[WTP] Results

[sir archely]

This are the results generated by my judging of the responses to the WTP questions.

If, during any week, you notice i've screwed something up. Like your points, or spelling, or anything you feel should be corrected, let me know.

[sir archely]

Well, here are the results for the very first WTP here at the quill. I left it open a little long to let a few more people get in the mix. More people played than i thought, yet less than i hoped for. Oh well. Enjoy.

Here are the questions. Questions. (http://www.enchantedquill.net/showpost.php?postid=4050&postcount=2)

Also, i think i was pretty rusty on this one. So i apologize if you people think i messed something up. although, since i set the standard, i don't suppose i can be rusty.

One further thing....i didn't do it on this weeks, but expect half or even thirds of points in the future, it's better to have a little more options instead of all or nothing. I'll probably try it out a bit here at the outset, and then either keep it or discard depending on how it goes.

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Question 1: Okay, as far as i'm concerned, 5 is a correct answer on this one. However, 6 is probably more accurate, as we are pretty much in the middle of the 6th. Causes...are pretty much up in the air, and as i understand it, most are speculative. 'Cept for the 6th. We'd be the cause of that. That's the extent to which i've been informed anyhow. That said, simple seemed to be better on this question. While horrible, malcor's answer had me laughing the most, so it takes best. Curtis wasn't far behind, though i don't know that his third would be a mass extinction. ooooh, burn. :p

Malcor: 5. All, I know for sure was that my last trip to the bathroom almost caused the 6th. :umm:

runner up:

Curtis:3. The Cretaceous/Tertiary event, the Permo-Triassic event, and the Backstreet Boys, which killed dinosaurs, dinosaurs, and my brain cells, respectively.


Question 2:Well, i don't know the answer to this one, but i would agree with most people who said i should care. And to those who said i shouldn't look like a tinker....today i just happen to be wearing a bright yellow shirt with bright blue and red on it. Also, green pants. So..um...yeah. :umm: Sorry if you said fashion trends could save my life...that's just not true. Oh, and two of you thought it was gnomes. heh. wendy captures best for this...again a simple, yet hilarious answer. not that i agree with her absolute, but it's damn funny.

wendy: gee this is too easy, Cher of course, so it was, so it is, and so it always shall be *nods sagely*

Question 3: So...if you noticed, i screwed up on this question. When i first wrote it i used myself as an the example person, but decided i didn't want that, so i thought i went back and changed it. After LT turned in his answers i realized i had forgotten to change the whole thing...so i just left it. Surely, somebody else exercising isn't going to add time on to my life. Oh well. Really though, what i was trying to get at was a study (stanford maybe?) that while vigorous exercise will add 2 years onto a person's life on average, that two years will have been spent exercising. So, you know. And, while it makes no sense, i liked Buck's answer. ;)

Buck: Let us say that person A for sake of arguement exercise for 2 hrs a day 5 days a week. Arch your added life span as a direct result of this on average would go down!! Taking for granted that everyone elses rate goes up from all that exercise and yours *coughs* stays constant... then I dare say these gym freaks are killers!! They are trying to put you in your grave faster ... on average of course *coughs*. I say fight back by tripping the exercise gears with oil (to make it run easier) and watering down their protein shakes with powdered cholesterol !!

The majority of your time will be spent doing this so that you dont die sooner *coughs* on average*coughs*.


Question 4: Hmm...no real right answer for this either. But i liked LT's answer. I at least hope he's being sarcastical. ;)

LT: Your own two feet. The damn things are the most annoying and painful way to get around. Sure it does your body good, creates no harmful environmental impact and is free but one must think…at what cost? No only does one have to physically move their own legs back and forth in a tedious repetitious rhythm – a feat in itself for many a lazy slacker - it also is guaranteed to take longer to get from point A to point B than any other means imaginable. Whereas one could just as easily be comfortably pampered eating a Big Mac, chatting on their cell phone in the cushy captain’s chair of their $50,000 gas guzzling SUV and listen to their 50 cent CD while waiting in bumper to bumper traffic.

Runner up...

Anita: 4. Maggot-mobile. For one thing, it's made entirely of maggots. That's kinda gross, when you think about it, really. For another, have you ever seen how fast maggots move? You'd really be better off to get out and walk. Even if it decreases your life-span.

Question 5: People were actually fairly serious about this question for the most part. Good for all of you. I got some really profound, thought provoking answers. That said, sorry to all of you nice people, i went with Mes instead, mostly for the aside comment.

