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Sploofus October

#1 Post by TheConfessor » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:29 am

Okay, so we're three hours into the new month and someone already has 2734 points this month. How can that happen?

FYI, I'm 0 for October so far.
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Re: Sploofus October

#2 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:16 am

TheConfessor wrote:Okay, so we're three hours into the new month and someone already has 2734 points this month. How can that happen?

FYI, I'm 0 for October so far.
I saw that too!
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Re: Sploofus October

#3 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:24 am

TheConfessor wrote:Okay, so we're three hours into the new month and someone already has 2734 points this month. How can that happen?

FYI, I'm 0 for October so far.
Someone went back in time and played before the clock started and got extra time points.

computer glitch. They will fix it.
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#4 Post by mrkelley23 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:36 am

That person just joined today. I don't remember how it started, but maybe they get a bonus question on the first day they join?

In any case, he's answered two questions somehow, because his average answer time is only 5.81 seconds, so he didn't get points through some inhumanly fast response time.
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#5 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:01 am

I saw that too, and was a bit miffed.

I finally got the first Q right of the month, though it was a bit of a reasoned out guess at a truly bizarre vocabulary question that went along the lines of "Which of these words is most unlike the other?"

Two of the choices were the same identical word.

One of the words was redolence (or some derivative).... a word I would not have known to save my life had Annie not used it in one of her attempts to frame ES for throwing stuff in her yard a while back. Seeing that one of the other two words had the olf- prefix, I figured the other word was obviously the oddball....

Thanks Annie for helping me get on the board early this month... even if it was a slow-footed 1130 point answer....

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#6 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:08 am

littlebeast13 wrote:I saw that too, and was a bit miffed.

I finally got the first Q right of the month, though it was a bit of a reasoned out guess at a truly bizarre vocabulary question that went along the lines of "Which of these words is most unlike the other?"

Two of the choices were the same identical word.

One of the words was redolence (or some derivative).... a word I would not have known to save my life had Annie not used it in one of her attempts to frame ES for throwing stuff in her yard a while back. Seeing that one of the other two words had the olf- prefix, I figured the other word was obviously the oddball....

Thanks Annie for helping me get on the board early this month... even if it was a slow-footed 1130 point answer....

lb13
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#7 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:12 am

peacock2121 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:I saw that too, and was a bit miffed.

I finally got the first Q right of the month, though it was a bit of a reasoned out guess at a truly bizarre vocabulary question that went along the lines of "Which of these words is most unlike the other?"

Two of the choices were the same identical word.

One of the words was redolence (or some derivative).... a word I would not have known to save my life had Annie not used it in one of her attempts to frame ES for throwing stuff in her yard a while back. Seeing that one of the other two words had the olf- prefix, I figured the other word was obviously the oddball....

Thanks Annie for helping me get on the board early this month... even if it was a slow-footed 1130 point answer....

lb13
Annie is teaching you and Lizbet stuff!

Scary, isn't it?

I hope ES doesn't find out, or he'll never let me live it down.....

lb13
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#8 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:13 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:I saw that too, and was a bit miffed.

I finally got the first Q right of the month, though it was a bit of a reasoned out guess at a truly bizarre vocabulary question that went along the lines of "Which of these words is most unlike the other?"

Two of the choices were the same identical word.

One of the words was redolence (or some derivative).... a word I would not have known to save my life had Annie not used it in one of her attempts to frame ES for throwing stuff in her yard a while back. Seeing that one of the other two words had the olf- prefix, I figured the other word was obviously the oddball....

Thanks Annie for helping me get on the board early this month... even if it was a slow-footed 1130 point answer....

lb13
Annie is teaching you and Lizbet stuff!

Scary, isn't it?

I hope ES doesn't find out, or he'll never let me live it down.....

lb13
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#9 Post by nitrah55 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:44 am

I'm 1 for 1 so far. This will likely be my high water mark.
I am about 25% sure of this.
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#10 Post by Bob Juch » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:40 am

I'm off to a better start than last month when I missed the first two day's questions, but got a Music question about a 2003 song by a hip-hop group I'd never heard of. :roll:
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Re: Sploofus October

#11 Post by Catfish » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:59 am

TheConfessor wrote:FYI, I'm 0 for October so far.
Me too. Sigh.
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Re: Sploofus October

#12 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:08 am

Catfish wrote:
TheConfessor wrote:FYI, I'm 0 for October so far.
Me too. Sigh.
I'm in the same club.
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#13 Post by silvercamaro » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:11 am

littlebeast13 wrote:


Thanks Annie for helping me get on the board early this month... even if it was a slow-footed 1130 point answer....

peacock2121 wrote: Annie is teaching you and Lizbet stuff!

Scary, isn't it?
Annie teaches me stuff every day.
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#14 Post by christie1111 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:38 am

I am with you all at 0 for 1.

I think I liked the top 11 better!

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#15 Post by T_Bone0806 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:12 pm

That person could have 50,000 points for all the difference it'll make to me. I was ranked in the 130's after yesterday's q (answered around 7pm or so) and I was thrilled with THAT.
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#16 Post by T_Bone0806 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:14 pm

And I'm off to a rip-roarin' 0-for-1 today...
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