Bigbore,
Re. The monthly giveaway.
That's not my idea... that's the way it has been working, or had been working. Things have gotten a little confused during the last couple of months.
N2S
Ps. the offcial rules read as follow:
"Well, unfortunately, there are some details that have to be addressed.
1. Though we are trying to give everyone a knife, we can't give everyone a knife at once, nor are we obligated to give you a knife if you haven't been chosen.
2. If you are selected to receive a knife, we will need your real name and address so that it can be shipped to you. Your information will not be used for commercial purposes.
3. Certain items can only be given to qualified individuals, for example, automatic knives. Given the legal quandries that this entails, we reserve the right not to give these products away.
4. When you win, we would like for you to send us a picture of you with the knife, but you aren't obligated to do so. We'd just like to see the person we helped out, and post your picture on our site. Again, if you don't want to, you don't have to.
5. If, for any reason, we can not get in contact with you, we reserve the right to award the prize to an alternate person. Sorry.
6. Prize winners are chosen at random on or around midnight of the last day of the month. Each month, a random number is generated for each member of the forum. Members are asked to provide a random number at midnight, at which time the numbers provided are compared to the corresponding numbers assigned to each member. If the number provided belongs to a member that is ineligable (has not posted at least once, etc), the next number is used until a winner is chosen. Pretty simple, right?
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[This message has been edited by not2sharp (edited 01-28-2001).]