Mesaana: 5. Ever MUST eat a king sandwich... I mean a sandwich that looks like Warhol should frame it, and it's taste is akin to having a multi orgasm... but in your mouth! (and it's your orgasm, not someones elses in there ) EVERYONE should make a king sandwich made of all their favourite things and wash it down with a nice glass of lemonade... or other beverage as you wish

runner up...

Anita: 5. Worship me. Because it will make me happy, and i think that's really the most important thing right now, don't you? Of course you do.

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Example points (will be shown as if I have achieved max points):
archely: 16 (2, 4, 8{1,2,3,4}*!) [80,5]
the key goes like this.... 16=weekly points (correct answer points, humorous answer points, AB points {questions for which you got the AB for}) [total points, number of weeks you have won] *=first response !=you put your name in the subject line.

Players will be posted according to highest points in the single week, and then alphabetically. Unless you didn't play, then it's just a mish-mash of names, because i don't feel the need to work at alphabetizing them if you didn't work at playing. :p

Your winners this week are LaughingTurtle and Mesaana! Way to GO!

LaughingTurtle: 8 (2,4,1{4}!) [8,1]
Mesaana: 8 (1,5,1{5}!) [8,1]
Anita_Blake: 7 (1,5!) [7,0]
Malcor Sylverwood: 7 (1,3,1{1}*!) [7,0]
Buck: 5 (1,2,1{3}!) [5,0]
Curtis: 4 (2,2) [4,0]
wendy: 4 (1,2,1{2}) [4,0]


In general i was pretty generous with "correct" answer points this week, on questions 1 and 3. Also gave out correct points on #5 if someone put some thought into it, i didn't want them to go away empty handed for some nice answers.

Also, if you didn't do as well as some others this week, don't get discouraged. For some, it was merely a question of reading the directions. Also, you're still clearly far superior to all the non-players out there. ;)

Thanks for playing, everyone. Seriously. :)

[sir archely]

Round two is completed. I'm toying with the idea of 3 week seasons. We'll see. Anyhow. Here you are.

Here are the questions. Questions. (http://www.enchantedquill.net/showpost.php?p=4908#post=4908)


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Question 1: Well...this is complicated. For each the question and the bonus, there are two 'correct' answers according to the Bible. For the actual question, Noah was either on board the ark for a year and ten days, or 54 days. (or possibly somewhere in between depending on how you interpret some of the wording, but definitely two different dates.) The Flood Narrative is contained in Genesis chapters 6-8, which you can find HERE (http://www.devotions.net/bible/00old.htm) That's the NRSV in case anyone wonders, and it's far superior to any other current translation, so nsh. :p Anyway, specific verses you'll want to check out are... 7:11 and 8:13 (Noah on board for a year and ten days) and 8:6-12, which is of the other tradition, and details 54 days. Oh, if you said 40, you were wrong. That's just how long the rains fell. ;) For the bonus, check out 6:19 (two of every animal, the traditional answer) and 7:2 (seven pairs of every clean clean animal and a pair of every unclean. This goes with 8:20, 'cause with that tradition Noah had to have some clean animals to offer in sacrifice to god when he got off the ark.) I gave correct points for having one or the other, but to get the full 4 correct points on this you had to have both. Whew.

Best to Malcor. I couldn't get over the first part....so true... (lest anyone think they're better than malcor...you'd have to go to church an hour a week for almost 25 years just to equal Noah's short date of 54 days on the ark ;) )

Malcor: 1. Probably something much longer then the sum of all the time I've been in a church. DOH!

Bonus: Well, Noah--being an alien--only took *1* because he could just create the rest in his lab aboard the ark--his starship.


runner up:

Anita: 40 days and 40 nights? Sure, that sounds good. And i'll go with one male and one female of each species. But no unicorns. f*cking bastard. As if he didn't have space for unicorns. not even one pregnant unicorn?

Question 2:Used to be that we thought humans were special cause we could use tools. Then we found out other species did it too...most notably chimps, who use tools extensively, and make tools. So we decided that it just made primates special. Turns out, lot's of species do it. LT had a couple good examples, as you'll see. A few others are an archer fish spitting water to knock bugs into the water (this is debatable), crows modifying twigs to create hooks, or a wasp using a stone to "hammer" shut a burrow. A bird's nest is not a tool, technically, that would be a shelter, which isn't that exceptional (according to, um...them)

Best is Anita, not because she's right, but because she's hilarious, as usual.

Anita: homer simpson, using a rock to fix his toaster, and, um, birds using, twings...and...stuff... to build homes. Fabulous 2 story homes with full kitchen and bath. What? Homer's not a primate, he's a fricken animation. stop looking at me like that.

