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07-03-2008 , 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by kokiri
everyone should write a 50/100/200 word summary of themselves, and them we could vote the most interesting person each week. Then it wouldn't be a popularity contest, it would be an objective measure of boringness.
The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles — there really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's breathtaking... I suggest you try it.
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07-03-2008 , 03:26 PM
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07-03-2008 , 03:26 PM
obv, you won it
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07-04-2008 , 10:04 AM
chuck start your well
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07-04-2008 , 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Zurvan
obv, you won it
well at the time i was told it was a popularity contest and i argued it was a game of skill

so thank you for agreeing with me zurv
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07-04-2008 , 10:50 AM
It's neither a game of skill nor a popularity contest. It's a fine name for a random event.
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07-04-2008 , 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by clowntable
It's neither a game of skill nor a popularity contest. It's a fine name for a random event.
i dont want to derail this thread the way we derailed the bucky thread, but if you think it was a coincidence that me and chim made the final two that is so LOL
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07-04-2008 , 03:17 PM
It turns out I'm alone in the office from July 17 - August 17, so if we could schedule my well to be in there somewhere, that'd be awesome, I'd have more time to answer.
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07-04-2008 , 03:32 PM
Chuckles you should periodically post a list of people and the date of their well next to their names imo.
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07-10-2008 , 07:44 PM
I'm in the well when my time comes.
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07-10-2008 , 07:49 PM
I've thought about that whole summary thing. I still don't really like it. Too much reading, too much work for people writing, and not quite that much of a game. Though what I could be willing to try is a one sentence game. Less reading, less work, and more of a game. Anyone could come up with one sentence. Even if it is "One time in Vegas..." But I'm not entirely sure if this is a good idea or not, but there seemed to be some support something like it. Otherwise, looks like Dustin is next.
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07-10-2008 , 10:02 PM
Re upcoming well dates - next week is bad for me, the week of the 21st is good, the week of the 28th is bad, first part of august good again. So, whomever is doing the scheduling, please adjust me by a week if needed.
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07-11-2008 , 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by chuckleslovakian
I've thought about that whole summary thing. I still don't really like it. Too much reading, too much work for people writing, and not quite that much of a game. Though what I could be willing to try is a one sentence game. Less reading, less work, and more of a game. Anyone could come up with one sentence. Even if it is "One time in Vegas..." But I'm not entirely sure if this is a good idea or not, but there seemed to be some support something like it. Otherwise, looks like Dustin is next.
Here's my idea for the game.

People are gonna have to type their life story/summary in their well anyway, so it's no extra work.

Every week start a poll containing the three people next in line to start, with them each posting their summarys that they can then open their well with by pasting it as the op.

Whoever has the most votes goes on to do the next weeks well, then you add the next in line and start a new poll.

You would have to strictly disallow questions in the poll thread, or it would become a mess.

Doesn't have to be 3 people, 5? whatever.

Also, if someone has been in the poll wait list for + x number of weeks they go next, although I'm sure poggers would have a sense of fairplay enough to not let that become an issue. Another way of dealing with this would be to add X% of total votes from previous weeks to the vote total that week, thereby giving an edge to people who have been waiting longer.
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07-11-2008 , 01:40 PM
people have enough trouble having their well in a timeframe that is conducive to them
like look what happened to elroys

just go with the list and if that week is no good for people ask them when is
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07-11-2008 , 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by metsandfinsfan
people have enough trouble having their well in a timeframe that is conducive to them
like look what happened to elroys

just go with the list and if that week is no good for people ask them when is
QFT
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07-11-2008 , 06:31 PM
i want to push my well back if im next.

whoever is after me can take my spot
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07-11-2008 , 07:24 PM
i've been delaying signing up until most oldschool poggers were on the list.. which seems to be about now. please sign me up on the bottom of the list, I'll go when you run out of old-schoolers.
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07-13-2008 , 06:54 AM
Here's the list as far as I've got. Some of these were ambiguous if they were in or not

sixfour
Dustin
swiitch
The_Hitch
kokiri
Zurvan
ollie
wdcbooks
reno
metsandfinsfan
orangerake
pyramidscheme
riverfish1
chim17
dmk
seigmund
nez477
Patton4
ackbleh
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07-13-2008 , 07:16 AM
How about voting on who from that list goes next?
After one is done, a new person can sign up. Rinse, repeat.
Selfregulate the boring losers to the bottom of the list imo

Well, do whatever you want regulators.
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07-13-2008 , 07:18 AM
May I suggest removing ollie
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07-14-2008 , 09:42 AM
can we stop this nonsense and have 2 or 3 at a time
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07-14-2008 , 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by The_Hitch
May I suggest removing ollie
Is he in jail?
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07-14-2008 , 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by metsandfinsfan
can we stop this nonsense and have 2 or 3 at a time
I think 2 at a time is good.
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07-14-2008 , 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by clowntable
Is he in jail?
worse: somewhere without the internet
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07-14-2008 , 12:40 PM
i just figured you wanted him removed because you think hes not interesting....which in turn is a much more interesting reason than him not having internet
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