REPOST -- Rare Entries Contest NR01

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Time is running out for you to join in the fun! It is a rip-snortn'
fine contest we have going so far. The only thing lacking is your
entry. Do not delay, only a week left to enter.

This is an announcement of a new rare entries contest. Run in
the idiom of Mark Brader. Thanks go to Mark for running a fun
and interesting contest. I hope the following 10 questions are
half as fun and interesting.

As usual, reply ONLY BY EMAIL to rareman3@yahoo.com; do not post
to any newsgroup. Entries must reach me, Neville Rareman, by
Saturday, May 22, 2004.

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0. Identify, by exact title, one of the sections that will appear
in the May 23, 2004 edition of the Sunday New York Times.

1. Name a rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

2. Give a 4 letter English word that is routinely abbreviated by
three letters.

3. Give a number which indicates the caliber of a firearm, and is
also used as a common shorthand reference for that firearm.

4. Identify a professional baseball team named after an
inanimate object.

5. Give one of the original 20 names on Nixon's enemies list.

6. Give a three letter word in English, which does not contain
the letter Y, and consists of a consonant, vowel and consonant,
in that order; whereby the middle vowel has a long vowel sound.

7. Name a civic duty of an American citizen.

8. Name a company that makes #2 pencils.

9. Name something besides "The beaver is a truly proud and noble
animal" that Joe Canadian believes.
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In article <a59bd1d2.0405270933.47c455fb@posting.google.com>,
DSAsteve@aol.com (swp) wrote:

> rareman3@yahoo.com (Neville Rareman) wrote in message
> news:<46fdde8e.0405140914.7e8aad5f@posting.google.com>...
> > Time is running out for you to join in the fun! It is a rip-snortn'
> > fine contest we have going so far. The only thing lacking is your
> > entry. Do not delay, only a week left to enter.
> >
>
> Is an answer/scoring slate somewhere in the near future?
>
> Were there THAT many entries?
>
> Has something sinister happened to Neville?
>
> Will the CUBS win the world series this year?
>
> Enquiring minds want to know!


Yeah, I've really been wondering about that.

--Harold Buck


"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson