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Ladder Contest
Ladder Contest
OK, I have some cigars that I really don't want. Rather
than throw them away, I'll try to buy y'all's love and
affection with them. These are Don Tomas SE Presidente's.
They're huge. They take up a phenominal amount of humidor
volume. And while I liked smaller Don Tomas, these guys
are just plain boring. I was hoping they would be a
good "Sunday Paper" smoke (which has to last through the
the crossword, sudoku and jumble, in addition to the
comics and the "news".) They're just too mild for me.
They start out flavorless and build to a mild flavor,
but that flavor doesn't hold my interest. Worse, I got
some sort of twofer, so I bought 50 of the damn things.
I've either got to build a raft with them or give them
away.
So: THE PRIZE for this contest is however many of these
sticks (7.5 or 8 x about 55 or 60?) I can cram into
whatever box I have. (At least 5 sticks, maybe 10.)
PLUS: One bonus decent stick (maybe a RP or Gurkha
or Graycliff) just to make the postage worth it.
A "word ladder" is a puzzle where the
solver tries to change one word into another by changing
one letter at a time. Each new word formed must be a
plain, English non-proper, non-abbreviated word. (I get to
judge.) Words like "zerk" and "cere" are allowed.
But "hemo-" (a prefix), "Theodore" (a proper name),
"est'd" (an abbreviation) and "Gemuetlichkeit" (not
English) are not.
E.g. If the challenge were to change MIKE into WADE,
one might submit: MIKE MAKE MADE WADE. And we'd count
this as having solved the puzzle in _three_ steps.
(That's the "ladder" part.) Part of the challenge is to
complete the puzzle in the fewest steps.
THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
Second, (as a tie-breaker) Change HERFING to SMOKING in
the fewest steps.
Please send entries to the above e-mail address. Contest
closes on the Ides of April. (Which is, I think, the 13th.)
New rules added and old rules massaged as needed to account
for whatever loopholes Misc. discovers.
Really, in this case y'all gotta follow directions. If you
post your entry here, others will steal your ideas, and perhaps
improve on them.
So all you ladder day saints, get to solving and help me
free up some humi space.
B.(Extra bonus: Change "GLADYZ" into "AHUMAN", and get
an extra, non-boring stick.)
--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
OK, I have some cigars that I really don't want. Rather
than throw them away, I'll try to buy y'all's love and
affection with them. These are Don Tomas SE Presidente's.
They're huge. They take up a phenominal amount of humidor
volume. And while I liked smaller Don Tomas, these guys
are just plain boring. I was hoping they would be a
good "Sunday Paper" smoke (which has to last through the
the crossword, sudoku and jumble, in addition to the
comics and the "news".) They're just too mild for me.
They start out flavorless and build to a mild flavor,
but that flavor doesn't hold my interest. Worse, I got
some sort of twofer, so I bought 50 of the damn things.
I've either got to build a raft with them or give them
away.
So: THE PRIZE for this contest is however many of these
sticks (7.5 or 8 x about 55 or 60?) I can cram into
whatever box I have. (At least 5 sticks, maybe 10.)
PLUS: One bonus decent stick (maybe a RP or Gurkha
or Graycliff) just to make the postage worth it.
A "word ladder" is a puzzle where the
solver tries to change one word into another by changing
one letter at a time. Each new word formed must be a
plain, English non-proper, non-abbreviated word. (I get to
judge.) Words like "zerk" and "cere" are allowed.
But "hemo-" (a prefix), "Theodore" (a proper name),
"est'd" (an abbreviation) and "Gemuetlichkeit" (not
English) are not.
E.g. If the challenge were to change MIKE into WADE,
one might submit: MIKE MAKE MADE WADE. And we'd count
this as having solved the puzzle in _three_ steps.
(That's the "ladder" part.) Part of the challenge is to
complete the puzzle in the fewest steps.
THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
Second, (as a tie-breaker) Change HERFING to SMOKING in
the fewest steps.
