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Contest Results Hope everyone had Happy Holidays! The results are in for the Holiday Contest: The Winners First Place: anemosagkelos Second Place: Snapelicious Third Place: DarkCloudsBurning The Winning Entry anemosagkelos Part One: Scavenger Hunt I've edited out some of the wrong references: Phrase: The plane! The plane! Reference: Fantasy Island Entry Date: Friday, July 14th, 2006 Phrase: The Song Remains the Same Reference: "The Song Remains the Same" by Led Zepplin (Album or Song) Entry Date: Friday, August 4th, 2006 Phrase: When the Levee Breaks Reference: "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zepplin or A Perfect Circle or Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie Entry Date: Friday, August 11th, 2006 Phrase: Gaia Trek: The Next Generation Reference: Star Trek: The Next Generation Entry Date: Friday, August 18th, 2006 Phrase: Call Me the Breeze Reference: "Call Me the Breeze" by Lynyrd Skynyrd Entry Date: Friday, August 25th, 2006 Phrase: Give a Hoot/Don't Pollute Reference: Woodsy Owl Entry Date: Friday, August 25th, 2006 Phrase: Turning Japanese Reference: "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors Entry Date: Friday, August 25th, 2006 Phrase: You've Got the Touch Reference: "You've Got the Touch" from Transformers: The Movie Entry Date: Friday, September 15th, 2006 Phrase: Da Doo Ron Ron Reference: "Da Doo Ron Ron" by The Rolling Stones or The Crystals Entry Date: Friday, September 29th, 2006 Phrase: Tom Cruise Movies Risky Business, War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible Trilogy, A Few Good Men, The Last Samurai Reference: Risky Business, War of the Worlds, Mission Impossible Trilogy, A Few Good Men, The Last Samurai Entry Date: Friday, September 29th, 2006 Phrase: Low Down Man Reference: "Low Down Man" by Squirrel Nut Zippers or Memphis Minnie Entry Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 Phrase: UFO Hoax Reference: UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico 1947 Entry Date: Friday, October 6th, 2006 Phrase: Taking Care of Business Reference: Taking Care of Business (Movie) Entry Date: Friday, October 13th, 2006 Phrase: Permission to Land Reference: Permission to Land (Debut Album) by The Darkness Entry Date: Friday, October 20th, 2006 Phrase: Good Morning Starshine Reference: "Good Morning Starshine" from the Hair Soundtrack Entry Date: Friday, October 27th, 2006 Phrase: Surfing with the Alien Reference: "Surfing with the Alien" by Joe Satriani Entry Date: Friday, November 3rd, 2006 Phrase: Overnite Sensation Reference: "Overnite Sensation" by Frank Zappa Entry Date: Friday, November 10th, 2006 "I Know What's Right For Gaia" Truth is, I don't know what's right for Gaia. What I do know is that the admins and developers, even the moderators, do a wonderful job putting up with all the users. It's great seeing new items and new ways to interact with other people. However, I do think it's losing a bit of focus on the forum and community aspects of Gaia. So many users are about gold and deem someone's place on Gaia by what items they have. While it is fun to buy items to spiff up the avatar now and then, it's a lot more fun to make friends. I think it'd be nice to see events on Gaia that don't encourage so much spamming. Of course there will be spamming anyways, but the Alien and Cow probing was taking it to extremes. I have a small group of friends and I have always made our Halloween or Easter or Christmas threads. But this year it was so invaded by people spamming that it was impossible to just talk to them. While I did meet some new people, I really missed the intimate friendship aspect of having our own thread for the event. Not to mention everyone kept stealing our cows! All in all, as long as I'm not forced into participating in the Battle System or required to play games I don't want to I think the admins and developers know what is right for Gaia. I do think we need some more games that make people use their brains. Gaia Sudoku where you can pick nine NPCs and have to place them appropriately would be very awesome. Even a simple point and click mystery adventure starring Rufus or one of the admins as an NPC would be neat. Part Three: Free Writing About Gaia Christmas is coming and all around gifts are popping up in my mailbox. On Gaia its easy to forget how empty it'll be, so many friends are around to talk. In reality though the holidays are quite empty now. This will be our fourth Christmas without my grandpa around. So I turn to Gaia to try and feel something warm inside. The Breedable and Changeable section of the minishops forum is abundant with Secret Santa threads. I've already weeded my way through a few and though there are ones that grab my attention, I can't find myself asking for them. Instead I look at what my friends want and find myself spending gold. I've already managed to spend 18k on friends and plan to spend 30k more. It's always nice to have an excuse to give gifts. This year there is an empty space on my friendlist. A friend and I parted ways after six years of being almost sisters. And while I often tried to share Gaia with her now I find comfort that I don't see her. I do miss seeing the Panda Hat I got her on her head, even getting her gifts from time to time. Isn't it funny the things you miss? Gaia bring comfort to those with rocky realities. A friend of mine has a mother in the hospital undergoing chemotherapy and while she talks little of her situation, I know like me Gaia helps ease her worry and pain. I only wish we could thank the admins and developers for this haven they've given us called Gaia. Thanks everyone for entering! I'll be resuming regular journal-writing duties later this week! Also, nobody got more than 25% of the references rofl

