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Post by Jaguar on May 23, 2013 13:51:20 GMT -5
I'm not going with you Virgil, get your own slaves for gosh sakes. You can't have mine.
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Post by Spellbound454 on May 23, 2013 13:52:32 GMT -5
I can do it too
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on May 23, 2013 13:55:29 GMT -5
I'd be more interested in knowing how you got your mitts on a copy of the Ft Knox floorplan.
(Reminds me of the scene from "Oceans Eleven - and breaking into the casino vault)
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 23, 2013 13:57:00 GMT -5
@craftysarah and Spellbound454, you have to present your solutions as described in the problem.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2013 14:04:19 GMT -5
outside... F...A...C...F...D...F...outside...F (stuck)
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 23, 2013 14:13:16 GMT -5
Oh dang it. I forgot the blue dot on that one corner. OK. My bad. Hit 'Refresh' on your browser and the figures should show up properly with the dot in the corner.
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Post by Spellbound454 on May 23, 2013 15:39:01 GMT -5
I can do it but end up outside...does that count?
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Post by Spellbound454 on May 23, 2013 15:47:20 GMT -5
Broke it in the middle. C A F C D F OUTSIDE G OUTSIDE G B OUTSIDE B G C B A OUTSIDE A F OUTSIDE D OUTSIDE F D E OUTSIDE E G E C..
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 23, 2013 16:11:36 GMT -5
Broke it in the middle. C A F C D F OUTSIDE G OUTSIDE G B OUTSIDE B G C B A OUTSIDE A F OUTSIDE D OUTSIDE F D E OUTSIDE E G E C.. That curve is indeed valid; the only problem with it is that it doesn't get you "stuck". It passes through all the walls in the building. Remember from the problem definition that you can only be "stuck" if you can't go anywhere even though you haven't passed through all the walls in the building.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 28, 2013 21:52:40 GMT -5
Problem 74 - All Roads Lead to Booze ( Special Competition Brainteaser ) The ChallengeWe all know that conversations in EE invariably end up on the topic of booze, but sometimes the progression is more natural than others. It takes a modicum of skill to direct a conversation away from a relevant topic and onto booze, which is what this special competition brainteaser is all about. Below are five on-topic statements from five different threads. The challenge in each case is to come up with a segue as natural as possible to direct the conversation away from the current topic and onto the topic of booze (drinking, and alcohol in general). By "natural", points will be awarded for the following: - brevity (5 points) - the shorter, the better
- compatibility with the existing topic (15 points) - the more closely tied to the original topic, the better
- effectiveness (15 points) - how definitively does the topic change to booze?
- creativity (15 points) - how original and creative is your segue?
- casualness (25 points) - how smooth and organic does the transition seem? Is it obvious and jarring, or nuanced and subtle?
You can provide segues for all of the statements or just for some of them. A winner will be declared for each statement. An ExampleConsider the statement: "We always got our son to the hockey arena a half hour early just because it could take him a while to get his gear on."
And the three possible segues: - We did the same with our son for that reason. DH learned to put our beer out on the seats ahead of us in the stands, and they'd be ice cold by the time DS actually started to play the game.
- We had the same problem, but so did a lot of the other parents. Most days we were able to duck out to the lounge and then be back before the kids were even on the ice.
- All I can remember about my son's hockey days are sitting in the middle of a bunch of screaming people thinking, 'Damn I'm cold and I need a drink.'
A and C get the highest marks for compatibility with the existing topic, since B is more generic. Likewise, A and C get more points for effectiveness since they directly mention drinking while B only vaguely implies it. A ranks higher than B and C for creativity, since it exploits the 'cold beer' angle, which is unique to the problem. A and B rank higher than C for casualness, since C is very direct in introducing drinking while B and C make it seem almost accidental. Finally, C ranks highest for brevity, since it's 30% shorter than A and B. The Statements- "My dog had a toy like that, called a 'Kong'. The thing was darn near indestructible."
- "I don't know how you could stand the wait for tickets. I saw people lining up at 6:00 AM."
- "You have to be really careful with those printers. I had a coworker get soaked in ink when one of the cartridges cracked."
- "I've never heard a horse whinny in RL either but supposedly both my parents have."
- "Make absolutely sure you read the lease before you sign it. Go through it page by page, line by line."
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 28, 2013 22:06:59 GMT -5
WTF happened to make Sarah leave? We keep losing good people!! Virgil, what did you do?!
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Post by Sharon on May 28, 2013 22:48:59 GMT -5
I just noticed on another thread that Sarah and left and was trying to figure out why?
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Post by Sharon on May 28, 2013 22:51:25 GMT -5
The only way to get the ink out was with copious amounts of alcohol. However; she drank so much of the alcohol that the clothes remained stained.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on May 28, 2013 23:11:18 GMT -5
Not bad. Not I. I believe it had something to do with the word 'illegals' as a shortening of 'illegal aliens'. There was some decision made; the outcome evidently wasn't the one that Sarah wanted; she did the only reasonable thing she could do: instantly delete her account and eradicate her complete 28-month-long message history, never to be heard from again by her fans and foes alike. It seems reasonable to assume there were other grievances and 'illegals' was just the last straw, but I have no idea what they were. Hopefully nothing to do with me, but I don't know. I think she was a great contributor and would be delighted to see her reconsider and rejoin the fray.