Please send entries to the above e-mail address. Contest
closes on the Ides of April. (Which is, I think, the 13th.)
New rules added and old rules massaged as needed to account
for whatever loopholes Misc. discovers.
Really, in this case y'all gotta follow directions. If you
post your entry here, others will steal your ideas, and perhaps
improve on them.
So all you ladder day saints, get to solving and help me
free up some humi space.
B.(Extra bonus: Change "GLADYZ" into "AHUMAN", and get
an extra, non-boring stick.)
--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
Re: Ladder Contest
On Mar 27, 9:58 am, Bart Goddard <goddar...@netscape . net > wrote:
> OK, I have some cigars that I really don't want. Rather
> than throw them away, I'll try to buy y'all's love and
> affection with them. These are Don Tomas SE Presidente's.
> They're huge. They take up a phenominal amount of humidor
> volume. And while I liked smaller Don Tomas, these guys
> are just plain boring. I was hoping they would be a
> good "Sunday Paper" smoke (which has to last through the
> the crossword, sudoku and jumble, in addition to the
> comics and the "news".) They're just too mild for me.
> They start out flavorless and build to a mild flavor,
> but that flavor doesn't hold my interest. Worse, I got
> some sort of twofer, so I bought 50 of the damn things.
> I've either got to build a raft with them or give them
> away.
>
> So: THE PRIZE for this contest is however many of these
> sticks (7.5 or 8 x about 55 or 60?) I can cram into
> whatever box I have. (At least 5 sticks, maybe 10.)
> PLUS: One bonus decent stick (maybe a RP or Gurkha
> or Graycliff) just to make the postage worth it.
>
> A "word ladder" is a puzzle where the
> solver tries to change one word into another by changing
> one letter at a time. Each new word formed must be a
> plain, English non-proper, non-abbreviated word. (I get to
> judge.) Words like "zerk" and "cere" are allowed.
> But "hemo-" (a prefix), "Theodore" (a proper name),
> "est'd" (an abbreviation) and "Gemuetlichkeit" (not
> English) are not.
>
> E.g. If the challenge were to change MIKE into WADE,
> one might submit: MIKE MAKE MADE WADE. And we'd count
> this as having solved the puzzle in three steps.
> (That's the "ladder" part.) Part of the challenge is to
> complete the puzzle in the fewest steps.
>
> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
> Second, (as a tie-breaker) Change HERFING to SMOKING in
> the fewest steps.
>
> Please send entries to the above e-mail address. Contest
> closes on the Ides of April. (Which is, I think, the 13th.)
> New rules added and old rules massaged as needed to account
> for whatever loopholes Misc. discovers.
> Really, in this case y'all gotta follow directions. If you
> post your entry here, others will steal your ideas, and perhaps
> improve on them.
>
> So all you ladder day saints, get to solving and help me
> free up some humi space.
>
> B.(Extra bonus: Change "GLADYZ" into "AHUMAN", and get
> an extra, non-boring stick.)
>
> --
> Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
I know I promised to back off for a while but I just couldn't let this
pass. Wade must have had a brutal psychological effect on you people.
When anyone comes in here with an opinion contrary to the regular
pansies they must be Wade....ROTFLMFAO
On Mar 27, 9:58 am, Bart Goddard <goddar...@netscape . net > wrote:
> OK, I have some cigars that I really don't want. Rather
> than throw them away, I'll try to buy y'all's love and
> affection with them. These are Don Tomas SE Presidente's.
> They're huge. They take up a phenominal amount of humidor
> volume. And while I liked smaller Don Tomas, these guys
> are just plain boring. I was hoping they would be a
> good "Sunday Paper" smoke (which has to last through the
> the crossword, sudoku and jumble, in addition to the
> comics and the "news".) They're just too mild for me.
> They start out flavorless and build to a mild flavor,
> but that flavor doesn't hold my interest. Worse, I got
> some sort of twofer, so I bought 50 of the damn things.
