judy Blume :0)

    Pluto Tee, please.

  391. Edgar Allen Poe

    Scurvy shirt, please

  392. Dr. Seuss

    Pluto!

  393. Steven Ambrose

  394. C.S. Lewis (pluto)

  395. 1. Ludwig Bemelman

    Lady MacBeth shirt

  396. Christopher Moore

    Pluto

  397. Isabel Allende

    Easy as 3.14

  398. Venerable Bede

    Rhesus

  399. Hunter S Thompson

    3.1214 mom’s shirt

  400. Mark Haddon

    Still pluto :)

  401. 2. Madeline L’Engle

    Lady MacBeth shirt

  402. Terry Pratchett

    You’ve Got Male

  403. Tim O’Brien

    a woman’s Easy as 3.14 shirt…what could be better?

  404. Gene Roddenberry

    Rhesus

  405. Elizabeth Kostova

    Easy is 3.14

  406. 3. Kay Thompson

    Lady MacBeth shirt

  407. Kerouac

    (Original Deaf Jam)

  408. Robert Barclay (pluto)

  409. Laurel K Hamilton

    Scurvy

  410. Amy Tan

    Simple as Pi shirt, please!

  411. 4. Helen Fielding

    And the Lady MacBeth shirt yet again.

  412. Douglas Adams

    Pavlov

  413. Kurt Vonnegut

    Mendel T-shirt Please

  414. Mark Haddon

  415. Cormac McCarthy

    pluto shirt

  416. Jodi Lynn Anderson (Pavlov)

  417. Wally Lamb

    Simple as Pi

  418. Stephen Crane (pluto)

  419. Ernest Hemingway

    Mendel T-shirt Please

  420. Charles Dickens

    Beethoven

  421. Robert Jordan

    pluto shirt

  422. Virginia Woolf

    Mendel T-shirt Please

  423. tom robbins

  424. V.C. Andrews

    Simple as Pi

  425. Peggy Parish (Pavlov)

  426. Philip Roth

    Mendel T-shirt Please

  427. john irving

  428. Carole Nelson Douglas

    Pluto please!

  429. Oliver Wendell Holmes (pluto)

  430. opps…someone already guessed neil gaimen…how about OJ Simpson instead

    women’s pluto

  431. Donald J. Sobol (Pavlov)

  432. Sartre

    Mental Floss T please

  433. james fennimore cooper

  434. Anne Rice

    Easy as 3.14

  435. Shel Silverstein

    Simple as Pi!

  436. David McCullough

  437. Barbara Park (Pavlov)

  438. Carl Sandburg
    Rhesus Monkey

  439. george r.r. martin

    straight-up mental floss shirt.

  440. Stephen Hawking

    sigmund freud shirt

  441. Elizabeth Peters

    Pluto please

  442. Dr. Seuss (Mendel t-shrit please)

  443. Tom Clancy

    Women’s Pavlov t-shirt please

  444. Washington Irving

    Rhesus Monkey

  445. Yann Martel

  446. Maya Angelou

    Easy as 3.14

  447. Friedrich Engels

    Rhesus shirt!

  448. Louisa May Alcott

    Women’s Pavlov t-shirt please

  449. ts eliot

  450. Harlan Coben (Nobel shirt)

  451. l. frank baum

    pluto shirt

  452. hans christian anderson

    Women’s Pavlov t-shirt please

  453. Hunter S. Thompson

    karl marx shirt

  454. Kingsley Amis

  455. michael chabon

  456. Aristotle

    Women’s Pavlov t-shirt please

  457. David Foster Wallace

    The short-sleeve Pavlov shirt, please!

  458. Nathanael West (Mendel t-shirt please)

  459. Philip Larkin

    The short-sleeve Pavlov shirt, please!

  460. Virgil
    Pluto (small)

  461. Gertrude Stein
    Pluto shirt please

  462. Larry Niven

    pluto

  463. Nick Hornby

    The short-sleeve Pavlov shirt, please!

  464. william blake

  465. Alfred Bester

    pluto

  466. Chuck Klosterman

    Pavlov’s dog – small

  467. Franz Kafka

    The short-sleeve Pavlov shirt, please!

