Hey you all,
It's gonna take me a bit to go through and count all the answers. I'm hurrying, and I'll edit this post as soon as I have them all counted up, but in the meantime, here is the list of Who's (Actually) Who:
1. Sarah
2. EE (shockingly)
3. Kiersten
4. BT
5. Whirl
6. Chris (a/k/a rhinothongbutt, for a while)
7. Aerin (on the left)
8. Robin
9. McK
10. Paca
11. Deb/WW (on the right)
12. Pete
13. Janey
14. Sylvia
And the winner is (no pulling names from a hat necessary): Janey!!
Janey picked 12 right - which is freaking amazing.
Next one down the list were McK and BT, each with a strong '10 right'. Whirl was third, with 9.
Janey, all I can say, girl, is you've got 'the sight'. I thought these were damn hard, and I knew the answers! So, you deserve your reward/award thing. Just pop over to Sparky's and check his Book Chat list (past or to-be-read book, it doesn't matter) and let me know whatcha want, and it will be on its way.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Here's "The Answer Key"
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I know I didn't win. Here are my answers and the reasons for them. I'll be back late tonight to see who won.
1. Janey – This one was a total guess, but the background looked the most like Ireland.
2. EE – The belly was a dead giveaway.
3. Kiersten – I guessed Kiersten on this one because the person in this picture looks almost exactly like all of the pictures Kiersten has posted of herself, and since I’m a gambling man I thought I’d throw caution to the wind and play the odds.
4. Me – Ah, the good old days when I still had hair. By 1st grade I was half bald.
5. Whirl – I never really had a clear picture in my head of what Whirl might look like until I saw this picture and realized it’s exactly the way I would’ve imagined Whirl had I seen this picture prior to having had to imagine what he looked like or if I had a better imagination.
6. Chris – You and #2 need to reread the rules.
7. Aerin – With the obvious exception of EE, Aerin has the most recognizable kid pic of the bunch when compared to her avatar. I think it’s her eyes. Or possibly the subtle You Really Don’t Want To Mess With Me under that cute smile.
8. Robin – I actually cheated and read the title of the pic on this one. Sorry. I didn’t mean to. So instead I’m gonna guess what’s going on in the pic: The photographer has dared Robin to do something she’ll get in trouble for, and he or she may or may not have insinuated Robin was too chicken to do it. Then the photographer snapped this picture right before Robin says, “Oh yeah? Just watch me.”
9. McK – This picture says to me: Yeah, I’m chillin’ right now, but someday I’ll threaten you with a koala claw.
10. Paca – If that’s not the pose of a linguist I don’t know what is.
11. Sylvia, 13. Wyrdd, 14. Sarah – These three were complete guesses. I thought I remembered someone posting that sandbox picture before but I couldn’t remember who, and I would’ve gone back and tried to find whose blog the sandbox picture was on but there was also the distinct possibility I had never actually seen the sandbox picture before and I was just experiencing an untimely bout of déjà vu, and even if I wasn’t and I did find the sandbox picture—even though I wouldn’t know how to search for it—I’d still be stuck on the other two so I guessed.
12. Pete – Nice cat.
Ha! I got Paca and BT transposed but hey! not bad guessing. The following is a cut and paste from my submission. BT - I never had a frilly dress, I'm the 5th of 7 kids - think Waltons!
1. Sarah - This was the hardest one. It was going to be you (Robin), Sarah, Sylvia or Deb (WW) - I got to Sarah by a process of elimination by best guesses on the others.
2. That'd be Sparky - Ol' EE hasn't changed a bit!
3. Kierstan - well it just is, isn't it?
4. Pacatrue - Now this one gave me a pile of trouble. When I saw it first I thought PETE! but then I saw the little kid in the car below and I became confused. Add BT - whom I've never seen a photo of - well I guessed for a finish.
5. The one, the only, it couldn't be anyone else - Whirl. I'd recognize those eyes anywhere and may I say - that is a very fine 'fro.
6. Thongless but still instantly recognizable as Chris. What a cutie!
7. Aerin - it's got to be - doesn't it?
8. Well I'm guessing that's Robin - although the photo seems older than you - so I'm quite iffy on it.
9. McKoala - because it is.
10.A pure guess but I'm going with BT for this one.
11.The only reason I'm going with Writtenwyrd for this one is that I know she's tall.
12.I'm going with Pete for this. It looks like Connecticut.
13. That's me JaneyV - back before I sprained my ankles a hundred times and they blew up like balloons.
14.And I'm going with Sylvia in the muddy sandpit.
