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SWPKO #6b (replaces #6)
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swp
Feb 6, 2014, 10:50:35 AM2/6/14
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Congratulations on making it to Round 6. Again.
The contest is now (still) open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer,
Calvin, Mark Brader, and Erland Sommarskog.
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#6b. How long is the Nile River?
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as usual, you may answer in either miles or kilometers but I will convert all
answers to miles for the final results posting.
swp
The contest is now (still) open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer,
Calvin, Mark Brader, and Erland Sommarskog.
***
#6b. How long is the Nile River?
***
as usual, you may answer in either miles or kilometers but I will convert all
answers to miles for the final results posting.
swp
Dan Blum
Feb 6, 2014, 10:57:46 AM2/6/14
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swp <Stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations on making it to Round 6. Again.
> The contest is now (still) open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer,
> Calvin, Mark Brader, and Erland Sommarskog.
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
2200 miles
> Congratulations on making it to Round 6. Again.
> The contest is now (still) open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer,
> Calvin, Mark Brader, and Erland Sommarskog.
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
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"I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up."
Dan Tilque
Feb 6, 2014, 11:43:06 AM2/6/14
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Dan Tilque
Helix, if everything goes according to plan, the plan has been
compromised. -- Sam Starfall in "Freefall"
Erland Sommarskog
Feb 6, 2014, 3:17:42 PM2/6/14
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swp (Stephen...@gmail.com) writes:
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
>
> as usual, you may answer in either miles or kilometers but I will
> convert all answers to miles for the final results posting.
6700 km
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
>
> as usual, you may answer in either miles or kilometers but I will
> convert all answers to miles for the final results posting.
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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esq...@sommarskog.se
Mark Brader
Feb 6, 2014, 4:22:28 PM2/6/14
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Stephen Perry:
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "...good to see you back in the 'From' column."
m...@vex.net | --Maria Conlon
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
4,096 miles
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Mark Brader, Toronto | "...good to see you back in the 'From' column."
m...@vex.net | --Maria Conlon
Pete
Feb 6, 2014, 7:04:17 PM2/6/14
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Joshua Kreitzer
Feb 6, 2014, 8:34:49 PM2/6/14
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calvin
Feb 7, 2014, 4:53:10 AM2/7/14
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On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 01:50:35 +1000, swp <Stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congratulations on making it to Round 6. Again.
>
> The contest is now (still) open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua
> Kreitzer,
> Calvin, Mark Brader, and Erland Sommarskog.
>
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
The Blue Nile, or... oh forget it.
> Congratulations on making it to Round 6. Again.
>
> The contest is now (still) open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua
> Kreitzer,
> Calvin, Mark Brader, and Erland Sommarskog.
>
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
2,222 km
--
cheers,
calvin
Dan Tilque
Feb 7, 2014, 9:58:34 AM2/7/14
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calvin wrote:
>> ***
>> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
>> ***
>
> The Blue Nile, or... oh forget it.
>
> 2,222 km
>
Thank you for falling on your ..ah .. kilometers for me...
>> ***
>> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
>> ***
>
> The Blue Nile, or... oh forget it.
>
> 2,222 km
>
swp
Feb 7, 2014, 12:26:02 PM2/7/14
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On Thursday, February 6, 2014 10:50:35 AM UTC-5, swp wrote:
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
Finally, thankfully, round 6 is over.
> ***
> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
> ***
1381 miles - Calvin (aka 2222 km)
1982 miles - Dan Tilque
2000 miles - Joshua Kreitzer
2200 miles - Dan Blum
4096 miles - Mark Brader
4100 miles - Pete
4132 miles - CORRECT ANSWER (aka 6650 km)
4163 miles - Erland Sommarskog (aka 6700 km)
Calvin is eliminated.
The contest is now (still) open to Pete, Dan Blum, Dan Tilque, Joshua Kreitzer, Mark Brader, and Erland Sommarskog.
swp
Erland Sommarskog
Feb 7, 2014, 2:03:30 PM2/7/14
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And look! There's a red car in the fountain.
calvin
Feb 8, 2014, 5:21:11 PM2/8/14
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On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:58:34 +1000, Dan Tilque <dti...@frontier.com>
wrote:
> calvin wrote:
>>> ***
>>> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
>>> ***
>> The Blue Nile, or... oh forget it.
>> 2,222 km
>>
>
> Thank you for falling on your ..ah .. kilometers for me...
Don't mention it.
I didn't fully understand Q6A, and Mark's "clarification" only confused me
further. So of course my answer, which wasn't much more than a wild guess,
was almost spot on.
I therefore had a foreboding of misfortune when that got junked and we
came to 6B. Not that I have anyone to blame but myself. I well know that
Sudan is roughly the same size as Western Australia for instance, so that
section of the Nile must be 2,000 km or so on its own.
D'oh!, as they say in classics. And you'd better win the whole damned
thing now!
--
cheers,
calvin
wrote:
> calvin wrote:
>>> ***
>>> #6b. How long is the Nile River?
>>> ***
>> The Blue Nile, or... oh forget it.
>> 2,222 km
>>
>
> Thank you for falling on your ..ah .. kilometers for me...
I didn't fully understand Q6A, and Mark's "clarification" only confused me
further. So of course my answer, which wasn't much more than a wild guess,
was almost spot on.
I therefore had a foreboding of misfortune when that got junked and we
came to 6B. Not that I have anyone to blame but myself. I well know that
Sudan is roughly the same size as Western Australia for instance, so that
section of the Nile must be 2,000 km or so on its own.
D'oh!, as they say in classics. And you'd better win the whole damned
thing now!
--
cheers,
calvin
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