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Survivor: Boards.ie - Round 6

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    getting interesting now full stop


    are you insinuating im boring?!?! ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 471 ✭✭tovalee


    are you insinuating im boring?!?! ;)
    i dont think he was insinuating anything ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 471 ✭✭tovalee


    only kidding funky..only kidding :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    yeah i know, i just think this lil guy rules.....:eek:


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    this is starting too cool off we need some scandle


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    agreed. This is the PM I have sent to tba and Mr. Nice Guy:
    Hello!

    Due to you two sneaking through this challenge faultlessly I am putting additional constraints onto your posting.

    You must not use urls. This goes for embedded urls or pictures - whatever. You must not type a url from your sacred alphabetty keyboard. This rule will start on Sunday at 8pm Irish time.

    Also to ensure you post something I am making you both write an essay. This essay must be exactly 793 words long. This essay must be posted onto the current Survivor thread. In fact you must not write one essay but many. Every day you will write one essay each consisting of exactly 793 words.

    Your first essay which must be posted on the Survivor thread before 8pm Irish time on Sunday is:
    "Why I am the best contestant on Boards.ie Survivor."

    Please note the specific time that this has to be posted - you must post this essay (any time before 8pm on Sunday, you may post on Saturday if you wish) at a time that contains the number 2. If there is no "2" in the posting time - you lose.

    * Your second essay which will consist of 793 words will be posted on Monday also before 8pm Irish time. The topic of this essay is "In this essay I will attempt to insult as many boards.ie Moderators as possible.". Please note that the posting time of this essay must contain the number "3".

    * Your third essay which will consist of 793 words will be posted on Tuesday before 8pm. The topic of this essay is "Boards.ie - the Future.". Note that the post time of your essay must contain a number "4".

    * Your fourth essay which will consist of 793 words will be posted on Wednesday before 8pm. The essay title is "This is what I did today". Note that the post time of your essay must contain a number "5".

    * Your fifth essay which will consist of 793 words will be posted on Thursday before 8pm and will have a posting time that contains a number "6". The essay title is "The History of Purple".

    * Your sixth essay which will consist of 793 words will be posted on Friday before 8pm and will have a posting time that contains a number "7". The essay title is "The inside of a ping pong ball".

    * Your seventh essay, and by god fair play to you if you get this far!, which will consist of 793 words will be posted on Saturday before 8pm. The time will contain the number "8". The essay is "The inside of a football."

    You must not duplicate essays.
    You must keep the essay consistant with the topic/title of the essay.
    You must not copy each others essays.
    You must adhere to the sacred word rule.
    You must also drink strong coffee while writing the essays.

    Good luck, you'll need it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭Matthewthebig


    YOu are the most evil man alive! I like it!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,880 ✭✭✭Raphael


    This I cannot wait to see!

    *sits in breathless anticipation*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    <picture of Gordon stirring the pot>


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭Stalfos


    Ah brilliant, i like your style


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭Steveire


    You are the most evil mastermind going!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    meee feel depressed full stop


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,766 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    HAHAHAHA
    seems tba and MNG really drew the short straws on this one.
    :D


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    A quick question re: the times they have to post at. Say they post the first essay at 12:44 GMT +1, which has a 2, if other people in different time zones see that they may think the contestant posted at 14:44 which has no 2 in it. What is to stop this happening? Are all contestants and Gordon in the same time zone? Or a least using the same time zone for the sake of this competition?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    *Me wipes forehead in relief*

    I'm glad MNG found me to be the sacred word user that I am.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,522 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    A quick question re: the times they have to post at. Say they post the first essay at 12:44 GMT +1, which has a 2, if other people in different time zones see that they may think the contestant posted at 14:44 which has no 2 in it. What is to stop this happening? Are all contestants and Gordon in the same time zone? Or a least using the same time zone for the sake of this competition?
    All essays must be posted on Irish time - make sure your timezone is set correctly on your user control panel. I believe it to be 3:30 Irish time right now?

