Monday, 15 April 2013

Name these girls - The results

The Leprechaun did it! Pallottine matched 11 out of 13, an amazing result! Here's the winning selection. He switched TW and Betzy. The rest are spot on. Well done, Irish!

1-Spike
2-Queen
3-Sleuth
4-TW
5-CC
6-Mrs G
7-Amy
8-Betsy
9-Regina
10-Rip
11-GrannyJ
12-PGFan
13-Molly

These are the results,which you can compare to your lists at a glance:

01 - Spike
02 - Queen of Sheeba
03 - Sleuth
04 - Betzy
05 - CC
06 - Mrsgunka
07 - Amy (Ottoline)
08 - Tumbleweed
09 - Regina
10 - Ripley
11 - GrannyJ
12 - PGFan
13 - Molly Malone

The runner-up is Betzy (who did very well on her first and only attempt), with 9 correct matches.

Congratulations to the winners!

You proved to be a very competitive bunch, just for the fun of it, considering that there were no prizes involved... New ideas for future competitions are very welcome. This was great fun and deserves to be repeated.

Spike

Queen of Sheeba

Sleuth

Betzy

CC

Mrsgunka

Amy (Ottoline)

Tumbleweed

Regina

Ripley

GrannyJ

PGFan

Molly Malone

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Name these girls - Second chance

The guessing competition is proving to be very popular and attracted lots of comments. I decided to re-post the photos with clearer rules. I'm also doing this to make my life simpler. I would go crazy trying to go through 350+ comments to retrieve your lists!

Rules:

1) People who appear in the photos are allowed to match 10 pictures to the names, to avoid "outing" themselves.

2) Everybody else (not in the photos, lurkers and accidental visitors) may match them all, but anybody with 10 correct guesses wins.

3) If revising your lists, please do not edit. Post a fresh list in a new comment. It would be impossible for me to keep track of the edits.

I will re-post everything again the day before the results and you'll have a last chance to revise your lists.

The entrants, in no particular order, are:

Betzy
Tumbleweed
Molly Malone
Ripley
GrannyJ
PGFan
Spike
Queen of Sheeba
CC
Mrsgunka
Sleuth
Amy (Ottoline)
Regina (Moi!)

Please match the photos to the names and post the number of the photo with the chosen name alongside it in the comments. I'll collect all your choices and announce the winner in a few days, when I'll post all the pictures with their respective names.

Lurkers and newcomers are most welcome to post their guesses. The more, the merrier...

Have fun!

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Saturday, 13 April 2013

Name these girls

The child photo competition is finally upon us! I thought it would make it trickier if all the photos appeared in black & white, but any colour originals will be posted when the results are announced. Some photos have been cropped, enlarged or tweaked for clarity.

The entrants, in no particular order, are:

Betzy
Tumbleweed
Molly Malone
Ripley
GrannyJ
PGFan
Spike
Queen of Sheeba
CC
Mrsgunka
Sleuth
Amy (Ottoline)
Regina (Moi!)

Please match the photos to the names and post the number of the photo with the chosen name alongside it in the comments. I'll collect all your choices and announce the winner later next week, when I'll post all the pictures with their respective names.

Lurkers are most welcome to post their guesses. The more, the merrier...

Have fun!

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UPDATE

I've observed the selections coming in and realized that if the entrants make choices for all 13 photos, other people would be able to guess them all (eventually) by a process of elimination.

In order to prevent this from happening, I think entrants should be able to select a maximum of 10 photos. People with no photos up there may try to guess all of them, but to make things fair, anybody with 10 correct guesses wins.

Does it sound fair to you?

Friday, 12 April 2013

The Leprechaun

The childhood photo competition starts tomorrow. It was our resident Leprechaun's idea, following a post where his young self appeared and readers were invited to guess who it was. As I didn't give many clues, the guesses were rather amusing. Somebody suggested Paul Newman!

Well... not quite:



I have to admit that Pallottine is just as handsome as Paul Newman in his school photo...

Thank you for the great idea, Pallottine. The competition will be a lot of fun!

Thursday, 11 April 2013

Funny dogs

These dogs (and their butts) are quite amusing:




Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Green art

The weather seems to be very changeable everywhere lately, keeping people indoors. Here are some outdoor artistic efforts... they put a smile on my face.





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CHILDHOOD PHOTO COMPETITION

I needed to have a deadline for the entries and decided on Friday, April 12. The post will go up on Saturday so people can take their guesses over the weekend. If you haven't sent your childhood photo yet, there are still a few days to do so. Please send them to my e-mail address on the sidebar.

Merci!