Guess The Writer Betting Pool!

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  1. phantomofthenet

    phantomofthenet Locked By Request

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    Okay, so, first go here: http://wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=28593

    ...and then let's try to guess the identies of the writer!

    To make it interesting, let's make a pool out of it. The person who gets the most correct gets (positive) reps from all the other guessers. Sound cool?

    Here's mine:
    Contestant #1 - Cassandra
    Contestant #2 - East
    Contestant #3 - Herpetologist
    Contestant #4 - Lanzman
    Contestant #5 - Uncle Albert
    Contestant #6 - Sweet Troubled Soul
    Contestant #7 - Face
    Contestant #8 - Diacanu
    Contestant #9 - Anna Yolei
    Contestant #10 - I Totally Have No Clue :shrug: At a guess, I'll pull a name out of a hat...(stirs names in hat) Crosis?

    Mods, you might want to sticky this if there's enough interest...

    Oh yeah...if you're in the contest, DON'T say if you are or not....we don't want to throw the competition out of whack by blowing anonymity, m'kay?
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  2. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    Are these for sure the 10 people that entered, or just your guesses?
  3. Aurora

    Aurora VincerĂ²!

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    ^ No one but me knows everybody who entered, or who wrote what :)

    Guess I can't get in on this :(
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  4. phantomofthenet

    phantomofthenet Locked By Request

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    Just my guesses, ideally we don't want to know who the contestants are...just thought it would be interesting to try to guess who wrote what based on what we knew of the poster.

    For example, if one of the stories had a line, "tehn I infited the lipstick lesbian to caht", we'd be sure that was Baba, right? :)

    EDIT: And Cass came up with the idea for making a betting pool, so give the nice moderator a tip, willya?
  5. MiniBorg

    MiniBorg Bah Humbug

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    If you look in the embassy, theres at least 2 new users who joined only to enter...
  6. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Wow, phantom's list is completely scrambled up from who I guessed. :lol:

    But, I can't get in on it either. :shrug:
  7. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    How 'bout you just tell us? :D

    East and who else?
  8. Cervantes

    Cervantes Fighting windmills

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    heh. A quandary. If I don't vote, people will assume I am in the contest, and I don't want to un-necessarily indicate if I am or not.

    If I do, though, people will assume I am not in it,and again I have possibly influenced the outcome.
    Rar.

    Never mind. I shall just forego it, then, for the sake of the Prime Directive.
  9. MiniBorg

    MiniBorg Bah Humbug

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    East and 2 others. I forget.

    If you're too lazy to go check, what makes you think I'm not?? :P
  10. Dan Leach

    Dan Leach Climbing Staff Member Moderator

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    if #1 isnt cass ill eat my hat
  11. Dan Leach

    Dan Leach Climbing Staff Member Moderator

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    Are you trying to give something away?
    By that your not in it, unless your manipulating......which wouldnt make sense...
  12. Cervantes

    Cervantes Fighting windmills

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    I'm trying to say one should make no judgements on whether I am or am not in this contest based upon my decision not to participate here.
  13. Dan Leach

    Dan Leach Climbing Staff Member Moderator

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    um

    so am i

    i might have written something, but dont judge me on that :techman:
  14. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    #1 - Tamar Garish
    #2 - Cassandra
    #3 - East
    #4 - Herpetologist
    #5 - Diacanu
    #6 - SweetTroubledSoul
    #7 - vandy goddess
    #8 - Captain Tex
    #9 - Lanzman
    #10 - Crosis
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  15. East

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    Incorrect. I joined because I was thinking about raiding the forum. Elwood and Nick are well aware of that. Only later did I notice the contest and used it to cover my intentions. I liked what I saw and nixed the raid. We are now in the early stages of raiding another forum (warrior geeks welcome). Now I am here because I like the people even as resurrection is sweeping the land in an dual thread av debate...

    That is all...

    East...
  16. Zenow

    Zenow Treehugger

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    Only 2 I am pretty sure of are nr 3: Ladypreacher and Nr. 5: Diacanu. I had a feeling about nr. 7 being Summerteeth, but I don't even know why.
  17. Mr. Scruff

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    I've only read the first two, but I'll eat my left bollock if Cass isn't no1 and Herp isn't No2.
  18. Nautica

    Nautica Probably a Dual

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    I don't know you all well enough to judge who wrote what, but I'll bet Dan Leach wrote the one about the guy travelling on the magical airship and having "time hiccup" issues and sexual fantasies/adventures. Forgot which entry # that was.
  19. Dan Leach

    Dan Leach Climbing Staff Member Moderator

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    Dude, i couldnt string 2 sentances together, let alone write something comprehensible. Let alone have any idea what is good writing or bad. I definatly didnt enter this competition
  20. Summerteeth

    Summerteeth Quinquennial Visitation

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    Stop throwing red herrings about, Daniel-san! :nono:

    ;)
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  21. Nautica

    Nautica Probably a Dual

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    All I know is, as pathetic as you always sound about your inability to chat up a woman (er, a "bird" for you Britishers), that story is exactly what a sexually frustrated male would come up with. The shoe fits, IMO. :D
  22. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    [action=tmm3k]yawns[/action]
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  23. Yahweh

    Yahweh Folces Weard

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    How could it not be Diacanu?
  24. Tex

    Tex Forge or die. Administrator Formerly Important

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    That's right, I wrote number 8, give me credit, what do I win?

    edit:
    Ok, I just read number 8, I didn't intend on reading at all. I wasn't even planning on voting in fact, I just did a random number to tell the truth. Anyway, what in the hell made you think I would write anything like that. I know more then your average joe 6 pack about computers but I don't bother going to the extent in that story to do anything. In fact, I couldn't if I wanted to. It'd take too much time to learn how, and I don't bother hiding the IP of my dual(s). I figure if the admin wants to know, so what. ;)

    Weird story though, I give the real author credit for creativity. Clearly it's someone that outshines me in the computer department.
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  25. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    Actually, it wasn't the computer-y parts that made me think it was yours. :shrug: Mentioning some WF posters seemed kinda Texy to me.
    Rep-whore master and all that. :) :hail:

    Who do you think wrote it?
  26. Yahweh

    Yahweh Folces Weard

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    My psychic powers declare:

    He kind of said he was going to be doing something like this...

    [?=Nevermind.]edit: WTF? are spoiler tags broken, or am I just stupid?

    edit: fuck, they are.[/?]
  27. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    East told me she was female. :unsure:
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  28. Yahweh

    Yahweh Folces Weard

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    I never asked East, and given the enormous majority that white, geeky, males have on message boards, I made assumptions. :shrug:
  29. Mrs. Albert

    Mrs. Albert demented estrogen monster

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    Hmm, spoiler seems to be working now.
  30. East

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    And East's name is....*drumroll*

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