Runner ups. Sorry to mes, she was close, but couldn't top saying they were animations. LT's here because he had good, correct answers. Also, i had to get malcor's answer on here for LT. ;)

Mes: TWO non primate species eh?? This is hard... ummm umm....I think Krang from the ninja turtles counts, he was always making things like that suity thing he travelled in, also I would consider the carebears non-primate as well.. they had those kickass cloud cars that they flew around in, also they built that whole damn care centre place in the sky
(was I the only one who saw that Noah's ark type episode when they first come to Care-A-Lot.... probably so...) anyhow I think those are two FINE examples!


LT: Elephants use sticks for back-scratchers. The California sea otter uses a stone to break open clamshells.

Malcor: Otter using rocks to crack mussels and penguins making polar bear suits to sell Coke.


Question 3: Yeah, i've got nothing to say about this. Well, yes i do. I'd never personally do it, but i think someone will. My inclination is towards soccer moms volunteering their next kids for the first wave. Best to wendy, i suppose none of us knows what we'll do when we're senile. ;)

wendy: Hmm not in this era, but maybe if I lived 3000 years from now when such things were tried and tested, as long as they did not involve the making and destruction of spare human embryos. But even then prolly not... but then I'd be pretty old and senile if I was still around then so who knows what I'd do.

Runner up...

Mes: If I could genetically enhance my children before they were born... HELLS NO!!! Did you NOT see that frikken creepy ep of the the new outer limits in which they did that to the kids... and those kids were all nice and good.. til they hit age nine... THEN they turned into malevolent little hell beasts in the most literal sense. They lost all sense of compassion and emotion and became psychotic killers that lived off the pain and suffering of others?? My kids are prolly gonna be weird as it is... I don't need genetic super killing soldier on top of that... it's enough to put em in college... I don't need to be bailing them outta prison all the time

Question 4: I gave correct points on this one for things that seemed intuitively correct. LT takes best. I don't know about this, but it's hilarious.

LT: A - Convert energy to Christianity
B – Though if energy’s really needs saving, call for superman
Runner up...I want to join this club. I don't think i'd have a problem getting in. Well, 'cept that i don't live in canada. Maybe i can start a US chapter? :D

Runner up:

Mes: Ohh saving energy is what I am all about, my best friend founded the Energy Conservers of Canada (basically a club devoted to laziness... I called him lazy once and he said he was an 'energy conserver') as part of this energy conservation technique you sit around as much as possible and eat as you will, (Cause that saves up the energy) then you get OTHERS to do work for you (also saving energy). Oh yes a good environmental way to do so is to shut off lights when exiting a room, making sure your house doesn't have a lot of appliances on all the time, also using low wattage bulbs, they cost more but are worth it when you see the reduction on the energy bill. I suppose you could flush less as well, but I wouldn't reccomend it


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Example points (will be shown as if I have achieved max points):
archely: 19 (8, 5, 4{1,2,3,4}*!) [35,2]
the key goes like this.... 19=weekly points (correct answer points, humorous answer points, AB points {questions for which you got the AB for}) [total points, number of weeks you have won] *=first response !=you put your name in the subject line.

Players will be posted according to highest points in the single week, and then alphabetically. Unless you didn't play, then it's just a mish-mash of names, because i don't feel the need to work at alphabetizing them if you didn't work at playing. :p

Your winners this week is Malcor! Way to GO!

Malcor Sylverwood: 8.5 (1,4.5,1{1}*!) [15.5,1]
Mesaana: 8 (4,3,!) [16,1]
Anita_Blake: 7.5 (2,3.5,1{2}!) [14.5,0]
LaughingTurtle: 7.5 (4,1.5,1{4}!) [15.5,1]
wendy: 5 (2,2,1{3}) [9,0]


Curtis: 0 (0) [4,0]
Buck: 0 (0) [5,0]

Odd that a few of you said that the questions didn't strike you well this week, yet i thought these were some of the funniest answers yet. ~shrug~ anyway, close game, heading into the final week of the season. (i made up my mind ;) ) Good luck!

[sir archely]

Well, i must say this wasn't exactly the best crop of WTP answers i've ever had. seems like your intuitions about last weeks were actually premonitions to this week. But anyway. It's the last week of the season, and the four of you are so close it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Here are the questions. Questions 1.2 (http://www.enchantedquill.net/showpost.php?postid=5668&postcount=7)


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Question 1: Simply put, it's that you can't derive an ought from an is. David Hume is really the one who's famous for this...although yes, G.E. Moore discussed his own bit later. So i gave you credit if you mentioned that too. Cause i'm a big softie. No best here, the answers were all either just definitions or bad penis jokes. Really, with that much of a set up, i was expecting so much more. :p

Question 2: Um...yeah. 7. I mostly did this just to screw with you guys, and make you think i had something hidden in mind. Though, as mes tells me, there are all different kinds of lengths of weeks. Though i'm not sure about the logic in the rest of her post... :umm: (counts on fingers :p) ANYWAY, best goes to malcor. I thought it was funny.


