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Tom, you are a beautiful mess.

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It can be found here.

I apologize for the delay in posting this portion; it's been sitting in my inbox for a couple of weeks now, but I haven't taken the opportunity to post it before now.

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I am wondering whether the lack of mention of Georgia Frontiere implies that people have not noticed her death or whether she was, in fact, not awesome. I anticipate the latter. Her mother was Lucia Pamela, well-known star of Special X radio. She believed she went to the moon, on which a friendly t...

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In honor of Dan Leifer, in this thread, start posting wrong answers to questions so you can increase your chances of winning meaningless neg prizes at your next tournament! I'm certain this will work out well!

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Bentley Like Beckham wrote:From what I understand he started going for the neg prize in the second half of the match, and would buzz in after about 3-4 words on every question. Ask Jerry, I think he was playing in that round.

No longer cool, now just stupid.

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segregold wrote:(Apologies for the swearing. That rule must have been updated since I stopped consistently visiting the forums.)

It's okay dude. I'm pretty sure we've had that rule since you registered, but regardless, I doubt anyone's retinas were burnt away or anything like that.

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Insert requisite classic Bobby Fischer anti-Jew remark here.

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Ugh. Alright, keep your eyes open for yet another move... Comedy week day option? Seriously, that might be your best bet - to run it on a week day, most likely during VCU's spring break. I'd think that'd be unlikely to coincide with high schools' spring breaks. Exactly. That's the only way we (that...

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Matt Weiner wrote:Ugh. Alright, keep your eyes open for yet another move...

Comedy week day option?

Seriously, that might be your best bet - to run it on a week day, most likely during VCU's spring break.

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Finally, another Knowledge Bowl participant with some actual sense, but let's just remember, this is a Quizbowl forum (though I'm guessing you could actually discuss it here). There's no problem discussing Knowledge Bowl on these forums. Quiz bowl is quiz bowl, even if it's "bad" quiz bowl.

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Weekend at Bernadette's wrote:
leftsaidfred wrote:Status: Still depressed about Edmund.
I've lived in New Zealand, so his death was especially sad for me.

:(

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Just to clarify, I don't think anyone's really trying to take you behind the woodshed for this. It was a defensible decision and I think everyone can understand why it was made.

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Reinstein - I'm not accusing the host of any unethical conduct when it comes to the distribution of questions. I'm saying it allows coaches to act unethically - and coaches aren't somehow 100% ethical just because they're coaches, which I can attest to after seeing and hearing of various incidents, ...

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I believe I did specify which criticism I am listening to and which is helpful to us Actually, you didn't. You said you appreciated the constructive criticism, without specifying what that was. As such, it's easy to read into your statement that you believe the only constructive criticisms are ones...

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This is the second post of yours I've had to edit for dropping f-bombs. Please read the forum rules regarding language in the high school section.

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This is inaccurate... the answer given was Entymology, with a "y" in there... which is why i didn't give them credit... I may have been being picky, but after pronouncing it, I was looking for a distinction from Etymology, which obviously is not the same thing. After thinking about it, I ...

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GiveMeBrindleeOrDeath wrote:I would have given it to you. The "n" makes the difference.

Quoting dis post because I be agreeing with it.

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Also, since we are talking about ethics, one thing that I notice while scorekeeping during our tournament was one coach clearly substituted his/her students with knowing the topics of the upcoming questions in mind. How ethical/unethical is this? If the coach was using "insider" knowledge...

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Spiderman's here! AND HE'S GOT CAKE WHERE IS OUR CAKE LEE HENRY THIS IS WHY NO ONE LIKES BATMAN AS MUCH AS SPIDERMAN I think this is more of a philosophical metaphor. "Spiderman has cake". What does the cake represent? I think it represents that which we all yearn for in our own way. Perh...

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Robbie Ram wrote:Sounds like someone needs to file a complaint with NAQT...

I've let R. Robert Hentzel know.

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FYI, here's NAQT's official "geographic exclusivity' policy from their website ( http://www.naqt.com/hs/geographic-exclusivity.html ): Hosts specify the exclusivity that they want by providing a list of states; NAQT will not allow another tournament to be hosted in any of those states using th...

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sabine01 wrote:The cake is a lie!

if spiderman's cake is a lie i don't even want to live any more

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Spiderman's here!

