Official Great Works Draft (4 Viewers)

[anborn]

34.18

easily the worst video game ever...

 

[timschochet]

Good morning. I know BobbyLayne's comments are heartfelt but I still respectfully disagree. In the past two drafts, the category judging sparked arguments and some bitterness and vitriol, but it also generated a lot of very interesting discussions and debates, and I think it will do so here as well. The Jazz discussion represents one part of this draft which is very valuable, but the rankings and figuring out who wins is also valuable. Just my opinion.

 

[El Floppo]

 

[BobbyLayne]

B a b i e s are g r e a t

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Ah, what do most of you know from funny. I'm killing here and I feel like Michael Richards in a Harlem bar.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Ah, what do most of you know from funny. I'm killing here and I feel like Michael Richards in a Harlem bar.

We're picking up on it.The irony of stating your preference for the white slugger (Babe) over the two black guys (Hank and Barry), followed by taking That N*gger's Crazy - not lost on anyone.

 

[Postradamus]

skip me like I have a rock on my square. will be back after I sleep forever.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Round Fourteen

1. Yankee23 Fan Founding Brothers

The follow up sequel, Nagging Sisters didn't catch on, even though there were cool stories of Dotty Madison and Abigal Adams using a cuss word at one meal.

2. Tirnan Schindler's List

The mother of all honey-do lists, no?

3. Genedoc Dvorak's "From The New World" Symphony

The best movement? "Small Pox Blankets of Warmth in C minor" and "Do you have a flag?"

4. DC Thunder Poor Richard's Almanack

Maybe he wouldn't be poor if he stopped spening all his time writing useless stuff and getting a job?

5. Scott Norwood Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses

Anyone get the notion that Martin Luther looked like the little asian chick in PCU that Jeremy Piven gave a paper to because the computers destroyed all their work?

6. Bob Lee Swagger The Marriage of Figaro

Why is his marriage important? How about really amazing marriages, like whenever Smoo finds a victim.

7. Misfit Blondes The Charter of the United Nations

This was signed on June 26, 1945. Know what else happened on June 26? Julia Roberts married Lyle Lovitt, Elvis performed his last concert and Kennedy gave his I am a donut speech. Not exactly a great day in American history.

8. Uncle Humuna Van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers

He painted a vase. With flowers. 15 of them. Hmmm. My son painted 16 once. Even gave them smiley faces. Beat that.

9. Mister CIA Rhapsody In Blue

Herbie Hancock played this on TV once. Herbie, of course, being the guy who signed the Declaration of Independence really big. It's true. Ask Chris Farley.

10. El Floppo Twilight Zone

Where wikkid makes sense, Flysack isn't arrogant, and krista didn't marry a nerd who is willing to spend time judging an idraft on a message board his wife vists to escape the reality of him.

11. thatguy Monet's Rouen Cathedral

From far away it looks great, but as you get closer it's just a mess.

12. wikkidpissah Seinfeld

The guy who thinks everything about him is important drafts the show about nothing. Freud would love this guy.

13. Tides of War Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird

The book PETA has been trying to ban for 50 years.

14. BobbyLayne Bach's Toccata & Fugue

I like mine with a nice red wine sauce.

15. Abrantes T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland

Yeah yeah, I'm still a sucker for a good limrick. Ever hear the one about the girl from Venus.....

16. DougB The Stirrup

Something to rest your foot in is now on this list. Who is going to draft that little platform on the left side of the brake pedal for automatic cars?

17. timschochet Anthony Hopkins in The Silence Of The Lambs

True story - to get into the character, Hopkins tried to eat one of the grips on the set one day. They had to tie him up and put a mask on his head so that he would stop. It looked kinda cool, so they filmed the hangar scene with him still strapped up. Also, the jail scene where Clarrise had the unfortunate moment where a certain bodily fluid was throw at her face was what turned her gay. It's all wiki. Very cool.

18. Postradamus Discovery of Dinosaur fossils

So, someone dug a whole and there was a bone. Are we going to draft dogs next?

19. Rodg12 Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

The greatest music ever written. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for letting this fall this far.

20. Krista4 Oral Contraceptives

Interesting that she takes it, no? Stories? Please?

