3.49pm: "I also competed in the Top of the Form contest, but didn't do as well as Bernard Keenan," writes Mark Mulgrave.
Use every website form, contest, and petition as an excuse to collect mobile numbers.
Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas, the Acme Oyster reigning queen with 47 dozen in eight minutes, was concerned that the short form contest of five minutes, would not allow her to overtake competitors down the stretch, when her "economy of motion" technique (four oysters to a fork, a dozen downed in roughly 12 seconds) would propel her to victory.
These 20-and-over devotees were weaned on the Game of Life and Clue; their appetites in recent years have been whetted by Celebrity, charades and other more free-form contests.
"The invitation to violence arises because partisanship in its most intense forms contests the very basis of a political community," the political scientist Russell Muirhead has observed.
The startup offers a directory of tab applications for sprucing up Facebook Pages, with apps for quizzes, signup forms, contests, multimedia, and a broad range of other categories.
Incentives often come in the form of contests that pay dealers for meeting certain sales targets.
"However different in form presidential contests were, one feature has been constant from the beginning," he observes.
It was an ugly fight, but Meacham, characteristically, covers it with balm: "However different in form presidential contests were, one feature has been constant from the beginning," he reminds us.
Google has given some of these laptops to the press (you can see our first impressions right here), and it's letting developers and other early adopters request one through a variety of contests, forms, and other channels.
No nomination is ever entirely uncontested; the only question is what form the contest will take — sound or fury.
