Ah. Gotcha. Godspeed, Walter.
14 kinds of gaskets/gauges in a foreign parts distributor?
And my guess at the second one:
230 car accessories in Mercedez-Benz?
Please don’t get Mittu started on another one. It takes months before we can expect an answer…
Hey, I can still post! There must be 14 kinds of grace in a final posting denouement.
Hehehe, very droll. I think everyone got an extra day after an outage earlier this year.
I did a search of competition aggregator sites, and found this archive of Autotrader competitions. I can’t find anything of the form in the OP, alas.
Walter, are you leaving due to no longer enjoying the board or due to funding? If the latter, someone might help…
There’s no funding issue. Just trying to curb my already over-abundant net activities. Thanks.
C’mon mittu, this is getting really stale… :mad:
Yes, mittu has disappeared again. I’m not stating he’s been missing for a while but his picture is on a milk carton.
When last seen, mittu was heard to say “I’ll get back to you with the answer as soon as I can.”
Maybe we should Western Union him some money.
He hasn’t disappeared! He just posted today!
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8118613&postcount=13
D: He’s just enjoying watching the train wreck he created.
All right, after seeing this frakkin’ thread on the front page again and again I’ve finally snapped. You know it was eventually coming, so here’sMittu’s pit.
By doing this I am hoping we can shift the “where’s Mittu?” talk over and away from this thread so I don’t have to get all goosebumpy everytime I get a subscription notice about it. Can we all agree to just let this thing die until Mittu (if ever) returns with the answer?
I was thinking of posting this as a MPSIMS thread, but everyone loves Pit points… so have at him there!
Good grief - certainly not!
He should pay us for wasting our time.
I’m still kicking around, still sans answer.
I can assure you all of two things:
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This isn’t a ruse, I don’t take pleasure in torturing people (though many of you may take pleasure in torturing me). As far as I am aware there is an answer, I have no reason to believe otherwise.
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I am going to see the guy tonight so I will ask him about it again. He is back at work now so there is no reason he shouldn’t be able to corner the person who gave out the quiz and beat him soundly until an answer falls out.
“beat him soundly”…yes that sounds good…do we have a chair with a wicker seat for you if required?
Mittu, reading the OP doesn’t give me any sense that you owe us an answer. I’d like to know the answer too. But not everyone has let their frustration get the better of them. 
I agreed to that on 12/21 and again on 12/27. Since then you’ve posted about a bajillion times.
Just.
Stop.
Posting.
At this point I pretty much don’t care about the answer (which is almost sure to be something that will elicit terribly disappointpoint and not a “damn why didn’t I think of that”).
Just beat him soundly. After he gives the answer.
Preferably while quoting Jabba the Hutt: It’s too late for that, Solo. You may have been a good smuggler, but now you’re Bantha fodder.
mittu
Yes and I appreciate your giving this your unswerving attention, posting only to other threads when absolutely necessary. Your posting to the topic “Origin and Reason for Racing Stripes” has made the world a better place for all. :rolleyes:
Seriously, an answer would be greatly appreciated by everyone.
Thank you for your attention.