This time, it's all about me... The Occlith Contest

[Occlith]

To commemorate a decade of BAR membership, (wow! a decade) I am having a contest. Since it’s my 10th anniversary, the contest is all about me, Occlith. The answers to almost all the questions can be found by searching Book & Reader. The last question you will have to guess.

The winner receives a $20.00 USD e-gift card from Amazon. Obviously you must have an Amazon.com account to use the e-card.

Send your answers to me by conversation.

The contest will close when I am sent correct answers to all the questions or Monday, 7 July 2014 when the member who sent the most correct answers first will be selected. Good Luck.

Questions:

On what thread was my first post?

What was the first thread I created?

What song did I listen to on January 13 2009?

What novelist did I interview?

I posted a book search and eventually found the book years later. What is that book’s title?

What poll did I post here that was locked at a different site?

I created some new fashions for someone’s avatar. What was the avatar?

I wrote a poem about Thomas Kinkade; what is the title?

According to me, what band is the best rock band ever?

What is the source of my username?

I've had many avatars over the years but which was the first?​

 

[sparkchaser]

In the name of fairness, I will not participate.


As an aside, if you don't resemble

in real life, I am going to be disappointed.

 

[Occlith]

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off. ― Thomas Jefferson

Just sayin'

 

[Conscious Bob]

This an attempt to trap your cyber stalker?

 

[Occlith]

Okay kiddies, you have until midnight Occlith Time (aka Pacific Time) to get your answers in.

 

[Sneezy]

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

 

[Occlith]

Here’s how the results stand - - Sparkchaser decided to participate after all and sent the second most correct answers in a timely manner. Sneezy answered the most answers correctly but replied past the deadline.

As this contest is all about me Occlith, I have allowed my finite powers of wisdom and mercy to get the better of me and so have decided to award Sneezy and Sparkchaser a $20.00 gift card each.

Sneezy got 9 of 11 correct. Sparkchaser had 7 correct. Please send me your email addys for your prizes.

 

[Sneezy]

I shall only accept your gracious decision if you recommend a book for me to spend my spoils upon.

And I now hate Teletubbies even more than I did before. I had no idea that was possible.

 

[Sneezy]

Ack. I just realized the last one was right there. Jeez, direction following fail.

 

[Occlith]

ANSWERS

Q. On what thread was my first post?
A. Ill-Made Knight question

Q. What was the first thread I created?
A. Recommendations please

Q. what song did I listen to on January 13 2009?
A. Letter to the Killer by Vinx

Q. What novelist did I interview?
A. Joseph R. Sims for his novel Skeletons

Q. I posted a book search and eventually found the book years later. What is that book’s title?
A. Prisoners of Space

Q. What poll did I post here that was locked at a different site?
A. Holidays

Q. I created some new fashions for someone’s avatar. What animal was the avatar?
A. Penguin 1 & 2

Q: I wrote a poem about Thomas Kinkade; what is the title?
A. "From the Brush of the Painter of Light™" or "The Lighthouse®"

Q. According to me, what band is the best rock band ever?
A. Menudo. [That answer was a joke meant to rattle the OP]

Q. What is the source of my username?
A. "The Demon of the Flower" by Clark Ashton Smith

Q. I've had many avatars over the years but which was the first?
A. Agent Smith

 

[Occlith]

I shall only accept your gracious decision if you recommend a book for me to spend my spoils upon.

And I now hate Teletubbies even more than I did before. I had no idea that was possible.

Hmmm. Without Teletubbies, my recommendation list has vastly shrunk.
Shall consider...

 

[Sneezy]

Shall wait ever patiently.

 

[sparkchaser]

I actually guessed at most of them.

 

[Sneezy]

So I suppose question 12 should be "What should I do with my new-found Occlith knowledge?"

 

[Occlith]

Sneezy, my recommendations are The Martian by Andy Weir or Poor Man's Fight by Elliott Kay. I have not yet read either but they both had good reviews.

 

[Sneezy]

I have read neither, so done. I have a sneaking suspicion you chose books that fit my profile.

Did ye stalk me in return, dear Occlith?

 

[Occlith]

Who me????

 

[Sneezy]

 

[sparkchaser]

I never get stalked

 

[Sneezy]

I may be a dwarf, but you are a hippie in a dress. I was bound to win that one.