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Old Mar 16, 2016, 08:17 AM
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How would you finish a sentence starting with "BP is..." which fully covers the essentials (and particulars) of BP?

Let's make this into a game: you start with 0 points, you get points added for every "Thanks for this!" your post with your sentence receives (one point for each) and points deducted for every (nested) verb-phrase (including infinitives), (present/past) participle or gerund in your sentence (main verbs, written or implied: not auxiliary verbs; 1 for each phrase)—excluding the first copula is.

You can enter multiple sentences in the competition: from the one with the highest score for any one contestant, a point will be deducted for each additional sentence you have entered in the race.

"Hugs" are (just) for encouragement.

Bets on the winner are taken: 1 divided by the number of bets on your chosen sentence is multiplied by your highest points for any of your sentences or the score of your only sentence, or 1 if you haven't entered any sentence, and added to your highest score or otherwise (only if you haven't entered any sentence, 0—minus 1 point for each sentence already entered.

If you wanna bet, just create a post like "I wanna bet on..." in this thread.

No other influencing of the referee or bookie.

There is one referee, bookmaker and scorekeeper: me.

There will be running commentary.

Plagiarism is reason for disqualification, at the referee's discretion.

The race ends on the 21st of March, 2016, at 1:00 pm GMT/UTC.

Let the game begin! Good luck.



Edit:
Scores can be negative.
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Last edited by Icare dixit; Mar 16, 2016 at 09:17 AM. Reason: Added a question mark after the first sentence: I don't change the rules midway. You can quote this post to make sure.