 

[krista4]

Eh, I'm up. Gonna take me a while; no idea what I'm doing. Will try to scurry along as quickly as I can.

 

[krista4]

UH - you're right, senior moment there...42-43 Dizzy and Yardbird were creating (unrecorded!! because of the strike) the new sound that lost the whiteys. The 'Cool Jazz Break' is overexaggerated, though - most of the guys came from bebop.

OK, done boiling baby bottles, one last Hipple® for the road...

This kind of free flowing discussion - arguing which album had more influence, sharing concert or exhibit experiences, back story info, talking about how a pick impact your life in a personal way - that is the best part of the draft.

'twas a lot of that, especially early, in the Greatest American Draft. That's why most of us liked that one best.

There was a lot more self-pimping in the Worlds Greatest. The two biggest debbie downers were religion and Sun Tzu 1.01, but whipping it out to see who's bigger gets old quick.

IN BOTH DRAFTS, the judging sucked. Some were better than others. But IMO, there just wasn't much added value - and it caused a lot of dissension. Too much nashing of teeth for something that should be fun. Ditto for the playoffs, which were a jok:e:

This draft? Actually...I'm not sure, I haven't really paid attention (as I have demonstrated with my :honda: picks). I know everyone is weary of arguments about wrestlemania and soap.

That's why I have had an epiphany this week that krista4 is right. Judging, rankings, its OK if that is what the majority wants, but seriously, the enrichment factor is from the discussion, not who wins.

I kinda need a new sig.

 

[krista4]

Stevie needs some more love here:

34.20 Innervisions - Stevie Wonder (Album)

Probably the album I listen to more than any other. Perfection from beginning to end.

 

[krista4]

For Fennis:

35.01 Gypsy: A Musical Fable Music Jule Styne Lyrics Stephen Sondheim Book Arthur Laurents

Gypsy has been referred to as the greatest American musical by numerous critics and writers, among them Ben Brantley and Frank Rich; Rich even goes so far as to call it the American musical theatre's answer to King Lear. Theater critic Clive Barnes wrote that "Gypsy is one of the best of musicals...." He described the character of Rose as "one of the few truly complex characters in the American musical...."

My wife is a Sondheim nut. I was tempted by a few other Sondheim's, especially those where he also wrote the music, but this is typically considered the best musical, so I went with Gypsy. I just liked this quote, I can't get in a lot of detail because of spotlighting a couple of his other plays, but I think it shows that unlike many (most?) musicals, a typical Sondheim will challenge you and have complex, interesting characters and plots.

Sondheim took a dim view of today's musicals. What works now, he said, are musicals that are easy to take; audiences don't want to be challenged.

 

[Abrantes]

Stevie needs some more love here:34.20 Innervisions - Stevie Wonder (Album)Probably the album I listen to more than any other. Perfection from beginning to end.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Stevie needs some more love here:

34.20 Innervisions - Stevie Wonder (Album)

Probably the album I listen to more than any other. Perfection from beginning to end.

Todo tambien chevre.

Chev-re.

 

[timschochet]

I love Ethel Merman's voice in that show- one of the great distinctive voices in American theatre:

I had a DREAM!!! A DREAM about YOU BABE!!!

YOU'LL...

BE...

SWELL!!! You'll be great! You will have the whole world on a PLATE!!!

She belts it out.

 

[krista4]

Stevie needs some more love here:

34.20 Innervisions - Stevie Wonder (Album)

Probably the album I listen to more than any other. Perfection from beginning to end.

Todo tambien chevre.

Chev-re.

I love that part, though at the same time it also creeps me out a little.OK, I went back and forth between this and one other pick, so this is my official request that no one steal my other pick. TIA.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

I love Ethel Merman's voice in that show- one of the great distinctive voices in American theatre:

I had a DREAM!!! A DREAM about YOU BABE!!!

YOU'LL...

BE...

SWELL!!! You'll be great! You will have the whole world on a PLATE!!!

She belts it out.

 

[Fennis]

Stevie needs some more love here:34.20 Innervisions - Stevie Wonder (Album)Probably the album I listen to more than any other. Perfection from beginning to end.

Team Fennis is killin' it. We found our groove in the later rounds.

