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05-21-2010, 11:24 AM | #47 |
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Thanks to everyone - and I mean everyone - associated with MR. From Alex, to the Mods and all the members who've made this contest such fun. To the sponsors for their generosity, very much all appreciated.
I am chuffed to have won a new reader - the very first item I've ever won - having to navigate both the detective story and the draw makes this even more special .... but, and I have to repeat, but I still think it were pshrynk that did it to 'imself .... Let's party .... whisky and chocolate I can bring ..... |
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05-21-2010, 11:31 AM | #48 | |
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I second the motion! That's real snappy open paragraph. Better than I can do. Seriously. |
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05-21-2010, 11:31 AM | #49 | |
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The dame with the legs walked into my office, shutting my door behind her. "I've been thinking about you all night" she purred seductively as she crossed to my office window and lowered the blinds. "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" She sat on the corner of my desk and poured her self 2 fingers of scotch. Hmmm great wheels and good taste, I thought to myself as she eyed me like a cat eyeing a caged canary. Then she started in with the compliments, but I knew what she was after. She wanted the clue I found last night. |
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05-21-2010, 11:37 AM | #50 |
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Ah, what a joy.
But first of all let me copy and paste what Chicken Dear has already posted above "Thank you MR for having the contest and selecting my entry as "outstandingly entertaining" - this is the VERY first contest I've ever won - ironically by not winning. Oh well - I'll take it!" This expresses almost exactly my feelings. "Ironically" does not apply in my case and should be substituted by "Fortituously" as I did not even read the script except the Verencat scene. It was too difficult for me to envision the details, imagine to remember the names. . But the great Zeldissima came in my help with a beautiful and quite effective suggestion. Pick one up at random, you have one chance in ten. Or something like that, with more grace and class I am sure. So I picked up Verencat that is the one in the bunch that I know. I know also il pinguino Roberto but he is too good to do anything out of the law and Zelda is too busy spreading around charm and good moods. Verencat ... My subconscious did the rest. And as always he was right. Thank you subconscious.we'll go to bed soon. So here is my email that demonstrates that culture pays. Ah "My username is beppe My solution is Verencat Reason: She's the one to get excited by the strings. The strings wrap up in the clue. That why she wants them out of the way. It comes from the ancient Greek myth of the Labyrinth where the hero Theseus used a clew, or ball of twine, to solve the Minotaur's labyrinth. regards beppe" P.S.The funny thing is that I do not even feel ashamed of having written this. P.P.S: The strings is one of those things that keep popping up in the treads, like destiny of mankind, supremacy of this over that, you fatso, no differently slim, you cretin, no differently intelligent, blah blah,... without any idea of what these things are, ... that my subconscious, poor simpleton soul that he is, did not let the occasion to slip by. Thank you again subconscious.we'll go to bed real soon. Just let me say good bye. What to add? I am quite excited of being together a bunch of classy members among whom my dear friends: poohbear SneakySnake WT Sharpe Vamos amigos! Last but not least the joy of seeing my good friend GeoffC win the jackpot. This demonstrates the magical and metaphysical Power of the Avatar. And some hidden meaning in friendship. That's for you, parrot |
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05-21-2010, 11:39 AM | #51 |
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Wow, what great news to wake up to! I almost never win anything, and when I do it's always something totally useless, so it's wonderful to win a prize that I actually can use!
Thanks so much to all the sponsors and to MobileRead for a fabulously fun contest! |
05-21-2010, 11:42 AM | #52 |
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05-21-2010, 11:56 AM | #53 |
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Consider the motion thirded! And Ralph, we want to see yours as well. If we add Red's commentary and all the submitted "creative" solutions, will this be the definitive edition? The directors cut? The unabridged version?
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05-21-2010, 12:24 PM | #55 | |
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Thank You MobileRead!!
I am sooo very excited to hear that I am one of the winners! I had been following the story and got so caught up in the all excitement I decided to enter, but I never expected to actually win anything. Thank you so very much Alex, the MobileRead Team, pyshrynk, and Astak. It is a fabulous community and I have learned a lot about ebook readers from the talented contributors to this forum. You also have many very imaginative and creative contributors as evidenced by the discussion thread! I really had no clue who committed the crime with the crowbar and made a wild guess in the end. Here is what I submitted... Quote:
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Wow! Reading this thread is as much fun as following the Rock Lobster Case File Thread and its Discussion Thread!