Dang, since I got only 8 out of 14 (if I did the math right, and there's no guarantee of that since I've been wandering a maze of spreadsheets for six hours), I won't be posting MY answers. Yow.
Pete,
You came in 4th, honey. Standalone!
I have magical powers of deduction. Yay! I won something.
Aw Pete please share your guesses - it'll be fun!
Oh, I did OK!
Here were my guesses:
#1 Written - guessing a bit here!
#2 EE - well, yes
#3 Kiersten - gotta disguise yourself more!
#4 BT - he recently revealed he was a spermy in the 70s and this looked a taken-within-the-past-thirty years kind of a shot
#5 Whirl - this had to be a British photo booth - those curtains (got heaps of those photos)
#6 Chris - you had a tiny butt as a baby!
#7 Aerin - the hair, the face, it has to be
#8 Robin - can't remember my reasoning on this one!
#9 McKoala - I hide my vicious side well, don't I?
#10 Pete - a guess; it had to be Pete or Paca
#11 Sarah - I thought it looked like you!
#12 Paca - see #10
#13 Janey - that's a UK graduation shot if ever I saw one! (Got one like that...)
#14 Sylvia - a bit of a guess, but went with the blondie!
Congratulations Janey Genius!
Well, here were my answers and reasons heretofor - or whatever.
1. Sarah - Obviously Sarah. She still has that same gorgeous skin.
2. EE - I was confused at first, and thought this was mine, but then I realized mine and
3. McK - I even went to her Facebook photo to compare eye shapes!!! AGH! I think this is just proof I need Kiersten on FB.
4. Paca - total guess. Strong chin, but you can't tell that from BT's profile pic because his nose is in the way.
5. Whirl - what BT said, seriously - I never thought about what Whirl looked like then I saw this and thought - why, of course it is.
6. Chris - duh.
7. Aerin - duh once I got over the #2 confusion.
8. Janey - I thought the impish grin was Janey, but I'm glad it's Robin - this is my most favorite picture of all of them,even 14.
9. Sylvia - So, I don't actually know what Sylvia looks like so this was a total guess.
10. BT - Because I'd run out of guys to fill in with
11. Wyrdd - Because it was either Deb or Sylvia, and it didn't look Sylvia-ish.
12. Pete - I wasn't sure this was Pete from the picture, but I guessed it was from the perspective of who would have submitted that picture.
13. Robin - Janey, no fair changing hair color on me.
14. Kiersten - Sylvia, that is the cutest picture and I'm sorry I didn't know it was yours. :)
Well, Janey, love, good on ya and Robin - you rock; this had to take some effort, but it was SO much fun - thanks!!!
Oh, and I'm not sure what to think about everyone knowing I was me. You would NOT think I'd be as recognizable as Chris, would you?
I went by guessed age of the pic more than anything else, well, at least with the women. Um, here we go:
The pics are indeed tough. OK, let's go with:
1) Janey - red hair, you see. How more Irish can you look? Hopefully Sarah's got some Irish in her.
2) EE - this was the last one I guessed on after I ruled out 6 and 14.
3) Kiersten - um, it looks like her today. :)
4) Pete - I thought Pete was blonde. Apparently, I went by hair color more than anything else.
5) Whirl - what BT brilliantly said
6) Chris - I could easily imagine this cute thing waving from a parade truck which I believe Chris once told a story about.
7) Robin - I think this was fall-out from my getting number 1 wrong. I had to place Sarah somewhere still, and since she's got gray hair now (and isn't WW whom I recognized), I put her in at 8, which somehow ended up squeezing Robin in here.
8) Sarah - see number 7. This was trying to put the age of the photo with the age of the person.
9) McK - recognized her from other photos. The private ones we've been sharing. the ones involving whipped cream and... Rowr! (OK, looks the same to me as more recent pics, but she's got better hair now.)
10) Paca - I thought this would be obvious, since I posted a link to it on a comment in Robin's blog about 3 days ago. Fortunately, no one else is as interested in me as I am.
11) Deb/Writtenwyrd - Easy one. It's just her.
12) BT - Well, the other one was Pete, so there ya go.
13) Sylvia - I think Sylvia posted a pic of her with long hair recently and this seemed about the right age. OK, I seem to have a hair fetish. 3 of my answers were based on hair.
14) Aerin - Uh, seemed like a 70s pic.
This is a par 4 course, right? Woo-hoo, I made par!
