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12 July 2011

Tuesday Points! It's a Hundred-Point Challenge!→[More:]

1. One point for every baseball/softball game you've attended this season (MLB, minor-league, little kids, bar leagues, whatever), maximum ten points.
2. One point for each time you've been in a swimming pool this year, maximum ten points.
3. One point for each pet in your home, maximum ten points.
4. One point for each meal you've cooked this week, maximum ten points.
5. One point for each magazine in your bathroom, maximum ten points.
6. One point for each Wu-Tang Clan member you can name off the top of your head, maximum ten points.
7. One point for each of your first cousins, maximum ten points.
8. One point for each Harry Potter book you've read, maximum ten points (there are seven HP books, but you can get the last three points for reading companion books or making-of-movie books or the Quidditch rulebook or something)
9. One point for each of the last ten years' Best Picture winners you've seen (King's Speech, Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, No Country For Old Men, The Departed, Crash, Million Dollar Baby, LOTR: Return of the King, Chicago, A Beautiful Mind), maximum ten points.
10. One point for each of your Google+ circles, maximum ten points.

Tiebreaker: What's today's predicted high temperature where you live?

post by: box at: 07:19 | 34 comments

Whoo hoo! High rollin', baby!

Pets = 3 points
Wu-Tang members = 2 points (one starts with O and the other with R)
Cousins = 6 points
Best Picture movies = 3 points
Google+ circles = 6 points

total = 20

tiebreaker: predicted high in Atlanta today = 100 degrees

posted by BoringPostcards 12 July | 07:37

Pool: 10
Pets: 3
Wu-Tang: 7 at my first go-through
Best Pictures: 4
G+: 5

Total: 29

All the rest are zeros. I'm one of those weird folks with no first cousins.

Projected high: according to my phone, also 100, which sadly is a bit of relief from the past week or so.

posted by ufez 12 July | 08:04

1. Baseball/softball: not possible where I live, 0 points (will gain revenge in a future round of Points! by awarding points for things that can only be done in the UK)
2. Swimming pool: 3
3. Pet: 1
4. Meals: Am assuming "week" means last seven days, & that cooking involves heat, so 6
5. Magazines: 0
6. Wu-Tang Clan: I saw Coffee & Cigarettes so am familiar with the concept, but 0
7. First cousins: 3
8. Harry Potter: 7
9. Best Picture winners: King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, No Country For Old Men, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, A Beautiful Mind, so 6.
10. Google+ circles: 2 (haven't figured it out properly yet)

Total: 28

Tiebreaker: Predicted high 64 (18 in celsius but I figured I would get more points for F. Also: this is pathetic for July, even in this country).

posted by altolinguistic 12 July | 08:13

Baseball: only been to one game (Orioles) so far, but I have tickets in hand for two more (Cubs and White sox) so I am going to count them. 3
Swimming pool: Thank you, early vacations: 10
Pets: 0
Meal this week or meal in the last 7 days? If this week (from Sunday) that would be 2. If the last 7 days, that would be 9.
Bathroom magazines: nope, not in our place. 0.
Wu-Tang: 3. Probably the 3 that most ppl will get?
Cousins: Catholic family, yo. 10 points and could get more.
Harry Potter: all the books, nothing else. 7.
Best Pictures: 7. I wish I had seen A Beautiful Mind rather than Million Dollar Baby, which I loathed.
Google+ circles: 5.

Total: 47, or 53 if it's meals in the last 7 days.

Tiebreaker: 91 in Manhattan

posted by gaspode 12 July | 08:19

(Sorry about the unintentional US-centric-ness, alto--let's edit baseball/softball to bat-and-ball games, which will include cricket, rounders, Oina, Vigoro, etc.)

posted by box 12 July | 08:20

(aww, thanks box, but I score 0 anyway...)

posted by altolinguistic 12 July | 08:35

0 for baseball/softball
0 for being in a pool (Although I am looking at possibly joining the Y in order to get lessons and free swimming since I hate being outside in the heat.)
0 for pets
1 for cooking (Does reheating something previously cooked count?)
0 magazines in bathroom
0 for Wu-Tang Clan
0 for first cousins (because I have no idea how my family is laid out)
7 for Harry Potter
2 for LOTR and Chicago
0 for Google+