 

[Fennis]

I love Ethel Merman's voice in that show- one of the great distinctive voices in American theatre:

I had a DREAM!!! A DREAM about YOU BABE!!!

YOU'LL...

BE...

SWELL!!! You'll be great! You will have the whole world on a PLATE!!!

She belts it out.

You both are spotlighting!

 

[DCThunder]

For Fennis:

35.01 Gypsy: A Musical Fable Music Jule Styne Lyrics Stephen Sondheim Book Arthur Laurents

Gypsy has been referred to as the greatest American musical by numerous critics and writers, among them Ben Brantley and Frank Rich; Rich even goes so far as to call it the American musical theatre's answer to King Lear. Theater critic Clive Barnes wrote that "Gypsy is one of the best of musicals...." He described the character of Rose as "one of the few truly complex characters in the American musical...."

My wife is a Sondheim nut. I was tempted by a few other Sondheim's, especially those where he also wrote the music, but this is typically considered the best musical, so I went with Gypsy. I just liked this quote, I can't get in a lot of detail because of spotlighting a couple of his other plays, but I think it shows that unlike many (most?) musicals, a typical Sondheim will challenge you and have complex, interesting characters and plots.

Sondheim took a dim view of today's musicals. What works now, he said, are musicals that are easy to take; audiences don't want to be challenged.

Here's a little backstory on Gypsy.http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2073/106/

 

[krista4]

The captain of Team Fennis just pointed out to me that we get four, rather than three, acting performances. I would have taken the Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List pick ages ago if I'd realized this.

 

[rodg12]

35.02 - Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock - Movie

I gotta give props to my sister for this pick. She recommended it to me. She's much more in tune with the critically acclaimed classics than I am.

Rear Window (1954) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder", and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond Burr. The film is considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.

Rear Window, which received four Academy Award nominations, was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1997. It was ranked #48 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). Also, it ranks #17 on the IMDB top 250.

IMDB

Wiki

 

[krista4]

35.02 - Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock - Movie

I gotta give props to my sister for this pick. She recommended it to me. She's much more in tune with the critically acclaimed classics than I am.

Rear Window (1954) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder", and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond Burr. The film is considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.

Rear Window, which received four Academy Award nominations, was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1997. It was ranked #48 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). Also, it ranks #17 on the IMDB top 250.

IMDB

Wiki

Your sister is a very smart woman.

 

[timschochet]

I go back and forth between Vertigo and Rear Window as to which one is the best Hitchcock film. IMO, these two rise above the others. It's interesting to note that they both feature voyeurism as a theme, which was something old Alfred was obsessed with. In both movies, James Stewart spends much of his time simply watching other people. Great pick.

 

[rodg12]

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35.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

35.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15)

35.12 - Team CIA (autoskip)

35.13 - Uncle Humuna

 

[Uncle Humuna]

35.02 - Rear Window - Alfred Hitchcock - Movie

I gotta give props to my sister for this pick. She recommended it to me. She's much more in tune with the critically acclaimed classics than I am.

Rear Window (1954) is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder", and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond Burr. The film is considered by many film-goers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures.

Rear Window, which received four Academy Award nominations, was added to the United States National Film Registry in 1997. It was ranked #48 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). Also, it ranks #17 on the IMDB top 250.

IMDB

Wiki

This was the 2nd of 3 movies that I was debating taking with my last spot (took Apocalypse Now).

 

[Fennis]

I go back and forth between Vertigo and Rear Window as to which one is the best Hitchcock film. IMO, these two rise above the others. It's interesting to note that they both feature voyeurism as a theme, which was something old Alfred was obsessed with. In both movies, James Stewart spends much of his time simply watching other people. Great pick.

IMO North By Northwest is his best.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Jeebus - first hour isn't over and its already another day shredding the list.

timschochet - post #2 - it's Toccata & Fugue (correct in post #1, Tocatta in da otter un).

 

[rodg12]

I'll be sure to pass along the compliments to my sis.

 

[BobbyLayne]

I go back and forth between Vertigo and Rear Window as to which one is the best Hitchcock film. IMO, these two rise above the others. It's interesting to note that they both feature voyeurism as a theme, which was something old Alfred was obsessed with. In both movies, James Stewart spends much of his time simply watching other people. Great pick.

