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Before the current situation, has there ever been a rare entries contest
posted here that was just abandoned after the entries had been collected?

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson
 
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Harold Buck <no_one_knows@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<no_one_knows-8B4F17.07263909062004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>...
> Before the current situation, has there ever been a rare entries contest
> posted here that was just abandoned after the entries had been collected?
>
> --Harold Buck
>
>
> "I used to rock and roll all night,
> and party every day.
> Then it was every other day. . . ."
> -Homer J. Simpson

I can recall several that had very few respondents, possibly 0
entries, and which were cancelled for that reason. In each case, the
person running the contest emailed the people who submitted entries to
inform them.

NR01 had at least 2 entrants...

swp
 
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In article <a59bd1d2.0406100516.16fb59b6@posting.google.com>,
DSAsteve@aol.com (swp) wrote:

> Harold Buck <no_one_knows@attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:<no_one_knows-8B4F17.07263909062004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>...
> > Before the current situation, has there ever been a rare entries contest
> > posted here that was just abandoned after the entries had been collected?
> >
> > --Harold Buck
> >
> >
> > "I used to rock and roll all night,
> > and party every day.
> > Then it was every other day. . . ."
> > -Homer J. Simpson
>
> I can recall several that had very few respondents, possibly 0
> entries, and which were cancelled for that reason. In each case, the
> person running the contest emailed the people who submitted entries to
> inform them.
>
> NR01 had at least 2 entrants...
>


Maybe we can find someone willing to judge and forward our entries to
that person?

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson
 
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Harold Buck <no_one_knows@attbi.com> wrote in message news:<no_one_knows-362C97.09353810062004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>...
>
> Maybe we can find someone willing to judge and forward our entries to
> that person?

I'd like that. I spent some time looking for nice answers, and I'd
like to know the results...

BTW, has anyone tried mailing to Neville?

Best regards,
Garmt de Vries.
 
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In article <528a72ef.0406102352.5cfbb728@posting.google.com>,
gdv1000@hotmail.com (Garmt de Vries) wrote:

> Harold Buck <no_one_knows@attbi.com> wrote in message
> news:<no_one_knows-362C97.09353810062004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>...
> >
> > Maybe we can find someone willing to judge and forward our entries to
> > that person?
>
> I'd like that. I spent some time looking for nice answers, and I'd
> like to know the results...
>
> BTW, has anyone tried mailing to Neville?
>


Like 3 times. No response.

To be fair, we don't know what's going on. He could be in the hospital
or something. But I did get a prompt response to me entry, sent in a day
or so before the deadline.

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson
 
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> > Before the current situation, has there ever been a rare entries contest
> > posted here that was just abandoned after the entries had been
collected?

The results of Phil Carmody's FATNEXT01 contest were never posted.

Nowadays, if someone new starts a contest, I may enter. But if it's their
first contest then I'm not going to spend 5 hours scouring the web for a
computer keyboard where the G and L are adjacent.

Andrew
 
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"Andrew Krywaniuk" <askrywan@hotmail.com> writes:

> > > Before the current situation, has there ever been a rare entries contest
> > > posted here that was just abandoned after the entries had been
> collected?
>
> The results of Phil Carmody's FATNEXT01 contest were never posted.

All swallowed by yahoo mail, alas :-(.
I think I had 12 entrants, IIRC.

Phil
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"Mark Brader" wrote

> Mark Brader | "Howeb45 9 qad no5 und8ly diturvrd v7 7jis dince
> Toronto | 9 qas 8mtillihemt mot ikkfavpur4d 5esoyrdeful
> msb@vex.net | abd fill if condif3nce on myd3lf." -- Cica

tres
 
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Mark Brader wrote:


>
>> 0. Identify, by exact title, one of the sections that will
>> appear in the May 23, 2004 edition of the Sunday New York
>> Times.
>
> 2 Sunday Business
> 1 Book Review
> 1 Real Estate
> 1 Travel
> WRONG:
> 2 Sports (called "Sports Sunday")
> 1 Arts & Entertainment (called "Arts & Leisure")
> 1 Business (called "Sunday Business")
> 1 Money and Business (called "Sunday Business")
> 1 Technology

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking this was not a good question,
despite the fact that I got a 1 on it. I don't live anywhere near
New York and don't subscribe to the Times. Furthermore, it was
impossible to discover what the exact titles of Sunday Times
sections were on the net. I found a reference to several sections
on the net and made a guess that one was the actual title and
happened to come out right. But I had little confidence in the
matter.

--
Dan Tilque
 
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In article <10d3fch6o0e7nc5@corp.supernews.com>,
msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

> Here are their answer slates (some abbreviated):
>
> JOSHUA KREITZER HAROLD BUCK
> [0] Book Review [wrong answer]


Thanks for scoring this contest, Mark!

I couldn't find section names on the NYT website, so I just guessed. I
guess I should have looked harder!

