Many thanks to our participants. Yes, this time around the Challenge was not for the faint of heart.
Drum roll please:
Gold Medal – Chas
Silver Medal – Crossword Pete
Bronze Medal – Doug Potter
Pickin' Splinters
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Pickin' Splinters
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I want to propose a new category for the site: The Pickin’ Splinters quote of the week, and I don’t mean from the world of sports. I mean the quote of the week from the site. Here’s my inspiration for the idea and first nomination:
“Sandbag or no, I’ll still be 10 minutes behind Chas.” — Crossword Pete
I’m guessing when Pete said this, he wasn’t thinking it would turn out this way:
Chas: 2 hours, 15 minutes (8:37 – 10:52)
Pete: 2 hours, 25 minutes (8:37 – 11:02)
Or, maybe we should call it the prognostication of the week. 🙂
Now we know why Smitty didn’t compete. He was accusing Casey of favoring me, but I think, in reality, he favored Smitty by suggesting that he might not want to invest 2 1/2 hours of time into this.
Hell, I thought it was going to be tougher, but I still thought I’d finish in a half hour and then watch The Office and 30 Rock. Here’s how I say my time was allotted:
Questions 1-2, 5-10: 25 minutes (still tougher than last time)
Question 4 (Lenn Sakata): 20 minutes
Question 3 (Rene Robert): 90 minutes
Do you remember the Bubble Boys commercials?
Chas,
Actually – Casey did me absolutely no favors last night. He called me around 9:30 only to tell me that no one had answered and tried to give me a glimpse of hope that I could pull off the mother of all upsets. funny thing… I believe I heard him laughing as he hung up the phone.
So I moderately raced home and by the time I say down, it was 9:45. Well he didn’t tell me that I as taking the entrance exam to MIT. Felt good about the first 2 , got a couple of others done, and they I hit the really difficult questions. At 11 or so, the NyQuil had kicked in and knowing that everyone had about an hour and 15 minute start – I called it quits.
I’m not familiar with the bubble boys commercials, Casey. I guess this one qualifies as winning ugly for me, but a win is a win, and I’m still the reigning champion, whether Phil Mickelson opted to prioritize his booze-peddling job over the challenge or not.
I sitting at home, waiting on a crazy snowstorm, and writing a Cooking with Chas. Check back later guys…and gals, I suppose. Speaking of which, what happened to the other musketeer?
I’ll have to let her answer.
Chas, I totally forgot that “10 minutes behind” quote. Quite prophetic indeed! And darn, I just realized I missed The Office and 30 Rock. No more Thursday night Challenges. Puhleeeze!
Pete – Helmet sticker!!!!!
Chas – I agree with you on posting the quote / insight of the week. Which of Pete’s comments should we use? 🙂 Oh yeah – has the storm become a reality for you yet? Soon I will be using the snow blower for the second time today.
I guess I forgot to answer your question, Casey, but you picked the quote I would have for the insight of the week.
Can I retire from Who Am I? now? I want to go out on top. Maybe I could do the questions and let Casey participate…although I’m sure Casey enjoys writing the questions more than he would competing. Yes? No?
I really enjoy writing the questions.
maybe Chas could have a guest week or a guest challenge? let casey see how the other side lives!
PS: Chas won on a BAD day. Proves he’s pretty much the king, so “retiring” on top is a nice way to end the run, if he so chooses. Avoids the ignominy of losing to a crossword researcher. Is “ignominy” even the right word there?
Pete
You are not only a master of crosswords – you also have a handle on vocabulary. Of course you probably remember ignominy from your reading of The Scarley Letter and how Hester was first seen of the scaffold of ignominy. 🙂
Never read the Scarlet Letter, but did one heck of a report on it. Got an A I think!
Helmet sticker!!!!!!
Chas – is this another insight of the week?
1. Sorry I was unable to participate in the challenge this past week … I had an anatomy final on friday morning. When I weighed out my options, I had to choose my education.
2. Does anyone honestly think I know the answers to any of these questions? My knowledge doesn’t go far beyond Notre Dame, Red Sox, Duke Basketball, soccer, and the xavier musketeers. My apologies.
What’s the insight, Casey? That he’s a master cliff notes reader?
Abbey, I think all these old men figured you’d be a whiz at scouring the internet for the answers. Little did they know your dad was going to flex his question-writing muscles and knock us all on our a**es.
Oh – enough of the hyperbole already. 🙂
Ya got ’em all right. Geez.