> I've either got to build a raft with them or give them
> away.
>
> So: THE PRIZE for this contest is however many of these
> sticks (7.5 or 8 x about 55 or 60?) I can cram into
> whatever box I have. (At least 5 sticks, maybe 10.)
> PLUS: One bonus decent stick (maybe a RP or Gurkha
> or Graycliff) just to make the postage worth it.
>
> A "word ladder" is a puzzle where the
> solver tries to change one word into another by changing
> one letter at a time. Each new word formed must be a
> plain, English non-proper, non-abbreviated word. (I get to
> judge.) Words like "zerk" and "cere" are allowed.
> But "hemo-" (a prefix), "Theodore" (a proper name),
> "est'd" (an abbreviation) and "Gemuetlichkeit" (not
> English) are not.
>
> E.g. If the challenge were to change MIKE into WADE,
> one might submit: MIKE MAKE MADE WADE. And we'd count
> this as having solved the puzzle in three steps.
> (That's the "ladder" part.) Part of the challenge is to
> complete the puzzle in the fewest steps.
>
> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
> Second, (as a tie-breaker) Change HERFING to SMOKING in
> the fewest steps.
>
> Please send entries to the above e-mail address. Contest
> closes on the Ides of April. (Which is, I think, the 13th.)
> New rules added and old rules massaged as needed to account
> for whatever loopholes Misc. discovers.
> Really, in this case y'all gotta follow directions. If you
> post your entry here, others will steal your ideas, and perhaps
> improve on them.
>
> So all you ladder day saints, get to solving and help me
> free up some humi space.
>
> B.(Extra bonus: Change "GLADYZ" into "AHUMAN", and get
> an extra, non-boring stick.)
>
> --
> Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
I know I promised to back off for a while but I just couldn't let this
pass. Wade must have had a brutal psychological effect on you people.
When anyone comes in here with an opinion contrary to the regular
pansies they must be Wade....ROTFLMFAO
Re: Ladder Contest
"Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
:-P
"Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
:-P
Re: Ladder Contest
Alex W. wrote:
> "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
> news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
>
>
>> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
>
> To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
>
> :-P
He WALKS on I-45?
bernie
--
"Official ASC Shaman"
Alex W. wrote:
> "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
> news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
>
>
>> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
>
> To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
>
> :-P
He WALKS on I-45?
bernie
--
"Official ASC Shaman"
Re: Ladder Contest
In article <654do6F2e8e02U1@mid.individual . net >,
"btorvik2" <btorvik2@aol . com > wrote:
> Alex W. wrote:
> > "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
> > news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
> >> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
> > To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
> He WALKS on I-45?
> bernie
It's almost certaily faster than driving...
Misc "or is that I-405...?"
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In article <654do6F2e8e02U1@mid.individual . net >,
"btorvik2" <btorvik2@aol . com > wrote:
> Alex W. wrote:
> > "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
> > news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
> >> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
> > To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
> He WALKS on I-45?
> bernie
It's almost certaily faster than driving...
Misc "or is that I-405...?"
--
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I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which sends
unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.
Re: Ladder Contest
"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked . com > wrote in message
news:Misc-F46E74.07371128032008@news.sf.sbcglobal . net ...
> In article <654do6F2e8e02U1@mid.individual . net >,
> "btorvik2" <btorvik2@aol . com > wrote:
>
>> Alex W. wrote:
>> > "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
>> > news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
>> >> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
>
>> > To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
>
>> He WALKS on I-45?
>> bernie
>
> It's almost certaily faster than driving...
>
> Misc "or is that I-405...?"
>
An offramp on the 405 must look like a calving glacier.
"Miss Elaine Eos" <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked . com > wrote in message
news:Misc-F46E74.07371128032008@news.sf.sbcglobal . net ...
> In article <654do6F2e8e02U1@mid.individual . net >,
> "btorvik2" <btorvik2@aol . com > wrote:
>
>> Alex W. wrote:
>> > "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
>> > news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
>> >> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
>
>> > To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
>
>> He WALKS on I-45?