IMO North By Northwest is his best.

Here's what is great about Hitchcock - you can get three to six different people arguing for their favorite, and they all have a legitimate claim.

Who else can you say that about within their genre? Beethoven...Miles...not too many.

 

[timschochet]

35.04 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Novel)

Another bizarre and wonderful Russian novel. If you read it, you won't forget it. It's plot is typically absurd: it's been years since the Census, and several upper class are still paying taxes on their dead serfs (slaves.) This unscrupulous merchant (Chichikov) schemes to "buy" these "dead souls" off the wealthy so that he can claim to have hundreds of slaves, winning him prestige- so who cares if they're all dead? A host of interesting and ridiculous characters are encountered along the way.

There's one passage I distinctly remember, but I can't find it to quote, unfortunately. There's this nobleman with nothing to do all day, who determines he's going to write a book that will illuminate all of the grand problems of humanity- he will answer all moral and social questions. The book gets larger and larger in his mind, (it will be several thousand pages) but after the first paragraph, he suffers from "writers block". Soon he is reduced to drawing pictures on the rest of the blank page, and after that he falls asleep.

Highly recommended.

 

[krista4]

I go back and forth between Vertigo and Rear Window as to which one is the best Hitchcock film. IMO, these two rise above the others. It's interesting to note that they both feature voyeurism as a theme, which was something old Alfred was obsessed with. In both movies, James Stewart spends much of his time simply watching other people. Great pick.

IMO North By Northwest is his best.

Here's what is great about Hitchcock - you can get three to six different people arguing for their favorite, and they all have a legitimate claim.

Who else can you say that about within their genre? Beethoven...Miles...not too many.

Critics don't even come anywhere near agreement on this.

I think Vertigo or Rear Window is "best", but my favorite is North by Northwest.

 

[krista4]

35.04 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Novel)

Another bizarre and wonderful Russian novel. If you read it, you won't forget it. It's plot is typically absurd: it's been years since the Census, and several upper class are still paying taxes on their dead serfs (slaves.) This unscrupulous merchant (Chichikov) schemes to "buy" these "dead souls" off the wealthy so that he can claim to have hundreds of slaves, winning him prestige- so who cares if they're all dead? A host of interesting and ridiculous characters are encountered along the way.

There's one passage I distinctly remember, but I can't find it to quote, unfortunately. There's this nobleman with nothing to do all day, who determines he's going to write a book that will illuminate all of the grand problems of humanity- he will answer all moral and social questions. The book gets larger and larger in his mind, (it will be several thousand pages) but after the first paragraph, he suffers from "writers block". Soon he is reduced to drawing pictures on the rest of the blank page, and after that he falls asleep.

Highly recommended.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Thought about this a while ago but thought I could wait. tim, I'm starting to hate you as much as I hate Abrantes.

 

[rodg12]

I go back and forth between Vertigo and Rear Window as to which one is the best Hitchcock film. IMO, these two rise above the others. It's interesting to note that they both feature voyeurism as a theme, which was something old Alfred was obsessed with. In both movies, James Stewart spends much of his time simply watching other people. Great pick.

IMO North By Northwest is his best.

Here's what is great about Hitchcock - you can get three to six different people arguing for their favorite, and they all have a legitimate claim.

Who else can you say that about within their genre? Beethoven...Miles...not too many.

Gotta throw Shakespeare in that group as well.

 

[Uncle Humuna]

I go back and forth between Vertigo and Rear Window as to which one is the best Hitchcock film. IMO, these two rise above the others. It's interesting to note that they both feature voyeurism as a theme, which was something old Alfred was obsessed with. In both movies, James Stewart spends much of his time simply watching other people. Great pick.

IMO North By Northwest is his best.

Here's what is great about Hitchcock - you can get three to six different people arguing for their favorite, and they all have a legitimate claim.

Who else can you say that about within their genre? Beethoven...Miles...not too many.

Gotta throw Shakespeare in that group as well.

Beatles.

 

[BobbyLayne]

I go back and forth between Vertigo and Rear Window as to which one is the best Hitchcock film. IMO, these two rise above the others. It's interesting to note that they both feature voyeurism as a theme, which was something old Alfred was obsessed with. In both movies, James Stewart spends much of his time simply watching other people. Great pick.

