Infinite Spam
We set up an autoresponder to an email address.
Someone spams that email address, but uses the technique where the email claims to be from the same address it is sent to.
So the autoresponder responds back to itself...
It happened this morning. Thankfully, the infinite loop didn't really happen, as those who remember the rules from the recent Mortality Challenges will recall, the autoresponders will only respond once-per-day to the same address. Now we know why the powers-that-be programmed that restriction.
It's amazing what appeared in classic Golden Age comics. Now that the challenge is over:
Another (somewhat related) scene from classic Batman comics you wouldn't likely see today
(and just a warning. While that link above is pretty much safe for work...unless there's a restriction against visiting livejournal at your work...if you browse around on that livejournal, there are a lot of comic scans that are definitely NOT safe for work.)
Mortality Challenge Results
Tuesday October 17 (Mortal Bloggers in bold)
Toad on a Leash 1:11:20 PM
Christy - 3:53 PM
DonutBites - 4:10:49 PM
The Chronicles: 10:00:51 PM
Let’s repeat the scoring instructions that we included in the original post:
Fifteen (15) health/poison points will go to the Mortal Blogger who posts first. (As long as their post meets all the requirements given in the final autoresponse.) Five (5) health/poison points will go to the Mortal Blogger who finishes, and makes us laugh the hardest with their entry. We value humor highly.
And here is how we phrased it in the final email each individual received upon completion of the challenge:
First to post the Challenge Entry - 15 points
Funniest Challenge Entry - 5 points
At first we thought we should award Toad the full 20 points, as the challenge entry he posted wednesday morning was hilarious. However, rereading the rules we wrote, we realized that the way we had phrased it the challenge entry for finishing time had to be the same as the one for humor. It may not have been abundantly clear to everyone (including ourselves) but that is how we interpret our language.
Deciding between Chronicles and Donut Bites was difficult, but in the end we decided we were laughing harder at Chronicles entry, so they received the 5 humor points.
Question Number Four
Instead of sending an email to answer@goozle.org
visit http://www.goozle.org/goozle/answer.html
And Nobody just realized how he should have been doing this all along.
It all worked so well last time.
(We haven't set up similar pages for the other questions...but it seems this is the only autoresponder not working)
Mortal Tuesday – Mortality Challenge
Most of the below is identical to last time, but we thought we would repeat it anway. There has been a minor change in the scoring.
We have been given the privilege of crafting a challenge for the Mortal Bloggers. Before we get into the rules of this Mortality Challenge, let us make a few points clear:
1) Only current Mortal Bloggers will be able to win health/poison points through this challenge. 20 points are available.
2) Non-Mortal Bloggers (and the dead) will be allowed to compete for recognition at Nobody’s Puzzles and potentially at Goozle.org. But no health/poison points.
3) Goozle.org – for those who do not know – is a domain heavily associated with Nobody’s Puzzles.
We have set up a series of questions – part trivia, part puzzle. Since we expect you to use Google or another search engine to solve the puzzle, we call this a ’Goozle’. The first one is below. Once you have arrived at an answer, send an email to: answer at goozle dot org. That is, if you think the answer is ’porcupine’, send an email to: porcupine@goozle.org.
We have set up a series of autoresponders. All mail sent to these autoresponders is deleted, unread by humans. (Your identity is safe) However, if you have the correct answer, you will receive an email back telling you the next question. If you have the wrong answer, you should receive a ’recipient failed’ message. It’s usually pretty quick, but give it a minute. If you aren’t getting a reply, there might be a problem with the server. You can send an email to goozles at gmail dot com. Tell us what the question is, and what you think the answer is. If you are correct, we will let you know the next question manually. If you are wrong, we will tell you to try again. Though we are slower than the autoresponder, and this is a race, so do try that first. And as should be obvious, mail sent to goozles at gmail dot com is read by humans. You don’t have to tell us whether you are competing as a Mortal Blogger or Non-Mortal Blogger though.
Note: Each individual autoresponder will only respond to an individual email address once a day. It’s a rule we didn’t create. So don’t accidentally delete an autoresponse, or you will be forced to rely on the human(s).
When you have solved the last goozle, the autoresponse will tell you how to notify us. For Mortal Bloggers this will involve posting an entry to their blog. Requirements for this entry will be given in the final autoresponse. For non-Mortal Bloggers this will be an email to us. Mortal Bloggers should know that manipulating the time-date stamp on their blog entries not only is ethically wrong, but will be irrelevant, as the time-date stamp on the RSS feed will still be accurate. And we may be inclined to point out any discrepancies in our results, so everyone will know what you tried to do.
Fifteen (15) health/poison points will go to the Mortal Blogger who posts first. (As long as their post meets all the requirements given in the final autoresponse.) Five (5) health/poison points will go to the Mortal Blogger who finishes, and makes us laugh the hardest with their entry. We value humor highly.
In Addition (this is the change): There will be an opportunity for those Mortal Bloggers who do not finish first to steal points away from the winner. More will be explained in the final autoresponse.
