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[The Great Crep'er]

In this game, everyone who is a forumer here can immediately start playing. If your username begins with any of the letters A-M, your objective is to get this topic as high up as possible, if your username begins with any of the letters N-Z, your objective is to get this topic as low down as possible.

Rules:
-Post conversation when playing, no spamalicious play.
-Names starting with 'The' don't start with T, i.e. 'The Cakewalk' starts with 'C' for Cakewalk.
-You can't bump the topic for your side more than once in a row.
-The 'N-Z's' win if the topic sinks to page four of Visitor Games, and the 'A-M's' win if they can keep the topic in the top 10 topics for a month.

So begin,

[Lepton]

[Dented Ford]

I have absolutely no doubt that A-M's will win this. It's pretty hard to see how they couldn't. A,B,C,D.... oh good, I'm on the winning side!

[The Great Crep'er]

[Courk]

*unstickies it*

Though that was pretty funny.

We need something to talk about. Manatees, anyone?

[Dented Ford]

It was pretty funny, but really, it was hardly worth it. I don't see what positive action that the N-Z team can take to make the topic sink. It's a lot harder to bump four pages worth of topics up than is a credible effort, and the only danger in letting the topic slip might be allowing it to fall out of the top ten through silliness, not because it would be hard to prevent.

So, manatees... Is there a significant difference between a manatee and a dugong, or is that just the difference between a Pacific and an Atlantic version of the same creature?

[lexprod]

I have never heard of the term "dugong" until now. This game is officially educational.
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[Courk]

There is indeed a difference between dugongs and manatees. This cartoon is wrong. It does show dugongs, but dugongs are not manatees.

The most obvious difference is the tail. Manatees have a rounded tail while dugongs have a fluked tail. As you pointed out, another difference is their location. Dugongs are around the Indian Ocean and Australia, while manatees are around the Caribbean, the Amazon, Florida, and parts of Africa.

They do share similarities, though. Both are called sea cows, and both are in the order Sirenia.

There also used to be another member of that order, Steller's Sea Cow. It lived in much more northerly areas around Alaska. It was big, but sadly went extinct 27 years after its discovery. Info Link

If you look at a manatee's flipper, you can see toe nails similar to those of an elephant. Manatees and elephants are related to each other. Manatees have no natural predators, thus don't have any sort of defenses. Motorboats are hazards to manatees. Scars from motorboat and other encounters are so predominant that individual manatees are identified by their scars. My more recent adoptees have come with maps of their scars.

[Dented Ford]

Thanks Courk. What about the range of a manatee? I get the impression that they're shallow water, tidal estuary and coastal area dwellers, rather than deep-sea creatures. (Hence the high incidence of motorboat injury.)
Do they come into fresh water areas? Do they venture far out to sea?

[Courk]

They do typically live in warm coastal areas. They don't have much fat to keep themselves warm, so they need warm water to stay warm. They do live in fresh water, such as springs, and even warm water outlets of power plants.

Some manatees travel quite a distance. At least one was found up in Chesapeake Bay. They named him Chessie. He eventually made his way to Connecticut. Another manatee made its way over to Texas. Neither of those were very smart moves as those waters get colder than Florida's.

[MatthewV]

vote: names that start with "The" are counted in with the T's

[The Great Crep'er]

Do you have an argument to go with that?

[Lepton*]

The disproportionately high number of A-M GLers comes to mind as a potential argument.

[MatthewV]

I feel the "rule" was made to include one person into the 1st category. There is also a very small number of users with names that start with "The"

[zLepton*]

For that matter, our usernames are rather flimsy identifications in any case. I'm sure I've registered a N-Z username at some point in the past.

I'm waiting for Samadhi or Neo to lock the thread...

[MatthewV]

I sent a PM to Samadhi earlier today!

[Samadhi]

Wouldn't help. There's no fewer than a dozen A-M usernames that could still post in, and thereby bump, the thread.
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[Courk]

*agrees with MattV*

"The" counts as the start of a name.

[Samadhi]

See, courk would have bumped the thread even if I'd locked it.
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[MatthewV]

Asmadhi is on our team

[Beartalon]

A topic in which people win by not posting in it? That's exciting reading.
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[ChickenMarengo]

You haven't won. You have to get it on page 4 to win, not page 4 or below.

Sure I have. I just won 3.25 times over. I got a little carried away. If it was on page 13, then at some point, it was on page 4.

--Neo

[groza528]

If he can get it to page 13 it's easy to get it to page 4, but I think that getting it to 13 is enough

[MatthewV]

It was on page four until I posted in it.

Yes, but I got another screenshot!



N-Z wins again!

--Neo

[Beartalon]

[MatthewV]

Yes, this thread may have pissed off some people (I saw your thread in site problems...). Neo was editting post instead of posting because posting would bump the thread. However, he was clear about his edits- he was not trying to be malicious.

And this thread will be moved back to VSN tomorrow and this special forum will be deleted.

[Thok]

Whoo! I win! Without having to do anything.

[Samadhi]

Well, that's up for debate. It seems you're T hok, IE The Hok. But what is a Hok? I don't know but I don't like the sound of it. If it were Hawk, well that'd be cool. But hok sounds like a bad cough or something. So, in your case I think the The should be dropped. Now you're just Hok and you're in the filth that is A-M, and you probably enjoy it.
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[Thok]

Everybody knows Thok starts with an S.

[Courk]

Why'd Sam delete his post?

[Samadhi]

Only in Greek.
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[Samadhi]

[Samadhi]

Admins: We need to make this right. I was part of it, so I know it got carried away. But The Great Crep'er has had his submission stepped on, and abused by admin/mod powers. It wasn't spam, it wasn't flame. It should have just lived or died by comment.

The question is: How do we make it right?
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[Neo]

Why don't we wait and see what The Great Crep'er has to say?
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[MatthewV]

This thread will be locked if people continue to post in it after May 15th.

What we did to "win" annoyed regular users. For those who missed the "fun", oh well.

[Courk]

I don't think it needs to be locked. There's no harm in it staying open.

[Crep'er IS GOD*]

[Courk]

What was the original title?

[MatthewV]

the first...

[Samadhi]

Well said comrade.
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