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Adrian Bailey - 27 Jan 2007 20:41 GMT

"Update", literally, kinda. I'm moving the finishing line back?/forward?
seven days, so there's one week to go. Plenty of time! Thanks for the
entries I've received so far.

It might also be useful to mention that, as far as Q3 is concerned,
"dictionary.com"="dictionary.reference.com".

Enter by email to dadge@hotmail.com
Use that address also for any queries.
Please do _not_ post answers and queries to this newsgroup.
Closing date: 2400 hours GMT/UTC on 3 February 2007
Your task is to supply one correct answer to each question, each answer
being the one that you believe will be supplied by fewest other competitors.

0. A bone in the human foot.
1. A general, non-acronymic use of the word "alma"/"Alma".
2. A current publisher whose ISBN-10 numbers begin between 000 and 009
inclusive.
3. An uncapitalized palindromic four-letter English word that can be found
at dictionary.com.
4. A North American or European mobile phone (cell phone) manufacturing
company.
5. The single-word name of a class of (pure) hydrocarbons.
6. A US sitcom TV series based on a UK sitcom with a different title.
7. A type (not a brand) of unfortified dessert wine.
8. Someone non-royal who, like their sibling, is/was prime minister and/or
head of state.
9. An Olympic sport that takes place on an ice rink.

Adrian Bailey

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Skitt - 27 Jan 2007 21:20 GMT

> Enter by email to dadge@hotmail.com
> Use that address also for any queries.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> answer being the one that you believe will be supplied by fewest
> other competitors.

Hmm. Psychology might be involved. Could it be that everyone will be
avoiding giving the most obvious answers?

Just messin' around ...

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LaReina del Perros - 27 Jan 2007 21:56 GMT

>> Enter by email to dadge@hotmail.com
>> Use that address also for any queries.
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
>Just messin' around ...

Hmm, odorless, tasteless -- IOCAINE POWDER!

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tinwhistler - 27 Jan 2007 23:25 GMT

On Jan 27, 1:56 pm, LaReina del Perros [snip]

> >Just messin' around ...Hmm, odorless, tasteless -- IOCAINE POWDER!

[snip]

Ah, such inspiration,... to find a suitable quotation; my nominees:

http://www.sedesdraconis.com/index.cgi?Features/Quotes

"If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of
the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
-Chinese Proverb"

http://www.quartertomidnight.com/quotelst.htm

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game
of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of
any other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version
of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes,
with a dealer who won't tell you the rules and who smiles all the
time."
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego

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Mark Brader - 27 Jan 2007 22:59 GMT

> Hmm. Psychology might be involved.

Please do not post commentary on the contest either.

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Toronto the public, so it's not in the public interest!"
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Daniel al-Autistiqui - 30 Jan 2007 18:26 GMT

>> Enter by email to dadge@hotmail.com
>> Use that address also for any queries.
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
>Just messin' around ...

I suppose that this kind of contest will soon be well known on AUE.
And then everyone will know what started the whole "rare" thing.

Eugene Maleska's book of word games has an item called "The Anti-Match
Game", which is basically the same idea as in the "Rare Entries"
contests that Mark Brader and various other people have hosted on
Usenet.

daniel mcgrath

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