I had made the argument that calling a weapon a ".38" would be
incorrect, since the weapon is not commonly referred to as a "point
three eight," but as a "thirty-eight." My thought was that 38 should be
correct but .38 should not. But I guess that argument didn't fly.

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson
 
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Sorry, I should have changed the subject line before. The results are
in my previous posting in the thread, with subject ending "to be rescored".
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Whatever you are, be out and out,
msb@vex.net | not divided or in doubt." -- Brand (Ibsen)
 
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> | 3. Give a number which indicates the caliber of a firearm, and is
> | also used as a common shorthand reference for that firearm.
>
> WRONG:
> 1 9 (number not used without unit)

Actually, I managed to convince NR that this answer was correct before
he disappeared, citing this reference:
http://www.fact-index.com/h/hi/hip_hop_slang.html (Look under "nine")

- Nate
 
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In message <10d3fch6o0e7nc5@corp.supernews.com>, Mark Brader
<msb@vex.net> writes

>| 4. Identify a professional baseball team named after an inanimate object.
>
> 2 Lansing Lugnuts
> 1 Colorado Rockies
> 1 Columbus Clippers
> 1 Hiroshima Toyo Carp
> 1 Montgomery Biscuits
> 1 Omaha Golden Spikes
> 1 Orix Blue Wave
> 1 Tacoma Tugs
> 1 Taipei Gida
> 1 The Hague Tornado's
>
>Determining the relevant leagues is left as an exercise for the reader.

A carp is animate.

Nick
--
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Nick Wedd <nick@maproom.co.uk> wrote:

>In message <10d3fch6o0e7nc5@corp.supernews.com>, Mark Brader
><msb@vex.net> writes
>
>>| 4. Identify a professional baseball team named after an inanimate object.
>>
>> 2 Lansing Lugnuts
>> 1 Colorado Rockies
>> 1 Columbus Clippers
>> 1 Hiroshima Toyo Carp
>> 1 Montgomery Biscuits
>> 1 Omaha Golden Spikes
>> 1 Orix Blue Wave
>> 1 Tacoma Tugs
>> 1 Taipei Gida
>> 1 The Hague Tornado's
>>
>>Determining the relevant leagues is left as an exercise for the reader.
>
>A carp is animate.

Well I guess you could have one stuffed and mounted. But try that with a
tornado...anyone recall seeing an inanimate tornado? And I presume it's the
"Orix Blue Standing Wave".
--
Patrick Hamlyn posting from Perth, Western Australia
Windsurfing capital of the Southern Hemisphere
Moderator: polyforms group (polyforms-subscribe@egroups.com)
 
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Nick Wedd writes:
> A carp is animate.

Oops, so it is. That drops John Gerson from a 5th-place tie with 32
to 9th place with 128.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "What we're looking for is the correct misnomer."
msb@vex.net | --Rodney Boyd
 
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msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in message news:<10d3fch6o0e7nc5@corp.supernews.com>...
> | 2. Give a 4 letter English word that is routinely abbreviated by
> | three letters.
>
> [...]
>
> Another ambiguous question. 4 entrants thought "abbreviated by three
> letters" meant "abbreviated by the removal of 3 letters", while the
> other 7 thought it meant "abbreviated by using a 3-letter abbreviation".
> In the absence of the original poster, I accepted both types of answer.

From my correspondance with Neville, it's clear that he meant the
second possibility, "abbreviated by using a 3-letter abbreviation".
Not that I'd want you to rescore the question, though, because it is
indeed ambiguous.

Garmt.
 
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In article <no_one_knows-928F2B.12095517062004@comcast.dca.giganews.com>,
Harold Buck <no_one_knows@attbi.com> wrote:
>In article <10d3fch6o0e7nc5@corp.supernews.com>,
> msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:
>
>> Here are their answer slates (some abbreviated):
>>
>> JOSHUA KREITZER HAROLD BUCK
>> [0] Book Review [wrong answer]
>
>
>Thanks for scoring this contest, Mark!
>
>I couldn't find section names on the NYT website, so I just guessed. I
>guess I should have looked harder!
>
>I had made the argument that calling a weapon a ".38" would be
>incorrect, since the weapon is not commonly referred to as a "point
>three eight," but as a "thirty-eight." My thought was that 38 should be
>correct but .38 should not. But I guess that argument didn't fly.

Shouldn't -- in print it's often called a ".38", though the "." is silent.
 
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> RATS! beaten by a guy with a wrong answer. thought I had a shot at
> this one too, unlike Mark's contests...
>
> > 3. 20 Stephen Perry 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 5 1 2

IIRC, you claimed to have a winning answer slate for MSB36 that you didn't
submit for some reason.

Andrew
 
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(my excuse for replying in the wrong place is that my isp is Telstra)

Mark Brader wrote somewhere

> Nick Wedd writes:
>> A carp is animate.

> Oops, so it is. That drops John Gerson from a 5th-place tie with 32
> to 9th place with 128.

That is so unfair! UNFair!

Although I think it's a joke so I'm LOL or LOFL or something whatever.

