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You are here: Home / Books / We Have A WINNER: Twilight of the Elites

We Have A WINNER: Twilight of the Elites

by Anne Laurie|  July 23, 20139:48 pm| 29 Comments

This post is in: Books, Readership Capture

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chris hayes twilight paperback

Three hundred seventy-two entries (someone who couldn’t post a comment emailed me), and the winner is…

#173: Beeb.

Congratulations, Beeb — email me at AnneLaurie (at) verizon.net (click on my name in the far right column) and I’ll mail your prize later this week.

Thanks to all who participated, and better luck next time!

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29Comments

  1. 1.

    PsiFighter37

    July 23, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    I’m upset, no one told me there was a competition for a book going on. You probably posted it when I was drinking, didn’t you?

    PF37 +2 days of temporary freedom from the booze

  2. 2.

    NickT

    July 23, 2013 at 9:52 pm

    I demand a recount! *in the voice of Norm Coleman*

  3. 3.

    tybee

    July 23, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    damn. foiled again.

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    July 23, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    I didn’t enter because I was going Galt.

    Freeloaders.

  5. 5.

    Yatsuno

    July 23, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    @PsiFighter37:

    PF37 +2 days of temporary freedom from the booze

    Is your liver in shock?

    (I KEED, I KEED)

  6. 6.

    Certified Mutant Enemy

    July 23, 2013 at 10:06 pm

    Shenanigans!

  7. 7.

    MomSense

    July 23, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    Congratulations, Beeb!

  8. 8.

    Ruckus

    July 23, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    As Murphy is my constant companion I didn’t expect to win. But it would have been nice.
    Another bit of hope crushed.

  9. 9.

    NickT

    July 23, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    @Ruckus:

    I blame the illegal immigrants for bribing the random number generator with 75 pound sacks of weed.

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    July 23, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    Huh?

  11. 11.

    SFAW

    July 23, 2013 at 10:18 pm

    @NickT:

    I blame the illegal immigrants for bribing the random number generator with 75 pound sacks of weed Obama

    Fixed

    ETA: Just like this “contest.” “Random number generator”? Right.

    (Whaddaya mean, I’m a “sore loser”?)

  12. 12.

    Beeb

    July 23, 2013 at 10:21 pm

    Thanks, MomSense. The last time I won a contest I was 11 years old, and that was a very, very, very long time ago.

    Thanks to Anne Laurie for doing this and to the random number generator gods for breaking my losing streak.

    Woot!

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    July 23, 2013 at 10:23 pm

    I’ve entered several of these things and never won a book. It’s just not FAAAAAIIIR!!

  14. 14.

    NickT

    July 23, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Clearly you didn’t invest in the right illegal immigrants bearing weed across the desert.

  15. 15.

    gbear

    July 23, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    Three hundred and seventy one LOSERS!

  16. 16.

    NickT

    July 23, 2013 at 10:31 pm

    @gbear:

    I prefer co-equal second placers who did not participate in a culture of corruption. (Mostly because we didn’t think of it in time.)

  17. 17.

    dance around in your bones

    July 23, 2013 at 11:02 pm

    @Beeb:

    Thanks, MomSense. The last time I won a contest I was 11 years old, and that was a very, very, very long time ago.

    Haha! Congrats, Beeb. The last thing I ever won was at about the same age, a ‘Funny Face’ drink stand won from a coloring contest. I was thrilled! Here’s a commercial from that era – guess what I was known as in my family? Loud Mouth Lime. Still am sometimes, oddly enough.

    I remember setting up my cardboard drink stand and waiting hopefully (and fruitlessly) for customers.

  18. 18.

    Ruckus

    July 23, 2013 at 11:06 pm

    @dance around in your bones:
    I think I may see what the problem was. If you had a drink stand and were fruitless…

  19. 19.

    Ruckus

    July 23, 2013 at 11:08 pm

    @NickT:
    No matter how Murphy works his magic the outcome is rarely in doubt.

  20. 20.

    dance around in your bones

    July 23, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    @Ruckus: Darlin’, I don’t think there ever WAS any fruit in those drink mixes, let alone sugar (and I come from the era where we mixed two cups of sugar into our Koolaid pitcher). Come to think of it, I have no idea what they used for a sugar substitute back in the early 60’s. Most likely highly toxic.

  21. 21.

    I am not a kook

    July 23, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    @NickT: OK, where can one find those messicans with their 75 lb bags of weed? A friend would like to know.

  22. 22.

    NickT

    July 23, 2013 at 11:22 pm

    @I am not a kook:

    Well, I am not someone who knows this kind of stuff, so I am going to have to recommend that you ask a policeman for directions.

  23. 23.

    Ruckus

    July 23, 2013 at 11:31 pm

    @dance around in your bones:
    Most likely highly toxic.

    Some things rarely change.

    Anyway between you and NickT, thanks for the laughs.

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    July 23, 2013 at 11:34 pm

    @dance around in your bones:
    As I hit post I remembered a customer we used to have 20 yrs ago that made that cheap colored, somewhat flavored water that used to come in I think 6oz bottles for little kids. The customer called it sugar water. And not in a flattering way. But it cost only a few cents to put in a store cooler so there you go.

  25. 25.

    dance around in your bones

    July 23, 2013 at 11:44 pm

    @Ruckus: Well, heck – what is Coca Cola? Or any of the other bazillion iterations of it? Fizzy water with sugar and flavorings and color.

    Hell, at least when Coca Cola was first invented it had at least one really interesting ingredient :)

  26. 26.

    Ruckus

    July 24, 2013 at 12:06 am

    @dance around in your bones:
    I didn’t state my case properly.
    This was far cheaper and far less healthy than even Coke. And it was presented as a kids drink that adults wouldn’t even like. And were they right about that. Kids liked it because their parents wouldn’t drink it unless held down and poured down their throats. Because it was far cheaper to make than Coke. And at the time the can, delivery to the store and shelf space costs were far higher for soft drinks than what was in the can. And I’m pretty sure that hasn’t changed.

  27. 27.

    JTy

    July 24, 2013 at 1:26 am

    Aw, shucks.

    At least there’s a library three blocks from my apartment…

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    July 24, 2013 at 2:16 am

    I didn’t want the stupid book anyway.

  29. 29.

    eric nny

    July 24, 2013 at 2:06 pm

    Great. Now I hate Christopher Hayes.

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