Overcoming Paranoia
Mark Wright AIA
mwaia at yahoo.com
Tue May 16 07:46:55 CDT 2000
Howdy
"Now everybody..."
Let's free associate, just ofr fun...
a. now everybody (n.e.) sing, following the bouncing ball.
b. n. e. reach between your own cold thighs...
c. n. e. reach between your neighbors' thighs (c'mon, you've two
hands)
d. n. e. sound off like you got a pair...
e. "Now" everybody's dead...
f. "Now" everybody, a screaming comes across the sky. (It's happened
before...:)
Think upon your last end.
Mark
--- Paul Johnson <pdjohnso at midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> I've been a long time lurker under different email addresses, but now
>
> there's something to bring me to the surface: The University of
> Chicago
> Scavenger Hunt! You might have read the article about it in last
> years NY
> times, but a quick explanation: The Scav hunt is an annual event
> where
> teams of undergrads compete to find and do all kinds of crazy
> things: highlights from last year include building a nuclear
> reactor, and
> a vending machine that dispenses only dorritos and condoms. Anyway,
> there
> year that are several GR related items, and I've overcome my paranoia
> that
> the other teams are listening in on this list to ask a few questions
> about
> interpreting some of them, etc. One question I've got enough of a
> grip on
> that I don't want to risk leaking the solution....but the cryptic
> item is
> the last one: simply "Now everybody -" We're interpreting this is
> wanting a bunch of people to break out singing the hymn that appears
> right
> before it. Any other interpretations? And also, this is worth
> "delta t"
> points: any idea what they mean by that?
> The other question I have I'm not so sure about. Part of the scav
> hunt is
> always a road trip, and one of the questions is what advice the
> rocket
> gives at a gas station in some random town along the way. However,
> they
> said "what advice does the Rocket (00000) give" so I'm wondering if
> there's
> some GR connection wanted for the answer, or if the judges just
> wanted it
> to look cohesive. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks a lot, and
> I
> hope that some day I'll actually be using this list literally.
>
> Paul Johnson
>
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