Malcor: :umm: 7? I'm must be stupid because even I can't make teh funny from this...

Runner ups. I have to mention LT...who somehow managed to not get a correct point on what is perhaps the easiest question in WTP history.

LT: Not enough.

Question 3: So...yeah. I thought this was a trick question. Turns out it's semi-okay. I was under the impression that it's vegans who can't get B12, not veggies. However, i'm told that veggies do usually have a hard time getting B12, so...~shrug~ I'm also told, however, that B12 takes a long time to break down in your system, so it usually isn't a problem. The normal problem for veggies is getting enough folic acid. But that they have this in their diet. ~shrug~ whatever. If you have any questions, you can ask my veggie med-school sister. ~nods~ As such, this was sort of a gimme, as I really wasn't specific enough with the question. Oh well. I liked anita's answer. Mostly because i agree that steak is a nutrient. ;)

Anita: pork chops. mmm. delicious pork chops. wait a minute, i hate pork chops. i meant steak. steak's a nutrient, isn't it? it has B12, which vegetarians don't.

Question 4: I was really looking for the mastication theory, as that's all i've heard, but mes found what i guess is a competing theory. The mastication theory is that kissing started as mothers chew up food and feed their young this way (it's been observed in chimps and other primates.) My own personal belief says mastication is the more probable answer. Just because that involves lip to lip contact, and the other does not. Sorry, no real best jumps out at me here either. But anyway, here's mes.

Mes: The best candidate for the origins of the kiss?? According to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thekiss.shtml

"As to its origin: some anthropologists believe that kissing evolved from sniffing, some indigenous cultures do rub noses rather than kissing. It is a primal urge to sample another person’s scent, and test their sexual chemistry so could touching lips have extended from rubbing noses? Sounds crazy, but we‘re not alone, moles rub noses, turtles tap their noses, dolphins rub noses, dogs lick each others face, and some birds display with beak clapping or “kissing” displays. Alternatively, kissing may evolved from “kiss feeding”: in which mothers masticate food before passing it on to a baby."

I have always been a believer of this tasting theory myself... have you ever SMELT someone you are really attracted to?? I mean doesn't it just drive you wild?? They smell so good you just wanna eat em all up!! So in you go with your lips and zing pow! (as Bjork would say) Also as stated above lips ARE very erogenous zones and what better to feel up a person with?? You'd get the most sensory input there... I think the kiss probably had some really quaint origins but has moved up in scale since then... Now the origin of a kiss is deep within, it's an emotion more than just a motion I think. Cause you can jam lips with almost anyone, but it takes a special person to make a kiss a kiss [/mushy crap]

Another answer:

Anita: not my ex-boyfriend?

Question 4: Umm...yeah. In the end, i really didn't feel like looking this up for myself. I asked not knowing, so....yeah. Mes and LT were the only ones who actually tried figuring it out, so good job you guys. No real best here either. ~shrug~ If anyone is curious, here are the two figures LT and Mes came up with.

LT:Sources I found said that hair grows about 1/2 in a month so with some calculations….comes out to approx 1.080275721x10-8 mph
BONUS: fingernails grow at a rate of 46 mm per year so it comes out to 3.260674748x10-9 mph

Mes:The actual physical constant for the growth of hair is 3 x 10^-9 m/s, though even that seems fast... it took my hair 21 friggin years to get this long and now it seems not to be getting any longer!!! grrr!!! hair!!! (Oh yes the growth in km/h is 1.0x10^-8 km/h) Fingernails are curious apparently it is something like 1mm/wk = 143mu/d = 16.5A/s, mu/d is microns per a day, and A/s is angstrams per a second... now converting microns/d into km/h would be mathematical hell that I haven't done for 3 years... so how about I keep it as is


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Example points (will be shown as if I have achieved max points):
archely: 19 (6, 6, 5{1,2,3,4,5}*!) [54,3]
the key goes like this.... 19=weekly points (correct answer points, humorous answer points, AB points {questions for which you got the AB for}) [total points, number of weeks you have won] *=first response !=you put your name in the subject line.