= 10 points

Tiebreaker: 98F predicted in Burtonsville.

posted by sperose 12 July | 08:36

1. Baseball, many: 10
2. Swimming pool: 0
3. Pets, 2 cats + 1 spider: 3
4. Home cooking: 2
5. Magazines: 0
6. Wu-Tang Clan, rap group?, no idea: 0
7. Cousins: 10
8. Harry Potter, never read or seen:0
9. Best Pictures: 7
10. Google+ circles, maximum ten points: 7

Total: 39

Weather: 89 in Da 'Burgh.

posted by octothorpe 12 July | 08:50

1 pet.
10 meals.
10 magazines (if we include professional journals)
5 cousins
7 Harry Potter
8 Best Pictures. (though none were seen in a theater)
7 for g+
0 for the others.
-----
48

Tie breaker is tie with gaspode.

posted by Obscure Reference 12 July | 08:53

1. One point for every baseball/softball game you've attended this season. 0
2. One point for each time you've been in a swimming pool this year. 5. Unless hot tubs count, then 10.
3. One point for each pet in your home. 3
4. One point for each meal you've cooked this week. 4--Unless you mean "last seven days", then it's 8.
5. One point for each magazine in your bathroom. 0
6. One point for each Wu-Tang Clan member you can name off the top of your head. 0
7. One point for each of your first cousins. 10
8. One point for each Harry Potter book you've read. 0
9. One point for each of the last ten years' Best Picture winners you've seen. 5
10. One point for each of your Google+ circles. 6

33 (or 41, depending)

Tiebreaker: What's today's predicted high temperature where you live? 85.

posted by crush-onastick 12 July | 09:08

Pets - 3
Week starting Sunday morning - 7
Mags in bathroom - 10
First cousins - 10 (my dad had 6 brothers)
Harry Potter - 7
Movies - 6
Google+ circles - 3
____________________
46

Predicted temperature - 67 (I do not mind a low score on this one. . .in fact, I do not mind rubbing this one in your sweaty faces. . .)

posted by danf 12 July | 09:25

1. Baseball/softball: none
2. Pool: none.
3. Pets: none.
4. Cooking: none. (We're moving.)
5. Magazines: none. (See above, and we're out of old New Yorkers, though I am very tempted to get the iPad subscription.)
6. Wu-Tang: Um... RZA, Ghostface Killah, ODB (do we get extra points for naming extra ODB names, like Dirt McGurt or Big Baby Jesus?)
7. First cousins: heh, 10. (My parents have eight and four siblings; I have 15 first cousins by blood and at least five stepcousins of more than 25 years in the family whose parent didn't have any kids of their own.)
8. Harry Potter: 7, just the originals.
9. Best Picture: 6. I've missed NCfOM (he scared me!), Crash, MDB and ABM.
10. Google+ circles: 9.
_________________________
35 (or 37, if I get the ODB points!)

Temperature: 81. We're moving on Thursday and it had better not be over 85.

posted by Madamina 12 July | 10:27

Aaaaand maybe I shouldn't have posted the actual Wu-Tang names.

I very nearly went to a Wu-Tang show last year, just because.

posted by Madamina 12 July | 10:28

1. One point for every baseball/softball game you've attended this season (MLB, minor-league, little kids, bar leagues, whatever), maximum ten points. 0
2. One point for each time you've been in a swimming pool this year, maximum ten points. 0
3. One point for each pet in your home, maximum ten points. Does in your home actually mean inside the home, or do outdoor pets count? If indoor, 2. If outdoor, 4. (Doesn't really matter. Questions 1 and 2 have me immediately out of the running!)
4. One point for each meal you've cooked this week, maximum ten points. This week, as in the past 7 days, or this week, beginning two days ago? 7 or 2, depending.
5. One point for each magazine in your bathroom, maximum ten points. 0. They're on the coffee table.
6. One point for each Wu-Tang Clan member you can name off the top of your head, maximum ten points. That RZA person is one, right? 1.
7. One point for each of your first cousins, maximum ten points. There are lots. 10.
8. One point for each Harry Potter book you've read, maximum ten points (there are seven HP books, but you can get the last three points for reading companion books or making-of-movie books or the Quidditch rulebook or something) 0
9. One point for each of the last ten years' Best Picture winners you've seen (King's Speech, Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire*, No Country For Old Men*, The Departed*, Crash, Million Dollar Baby*, LOTR: Return of the King, Chicago*, A Beautiful Mind), maximum ten points. 5.
10. One point for each of your Google+ circles, maximum ten points. I still don't understand Google+. I'm lumping everyone into friends or acquaintances. 2.

