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[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 92199

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Arya" <dequardo at w...> wrote:

Arya:
> Hello!!! You could have asked as many questions as you liked just 
like I did!!  
> She was not JUST chatting with kids.  There was a post (# 91994 by 
> Entropymail) that gave everyone one of us the link to where we 
could submit 
> all the questions we could dream up starting at 7pm CST.  I don't 
know about 
> you but I sure as hell spent a good two hours thinking up questions 
that were 
> unique, had a chance at being chosen and might help give us clues.  
I 
> probably submitted over 50 questions under more than one name (in 
case 
> they only let one question per name--which was NOT the case--grrr!) 



Geoff:
I missed the information about submitting times and, as I am always 
out every day between 10.00 and 11.00am UK time, I wasn't around to 
get involved directly.

Mark you, if everybody played your game of submitting multiple 
questions under different names, no wonder 16000 were put forward. I 
have just waded through my transcript printout and worked out the 
following bits of info (assuming I didn't miss any names):

There were 119 questions answered. 92 were from one person, 7 from 
people who got two in, 9 from people who managed three and one person 
managed four. Even allowing for folk using more than one nickname, 
still a slight unbalance....


Arya:
> So....don't complain about the questions when you could have done 
> just as much as I did to try to saturate the question pool with 
good non-
> moronic (did you know they ride brooms backwards?) questions!!  

Geoff:
I would personally have considered that a bit unfair as a lot of 
people wouldn't have got even one question in....  

And even that wouldn't have guaranteed a jackpot; hypothetically, if 
everybody had put 50 questions in, there would have been 320 people 
and even they wouldn't have managed one each.