Players will be posted according to highest points in the single week, and then alphabetically. Unless you didn't play, then it's just a mish-mash of names, because i don't feel the need to work at alphabetizing them if you didn't work at playing. :p

Your winner this week is Anita Blake! Way to GO!

Anita_Blake: 8.5 (1,4.5,1{3}!*) [23,1]
Mesaana: 7.5 (6,.5,!) [23.5,1]
LaughingTurtle: 7 (5,1,!) [22.5,1]
Malcor Sylverwood: 7 (1,4,1{2}!) [22.5,1]


wendy: 0 (0) [9,0]
Curtis: 0 (0) [4,0]
Buck: 0 (0) [5,0]

Well, season one of the Quill's WTP comes to a close.

And the Grand Champion of the season is Mesaana! Way to go Mes! Look for a highlight reel to come out fairly soon (hopefully). I've got something specific in mind for this one, should be a treat. :D

Very close one. Who knows what could have been? If malcor had only continued on in getting the answers in first, he might have been sharing the winners circle. Oh had LT just mentioned that there happen to be 7 days in a week. (or any number of days in any kind of week for that matter. :p) Heh. Better luck next time. ;)

The WTP will be taking a 1 week break. I'll probably put up the questions soon, but it'll be nearly two weeks before i judge. I'm thinking it might be best to do 3 weeks on, 1 week off. ~shrug~ We'll see how it goes.

Thanks for playing!

[sir archely]

Okay then...a little belated, but here are the results for Qv2.1.

Here are the questions. Questions 2.1 (http://www.enchantedquill.net/showpost.php?postid=7370&postcount=10)


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Question 1: Well, nobody really got this exactly correct... First off, this doesn't necessarily have to be the god of the bible. Secondly, Gregory Koukl has been doing some drugs. The entire first half of his argument is pointless. Though...he does hit on it in the second half, but again, you don't need to appeal to any sort of religion for this. Thirdly, the question is not a paradox. Even an omnipotent being can't make logical impossibilities true. Koukl used some of the classics, like a square-circle. The concept of a "rock-that-couldn't-be-picked-up-by-an-omnipotent-being" is a logical impossibility, therefore, the god in our question couldn't do it. No best here. Sorry. ~shrug~


Question 2: Yeah, THAC0. ~kills THAC0~ I'm not going to explain it, other than to say it is the devil. I think referring to the concept of the THAC0 is the only chance someone has to connect DnD with paganism. Anyway, best to Jabb on this one. ~grin~

jabbernaut: 2: A thaco is a corn tortilla folded around a filling such as ground meat and cheese, served by a Mexican with a harelip.

Runner ups.

epiph: THAC0 is that STUPID STUPID STUPID number that the ten year olds who played second addition dungeons and dragons needed a major in math to calculate. it was the number that one had to roll to hit something...and thankfully the formula is hidden deep in the recesses of my mind, and third addition requires it not and it shall never see the light of day again. ever.


Question 3: Okay, i got a lot of "jumping around in the crops to make them grow" answers. However, i got the idea for the question from a book, and i like its answer better. The book is "Botany of Desire" by Michael Pollan, and is probably the best book i've read this year. It's non-fiction, as well.


The medieval apothecary garden cared little for aesthetics, focusing instead on species that healed and intoxicated and occastionally poisoned. Witches and sorcerers cultivated plants with the power to "cast spells" -- in our vocabulary, "psychoactive" plants. Their potion recipes called for such things as datura, opium poppies, bella-donna, hashish, fly-agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria), and the skins of toads (which can contain DMT, a powerful hallucinogen). These ingredients would be combined in a hempseed-oil-based "flying ointment" that the witches would then administer vaginally using a special dildo. Thes was the "broomstick" by which these women were said to travel.

Now that's something to think about. ;) Best to Mes, because she was closest to my answer. (just as a note, i gave all of you with the jumping answers correct points anyhow, there's probably truth to both.)

Mesaana: 3. The good ole Encylopedia of Witches and Witchcraft tells me it was an old pagan ritual to dance and leap around with broomsticks to have a good crop... leaping could seem like flying no?? Also all things sexual were said to be evil and satanic.. and what better example than the ever phallic broomstick.. 'flying around on it', 'consorting with the devil' we all know what they mean Also there is some old english proverb that says if "a girl stride a broom-handle, she will be a mother before she is a wife." Also the fact that woman RODE the broomstick was a whole 'woman on top, she should be stayin bottomside where she belongs' kind of thing. But the whole dealie originates with the whole pagan fertility ritual... and the whole "we hate pagans they are witches" thing that led to much burning and general broohaha. Though we all know nowadays the modern witch has other things to ride on... like a vacuum cleaner much more efficient. *cackle*


