Sep. 7th, 2008

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I know, I never thought I'd be saying this, but there's an actual useful text message service!

As a result I've become slightly addicted to it, and so you might think this post sounds an awful lot like blatant pluggage - and you'd be right - but still. It's lovely and fluffy and brilliant, and you should love it.

Basically, it's AQA (Any Questions Answered), and it does exactly what it says on the tin. You send a text message to 63336 with a question you want answered - anything at all, within reason and law - and you get a message back within a few minutes with an answer. And they're invariably perfectly spelled and punctuated, which is a sight for sore eyes.

Anyway, the longest they've taken to answer one of my questions was about half an hour, and that was a fiendishly tricky one. They've given me answers on everything from the rights situation on a book to the nearest decent chip shop to the NEC, and they are, all in all, wonderful. I don't enthuse easily, as you know, but AQA is great.
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I was rummaging through the suitcase I had to the Con, and found my notes from the post-watershed Just A Minute tournament! I haven't found the standard JAM notes yet, but who knows, maybe they'll turn up. For now, though, for your elucidation and entertainment, here are the final scores - and the topics that were and weren't used.


Scores
Wizards: 4 pts
Witches: 8 pts
Small Gods: 15 pts
Seamstresses: 31 pts
Conjurors: 31 pts



Topics
Vestal Virgins (Small Gods to start)
How To Thread A Needle (Seamstresses to start)
Broomsticks And Their Uses (Witches to start)
Nothing Up My Sleeve (Conjurors to start)
Conceiving Immaculately (Small Gods to start)
How To Be A Hooker
Vegetables
The Lovely Samantha



Topics That Weren't Used (Unless I Forgot Them)
Dressed To Kill (but we didn't get any Assassins)
Moving Pictures (no Alchemists either)
Why I Like Black Leather (or Monks of Cool, for that matter)
The Meaning Of Innuendo (nope, not even them)
Interesting Ways Of Presenting Melons
Strawberry Wobbler
Cunning Linguists
The Kiss Of Life
Red Lights
Customer Service
Muffin The Mule
Handball
Hot Crumpets
How To Count Entendres
Watch Breastplates
Making A Sandwich
How To Whistle

Why I Love My Job (though my somewhat erratic memory insists we did this one. Hm.)
The Watershed


If anyone has any good ideas for the 2010 Post-Watershed Inter-Guild Just A Minute Tournament, let me know. Helpfully innuendo-laden topics are always welcome. :-D

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