August Sploofus Standings for WWTBAMBored

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christie1111 · #101 Post by **christie1111** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:23 pm

Whew, I thought I wasn't on the list anymore!

402 Christie1111 7.6 19,533

Christie

Ritterskoop · #102 Post by **Ritterskoop** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:52 am

Sploofus is becoming a punk-ass bitch sometimes.

Which of these is not a Metallica album?

Which of these is a Peter Gabriel album?

NellyLunatic1980 · #103 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:41 am

I'm finally finding my TQOTD groove. I'm now in 656th place.

gsabc · #104 Post by **gsabc** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:54 am

Ritterskoop wrote:Sploofus is becoming a punk-ass bitch sometimes.

Which of these is not a Metallica album?

Which of these is a Peter Gabriel album?

I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this, but I've been getting a lot of "Books & Authors" questions lately, with a few "Music" questions mixed in. Where have all my science or even sports subjects gone? Fortunately, the book questions have been relatively easy or guessable. The music, not so much.

I'll see your Metallica, and raise you a Uriah Heep.

TheCalvinator24 · #105 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:42 am

Note to self: Do not attempt the QOD when the internet is running slowly. I answered in about 3 seconds today, but it registered as over 9.

Weyoun · #106 Post by **Weyoun** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:11 am

The med school internet is great! My scores are up 200 pts a question this month. That adds up.

gsabc · #107 Post by **gsabc** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:13 am

gsabc wrote:
Ritterskoop wrote:Sploofus is becoming a punk-ass bitch sometimes.

Which of these is not a Metallica album?

Which of these is a Peter Gabriel album?
I'm probably jinxing myself by saying this, but I've been getting a lot of "Books & Authors" questions lately, with a few "Music" questions mixed in. Where have all my science or even sports subjects gone? Fortunately, the book questions have been relatively easy or guessable. The music, not so much.

I'll see your Metallica, and raise you a Uriah Heep.

Sure enough, a Music question today. Second-guessed my way out of the right answer, too.

OCDer · #108 Post by **OCDer** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:58 am

As of approximately 1:45 pm eastern time August 22

standings of BBs in the top 1000

31698 Ggossage
31117 Weyoun
26876 Andrewjackson
26710 Mrkelley23
25936 Thecalvinator
24995 Tmitsss
23973 Killertomato
23791 Eyegor
23558 Njwizard
23265 Juliannars
23001 Loudmouthlee
22783 Vadame
22733 Silvercamaro
22480 Trevormcphee
22457 Revdodd
22312 Megaaddict
22174 Gsabc
22043 Ritterskoop
21843 Kroxquo
21827 Barbotte
21137 Ulysses5019
20627 Christie1111
20549 Panicindetroit
20411 Foosesb
20406 Theconfessor
20169 Mikehardware
20059 Ne1410s
19974 Starfish1113
19770 Jbillygirl
19518 Rexer25
19404 Peter5858
19346 Winegreg
19306 Momobil
19277 Dunadan
18810 Nellunatic1980
18134 Slipkid

Those BB with scores within approx the top 3000

17320 Gotribego26
16926 1000aire
16877 Bumpa
16833 Imace
16815 Ma0217
16551 Estonut
16368 Frogman042
15549 Earendel100
14984 Pcmaxey
14745 Peacock2121
14583 Sportsfan

Those who I have lost track of because of yesterday w/o the spreadsheet

Nitrah55
Betwixt
Gibson1910
Jayhawker536
5littleducks
Littlebeast13
Kayrharris
Backintex
Kusch
Jarnon

OCDer · #109 Post by **OCDer** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:47 am

As of approximately 1:45 pm eastern time August 25

standings of BBs in the top 1000

As of tomorrow, the top 500 will be displayed

36094 Ggossage
34836 Weyoun
31477 Mrkelley23
29645 Thecalvinator
29486 Andrewjackson
29190 Tmitsss
27621 Eyegor
27386 Njwizard
27267 Loudmouthlee
26631 Killertomato
26182 Megaaddict
25586 Barbotte
25549 Juliannars
25549 Kroxquo
25427 Silvercamaro
25322 Vadame
24975 Trevormcphee
24616 Ritterskoop
24400 Foosesb
24322 Panicindetroit
23918 Ne1410s
23776 Mikehardware
23558 Revdodd
23264 Theconfessor
23241 Christie1111
23005 Momobil
22657 Gotribego26
22571 Starfish1113
22422 Ulysses5019
-----500 line-----
22393 Jbillygirl
22174 Gsabc
21910 Dunadan
21763 Winegreg
20778 Peter5858
20754 1000aire
20680 Rexer25
20531 Slipkid
20511 Nellunatic1980

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #110 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:57 am

I hate Sploofus this month.

