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State of the Union Office Pool and State of the Union BINGO!

A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY

Submit you predictions (and customized rules) to your friends before January 20, 2004, 9 p.m. EST (that's when oilboy will have recovered enough from his last hangover to focus on the TelePrompTer)

Then watch it LIVE to see who WINS!

SOTU +++Office Pool+++

#1: When will he first mention 9/11?
a) first sentence (during introductions)
b) first sentence (after introductions)
c) within first 5 minutes, but not first sentence
d) after 5 minutes, but not last sentence
e) very last sentence

#2: How many times will he mention 9/11?
a) just once
b) 5 times or less
c) between 6 and 10
d) more than 10

#3: Which word, phrase or name will be repeated more often than any other?
fabulous
Saddam, capture of
" tough work" (ahead)
" safer world"
ownership
small businesses
jobs/economy
Jesus, God, or the Lord
" faith-based"
Alaska
Mars
the Moon
Iraq
Iran
Syria
Libya
North Korea
Reagan
Bobby Kennedy

#4: What kind of "celebrity" will sit next to Laura Bush?
Predict the person's
a) job,
b) race,
c) gender,
d) religion and
e) general hard luck story

#5: Predict the length of the longest standing ovation:
a) less than 30 seconds
b) between 31 seconds and 60 seconds
b) between 61 seconds and 90 seconds
c) over 91 seconds

#6: Predict the length of the reading:
a) under an hour
b) 61 to 90 minutes
c) 91 to 120 minutes
d) over 121 minutes

#7: How many times will he mispronounce the following words:
a) American
b) nuclear
c) terrorist/terrorism

SOTU +++BINGO+++

Create a grid of 25 boxes (5 across, 5 down) on a sheet of paper.
Write "9/11" in the center box.
Then choose and scramble 24 more words, phrases or names, (from the list below) to fill in the remaining boxes.

bracero
impeachment
anthrax
fraud
racketeering
chemical/biological
drunk
draft-dodging
coke-fiend
funeral-gate

affirmative action
WMDs
paper ballots
yellow cake
war crimes
wounded/dying soldiers
the UN
Halliburton (or any division of)
BCCI
Project for The New American Century
Arbusto

Dick Cheney
bin Laden
Ken Lay or Enron
Valerie Plame
Paul O'Neill
Christine Todd Whitman
Karen Hughes
Colin Powell
Al Gore
(any Dem running for POTUS)
(anyone named Clinton)
Teresa Chambers

Oilboy will be reading lots of words that night. Whenever he uses a word on your SOTU BINGO Card, scratch that word off. When you get five in a row, you win!

HAVE FUN!

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