Comments on Tom's Rhetoric: Tom’s Challenge-- The Riddler 3 Results

Doug, I hadn't heard of her until I started readin...

2006-11-15T13:40:00.000-08:00

Doug, I hadn't heard of her until I started reading a biography of Franklin this Fall. But, putting Silence and cotton or Franklin and cotton or Franklin and Silence into google brings about the answer. Often in these challenges the race goes to the best googler not necessarily the one who already knows the answer.

Like I said, I get to be the writer not the participant, which puts me at a distinct advantage.

Oh, and I never would have come up with Silence Do...

2006-11-15T11:09:00.001-08:00

Oh, and I never would have come up with Silence Dogood. This is the first I've heard of her.

LOL! That is so O Ceallaigh.That was tough. The ...

2006-11-15T11:09:00.000-08:00

LOL! That is so O Ceallaigh.

That was tough. The same trick would work on me again, I'm pretty sure.

Touché!:)

2006-11-13T11:03:00.000-08:00

Touché!

:)

Thanks, Tom, now it's official.

2006-11-13T03:17:00.000-08:00

Thanks, Tom, now it's official.

Oh, I almost forgot: Goldennib, you're a genius!H...

2006-11-12T22:54:00.000-08:00

Oh, I almost forgot: Goldennib, you're a genius!

How was that?

Quilly, I have finally achieved my goal, not.

2006-11-12T15:31:00.000-08:00

Quilly, I have finally achieved my goal, not.

Nessa, I guess that makes you a brilliant smartass...

2006-11-12T14:55:00.000-08:00

Nessa, I guess that makes you a brilliant smartass ... and that makes you -- perfect!

Tom: I emailed you about how brilliant I am and I ...

2006-11-12T13:48:00.000-08:00

Tom: I emailed you about how brilliant I am and I am waiting for you to tell everyone. Do it now, please.

And you are not allowed to change brilliant to smart ass, like my teachers did, because I know it is not the same thing.

Tom, drop bt Minka's every Thursday and we can see...

2006-11-12T13:46:00.000-08:00

Tom, drop bt Minka's every Thursday and we can see how you do on the other end of this game.

QD, yeah the lead thing turned out to be diversion...

2006-11-12T13:32:00.000-08:00

QD, yeah the lead thing turned out to be diversionary. I think it's only fair that if I ask you how you arrived at your answers (information that will be used against you in the future) that I reveal my methods of trickery.

Logo, thanks for dropping by. Just remember that I found that the race doesn't always go to the person who already knows the answer but to the person who googleds the right key words... and has time to do that.

Bazza, no worries mate. I'm rather sporadic in how often I post or hit the blog roll. Catch as catch can.

Jackie, I'm glad you're getting some entertainment value out of it.

Dan, thanks for dropping by. Let me make this perfectly clear to everyone-- by being the author of the game, I get to appear smart. Another ruse. Now, if I were playing and someone else was putting out mysterious riddles...

Man, you guys are like really smart.Either that or...

2006-11-12T12:45:00.000-08:00

Man, you guys are like really smart.

Either that or I'm really stupid.

I'm wagering on the latter. ;)

Tom, the winners are pretty awesome - I'm impresse...

2006-11-12T12:26:00.000-08:00

Tom, the winners are pretty awesome - I'm impressed. And you're pretty awesome, too - that was tricky. Thanks for all this follow up on how you came up with the riddle - it's my favorite part of your puzzles/riddles.

Apologies Tom, haven't been by in a while so misse...

2006-11-12T12:16:00.000-08:00

Apologies Tom, haven't been by in a while so missed this one. see you next time.

I cruised by Friday, read the riddle and thought, ...

2006-11-11T22:40:00.000-08:00

I cruised by Friday, read the riddle and thought,
huh, interesting, I will have to get back around to this,
and then,
didn't.
I am going to claim I am very busy with important matters and far too preoccupied to waste my time on games (in reality, I was just clueless and didn't have much time to research).
It was very tricksy.
Congrats to the winners,
well done.

I got hung up on that lead thing because BF did wr...

2006-11-11T21:28:00.000-08:00

I got hung up on that lead thing because BF did write a paper on the hazards of over-exposure to lead. That's where I got the name James Vaughn. Cotton I googled after I got BF, and that's how I came up with Cotton Mather -- but I could find no way to link the three of them. And I got nowhere until I decided to drop the woprd "lead" and try "cotton" instead. You are getting too tricksy, Tom.