We will give everyone 24 hours from this post. If no Mortal Blogger has finished the race yet, the five (5) points for humor is removed and added to the other fifteen (15) for a total of twenty (20) and it becomes a pure race to the finish line. (the opportunity to steal points will remain -- just the 5 humor points will be removed).. Otherwise, once the 24 hours have elapsed, we will declare winners. We won’t announce the answers to the goozles (questions) until a few days have elapsed to give non-Mortal Bloggers a little extra time.
ALL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHALLENGE THAT MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO THE QUESTIONS IN THE AUTORESPONSES SHOULD BE SENT TO: help at goozle dot org or goozles at gmail dot com. DO NOT ASK IN THE COMMENTS. Thanks.
One further note: It probably doesn’t matter, but just in case it does, all email addresses are completely in lower case. Once again: answer at goozle dot org.
We think it is time for us to post the first goozle:
1) Back in the early days of superhero comics, a famous comic book character, still well-known today, said these words, "Be Silent, or your Daddy will slap your posterior!" Well, not quite. The only word in that quote that was spoken was "or". But the meaning was exactly the same. Just different words appeared in the word-balloon. Name the character.
Deja Tuesday
Our first Mortality Challenge went over so well with the Mortal Bloggers, two weeks later, we've been asked to run another Mortality Challenge.
The race will begin at noon.
Once again, non-Mortal Bloggers will be able to compete for fame and recognition, but not for health/poison points.
Answers to the Mortality Challenge
Answers to the Mortality Challenge questions have been added to Goozle.org.
(and the problem that was causing the site not to work has been fixed.)
Mortal Tuesday – Mortality Challenge Results
Here are the finishing times so far. Mortal Bloggers are in bold. The Mortal Blog competition is over, but others can still submit answers and be recorded as finishing the race.
Tuesday, October 3
Toad on a Leash 1:20 pm……………15 Health/Poison Points
Freddie Vasco 1:30
ben.vierck(.us) 1:54
Christy 3:43
Donut Bites 6:19…………………..5 Health/Poison Points
Fluid Pudding 7:43
The humor challenge was a difficult decision. Toad on a Leash did make us laugh with his Volvo jokes, but not as much as we have laughed at some of his other posts recently. Unfortunately, the other posts don't count. Donut Bites, particularly for “dusty, Springfield” and “blow job shots”, gets the five humor points.
Mortal Tuesday – Mortality Challenge
We have been given the privilege of crafting a challenge for the Mortal Bloggers. Before we get into the rules of this Mortality Challenge, let us make a few points clear:
1) Only current Mortal Bloggers will be able to win health/poison points through this challenge. 20 points are available.
2) Non-Mortal Bloggers (and the dead) will be allowed to compete for recognition at Nobody’s Puzzles and potentially at Goozle.org. But no health/poison points.
3) Goozle.org – for those who do not know – is a domain heavily associated with Nobody’s Puzzles.
We have set up a series of questions – part trivia, part puzzle. Since we expect you to use Google or another search engine to solve the puzzle, we call this a ’Goozle’. The first one is below. Once you have arrived at an answer, send an email to: answer at goozle dot org. That is, if you think the answer is ’porcupine’, send an email to: porcupine@goozle.org.
We have set up a series of autoresponders. All mail sent to these autoresponders is deleted, unread by humans. (Your identity is safe) However, if you have the correct answer, you will receive an email back telling you the next question. If you have the wrong answer, you should receive a 'recipient failed' message. It’s usually pretty quick, but give it a minute. If you aren’t getting a reply, there might be a problem with the server. You can send an email to goozles at gmail dot com. Tell us what the question is, and what you think the answer is. If you are correct, we will let you know the next question manually. If you are wrong, we will tell you to try again. Though we are slower than the autoresponder, and this is a race, so do try that first. And as should be obvious, mail sent to goozles at gmail dot com is read by humans. You don’t have to tell us whether you are competing as a Mortal Blogger or Non-Mortal Blogger though.
Note: Each individual autoresponder will only respond to an individual email address once a day. It’s a rule we didn’t create. So don’t accidentally delete an autoresponse, or you will be forced to rely on the human(s).
When you have solved the last goozle, the autoresponse will tell you how to notify us. For Mortal Bloggers this will involve posting an entry to their blog. Requirements for this entry will be given in the final autoresponse. For non-Mortal Bloggers this will be an email to us. Mortal Bloggers should know that manipulating the time-date stamp on their blog entries not only is ethically wrong, but will be irrelevant, as the time-date stamp on the RSS feed will still be accurate. And we may be inclined to point out any discrepancies in our results, so everyone will know what you tried to do.
Fifteen (15) health/poison points will go to the Mortal Blogger who posts first. (As long as their post meets all the requirements given in the final autoresponse.) Five (5) health/poison points will go to the Mortal Blogger who finishes, and makes us laugh the hardest with their entry. We value humor highly.
