New Blog

Just in case anyone is still reading this, just to let you know that I have started a new blog at:

panda-assed.blogspot.com

No more T-shirts I'm afraid - just nonsense and a panda's ass.

Just Gimme The Prize!

A question that has been asked of me several times in the last few days is 'What did you win? What is the prize?'

Well, the Prize is kinda like The Prize in Highlander - effectively, I absorb the powers and energies of my vanquished foes, and thereby the powers and energies of their victims and so on. It's quite good really... It's like you can hear everyone in the world and control rocks and things.

Anti-T-Shirt Wars

How are you all surviving in this post-War world? We have been wondering what to do with ourselves.

One suggestion was that we embark on a new venture called 'Anti-T-Shirt Wars'. It's a kind o clothes competition - you might like it. What happens is that we have to wear something other than a T-Shirt each day until we run out. So shirts, sweatshirts, long-sleeved T-shirts, football tops are all fair game. And whoever can keep wearing different things the longest wins! Oh, and get this - we also get our colleagues to judge us on how good they think the clobber is and we keep a running total of points... How's about that then? Maybe we'll even write about our experiences for onlookers to read...

NO, I TELL YOU, NO! It's not going to happen.

Day 46 - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

‘Come back safely, Neville.’
‘Don’t worry Marjory, I’ll be back before you know it. One day this war will be over and we can be together.’
‘Damn this war…’
‘Yes, damn this war. Damn it all to Hell.’
‘War is Hell’

The secret that Pete, Nick and I have been carrying for the last few days is that today, Thursday 17th November 2005 would be the last day of T-Shirt Wars. We knew that the whole Quality Competition rested on today’s result. I was one point ahead of Nick. Neither of us had any Hexes or Jokers left. We had all worked out the permutations:

Case #1: Brian comes first today, scoring 3 points, giving him a 4 point lead that Nick cannot match, so Brian wins.
Case #2: Nick comes first, scoring 1.5 points; Brian scores nothing for coming behind Nick, so Nick wins with a 0.5 point lead.
Case #3: If Pete comes first, Brian second and Nick third, Brian gets no points but Nick only gets 0.5 points, not enough to catch up Brian.
Case #4: Pete first, Nick second, Brian third - Nick gets one point and Brian gets none, so Nick and Brian tie for first place, but Nick wins on black marks (Brian has one, Nick has none).

So with everything to play for, we all came out in strong threads this morning, me in my black Steve Vai tour T-shirt with a cool side-print, Nick in the ever-popular sky blue cityscape and Pete in his orange Eruption number. Lab 405 was judging and gave nothing away as they scrutinised our best efforts. They retired to deliberate – we had surreptitiously handed them ‘Hex’ style envelopes the day before containing the message ‘This is the last day of T-Shirt Wars’ – and reappeared with a result…

1st place – Brian
2nd place – Nick
3rd place – Pete

So I am victorious and have won the Double of Longevity and Quality! And that’s T-Shirt Wars over!

A big thank you to all the Judges and onlookers who have supported us in our ventures and of course, thank you to my fellow contestants for a thrilling contest. Fear not, it is not completely over – expect a week or so of ‘post-match’ analysis before we wrap things up completely. Bye bye!

Day 45 - Should've Gone To Hexsavers

As you may have noticed every time a Hex has been played we have chosen an “amusing” title for the day’s blog;

Day 29 - The Joy of Hex
Day 30 - No Hex Please, We're British
Day 32 - F. U. N. E. HEX?
Day 38 - Hex, Lies and Autoclave Tape

As you will have spotted today was a Hex day again and therefore I thought I would a suitable time to reflect on the possible Hex blog titles that didn’t quite make the cut;

Hex And The City
Hexy Beast
Do You Think Im Hexy
SupercalifragilisticHEXpialidocious!
Hex Discrimination
Great Hexpectations
Once Upon A Time In Hexico
Hextra Hextra Read All About It
Hexistenz
Hexy's Midnight Runners
Hexetera Hexetera Hexetera
Hex Me Baby One More Time

Any other additions gladly welcomed.

So what happened in the judging? Well I brought out my brown 4 square number with the woodland scene on it once again, Brian also had a strong player (poor pun intended) with a reel-to-reel tape machine on it, Pete had a tasteful o’neill number. And so the judges deliberated and pontificated as usual. Before delivering their verdict they were keen for the rules regarding Jokers and Hexes to be explained to them - highly suspicious. Finally they passed on the results - Nick 1^st, Brian 2^nd,Pete 3^rd. But we had the Hexican stand-off pedicted - Brian and I had both played our Hexes on each other and so we limped off the battlefield with zero points each, leaving Pete to clean up with his half point today.

So with every day potentially the last there is still only one point in it between Nick and Brian, each days play is crucially and we could be crowning a winner at any minute.

Post haste

The Day 45 blog will be posted tomorrow a.m. Sorry for the delay but it will be worth it - we had an exciting day! The points graph is up to date, however.

See ya!