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sujo1
Veteran Cruncher Usa Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 869 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well to be fair we did give you a 2 day head start on the christmas challenge.  Christmas Race 2017 11 SeriousCrunchers 9,829,428 Still can't figure out all these different challenges. One should correlate to the others but,  Kraland - Challenge IV 1 CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES 9,004 ----------------------------------------  |
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sujo1, I have also wondered why the stats are so. We count the results returned, but why should you not be at a pole postion? Could it be long validation times? WUs that take a long time to crunch?
Oh, with the Christmas 2017 Race it looks wonderful with SeriousCrunchers and top40.nl running so neatly side by side. I think tanner2 sits with his abacus and finetunes your numbers so that we’ll end equal. Actually, we are as equal as anything can possibly be just now, are we not? Good Afternoon Base Campers! Don’t you look forward to eating captain adriverhoef’s Christmas dinner which you prepare yourselves – and for which you maybe bring your share of the ingredients according to some careful planning with the items distributed fairly among you. Do you have any explanation for how a Dutch traditional Christmas dinner came to involve these little frying pans, Adri? I for one find it rather contemporary. The Dutch Christmas meal is so much different from ours – and from the American, where everything has to be just so, and nothing but, by no means contemporary, but old fashioned. Being the cook in the Netherlands on Christmas Eve is pure relaxation, you say (and I know it isn’t anyway) whereas the Americans box with giant turkeys, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, peas and carrots, gravy and what have you. At all times several bowls and platters are airborne. In Denmark the only advantage for the cook is that he/she doesn’t have to use any imagination at all as to what to serve. Everything is a given, and there is no room for improvisations, which are also not invited. Will you serve your hyggelige raclette dinner tomorrow or the day after? Or do you consider it served already with your very appetizing presentation, Adri? In which case, I shall serve my low cuisine share cropper dinner tomorrow and the traditional Danish eating orgy on the 24th. Do you think we could talk one of the EVGA-boys into preparing the American Christmas dinner - inclusive of a dessert if that is the normal? Punchy@BC has shown a certain interest in food. I really look forward to that surprising and slow dinner with – of course, we are Grand Hotel - perfectly matured meat and real butter; we are both dairyland, right, Adri? – and all the time in the world to make conversation. Dutch Hagel is easy; it’s hagl in Danish, but I must say that for two words so similarly spelled and with the same meaning, the difference of their pronunciation is unbelievable – the word in Danish is BTW another prime example of a ’stressed pronunciation’. How do you manage that by now, captain? ’tegen’ also is pronounced in a way so that I for one mentally exclaim: ’What?” and cross my eyes. The real problem comes when you are bicycling and get hagel tegen you … much worse than your tegen regen, I think. Took a look at your woorstenbroodjes. They look good, mmm .... May I suggest a defrost, of course, and then a couple of minutes on any of those sides you can find on a round thing on the toaster. I think you’ll like the crisp crust – or must it be soft? Frontdeskcomputer You sound confident that we shall end our two races making una bella figura – and it certainly looks that way, and we’ll need our paraply now as Mr Modugno sings about the rain. Elephant leg Last night I filed a report of undesired side effects from Vagifem with the Side Effects Branch of the Danish Medicines Agency. Not exactly an easy task, and I have done my share of forms in my life. But it could be done, as long as you limit your complaints to less than 150 characters per item. My bandage is uncomfortable to say the least, but the worst from wearing it is the itch which it’s hard to do anything about through all that rubber foam at what have you. But when I succeed to do some sort of a scratch, I get a very intense sensation which can only be compared to – well, to other very intense sensations …. This morning I stumbled over these guys - whauw! Spent some time finding out they performed on Washington Square ... wish I was there |
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TLD, may I ask you to form a new Base Camp team by the name of Base Camp, please?
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Sure LM.
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TLD
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Post Count: 810 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thank you so very much, Ted
- the original and if not the first, one of the very first Base Campers  Such a neat description you made: A place to park while not treking  |
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2171 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Mevrouw Kleine Zeemeermin! You must be as curious as I am, do you know what I've found in the attic? A mysterious glass orb, the size of a football! When you gaze at it, some numbers and figures seem to materialize inside the sphere. Here! I'll hold it up in the light. Now let me try to read it carefully …
----------------------------------------Christmas Race 2017 as of 23-12-2017: 11 top40.nl 10,630,708… and I'm not quite sure, but it seems to me that it says here … Kraland - Challenge IV as of 23-12-2017: 1 CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES 11,781Do you perhaps have any idea what this means, mevrouw Kleine Zeemeermin? [Edit 1 times, last edit by adriverhoef at Dec 23, 2017 1:59:32 AM] |
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You found my crystal ball!!!
 It means that we are doing una bella figura - una figura piu bella che I cannot do this in a hurry a more beautiful figure than we could ever had expected thanks to OlddanIT yodap ipkh Punchy@BC polarbeardj sometimes little brother tanner2, tsk, tsk, tsk ultimaThule who soon wil return to capt. Joe in Minnesota whatever front- or behinddeskcomputers you can persuade to run, captain adriverhoef and now straight in from Texas: PecosRiverM - I have missed you. Welcome. Have some coffee. Black, strong and hot - is this the sequence? So glad to see you   Yes, I know what you and I see in this crystal ball, captain: Such a wonderful team - and did I say this before? You have been the best temporary captain any Base Camp crew has ever had, Adri  |
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Good Evening Base Campers!Then on the 25th when the Christmas 2017 Race ends, we could have the American version. I’m not really sure how it goes. As far as I remember, it’s pretty much a repeat of the Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and many, many trimmings. And for dessert? Was there any? Please, American Base Campers, enlighten me There are a lot of different traditions in different areas and families, but most folks that I know have similar dinners for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The biggest difference I can think of is that we often have ham for Christmas (and "Christmas ham" is a thing, but I've never heard "Thanksgiving ham") while turkey is very traditional for Thanksgiving. For dessert, similar again, we usually have pumpkin and berry pies. Luckily my wife is a pie expert! The dogs: we have a beagle, two chihuahuas, and a toy fox terrier mix. They are very happy with adriverhoef's worstenbroodjes. This word seems to have the same root as the German wursts - one favorite I remember when dining outdoors in Darmstadt years ago was the weisswurst. And captain adriverhoef, though my native language is English, I do know a lot of Spanish, enough German to get by in simple conversations, and a little French, so maybe I could learn Dutch after all.  |
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@ Punchy@BC: It looks like ham on the 25th. Will you or shall I?
Perhaps we could talk Mevrouw Punchy@BC into double the number of pies she planned to prepare this year? @ captain adriverhoef: Yes! Now I see SeriousCrunchers in trouble in that crystal ball. Instead of schadenfreude, however, shouldn't we try to fake some largesse  and pretend we're glad that little brother stays with them and stop the tsk, tsk, tsk - now we have Texas*2 on our payroll BTW it seems as if your Dutch class has a very good reputation - a new student knocks on your door. Maybe you get to keep Punchy@BC after all as you wanted.Just spellbind him and tie him down with all the exceptions to the rules  |
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