>> bernie
>
> It's almost certaily faster than driving...
>
> Misc "or is that I-405...?"
>
An offramp on the 405 must look like a calving glacier.
Re: Ladder Contest
"btorvik2" <btorvik2@aol . com > wrote in message
news:654do6F2e8e02U1@mid.individual . net ...
> Alex W. wrote:
>> "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
>> news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
>>
>>
>>> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
>>
>> To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
>>
>> :-P
>
> He WALKS on I-45?
>
And we thought farm tractors on the highway were a PITA!!
"btorvik2" <btorvik2@aol . com > wrote in message
news:654do6F2e8e02U1@mid.individual . net ...
> Alex W. wrote:
>> "Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote in message
>> news:Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91...
>>
>>
>>> THE CHALLENGE: Change HERF to BART in the fewest steps.
>>
>> To get BART to HERF, it takes one step: I-45.
>>
>> :-P
>
> He WALKS on I-45?
>
And we thought farm tractors on the highway were a PITA!!
Re: Ladder Contest
In article <Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91>,
Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
> Please send entries to the above e-mail address.
FYI, that wasn't the email adx I had for you, previously. I used the
above one.
--
Please take off your pants or I won't read your e-mail.
I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which sends
unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.
In article <Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91>,
Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
> Please send entries to the above e-mail address.
FYI, that wasn't the email adx I had for you, previously. I used the
above one.
--
Please take off your pants or I won't read your e-mail.
I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which sends
unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.
Re: Ladder Contest
Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked . com > wrote in news:Misc-
B7878D.20175527032008@news.sf.sbcglobal . net :
> In article <Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91>,
> Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
>> Please send entries to the above e-mail address.
>
> FYI, that wasn't the email adx I had for you, previously. I used the
> above one.
The one above is my spam can. If I'm expecting something,
I look in it. The other address is my "real" one and
the one you should use to get my attention.
B.
--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked . com > wrote in news:Misc-
B7878D.20175527032008@news.sf.sbcglobal . net :
> In article <Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91>,
> Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
>> Please send entries to the above e-mail address.
>
> FYI, that wasn't the email adx I had for you, previously. I used the
> above one.
The one above is my spam can. If I'm expecting something,
I look in it. The other address is my "real" one and
the one you should use to get my attention.
B.
--
Cheerfully resisting change since 1959.
Re: Ladder Contest
In article <Xns9A8DE6B638DCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.93>,
Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
> Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked . com > wrote in news:Misc-
> B7878D.20175527032008@news.sf.sbcglobal . net :
>
> > In article <Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91>,
> > Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
> >> Please send entries to the above e-mail address.
> >
> > FYI, that wasn't the email adx I had for you, previously. I used the
> > above one.
>
> The one above is my spam can. If I'm expecting something,
> I look in it. The other address is my "real" one and
> the one you should use to get my attention.
Gotcha. 2 sent -- one with entry & tie-breaker, one with extra-bonus.
--
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I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which sends
unsolicited commercial e-mail or that advertises in discussion newsgroups.
In article <Xns9A8DE6B638DCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.93>,
Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
> Miss Elaine Eos <Misc@your-pants.PlayNaked . com > wrote in news:Misc-
> B7878D.20175527032008@news.sf.sbcglobal . net :
>
> > In article <Xns9A6E5B4ED85BCgoddardbenetscapenet@64.209.0.91>,
> > Bart Goddard <goddardbe@netscape . net > wrote:
> >> Please send entries to the above e-mail address.
> >
> > FYI, that wasn't the email adx I had for you, previously. I used the
> > above one.
>
> The one above is my spam can. If I'm expecting something,
> I look in it. The other address is my "real" one and
> the one you should use to get my attention.
Gotcha. 2 sent -- one with entry & tie-breaker, one with extra-bonus.
--
Please take off your pants or I won't read your e-mail.
I will not, no matter how "good" the deal, patronise any business which sends
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