Question 4: The answer is.... about 485.939 gallons. First off people, a finger is a technical unit of measure. :rolleyes: anyway, all you really had to do for this question was go to that online conversions site. ~shrug~ Best to Buck, because he's the only one to even attempt it. (Though, given his chem background, i should take off for not using sig figs :p) ~smites sig figs~

Buck: 4.
1 finger = 0.1143 meters
1 mile = 1,609.347218694 meters
3rd dimension = 0.01 meters
(1 m^3 = 264.1720512 gallons)

Volume = 1.839483870967242 meters^3 = 485.9402274 gallons

Another answer:

epiph: ~blinks~ MATH?! you expect me to do MATH?! i abandoned biology so i wouldn't have to take/do math. refer to my dislike of freakin' thac0. stupid thac0. stupid math.

and really, come on, does that question have any practical application? if it did that would be a supremely LAME body of water. what a lame body of water...unless its was bean water...mmm...coffee...


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Example points (will be shown as if I have achieved max points):
archely: 14 (4, 4, 4{1,2,3,4}*!) [14,1]
the key goes like this.... 19=weekly points (correct answer points, humorous answer points, AB points {questions for which you got the AB for}) [total points, number of weeks you have won] *=first response !=you put your name in the subject line.

Players will be posted according to highest points in the single week, and then alphabetically. Unless you didn't play, then it's just a mish-mash of names, because i don't feel the need to work at alphabetizing them if you didn't work at playing. :p

Your winner this week is Epiph! Way to GO!



epiph: 7 (2,3!*) [7,1]
Mesaana: 6.5 (2,2.5,1{3}!) [6.5,0]
Buck: 5 (2,1,1{4}!) [5,0]
jabbernaut: 5 (2,1,1{2}!) [5,0]
LaughingTurtle: 5 (3.5,.5,!) [5,0]




Whoa, didn't see that coming. No offense to epiph or anything. i don't total the scores until after i've done all the judging, but usually i have a pretty good guess for who's going to win. Epiph caught me totally off-guard. Nice work. :)

The questions for next week are already up, and you can answer them anytime you want. Have fun and as always, thanks for playing. :D

[sir archely]

Well, i'm a bit behind, aren't i? Oh well. Things have been a bit hectic lately. Am currently writing this up on a Mac. :cry: Oh well. I'm really surprised I didn't get any comments on the dildo witches from last week. ;) Anyway, on to the results.

Here are the questions. Questions 2.2 (http://www.enchantedquill.net/showpost.php?postid=9095&postcount=12)


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Question 1: No correct answer here, mostly just curious what people thought. I'm not so sure the end of the human race would be a bad thing... ;) I think just about everybody mentioned Terminator. Heh. Anyway, best was... *tadaa* LT. Awesome answer.

LT: Well if movies have taught me anything it’s that AI, of any kind is bad…very, very, very bad. Referencing films such as Terminator, Westworld, the Matrix, and 2001 A Space Odyssey (HAL!!) I’ve come to the conclusion that if given the chance, AI will eventually cause as much death, destruction, or chaos to mankind as possible. Though, then again with such movies as Short Circuit, Batteries Not Included, and Aliens, AI mostly just wants to well…live, and in some instances help the stupid distressed humans when they fall into convenient plot traps. So in conclusion, AI movies are really entertaining.

Runner up;

Mes: Joined: Jun 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada




1. In light of seeing the matrix movies... I would have to say... bad if not controlled. I don't hold a strong belief in a lot of that kind of philosophy but, as with cloning AI goes into that sketchy realm of what is life. I mean if we create something that THINKS for itself... then... yeah.. there can be problems. However also being a big Paul Pope and THB fan... (THB=comic about kids on mars, and they have smart robots) maybe we could all just get along together. I think I'd like an AI clone so that when I didn't feel like doing stuff I could just get it to do things for me... "honey! you're like a machine tonight!" would take on a whole new meaning for me....


Question 2: Again, no real right answer. ~shrug~ I wasn't too impressed with the responses for this one, but I liked Anita's the best.


