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There's one week left in the 2nd One-Off Common Answers Contest. So far, I've received slates from Matthew Russotto Edgar V. Camacho David Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Brader Chuck Grant Joshua Kreitzer Dave Gates * Kevin Stone * David Brain * - should have been confirmed by e-mail Anyway, anyone else who wants to enter (or anyone who *did* enter, but doesn't see his name on this list), send your slate to this address: ajo+CommonAnswers2 at andrew . cmu . edu. -Arthur Original announcement post excerpted below. On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Arthur J. O'Dwyer wrote: > > THE SECOND "ONE-OFF" COMMON ANSWERS CONTEST! > > The intent here is to give plausible, humorous, or otherwise > related answers to the 10 questions below. E.g., please don't > answer "Zebra" to every question. > > Write down your answers in the following format (but with > real answers in place of these placeholders): > > 1 firstanswer > 2 secondanswer > 3 thirdanswer > [...et cetera...] > 10 tenthanswer > > and send them to the following address: > > ajo+CommonAnswers2 (at) andrew (dot) cmu (dot) edu > > (The obvious substitutions apply, but the ajo+CommonAnswers2 > is real. And case-sensitive. And yes, the plus sign *is* > required -- we had some confusion about that last time, I > think.) > If you would like confirmation that I have received your > entry slate, please add a line at the end of your slate > including the words "PLEASE CONFIRM". (We had trouble with > confirmations last time too.) I will also confirm the receipt > of all invalid slates, not that I expect that to be a problem > this time. > I will tally the answers after two weeks; i.e., on Tuesday, > December 9; and post the results here in rec.puzzles. With > more verbosity if they're interesting. > > So, without further ado, the questions. Remember, > common answers win points! And points are good! > > > 1. Name something which is NOT an American holiday. > 2. Name an animal which is NOT a turkey. > 3. Name something NOT a web comic. > 4. Name someone who is NOT one of the Baldwin brothers. > 5. Name something which you would NOT expect to find on your lawn > in late autumn. > 6. Name a something which is NOT a vehicle requiring a license. > 7. Name a movie in which Robert De Niro does NOT play a criminal. > 8. Name something NOT a body of water with a "colorful" name. > 9. Name something which does NOT have two hands. > 10. Name a building which is NOT the tallest one in its country.
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