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Re: rtlToronto11 Name Contest
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Mon, 13 May 2002 01:26:55 GMT
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"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
"Bridge Over Troubled Linoleum"
"A Bridge Too Far"
"A Brick Too Far"

"How Long Is The Gap? 6 Feet.
How Wide Is The Gap? 1 Foot.
I Will Build My Bridge ACROSS The Gap."
(apologies to The Goon Show)

Personally, I like "A Brick Too Far".

Calum Tsang wrote:

> Figure out a name for the rtl11 Contest that's funny and witty.  It should
> be in the form of:
> 
>         rtlToronto11: Fall Into the Gap
>         rtlToronto11: No Robot is an Island.
> 
>         Use the words "bridge" or "gap" or "island" or some combination.
> Extra points if you use the word "flag".
> 
> Prize:  A Lego octopus or a PCI DEC Tulip Ethernet card.
> 
> Background:
> 
> Every rtlToronto event has a formal name, a series name, and a slogan name.
> For example:  rtlToronto10 has the formal name of "The Tenth Toronto Lego
> Robotics Event", the series name "rtlToronto10" and the slogan "Project X".
> The slogan is usually something funny or related to the challenge (ie,
> Project X was about making an X pattern robot, and also happened to be the
> tenth event in Roman numerals) Some slogans include "Show Me the Monkey"
> (Monkeybars robots), "Fear of a Bot Planet" (after a Futurama episode and
> the seminal Public Enemy album, "Fear of a Black Planet") and "The Plastic
> Dust is Normal".
> 
> Extra groaning is preferred, they tend to be really cheesy.  (Cuba Gooding
> Jr hasn't returned our calls for rtl9)
> 
> Calum
> PS-I don't have to use your idea so don't feel bad. :)
> 



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(...) I agree. It gets my vote. Jeff E (24 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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Figure out a name for the rtl11 Contest that's funny and witty. It should be in the form of: rtlToronto11: Fall Into the Gap rtlToronto11: No Robot is an Island. Use the words "bridge" or "gap" or "island" or some combination. Extra points if you (...) (24 years ago, 12-May-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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