IMO North By Northwest is his best.

Here's what is great about Hitchcock - you can get three to six different people arguing for their favorite, and they all have a legitimate claim.

Who else can you say that about within their genre? Beethoven...Miles...not too many.

Gotta throw Shakespeare in that group as well.

:embarrassed: :redface: :shame:Yeah, he didn't suck either.

 

[timschochet]

35.04 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Novel)

Another bizarre and wonderful Russian novel. If you read it, you won't forget it. It's plot is typically absurd: it's been years since the Census, and several upper class are still paying taxes on their dead serfs (slaves.) This unscrupulous merchant (Chichikov) schemes to "buy" these "dead souls" off the wealthy so that he can claim to have hundreds of slaves, winning him prestige- so who cares if they're all dead? A host of interesting and ridiculous characters are encountered along the way.

There's one passage I distinctly remember, but I can't find it to quote, unfortunately. There's this nobleman with nothing to do all day, who determines he's going to write a book that will illuminate all of the grand problems of humanity- he will answer all moral and social questions. The book gets larger and larger in his mind, (it will be several thousand pages) but after the first paragraph, he suffers from "writers block". Soon he is reduced to drawing pictures on the rest of the blank page, and after that he falls asleep.

Highly recommended.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Thought about this a while ago but thought I could wait. tim, I'm starting to hate you as much as I hate Abrantes.

No worries, Krista. We can take this work and perhaps one of your selections and merge them together to make a new piece of art. The name could be "Dead Donkeys".

 

[krista4]

35.04 Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Novel)

Another bizarre and wonderful Russian novel. If you read it, you won't forget it. It's plot is typically absurd: it's been years since the Census, and several upper class are still paying taxes on their dead serfs (slaves.) This unscrupulous merchant (Chichikov) schemes to "buy" these "dead souls" off the wealthy so that he can claim to have hundreds of slaves, winning him prestige- so who cares if they're all dead? A host of interesting and ridiculous characters are encountered along the way.

There's one passage I distinctly remember, but I can't find it to quote, unfortunately. There's this nobleman with nothing to do all day, who determines he's going to write a book that will illuminate all of the grand problems of humanity- he will answer all moral and social questions. The book gets larger and larger in his mind, (it will be several thousand pages) but after the first paragraph, he suffers from "writers block". Soon he is reduced to drawing pictures on the rest of the blank page, and after that he falls asleep.

Highly recommended.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Thought about this a while ago but thought I could wait. tim, I'm starting to hate you as much as I hate Abrantes.

No worries, Krista. We can take this work and perhaps one of your selections and merge them together to make a new piece of art. The name could be "Dead Donkeys".

Why do I get the feeling you aren't going to give critics' 19th-best movie of all time a fair shake?

 

[Abrantes]

Make-up pick:

34.15 Johann Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Nonfiction)

I'm trying to cover a wide range of fields in my nonfiction picks, so as a math , I have to give a shout-out to the dude that's probably my favorite mathematician ever (due to the stories surrounding him as well as his staggering accomplishments). It combines a comprehensive review of past mathematical developments (beyond the scope of any past work) with entirely new findings of his own and ample proof to support it. One of the greatest pure math books in history (a category bound to be underrepresented).

The cultural historian Theodore Merz called it "that great book with seven seals," the mathematician Leopold Kronecker, "the book of all books" : already one century after their publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) had acquired an almost mythical reputation. It had served throughout the XIX th century and beyond as an ideal of exposition in matters of notation, problems and methods; as a model of organisation and theory building; and of course as a source of mathematical inspiration. Various readings of the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae have left their mark on developments as different as Galois's theory of algebraic equations, Lucas's primality tests, and Dedekind's theory of ideals.

Before the Disquisitiones was published, number theory consisted of a collection of isolated theorems and conjectures. Gauss brought the work of his predecessors together with his own original work into a systematic framework, filled in gaps, corrected unsound proofs, and extended the subject in numerous ways.

The logical structure of the Disquisitiones (theorem statement followed by proof, followed by corollaries) set a standard for later texts. While recognising the primary importance of logical proof, Gauss also illustrates many theorems with numerical examples.

