Quote from Scientist: // This is the explanation after I came back to ET...
Reality is that I would have expected one of ET's smarter guys (nitro, funky, corvus, nkhoi, harrytrader, even Inandlong or db) to pick up on it first-hand, to then be perpetuated by these two trolls for a few more hours (by when people would have gotten the joke). Funnily enough, things turned out differently, a smart long-time lurker called Resolas Inamtih discovered the pun and finished the gag with a very elegant indeed post, to be then continued by the trolls.
What I didn't really expect so much is that the joke would take so long to figure out and yet get perpetuated in such an unelegant way once discovered.
I thought I made it so easy it wouldn't even work, but said "never underestimate the stupidity of the general public", which is a business maxim from Bradley Sugars, so I put a few (obvious?) hints in to make it simple:
1) I added exactly 100 points to the score of the person I quoted (124 = 224)! [Is this plain ovious or what?]
This should have made anybody with a brain snicker. Anybody here?
2) I literally said that "I got 100% everywhere and it says I'm a Word Warrior"
If I got 100% everywhere, how could I get a specifically high score anywhere, to excel in one particular field???
Who figured this one?
3) Anybody halfway non-ignorant or somewhat enquirical / sceptical should have figured the clause that "144" is the maximum attainable score in this test.
Anybody but Resolas figured this? Oh come on!!!