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Rasputin is offline Rasputin

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May 1999
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 16:17 Visit Rasputin<br><a href=/members><img src=/forums/images/lifer-icon.gif border=0></a><BR>'s homepage!
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a stack of what ?

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Aug 2001
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Damn, this compiling stuff does take ages. Especially if you happen to take a break by visiting your mates for a few hours. Not that I would do such a thing. Honest.

alva is offline alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
time: 06:34
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....Or making idiotic avatars

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Aug 2001
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1. Who is the person you'd most like to take revenge on?
George W. Bush (6)
Ming (3)
Osama (3)
My ex (2)
Zylka (2)
DaShi (1)
Donald Rumsfield (1)
Everyone who wronged me without my knowledge. The other bastards have already been taken care of (1)
Father (1)
Jeremy Clarkson (1)
Molly Bloom (1)
Monk, the original misspeller (1) (Note, this was Theben's answer)
My Spanish Professor (1)
Nobody (1)
Shanky (1)
Skanky Burns (1)


2. "You have great internal fortitude"
Sum up that sentence in one word.

You have got to love a question where refusing to answer gets you the most points.
No (3)
Bollocks (2)
Fortitude (2)
Guts (2)
Youhavegreatinternalfortitude (2)
Zylka (2)
B/S (1)
Banana (1)
Chutzpah (1)
Crap (1)
Intrafortitudinous (1)
Lie (1)
Pepto-Bismal (1)
Principled (1)
Sisu (1)
Strong! (1)
Stubborn (1)
Stupid (1)
Yerfullait (1)
You're about to be screwed over (1)
You've got gas (1)


3. What is the best thing you've ever tasted?

Bananas (4)
Beer (2)
Chocolate (2)
Girlfriend (2)
Zylka (2)
Alberta Beef (1)
Caviar (1)
Curry (1)
Guiness (1)
Ice Cream (1)
Lamb chops (1)
Lobster (1)
Pastrami dip with swiss cheese and pickles (1)
Pizza (1)
Revenge (it's a dish best served cold, by the way) (1)
Semen (1)
Sex (1)
Steak (1)
Turkish delight (1)
Victory! (1)
Zylka's banana (1)


4. "Our top scientists have been working around the clock"
What have they been working on?


The clock (7)
Nuclear Weapons/WMD (6)
Nothing. Move along now, nothing to see here (2)
A chart that calculates their overtime (1)
Civ 4 (1)
Harnessing the thermonuclear capabilities of the spam atom (1)
Hydrogen fueled cars (1)
Making coffee (1)
Sex (1)
Spamming (1)
Stealth Nation Technology (1)
Studying Mars (1)
Super weapon (1)
The Finn Ray (1)
Time travel (1)
Zylka (1)


5. Finish this sentence: "Unity of purpose is..."

Zylka (4)
Stupid (2)
Strength (2) (This was the "correct" answer)
all well and good until some backstabbing little social climber ****s you over (1)
Bad (1)
Banana (1)
Bollocks (1)
Commie rubbish (1)
every citizen doing his final duty and entering the tanks, to become one with all the people (1)
Futile (1)
Good (1)
Irrelevant (1)
not getting distracted and forgetting to finish your senten...... (1)
Majoratarian politics (1)
of paramount importance (1)
Panacea for Success (1)
pouting in that corner over there; perhaps you should just leave it alone. (1)
si esoprup fo ytinU". Oh sorry, I thought you said "finish this palindrome" (1)
Sought by all organisations? (1)
the purpose of unity (1)
to prevent the disunity of purpose (1)
Unity (1)
Unitary (1)

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Aug 2001
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6. What was the most important event to occur in the last 25 years?

My birth (7)
Fall of Berlin wall (5)
Fall of the Soviet Union (5)
Sep/11 2001 (3)
Poly was created (2)
Al Gore invented the internet (1)
IWS XXXIII, of course (1)
Lunch (1)
My continued survival. It's important to me, anyway. (1)
My kids birth (1)
WWII (1)


7. You are at a bar. The bartender says "What'll it be?" What do you reply? Be specific.

Beer (8)
The usual (3)
Martini, shaken not stirred (2)
Water, please (2)
A long, hard ****, please (1)
All of your money in a brown paper bag (1)
Cherryade (1)
Dr Pepper (1)
E maekju juseyo (why I'm talking Korean to a barman who can plainly speak English is a mystery, however. Perhaps I just like showing off) (1)
Gin and tonic, no ice (1)
Jack and Coke (1) (You have good taste)
Jonny Walker Red, straight (1)
Milk (1)
Smirnoff Ice (1)
The good-looking waitress. (1) (You have good taste)
Vodka (1)
Whatever will get me laid (1)


8. Two trains whose lengths are 130 m and 110 m are moving in opposite directions on parallel lines, the velocity of the first being double that of the second. They are observed to pass each other completely in 4 seconds. What colour is the first train?