Posted by: Fleep Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 08:45pm

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The Last Lord of Time
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Commented on: Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 08:51pm


	Congratulations anemosagkelos! I didnt enter xd As they say, you've got to be in it to win it. biggrin

Commented on: Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 08:54pm


	Woot! Congrats to the Winners!

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Commented on: Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 09:12pm


	Congrats. =O

Commented on: Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 09:33pm


	Congrats, winners whee

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Commented on: Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 09:39pm


	Congratulations to the winners. lol @ the insane amount of references. 25% , it's just insane to know that there were that many more that we didn't notice. gonk Kind of daunting... sweatdrop Also, I thought her (I'm guessing it's a she) essays were very thoughtful. I disagree with her about the cow probing. This year's Halloween was a lot better than the year before it. And I think spam wasn't really a problem. She(?) however took the time to go reference hunting and take on the big task of doing so... I'll shut up... xp xd Anyway, she had a lot of great ideas and nice things to say. 3nodding Fleep, I hope you had fun leading us on a wild goose chase! ninja sweatdrop Let's, um... do it again... sometime? (mylackofmusicknowledgeisthedeathofmeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghomgwut!?) Happy Holidays, And here's looking forward to a new year!

Commented on: Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 09:58pm


	to the winners!!

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Commented on: Tue Dec 26, 2006 @ 11:01pm


	Congratz to the Winners.I envy all of you. :0 Happy New Year to you Fleep! biggrin

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 12:21am


	Firstly, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! biggrin There will be wonderful things on this comming year! x3 Yayness. Secondly, Congrats to the winners! biggrin I totally agree with, anemosagkelos, on everything s/h said. :3 S/H had put deep thought into it, that's great! I'd like, so love it, if there were such a game as, Gaia Sudoku. surprised Finally, haha those are some interesting refrences! If I had entered, I would've hardly been able to come up with 5%. xp Anyhow, I hope you had a fun holiday Fleep. xd The contest must've been very amusing to have been able to host it.

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Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 12:41am


	Wow. Thank you for hosting such a wonderful and fun contest, Fleep. Even if none of us got more than 25% of the references they were fun trying to find. Perhaps you'll have to do another reference savenger hunt hehe. Thanks to everyone who has congratulated me and feel free to disagree or agree with my thoughts smile heart

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 01:06am


	eek OMG, you're lying. No way. I WON something?! Oro? eek I really didn't think that was going to place (what, did you only get three contestants? Wait, no, I got second, so that doesn't even explain it). Anyway, shock over, Happy New Year to you, Fleep, and I hope you got everything you wanted for the holidays.

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Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 02:57am


	Phrase: Taking Care of Business Reference: Taking Care of Business (Movie) Entry Date: Friday, October 13th, 2006 you can also say Taking care of bussiness - BTO aka bachman turner overdrive. lol. but then again thats before your time Fleep muhahahahaha! twisted rofl congrats to the Winners. too bad i kinda cant enter because of my half residency thingy with Norway. oh well i think part of the prises should include a guitar solo mp3 from Fleep.

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 03:27am


	Congradulations to the winners! ^_^ Anemosagkelos, you seem like an awesome person, you really deserve to win!