    A word of warning concerning timing of posts. I mentioned that "You must not duplicate essays". This means that you may only post your essay once.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    *Me wonders*

    do the titles count towards sacred words and word count?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 471 ✭✭tovalee


    my brain hurts just reading the rules. :eek: you fellas have fun with those essays... :D (wondering if someones going to take a dive to avoid horrid essays)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭Steveire


    Id say we wont see a lot of posts by those 2 while they try to write all those essays. I'm really looking forward to them though. especially the second and fifth ones. And i'll be checking wikipedia for plagarism!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,888 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    i can see neither succeeding in this one tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    re essays - presume it is okay for the contestants to use the sacred words that are in the title of the essay?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    If tba is by far lá best contestant on boards dot ie survivor

    On a meandering lake of consciousness men of all ages speak in riddled words of flowing rhyme to ascertain a true reason for my existence on this plain of twisted electrons that whittle; that ebb at strands of neurons in my brain

    All around them is a choir of angels singing praises while lauding their fruitful work their tireless effort

    Flowing robes of white was their gown of choice; it allows for free movement yet is machine washable; soon their will be a decision on my fate yet this is not where it began

    This entity called Internet has consumed my soul whole it has stolen my life in an effort to send it to what some refer to as darkness; yet what tba calls survivor

    In my early days there was more than this; swimming witlessly with a flow that could not be understood; tba watched with anticipation; then OFDM caused a light to shine from within alas those who rose flowed to it seared; blinded; ultimately destroyed by its beauty

    One by one contestants fell to their way; it was beautiful; it was good yet sadness drenched my soul as mine eyes did weep for those that were lost

    Yet lost is too strong a word it conjures thoughts of banishment; of death

    Still their voices tickle my ear; yet exist as restlessness cast to a world of anti function of conceited dreams of red; grey; transparent

    Above them towering like a god of truth was OFDM laughing hysterically from his tarnished ivory tower topped with his blazing beacon of power; those still in favour feasted at its base; sustained by discarded words that fell from those towering peaks

    For a while it was good; an order was created; yet still tba watched; this time with disenchantment; this world passes too quickly for order to take hold; anarchy is not a solution either; some say a state between is just; an entity such as myself should not choose; tba watched; waited; yet never intervened that time was yet to come

    A law has to be broken that is its purpose; much like a stone must sink in an ocean; it was inevitable as all things are; OFDM was powerful; yet another always has more; wants more; is willing to use it

    So it was that a greater power ecksor saw OFDM only to smote him good; banishment is indeed harsh; death would be better; more peaceful then simply looking without a voice; treated like an animal in a cage; that is a life of OFDM; tba watched; understanding shivered through his bones; something stirred a memory; interest peaked welcome to your own personal internet

    Yet OFDM was not destroyed; at least not his purpose; at his moment of testing he placed a septor of power to Gordon; tba watched; saw that anti change had been given; grieved for it; tba stepped up

    Like none before tba entered upon a fray; using a language asked of him he became one with those he had watched; from within he experienced instead of seeing; yet his passing did not go unobserved

    tba was made to attain his rank within this fray; to survive

    A language is an assembly of understanding remove its elements to remove its language; yet tbas language was never there; visual was always his way; his mantra; for your longest moment of time this was a cover; tba was not watching then; he was acting; when he entered a final act was up to him

    Others tried yet failed; tba was new; indifferent to rules; others were similar; that was his advantage; take note for future conquests; all were killed by his hand

    Where back did it start; Now here upon this plain he will be judged; surrounded by those who decided such things with vehement terror

    Whispers surround callus air with waves of destruction; that is what kills

    It spills from their simulated mouth; what say ye of actions too hanus to mention upon this scared ground

    Nothing will be said from tbas mouth; for his voice still holds still from their language; tba once again watches

    It booms from their simulated mouth; WHAT SAY YE TRAITOR OF ACTIONS TOO HANUS TO MENTION UPON THIS MOST SCARED GROUND; said scared ground shakes with anticipation of an answer

    Nothing can be said my world ceases to anticipate tba; as does his sense of it blackness envelopes; or so it seems; for deep within boards he escapes not with OFDM yet with my person

    My purpose complete my avatar returned this world continues to leap to dance between its joys to its deaths; my tba continues to watch it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    793 words question mark meee thinks not full stop


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    you should probably concentrate on your own essay MNG


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,036 ✭✭✭mad m


    Mary holy,what a challenge.Will be interesting alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,643 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Nice Guy


    meee winner full stop meee print tbas essay finding only 757 words exclamation mark


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    then type normal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Interesting essays. Will anyone read them though.
    I got 793 on word count.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    according to the word count on my computer it is 793 words exactly including the title.


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