KillerTomato · #111 Post by **KillerTomato** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:03 pm

FTR I have a couple of days of questions sitting in my mailbox. My home computer has been a bit ornery lately. I did a Vista update, and started getting messages about my video driver and as of Saturday morning decided not even to boot up correctly. I officially want XP back. But til I can talk to Dell about how to recover from this, I'm stuck with just the phone, and I ain't doing Sploofus on here.

cindy.wellman · #112 Post by **cindy.wellman** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:06 pm

KillerTomato wrote:FTR I have a couple of days of questions sitting in my mailbox. My home computer has been a bit ornery lately. I did a Vista update, and started getting messages about my video driver and as of Saturday mlir decided not even to boot up correctly. I officially want XP back. But til Ivan talk to Dell about how to recover from this, I'm stuck with just the phone, and I ain't doing Sploofus on here.

Do you have nVidia? If so...... sigh..... I'll see if I can find the links for help. August is notoriously a bad month for me with our computers. This August has proved to not be an exception to that.

cindy.wellman · #113 Post by **cindy.wellman** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:07 pm

cindy.wellman wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:FTR I have a couple of days of questions sitting in my mailbox. My home computer has been a bit ornery lately. I did a Vista update, and started getting messages about my video driver and as of Saturday mlir decided not even to boot up correctly. I officially want XP back. But til Ivan talk to Dell about how to recover from this, I'm stuck with just the phone, and I ain't doing Sploofus on here.
Do you have nVidia? If so...... sigh..... I'll see if I can find the links for help. August is notoriously a bad month for me with our computers. This August has not proven to be an exception to that.

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/ ... wners.aspx

Peter5858 · #114 Post by **Peter5858** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:44 pm

Have I mentioned before that I suck?

Latest ignominy (in addition to the general problem of not knowing the answer) was clicking on the wrong answer when I actually DID know the right answer.

July was good. September will be good. August, well....

KillerTomato · #115 Post by **KillerTomato** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:28 pm

cindy.wellman wrote:
cindy.wellman wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:FTR I have a couple of days of questions sitting in my mailbox. My home computer has been a bit ornery lately. I did a Vista update, and started getting messages about my video driver and as of Saturday mlir decided not even to boot up correctly. I officially want XP back. But til Ivan talk to Dell about how to recover from this, I'm stuck with just the phone, and I ain't doing Sploofus on here.
Do you have nVidia? If so...... sigh..... I'll see if I can find the links for help. August is notoriously a bad month for me with our computers. This August has not proven to be an exception to that.
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/ ... wners.aspx

Grrrr...

Yeah it's a Dell with an nVidia card on the motherboard, and they have to replace the whole motherboard. So I have to wait til they send the new board to the onsite tech, then wait til the tech can get here to replace it. Prolly not til next week before it's all said and done.

I'm gonna have to see if my old Gateway will boot up, cuz I can't be cut off that long!

Bob Juch · #116 Post by **Bob Juch** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:44 pm

KillerTomato wrote:
cindy.wellman wrote:
cindy.wellman wrote: Do you have nVidia? If so...... sigh..... I'll see if I can find the links for help. August is notoriously a bad month for me with our computers. This August has not proven to be an exception to that.
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/ ... wners.aspx

Grrrr...

Yeah it's a Dell with an nVidia card on the motherboard, and they have to replace the whole motherboard. So I have to wait til they send the new board to the onsite tech, then wait til the tech can get here to replace it. Prolly not til next week before it's all said and done.

I'm gonna have to see if my old Gateway will boot up, cuz I can't be cut off that long!

Can you stick in an old video card and use that for now? I have the potential for the same problem with my new motherboard.

KillerTomato · #117 Post by **KillerTomato** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:28 pm

Bob Juch wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:
cindy.wellman wrote: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/ ... wners.aspx

Grrrr...

Yeah it's a Dell with an nVidia card on the motherboard, and they have to replace the whole motherboard. So I have to wait til they send the new board to the onsite tech, then wait til the tech can get here to replace it. Prolly not til next week before it's all said and done.

