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Message 1369187 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 1:05:18 UTC - in response to Message 1369113.  
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As a celebration of Celt's success with his medical treatments, I'd like to propose we assign Celt as winner of "TLPTPW #186 - Is it Summer yet?".

He has been through hell and this forum helped him make it through

Having been given a clean bill of health by his doctor, Ian Celt-Tooth is certainly a winner.

At the start of TLPTPW #186 I called a target range of 500-600, and picked a number near the middle of that range. We are just over half way to the range, and not quite half way to the target number.

We have a motion on the floor - do I hear a second?

I'm off to dinner and a bit of music - be back in a couple hours.
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Message 1369326 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 13:43:24 UTC - in response to Message 1369252.  

I have no objections but it will create a precedent, which might be difficult to refuse in the future e.g. We did it for X, why cant we do it for Y? I appreciate the sentiment being expressed here, but is it a wise one? Perhaps a Mod Squad decision on it .....



As the long lost finder of rules. I say that those of you who play the game can change or modify the rules as you see fit. ( After the proper discussion of course ) But!! Id ask Celt how he feels about it.


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Message 1369331 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 13:49:35 UTC

Surely a deserving soul, he.
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Message 1369350 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 14:59:03 UTC - in response to Message 1369326.  

I have no objections but it will create a precedent, which might be difficult to refuse in the future e.g. We did it for X, why cant we do it for Y? I appreciate the sentiment being expressed here, but is it a wise one? Perhaps a Mod Squad decision on it .....

As the long lost finder of rules. I say that those of you who play the game can change or modify the rules as you see fit. (After the proper discussion of course)

Those thoughts also occurred to me. Were we considerably closer to the target, and/or had I not given a target range at the onset, it would have been easy to have Ian "hit the target". But Ian also takes great joy in playing the game, so I am more inclined to let the game run to completion, and see if perhaps Ian wins without any adjustment to the target number....
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Message 1369396 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 17:25:52 UTC - in response to Message 1369395.  

I hope the latest picture in Beets isn't copyrighted in the bottom RH corner ....

The addy says free funny screen savers. Id say its ok.
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Message 1369398 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 17:27:50 UTC - in response to Message 1369350.  

I have no objections but it will create a precedent, which might be difficult to refuse in the future e.g. We did it for X, why cant we do it for Y? I appreciate the sentiment being expressed here, but is it a wise one? Perhaps a Mod Squad decision on it .....

As the long lost finder of rules. I say that those of you who play the game can change or modify the rules as you see fit. (After the proper discussion of course)

Those thoughts also occurred to me. Were we considerably closer to the target, and/or had I not given a target range at the onset, it would have been easy to have Ian "hit the target". But Ian also takes great joy in playing the game, so I am more inclined to let the game run to completion, and see if perhaps Ian wins without any adjustment to the target number....

That was also My thought, let Ian have fun.
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Message 1369428 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 18:32:58 UTC - in response to Message 1369413.  

The addy says free funny screen savers. Id say its ok.

Okidoki, it's just that when you get these semi transparent overlays you wonder.

Oh and,

As the long lost finder of rules.

I hope you have now found youself, and the rules are not long lost either?

:-)))))


I tell ya, When you journey through posts long past looking for rules long lost, I begin to wonder what year it is:)
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Message 1369430 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 18:39:46 UTC - in response to Message 1369398.  

It is more fun for me if I win on the square.
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Message 1369435 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 18:50:23 UTC - in response to Message 1369430.  

It is more fun for me if I win on the square.

Just what I thought, well party on dude.
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Message 1369440 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 18:58:30 UTC

Now wasnt that easy:)
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Message 1369469 - Posted: 18 May 2013, 20:56:39 UTC

Ok-was only an idea. :)


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Message 1369731 - Posted: 19 May 2013, 16:13:31 UTC - in response to Message 1369585.  

As no one seems interested in playing the landscape game any more I'm thinking of awarding the win later today to N9JFE, who was the nearest so far 4 days ago, with the location of Madagascar.

We usually give a clue per day, but as Madagascar is such a small place, it doesn't have that many natural features, so it should be pretty easy to find it without any more hints which would directly give it away.

I'll suggest to him that he needn't post a new picture until someone asks for one. If the general interest in this game has waned then there is no point in flogging a dead horse.

I let it go as long as I did after asking if it was Madagascar because I didn't really want to find another picture and because of my previously stated frustration when I just searched "Madagascar" with no other parameters.

I may have a cityscape or two I could post to see if that interests more people. (Assuming my answer is right...)

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Message 1370988 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 17:14:39 UTC

006 tries harder, but doesn't get the results...


Shouldn't that be 007? ;)
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Message 1370990 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 17:17:15 UTC - in response to Message 1370988.  

006 tries harder, but doesn't get the results...


Shouldn't that be 007? ;)

I think it was meant to be a pun on the fact that he wasn't quite 007.
There was an old commercial, Avis I think it was. Their slogan was.....We're number 2, we try harder.
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Message 1371006 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 17:40:34 UTC - in response to Message 1370999.  

