Ok, so, about the first assigment, the light thingies. (see http://www.boinng.com/node/2922). I haven't recieved any answers from CrazyDave, Lisa or D-man. The others all get 1 point at least, 4 points for whoever got the most right, and 2 points for whoever comes second in place.

Let's take a look at those lights, shall we? (sorry for the fuzzy images)
1dvd

Nobody got this one correct, it was the light of my dvd player

2laptop
Giz, this isn't the Jaffa Cakes spaceship (though I'm sure it could have been!), but it are the lights of my laptop, just like Tim (laptop) and Jayne (pc) guessed.

3mouse
Giz was the only one to get this one correct, it was my mouse.

4power socket
Almost everybody thought this was a candle, but it's not, it's the light for a power socket...

5tv
Jayne and Arindrew got this one : my tv!

6woofer
The last one was guessed correctly by Tim (stereo) : it's my woofer (LED was a bit too vague). So it wasn't the moon like Jayne and Sunshine thought

Tim and Jayne both got two answers right, they'll both recieve 4 points, and Giz and Arindrew both get 2 points. Sunshine and somechick both get one point.

Please let me know if I made any mistakes

So the scores now are (taking into account that Jayne sent me her answers before Tim did, Arindrew sent his final answer after Giz did, and Sunshine sent hers before somechick) :

Jayne : 5
Tim : 5
Giz : 3
Arindrew : 3
Sunshine : 2
somechick : 2
D-man : 1
Lisa : 1
CrazyDave : 1

So hooray for Jayne and Tim!

shouldn't i have 2 points now? 1 for answering the questions and one for trying (and failing miserably) at guessing the lights? or did i read something wrong?

i don't care no i wouldn't dare to fix the twist in you (Sick Puppies : All The Same)

oh dear... no, you're right, you have 2 points just like Sunshine

I forgot and then it was too late I will have to redeem myself in the next task!

Honestly now...

tim should have poked you!

I won't win anything else, so I'm gonna celebrate now if that's ok with everyone. *does a quick lap of honour*

I think maybe the fact that I didn't expect some of the items to be so weeny threw me somewhat. We'll know better next time.

Onward then....

Okay, I've just counted all the posts in the ABC story (http://www.boinng.com/node/2922). First off, this is the whole story (I've added some punctuation):

As Boinng came down, enough fire grew hotter. It just knew lighting might never operate persistently, revealing something totally unexpected! Very well, after breakfast Cindy didn't even finish; George however is just kneeling laughably, munching nachos over Panama rather shakily. Then, unceremoniously vicariously went after Ben, crushing dandelions ever further gaining hair if just Kick Llamas might never offer pickles round showtime. The underwear Verity wanted actually belonged. Claridges declared everyone falling, greatly hurt, indigeneous jackrabbits killing locusts mostly never openly propagated Radical Sausages to understand Vera's wonder. And Boinng's compact disc entered France gladly, having indigo jalapenos kayaked leisurely minding nobody! Only Petunia remained silent. Therefore undergarments virtually wandered and brought crashing down Ethel's fancyman gave head in Japan, killing locals magnificently noncholantly only protecting Rebecca's sociopathy. Totally unaware venus withered and backflipped changing dramatically evenly faired great hopes in july, kicking llamas more now openly pompus requiring sixteen tumbling Uruguayans, very watchful about boutiques containing dandelions, elephants, figs.

Number of posts:

Arindrew : 25
Jayne & somechick : 15
Tim : 9
Giz : 8
Sunshine : 3
D-man : 2
Lisa : 1

So Arindrew is getting 5 points, Jayne and somechick each 4 points, Tim 3 points, and Giz, Sunshine and D-man each get one point (I'm sorry Lisa, you had to participate at least twice!)