You know on those America's Most Wanted shows (for you non-Ams, it's a show where they do re-enactments of crimes and show pics of criminals on the lam), when they come back the next week and say they've caught the criminal based on the previous week's photo and they hold up the picture they aired the week before and then hold up the police photo from when the criminal was captured, and you look at them side by side and think, "WTF, the people in those two photos aren't even the same nationality much less the same person!"? Well, that's how I felt trying to guess who everyone was. It's like dyslexia, except with faces. Please don't ever ask me to be a witness in a trial.
So, here were my pathetic guesses:
1 - Robin: blonde and the age of the photo seemed right
2 - EE: bless you, EE, for making me feel like I wasn't an 0 for 0 loser
3 - Sylvia: I wasn't going to fall for Kiersten sending such a recent photo of herself
4 - Pete: hey, who knows what color hair these guys had as kids?
5 - Whirl: Well, duh
6 - Chris: I cheated on hers
7 - Sarah: too many blondes to choose from!
8 - WW: I think Deb is older than me and Rob, so I was going by the age of the photo
9 - McK: OK, I guess if I ever saw McK commit a crime in the U.S., I could point HER out at trial
10 - BT: I thought that looked kind of like the picture of the farm in Vermont that BT posted pictures of. But, drat, I remembered AFTER I submitted my guesses that it was Pete who posted those pictures. Bet that isn't even in Vermont, is it?
11 - Janey: I almost said WW on this one. I originally wrote her name down but then waffled between this one and the older-looking photo
12 - Paca: I thought the pedal car was of an era too old for Paca, but I had run out of boys to guess
13 - Aerin: I had about given up by this time anyway
14 - Kiersten: Like I said, too many blondies
I was gonna go on and on about here, but really all it comes down to is, I love you guys! You've got me grinning all the way through your explanations!
Congrats Janey!
And amazingly that photo of me was taken in 2000. I figured you've seen twenty and thirty year old pics but nothing recent except that one which I was sure you'd all forgotten, lol.
I didn't even try to guess. I'm with phoenix on that one.
The sorta farm with me is northern Louisiana. That'll give the Vermonters an apoplexy.
Shhh. We'll keep it our secret, Paca.
Oh, this was tough — but I might have got all 14 had it not been for Janey's dratted hair throwing me off track. Like a wrestler.
Here's how it went.
I got Robin & McKoala from the names on the pictures, and EE, Kiersten and WW I'd seen before. #1 was a dead ringer for Sarah (and also facing in the same direction, which was a dead giveaway) and I figured out EE and Chris from the cryptic clues. Paca, I'd seen before and once I'd sorted the other two boys, I was left with a real headache.
Clearly, 7 was Aerin. Those eyes are unmistakeable. And I guessed 14 was Sylvia. Had to be. Problem was this meant Janey was Janey, and I knew this wasn't right. I got the graduation thing but the hair was all wrong. So maybe Janey was Aerin? She was ginger after all. But that meant Aerin had to be Sylvia. And maybe Janey was actually Chris after all, with the rhino being thrown in by BT for a joke? I knew Sylvia wasn't Janey and Janey wasn't Aerin and Aerin wasn't Sylvia, but that's what I put anyway. And that's when the cops arrived. They've been questioning me now for three whole days. Say I keep changing my story. But I know what I saw. I know moidered the dame...
I got two right, EE and Writtenwyrd.
I don't have a clue how you guys look, do I? You'd think I'd at least have got Kiersten right, seeing that I've seen pictures of her.
My basic technique was wild guesses and that worked out as well as you might expect.
Oh, I forgot to say: Well done Janey! That is some truly impressive detection going on there!
I didn't think I was so recognisable. Especially in a 20 year old photo. Remind me not to commit a crime around any of you, apart from Aerin, of course.
Thanks guys and thanks to Robin for running the competition. It was a lot of fun. Sorry for throwing everyone. That's my natural hair colour (or at least it was before I went grey) - I'm a bottle red-head. The picture was taken in Dec '88 outside the Aula Maxima at University College Galway. I moved to England the following month. I started to cover my grey the following year.
Did Sarah not guess?
1. I immediately thought "oh wow, that's Sarah" when I saw this. I'm not sure what it is - the smile or the eyes? But it was just obviously Sarah
2. Very silly :)
3. I guessed Janey because of the hair colour. I should have looked at the eyebrows.
4. I guessed Pete because the hair colour looked right and the boy looked like a baseball cap would suit him.
5. I knew I'd get all the guys wrong. I guessed BT because there was an under-the-bridge look in this guy's eyes
6. Obviously Chris
7. Ooops, I saw "little girl" and focused on the one on the right. I guessed Kiersten but I wouldn't have if I had looked at the right girl! It was the height and the eyebrows that led me to K.
