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500 post giveaway - winner(s) announced

I guess tonight's the night for such things.
Prize is a sample slab from the early 2007 Houston Money Show. With Cameron Kiefer in mind, and for you sample slab collectors out there, please note that this sample slab was only distributed on the Sunday session of the show, due to a delivery SNAFU, thus very few were distributed at all.

The contest to gain it is as follows:
Simply provide the best answer you can come up with as to the identity of the subject of inquiry. The first person who gets the highest rated answer wins. Answers are rated in importance by the numbers below.

1. Whom did Sigismundo Celine long ago surmise was The Widow's Son?
2. If you can't answer that, then whom did Sigismundo finally realize was the true identity of The Widow's Son?
3. And if none of those, whom was Sigismundo willing, for secretive purposes, to allow for being The Widow's Son?

Good luck!



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  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    Hiram
  • direwolf1972direwolf1972 Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭
    Hiram Abiff

    The Widow's Son is he who is born without a father to raise him. He is often raised away from society, which gives him special powers unknown to most people. He is special, chosen by God to fulfil the divine plan which is still being sought out by Kabbalists
    I'll see your bunny with a pancake on his head and raise you a Siamese cat with a miniature pumpkin on his head.

    You wouldn't believe how long it took to get him to sit still for this.


  • Seems like MrSpud was the first to answer Hiram, and I like direwolf1972's extra explanation.
    Hiram is the lowest rated answer, 'tho, so there is still a chance for others to enter and win with higher rated answers. In fact I'll allow folks who post lower rated answers to try to improve their ratings.
    Hey, I've reached 500 and the race is on! Deadline by midnight Central Time tomorrow.
  • There's just about 12 hours left in this giveaway. So far, MrSpud is leading in the race for the prize, with the first correct answer. But, that answer is of the lowest rating, for it corresponds to question number 3. So there is still a chance to better that by either being the first to answer question number 2 correctly, bettering MrSpud's answer in terms of rating, or taking the prize outright by being the first to answer question number 1 correctly.

    (The ratings were set in terms of difficulty in answering. Question number 3 was the easiest, in order to ensure at least one correct answer from the viewers. The issue now is: Can anyone find the answers to the more difficult questions?)

    Cheers!
  • Hiram the Widow’s Son was “father” in the same sense that priests of the church are so known; the same variety of father that was Abraham to the tribes of Israel. Abif, then, is a title of respect and veneration, rather than a genealogical term
    This is a very dumb ass thread. - Laura Sperber - Tuesday January 09, 2007 11:16 AM image

    Hell, I don't need to exercise.....I get enough just pushing my luck.
  • This is a very dumb ass thread
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  • JJMJJM Posts: 8,089 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have no idea image
    but I got a million questions I could ask you that you wouldnt know either image

    tuff giveaway
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  • chiefbobchiefbob Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭
    Ain't Google great? image
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  • 6 hours left. Sorry, no hints, since that would jeopardize MrSpud's chances of staying in the race.
  • pontiacinfpontiacinf Posts: 8,915 ✭✭
    someones posted the questions on yahoos ask a question 6 hours agoimage
    image

    Go BIG or GO HOME. ©Bill
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have no frikkin idea wtf you are talking about. Cheers, RickO


  • << <i>someones posted the questions on yahoos ask a question 6 hours agoimage >>



    Where there is a will ...
    Yahoo ask subject
  • OK, the contest is over. MrSpud wins with the early correct answer. I'll also award a runner up prize to direwolf1972, for answering correctly right on the heels of MrSpud. This will be a different sample slab. And I'll provide one more prize to whoever "Harvey S" is, the one who posted the remaining unanswered questions on yahoo, if I get a pm on that.
    I know you've all been anxiously awaiting the full set of answers to the probing questions, so here they are:

    All the questions stem from a reading of the novel, "The Widow's Son" (Volume Two of the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles), by Robert Anton Wilson, 1985, Bluejay Books

    The answers to the questions, in reverse order, are:
    3. Hiram (Abiff), the builder of Solomon's Temple (page 203)
    2. Mérovée (or Merovech) the first Merovingian (page 294)
    1. Parcifal, the pure fool (page 207)

    Answer number three would be easy for anyone familiar with the Masons.
    Answer number two would be not so difficult for those familiar with Dan Brown's book, "The Da Vinci Code", or "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", by Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln.
    Answer number one would be pretty obvious to those with an affinity for the Grail romances.

    Thanx for the interest!
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    Thanks image .
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Well I'll be darned... imagine that... image Cheers, RickO
  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just increasing my post count image
    with half a dollar



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