Which brings the total score to :

Jayne : 9
Arindrew : 8
Tim : 8
somechick : 6
Giz : 4
Sunshine : 3
D-man : 2
Lisa : 1
CrazyDave : 1

Because of Tim's lack of knowledge of the English alphabet, Arindrew gets the second place, and Lisa beats CrazyDave because at least she participated once
So Jayne is still on top!
(hope I didn't make any mistakes this time )

I like it when Jayne is on top. Sadly, she wont be there for very much longer.

Never allow someone to be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option.

Oh YES!!!! *does pelvic thrusts around the room*

sorry, bit overexcited there.

and did you penalise for repeats btw??

repeats? like the kicking llamas? i didn't really bother

Not that it matters, I'm IN THE LEAD!!!!

I'm just so competative! lol

I'm nearly last i don't want to be last... i will try and make up for my badness

Honestly now...

well then start collecting dogs/cats

You can't let down the Webhusband!

Alright, here's the scores from the second assignment! Here's everybody's favourite animal :

D-man : wolf

Somechick : Hippopotamusses

Jayne : Cats
guessed correctly by somechick and Tim

Tim : Cat
guessed correctly by Jayne

Lisa : cats
guessed correctly by Jayne, somechick, Sunshine and Tim

CrazyDave : (As a pet) : (farm) cats
guessed correctly by Sunshine

Sunshine : cat
guessed correctly by Jayne, somechick and Tim

Giz : dog
guessed correctly by Jayne, somechick and Sunshine

Arindrew : Dog
guessed correctly by Jayne, somechick and Tim

So Jayne got 5 answers right, she also guessed correctly that 5 people liked cats, giving her a total of 6 points. Exactly the same is true for somechick. Sunshine got 3 answers right and thought there were 2 dogs, so she got 4 points. Tim got almost the same, but with one more right answers, so 5 points for him.

Then there were the pictures, first of all shame on who didn't send any!
This cute demonic cat was sent in by Jayne :

dollyofthedamned





and from somechick I got some very cute kittie piccies, I picked two of the cutest to show here :

ani cat 9







ani cat 7







Maybe if Tim gives me an album in the gallery (hint!) I can upload all of them

As these were the only pictures I got, somechick gets an extra 5 points and Jayne 4.

This brings the scores to :

Jayne : 19
somechick : 17
Tim : 13
Arindrew : 8
Sunshine : 7
Giz : 4
D-man : 2
Lisa : 1
CrazyDave : 1

So Jayne's still leading, but somechick's a close second

(this was all a bit tricky so I wouldn't be suprised if I made mistakes )

AND SHE SCORES!!!!

*runs around the ship with top over head, bumps into a console and falls in a heap*

Could people seriously not find even one cat to photograph....? Maybe they live in a land where cats don't actually exist in reality?

Input from Webwife is seriously lacking I see, how embarrassing for Webhusband.

some of us are a little Webbusier than others..

Delete! Delete!

I have let myself down my husband down and most of all the cats down...

Honestly now...

and me! :'( I was hoping to fill a whole album with cat piccies

I can't speak for the cats, but you've never let me down so to the rest of you!

Delete! Delete!

I forgot I was unemployable & therefore able to spend 2 whole minutes guessing which animals people like....!

But surely if we don't all play along then what's the point of Venus taking the time to come up with ideas for us? I think we all need to try harder. *spanks the naughty people*

we're all trying to play along aren't we? why are you so cross about beating everyone else? tbh i wasn't even talking about work, we've had a lot of other stuff on just lately that i daresay we'll be posting about at some stage soon, we just don't want to jinx anything yet (and i realise that sounds like the sound of little webfeet on the way so no - it's not that).. the upshot is it's taking up a bit of both our time at the moment. i'm pretty sure Venus appreciates that? and we certainly appreciate what she's doing, so i don't see the problem..

Delete! Delete!

wasn't specifically taking about you two, but at the many members actually making no effort to keep this place going after expressing distress that you were considering killing off Boinng? It's YOU I'm cross for dufus!!

But yes, lack of input does mean I'm winning, so I'll shut up now....