8. Having messed up on 7 I thought this one was Aerin.
9. I was pretty sure this was McK based on other photos I've seen but then I saw 13 and I got nervous that I was wrong.
10. I thought this one might be Whirl as it looked possibly English - although now that I'm looking, it's a pick-up truck! So not English. Ooops.
11. I recognised WrittenWyrd immediately
12. I fell in love with the kitten and had no idea who it was so I randomly guessed Paca.
13. I put McK again here - which is how I managed to miss out Robin completely. I would never have guessed Janey!
BT: I might have posted that sandbox picture before - it was already scanned so I must have used it for something.
WO: I ended up laughing out loud reading your explanation.
Paca: I knew the photo looked familiar! I must have seen it in the comment trail but I have a brain like a sieve and forgot all about it.
Robin, if you get really really bored, could you tally up who got guessed right/wrong most? Although I guess EE walked away with that one.
I've lived in Vermont, so Paca's photo didn't look Vermontish to me at all. And I recalled he grew up in Louisiana from the distant post about the relative's oil production biz. Not that I can recall the kind of oil.
I think this was fun. If I ever sit down and figure out how to record my voice, I'd like to try some of the voice challenges, too.
Too bad I'm so easy to guess.
Hi guys - your explanations are so damn funny! I love them!
Yeah, Sylvia, a tally of who was guess as who(m?) - hell - I never remember how to do that - would be fun. I'll do it this afternoon.
Kiersten figured everyone would recognize her, and I was amazed along with her, she was guessed wrong several times!
Janey- I picked that pic of the ones you sent me because I would never have guessed that was you, girl- so that worked perfectly, and thanks for that!
EE and Chris didn't play guess the pics. (I think it was because they thought they'd be safe in their disguises.)
It's true--I'm shocked not everyone guessed me. Alas, that was the oldest picture of myself I have here. Senior prom, eight years ago.
Anyway, I'm not going to post my guesses because they are simply too embarrassing. I did horribly. I did, however, guess Whirl. I believe my comment on that one was please, please let this be Whirl.
Also, all of the little kid pics were completely adorable.
OK, because Jane asked, I'll post my guesses too. I can't remember the entire reasoning. Clearly Chris and EE dropped the field to 12, and I got McK and myself to make it 10.
#1 Sarah - what a joyful little kid. Sarah. Yeah.
#2 EE - Look at how, um, "filled out" that diaper is. Who else could this be?
#3 Aerin - Unlike everyone else here, I can't remember ever seeing a photo of Kiersten. But I felt OK picking randomly because who wouldn't want to be guessed as this beautiful young thing?
#4 Paca - Like Paca figured me as blond, I figured him the same, and it never occurred to me BT might be blond, but now I can see the devious mischievousness that I'd expect from BT. Looks just like this little imp Jordan in my kid's cub scout den.
#5 BT - because I could imagine this guy doing that love poem ("all I need to know!")
#6 Chris - um, Chris... I feel a little cheated because I expect you'd have the cutest real photo of the real you.
#7 Sylvia - Again, I don't remember ever seeing a photo of Sylvia. Random guess. Sorry, ladies. I can see the resemblance now, though.
#8 Robin - The resemblance to your daughters, and the subtle self-confidence in your demeanor. I found this one pretty easy, actually.
#9 McK - This was the one sure thing, I thought.
#10 Whirl - Because I'm utterly clueless. At least I was right about Paca being blond.
#11 Deb/Writtenwyrd - Taller and more gentle-looking than I expected, but definitely a downeast vibe.
#12 Pete - the only guy in a hat. I thought that was a sure giveaway.
#13 Janey - for some reason I knew you were dark haired naturally... did you change it after you changed your blogs?
#14 Kiersten - this was where my downfall began with guessing many of the ladies wrong. I picked Kiersten for this because she seems like the type (from what little I know of her) that would enjoy getting muddy in a sandbox.
K, your senior prom being 8 years ago plus you being too young for X-Files makes me feel disgustingly old. *sigh*
Sorry I'm late...
The ones I “knew”
1 Sarah – um, no duh, for me. This is in New Jersey in the late 1960’s. My hair was blonde as a babe. It got gradually darker and then gradually lighter to be the grey it is now. I’ll have to share a long hair pic some day.
