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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: Innaresting no? Been out and about in the wildy wildy outlands as well - so with our combined absentivity you would have expected at least one clue. Perhaps a double negative did the trick. |
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Dec-21-10
 | | Domdaniel: <dak> Indeed. Lemme see, 9 remaining clues divided into, say, 81 hours between now and the evening of the 24th ... suggests longer intervals... of 9 hours. Even if they end it *early* on the 24th, say 63 hours left, and 7 hours per klu....?! Am I miscalculating? |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: Yeah, I had noticed earlier on they seemed to get published a bit quicker then you'd expect so that the last clues would probably trickle in much slower. Let's hope the remaining clues are HARD - then we won't miss them :D |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: Let us spray ... as Annie's cats used to tell one another before she taught them to be nice girls. There *should* be at least one HARD one left, I think. I haven't kept track, but I think one or two *actual thing* prizes might be left. Since my membership now runs until the 24th century, one of those would be nice ... |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: BTW, on checking my <historic klu hunt database>, I see that <MAJ> has won a *thing* every year ... even in 2007, when his solitary prize was a 4-DVD set. Them were the days. |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: Chatting is a great excuse to keep refreshing pages, innit? And doesn't seem *quite* as moronic as staring at a screen and hitting 'refresh' every few seconds ... |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: <Chatting is a great excuse to keep refreshing pages, innit?> Hahahaha, absolutely true! I actually have a seperate tab-page on the clues page so when I see that, the current top, clue #44 has been replaced by #45 I know I missed another one ;) Ah yes, in the first years dvd-sets and staunton-sets.. would've loved such a prize :P Currently my membership runs to just after next christmas so even if I do not manage to win another 4 months this year - I have 64 more chances next year :D |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: There were 12 premium prizes. If I counted correctly [counting is hard!] then only 8 have been given away so far. Which would mean out of the remaining 9 clues, 4 are hard ones! That would be great! :D |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: < in the first years dvd-sets and staunton-sets>
I won a staunton set in '08 and a T-shirt in '09 ... ironically, I suppose, I've never won a book or a zine subscription. Maybe they don't know I can read. |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: *Four* left? Really? That is good. Dat is goed.
Even three would be acceptable... |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: My first clue was a booklet of some sorts! Fairly strange because the clue was not all that hard. It was purpleish though, so it did not really do it for me. |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: ...wanna trade your staunton set for my booklet?
;D |
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| Dec-21-10 | | crawfb5: <Maybe they don't know I can read.> Maybe they know you read too much. |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: < I actually have a seperate tab-page on the clues page> Careful, young man. Wees voorzichtig. You don't wanna turn into some old obsessive like me, do you? |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: That actually reminds me I do not read any books currently! Now I could either hack a path through a wall of snow to the library or order one online and then mister mailman just brings it.. |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: That current top line, The Great Contretemps, was a klu I missed entirely. But every time I see it now I hear a similar line from some old country song ... <But to my surprise
When I opened my eyes
I was a victim of the great compromise ...> John Prine, maybe. |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: <You don't wanna turn into some old obsessive like me, do you?> Noooo, would not want that!!
I simply always have about 20 pages open in firefox - starts up that way - because otherwise I have to go through all the hassle of opening and closing seperate sites.. So a page more, or a page less, does not really count as obsessive :D |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: <I simply always have about 20 pages open in firefox> Ah. That's clever. I have a sort of Cro-magnon fear of trying to get a computer to do too much stuff at once, even when it can. It derives from the days when you had 1K of memory left and suddenly ran out of |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: Ah yes, I had similar feelings with my previous computer - it was fairly unstable so I limited my amount of pages there as well. My current laptop should be fairly good though and the processor-use isn't all that high so I do not forsee any problems :) btw: still no clue... 10 bucks say that it will appear when I am having dinner :P |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: Chessbucks or real bucks? MacDongles or Rijstaffel?
The variables are too, well, variable.
;) |
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| Dec-21-10 | | dakgootje: Chessbucks! smells like some traditional meat-potatoes-vegetables combination. No smell of the vegetables though so my guess is endive. :( |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: Endives. I believe that was the favorite snack of <Roger's Wah-wah Rabbits>, who sometimes played with the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band. I'd ask Mr Stanshall, but he's dead.
<mack> is perhaps the next greatest living authority on the topic. |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: Could lead to an endapropism in the Maldives, however. |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: <We will post several clues each day, so keep using Chessgames and you're bound to see one when it goes live.> So, severally, what do you think 'several' means? |
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Dec-21-10
| | Domdaniel: It's only been 6.5 hours or so. The fact that they coincide with daylight in Yurp is statistically non-significant. I'd best eat soon too. I'm sounding slightly hysterical in a low-blood-sugar kinda way ... Hypoglycemia? Slightly??
To the West Wing ... bring laptop ... |
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