  468. Leo Tolstoy

    pluto shirt

  469. JD Salinger

  470. neil gaiman

    (lady macbeth shirt)

  471. Eric Flint

    pluto

  472. Nicolò Machiavelli

    Mental floss logo shirt

  473. patricia highsmith

    (lady macbeth shirt)

  474. Jerry Pournelle

    pluto

  475. john d. fitzgerald
    pluto

  476. Thomas Hardy

    Pavlov’s dog – small

    Thanks!

  477. Charles Bukowski

    rhesus shirt

  478. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  479. chuck klosterman

    (lady macbeth tshirt)

  480. Larry McMurtry

    rhesus shirt

  481. ken kesey
    pluto shirt please

  482. Ambrose Bierce

    mental floss logo

  483. Frank L. Baum

    pluto shirt

  484. Anne Enright

    Ladies Idioms

  485. Machiavelli

    Pluto, please

  486. Raymond Carver

    Ladies Idioms

  487. James Herriot (Mendel tshirt please)

  488. Kippling

  489. Edgar Allen Poe (Scurvy Shirt)

  490. Sigmund Freud (Nobel shirt)

  491. Douglas Coupland

    Pluto!

  492. David Michaelis

    Ladies Idioms

  493. Garrison Keillor

    Ladies Idioms

  494. Harriet Tubman

    Pluto!

  495. Rudyard Kipling

  496. Stephen King (Idioms)

  497. blue balliet

    (lady macbeth shirt)

  498. Friedrich Nietzche

    pluto shirt

  499. Charles Darwin (Rhesus)

  500. Judy Blume

    Pluto!

  501. D H Lawrence
    (nobel shirt)

  502. John Keats (Pi would be delicious)

  503. Jack Kerouac (Lady Macbeth – women’s, please)

  504. Arundhati Roy (Pluto)

  505. James Joyce

    Rhesus shirt

  506. How about Nabokov?

    Women’s Pi

  507. Christopher Hitchens

    Gregor Mendel T-shirt

  508. E.B. White
    Pluto L

  509. Pearl S Buck

    Scurvy T-Shirt

  510. Jefferson Bass

    Simple as Pi

  511. John Locke

    Pluto, please

  512. Charles Shultz

    Women’s Pi

  513. Madonna

    Simple as Pi

  514. Plato?

  515. Taro Gomi (everybody poops)
    Pluto L

  516. John Kennedy Toole (Pluto)

  517. Billy Graham

    Simple as Pi

  518. Lord Byron

  519. Mary Shelley (Pluto, please)

  520. Edgar Allan Poe

    pluto shirt

  521. Barbara Kingsolver (easy as Pi, please)

  522. Judy Blume

    Achilles T-Shirt

  523. R. L. Stine

    Idioms

  524. Michael E. Brown
    Pluto L

  525. Anne Frank
    (nobel)

  526. I’m pretty sure no one has said Dr. Suess.

    If I win i’d like the shirt to be ladies, a surprise.