We will give everyone 24 hours from this post. If no Mortal Blogger has finished the race yet, the five (5) points for humor is removed and added to the other fifteen (15) for a total of twenty (20) and it becomes a pure race to the finish line. Otherwise, once the 24 hours have elapsed, we will declare winners. We won’t announce the answers to the goozles (questions) until a few days have elapsed to give non-Mortal Bloggers a little extra time.
ALL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHALLENGE THAT MAKE ANY REFERENCE TO THE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO: help at goozle dot org or goozles at gmail dot com.
DO NOT ASK IN THE COMMENTS. Thanks.
One further note: It probably doesn’t matter, but just in case it does, all email addresses are completely in lower case. Once again: answer at goozle dot org.
We think it is time for us to post the first goozle:
1) The answer is: mbX
X is the answer to Life, the Universe, Everything.
(they get more difficult)
We've been doing a little work on our goozle.org domain of late. One thing you may notice below is that we have a new email address. We guarantee one very quick response. Extremely quick. Automated Response Quick. Followed by a second response that might not be so quick. It depends on how busy Nobody is. And if it involves a goozle, we might not provide the answer you seek.
On the Goozle.org domain you will notice we actually have the long ago results of an old goozle. We are working on a new one. Estimated timetable: next week.
If we can increase the visitors to this blog we have some fun ideas we might try.
Orphan Test
this is a test of the orphan page system
One of these is not like the other, one of these doesn't belong
The following people gathered in a room:
Amy W. Hinge
Ed Sinck
Indo Sinck
Ken F. Laur
Fred L. Gaitz
Blair A. Udee
They began conversing with each other. An unusual topic came up; the etymology of their names. It turned out that five out of the six names were from English-speaking nations. One from a French-speaking nation. Which one was French? If you can figure this out, you should also be able to tell us the etymology of each name.
Is it a comic goozle, a celebrity goozle, or a legal goozle?
The face in the background of this comic book cover looks awfully realistic, doesn't it?
Almost as if it's a real person?
It is. The artist was a fan, but she wasn't pleased.
1) Name the celebrity.
2) Name the artist who drew the cover
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Evil Genius?
Here's a tshirt from an usually offensive tshirt website. (Nobody likes offensive tshirts. Sometimes)
This time they're more geeky than offensive:
anybody who understands binary can figure out that 00110110 = 54
so why does 00110110 00110110 00110110 = 666?
Nobody knows. Do you?
And what does the answer have to do with pictures of cows?
Moral Dilemma
You are driving down the road in your car
on a wild, stormy night, when you pass by a bus stop and you see three
people waiting for the bus:
| * An old lady who looks as if she is about to die. | |
| * An old friend who once saved your life. | |
| * The perfect partner you have been dreaming about. |
Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing that there could only be one passenger in your car?
Think before you continue reading. This is a moral/ethical dilemma that was once actually used as part of a job application.
| * You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first. | |
| * Or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. | |
| * However, you may never be able to find your perfect mate again. |
What's your answer?
This is another one of those questions where if you plug some of the wording above into google, you will come up with a zillion pages with the question and answer(s) on it. That's cheating. This is not a goozle.For a good time call
Tommy Tutone has caused many people phone problems with his song 867-5309.
However, one talk show host back in the 1980s placed what turned out to be a very expensive phone call on the air.
Some people have a habit of when they're placing a phone call they'll recite the numbers as they dial them. They'll do this without even thinking about it.
The co-star of a famous television actress was being interviewed, and the host decided to call the actress. On her home phone.
To this day, the former host insists they did not intend to reveal the actress's unlisted phone number to the world.
But the actress made an undisclosed sum from the court proceedings that followed.
Name the talk show host.
Name the actress.
Name the co-star being interviewed.
Hint...the race car driver below shares his name with the character played by the co-star.
The race took place at Anglesey.
Who am I?
I was born in Haifa, Israel with the given name of a famous Rabbi, and the surname of a language. Later, as a guitarist, I would join up with some others in the 1980s to form a band named after a condiment. Briefly, before it got that name, it was known by a much longer name: __ __ and the M__ M__ M__ of M__. The opening two words of the original band name is very similar to the name of a participant in a Caribbean band that released its debut album in 1979 (rereleased in 1992 when they too changed their name.)
Who am I?
Have we erased too much?
Name the book and author.
Who's Birthday Is It?
When you least expect it, we appear with a trivia question:
looka yonder
post office corner
yes suh
Who's birthday is it today (Friday), and how old is she?
We expect this to be solved quickly. We'll try to come up with something more difficult, but we are out of practice.
How nobody had an idea, wrote it down, and became rich
We're starting to write a YA novel. How's this for an opening:
Call me Opal. Some months ago- don't ask me how many precisely - having little or no coinage in my handbag, and no cute boys of interest to me in my hometown, I thought I would drive off the spleen and regulate the circulation a bit, if you know what I mean.
The times were good, the times were bad. Some said my actions were wise, others foolish. I saw the light as I entered darkness. Hope floated in the icy waters of despair.