Anita: they both make the same amount of sense. Just because one thing is true doesn't discount the opposing thing as also being true. I mean, yes, if you were to look at magnets, then "similars repel", + and - are attracted to eachother. But yeah, look at birds, they do have a strange tendency to stick within their own species. It doesn't mean one statement is any less sensical than the other. Look at people: girls like to hang out with other girls, but they are attracted to boys as well. ~nods sagely~



Question 3: This question had, surprisingly, the best answers i think on the whole week. It was also the single opportunity for a 'correct' point. Correct answer: scraunched, with 10 letters. Also, just because Canadians are messed up doesn't mean they're right. ;) (though i did give a point for 'squirreled' if you mentioned something about Canada. :) ) Now, the tough part. The Best goes to.... Anita. And Mes. And Apocalypse. Anita is getting the full point. Mes and Apocalypse are going to each receive half a point, as their answers together is what really made me laugh, more than either separate. So, here they all are. Also, i just had to include Buck's answer as a runner up, due to his amazing counting/spelling skills. :p


Anita: possibly "squirrelled", if you're canadian, which i happen to be. Though, my first instinct here was : "Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!" or possibly "KHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!" [/willam shatner]


Mesaana: 3. Apparently Scraunched and the archaic word strengthed, are the two longest words in the english language. Others include scratched, screeched, scrounged, squelched, straights, and strengths. Apparently Scraunching is to eat noisily... I personally think it's secret code for the hibbity bibbity... hehe "Oh yeah.. I scraunched em good yesterday"

Apocalypse: 3:The longest single syllable word is "scraunched!" I believe! "I just scraunched my balls" is a famous scottish word haha.


Runner up...

Buck 3. The Meriam-Webster Collegiate dictionary shows the word squirrel as a one syllable word. That’s 10 letters. Squirreled should be one but is two. (11 letters). But as have had the luxury of learning, Canadians all pronounce it as one syllable.

So… eh?


Question 4: This is one i thought i'd get a lot more creative answers on, but i thought these were just okay. A few people went the communication device route, there was also a fruit washer, a transport system, an egg-laying device, and a religious object. There was not, however, a Best. Sorry, none stood out.


Question 5: Too bad I'm now extremely late on this Halloween thing. Oh well. Good stories, but i'm giving the nod to Mes. Just because she quite possibly nailed the best costume. If you see that guy again, give him a high five for me.

Mes: 5. hrrm best costume ever... that I have seen... HANDS DOWN the dude that went as Sauron from LOTR, He MADE his own mail and used the Fellowship DVD as his guide. His mace was working and it weighed a TONNE but oh my god.. it was EXACTLY like in the movie. One of the most impressive costumes ever, hehe took a lot of welding though. My funny Halloween experience was when I was trick or treating and a guy actually said "Oh look! it's the library lady!" God I was so embarassed... he recognized me from work... it was terrible.. now I can't look him in the eye when he comes in

Runner ups...

LT: Optimus Prime…because hell you just can’t beat Prime! (And yes, a prime costume was made but sadly it was for my bro :( )

Waffles: 5. This is so unfair, cos we don't really celebrate Halloween over here. But I DO have one. We went out to this pub, cos some of us had finished our theses, and proceeded to drink. After a while, we proceeded to get quite on the tipsy side. So then we started wandering out of the pub, and I came face to face with this talking monkey. I was quite surprised, and started thinking, "hey, I'm sure I didn't drink THAT much". It actually took me a few seconds, because we don't celebrate Halloween, that I realised that this was a costume. And I'm amazed how realistic the flying pink elephant was....


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Example points (will be shown as if I have achieved max points):
archely: 13 (1, 5, 5{1,2,3,4}*!) [27,2]
the key goes like this.... 13=weekly points (correct answer points, humorous answer points, AB points {questions for which you got the AB for}) [total points, number of weeks you have won] *=first response !=you put your name in the subject line.

Players will be posted according to highest points in the single week, and then alphabetically. Unless you didn't play, then it's just a mish-mash of names, because i don't feel the need to work at alphabetizing them if you didn't work at playing. :p

Your winner this week is Laughing Turtle! Way to GO!



LaughingTurtle: 7 (1,3,1{1}*!) [12,0]
Anita Blake: 6.5 (1,2.5,2{2,3}!) [6.5,0]
Apocalypse: 5 (1,2.5,.5{3}!) [5,0]
Mesaana: 5 (1,2.5,.5{3}!) [11.5,0]
Waffles: 4 (1,2,!) [4,0]
Buck: 3.5 (1,1.5!) [8.5,0]


epiph: 0 (0) [7,1]
jabbernaut: 0 (0) [5,0]


~sigh~ Well, despite the great showing this week, it wasn't enough to stop LT from getting the win. That getting it in first point seems to be really paying some dividends to those who get it recently. LT also seems to be leading the race for this seasons' overall win. Now wouldn't that be amazing?

