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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> spike@rainier66.com <spike@rainier66.com> <br><br><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>>…Down at the bottom is Philippines, Soviet Union, and UK, in the Covid/Vietnam fatality olympics… spike <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>… That C/V ratio is the weirdest contest I ever heard of…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In all modesty I must admit that it was John who proposed and has been promoting the C/V event. However I dispute your notion. I myself have proposed and promoted weirder contests than that one. My modesty contest is as weird as C/V, as I demonstrate my own championship-class modesty with how I started out this modest commentary.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But I am in no position to judge, being one of the formidable contestants in proposing weird contests. I am in it to win it. Go for the gold.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We need a panel of judges to adjudicate a weirdest contest contest. I would enter the weirdest contest contest notion as a competitor in the weirdest contest contest. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know it can beat John’s relatively sane Covid/Vietnam contest. If the weirdest contest contest chose itself as the winner of itself, that would be so weird it would beat itself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>