Issue Forty and a Half: Fun Facts
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| FUN FACTS |
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| Issue #1 of The Common Tater was published by Mithgil & |
| Larek in May 2003 (we think){2.5 years & going strong!} |
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| The Common Tater has published five Obituaries: |
| Java Underhill (#22), Rosado Munhasu (#29), |
| Riddacks Biggens (#35), Mithgil Snippyshorts(#36) |
| & Sarav the Cat (#38) |
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| The Editoresses’ Least Favorite Issue is #32 because of |
| reformatting issues that took place while they were |
| restoring it for placement in the archives. |
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| The Editoresses’ favourite issue is #36. |
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| The Common Tater has had 8 editors: |
| Mithgil (14), Larek(7), Kae(9), Ethwi(1), Chord(1), |
| Hirgon (1), Meril+Kae(1), Meril+Sila(6) |
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| The Common Tater has had 34 writers, 22; of them have |
| written more then one piece, 12: five pieces or more |
| 5; ten pieces or more. Scapegoat has written the most |
| pieces with 26 to his name. |
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| Our writers span all races: |
| Dwarf(2), Edain(1), Eorling(2), Dunedain(2), Elf(4), |
| and of course... Hobbit(24). We have never had a |
| Dunlending writer (nudge,nudge,wink,wink.) |
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| There have been 7 Themed issues: |
| Food(10), Breaking News(21), Feet (32), Fire (33), |
| Magic(34), Gossip (35), & Trick or Treat (38). |
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| Two Issues of the Common Tater were printed on note |
| paper: 33 & 34. |
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| IN Issue 33, As all proper hobbits should know, The |
| Common Tater came of age. |
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| The Note Paper editions of Common Tater XXXIV were all |
| enchanted with various spells, with the help of several |
| elven wizards. |
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| The Common Tater used to be published in a secret room |
| inside Auntie Bracegirdle’s Mushroom Factory, however, |
| The Factory, along with the original printing press |
| burned to the ground after we recieved a suspicious |
| looking mail addressed from someone named “Melkor” from |
| someplace called “The Void...” |
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| The longest words we’ve published are 17 letters long: |
| misadministration(18) and subdeconstructive*(28) |
| *Yes, we know its not a real word, blame Sharkey, not us.|
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| The longest article we’ve published is 873 words; |
| Carver’s Piece “A tale of...” from Issue 39. |
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| Statistics: |
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| Issues: 40 |
| Pieces: 170 |
| Pages(When set as size 10 New Courier on Word): 157 |
| Words: 70,180 |
| Characters w/spaces: 492,452 |
| Lines: 8,937 |
| “Hobbit”: 367 |
| “Shire” : 227 |
| “Sharkey”: 60 |
| “Food”: 53 |
| “Tater”: 154 |
| “Foot”/”Feet”: 218 |
| “Ranhoth”:53 |
| “Pipe”: 52 |
| “Bywater”: 229 |
| “Elves”/”Elf”: 165 |
| “Mathom” : 24 |
| “Beer”/”Ale”/”Mead”/”Wine”/”Brew”/”Alcohol”/”Pint”: 86 |
| “Mushroom”: 38 |
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