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Do do do… do do do… do do do… do do.

Ahem.

Welcome to Mission: Recategorization. Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

Help WikiAnswers recategorize the flood of questions that is taking over the Uncategorized category. If the level gets too high, questions may explode, contributors may drown and the little orange guys across the site will probably head for the hills!

Recategorize the Uncategorized questions into their appropriate categories and win prizes… and save lives!

Where: The comfort of your own computer screen.

When: From 12:00am (EDT) on Tuesday, August 5th, until 11:59pm (EDT) on Monday, August 11th

How: Here’s how to recategorize on WikiAnswers.

Prizes: Plenty of prizes are being given out, including Amazon cash; check them out.

Rules: Questions must be already categorized in Uncategorized to be counted and must be recategorized into appropriate an relevant categories.

Oh, and this is a great opportunity to redeem yourself if you missed out on the recent AnswerThon!

Reported side effects of participating in the AnswerThon, as recorded by several Supervisors:

Numb-bum.

The need to change their focal distance.

Mush for brain with mild blindness kicking in.

Not being able to remember the last time you ate something that required a fork (and a bit of basic attention).

Having a rather large pup lick the keyboard a time or two trying to get your attention.

A lot of Coke-drinking.

The feeling your eyes are crossing.

Falling asleep with head on keyboard resulting in FGHJVBN being repeated for several minutes as an answer.

Not noticing the chickens being released from the yard and herded around and around the house by a well meaning but otherwise bored puppy. (no loss of livestock).

Failure to multitask and leave supper burning on the BBQ while submitting “just one more answer.”

Hey, we said it would be an intense challenge. You still have a few hours left to contribute: Get going!

I was looking for a challenging question to answer on today’s WikiAnswers Wednesday. So when a dear colleague presented me with this, I was completely insulted:

Don’t lie. Are you cool?

Oh, c’mon. Am I cool? Challenge me, I said. Do I like look like the type of person who can’t handle that kind of question? Is that a challenge?

Nevermind. That’s all I got for today. I’m too spent on answering that question.

Congratulations to the winners of the Answers.com Creative Writing Challenge and thank you to everyone who participated.

1st Place
Sandra Hanks Benoiton
Paradise Preoccupied

2nd Place
Patrice Eastham
RumbleStrip

3rd Place
Sarah McIntyre
Sarah McIntyre

Classroom Edition Winner
Carolyn Phelps’ class from The Learning Academy of Teton Valley
Middle School Pages: Abi

For a full list of winners, visit the Hall of Fame.

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