February, 2009

It has been exactly two weeks now that my little “4
people 1 rope”-competition has been going on. Let’s see how google is
picking up on this:

summary="this table shows the respective amount of google results for x people y ropes">

Number of google.be (pages from Belgium) results for
“<x> people” “<y> ropes”

		ropes
		0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
people	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4	0	34	1	0	0	0	0	0
	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Hmm, mediocre success, I’d say. Isn’t the Belgian blogosphere more powerful than that? :-)

Two nice reactions come to mind though: bnox with her Swedish thing and Imke Dielen’s nasty Rick-Roll.
The dinner is still to be won, however!

So what all this about having four people but only one rope?

Yesterday, I and many other people had a great time at #mwbbq. During the
performance of one of the stand-up comedians that night, I was asked to share
my most kinky, truly-happened story with the audience. So I started off:
“There were four people, but only one bit of rope…”, but before I could
say another word, the microphone got taken away!

Apparently, this spurred some interest:

Now, here’s a small competition: the one who can write the most
“interesting” blog post starting with “There were four people, but only one
bit of rope…” (any language is fine) within the month of February will be treated to a
nice dinner by me personally. Moreover, I promise to finish the actual story
during that dinner! ;-)

In true xkcd-style, I started the following
graph. Let’s see how it evolves over the coming month. :-D

Number of google.be (pages from Belgium) results for “<x> people” “<y> ropes”

		ropes
		0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
people	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
	2	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0
	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0