I'm gonna have to see if my old Gateway will boot up, cuz I can't be cut off that long!
Can you stick in an old video card and use that for now? I have the potential for the same problem with my new motherboard.

I don't have an old video card to use. But luckily, I got the old Gateway up and sorta running. Good 'nuf for a week I think. I hope.

cindy.wellman · #118 Post by **cindy.wellman** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:38 pm

KillerTomato wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:
KillerTomato wrote:
Grrrr...

Yeah it's a Dell with an nVidia card on the motherboard, and they have to replace the whole motherboard. So I have to wait til they send the new board to the onsite tech, then wait til the tech can get here to replace it. Prolly not til next week before it's all said and done.

I'm gonna have to see if my old Gateway will boot up, cuz I can't be cut off that long!
Can you stick in an old video card and use that for now? I have the potential for the same problem with my new motherboard.

I don't have an old video card to use. But luckily, I got the old Gateway up and sorta running. Good 'nuf for a week I think. I hope.

Oh that's great about the Gateway!

I have a terrible vertical line running through the center of my Dell laptop screen. I wouldn't have even had to look at any external sites to find help, but.......

1) My Dell had power cord issues last August, and Dell agreed to fix it due to a class action lawsuit. My warranty expired in May of 2007, but because of the lawsuit, I was covered. BUT....the company we used to ship my computer to them (DHL) lost my computer, so DHL bought me a new computer. Weird...

2) When I called Dell at the beginning of August about the vertical line, they said that the information I had received regarding the 1 year gratuitous warranty was incorrect, and that actually the warranty was retroactive to my last laptop. (May 2007) I thought that was crap.

3) Because I didn't want paid tech support through Dell, I searched for help on the vertical line, and found all the issues with the nVidia. It looks like Dell will be paying to replace my card anyway.

**Note, I usually don't like something for nothing, which is why we pay for the really long warranty etc. But because there were true errors not related to anything I did, I accepted the new laptop graciously, and will accept the new video card as well.

It will be interesting to see if the Gateway causes you to fall from the Sploofus mountain. My computer issues are my excuse as for why I am now an inhabitant of Sploofus valley. lol

NellyLunatic1980 · #119 Post by **NellyLunatic1980** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:42 am

I got three consecutive TV/Movies questions. I knew all three answers immediately, including a fairly obscure question about Charlie Chaplin. I am now in 200th place with 25,116 points. W00T!

OCDer · #120 Post by **OCDer** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:44 am

As of approximately 1:45 pm eastern time August 26

standings of BBs in the top 500

36094 Ggossage
34836 Weyoun
31477 Mrkelley23
31038 Thecalvinator
30890 Andrewjackson
30574 Tmitsss
30549 Killertomato
29018 Eyegor
28819 Loudmouthlee
28467 Njwizard
27684 Vadame
27392 Megaaddict
26826 Barbotte
26791 Silvercamaro
26728 Kroxquo
26286 Gsabc
26155 Trevormcphee
25741 Ritterskoop
25657 Panicindetroit
25549 Juliannars
25157 Ne1410s
25116 Nellunatic1980
24400 Foosesb
24389 Theconfessor
24293 Momobil
24053 Gotribego26
23926 Starfish1113
23776 Mikehardware
23775 Ulysses5019
23619 Jbillygirl
23558 Revdodd

christie1111 · #121 Post by **christie1111** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:16 pm

314 Christie1111 8.0 24,513

But I just answered todays question so I missed the 1pm cut off for OCDs post.

Damn work!

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #122 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:03 pm

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:I got three consecutive TV/Movies questions. I knew all three answers immediately, including a fairly obscure question about Charlie Chaplin. I am now in 200th place with 25,116 points. W00T!

W00T! W00T!

#123 Post by **littlebeast13** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:38 am

I just found myself in 2,220th place after a relatively decent run of correct answers.

Figures I start cracking the old barriers when Mr. OCD starts narrowing the threshold....

lb13

andrewjackson · #124 Post by **andrewjackson** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:09 am

I got a Q today about an actor I've never heard of. And they wanted to know his real first name.

After missing it I Googled him. Still no idea who he is. Movies in the 30s and 40s and not big ones either. OK, two I've heard of but still no idea who he is.

Not good at the end of the month.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #125 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:54 am

I've managed to get two questions in a row correct. I might even finish in the top 100 this month, if I am really lucky.