This is a response to the debate over "lame questions" and the like. At tournaments that I attended last year, there were 3 instances of area code/country code/interstate questions. Of those, 2 were written by question writing companies and the other question had a highways clue as a lead-in for a clue about a city. That's not much. I am slightly confused by the responses. I think that the gist of Edmund's original post is that people will never stop writing lame questions. In response, I say, learn to expect those sorts of questions. You may think that area code/country code/interstate questions are lame. I may think that rap questions are lame. (NOTE: Let's not go there again. I said things that I didn't mean to say. I apologized for it. If you still think that I'm a racist, then that's your incorrect assumption; I just don't like rap. I'm allowed my taste in music; you're allowed yours.) Others feel that questions from "my canon" (which is not really my canon at all) are lame. I can't do anything about that unless I have a hand in editing a tournament, laying tournament guidelines, submitting a packet, or deciding whether or not to go to a tournament. The same applies to you. I've deviated from something that I wrote in my high school newspaper about the morality of Honors students: "...he [an Honors student] takes what he is given..." It applies here and I have to get back to that spirit. JAK
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