AND HE'S GOT CAKE

WHERE IS OUR CAKE LEE HENRY THIS IS WHY NO ONE LIKES BATMAN AS MUCH AS SPIDERMAN

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Status: Still depressed about Edmund.

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no, seriously, please get rid of that avatar person who uses it so I don't have to go in and get rid of it myself. because, seriously, that's just terrible for my mental standing. Fred has spoken. I did not, however, bring back Tebow's "girlfriend" yet: going from Richard Simmons to her s...

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Tegan wrote:
Deesy Does It wrote:I propose a moratorium on the theme until the naked Richard Simmons is gotten rid of.
SECONDED!

no, seriously, please get rid of that avatar person who uses it so I don't have to go in and get rid of it myself. because, seriously, that's just terrible for my mental standing.

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DaGeneral wrote:Sir Edmund Hillary.

:(

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Deesy Does It wrote:Hey guys, right now Ryan's beard is #2 so your task is to vote 1 on this guy's beard because that's some bullshit that anyone would vote for it and we need to drag his average down.

EDIT- he's now down to second with Ryan in the lead.

Man you guys work fast.

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voted ten, will vote again

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We've made the decision to delay this tournament until the fall, as it would best match up with the tournaments held in that time period. Look for information about this tournament closer to September '08.

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Matt Weiner wrote:
STPickrell wrote:I would hope that competent speed question providers be awarded 2-pyramids, so that they not be shut out entirely.
We need to develop a standard for rating the pointiest unicorn horns first.

Moh's scale of hardness that unicorn horn.

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THE FRED WILL RULE

THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH THIS ALMOST DUPLICATION

THE FRED HAS SPOKEN

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Will Run PACE for Reese's wrote:
Fred... do you get compensated for having your previous avatar in this ad? :)

There has been no Hulkamania paraphernalia Photoshopped onto that baby, so I think I'll have to let this go.

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Oddest successful candy bar ever.

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cornfused wrote:Fine Arts: Performing Arts questions on MOVIES, in a tournament with 50 points of movies guaranteed in every round thanks to the godawful SuperHappyFuntimeWonderBonus.

Quick question: was this like, Casablanca movies, or I Am Legend movies?

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Somewhere, Richard Reid is smiling.

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Hey hosts - if you haven't received an e-mail about hosting GARBAGE, please let me know and I'll get that information to you. Similarly, if you are interested in hosting but have yet to get in touch with me about it, please do so as soon as you get a chance. Thanks!

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I've contacted the hosts and have received a few tentative responses. Tulsa, Chicago and Vanderbilt/Tennessee-Knoxville have showed varying levels of commitment. I'm waiting on responses from the rest of hosts for ACF Regionals. Obviously, the holidays have slowed the finalization of sites down.

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awesome

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Don't mean to hi-jack the thread (move to a new topic?), but one of the main reasons many schools play HCASC is for the money. Your school gets 3000 dollars for attending Nationals, no matter how horrible you are and they pay for the plane tickets, food, and hotels in Orlando. If you are good, you ...

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What abt Janis Joplin's sister giving Mercedes permission to use 'Mercedes Benz' in a commercial? Ok, I'll give this a disconnect of 5 (Cadillac isn't that corporate), a sacredness of 7 (very important song, but about two steps away from Weird Al territory), 10 origins (Joplin is viewed as a key mu...

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Guys, you have to put numbers into the formula and share you results

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The Washington Post used SCIENCE! to create a formula determine the most terrible cases of artist sell out in history. Entitled the "Moby Formula", due to that artist's album Play and the fact that every song was used on a commercial, it's an attempt to mathematically evaluate just how ter...

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this is just like when hulk hogan and randy savage started fighting

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Bigfoot isn't the preferr wrote:
DeisEvan wrote:Maybe things that are equal to zero, other than the Patriots' regular season losses this year?
I support this

I also support this.

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it's ok

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Yeah, let's wait til phpBB3 until we conduct science experiments of that type again.

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Step 1. Send Hentzel an e-mail asking if he's down.
Step 2. Receive e-mail stating he is down.
Step 3. Commence the sending of the questions.

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Correct: Quidditch

Me: "Solomon Grundy" (as in the Batman villain)

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So I hate to post twice in such short succession but I just read Fred's interview with R and something struck me, relevant to this discussion. NAQT is routinely behind on its production work; if members have spare time, they should be writing and editing questions for overdue sets rather than posti...

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