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Post by Spellbound454 on May 29, 2013 17:49:43 GMT -5
We tried to soften it with alcohol but only ended up turning the dog into a whino........ but then...a bit like this bottle I'm holding, she's always seems empty from the neck up.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Aug 5, 2013 7:41:37 GMT -5
Problem 75 - AcrobatinymsWhile the challenge problem 74 remains open (with props to Sharon and Spellbound454 for their contributions), we present a more traditional brainteaser. Consider the following 15 commonly-used acronyms from various domains in finance, technology, and government: AMEX CC COBOL DJIA FLOPS ESL ASCII FEDEX VHS GIF FBI HELOC GPA BBB SVGAEach of these acronyms has a definition that makes it part of an open chain. Every link in the chain shares exactly one word in common with the link before it and one word in common with the link after it (although articles such as 'and', 'of', 'per', etc. don't count). For example, the acronyms NASA DEA ISS FDA IPCCcan be interpreted and chained together in the following way: IPCC : International Panel on Climate Change ISS : International Space Station NASA : National Aeronautics and Space Administration FDA : Food and Drug Administration DEA : Drug Enforcement Agencywith the common words between links shown using colour. The ChallengeFigure out definitions for the 15 acronyms and a way to link them together into a single open chain. Note that the list of acronyms is not sorted in any particular order to begin with. The first few members to accomplish this will receive mad props from Virgil.
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Post by Opti on Aug 5, 2013 8:30:59 GMT -5
Bummer about CraftySarah. I didn't realize she deleted her account. -sad-
Virgil, I can't do colored or coloured fonts. Not sure why, but I've lost all the customizations on PB about a week ago. Usually takes me two attempts to log into PB as well, but I'll blame Cloudfare and the PB server for that. (Gotten the nice red X with the PB server several times yesterday FWIW.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 8:41:27 GMT -5
I don't know how to do colors, but here's what I got: CC - Credit Card HELOC - Home Equity Line of Credit VHS - Video Home System SVGA - Super Video Graphic Array GIF - Graphic Interchange Format ASCII - American Standard code for Information Interchange AMEX - American Express FE - Federal Express FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation BBB - Better Business Bureau COBOL - Common Business Oriented Language ESL - English as a Second Language FLOPS - Floating Points Operations per Second GPA - Grade Point Average DJIA - Dow Jones Industrial Average
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Aug 5, 2013 8:49:57 GMT -5
@beerwench is absolutely right. I've hidden her answers in a special spoiler block since they're so close to the problem statement.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Aug 5, 2013 8:53:18 GMT -5
It sounds like a scripts issue, Optimist. Your Internet might be filtering whatever server Proboards is hosting their scripts on. They eventually got around to fixing the problem last time, so we'll give it a while. In the meantime I guess you'll have to type in the BBCode tags manually. You don't have to colour-code your answers. Like Beer did, you can just bold the words, or even put them in brackets, etc. Just something to emphasize them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 8:54:02 GMT -5
That OK by me! So I've been right twice in a week....are you hitting on me, Virgil??!?
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Aug 5, 2013 9:03:33 GMT -5
That OK by me! So I've been right twice in a week....are you hitting on me, Virgil??!? Well... trying to raise your spirits a bit, I guess. After you sent me that PM about how you were smitten by "dolphin guy", I felt kinda sorry for you, so...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 9:04:20 GMT -5
The heart wants what the heart wants!
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Aug 5, 2013 9:20:11 GMT -5
She was a woman, stuck in a rigid, mundane life.
He was a man, stuck in a freakish bipedal dolphin costume.
Both had given up on ever finding happiness until...
...they met each other.
((springy pop ballad starts))
This arbor day, Universal Studio invites you into a world where being loved doesn't mean being normal, and where getting washed up... is all part of the plan.
Starring Beerwench McBarstule
Justin Timberlake as "Flipper"
and Introducing Virgil Sentinel as the Cranky Brainteaser Guy who Hates Snow Leopards
"FLIPPING BEER"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 9:22:43 GMT -5
snickeur "FLIPPING BEER"
<< insert blowhole joke here >>
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Post by wyouser on Aug 5, 2013 10:37:06 GMT -5
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Aug 5, 2013 11:53:58 GMT -5
You've got it all wrong, wyo. It's about buying the beer, sprucing it up, and reselling it at a quick profit.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 12:02:43 GMT -5
Oh, you can "flip" me any time you'd like!
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Aug 5, 2013 13:16:50 GMT -5
Oh, you can "flip" me any time you'd like! Whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2013 13:18:44 GMT -5
OMG! Can that smiley please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please be added to the list?
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