> On Jan 9, 11:56 am, Bill Martin hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>>>> *fires up Master device*  Okay... setting grab mode to copy, now let'

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>>>> see, what can I miss from my collection... *grabs the VHS of the Star
>>>> Wars Special*  ... yeah, this'll do.

>>

>>> Yep, the good ol' Star Wars Christmas Special.  Whomsoever had the
>>> idea to bring that to television should be subject to endless "Stop
>>> the Chicken" reruns.

>>
>> Quit being so kind to them.  The only good thing to come out of the
>> Star Wars Special (wasn't Christmas, 'twas Life Day, since the Christ
>> child hadn't been born yet, thus the Messianic movement from the Jews
>> couldn't have evolved into Christianity just yet) was Boba Fett.

>
> I know. That's why they get subjected to the Universal Hanna-Barbera
> Form of Torture (endless "Stop the Chicken" reruns).
>

>>>>> Rosetta:  "A whitewater rafting trip.  But what if we fall out?"

>>

>>>> Then you try to back-float with your feet pointing downstream to help
>>>> protect against rocks, both those visible and below the surface.

>>

>>> But she doesn't KNOW that.

>>

>>> (Of course, neither did I...)

>>
>> If you ever go whitewater rafting, they'll tell you that during the
>> half-hour or so prep that you'll go through...

>
> We hadn't gotten that far -- we were still in San Francisco. :)
>

>>> Michael: "They told us this was a whitewater rafting trip.  Maybe the

>>>>> challenge is just surviving the sensory overload of this group!"

>>

>>>> Nah... but that does give me an idea, or at least, a start of one...

>>

>>> Ruh, roh...  I can just imagine where the 2009 New Year's Challenge
>>> might go -- or at least one of them.

>>

>>> "Survive being around all the other teams..."

>>
>> Only if some of my "omake teams" get thrown in...  Let's see, what
>> violent, psychopathic, and demonic forces could give some teams a new
>> meaning of the word fear...  Hmm...

>
> Yeep... So would that be the Easy Challenge next year, or the Hard
> one?

> ?????:  "You and your three teammates, on a routine New

>>>>> Year's Challenge, get caught by the greatest time window ever known.
>>>>> Hastened by the rapids, it'll transport you over a thousand feet
>>>>> below,
>>>>> to the Land of the Lost (lost, lost lost), to the Land of the Lost
>>>>> (lost, lost lost)."

>>

>>>> *sighs*  great, forgot the line about the raft, didn't I...

>>

>>> I pasted that quote right from the challenge itself.

>>
>> That's why I said didn't I, not didn't you...  oh well, I'll fix it in
>> the archive of challenges...

>
> I know. Just was saying...
>

>>>> Okay... little weak on the exit, but like the rules state, excellent
>>>> fic with questionable tactics surpass blasé fic with awesome tactics,

>

>>>> so you pass.

>>

>>> Yeah.  Meat and potatoes a little tough and watery respectively.  Bu

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>>> thanks for the pass.

>>
>> You're welcome.

>
> I couldn't find exactly what was put where to do what at which pylon
> or whatever to open a time portal, so I had to go with the "lucky
> break" approach and go from there.
>

>>> Any word on the Hard ruling yet?

>>
>> Nope, might be a while.  Any info I can find in the places I'm looking
>> now don't bode well, but I want to make a well-informed decision, not a
>> hasty rush.

>
> Had a gut feeling -- I mean, as one has said, without healers, it's
> basically "a wing and a prayer".
>
> Has ANYONE fully passed this year's Hard Challenge yet?