contest results
May. 18th, 2007 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffloThe winners of yesterday's postcard week contest are, with 2 correct answers each:
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shmizla
sprig5
J, son ofvjsmom
Ya'll were way off base on the Jersey thing. These lovely postcards, btw, are still up for auction on eBay for a day or two more, I think. If I remember right, the seller was asking what I'd say were rather high opening bids.
Answers: (1) c; (2) a; (3) d; (4) b. Or, illustrated:
BONNEVILLE CONVALESCENT & NURSING CENTER
BEAUTY/BARBER SHOP
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
JACK'S HOUSE OF BEAUTY
EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY
DE WEESE HAIR DESIGN/BEAUTY SHOP
LA PALMA, CALIFORNIA
VAN HUSEN HAIR STYLISTS
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
shmizlasprig5J, son of
vjsmomYa'll were way off base on the Jersey thing. These lovely postcards, btw, are still up for auction on eBay for a day or two more, I think. If I remember right, the seller was asking what I'd say were rather high opening bids.
Answers: (1) c; (2) a; (3) d; (4) b. Or, illustrated:
BONNEVILLE CONVALESCENT & NURSING CENTER
BEAUTY/BARBER SHOP
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
JACK'S HOUSE OF BEAUTY
EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY
DE WEESE HAIR DESIGN/BEAUTY SHOP
LA PALMA, CALIFORNIA
VAN HUSEN HAIR STYLISTS
OTTAWA, ONTARIO
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Date: May. 18th, 2007 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 18th, 2007 06:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 18th, 2007 06:19 pm (UTC)Ah, but fundamentally, I was guessing the whole way through, and I could come up with rationalizations after the fact for any set of choices.
Some day, though, while I don't need to own it, I want to sniff that root beer smellin' pencil.
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Date: May. 18th, 2007 06:20 pm (UTC)and you were right about the red-and-white Canadian floor!
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Date: May. 18th, 2007 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: May. 18th, 2007 06:36 pm (UTC)I have pencils--mechanical pencils, souvenier pencils, pencils whose erasers have been worn out, pencils whose dessicated, worthless erasers have never been used. I don't need another pencil to roll onto the floor behind a desk, forever forgotten. And the thought of that fate for the 9th wonder of the world (there are already more 8th wonders of the world than there are fifth Beatles), the legendary root-beer-smellin' pencil, saddens my heart. No. I just need one sniff.
If I were to bring home the root-beer-smellin' pencil, as if it could be owned, as if it weren't just another part of a world that we only borrow for our short lives, and pass to future generations as we ourselves pass into dust, into the pencil sharpener shavings of history, it must be earned, on the quizzing field, in fair battle with the good knights of the friends list of fflo. Anything else would be hollow, a sham, a shell.
A shameeful sham of a shell, shall we say?
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Date: May. 18th, 2007 06:42 pm (UTC)somehow your waxing here reminds me of my post on the onion chopping of the dead (which i believe may be just about my favorite time stringing together words in the recent past)
which day this weekend shall i come by the village to uncap the tube the pencil lives in so's you can partake of a snort?
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