  527. Stephen King

    Rhesus (women’s) please

  528. Emily Post

    Achilles T-Shirt

  529. Robert Munch
    Pi please!

  530. Jonathan Swift

    Pluto, please

  531. Conrad

    Idioms

  532. Jules Verne (Pluto, please)

  533. How about my personal favorite, Ogden Nash.

  534. Brothers Grimm
    still Pi!

  535. Heller

    Idioms

  536. Beverly Cleary

    Scurvy

  537. Jon Krakauer
    Pluto L

  538. Dave Ramsey

    Simple as Pi

  539. I don’t know if this really qualifies her as an author, but didn’t Paris Hilton write a book?

    Pluto – women’s

  540. Clive Barker
    Pi Pi Pi!

  541. Jack Kerouac

    Rhesus women’s

  542. Toni Morrison

  543. Rumer Godden

    Pavlov please

  544. S.M. Sterling

    Women’s rhesus

  545. Beverly Cleary

    Lady MacBeth, please

  546. Okay, last one. Neal Cassady

  547. Edgar Burroughs

    Lady MacBeth, please

  548. Isaac Asimov

    Pavlov – Mens xl

  549. Hans Christian Andersen!

    Pi shirt please, I love Pi

  550. Jodi Picoult

    Women’s rhesus

  551. James Joyce

    Women’s Pi

  552. OJ Simpson

  553. Arthur C. Clarke

    soap, please

  554. Uhoh, two jens. My guesses were 526, 533, 542, 544.

  555. John Updike

    Pluto, please

  556. Aesop (Rhesus)

  557. OJ Simpson, forgot t-shirt (women’s rhesus)

  558. Oscar Wilde

    Sigmund Freud T-Shirt

  559. James Joyce
    Pluto, please

  560. Dr. Seuss

    Rhesus, please!

  561. Charles Dickens

    Sigmund Freud T-Shirt

  562. Tom Robbins

    Lady Macbeth please

  563. J.K. Rowling

    Sigmund Freud T-Shirt

  564. Harper Lee

    Lady MacBeth, please

  565. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sigmund Freud T-Shirt

  566. Daniel Defoe (Rhesus)

  567. Elizabeth Kostova

    The Rhesus shirt please.

  568. Al Gore

    Pluto(xxl), please

  569. Jimmy Carter

    Rhesus (XXL)please

  570. Cormac McCarthy

    pluto

  571. Nicholas Wade

    The Rhesus shirt

  572. Stephen Hawking

    Pluto (XXL), please.

  573. Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Pluto Shirt, please

  574. Ayn Rand

    Pluto shirt

  575. Longfellow, rhesus tee

  576. Fredric Brown

    Mental Floss Logo Shirt.

  577. John Steinbeck

    Pluto shirt- please

  578. Martin Gardner

    Easy as Pi Shirt.

  579. Charles Dodgson

    Rhesus Shirt.

  580. barbara kingsolver

  581. Agatha Christie

    Pavlov shirt!

  582. Doris Lessing

    pluto shirt mens med

  583. Truman Capote

    Pluto, please

  584. Harold McGee

    Beethoven Shirt.

  585. R.L. Stine

    Pavlov shirt rules!

  586. Albert Einstein

  587. Mark Haddon

    Lady Macbeth

  588. Nathanael West

    The name that rings a bell

  589. Albert Einstein

    Pluto, please

  590. donald westlake

    logo t!

  591. Wally Lamb

    Pavlov

  592. agatha christie

    logo t

  593. dennis lahane

    logo T

  594. Khaled Hosseini

    Lady Macbeth

  595. Galileo Galilei

    Womens Pavlov – small

  596. Nicolaus Copernicus

  597. Elie Weisel

    Beethoven shirt…xl

  598. Dashiell Hammett

    logo t

  599. Sir Isaac Newton

  600. F Scott Fitzgerald

    Scurvy Shirt, pretty please.

  601. Ken Kesey

    Pluto, men’s large

  602. I don’t know if my first guess went through, so here it is again: Charlotte Bronte for the Marx T-shirt.

  603. Ernest Hemmingway

    Pluto mens large

  604. Dr. Seuss

    Pluto Men’s Large

  605. Guess number two: Langston Hughes

  606. Katherine Anne Porter

    and I’ll take Scurvy. :)

  607. C.S. Lewis

    Pluto Men’s Large

  608. Boris Pasternak

    Pluto

  609. J.K. Rowling

    Pluto Men’s Large

  610. henry david thoreau

    women’s idioms XL

  611. Guess number three: Jhumpa Lahiri
    Marx T-Shirt, please.

  612. Isaac Asimov

    Pluto

  613. aldo leopold

    women’s idioms XL

  614. Scott Westerfeld

    I want the Pluto shirt

  615. Mark Twain

    Mendel T-shirt please

    :)

  616. Guess number four: Sylvia Plath.
    Marx T-Shirt, please.

  617. veronica franco

    women’s idioms XL

  618. david foster wallace (women’s pavlov)

