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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2011 18:48:55 GMT
As part of the fund raising for Red Nose Day (March 18th) I've stuffed a large jar with sweeties....I'm charging my colleagues at work 50p to guess how many sweeties there are in the jar... The person with the nearest guess will win the jar and contents. Obviously I can't open the competition to everybody online too...but I thought it might be amusing to see if anybody can get it right. I won't reveal the actual amount until March 18th pm....so go on...have a go just for the fun of it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2011 18:49:43 GMT
No charge...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2011 19:07:03 GMT
I will plunge forward with the first guess: 132
(You will give us the answer of course when the time comes, won't you?)
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Post by bjd on Mar 1, 2011 20:12:56 GMT
What does Red Nose Day commemorate? Cold weather or a drunken binge?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2011 20:20:15 GMT
I know that in France, "red nose" usually refers to clown charities.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2011 20:40:15 GMT
I know you're in finance, Kerouac, but with that pitiful guess, I won't be referring to you by the rude term of "bean counter".
378 is my guess.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2011 20:41:29 GMT
Comic Relief 'Red Nose Day' is a tv based fun day that takes place every other year...all our favourite comics take part...people all over the country 'Do Something Funny for Money'.... www.rednoseday.com/There's usually a charity record to buy....people do daft things like wear their PJs to work...one year we all wore our pants on our head all day...The money collected goes to fund projects in UK and Abroad...last year we bought mosquito nets for people in Africa..amongst other things. It's a good way of raising public awareness...and it's always good to do something to help others. I have several red noses...they're jolly uncomfortable.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 1, 2011 20:54:18 GMT
Incidentally...I rang Myrt this evening and whilst we were chatting I just said 'How many sweeties do I have in this jar?' (our conversations get quite existential at times...we have known each other since we were 11 years old...) and quick as a flash she comes back with a number just ONE out.... spooky...
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2011 22:55:21 GMT
She reads your mind!
Tell her hey from me, please. Well, from everyone, as everyone would love to see her posting again when she can.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 2, 2011 3:41:14 GMT
350. Nice round(ish) number.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2011 14:19:22 GMT
305
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 2, 2011 18:14:37 GMT
I took the sweetie jar to work this morning and have left it in the hands of 2 of our younger members of staff, they can be trusted to weedle as much dosh out of everyone as possible. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2011 18:56:56 GMT
I will revise my guess to 232.
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Post by mich64 on Mar 2, 2011 21:40:43 GMT
Hi Cheery, I would like to participate as well, my guess will be 400. Cheers! Mich
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 3, 2011 0:00:44 GMT
Don't let the bean counter Kerouac change his guess! Unfair! Unfair! He just popped off something off the top of his head and now is trying to ride on the coat tails of less hasty, more thoughtful people.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2011 12:32:23 GMT
I took the sweetie jar to work this morning and have left it in the hands of 2 of our younger members of staff, they can be trusted to weedle as much dosh out of everyone as possible. ;D What does that mean? "Weedle?, Dosh?" If it means that 2 young people are being allowed to eat the candy as they're counting it, then,I am going to do as Kerouac did and revise my guess as well!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2011 13:11:51 GMT
Actually it was not off the top of my head, because I saw that most of the items were of the larger variety, but then I saw the little ones and remember how that stuff tends to settle to the bottom. Time to go into training with the guesstimation game?
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Post by onlymark on Mar 3, 2011 13:56:42 GMT
casimira, to wheedle just means to influence or persuade by flattery, soothing words, coaxing, and so on. Dosh means money.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 3, 2011 13:59:23 GMT
402
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 3, 2011 20:08:22 GMT
Well...some people at work are having more than one go...so if you pay another pretend 50p there's no reason why you shouldn't have another go! There's a medic at work who has had 5 attempts... she saw the little Lindt chocolate bunnies and HAD to have them. The sweeties are safe...I've wound half a roll of clear tape around the lid...the person winning it will take DAYS to get into the jar... ;D
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 3, 2011 20:14:24 GMT
Are the Lindt bunnies the half pink, half white things? They look as though they'd taste like candy corn.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 3, 2011 20:15:47 GMT
Oh wait -- never mind. They're the gold-foiled wrapped chocolate bunnies, aren't they? Now that's real candy!
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 3, 2011 20:29:03 GMT
The half pink-half white ones are 'strawberry-milkshakes'....numnum...THE best ones (imo) are the raspberry fizz-bombs (blue balls) that fizz in your mouth.....phwoar....
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 3, 2011 22:20:51 GMT
Hmmmm. I think I'm starting to see the real reason that you wanted to put the jar safely into the hands of your co-workers. ;D
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 4, 2011 18:05:33 GMT
I will just have to go back to the sweetie shop and get some more....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2011 18:17:52 GMT
What cheery is not telling us is that she has 800 colleagues and has already made £189.50 from this jar.
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Post by foreverman on Mar 15, 2011 13:09:15 GMT
Can I play..........I guess 285
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Mar 18, 2011 17:29:25 GMT
Well the answer was 454
I declare Onlymark the winner!
My colleagues and I have raised £400.82p (so far) with the above sweetie jar, we sold small jade plants (I grew from cuttings), I ran a cake stall with cakes that I made and many of my colleagues very generously brought in some splendid cakes too....we had the traditional Red Nose Day poster where we pay £2 to choose an photo of one of 20 individuals (comedians mostly) then, when they've all been chosen we scrape away a covered bit to reveal which comedian is THE ONE under there...and whoever has put their name under that comedian wins £20....
I am absolutely knackered...but everyone was very kind. One of the haematology medics won the sweetie jar...and I was quite pleased about that as he spent about £25 on the cake stall...buying for all his colleagues... ;D
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Post by onlymark on Mar 18, 2011 20:26:03 GMT
And Mich came a close second.
I roughly counted most of the sweets I could see, that came to about 80 per side, doubled it to account for those inside and added a bit on. I didn't quite add enough on though.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2011 20:34:09 GMT
Congratulations. I hope to see a photo of Mark with his red nose soon
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