WannaBe Member since Oct-20-04 · Last seen Apr-19-26 Thank you Daniel Freeman and Alberto A Artidiello Not enough words can describe what you created and what we lost.

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Apr-19-26 Chessgames - Sports    WannaBe: These sponsorship have gotten silly, borderline ridiculous. Watching this TB@PIT game earlier, and the 4th inning was brought to us by Toyota Rav4. Ugh Maybe 7-Up can sponsor a Seventh Inning Stretch. Or Motel 6 can do something about the 6th inning.      Apr-14-26 chessgames.com chessforum    WannaBe: <MissScarlett> How would we the members do that? Isn't that better done with internal email message/list? I volunteer, just let me know how.      Apr-14-26 World Championship Candidates (2026)    WannaBe: < perfidious: At least the username User: Bishoprick is displayed in full, unlike that of User: farticchio, whose content is automatically blocked from the kibitzing page cos of someone's fixation on the first four letters of the name. Perhaps the user should have been informed ...      Apr-11-26 Karpov vs J Bellon Lopez, 1973   WannaBe: Computer analysis on this game is now available.      Apr-11-26 Chessgames - Guys and Dolls    WannaBe: Anna Cramling Bellon, she covers chess on YT: https://www.youtube.com/@AnnaCramling      Apr-11-26 Anna Cramling Bellon   WannaBe: Cross posting (spam) from Lopez's page, same YT link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhX...      Apr-11-26 Juan Bellon Lopez   WannaBe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhX...      Apr-06-26 Fusilli chessforum    WannaBe: You too <Fusilli>      Apr-05-26 Chessgames - Odd Lie   WannaBe: Gotta double-triple check for typos in the future, what is "coving my neighbor's wife"?? Are we doves?      Apr-01-26 OhioChessFan chessforum   WannaBe: <OCF> I will now have be a wabbit and dig dipper into Camp Washington Chili. Never hoid of them, don't know if they are canned, fast food, grocery store, etc. Will keep you updated.

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 418 OF 754 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-12-11    hms123: <Annie> I don't know that the alternative is better, but just that we need clarity on the issue. Btw, I would never forget to come back and vote for you. Nov-12-11    WannaBe: I think, I agree with <hms123>, I like to nominate two, three games for puns, this way, if someone else sees a pun that is worthy, they'll vote for it. Nov-12-11    Annie K.: <WannaBe> ok, but I still don't see where you two have a problem... This looks pretty clear and straightforward to me. As long as you remember to come back at voting time and vote, everything is as usual. Any category you vote for will "overwrite" your nominations in that category, just as today if you change your mind during the voting window, your second vote will overwrite the first. Counting nominations as votes will only change things in that the "implied votes" of those who enter nominations, but forget to return for the second stage, won't be lost. That means more valid votes, which is supposed to be a Good Thing? ;) <hms: <Btw, I would never forget to come back and vote for you.>> Thanks, but that only underscores why we (who usually hang around for the whole course of the Caissars) are not the target audience for whom these changes would improve the process. :) Nov-14-11    Domdaniel: I'm paying attention, btw. Just don't have much to say yet. <Ohio> said it felt like a *clique*. I suppose 'we' are the usual suspects -- but that's just another way of identifying people who've been around a while, use CG regularly, notice what's going on, and care about the traditions and culture of the site. We may be relatively few in number, but between us we probably can reach a good number of readers. Of course, *they* might all be the same people too ... Nov-14-11    Domdaniel: Would a "PR person" (or persons) be an idea? They could get on with publicizing the Caissars - explaining the history, the procedure etc for new arrivals - and leave <Wannabe> free to concentrate on the actual votes? Nov-14-11    hms123: <Dom> That's essentially the suggestion that I made a few days ago (with credit to <OCF>. Here's <OCF's> post followed by mine: <It's been mentioned before, and is important, that the advertising of the Awards should be much more aggressive/thourough than previous years. Perhaps an indulgence from CG.C for advertising the voting on GOTD, POTD, World Game if it's still going, etc.> <<OCF>> <I think <OCF> has a good idea. Perhaps we could divvy up the work a bit with each of us taking 10 or so users and posting an invitation to vote (or nominate--no position on this issue yet). The invitation would be uniform and contain the categories, relevant dates and procedures, etc. I find that this kind of approach gets reasonably good results.> <<moi>> Nov-14-11    WannaBe: <OhioChessFan> have recommended last year's Caissar to do it with Pun/Player/Puzzle of the day. (Besides just in the Cafe) I think I did post once, or twice, before my time got busy and I stopped. I would appreciate it, if someone would lend a hand in that department, and once the post scrolls off the page, maybe post another one? Since we are mostly in diff. time-zones, with possible <DomDaniel> or <twinlark> covering the other-half of the world, we should be OK. =) Also, some people don't read the whole page, and possibly may miss it. Nov-14-11    Domdaniel: Cool. Though I reckon that <twinlark> and I cover the other *nine-tenths* of the world, not just the other half. Geographically, anyhow. In sheer numbers, you guys have the edge. Is it agreed, BTW, that the date should again be in the new year, when the quiz is finito? Nov-14-11    WannaBe: <Domdaniel> Yes, after the new year would be preferable, Jan 2nd? Nov-14-11    Travis Bickle: Hey Bugs are you a 49er fan or do you like the R A I D E R Z!! like Chris Berman says it? ; P Nov-14-11    WannaBe: <Travis Bickle> I'm a <T>raiders fan, I was in LA the same time they were, hence. =) Nov-14-11    WannaBe: Any other discussion(s) regarding items 1 and 2? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Nov-14-11    OhioChessFan: IMO trying to stop self nominations/lobbying/etc is not worth the trouble. Nov-14-11    WannaBe: Agreed, that portion never troubled/bothered me any. Nov-15-11    WannaBe: Alright, moving along here, just like the NBA negotiations. =) Item number 3 on our agenda, elimination of categories. Less work for moi(?!) Nov-15-11    OhioChessFan: Tough luck. Keep all the categories. Nov-15-11    WannaBe: Must be a slow moving elevator, or a slow moving staff member... http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-wounde... Nov-16-11    SwitchingQuylthulg: If <Nikolaas> had intended for the Caissars to be serious, he wouldn't have given us those categories in the first place. Nov-16-11    WannaBe: In this article, Zynga is one of the most sought after company to work for: http://www.linkedin.com/news?action... (Published Nov. 14th, 2 days ago.) And then you read this article: http://www.linkedin.com/news?action... (Nov. 10th which is published before the first link.) 'Xcuse me while I go and scratch my head and think about this for a while... Nov-16-11    WannaBe: Go to Google, search for <m2film dk fleggaard trailer 2> Rated PG-16. Maybe PG-17, European commercial, obviously a 'bit' more 'wink wink' than US commercials. Nov-16-11    WannaBe: New Zealand airline commercial, very cute: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elD3... Nov-16-11    WannaBe: I have to give a big-fat F-- to this version of my favourite song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwC... Nov-17-11    WannaBe: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/... No idea if the country of Turkey is also being petition to change its name. What a bunch of wackos... Nov-18-11    OhioChessFan: <Winless UCLA 'not very good right now' > http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba... Nov-18-11    WannaBe: <OhioChessFan> Yes, I know, I know... =( When does UCLA baseball season start? Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 754) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 418 OF 754 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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