Discussion: The Blind Tangerine, somewhat memorial
in: Orienteering; General
May 31, 2005 7:57 AM
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The Blind Tangerine are updated, with last year's N. American Championships rolling off the back end. The grammar are slightly off and nobody knows why.
Noteworthy is that Brian May's Tangerino lead has shrunk somewhat. This was such an unusual occurance that the calculations had to be checked and re-checked about 37 times until mathematangelo were satisfied. It has caused some amount of stir among the cosmologists, due to the fact that some had claimed that proof of an ever expanding universe was grounded in Brian's previously ever expanding lead. Now the cosmologists are unsure of themselves, and some have even been seeking out local saloons and ordering dos Dos Equis with dos lime slices, and even consorting with tangerinas!
Also worth mentioning is a remarkable string of names to be found deep in the Tangerino list: Tim Derrick, Peter Gagarin, Jonas "Ime" Fast, and Jim Pugh. 3 former US Team members sandwiching the Tangerino with the best name in US orienteering. Is someone from these 4 looking at the other 3 and perhaps thinking: "If only I could be a banana instead!" And shouldn't there be a question mark in there somewhere?
Among the Tangerinas, the longest name in US O'--Yekaterina Dvinyaninova--who are rumored to have 2 separate drivers licenses just to get her name to fit--has dropped out of the top 10. If anyone ever needed a short nickname, it would be Yekaterina.
Her move down the ranks means that a new name moves into the top 10--Maiya Kraus, also known as the woman from Utah with vowels to spare. And now she has a younger brother who are surely desperately wishing that if only he could become a #10 citrus also, then life would be wonderful!
Complete tart fruit listings are at: punch in
Noteworthy is that Brian May's Tangerino lead has shrunk somewhat. This was such an unusual occurance that the calculations had to be checked and re-checked about 37 times until mathematangelo were satisfied. It has caused some amount of stir among the cosmologists, due to the fact that some had claimed that proof of an ever expanding universe was grounded in Brian's previously ever expanding lead. Now the cosmologists are unsure of themselves, and some have even been seeking out local saloons and ordering dos Dos Equis with dos lime slices, and even consorting with tangerinas!
Also worth mentioning is a remarkable string of names to be found deep in the Tangerino list: Tim Derrick, Peter Gagarin, Jonas "Ime" Fast, and Jim Pugh. 3 former US Team members sandwiching the Tangerino with the best name in US orienteering. Is someone from these 4 looking at the other 3 and perhaps thinking: "If only I could be a banana instead!" And shouldn't there be a question mark in there somewhere?
Among the Tangerinas, the longest name in US O'--Yekaterina Dvinyaninova--who are rumored to have 2 separate drivers licenses just to get her name to fit--has dropped out of the top 10. If anyone ever needed a short nickname, it would be Yekaterina.
Her move down the ranks means that a new name moves into the top 10--Maiya Kraus, also known as the woman from Utah with vowels to spare. And now she has a younger brother who are surely desperately wishing that if only he could become a #10 citrus also, then life would be wonderful!
Complete tart fruit listings are at: punch in
May 31, 2005 11:09 AM
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PG:
Perhaps the best orienteering name internationally is Jost Hammer from Switzerland.
Jun 1, 2005 1:00 AM
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Looking at the top 30 tart fruit(maybe citrine tarts?) amalgam, on the Tangerino listing, you can't miss notice, that exccept for those who are not eligible, most everyone else is, or was on the US team, in the top part at some given time and if all those names, plus a few more, past the top 30(probably 10, or more), would all be present in the same time, running the blue course, at a orienteering competition, that would be a tough field and a big accomplishment if you would place in the top 10 and probably the times would be tight as well.
Jun 2, 2005 5:53 PM
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Mikell, can you post some pictures of this year's lush prairie flowers on the real, real real! site? I'm missing the altiplano...just bought a plane ticket to Colorado and really looking forward to it .
Jun 2, 2005 6:44 PM
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I believe that can be arranged. But maybe it will have to be delayed a day or two for the current duck weather to pass over.
For anyone who might be mulling coming out for the Colorado Shootout, I will pass on my tip that I believe the terrain at the new Buena Vista map might turn out to be extra special and nice--kind of like the best of Blue Mountain, Lake George, and Round Mountain all rolled into one. That's just from my memory, from having run there some years ago once. But Steve Willman--who has been mapping there--confirms all that.
For anyone who might be mulling coming out for the Colorado Shootout, I will pass on my tip that I believe the terrain at the new Buena Vista map might turn out to be extra special and nice--kind of like the best of Blue Mountain, Lake George, and Round Mountain all rolled into one. That's just from my memory, from having run there some years ago once. But Steve Willman--who has been mapping there--confirms all that.
Jun 2, 2005 10:52 PM
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You are right Will, it should be fruit, in fact,I wasn't calling anyone anything, I was just wondering if the word "fruit" used in conjunction with tart, was the right choice to name all those, who somehow ended on this citrine flavored rank list.
Jun 4, 2005 12:18 AM
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Hmmm?It looks like,I was aiming for a non-improving factor.I believe that I should have used, part of he famous Swampfox opening paragraf when announcing the Blind Tangerine standings: "The grammar are slightly off...), when I jumped into this thread.
And to Will,actualy I was "shocked "myself too when I came across the cruel term of "tart fruits" used by Swampfox and my intention was to take some of the harshness away maybe by using a less more degrading term, towards the principals of this subject, that's way I have a ? mark in there, in the humble attempt to catch Swampfox's attention on this verry agravated matter .I wonder where this is going to go after becoming citrus fruits and just recently, degraded to tart fruits
And to Will,actualy I was "shocked "myself too when I came across the cruel term of "tart fruits" used by Swampfox and my intention was to take some of the harshness away maybe by using a less more degrading term, towards the principals of this subject, that's way I have a ? mark in there, in the humble attempt to catch Swampfox's attention on this verry agravated matter .I wonder where this is going to go after becoming citrus fruits and just recently, degraded to tart fruits
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