It's tremendously amusing that of the seven respondents to the second poll, between us we have a 0% success rate at earning the required 750 (or was it 1,000?) points for success (second-class success at that) even once.
suggesting that the series peaked in the '50s and '60s
Hmm. We had postulated 70s, I didn't realise they went back so far. So basically, those of us in the backward north were still playing the games of the 50s well into the 80s :)
There's got to be the scope for an affectionate parody using the poll feature: I-Spy LiveJournal.
Our collective ineptitude grows still further: having gone 0-for-11 at even a single book between us. Not quite sure how many of your second poll voters went to Oxbridge - at a guess, "most of them" - but that really doesn't say much in favour of our collective observation skills :-)
Out of interest, why would you say that ? At a quick count, I think I make it around half. Though there's some people I don't know where they went to university.
And I have no idea why people at Oxbridge should be more observant - head in the clouds, most of 'em :)
All the ones whose universities I know went to Oxford - six from 12. Possibly the same six you know, possibly not.
Why I said that was because all the people I know on your Friends list went to Oxbridge - so, by obviously correct and safe extrapolation, so must all the people I don't know on your Friends list must have gone there as well. Ahem.
And I have no idea why people at Oxbridge should be more observant - head in the clouds, most of 'em :)
Actually, please someone remind us as to how I-Spy admin worked.
Wasn't it the case that you were allowed to self-certify yourself as a second-class (whatever) at n points and only needed to send the book off for ratification when you claimed the title of first-class (whatever) at n+x points? (*) We might well have a second-class spy amongst us yet.
(*) And so the D&D XP/level system was born, only counting backwards, in a different country as part of a game that the D&D pioneers would likely never have seen.
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Date: 2004-01-06 09:07 am (UTC)It's tremendously amusing that of the seven respondents to the second poll, between us we have a 0% success rate at earning the required 750 (or was it 1,000?) points for success (second-class success at that) even once.
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Date: 2004-01-06 09:11 am (UTC)Hmm. We had postulated 70s, I didn't realise they went back so far. So basically, those of us in the backward north were still playing the games of the 50s well into the 80s :)
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Date: 2004-01-06 09:20 am (UTC)Our collective ineptitude grows still further: having gone 0-for-11 at even a single book between us. Not quite sure how many of your second poll voters went to Oxbridge - at a guess, "most of them" - but that really doesn't say much in favour of our collective observation skills :-)
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Date: 2004-01-06 09:22 am (UTC)I'd have thought it was more an apathy-based problem :)
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Date: 2004-01-06 09:24 am (UTC)Out of interest, why would you say that ? At a quick count, I think I make it around half. Though there's some people I don't know where they went to university.
And I have no idea why people at Oxbridge should be more observant - head in the clouds, most of 'em :)
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Date: 2004-01-06 09:31 am (UTC)Why I said that was because all the people I know on your Friends list went to Oxbridge - so, by obviously correct and safe extrapolation, so must all the people I don't know on your Friends list must have gone there as well. Ahem.
And I have no idea why people at Oxbridge should be more observant - head in the clouds, most of 'em :)
Sad but true!
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Date: 2004-01-06 09:25 am (UTC)Wasn't it the case that you were allowed to self-certify yourself as a second-class (whatever) at n points and only needed to send the book off for ratification when you claimed the title of first-class (whatever) at n+x points? (*) We might well have a second-class spy amongst us yet.
(*) And so the D&D XP/level system was born, only counting backwards, in a different country as part of a game that the D&D pioneers would likely never have seen.