As I sent to Neville Rareperson -

Hiroshima Shimin Kyujo
.... The club was named after this historical pretty castle. ... Hiroshima Toyo Carp
The highlight of Carp history is the last game of 1979 Japan Series. ...
home.n00.itscom.net/kbt-t/yakyujo_cl/hiroshima_e.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

Not a fish! A castle! Not a fish!
 
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(my excuse for replying in the wrong place is that my isp is Telstra)

Dan Tilque wrote somewhere

>> 0. Identify, by exact title, one of the sections that will
>> appear in the May 23, 2004 edition of the Sunday New York
>> Times.

> I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking this was not a good question ...

So am I.

> ...
> despite the fact that I got a 1 on it. I don't live anywhere near
> New York and don't subscribe to the Times.

Neither do I.

:)

> ... made a guess that one was the actual title and
> happened to come out right

And I was unlucky having chosen a WR using
the same guess method. See also qn 7. Too centric.
 
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"gerson" that is, I, wrote

> the same guess method. See also qn 7. Too centric.

And actually, also qn 8 too, like how many people
know what a no. 2 pencil is, I had to struggle to find
out about it, and I still don't know, except I'm
pretty sure it's long and thin and used in Amrerican
schools. Are there no. 1 pencils too? no. 3 ? 4?
 
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In article <O1WCc.64013$sj4.38674@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
"gerson" <gerson@bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> "gerson" that is, I, wrote
>
> > the same guess method. See also qn 7. Too centric.
>
> And actually, also qn 8 too, like how many people
> know what a no. 2 pencil is, I had to struggle to find
> out about it, and I still don't know, except I'm
> pretty sure it's long and thin and used in Amrerican
> schools. Are there no. 1 pencils too? no. 3 ? 4?

No.2 refers to the hardness of the lead.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpencillead.html

--
David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
 
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David Eppstein wrote:
> "gerson" <gerson@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>>"gerson" that is, I, wrote
>>
>>
>>>the same guess method. See also qn 7. Too centric.
>>
>>And actually, also qn 8 too, like how many people
>>know what a no. 2 pencil is, I had to struggle to find
>>out about it, and I still don't know, except I'm
>>pretty sure it's long and thin and used in Amrerican
>>schools. Are there no. 1 pencils too? no. 3 ? 4?
>
>
> No.2 refers to the hardness of the lead.
> http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpencillead.html

NB: This site is typeset using Western (ISO-8859-1) characters rather
than UTF-8.

--Jeff

--
Americans will always do the right thing
- after they have exhausted every other
possibility. --Winston Churchill

Loyalty to the country always, loyalty
to the government when it deserves it.
--Mark Twain

Rain on a tin roof sounds like a drum.
We're marching for freedom today-ay!
So turn on your headlights
and sound your horn,
if people get in the way. --Neil Innes
 
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In article <10dorgsqhksm59f@corp.supernews.com>,
Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> wrote:

> >>And actually, also qn 8 too, like how many people
> >>know what a no. 2 pencil is, I had to struggle to find
> >>out about it, and I still don't know, except I'm
> >>pretty sure it's long and thin and used in Amrerican
> >>schools. Are there no. 1 pencils too? no. 3 ? 4?
> >
> >
> > No.2 refers to the hardness of the lead.
> > http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpencillead.html
>
> NB: This site is typeset using Western (ISO-8859-1) characters rather
> than UTF-8.

Neither the HTTP headers nor the HTML code of that site specify a
character set (perhaps this omission is related to the Microsoft
software used to generate the site), so your browser has to guess.
AFAIK most people guess ISO-8859-1. Do you really find many sites that
use UTF-8 without specifying that that's what they use?

--
David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
 
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David Eppstein wrote:
> Jeffrey Turner <jturner@localnet.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>>And actually, also qn 8 too, like how many people
>>>>know what a no. 2 pencil is, I had to struggle to find
>>>>out about it, and I still don't know, except I'm
>>>>pretty sure it's long and thin and used in Amrerican
>>>>schools. Are there no. 1 pencils too? no. 3 ? 4?
>>>
>>>No.2 refers to the hardness of the lead.
>>>http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpencillead.html
>>
>>NB: This site is typeset using Western (ISO-8859-1) characters rather
>>than UTF-8.
>
> Neither the HTTP headers nor the HTML code of that site specify a
> character set (perhaps this omission is related to the Microsoft
> software used to generate the site), so your browser has to guess.
> AFAIK most people guess ISO-8859-1. Do you really find many sites that
> use UTF-8 without specifying that that's what they use?

I don't usually pay attention. I just noticed that the 1/2 and degree
symbol were not showing up properly on my browser.

--Jeff

--
Americans will always do the right thing
- after they have exhausted every other
possibility. --Winston Churchill

Loyalty to the country always, loyalty
to the government when it deserves it.
--Mark Twain

Rain on a tin roof sounds like a drum.
We're marching for freedom today-ay!
So turn on your headlights
and sound your horn,
if people get in the way. --Neil Innes
 
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