From: 01sybok@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Space Age Outerwear and a challenge
Date: 12 Nov 92 11:23:20 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Nov11.200531.2142@twg.com>, nolan@lurch.twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Nov10.185416.8768@ac.dal.ca>, 01sybok@ac.dal.ca Dear Little
> Mikey from Halifax offers to exchange GIFs with C. Yarvin, to which I say:
> 
> AUTHENTICATION! How are we to trust anything coming from Dalhousie? Who's
> gonna vouch for the honesty of Mikey's image? Dare we ask for an official
> notarized copy of a University publication containing his picture?
> 
> Be chary, I say. Accept only the genuine article. Then let the contest begin.

By an odd coincidence, I was wondering exactly how I am going to present
a photo for this contest. Nobody on the net knows me personally, except
for Steve Franklin, and *he* has only met me for under 10 seconds one day. 
I'm no bigger a Steve Franklin fan than the rest of you, but if you would be
willing to accept HIS word for it, then we could have confirmation. Actually,
since Steve and I aren't exactly bosom buddies, I suppose that would be the best
confirmation one could hope for.

The only other thing I can offer is my word as a gentleman that any picture I
present is my own. Dalhousie does not have any official picture of me except
for my Student ID. Posting that would be a bad idea because: a) it's a piture
of my head, and b) it wouldn't scan well at all. However, I have an idea.

I have a Nova Scotia liquor ID, which has a picutre of my head and different
bits o'data about me. I think it would scan better than any other picture ID 
I have. While I admit it can be faked, you have to trust people some time, and
I hardly think I would've issued this challenge if I weren't confident I would
win.

I suppose Norman can verify Curtis' picture, so we won't have any problem
there. Anyway, while Curtis and I are hardly the best of friends, this is a 
gentelmen's wager. If you can't trust the word of a gentleman, who can you 
trust.

One more thing in fairness to Curtis. Are we to place any criteria on our 
pictures, or the judges? For example, it would hardly be fair if one were to 
send in a picture of himself in a tux and the other in jeans and a cotton 
shirt. I propose this: We each send in a picture to a disintrested 3rd party,
say Geoff. He in turn strips the headers, and anything identifing either GIF.
 then he forwards GIFS to the judges. I don't know about you, Curtis, but I
am a little chary about sending my GIF to the net. God knows where it would
end up. The judges announce the winning gif to Geoff, who in turn matches
GIF to paerson and announces the winner to alt.peeves. In this way, we are
certain that the contest is honest.

As for the pictures themselves, well. I think fashion is defined by the person
who wears the clothes, and so I propose this: each of us ships off one GIF
of whtever outfit that person chooses. Thus, if Curtis believes the height of 
fashion is formal evening wear, he may send in a photo of himself in formal
evening wear. The choice to greyscale or colour may be left of the discretion
of the sender    

What do you say, Curtis? Are you up for it?

Mike