  619. joe meno

    women’s idioms XL

  620. Voltaire (guess number 2)

  621. john kennedy toole (women’s pavlov)

  622. Mark Zuelke

  623. #2: Tony Hillerman

    Pluto shirt

  624. Khaled Hosseini

  625. Mickey Spillane!

  626. henry miller (women’s pavlov)

  627. Douglas Preston

    Pluto – Please, please, please

  628. Maxwell Grant

    Lady MacBeth shirt

  629. Guess one: Ayn Rand

    Reeses monkey shirt

  630. Alan Lightman

  631. William Golding

    (Pavlov shirt)

  632. The Author: Anonymous
    The T-Shirt: Pluto

  633. #3: George Orwell

    Pluto shirt

  634. Carolyn Keane

    Lady MacBeth

  635. Guess two: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Reeses shirt

  636. Darrin Lowery

    (Nix-on, Nix-off shirt)

  637. Oprah Winfrey

    (Pluto)

  638. Mickey Spillane

  639. Frank McCourt

    (Pavlov Shirt)

  640. Ray Bradbury

    Pavlov’s dog shirt

  641. Guess three: Samuel T. Coleridge

  642. Franklin Dixon

    Lady MacBeth

  643. #4: J.R.R. Tolkien

    Pluto shirt (I accidentally wrote “shire” the first time.)

  644. Neil de Grasse Tyson

    Sm Women’s Pavlov please…

  645. Ian Rankin

    (Pavlov Shirt)

  646. Lester Dent

    Lady MacBeth

  647. The Author: Pearl S. Buck
    The T-Shirt: Pluto (Large)

  648. Guess Four: Mary Shelley

    Reeses monkey shirt

  649. Graham Greene

    (Pavlov Shirt)

  650. The Author: Lewis Carroll
    The T-Shirt: Pluto (Large)

  651. Garrison Keillor

    Easy as 3.14

  652. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Pi Shirt

  653. The Author: Truman Capote
    The T-Shirt: Pluto (Large)

  654. Dr. Phil McGraw

    Easter Island T

  655. meghan whalen turner

  656. Roald Dahl

    Women’s Pavlov (M)

  657. Going Like Sixty

    Rhesus XXXXl

  658. George Eliot

    Lady MacBeth women’s shirt, please

  659. Guess 2 – Dean Koontz

    Easter Island T

  660. 2nd try: Lillian Hellman
    Lady MacBeth women’s shirt, please

  661. milan kundera

    rhesus

  662. 3rd try:

    Flaubert

    Lady MacBeth women’s shirt, please

  663. Chuck Colson

    Easter Island T

  664. Herman Wouk
    still Pi!

  665. Christopher Moore

    Pluto please

  666. 4th try:

    Barbara Kingsolver

    Lady MacBeth women’s shirt, please

  667. Guess 4 – Ann Coulter

    Easter Island T

  668. Edith Wharton

  669. Jean-Paul Sartre

    Lady Macbeth please

  670. Ray Bradbury

    Pluto (medium)

  671. Harper Lee

  672. Orson Scott Card

  673. W.P. Kinsella (Achilles)

  674. Betty Smith

  675. Robertson Davies
    (Rhesus)

  676. Robertson Davies (Achilles)

  677. Augusten Burroughs

    Pi, please

  678. Edgar Allen Poe

    Pluto shirt please

  679. Gustave Flaubert

  680. Emily Dickinson

    Lady Macbeth, please.

  681. August Wilson

    Lady Macbeth, please.

  682. Derek Walcott (Achilles)

  683. Kit Marlowe

  684. James Thurber

    Lady Macbeth, please.

  685. Deepak Chopra

  686. Daniel Pinkwater

    Lady Macbeth, please.