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05-21-2010, 02:26 PM | #58 |
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Thanks to the inestimable (Unestimible? Inestimably? Unmentionable? Aw... doubleplusgood) help of Ravenne, I can now post my solution, presented in the voice of Rock Lobster himself. This is how I imagined he solved the case:
***** “The key,” I went on, “was Verencat’s statement that there were ten moderators in the room. And based on PilotBob’s statement, the only moderator missing at the moment of the murder was Neko.” "So..." Netseeker kindly did the math. "There are eleven of us?" "Well, what does that prove?" NatCh snapped. "I'm starting to get a handle on how you jokers think," I explained. "For instance, that although Verencat said there were ten moderators in the room... at the moment of the killing, there were actually twelve people in the room." "Anyone got a calculator?" DaleDe asked. Nate immediately whipped something out of his pocket, and began thumb-typing furiously. I continued, ignoring the interruption. “Including the soon-to-be stiff, the ten moderators were here. But one of them was here… twice!” “Twice?” everyone repeated. “Twice,” I replied smugly. “Thanks to that temporal thingie you all seem to be so familiar with. It would allow one of you to go back in time and commit the murder, with the incidental result of there being two of you here at the same time. Including pshrynk, that made twelve.” I looked at Verencat, but she turned away quickly, and I knew why. Everyone looked to Nate. After a moment, he looked up and did one of those outrageous shrugs. "Checks out." “But who?” Zippy demanded. “Who did it?” "The killer was MTravelerH." Across the room, a compass fell to the floor. MTravelerH blustered a moment, then said, “Preposterous!" “You did not just say that,” Patricia smirked. "Not at all," I stated. "Uh… I mean, yes, he did, and not at all is it preposterous. You happened to be closest to the stiff, pre-stiffened, as you were cleaning the cases... he was busy prying one open, and believed that you were too busy on another case to have noticed. Noticed you had, but you pretended not to." "And why would I do that?" "So that you could be conveniently looking elsewhere when, minutes later, you would go back in time to that precise moment. Verencat saw you there, but tried to hide the truth from me by being clever… in fact, her chasing Nate’s string probably took a part in distracting PilotBob and DaleDe from noticing the extra you in the room. In the meantime, future-you waited until past-you wasn’t looking, snatched the crowbar from pshrynk's hands, and bashed him with it!" “You have no proof that I did that,” MtravelerH stated simply. “No?” I said, flipping to another page of notes. This notepad was getting a workout today. “But what I do have is a comment you made, quote: ‘It can become so tedious at times with all of this spatio-temporal transpositioning going on.’ Unquote.” “So? Zippy—uh, Zelda said she went back and cleaned the crowbar!” “True… but Zippy mentioned her backwards jaunt to me after I spoke to you, and I mentioned it just now. You mentioned it first--back on page one.” MTravelerH started to work his mouth open and closed, looking much like the average beached trout… and his eyes were wide enough to make Nate’s eyes look squinty. And everyone else was now squinting at MTravelerH with contempt… well, maybe not contempt, but obvious satisfaction that the guilty party had been made. “But why would Verencat hide the truth?” Neko asked. “Well--” I started, before being forced to dance to the left and cut off MTravelerH as he sidled towards the door. “Adrian!” I shouted, pointing at the culprit. “Sit on ‘em!” I started to reply to Neko’s answer then, when MTravelerH suddenly bolted in the other direction. Before he could escape, I cut him off and slapped the red button on the wall. At once, walls folded and unfolded, lights strobed, a miniature sperm whale briefly appeared and disappeared, and my hat popped off my head in a sudden decompression of the room. When everything had settled down, I looked around. MTravelerH was trapped inside a transparent column, thumping the walls with his fists and screaming silently to be let out. Verencat was also inside, slumped listlessly against the wall. “I do like that button of yours,” I smiled for the first time all day. “What’s Verencat doing in there?” Neko asked. “Oh, please,” DaleDe replied for me. “Like it isn’t obvious. She was helping MTravelerH because… they were lovers!” “No!” Netseeker goggled. Then he looked critically at the two of them. “Really?” “Uh… no,” I said. “More likely, MTravelerH saw her notice him, and bribed her to keep quiet. A few more pieces of string to play with ought to have been enough, I’d say.” I turned to Zippy then. “Well, I believe that just about wraps it up.” I moved closer to her and lowered my voice. “And listen, doll… although I’m sure Turcic has already snagged my fee, I’d be happy to give you a little extra attention… eh?” Zippy looked at me through narrowed eyes. “Consider it a bonus,” I added. “I know I would.” She responded by slapping the red button. Dames. Go figure. |
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Congrats to all the winners!!! I just got home from a boooooring meeting and this thread just made my day. Glad to see so many happy faces here
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