<<Again, we are talking about two different
things. I am talking specifically about alternate answers
that are so long and esoteric that they should *not*
reasonably be expected to come up (see my previous
posts).>>
I think K.M. Wilcox in his QB dictionary had a
similar thing, called a Princess Angelina answer, which
was defined as an alternative answer that is really
really long and will almost never come up.
As for
Mad King Ludwig, the moderator should have prompted
or accepted the answer. I would've accepted
both.
Shawn