Claiming maximum points, 29.

Predicted tie-breaking high: A freakish, unseasonable, delicious 80 degrees.

posted by mudpuppie 12 July | 11:03

3 - swimming pool
1 - cat
3 - meals cooked, assuming you mean since Monday
3 - three first cousins
3 - Harry Potter books
2 - Best Picture winners
4 - Google+ circles, though I have people in only 1 of them.

19. Not gonna bother with the tie-breaker.

posted by occhiblu 12 July | 11:07

0 for baseball/softball games (though we're going to see the Red Sox next week, whooo!).
0 points for swimming pools this year.
0 points for pets.
10 points for meals: they've mostly been fast (omelettes, sandwiches) or cold (salads, chilled vegetable dishes) but I cooked 'em all right!
0 point for magazine in your bathroom. We had to empty out THE ENTIRE BATHROOM for the plumber.
3 points for Wu-Tang Clan members, but I see Madamina's point about not naming them here. I will say I double-checked on Wikipedia after I had three in my head, and I'm surprised I didn't come up with at least one more.
3 point for first cousins.
1 point for the first Harry Potter book.
4 points for Best Picture winners: No Country For Old Men, The Departed, Chicago, A Beautiful Mind)
0 points for Google+.

21 points before tiebreaker.

Tiebreaker: What's today's predicted high temperature where you live?

85. Wait, that's the weather.com high! Local forecast calls for 87!

posted by Elsa 12 July | 11:17

1 for knowing Ghostface Killah
10 for First Cousins (about 30, my mother's from a big family)
7 for all Harry Potter books
6 Best Picture
6 Google+ circles

Total: 30

posted by TheophileEscargot 12 July | 11:23

(Looks like most people have been using a seven-day week, so let's go with that.)

51 points for 'pode, 48 for Obscure Reference, 46 for danf, 41 for crushy.

Keep those entries coming, Pointers--somebody can still sneak away with this thing.

posted by box 12 July | 11:40

0 points for baseball games
3 points for swimming pools
3 points for pets
7 points for meal-cooking
0 points for bathroom magazines
0 points for Wu-Tang members
0 points for cousins -- both my parents were only children
8 points for Harry Potter -- all the books plus The Tales of Beetle the Bard
9 points for Oscar winners -- haven't seen The King's Speech
0 points for Google+

TOTAL: 30 points

High temperature: 92 degrees

posted by fancyoats 12 July | 12:08

1. 1 (Mets with mom)
2. 0
3. 0 (I think keeping animals captive is wrong)
4. 0 (haven't eaten, been sick)
5. 0 (I keep a copy of Deliverance in there instead. Dog-eared to the "good part.")
6. 8, 9 if Redman counts.
7. well over 10, big Irish family
8. 7
9. 2 (Slumdog and LotR; I don't watch many new movies and "best picture" often = largest turd.)
10. 0 (Deleted my + account due to icky privacy settings.)

posted by Eideteker 12 July | 12:09

1. no games
2. no pools
3. 3 pets
4. 6 meals
5. The magazines live in my bedroom.
6. 3 Wu-Tang
7. 4 that I know of on my mother's side but there are tons of others I don't know.
8. 7 books
9. 9, haven't seen Million Dollar Baby
10. I just have one, I haven't bothered with it much yet.