  687. Louisa May Alcott

    Easy as Pi, Please (and for guess above too)

  688. Josephus

    Ladies Pluto

  689. Mikhail Bulgakov (physics family)

  690. Edith Wharton

    easy as Pi, please

  691. shelley

    (easy as shirt)

  692. Douglas Adams

    Rhesus shirt

  693. Matt Christopher

    (Pluto)

  694. Cervantes
    Scurvy shirt, please

  695. Fannie Flagg

  696. Dean Koontz

    Beethoven shirt

  697. Lewis Grizzard

  698. Jose Saramago (physics family)

  699. Michael Lewis

    (Pluto)

  700. Dave Barry

  701. Betty Friedan

  702. Meltzer
    long sleeve pavlov XS or S

  703. cervantes

    Pavlov shirt please

  704. Trying Mickey Spillane again. Doesn’t seem to want to go through

  705. Geoffrey Chaucer

    (idioms)

  706. Dawkins
    long sleeve pavlov please xs or s

  707. William Butler Yeats (Achilles)

  708. the guy who wrote the one about the dead dog in the yard with the fork

    pavlov t-shirt please

  709. David K. Israel

    (idioms)

  710. EB White
    Long sleeve pavlov please xs or s

  711. Ayn Rand

    Marco Polo T-shirt, plz

  712. Carol O’Connell

  713. Dan Simmons

  714. Stephen King

    Marco Polo T-shirt, plz

  715. Harlan Coben

  716. China Meiville

    (Pavlov)

  717. Michael Pollan

    (Pavlov)

  718. O. Henry

    Marco Polo T-shirt, plz

  719. Clive Cussler

    Marco Polo T-shirt, plz

  720. Robert Penn Warren

    (Pavlov)

  721. Cormac McCarthy

  722. C.S. Lewis

    (Pavlov)

  723. James White

  724. Zora Neale Hurston

    rhesus

  725. Daniel Silva

    idioms

  726. ted white

  727. Esther Averill

    rhesus

  728. Poul Anderson

    “Idioms are for the birds”

  729. Wilkie Collins

    idioms

  730. Margaret Mitchell

  731. Margaret Wise Brown

    rhesus

  732. James Patterson (rhesus)

  733. Hunter Thompson

  734. Nicholas Christopher?
    (Rhesus shirt)

  735. Frank McCourt

    (Pluto R.I.P.)

  736. Stephen King

  737. O. Henry (pluto)

  738. Michael Crichton (pluto)

  739. ann m. montgomery

  740. Edward Gorey

    rhesus

  741. George Lucas (rhesus)

  742. laura ingalls wilder

  743. Ransom?
    (Pi shirt)

  744. jack finney

  745. David Sedaris

  746. augusten burroughs

    pavlov please

  747. Victoria Price (Pluto, please)

  748. Langston Hughes

  749. Brem Stoker (Pluto please)

  750. Author: Richard Lederer

    T-shirt: Pi, please

  751. Jodi Piccoult

    Pluto

  752. Ken Follett

  753. Ayn Rand

    Pluto

  754. Umberto Eco

  755. Mitch Albom

    Pluto

  756. Anita Diamant

    Pluto

  757. Joyce Carol Oates

  758. Karel Capek (damnit, I see Eco was already chosen. But then again, about 4 people wrote Dickens, so that’s not so bad.)

  759. A: Chip Kidd
    T: Rheus

  760. Amy Tan

  761. Isaac Babel

  762. A: Steven Heighton
    T: Rheus

  763. T. Coraghessan Boyle.

  764. A: Amy Hempel
    T: Rheus

  765. Harper Lee

  766. John Donne

    the pluto shirt

  767. Eric Clapton (Pluto please)

  768. A: Will Ferguson
    T: Rheus

  769. John Milton

    the pluto shirt

  770. Joseph Heller

    Lady MacBeth, please!

  771. Thomas More

    Pi

  772. Job (i dont think they gave his last name?)
    Pluto shirt

  773. Joris Karl Huysmans

  774. Rudyard Kipling

    Monkey shirt

  775. eric carle

    rhesus

  776. Clarence Thomas (Pluto please)

  777. Rudyard Kipling

  778. Apollinaire

  779. Mallarme

    Lady Macbeth tee

  780. Dr. Timothy Leary

    EZ as PI

  781. Charles Schultz

  782. Dr. Seuss

  783. O.J. Simpson

  784. All the good ones are taken, so…

    Penn Jillette

    I like the Scurvy shirt.