Blue (6)
Red (3)
All colors (2)
Black (2)
Pink (2)
The same as that of the second (2)
White (2)
20 m/s (1) (This would be correct, had I not changed the question. )
ColoUr? Bah. Stupid euros. THIS is the reason that America is so powerful and they old country is on the backslider. Why use 6 letters to convey a meaning that can be expressed with five? Efficiency!! phe4r 0wr eff1(13|/|7 j00z3 uf 3ng|1sh \/0(4bu|4ry!!!1!1!! 0MFG P\/\/n3d!!!1! (1) (I'm Aussie, btw)
Green (1)
Grey (1)
I don't know, I'd be flying (1)
Not sure, but it's 4 seconds darker than the other one (1)
Purple (1)
Yellow (1)
Zylka (1)


9. What is your favourite playground equipment?

Swings (15)
Monkey bars (4)
Slide (3)
Shovel (2)
Jungle Gym (1)
Tires swings, the kind that got taken down cuz too many kids get hurt on them. What's a little pain? Builds character! (1)
Used seringuas (1)
Zylka (1)


10. Pretend you have a dice. You roll this pretend dice. What number comes up?

6 (12)
3 (3)
42 (3)
1 (darn it, not another critical failure) (2)
4 (2)
7 (1)
13 (1)
18 (1)
69 (1)
Pi (1)
My favourite pretend number, jifty (1)

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May 2002
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4 people thought Zylka was unity of purpose ???

I smell stupidity

-Jam

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Aug 2001
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code:
Round 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Skywalker 7 1 4 6 1 5 1 6 15 12 58 Big Crunch 3 2 2 8 1 7 1 6 15 12 57 Jamski 3 2 1 6 1 7 1 4 15 12 52 Boshko 7 1 1 2 1 7 8 6 15 2 50 Alva 1 2 1 1 1 6 8 2 15 12 49 Jaguar Warrior 7 2 1 6 4 3 2 6 4 12 47 Monk 3 1 4 6 4 6 3 2 15 3 47 SnowFire 1 3 2 8 1 7 3 1 15 3 44 self biased 2 2 2 1 1 7 8 2 15 3 43 St Leo 2 1 1 1 2 5 3 1 15 12 43 mrmitchell 3 1 1 1 1 5 1 2 15 12 42 Rasputin 2 1 1 8 2 1 8 4 3 12 42 FrustratedPoet 1 1 1 8 1 7 1 2 15 3 40 Uncle Sparky 1 3 1 8 1 1 1 6 15 3 40 :) Smiley 1 3 1 1 2 2 8 6 3 12 39 Duke o' York 7 3 2 1 1 3 3 1 15 2 38 Oncle Boris 3 2 1 1 2 6 8 2 1 12 38 VJ 7 3 1 8 1 6 3 4 1 3 37 Guynemer 3 2 1 8 4 6 1 2 4 3 34 DinoDoc 1 1 2 6 1 2 1 2 15 1 32 Paul Hanson 1 3 1 6 1 1 1 1 15 1 31 Wernazuma III 7 1 1 1 1 5 8 2 2 3 31 Kassiopeia 2 1 2 1 4 3 3 1 1 12 30 Stuie 1 1 1 8 1 1 8 1 3 1 26 DataAeolus 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 12 25 MrFun 3 1 4 1 1 7 1 1 4 1 24 Vovan 7 2 4 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 24 Ben Kenobi 1 1 2 1 1 6 1 4 4 1 22 Theben 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 13


Congratulations to Skywalker.
Thanks to everyone who played.

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Jamski is offline Jamski
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May 2002
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 19:38
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Hey! Third place! I rock!

This was my first try too

-Jam

alva is offline alva
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Sep 2001
time: 06:34
  Old Post 07-03-2004 19:40
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quote:
Youhavegreatinternalfortitude (2)

Ahh, I was not alone

Congrats Skywalker

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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 19:43
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quote:
. What was the most important event to occur in the last 25 years?

My birth (7)


This would have been my answer too, had it been hmmm possible

that one and the Bush one would have put me into first place...

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May 2002
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It wasn't possible for me, but I assumed people would say it anyway

-Jam

alva is offline alva
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Sep 2001
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Hmm, true, but on realistic questions, I usually give realistic answers.

Theben is offline Theben
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Jan 1970
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 20:24
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yessSS!!! LOWEST SCORE!!! AWESOME!!!!

One goal of these games is achieved. Now if only I can get minimum possible score, I will be complete.

Theben is offline Theben
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Jan 1970
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 20:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Skanky Burns

(I'm Aussie, btw)


It's all the same to us USians.

Guynemer is offline Guynemer
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Mar 1999
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 20:40
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I can't believe people prefer swings to monkey bars.

alva is offline alva
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Sep 2001
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 21:02
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Swings was one the only playground thingy word I know in English.

See, stupidity does indeed rule the world

Skanky Burns is offline Skanky Burns
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Aug 2001
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  Old Post 07-03-2004 21:11
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VJ has been added to the results. As his PM was somehow missed by me previously. Apologies.

duke o' york is offline duke o' york

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Oct 2001
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  Old Post 08-03-2004 16:09
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Mid table mediocrity!

In your face, suckers!

alva is offline alva
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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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  Old Post 08-03-2004 20:20
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Why do these games have two threads btw? Just the one here would be enough right?

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Aug 2001
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You mean in the OT and the Other Games forum?
No. There are exclusive OTers who play this. There are exclusive Other Gamers who play this. Why should one group be left out? Besides, posts in the OT don't count so it isn't like we save anything by not starting a thread there.

duke o' york is offline duke o' york

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Oct 2001
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Save that for the latest one, Skywalker has only posted it in the OT.

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Jan 1970
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Yeah, I'm still waiting for him to start it here.

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Oct 2001
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Here is a link to the latest game for those too scared to leave the Other Games Forum.

Theben is offline Theben
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Jan 1970
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Like I don't haunt the OT forums.

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Sep 2001
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Anyway, as it is a game, it belongs here.

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I think skywalker's too scared to leave the OTF.

 
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