We owe some people some books ! Our jury has reach verdicts in last week ’s giveaways . Here ’s who won , what they won , and why :
Prize : Problem discover ( And You ’re Probably Not Part of the Solution ) , by Scott AdamsChallenge : Name the four league room in the new ( completely fancied ) Mental Floss , LLC headquartersWinner : PaulWinning Entry:1 . Good Question , 2 . Do n’t bed , 3 . Not trusted , 4 . Somewhere(Which should making answering the question , " Which league room is that meeting in?“ a lot of fun.)*Prize : Trotsky : A Biography , by Robert ServiceChallenge : Give us the name of a strangely titled life or memoir
succeeder : LindaWinning entree : Crazy Aunt Purl ’s Drunk , Divorced , and hide in Cat Hair : The True - Life Misadventures of a 30 - Something Who determine to Knit After He Split , by Laurie Perry*Prize : Mint Condition , by Dave JamiesonChallenge : severalize us about a time you went overboard to complete a collectionWinner : NikiWinning Entry : When I was in college , I was try out to collect a full lot of standard candle holders from the Party Lite Candle Company to beautify my support elbow room . The standard candle set was pretty , but not really a collector ’s item . I just wanted the matching stage set . There were tea leaf candle set , Jar Candle holders , and similar item . Then , they occur out with a candela warmer " “ the haul : you had to host a party to be eligible to buy it . So , of course , I hosted the party , during mid full term . Then , the Party Lite consultant read the fine photographic print : my party had n’t made quite enough money " “ and the sale was already closed , so I could n’t just add to it !
In social club to get my friends to come to another party and corrupt more stuff before their first orders even come in , I promised to make everyone sushi . This involve me learning to make sushi and spending $ 200 on stuff to make sushi . The second party made enough money for me to spend $ 45 on an overpriced candle heater .
Within a couple of calendar month of receive my treasure posession , I by chance broke it . After all of that trouble ! I meet the advisor to see about replacing it , but I would have had to throw another political party . So I sold the rest of the set or else ! Hahaha.*Prizes : TBDChallenge : What ’s something you ’ve picked up re - watch a preferred movie that you do n’t think most people caught?Winners : gmsc , TeacherPatti + nowheremen22Winning entree : InIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom , the name of the Chinese club is " Club Obi Wan " ( gmsc ) ; " It take me about a thousand position of The Breakfast Club , but I finally noticed that " pupil ( or Man or something ) of the Year" ( from years retiring ) was Carl the janitor . The picture is in the trophy guinea pig that they show in the rootage of the film , during the voice over ; ( TeacherPatti ) ; " While watching Airplane ! for the umteenth prison term , my married woman spotted something that neither of us had ever noticed . In the panorama where Captain Oveur get ’s the emergency call about the sick daughter , they trash past the mag stand . My wife say , " What did that say?“ I rewind and see that on the stand it has a label that tell " Wacking Material" ( nowheremen22 ) . * * * We ’ll post today ’s challenge shortly . Congratulations to all the winners — expect an electronic mail short . And thanks to everyone who bet along .
