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Okay, so my friend Mark wrote a book called "Things to Do in Denver When You're Undead" and it's doing pretty well. Good read, too! There's a website called the "To Be Read Pile" and they are holding a contest for the November Book of the Month. Mark's book has been nominated and it would do this old guy's heart good for him to win it. He gets nothing for it but the recognition and ability to put the blurb on another book later.

So if he wins, I'll throw everyone's name in a hat who posts here that they voted. The person I pick out will win a copy of the book. Hell, if you want I can get it signed!

Let's put Mark in front of the current leader - "Deceive Her With Desire".

I'm not kidding about that. "Deceive Her With Desire".

Please note that the ads on the top and in a few other places may be mildly NSFW. They don't show anything, but it may be hard to explain why you have an ad for an anthology of man-on-man erotica on your screen...

Done!

I voted. You weren't kidding about those ads...

Considering the common theme of a lot of these books, I'm surprised his is in number 2.

Voted.

Given the lead on the other, I doubt have high hopes, but I voted.

She's only up 12...

And since her book is the current one being reviewed, it's no wonder that it's leading.

Voted. We're within 11!

done
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BTW if that guy has a boy, he should name him Keith. That way he can be Keith Stone.

He and I are married. My name is Dave Nihsen Stone.

Let me explain. He and I bought something together in the early 1990's. We each put our names on the warranty. Now my credit reports think he and I are married. I've had jobs ask me why I have an "aka" on my file.

I voted.

Turbo Stone... kind of has a nice ring to it

Done and done. Only 5 down now.

Dave said:

He and I are married. My name is Dave Nihsen Stone.

Let me explain. He and I bought something together in the early 1990's. We each put our names on the warranty. Now my credit reports think he and I are married. I've had jobs ask me why I have an "aka" on my file.

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I always suspected.

Voted; come on, everyone, we're within 3 now!

We tied it. I posted it on facebook, y'all should too!

Posted on Facebook, too. Fingers crossed, people!

Woooo tie broken!

Not yet. I don't know when voting ends.

Dave... I said....



...Don't take this from me.

War. Over.

I smell shenanigans.. That books gotten 3 votes in the past hour.. THEY'RE MOUNTING A COMEBACK.

I voted twice so hah! (once on my phone)

Voted and now ahead by 9.

CrimsonSoul said:

I voted twice so hah! (once on my phone)

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Me too!

maybe some people are being spiteful and voting against?

I'll get my lab and my mentor to vote for this tomorrow (seven people); so here's hoping it kicks ass, Dave!

Voted. And based solely on the titles, he's got the least trashy sounding book there.

Up by 16!

Voted. Currently up by 16.

IN YO FACE, TRASHY BOOKS!

I'm truly amazed his book is being considered on that site. The demographics for them and Mark's audience I don't think intersect that much.

I think it's safe to reiterate this, now:

Now I've voted thrice (my wides phone)

I tossed my vote on the pile.

Ditto.

Ditto?

Ditto, you provincial putz?

I did it!

Voted.

I just looked at the other books reviewed on the web site.

Cant...stop...laughing. Holy crap! Look at the cover art on these books! Hahaha! Nakedella! What the hell?

I think somebody noticed what we were doing. "Deceive Her With Desire" now has 56 votes...

They may be at 56 but we are at 76. We are halforums. We do not forgive. We do not forget. We vote mindlessly on things when asked.

I just want to know when the voting ends.

One vote, coming up!

One of the upsides to this job, with regards to the 'Net, is that I occasionally find myself using different terminals.

Today, I use two different ones from the terminal I used yesterday.

Guess what that means for this book?

It means you voted against it?

TRAITOR!

True Neutral. A burden to be borne, surely.

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Soooo... We won!

HELLS YEAH!!! Let me figure out who gets a copy. You want it signed or unsigned? Signed would take longer.

Woot! if I win I want it signed!

Okay, I have a list of people who posted that they voted. I have assigned random numbers to them from 1-1000. Post your number guesses in here. You can not do more than 3 guesses per post and please don't just spam the thread with 1, 2, 3...

The first person whose number is chosen is the winner.

509
613
904

Nope.

169
254
763

Nope.

717
775
570

Nope. Wondering if 1-1000 was too wide a net for 13 people....

Yes. Yes it was.

13
113
313

Hahaha. Good plan Dave.

Tough noogies! The suspense! The glory of when we get a winner! The fact that I've already put a screenprint in the mod area!
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Nope to Frankie.
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Crap! Hold on! I missed a couple people!

333
666
999

1
1000
500

That was going to be my next guess Allen.

Okay, starting with the numbers all over again. With apologies to the 5 or 6 people I somehow missed.

This time the numbers go from 1-500. I did NOT pick the numbers myself. They were generated using the rand() function in Excel.

Guess away with new guesses. I sent Gusto a copy of the numbers for verification sake so nobody can accuse me of cheating.

Gusto, send me a copy of the numbers so I can't accuse you of cheating.

They could, however, accuse both of us of cheating.

You would never cheat! You're Canadian!!

Well, then I send the numbers to Dave so nobody can accuse me of cheating. It's perfect.

465
342
147

Now nobody wants to guess.
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Nope, Frankie.

132
275
1

Nope.

248
152
266

250
500
375

And if no else is guessing, I'm just gonna stop.

Nope.
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and nope.

265
127
362

Nope.

111
222
333

Lets guess 5 at a time.

Frankie. Nonono.

162
214
303
416
097

2
4
8
16
32

284
491
295
259
263

WINNER!!!
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Dirona with the number 4!!

Poor OC, if I had gone on my 13 kick again he'd have won.

.... The irony here is that I usually pick 13 first, as it's my lucky number. *headwheel*

Runners up are Quotemander, who was ONE OFF getting his number guessed, and Officer Charon, who had his number guessed BEFORE the numbers were reassigned but not after.

Espy and Dirona both had the best chances of winning though, for sure.

Well, that was fun. Almost.

Frankie Williamson said:

Espy and Dirona both had the best chances of winning though, for sure.

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Oh that capricious Excel RAND() function!!

I wasn't complaining, randomz iz randomz, just saying.

Damnit, I didn't know we were having a competition here

when dave gets an itch to generate random numbers he just can't wait.

Woo! Go team Magic Dice.

And signed please, that would be awesome.

Thanks Dave! (and your friend Mark too)

What on earth did I miss in here yesterday? Number picking? Come on guys, you know I LOVE number picking.

Awww fucking LAME. I was gone for two days and you give away prizes I could've actually won this time??

You have forsaken me