  785. bill clinton

    Your pick

  786. Edgar Allen Poe

    Pluto

  787. Bill Clinton

    Pluto

  788. Iris Murdoch
    Pluto T- Please

  789. shelley

    you pick the shirt

  790. Somerset Maugham

    Gregor Mendel

  791. Huxley

    The Pluto t-shirt please.

  792. dalai lama

    you pick the shirt- they all look so good

  793. Daniel C Dennett

    scurvy shirt please

  794. Or T.S. Elliot.

    (Still Pluto)

  795. Samuel Beckett

    The scurvy shirt, still

  796. James Baldwin

    Mental Floss logo

  797. Robert Ripley

    and, once again, I would like to receive scurvy.

  798. Ayn Rand.

    And I changed my mind! I want the Physics tee!

  799. Virginia Woolf – Women’s Rhesus

  800. Irving

    pluto

  801. Salinger Author
    Pluto Shirt

  802. H.P. Lovecraft

    Still the Physics tee.

  803. Bradbury

    pluto

  804. Whitman

    pluto

  805. Knut Hamsun

    Rhesus me

  806. Lord Dunsany

    Lady Macbeth shirt puh-leazeee

  807. 1. Mamet

    (rhesus)

  808. 2. Cisneros
    (rhesus)

  809. 3. Eugenides
    (rhesus)

  810. Walter Benjamin

    Lady Macbeth T-Pretty Please

  811. 4. Charles Frazier
    (rhesus)

  812. e.m. forster

  813. Mildred Taylor

  814. Dalton Trumbo

    Lady Macbeth

  815. normal mailer

  816. Robert Pirsig

  817. lao-tsu

  818. Wally Lamb

  819. Welty

    Simple as 3.14

  820. Denis Johnson

    (Marco Polo shirt)

  821. Arthur Miller

  822. Nathanael West

  823. Robert Musil

    (Marco Polo shirt)

  824. Laura Numeroff

  825. herman melville

    (freud shirt, please)

  826. Jorge Luis Borges

    (Marco Polo shirt)

  827. Rudy Rucker

    (girly pi shirt!)

  828. Douglas Adams

  829. Natalie Goldberg

  830. JFK
    t-Lady MacBeth

  831. Kingsley Amis

  832. Patrick O’Brian

    (Marco Polo shirt)

  833. Louis Ferdinand Celine

    Women’s Pavlov-Pretty please with extra doses of Nutrasweet. Sugar causes cavities.

  834. Tom Wolfe
    t-easy as 3.14…

  835. Ellis Peters

    Lady Macbeth (perhaps next time you could make these as hand towels)

  836. Tim O’Brien
    t-Mendel

  837. primo levi

    pluto shirt, if you will….

  838. Laura Ingalls Wilder

    (mental floss)

  839. E.B. White

    Simple as PI, please

  840. Bronte. Pluto.

  841. George Orwell
    t-Mt. Rushmore

  842. ethan hawke

    pluto, please.

  843. karen armstrong.

    lady macbeth?

  844. Jennifer Gilmore

    Pluto shirt, please

  845. S.E. Hinton (ooooh yeah…I can almost taste the teen angst…)

    Lady Macbeth (’cause like she had angst too…)

  846. Stephen Jay Gould

    Pluto shirt

  847. Ursula K. Le Guin

    Pluto shirt

  848. j.r.r. tolkein

    lady macbeth…..

  849. J.R.R. Tolkien

    Lady Macbeth shirt

  850. Sylvia Plath

    Pavlov t-shirt

  851. Karl Marx

    Scurvy T shirt

  852. A.J. Jacobs

    Pluto shirt

  853. Cory Doctorow

    Pluto shirt

  854. Jon Krakauer

    rhesus (womens)

  855. Sara Douglass

    Pavlov shirt

  856. Philip Roth

    Lady Macbeth shirt

  857. Seamus Haney

    Easy as Pi

  858. Dick Francis

    rhesus (womens)

  859. Barbara Kingsolver

    rhesus shirt (Womens)