2 EE – it’s the manly, beefcake pose. I’d know it anywhere.
5 Whirl – Seemed obvious to me. Something about that look matches the writing voice perfectly.
6 Chris – another no, duh, but awfully cute.
11 Deb/Writtenwyrd – Looks like people in law enforcement, eh?
And the real guesses
3 Robin – I couldn’t decide if 13 or this one looked like Robin’s kids. Both were wrong guesses.
4 Pete – blond, cutie with impish smile and I thought Pete. What can I say BT? Of course, now that I really look at those eyes, I see the real devil in there.
10 BT – another one I thought might be Pete, then maybe Paca, but I couldn’t imagine Paca away from the Islands. So this went to BT by default. Northern LA? I used to live in Shreveport. My family is still there.
12 Paca – as the only other boy picture left.
14 Kiersten – who else would play in a sandbox of mud but the fun loving Kiersten? Um, that would be Sylvia.
The rest were eeney, meeney types of things, but I’ll give you the bad reasons why.
7 Janey – the hair. Dunno more than that.
8 McK – last one left and only one name to put on it.
9 Sylvia – something about the location said Sylvia. Where is this one anyway?
13 Aerin – sort of looked like her but with dark hair. But sort of looked like Robin’s kids, too. Beautiful picture, Janey!
And thanks for the sandbox guess, BT. I love that pic and what it says about her.
Sarah, it's Ibiza! Which means your Sylvia guess makes a lot of sense.
Hi,
I'm getting sleepy (I'm a wuss, AND I was up late last night...)
Anyway, we had twoeve voters, and I have eleven sets of names counted up, but I'm too sleepy to figure out who's missing - but this should give you some grins, and some good ideas on which pictures messed with the most minds:
1 = Sarah. 6 people guessed correctly, 3 people thought she was Janey, and 1 thought Deb/WW, and 1 thought she was me.
2 = EE. AMAZINGLY, no incorrect guesses.
3 = Kiersten. 6 people guessed correctly, 1 thought McK, and there were 2 Janey guesses, and a Sylvia and an Aerin.
4 = BT. He really threw people! (Probably because he looked so innocent. Heh.) Only 3 people guessed him, and one of those guessers were BT himself! 5 thought he was Pete, and 3 thought Paca. Interestingly, NO ONE thought this was Whirl.
5 = Whirl. 8 guessed Whirl was Whirl, 2 thought he was BT, and one, Paca.
6 = Chris. 10 thought Chris was Chris, but one thought this was Whirl. Freudian stuff here? Hmmmmm?
7 = Aerin. Only 5 guessed correctly, and then we had two Sarahs, 1 Robin, 1 Sylvia, 1 Kiersten, and 1 Janey. Good foolin', Aerin, girl.
8 = Robin. As with Aerin's, only 5 people guessed mine was me. There were also 2 Deb/WWs, 1 Chris, 1 Janey, 1 Aerin and 1 Sarah.
9 = McK, and I thought this would be a tough one, because her picture isn't out there, but 8 people guess correctly, along with 1 guess of Robin, and 2 of Sylvia.
10 = Paca. He was worried this would be too easy, but only 4 people guessed correctly. Yesssssss. 2 people guessed Whirl, 4 guessed BT, and 1, Pete.
11 = Deb/WW. 7 guessed correctly, but we also had 2 Sarah guesses, 1 Janey and 1 Sylvia.
12 = Pete. Only 4 people guessed Pete, and then there were 3 BT's, 2Pacas and an Aerin. And one voted and said she wasn't sure.
13 = Janey. Only 3 people guessed correctly - the hair did it! 2 people said Robin, 2 said Sylvia, and one each said McK, WW, and Aerin. One wasn't sure.
14 = Sylvia. Only two people guessed Sylvia, and one was Sylvia.
Wow. 5 thought it was Kiersten, 2 thought Aerin, 1 Sarah, and 1 McK.
Robin - what a lot of work you put into this. It was a heck of a lot of fun. Thanks!
You're welcome, Sarah!
OMG, ROFL that someone thought #12 was me!!
I'm so flattered everyone thought I was the adorable mud girl : )
Robin, THanks for doing this!!! This was a LOT of fun to look at! BT, you are commercial cute. Paca, you look the same!!! All of these photos were a hoot!!!
:-)
I'm dissappointingly easy, lol.
But Peter, I'm from California. The laid back look comes from San Francisco!
And Sarah: I'll never tell. I keep the job off the blog.
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