Another chance to win a Forestry Forum Jacket tonight.

Brucer · December 24, 2010, 12:14:46 AM

DanG! Just found this thread at 10:41 ET, and Warbird was down to 5! What to do? I'm only good at short anagrams.

Right, knock together a program and cut & paste the songs into it. Finished & working at 10:56. DanG!! Warbird's only got 2 left.

Grab the song Christmas songbook -- it's right on the piano, thank goodness Barb's been playing a few carols. Start typing in like mad. It's 11:05 and I've only got 5 hits. Do you spell it "Oh" or "O". DanG again, it isn't consistent gotta choose a spelling that the anagram works with.

No time to see how Warbird is doing. Is anyone else even trying? I'm madly typing in "modern" carol names. Up to 14 hits. Wait, it's not spelled "Raindeer", dummy, there's 2 more hits!.

Well, I'm stuck. How's Warbird doing? Right, he finished half an hour ago. Anyhow, here's what my computer figured out.

AWAY IN A MANGER
OH COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
?
RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER
SILENT NIGHT
JINGLE BELLS
JOY TO THE WORLD
WE THREE KINGS OF ORIENT ARE
I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS
LITTLE DRUMMER BOY
?
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR
WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
THE FIRST NOEL
ILL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
JINGLE BELL ROCK
OH HOLY NIGHT
HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS
?
OH CHRISTMAS TREE
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY A REINDEER
WHITE CHRISTMAS

Congratulations Warbird & Ty. I don't think my method was exactly what Jeff had in mind anyway. Mind you, I still had to come up with the names -- the computer just did the matching. And this all brings to mind that thread on spelling ;).

Merry Christmas everybody.

Jeff · December 24, 2010, 08:54:46 AM

Warbird, I'm tricky. I'm not going to let you give up your jacket because I have TWO coats to give so Ty gets one too. I need you guys to send me what size jacket you prefer. If I don't have that size, you will get the next larger.

The hard part about this is that someone else submit in between, but he sent the list to me in an instant message and did not follow the instructions of posting the list on the thread. We needed the list posted so everyone else would have the option of whether to keep working on it or not. So, I had to rule the submission ineligible.

paul case · December 24, 2010, 10:15:24 AM

you are the best jeff. 2 jackets is a great solution. well its better than 1/2 a jacket each. pc

Magicman · December 24, 2010, 10:40:31 AM

This was a great challenge for "word challenged" members. Half is about all that I was eligible for when Warbird posted. Whew. I was 'bout ready to PM him those last two answers. ;) :D

Warbird · December 24, 2010, 11:21:11 AM

Jeff, that's pretty cool. Thank you.

MM, the Mrs helped me out with those. She got about half of them, starting out really strong. I finished strong. We got every single Christmas CD we own and I was looking up Christmas song lists online. We musta looked hilarious, pouring over all these lists, "Oooo, could it be this one?!" I was surprised by how much the wife got into it.

Great fun. Thanks again you guys.

Tim L · December 24, 2010, 11:23:37 AM

Congrats Warbird and Ty ,well done !

tyb525 · December 24, 2010, 11:27:03 AM

Thanks Jeff

I started off by myself and got about 10 of them, then enlisted the help of my mom, along with several lists on the internet, to figure the rest out.

I suppose if I had gotten her help from the start I might've been first ;)

Good job Warbird!

sawman · December 24, 2010, 11:35:34 AM

Congratulations Warbird and Ty , you fellas earned this one.

Radar67 · December 24, 2010, 12:23:20 PM

I sure meant to come back to this thread last night, but got busy showing my nephew how to do a little leather work. We ended up making him a leather cuff.

Jeff, this looks really similar to one of your contests a few years back. I really enjoyed that one.

Congratulations to the winners.

Jeff · December 24, 2010, 12:36:05 PM

Quote from: Radar67 on December 24, 2010, 12:23:20 PM
I sure meant to come back to this thread last night, but got busy showing my nephew how to do a little leather work. We ended up making him a leather cuff.

Jeff, this looks really similar to one of your contests a few years back. I really enjoyed that one.

Congratulations to the winners.

Yes, I save everything and this was a simplified rehash of that previous contest. In that contest you got the anagrams in groups of 5, had to take the first letters of each line and search the forum to get your next 5. Eventually you would find your way to a hidden form that you could only find if you solved the anagrams. From there you could register for the drawing of the prize.