  860. I started looking through the other answers, but there’s too many…

    Lois McMaster Bujold
    (idioms)

  861. Sharon Creech

    Easy as Pi

  862. Neely Harris

    Easy as Pi

  863. Jonathan Swift
    (idioms)

  864. Walter Dean Myers

    Easy as Pi

  865. Patrick McCabe

    Pluto shirt

  866. Neil Simon

    Beethoven….medium

  867. Armistead Maupin

  868. Fran Lebowitz

  869. Isaac Asimov

    You’ve got male TShirt

  870. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  871. Okay, I got tired of reading after the first few hundred, so please don’t laugh if I guess authors already listed…

    Jean M. Auell

    And I think I’d like the Nix-on, Nix-off T-shirt.

  872. Piers Anthony (Rhesus shirt please).

  873. Joseph Conrad

    Pluto please

  874. Lloyd Alexander

  875. Lloyd Alexander and Rhesus, Please

  876. ALice Walker

    pluto, por favor

  877. L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz)

    Mental Floss shirt

  878. Angela Carter

    pluto pluto pluto

  879. Jacqueline Carey

    just because she is my favorite, although I doubt she’s the answer.

    Pluto, please (just in case)

  880. This is crazy..

  881. Jane Auel

    the rhesus shirt

  882. Umberto Eco

    (pluto)

  883. John Steinbeck

    (pluto)

  884. F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Pluto shirt please.

  885. The ever-elusive Evelyn Waugh.

    I’d like the Pluto shirt please.

  886. Bart Simpson

    Pluto shirt please.

  887. Colin Powell.

    Pluto shirt please.

  888. T.S. Eliot

  889. Harper Lee (Pluto)

  890. W. Somerset Maugham

    Pavlov, please

  891. David Sedaris

  892. Judy Blume

    The “You’ve Got Male!” T-shirt, please!

  893. Alice Sebold

  894. Caroline Alexander

  895. Enid Blyton

  896. Stephen King

    mendel shirt

  897. John D. MacDonald
    Pluto, please.

  898. Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Pluto, please

  899. Laurell K. Hamilton

    Pluto please

  900. John Green

    Pie Pi shirt, Women’s Large

  901. Erle Stanley Gardner
    Pluto, please

  902. Jasper Fforde

    Pluto shirt please

  903. Jean-Paul Sartre

    (and I could use a bit of that hand soap…)

  904. Unfortunately, no one has noticed that it’s over. Drat!

  905. kamala markandaya

    Lady MaccyB soap please

  906. Really, uh, I can read….contest over pshew, got it.

  907. Mangesh

    Pluto t-shirt

  908. Haruki Murakami
    Mental Floss T-shirt, please (women’s)

  909. author: James Frey, teehee
    T-shirt: Pluto – womens

  910. Author: Shel Silverstein
    T-shirt: Rhesus

  911. Author: Og Mandino

  912. Stephen King

    pluto please.

  913. Edgar Allen Poe
    shirt: Pluto, please

  914. Dostoevsky

    “Simple as…” women’s

  915. Dickens

  916. Whitman

  917. Frank Herbert

  918. Martin Amis

    rhesus shirt, por favor

  919. Dick Francis

  920. Stephen King (close to Halloween??)

    Pluto shirt

  921. Leo Tolstoy

    Pluto shirt

  922. Kahil Gibran

    Pluto shirt

  923. Stephen King (pluto shirt)

  924. Philip Pullman (pluto shirt)

  925. Neil Gaiman (you’ve got male)

  926. Tolstoy (you’ve got male)

  927. Dickens

    Pluto

  928. Did anyone guess it yet??

  929. Dr. Seuss

    (monkey)

  930. I’m too late, but my guess is O. Henry…

    And the Mental Floss shirt would have been awesome…

  931. Lemony Snicket

    I hope I will win the monkey.

  932. Dean Koontz (rhesus)

  933. Salinger (rhesus)

  934. Poe (rhesus)

  935. Frost (rhesus)

  936. Frank Yerby

    “You’ve got male”

  937. Adam Gopnik (pluto)

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