David C ([info]ashamel) wrote,
2010-12-22 18:57:00
It doesn't appear to have been announced officially anywhere, but I recently won a cryptic clue competition in honour of David Astle's Puzzled. Today the prize turned up, a $500 reference library. Groovy.



Now, if only I had somewhere to put it all. (Our 1980s Encyclopedia Britannica is scattered on the floor behind me, after a small furniture malfunction.)

Edit: the results are now up. And we managed to get the books neatly arranged as well.

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[info]chrisbarnes

December 22 2010, 08:30:51 UTC 1 year ago

Excellent prize. Well done, fellow DA fan.

[info]ashamel

December 22 2010, 08:56:56 UTC 1 year ago

I thank you.

My first observation is that the rhyming dictionary has a particularly diverse collection of quotes in it.

[info]kaaronwarren

December 22 2010, 10:56:34 UTC 1 year ago

That is so fabulous! I'm livid with jealousy. Although I have nowhere to keep the books either.

[info]ashamel

December 22 2010, 13:12:07 UTC 1 year ago

My second observation is that an almanac is apparently incomplete without a list of types of cheese.

[info]kaaronwarren

December 22 2010, 23:36:11 UTC 1 year ago

That's a sadly under-researched almanac. Although cheese types do change by the day.

[info]ashamel

December 22 2010, 23:37:03 UTC 1 year ago

To be clear, cheese types are covered. Completeness has been achieved.

[info]kaaronwarren

December 22 2010, 23:41:29 UTC 1 year ago

All is right then. I am even more livid with jealousy and I didn't think there was a shade more livid than livid.

[info]ashamel

December 22 2010, 23:53:53 UTC 1 year ago

Livid well is the best revenge.

[info]murasaki_1966

December 22 2010, 21:54:05 UTC 1 year ago

Luchy Bastard.

What happened with the Britannica? Did the shelves break?

[info]ashamel

December 22 2010, 21:57:47 UTC 1 year ago

Yup. This wouldn't happen to a wiki.

[info]murasaki_1966

December 22 2010, 22:51:01 UTC 1 year ago

You need stronger shelves. That's why library shelving is made of metal. Use hardwood next time. Or put them on the bottom shelf.

[info]ashamel

December 22 2010, 22:54:13 UTC 1 year ago

They fell onto the other half of the Britannica, which was indeed on the bottom shelf.

[info]murasaki_1966

December 23 2010, 00:27:01 UTC 1 year ago

The cats must have been shocked.

[info]ashamel

December 23 2010, 00:30:39 UTC 1 year ago

Stunned.

[info]murasaki_1966

December 23 2010, 02:09:07 UTC 1 year ago

They fell on the cats?

Lovely photo. So you have three cats now?

[info]ashamel

December 23 2010, 02:14:31 UTC 1 year ago

One is but an itinerant, before being heading down to Melbourne.

Haven't decided which, though...

[info]murasaki_1966

December 23 2010, 03:44:17 UTC 1 year ago

I'd keep the one that doesn't scratch the furniture.

[info]ashamel

December 22 2010, 21:58:26 UTC 1 year ago

Although I guess it could leak. Ha ha um.

[info]murasaki_1966

December 22 2010, 22:51:17 UTC 1 year ago

*Groaaaaaaaan*

[info]dreamer_easy

December 24 2010, 21:42:51 UTC 1 year ago

I am so freakin' envious of this - not so much of the prize, although it does look totally excellent, but of the fact that you won something off DA. :D

[info]ashamel

December 24 2010, 22:07:17 UTC 1 year ago

I put a DA reference into one of my clues. I figure he'd like that.
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