Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss

SWPKO #4

15 views
Skip to first unread message

swp

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 1:30:04 PM2/3/14
to
As promised, I started a new thread.

The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer, Calvin,
Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland Sommarskog.

***
#4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
***

swp, who has many non-date-related questions lined up starting with #5

Dan Blum

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 1:47:02 PM2/3/14
to
swp <Stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As promised, I started a new thread.

> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer, Calvin,
> Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland Sommarskog.

> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***

2014-08-27

--
_______________________________________________________________________
Dan Blum to...@panix.com
"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."

Peter Smyth

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 2:15:06 PM2/3/14
to
swp wrote:

> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to finish?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***

2014-07-13 (assuming you are referring to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil
and not one of the numerous other sports that have an event called
"World Cup").

Peter Smyth

Mark Brader

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 2:22:44 PM2/3/14
to
Stephen Perry:
> The contest is now open to... Mark Brader...

Yes, well, not for much longer.

> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?

2014-12-31.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable
m...@vex.net | from a feature." -- Rich Kulawiec (after Clarke)

calvin

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 4:33:16 PM2/3/14
to
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 04:30:04 +1000, swp <Stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As promised, I started a new thread.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer,
> Calvin,
> Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland Sommarskog.
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***


2014-07-28
Must be around then and that's mrs calvin's birthday, so what the hell.

--
cheers,
calvin

Erland Sommarskog

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 5:28:26 PM2/3/14
to
swp (Stephen...@gmail.com) writes:
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.

2014-07-13


--
Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se

Russ

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 6:27:55 PM2/3/14
to
2015-07-15


Russ S.

Dan Tilque

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 8:50:42 PM2/3/14
to
swp wrote:
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***

2014-07-25

--
Dan Tilque

Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"

Joshua Kreitzer

unread,
Feb 3, 2014, 9:42:41 PM2/3/14
to
swp <Stephen...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:d76eec51-b027-4ad6...@googlegroups.com:

> As promised, I started a new thread.
>
> The contest is now open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua
> Kreitzer, Calvin, Mark Brader, Peter Smyth, Russ, and Erland
> Sommarskog.
>
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***
>

2014-07-20

--
Joshua Kreitzer
grom...@hotmail.com

Pete

unread,
Feb 4, 2014, 7:21:09 PM2/4/14
to

swp

unread,
Feb 4, 2014, 7:33:52 PM2/4/14
to
On Monday, February 3, 2014 1:30:04 PM UTC-5, swp wrote:
> ***
> #4. What date is the 2014 World Cup scheduled to *finish*?
> Please use YYYY-MM-DD format when answering.
> ***

2014-06-12 OFFICIAL START DATE
2014-07-13 OFFICIAL END DATE
2014-07-13 Peter Smyth (well done)
2014-07-13 Erland Sommarskog (well done)
2014-07-15 Pete
2014-07-20 Joshua Kreitzer
2014-07-25 Dan Tilque
2014-07-28 Calvin
2014-08-27 Dan Blum
2014-12-31 Mark Brader
2015-07-15 Russ

Russ has apparently decided to throw himself on the grenade tossed by Mark Brader, thus saving him and allowing Mark to continue on.

Russ, you are the weakest link. Good bye!

swp, who thinks it was a typo but that's the way the cookie crumbles

Mark Brader

unread,
Feb 4, 2014, 8:41:01 PM2/4/14
to
Stephen Perry:
> 2014-12-31 Mark Brader
> 2015-07-15 Russ
>
> Russ has apparently decided to throw himself on the grenade tossed by
> Mark Brader, thus saving him and allowing Mark to continue on.

Yes, thanks Russ.

What happened was, I remembered some news about a sporting event
controversially being scheduled for the winter, and thought this
might be it. On further thought I realized that even if it was the
World Cup it would be a future one, but that came too late.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "I don't know about your brain,
m...@vex.net | but mine is really bossy." -- Laurie Anderson

My text in this article is in the public domain.

Russ

unread,
Feb 4, 2014, 8:58:44 PM2/4/14
to
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:41:01 -0600, m...@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:

>Stephen Perry:
>> 2014-12-31 Mark Brader
>> 2015-07-15 Russ
>>
>> Russ has apparently decided to throw himself on the grenade tossed by
>> Mark Brader, thus saving him and allowing Mark to continue on.
>
>Yes, thanks Russ.
>
>What happened was, I remembered some news about a sporting event
>controversially being scheduled for the winter, and thought this
>might be it. On further thought I realized that even if it was the
>World Cup it would be a future one, but that came too late.

Well, apparently, I typo'd the year, and didn't realize it until now!
Oh well!


Russ

Erland Sommarskog

unread,
Feb 5, 2014, 3:27:19 PM2/5/14
to
Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> What happened was, I remembered some news about a sporting event
> controversially being scheduled for the winter, and thought this
> might be it. On further thought I realized that even if it was the
> World Cup it would be a future one, but that came too late.

That's World Cup in 2022 which FIFA for very strange reasons has placed
in Qatar. The good thing is that the travel distances between the arenas
will be a lot shorter than in Russia, Brazil or the US. Or even Sweden
for that matter. The bad news is that it is very hot in Qatar in the
middle of summer, whence the idea of having it in winter time was floated.

My gut feeling is that FIFA will back out of this decision and put the
games in some more reasonable place, although they may have to oust
Blatter first. Since the games are kind of marked for Asia, the alternatives
might be Australia or China. (Actually, the federation that hasn't had the
game for the longest time, if we overlook Ocenaia, is Concacaf, but there
are really only two possible host countries, and in total Concacaf has
had the games three times.)
0 new messages