December 02, 2004
The Wombat File Quizvitational 2004 Explained, Sort Of

Are you still waiting on the details for the WombatFile Quizvitational? Of course you are. I can only plead sleep deprivation and the strange persistence of the physical world and its appalling demands as an excuse for the lack of information that has been forthcoming about this event.

But to get started, some infrequently asked questions.

Q. What is the WombatFile Quizvitational?

A. A multi-week trivia tourney which will ingloriously cap off the career of the Wombat File Friday Quiz.

Q. The Quiz is retiring? Finally? For true?

A. Yes. We've taken this just about as far as it can go, that is to say, nowhere at all. And we're very, very pleased with what's been accomplished. Super-happy. To add further weeks would be to gild the lily, to pile Pelion on poor suffering Ossa, and to whack madly at a depression in the earth rumored to be an ancient equine grave.

Q. Will you shut up and just tell us, Mr. Whimsical?

A. Well, why don't you do it, Mr. Big Shot?

Q. Fine. I will. Anyway, the Quizvitational is open to anyone who has at least one Quiz victory to their name. You should email the quizmaster at bt AT wombatLeaveThisPartOutfile dot com with your name and the answer to a quiz that you won. Instructions for the first round of play will appear on MONDAY, December 6, and the first round will be scored on Friday, December 10. The second round will take place the following week, with scoring on December 17th. A final round will immediately commence, with the fateful conclusion taking place on Wednesday, December 23rd.

During play, contestants may use the comments field for discussion, kibitzing, and taunting, but final answers in each round will be emailed to the quizmaster.

How's that?

A. You didn't mention the prizes. There will be real prizes mailed to the top three scorers. They will be terrible, regrettable prizes, but they will be real.

Q. So what about tomorrow? Is there one more regular-old quiz tomorrow?

A. Sure thing. Whatever makes you happy.

Posted by BT at December 02, 2004 05:58 PM
Comments

PAINT the lily, damn it!

Because if you don't get a gratuitous correction, it isn't really a comment thread.

Posted by: Scraps on December 3, 2004 05:57 PM

Wait, is it really "paint the lily"?

Posted by: BT on December 14, 2004 04:48 PM

Ah...so it is.

http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/gild.asp

I suppose the habitual compression of the quotation into a single expression stripped the paint off the poor bugger.

And I never read KJ anyway.

Posted by: BT on December 14, 2004 04:53 PM