Discussion: The Blind Tangerine, many down, 2 to go

The Blind Tangerine are updated to reflect the rolling off of the one scoring day from last year's CNYO race. The grammar are slightly off and nobody knows why. Tangerinas were barely disturbed, so slight were the scoring there. There were more numerous, if small, ripplings up and down the Tangerino tree, and Sergey Velichko have moved to #6 citrine fruit, while at long last--some said it would never happen--JJ Cote' have gone on to a higher branch than Patrick Shannon, after hanging lower all year long.

But the year are not over yet, with one weekend of races yet to come, and one yet to roll off, before all is said and done for 2005. As for next year, be careful! Someone could be slipping something hot and spicy into the stew. You just never know.

Complete numerical segmentaciousness are at: http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Stadium/7418/ta...

Now that I've actually read the methodology with the intention of understanding it (in all its citrine juiciness), I'm curious as to how the first rankings were produced. A random group of tangerinos and tangerinas with scores of 50 or some-such?

It was all hocus pocus. That, and using the prior year's US rankings to seed things with, plus a little water and fertilizer got things going.

All good botanists keep samples of their pets at various stages of growth. Is there such a tangerine archive? It would be an interesting historical archive...

The Blind Tangerine are probably nowhere archived. But to be sure, maybe you should ask the sole orienteering botanist, Clint Morse. He has some giant plant specimens, so maybe he has some giant archives as well.

I've ripened past peak citrine tartness myself and so don't often mingle with the tangerinum except for goats and sprints where 5 year age brackets don't limit the mixing of fruits.

No archives here, just compost....

Rutaceously yours...

"Rutaceously yours" is almost enough to make one want to rename a ranking list...

I've just been checking out the lists again, basking in the glow of my ranking. The 52-week window reminded me that a mere 51 weeks ago I participated in the US Long/Short Champs, poison-oak and all. Well, if you want to see some carnage ... check out my ranking a week from now!

Hey, Brian,
that is a good reason to start training and racing again, if you still have it in you.

"Rutaceously yours" is almost enough to make one want to rename a ranking list...

well its not often one gets to use such words in orienteering context - probably sent j-man scrambling for a dictionary too :-)

wonder what one might come up with if one crossed a blind tangerine with a buddha's hand? a new attack badger repellent perhaps?

I must admit, I've never seen that word. And I decided that because life is not worth living if it doesn't contain some mystery, that I have to let it slide.

j-man, you were born to be a Finn--you just don't know it. With all their long words, you would be in hog heaven and would never want to stir back out of the mud.

I'm a Finn so that explains a lot. Though I've never been able to figure out much of that language either.

Ru`ta´ceous
a. 1. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutaceæ) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu. (and by definition all fruits citrine)

C'est le mot juste!

Keep that kind of thing up j-man, and you are going to have ranking points deducted.

Don't tell me you are one of those pickup drivin' Bordeaux dumpin' Franco-phobes. I thought you were doing your part to make Larmie the Paris of the land-locked plains.