I mean does anyone actually use the Barlow Calendar, or is just some BS calendar and therefore a BS question?
I’d say that, all in all, you’re a class act. (And I’m not adding that just to pad the number of Views).
WTF, I’ll make this the 300th reply.
and the 301st.
I heard some guys at the water cooler saying that the world’s computer systems will crash on May 33rd because the computers won’t recognize the date! 
P.S. How will you be celebrating May 33rd?
Yeah, OK, this was great.
So when does the next “You can’t win” contest begin?
I’ve been out of town on business for a bit. I still tried to call in every morning and get on the show. I also had my wife and son try to get on. We all failed:(
Colibri had the correct answer which he e-mailed me a while ago. It’s just so difficult to through to the show. I did call the station 2 days ago and confirmed I was eligible to win again (I won it 3 years ago). I appreciate everyones help, but no one more than Colibri. Thank you Colibri. You gave us a fighting chance. We were just a bust signal away.
And, hell, it was fun while it lasted, right gang?
One thing that may have steered people away from actual calendars in this contest was the responses by well-known calendar experts, which could adequately be described as “snotty” for the most part. Getting told “I know of no calendar that has a May 33rd on it, now go away and quit bothering me with questions from idiotic radio contests.” by an expert might tend to drive you away from looking for “legitimate” though obscure calendars. See the beginning of this thread for a response somebody got from Peter Meyers.
Oh guys, lay off our friend, diet… who gave the answer.
I find absolutely nothing wrong with that, and had I found the answer I would have posted it myself. This was one of the more enjoyable threads to follow, and had me on the edge of my seat waiting to hear the stupid answer. I may have not been around as long as y’all, but a question was asked, and an answer was expected. Hell, I spent several hours looking for that answer myself. Isn’t that the point? Why else would you ask the dopers a question if you didn’t want to hear the answer or hear a “secret” answer. The OP simply asks something along the lines of “I heard this trivia question on the radio today. I don’t know the answer. Do any of you?” That’s it.
I understand that we all wanted “one of us” to win the contest, but I feel that’s beside the point. Had there been no build-up, nobody would’ve minded the answer being blurted out. Hell, that’s what we were expecting.
Well, to be sure we were expecting to eventually find out. As a small community. Until such time as there was an external link to this particular thread so that people who were neither a member of the SDMB community nor people who had even tried to research the topic could come up with the answer. After what, a year?
But, done now, and what are we going to do? Next thread.
Well, it would have been a lot different if diet had actually been the first one to come up with the answer and had blurted it out on the thread. But he/she was the third person to get the answer (maralinn being the second, and I don’t have a problem with the way she handled it). And diet only got the answer after the DJs had pretty much given it away.
*diet knew, or should have known: 1) pkbites was trying to win the contest, as he explained by his second post; 2) pkbites had the correct answer from me, as could easily be confirmed by the details I had already posted; 3) posting the complete answer at this point might make it much harder for pk to win. The only mitigating factor is that the citizens of Milwaukee were just as clever as diet (not a strong point in diet’s favor; see my remarks above) and were also able to figure out the answer from the final clues, so that that he/she didn’t actually have any impact on the outcome of the contest.
If ya’ll will pardon me for wading in, I have been following this thread with curiousity and growing impatience myself.
COLIBRI –
So what? It doesn’t matter if she is the first or third or ninth person to come up with the answer, especially in light of the fact that those who claimed to have arrived at it before she did refused to say. She found out the answer on her own and told the rest of us – many of whom had become very curious about the answer but could not give two shits about some contest going on in Milwaukee.
With all due respect to you and PK, I don’t think anyone can reasoably expect to post a question to a public message board and then expect that people refrain from posting the answer to that same message board. If PK wanted to find out the answer in a way that would not almost inevitably lead to it being publicly disseminated, then he should not have posted it here, or on any message board. This is aside from the fact that is it mildly annoying to the rest of us, who are waiting with bated breath, to say “I know the answer but I’m not going to tell 99 of you, because one of you wants to use it to win a contest.”
So what? The question has drawn the attention of dozen of posters and gone on for almost a dozen pages. Why should the fact that you, personally, supplied the answer to PK, personally, prevent DIET or anyone from putting the rest of us out of our misery?
Again, IMO that’s too darn bad. If PK had wanted the information to be supplied to him and him alone, he should not have posted the question to a public message board: “Here’s this interesting question. I’d like all of you to help me find out the answer, but if you do, I want you to tell only me.” Aside from the fact it’s unlikely to happen – and didn’t in this case – it’s not a fair request to make.
I’m sorry PK didn’t win; I wish him better luck next time. I’m glad he posted the question because it was a very interesting one. But if anyone is out of line here, it is IMO you, for expecting that NO ONE tell the rest of us the answer just because you and PK were trying to win a contest. I’m sure you don’t agree, but that’s how I feel.
Well, since this has finally been answered (thanks, all, and especially Colibri), I’m going to close this thread. There’s a theory afoot that the really big threads slow the server, and the server needs no help being slow these days.