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Apparently I've got old movies on the brain. Who can name me the classic horror flick in which someone gets their reward? Someone most hungry for it... :)

In the meantime, we've had two winners in my torturously scattered trivia challenge, Kimberly Arnold, known previously to me only as Cat Whisperer on MySpace, and Lewis Bornmann, an awesome fan who disqualified himself months ago by acing the Name Game Contest, for which he'll be appearing in Plague Zone as USAF Captain Bornmann, no doubt to experience a horrific death. Wait for November! Asimov's is already into page proofs for "A Lovely Little Christmas Fire" and they'd scream if I tried to swap in a new name at this point, so Ms. Arnold will find herself suddenly in... whoops! I almost said the title! Ms. Arnold will find herself suddenly in the Big New Secret Thriller, again no doubt to experience a cinematic and awful death. What is my problem!?

This goofy contest originated at Norwescon, post PKDs, where I was talking with some strangers when I abruptly went sideways with the conversation and declared, "And then... the oral sex!"

The woman looked at me oddly but the guy laughed, recognizing the line from Monty Python's The Holy Grail. He told us a funny story about an office gag in which his co-workers needed ask, on TV, "When is a duck not a duck?" "WHEN IT'S A WITCH!" he screamed. But his co-workers only looked at him as blankly as our current partymate looked at me when I said it was time for you know what. Well. The next day, talking with the astounding SunnyJim Morgan, one of the organizers of the con, she mentioned that she could read and write fluently in Elvish. Don't ask me how this came up in conversation. I was wasted on caffeine and sleep deprivation. I said, "Oh yeah?" She said, "Oh yeah." So I said, "I bet you can't write 'When Is A Duck Not A Duck?' in Elvish." But sure enough, when I was home, GirlJim emailed me that phrase exactly.

What was I to do with it? Certainly I wasn't going to hide it forever in my computer! So I put it on my blog.

How were you to know all of this? Beats the heck out me. ;)

Even worse, the line "When is a duck not a duck" doesn't even appear in the movie. But close. Oh, so very close.


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