We see a man sitting in his work cubicle. The man has cobwebs growing over his face and his finger is positioned on his right mouse button. The man is dead. Why?
Man, you guys. I am so sorry. I failed to monitor the thread 24/7 because I had work, and a girlfriend, and a social life.
I had no idea that a thread on the second page was still priority one in my pathetic, sad, little life. I have sent away for one of those electronic ankle bracelets that they use to monitor prisoners. Arnold and Enright will be sent the remote controls. Whenever they need me, they can use the remote to give me a shock.
I will then haul ass to the nearest PC and respond to whatever post or thread they specify.
I knew that the give-and-take necessary to solve these Three Minute Nysteries did not exactly lend itself to a message board format.
When I posted them, I committed a certain period of time in which I would monitor the thread and provide replies as quickly as possible. It’s also why I would cut off the game after a solution, and not post a new one if I didn’t have time remaining to attend to it.
Not to say this is the only way to do things, of course… but in the absence of single-minded fanaticism such as mine :), perhaps you could enlist a helper, you could take over answering duties if the primary person can no longer work the puzzle.
Just a thought, from Three Minute Mystery World Headquarters, high atop Mystery Mountain.
Right, right. Because we all know if there’s been no question posted in response to the 3MM OP until 3 hours later, and 10 hours later there’ve been 4 responses total, one of which was a hijack attempt and another of which was a response to the hijack, the OP is required to take the next couple days off work. And it’s not like the OP indicated in the 6th post on the thread (10 hours after the OP) that she has no Internet access at work.
Shutup Enright? Do you really mean that? You don’t need to be so icky. I thought I was expressing my frustration at not being able to satisfy my curiosity in a light hearted, humorous way. You did make everybody wait on your post. I apologize if there weren’t enough responses there for you to grace us with an update. The fact remains, if there’s even one legitimate response to your mystery, then that means someone is waiting on you.
Shutup Enright? Do you really mean that? You don’t need to be so icky.
Did you read anything in my post besides the “Shut up, Enight.”, which was admittedly an expression of frustration that you seemed unable to let it go? I did not post it in response to your post in my 3MM thread, because I took it as humorous. I did not post it in response to your post in Sealemon’s thread, because I took it as humorous. When you have the need to post it a third time and start a new thread for it, it’s just gritching. We got the point, man.(First time is funny, etc.)
I apologize if there weren’t enough responses there for you to grace us with an update. The fact remains, if there’s even one legitimate response to your mystery, then that means someone is waiting on you.
Did you read anything in my post besides the “Shut up, Enight.”? Can you post anything on the board when you don’t have a computer with Internet access handy, Enright? I was not choosing to “not grace [you] with an update” I was unable to. And as for me not having time, I had time when it was started: 3 hours preferably, 5 hours realistically and 10 hours of real time.
Bricker has stated that he allows a certain amount of time for each 3MM. Bricker, how much time do you allow for it?
Is 5 hours a reasonable amount of time to allow for the entire 3MM, and 3 hours a reasonable amount of time to stop expecting any response? And if you were to come back 7 hours after that (10 hours total) and find 4 posts, is it unreasonable to respond to those and then explain that you’ll be unable to continue for xyz reason?