The questions for next week will be up soon, and hopefully I'll get back on schedule on next Wed. Have fun and as always, thanks for playing. :D

[sir archely]

I'm really letting myself go... :umm: Anyway, as per usual, i'm way behind on this. I'm hoping that i'll be able to get on track again. (seriously this time.) I'll say right up front here that from now on, the WTP will be occuring not once a week, but rather every two weeks, still on wed. This is due to the responses I got for question number 5 for this week. I think even if people didn't answer this way, i'd have probably switched. Less work for me, and it (usually) seems like more people play with two weeks.

Here are the questions. Questions 2.3 (http://www.enchantedquill.net/showpost.php?postid=12252&postcount=16)


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Question 1: Well, I was thinking of cloning. If i made a clone of myself, from cells of my own body, one way to look at it would be to that i produced an offspring. However, it would actually be my parents that contributed the paired genetic material to create this person, so it could be looked at as their offspring as well. However, i did give correct points for the monk/monastery thing (which most of you chose). That worked out as well. No best here, people mostly just had straightforward answers.



Question 2: Well, like I said, it wouldn't take much to look it up, so i'm not going to explain it here. In fact, nobody got a correct point for this response. Let me just say this: the seasons aren't caused by being closer or farther away from the sun. Best is jabb.


Jabbernaut: 2. Because it's just too funny how Elmer Fudd keeps getting all confused and shooting Daffy, no matter how hard Daffy tries to get him to shoot Bugs, and then Daffy's bill gets all bent out of shape, and he's like, "Make-up!" and all up on Bugs going, "You're de-spicable!" But it's Daffy's fault for being so gullible, 'cause he's saying, "Wabbit season!" and all Bugs has to do is say, "Wabbit season" too, and Daffy says, "Duck season!" and then Elmer shoots him again! Ha ha ha :D ... ah, good times.



Question 3: Well, two correct points available here. It was the size of a chihuahua's head. You had to be specific with that, it's how it was described. It punctured the skinner balloon and then pinged off of ned's bomb shelter, reducing it to rubble. I gave a correct point for mentioning either of those last things. Best answer was justin's even though he didn't have a correct one.


justin: well, i tried looking up and answer and ended upr reading quotes from the simpsons for about an hour, so i'm gunna say something of homers, and it ended up being quite small actually...thats all i remember



Question 4: A space elevator is one way people are trying to come up with a method of getting into space without having to carry the fuel as part of the cargo. The idea is to make a super-long (25,000 kilometers) carbon nanotube that's held aloft by a geostationary satellite. Then you hoist stuff up it using a power source on the ground. The nanotubes have a tensile strength that's high enough. Unfortunately, at this point they can only make them 30 centimeters long. So unless somebody figures out how to weave them together but retain the tensile strength of one, or make a giant one, it's pretty much sci-fi. Best here goes to LT. Cause even cool nerds will still be nerds. Glyvin! (two correct points here, one for a material, one for what it is.)

LT: A method of transportation used to get between the earth and space easier and faster than using a space shuttle. Should be made of the stuff used in star trek…a transporter could be considered an elevator of sorts. That way nerdy fanboys could say “beam me up” and not be considered so geeky…well they’d still be geeky but at least they could travel in style.


Question 5: No points here. But thanks for the responses, it's appreciated. Every two weeks it is.



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Example points (will be shown as if I have achieved max points):
archely: 16 (6, 4, 4{1,2,3,4}*!) [43,3]
the key goes like this.... 13=weekly points (correct answer points, humorous answer points, AB points {questions for which you got the AB for}) [total points, number of weeks you have won] *=first response !=you put your name in the subject line.

Players will be posted according to highest points in the single week, and then alphabetically. Unless you didn't play, then it's just a mish-mash of names, because i don't feel the need to work at alphabetizing them if you didn't work at playing. :p

Your winners this week are Jabbernaut and Justin! Way to GO!


jabbernaut: 8 (3,2,1{1}*!) [13,0]
justin: 8 (3.5,2.5,1{3}!) [8,0]
Buck: 7 (4,2,!) [15.5,0]
LaughingTurtle: 6 (2,2,1{4}!) [18,0]


Mesaana: 0 (0) [11.5,0]
Waffles: 0 (0) [4,0]
Apocalypse: 0 (0) [5,0]
epiph: 0 (0) [7,1]
Anita Blake: 0 (0) [6.5,0]

Awarded a lot of points this week; it seems i do that when there are fewer players. i suppose it's some sort of reward. With the new two week system, i'm shifting back to 4 week seasons. Next set of questions will be the last of the season. Doesn't look like as close of a race as last time, but you really never know what's going to happen. ;) Hope to see you next time, and thanks again for playing. :)