33
It's suppose to be in the nineties.

posted by ethylene 12 July | 12:19

1. +0 no ball games
2. +0 no swimming pools
3. +1 for Olive
4. +3 since Sunday, and I'll cook tonight
5. +0 no magazines
6. +0 this is a band, I know that much
7. +7 four on my mom's side, three on my dad's
8. +0 no Harry Potter
9. +6 haven't seen Hurt Locker, Thr Departed, Chicago, or A Beautiful Mind
10. +1 only one so far, haven't had time to play with it

TOTAL: 18

TB: 66 degrees but I doubt it'll break 60.

posted by rhapsodie 12 July | 12:38

1. 0
2. 0
3. 2
4. 10
5. 0
6. Is Barney Frank one of them? If not then 0.
7. 10
8. 2
9. 9
10. 4

Total:37
Tiebreaker: 89

posted by arse_hat 12 July | 13:08

1. 0
2. 5
3. 5 (counting each fish tank/chicken coop as 1 pet )
4. 2? (does microwaving stuff count as cooking?)
5. 2
6. 0
7. 10
8. 0
9. 1
10. 0

Total: 25
Tie: 97

posted by danostuporstar 12 July | 13:29

+ 0 (gooooo Pirates)
+ 2 (kiddie pool, with nephew)
+ 1 (good old kitty)
+ 10 (mostly omelets)
+ 10 (old issues of National Geographic, but I never actually read in there)
+ 0 (what)
+ 8 (Kevin, Chris, David, Kristin, Kendra, Nathan, Bethany, and Mark)
+ 7 (shut up)
+ 8 (haven't seen Hurt Locker or Million Dollar Baby, yet)
+ 0 (need to update my browsers before I can set up)
= 46

posted by notquitemaryann 12 July | 15:53

05 - pets
10 - magazines (the mister lets them pile up, drives me bonkers)
05 - cousins (maternal side only, no idea about paternal, but it's lots)
10 - Harry Potter books (I have three of the companion books)
06 - movies
03 - G+ circles

39 points

70F - tie breaker

posted by deborah 12 July | 15:53

0 for baseball/softball
5 (estimated - probably higher, but I didn't know I was supposed to be keeping track) for swimming pool activity
2 pets
2 for cooking meals
0 for bathroom magazines
0 for something something clan
6 for first cousins
7 for Harry Potter books
1 for 'Best' Pictures
5 G+ circles (although I did briefly consider making 5 more for the points ;-)

28 points.

17c is the predicted high where I live.

posted by dg 12 July | 17:16

At the end of the workday, I'll call it for gaspode and her 51 points.

Congratulations, gaspode, and everybody stay tuned for the next game of Points!

posted by box 12 July | 17:29

1. baseball/softball 0
2. swimming pool 0
3. pets - 4
4. meals - define week. My Monday was Friday so I'll call it 4.
5. magazine - 0
6. Wu-Tang Clan - 0
7. cousins - 7.5. One is a step cousin.
8. Harry Potter - 7
9. Best Picture winners: 2 No Country For Old Men & LOTR: Return of the King
10. Google+ circles: 7

TOTAL: 31.5

Tiebreaker: 90

posted by mygothlaundry 12 July | 17:29

0 for baseball/softball
5 for pools
1 for pets
5 for cooking
5 magazines in bathroom
3 for Wu-Tang Clan
5 for first cousins
0 for Harry Potter
3 for films
6 for Google+

total: 33 points

high of 91

posted by rmless2 12 July | 21:01

Not eligible, but just to play: one for pets, nine for meals (lotta omelet breakfasts), ten for Wu-Tang (Cappadonna is the Billy Preston of the Wu), nine for cousins, five for Hurt Locker, No Country, Departed, Crash and Beautiful Mind, six circles (though I'll probably collapse Metafilter and Metachat together sometime soon).

Forty points, and it went a little over a hundred today.

posted by box 12 July | 21:37

FWIW (now that this is more or less over) - of the original 9 Wu-Tangers, I missed Masta Killa and U-God. I never remember U-God.

posted by ufez 12 July | 23:10

A dismal 28. Only made that much by having 5 pets, having read all the Potter books, and having seen all the flicks. And high temp imSeattle today also a measly but comfy 69 .

posted by bearwife 13 July | 00:17

1 cat
10 meals
2 first cousins that I know of and they may be dead
7 Potters
8 movies but only Chicago impressed me
3 circles

31 points

90

posted by Ardiril 13 July | 00:28

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