Okidoki, listen up folks!

Yet again I have had a correct answer to a cafe game, but a decline for the win, probably the third in a month. This is happening more and more frequently. The problem as I see it is that it is fairly easy to find an odd picture or implement on the web, but the web address has the description in the link. The only way around this is to download the file to your hard drive, rename it, and then upload it to somewhere like Photobucket and link back to it there. This is time consuming and probably why people are declining to play.

Any thoughts as to the way forward?




That's the way I do it. I don't think it's time consuming though...
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Message 1371007 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 17:40:45 UTC - in response to Message 1370999.  

Okidoki, listen up folks!

Yet again I have had a correct answer to a cafe game, but a decline for the win, probably the third in a month. This is happening more and more frequently. The problem as I see it is that it is fairly easy to find an odd picture or implement on the web, but the web address has the description in the link. The only way around this is to download the file to your hard drive, rename it, and then upload it to somewhere like Photobucket and link back to it there. This is time consuming and probably why people are declining to play.

Any thoughts as to the way forward?


My issue with the kitchen tool game, and sometimes with landscape, is finding a sufficiently baffling tool that's not going to be a copyright problem. This is why I've used my own pictures for the last couple of landscapes I've done, but that limits me to places I've been. (I do have a large stash of other stuff I could use if I had a slide scanner.) Uploading it to my own web site is only a secondary problem, the main complication being that I can't do it from work and that's where I most often surf this forum.


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Message 1371041 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 19:20:26 UTC - in response to Message 1371007.  

Okidoki, listen up folks!

Yet again I have had a correct answer to a cafe game, but a decline for the win, probably the third in a month. This is happening more and more frequently. The problem as I see it is that it is fairly easy to find an odd picture or implement on the web, but the web address has the description in the link. The only way around this is to download the file to your hard drive, rename it, and then upload it to somewhere like Photobucket and link back to it there. This is time consuming and probably why people are declining to play.

Any thoughts as to the way forward?


My issue with the kitchen tool game, and sometimes with landscape, is finding a sufficiently baffling tool that's not going to be a copyright problem. This is why I've used my own pictures for the last couple of landscapes I've done, but that limits me to places I've been. (I do have a large stash of other stuff I could use if I had a slide scanner.) Uploading it to my own web site is only a secondary problem, the main complication being that I can't do it from work and that's where I most often surf this forum.


Seems to be a problem that could be cropped out of the picture, if ya know what I mean.
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Message 1371058 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 20:23:19 UTC

Seems to be a problem that could be cropped out of the picture, if ya know what I mean.

What an outrageous suggestion!!

"Oh that's only someones property, I'll just steal it and hide any evidence"

I am actually dumfounded that someone would make that suggestion on a public forum.
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Message 1371059 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 20:23:50 UTC - in response to Message 1371041.  

Okidoki, listen up folks!

Yet again I have had a correct answer to a cafe game, but a decline for the win, probably the third in a month. This is happening more and more frequently. The problem as I see it is that it is fairly easy to find an odd picture or implement on the web, but the web address has the description in the link. The only way around this is to download the file to your hard drive, rename it, and then upload it to somewhere like Photobucket and link back to it there. This is time consuming and probably why people are declining to play.

Any thoughts as to the way forward?


My issue with the kitchen tool game, and sometimes with landscape, is finding a sufficiently baffling tool that's not going to be a copyright problem. This is why I've used my own pictures for the last couple of landscapes I've done, but that limits me to places I've been. (I do have a large stash of other stuff I could use if I had a slide scanner.) Uploading it to my own web site is only a secondary problem, the main complication being that I can't do it from work and that's where I most often surf this forum.


Seems to be a problem that could be cropped out of the picture, if ya know what I mean.

If you're suggesting cropping a copyright notice off, I consider that unethical to say the least. The copyright is still held by the owner even if there is nothing to say so.


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Message 1371075 - Posted: 23 May 2013, 21:34:52 UTC - in response to Message 1371059.  

Okidoki, listen up folks!

Yet again I have had a correct answer to a cafe game, but a decline for the win, probably the third in a month. This is happening more and more frequently. The problem as I see it is that it is fairly easy to find an odd picture or implement on the web, but the web address has the description in the link. The only way around this is to download the file to your hard drive, rename it, and then upload it to somewhere like Photobucket and link back to it there. This is time consuming and probably why people are declining to play.

Any thoughts as to the way forward?


My issue with the kitchen tool game, and sometimes with landscape, is finding a sufficiently baffling tool that's not going to be a copyright problem. This is why I've used my own pictures for the last couple of landscapes I've done, but that limits me to places I've been. (I do have a large stash of other stuff I could use if I had a slide scanner.) Uploading it to my own web site is only a secondary problem, the main complication being that I can't do it from work and that's where I most often surf this forum.


Seems to be a problem that could be cropped out of the picture, if ya know what I mean.

If you're suggesting cropping a copyright notice off, I consider that unethical to say the least. The copyright is still held by the owner even if there is nothing to say so.


Of course, I didn't say anything about Me doing that of course.
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