The Disquisitiones was the starting point for the work of other nineteenth century European mathematicians including Kummer, Dirichlet and Dedekind. Many of the annotations given by Gauss are in effect announcements of further research of his own, some of which remained unpublished. They must have appeared particularly cryptic to his contemporaries; we can now read them as containing the germs of the theories of L-functions and complex multiplication, in particular.

Gauss' Disquisitiones continued to exert influence in the 20th century. For example, in section V, article 303, Gauss summarized his calculations of class numbers of imaginary quadratic number fields, and conjectured that he had found all imaginary quadratic number fields of class numbers 1, 2, and 3. Sometimes referred to as the Class number problem, this was eventually confirmed in 1986.[1] In section V, article 358, Gauss proved what can be interpreted as the first non-trivial case of the Riemann Hypothesis for curves over finite fields (the Hasse-Weil theorem).[2]

 

[krista4]

Make-up pick:

34.15 Johann Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Nonfiction)

I'm trying to cover a wide range of fields in my nonfiction picks, so as a math , I have to give a shout-out to the dude that's probably my favorite mathematician ever (due to the stories surrounding him as well as his staggering accomplishments). It combines a comprehensive review of past mathematical developments (beyond the scope of any past work) with entirely new findings of his own and ample proof to support it. One of the greatest pure math books in history (a category bound to be underrepresented).

Wow, you have a favorite mathematician. I'd be more likely to make fun of you for that if I hadn't once described a movie as being by "my third-favorite Iranian director".

 

[timschochet]

Why do I get the feeling you aren't going to give critics' 19th-best movie of all time a fair shake?

I'm actually going to let this ogre friend of mine review that film. He promises to be impartial.

 

[rodg12]

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[Doug B]

:deepbreath:

Assuming I'm not yet kicked out, now's the time to get caught up.

OK. Up to what round do I owe? My last pick was Robin Crusoe in 22nd round ... I see we're in the end of the 34th round? That would mean I owe 12 picks, the last being 34.16.

I will make them quickly and without writeups (initially). Also, I will not be able to check the OP the first time around (for speed's sake). If I pick something already taken, please let me know and I will repick.

Am I a go, or have I already been thrown out? If the latter, I understand perfectly.

 

[rodg12]

:deepbreath:

Assuming I'm not yet kicked out, now's the time to get caught up.

OK. Up to what round do I owe? My last pick was Robin Crusoe in 22nd round ... I see we're in the end of the 34th round? That would mean I owe 12 picks, the last being 34.16.

I will make them quickly and without writeups (initially). Also, I will not be able to check the OP the first time around (for speed's sake). If I pick something already taken, please let me know and I will repick.

Am I a go, or have I already been thrown out? If the latter, I understand perfectly.

Full speed ahead, GB. Let 'er rip.ETA: You're last is now 35.05.

 

[BobbyLayne]

GD it Abantes, hurry up with 35.06!!!!!!!!!!



You may fire when ready, Doug B. We ain't letting you out that easy.

 

[krista4]

:deepbreath:

Assuming I'm not yet kicked out, now's the time to get caught up.

OK. Up to what round do I owe? My last pick was Robin Crusoe in 22nd round ... I see we're in the end of the 34th round? That would mean I owe 12 picks, the last being 34.16.

I will make them quickly and without writeups (initially). Also, I will not be able to check the OP the first time around (for speed's sake). If I pick something already taken, please let me know and I will repick.

Am I a go, or have I already been thrown out? If the latter, I understand perfectly.

 

[Fennis]

Make it rain!

 

[rodg12]

Make it rain!

 

[Uncle Humuna]

Make-up pick:

34.15 Johann Gauss' Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (Nonfiction)

I'm trying to cover a wide range of fields in my nonfiction picks, so as a math , I have to give a shout-out to the dude that's probably my favorite mathematician ever (due to the stories surrounding him as well as his staggering accomplishments). It combines a comprehensive review of past mathematical developments (beyond the scope of any past work) with entirely new findings of his own and ample proof to support it. One of the greatest pure math books in history (a category bound to be underrepresented).

Wow, you have a favorite mathematician. I'd be more likely to make fun of you for that if I hadn't once described a movie as being by "my third-favorite Iranian director".

 

[Fennis]

annnnnd he left