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Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 04:06am


	Gaia Sudoku sounds awesome ! I would love playing that and after you get finished you earn up credits to get plushies of the NPCs or something like that .( though the game itself would be awesome too) Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 04:38am


	Congrats to the winners. ^^ Happy Holidays to Fleep and the Sheep! (Sheep = fans of Fleep) blaugh

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Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 08:27am


	Darn, I didn't win. emo Oh well. Better luck next time I suppose. xd Great job to the winner though. :3

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 02:54pm


	Congratz O: But thought It's hard to believe no one had more thenm 25 % x.x

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Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 03:31pm


	Haha, congrats guys. I entered, although my references might have been more numerous than supremely accurate. Oh well. GO FLEEEP.

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 04:18pm


	comment 18 woot mrgreen haha

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Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 05:00pm


	I'm sure I got them all- I had over 55-ish... I just never had time to finish it... neutral sweatdrop

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 06:10pm


	battle system >.<

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Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 06:34pm


	I entered. I figure I would have done kinda well, but I titled the entry wrong. I put winter contest entry instead of Dec. 4 contest entry. rofl I guess I either got banned for that or I did really bad. emo anyways congrats to all the winners and thank you fleep for making another day at gaia just a little more exciting. xd

Commented on: Wed Dec 27, 2006 @ 09:41pm


	Woo! Congrats! Holy bums there must be alot of references @_@ Are you going to do a vague list of all the ones you have if you have a down time from too much foodings?

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Commented on: Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 04:05am


	Well, I have to say, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! ^__^ And congradulations to all who won!! I didnt enter, there was WAY too many refernces... O_o sweatdrop

Commented on: Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 04:31am


	Some of those references were really vague. >.< But hell, it was a fun contest! Host some moar! xd

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Commented on: Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 05:11pm


	Haha! That was cool! Happy Holidays, everyone!

Commented on: Thu Dec 28, 2006 @ 06:35pm


	[align=right]I wanted to enter, but didn't, 'cause the only one I took the time to notice the reference to at the time was 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey' from the Beatles song with the same title. :]

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Commented on: Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 08:58pm


	Well, now you only have about 12k left, right? biggrin

Commented on: Fri Dec 29, 2006 @ 09:19pm


	Congrats to the winners--although now I wonder how many references you did put in if nobody got more than 25%...

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Commented on: Sat Dec 30, 2006 @ 04:04am


	I still love your journal... It makes my week. Even if my week seems to end a different day than anyone elses. xd Yay Fleep!

Commented on: Sun Dec 31, 2006 @ 12:10am


	Omfg! An invisibob won! eek Hehe, hey WW! Great job! blaugh heart

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Commented on: Sun Dec 31, 2006 @ 04:12am


	Congrats to the winners! I didn't enter because I knew I wouldn't find enough of the references. I fail at pop culture. sweatdrop This must have been planned really well to have so many references... and those were 25% or less of the total? Wow. Just wow. eek

Commented on: Mon Jan 01, 2007 @ 06:38pm


	Hola Fleep!

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Commented on: Tue Jan 02, 2007 @ 01:19am


	Hell yes, Led Zeppelin.<33333 It was a song, album, & movie from the 70's!! I've seen it many times. They've had better performances. 3nodding Wait... When did this happen? I would have gotten a lot of references! Dx

Commented on: Tue Jan 02, 2007 @ 02:03am


	I like reading ur journal It's like I'm in ur mind o.O

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Commented on: Tue Jan 02, 2007 @ 04:50am


	fleeps avi looks like garbage.

Commented on: Tue Jan 02, 2007 @ 07:42pm


	i love ur avi fleep

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Commented on: Tue Jan 02, 2007 @ 09:45pm


	hi domokun

Commented on: Wed Jan 03, 2007 @ 01:46am


	Random Comment. Click the cuteness!

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Commented on: Thu Jan 04, 2007 @ 12:49pm


	go fleep!

Commented on: Thu Jan 04, 2007 @ 08:17pm


	nice journal

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Commented on: Fri Jan 05, 2007 @ 12:38am


	OMG Fleep! Hi.

Commented on: Fri Jan 05, 2007 @ 01:04am


	I like your journal you should read mine and drop a comment about what you think. Adventures of ZENDRO

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Commented on: Fri Jan 05, 2007 @ 03:23am


	Fleep - you make me giggle inside. Just a little. Not enough to be proud of. Oh well. heart

Commented on: Sun Jan 07, 2007 @ 12:47am


	nice jounal and hey everyone happy new year rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

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Commented on: Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 05:19pm


	congratulations winners

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