Hooray Sue told us all to take heart and just like her, when I passed the Geography, it was with flying colors at 1132. That's compared to well under 800 four days in a row. Your day will come, just a matter of getting a string of questions that you know--or almost know.

Leaving a couple of quarts of refreshing strawberries under the tree for you. Have been advised to take my book though.

Better make it a trilogy Dagny.

Three cheers for Rosie Ruiz! I should use her as my next avatar!

That's what it may have sounded like, but I am not referring to the race. We don't release unfinished stuff - I was just teasing that there may be more interesting things coming in the future.

Is that a threat or a primise? Only kidding, love the possibility of interesting things!

I am curious... If there is no way for me to know what gets the fish and frog, does that mean that some people might finish the race without winning them? If you miss them during the race, does that mean you can never ever ever ever win the badgelets? :-(. Or are they eventually unavoidable to win?

I would assume they are ultimately winnable no matter what... Doesn't seem entirely fair otherwise.

If you complete the race you will have won one, and only one, of them.

No-- it just means that you'll need to find out what happens. If you knew how to get them, you'd have seen the plan for the course. There's no need to overthink it.

O interesting, win only one. I guess I won't keep my hopes up for having them both. ;-)

So Terry will, forever, be the only one who has them both?

Devilish, that

"Dance ti' thy daddy, sing ti' thy mammy,
Dance ti' thy daddy, ti' thy mammy sing;
Thou shall hev a fishy on a little dishy,
Thou shall hev a fishy when the boat comes in."

Or not.

Until I wipe em off my profile, which I'm sure I'll eventually do!

And it looks like the first little fishy has been found

Stuck until tomorrow's WAI. Like on Friday with World. I had already played my round today. Sigh.

Ach1, Stuck for another day on WAI, just 14 points away this time, if i don't progress tommorrow, i'm going to be like Wormwood in 'The Screwtape Letters', and turn myself into a giant centipede.

I hate to say it George, but... Fail tomorrow. I'd kinda like to see your metamorphosis. :-P

Don't jinx me...;)

I'm trying to unjinx you. Since nothing ever goes my way, I wish you to fail. Therefore, what I do not wish will occur. So you will succeed. So I guess I just gave you extra luck by jinxing you. ;-)

Thanks...I think.

Hey George, were you traumatised by The Screwtape Letters too?

Congratulations to Reedy for being the first to finish the race (legitimately).

I'm far from finishing, but am enjoying every minute!

It's the first race I've ever been in when I have to sit on my bum and twiddle my thumbs for 2 days! But great fun!

You obviously haven't been to the Iditarod then. Or the televised "Amazing Race". There are several long-distance races across the world where racers are forced to take stops because there have been candidates who hurt or killed themselves by trying the whole thing without food or sleep.

I'm going to do the Olympics like that, on my bum, thumbs twiddling on the remote. For weeks!

And the coroner ruled it "death by trivia"? I don't think so, Wes.

I didn't talk about TRIVIA races (Read up on the Iditarod - the choice of locations and times to take the mandatory stops is a pretty big part of race strategy there)

Death by trivia would however be something I wouldn't mind written on my final exit documentation once I'm due to receive it. I'm sure it's more pleasant than most other alternatives.

"there have been candidates who hurt or killed themselves by trying the whole thing without food or sleep."

Yeah, our pit stops are for your health

Yeah, our pit stops are for your health
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My nervous system totally diasgrees with you, Terry

Now, I'll just go back to quietly twitching... *twitch* twitch*

Wait... WE'RE SUPPOSED TO EAT DURING THE PIT STOPS? I thought we were supposed to stare blankly at the screen for 48 hours. Oops