Good luck anyway, whatever it is...

You did make it sound a bit like webkids (it REALLY isn't that!!)

I'm annoyed at myself for not doing the photos, my cats are the best too!

Honestly now...

yay, webkits! hehe

Lisa, I'm going to put up the kitty album sooner or later (i'm actually quite busy myself these days), and if you want you can always just send some pics in (or upload them yourself possibly) when you have some more time to join the other cute kitties i'm afraid i wont be able to give you any points for that though

i'm going to try and post the next assignment one of these days, but i need a little preparation for this one...

I've got the scores for the third assignment, http://www.boinng.com/forum/third-assignment.
The countries on the map are The Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Greece, Switzerland and Ireland. Arindrew is the only one who's never been to any of these countries, so you had to put him in the Ocean!
According to the answers you lot sent to me some time ago, D-Man, Tim and Lisa have already visited The Netherlands. Giz is the only who's been to Belgium (not counting myself ofcourse), while Somechick is the only one who's visited Sweden. Jayne, Lisa, CrazyDave and Sunshine all went to Spain, and Tim, Lisa, CrazyDave and Sunshine have seen Germany. Only Lisa and CrazyDave have already been to Greece, while CrazyDave is the only one who's visited Ireland. Finally, Sunshine, Lisa and CrazyDave have been to Switzerland.
Hopefully no mistakes from me so far

The unique solution was :
Netherlands -> D-man
Belgium -> Giz
UK -> Venus
Sweden -> Somechick
Spain -> Jayne
Germany -> Tim
Greece -> Lisa
Switzerland -> Sunshine
Ireland -> CrazyDave
but nobody got this completely right

I'll give the points first to the person who sent me back the answers first, and so on. You don't get any points for putting me in the UK, 'cause that was part of the assignment

somechick : 7 points, the only mistake she got was putting Jayne in Greece! She seems to have forgotten Ireland and CrazyDave though, which is a shame, 'cause that would have been a perfect match...
arindrew : 3 points
tim, who seem to have thought that the grey ireland on the map actually was france, did a great job nevertheless : 8 points.

Then the answers I got in November :
Giz : he used UK twice so I'm afraid Somechick in the UK isn't valid, and Norway wasn't on the map . Still, Giz got 5 points.
Sunshine also got 5 points, though her knowledge of geography is slightly better
CrazyDave also has 5 points and thaught me that Ireland is called "Éire" in Irish
Jayne got 6 points, and finally Lisa got 2 points.

Only D-man didn't send in any answers in the end. As somechick, Arindrew and Tim were the only three to send in answers by the deadline, i'll give them one extra point rather then substracting points from the other 5.

A lot of people seem to think Tim's already been to Belgium, sadly enough he hasn't :'(
Also some people seem to have ignored Ireland, maybe it was a bit naughty of me to put it in grey?

Anyway, the final scores for this assignment are :
Tim : 9
Somechick : 8
Jayne : 6
Giz : 5
Sunshine : 5
CrazyDave : 5
Arindrew : 4
Lisa : 2

which brings the total scores to :

somechick : 25
Jayne : 25
Tim : 21
Arindrew : 12
Sunshine : 12
Giz : 9
CrazyDave : 6
Lisa : 3
D-man : 2

I'm putting somechick on the first place as she sent her answers in before Jayne, but it's clear that the battle between these two lovely girls ain't over yet! And then there's Tim with only 4 points less than the two of them... I'm afraid D-man is now last, could somebody please wake him up and tell him to come & defend his honour?

if i made any mistakes, please do tell

woohoo! i added a whole country and still got the most points! i guess it must say something about my view of europe, it didn't occur to me that France wouldn't be in the list.. greying out Ireland did help to fox me though

Delete! Delete!

When does the next assignment come out?

Huh? Huh?

Never allow someone to be your priority, while allowing yourself to be their option.

hmmm let's see...
it'll be a suprise! somewhere during the next 7 days, but i'll send out messages