I guess I should be thinking about organising the next sweep! As we haven't got an Exchange for a couple of months, March would seem a good time to do it. So, let me know roughly when!

Can I ask a stupid question? What is a sweep?

Sorry - should have explained!

Everybody who wishes to enter lets me know. I then pick one name out of the hat and that person is the lucky winner - everyone else who enters sends the winner a book. I also pick a second name as a decoy and send that to the winner and they send a book to the decoy. Then we all sit bac and wait to see how long it is before the winner realises they are going to get flooded with books :lol:

Sign me up for whenever it is :P

sign me up too please

And when camis is the winner she figures it out in a matter of hours! :lol: ;)

I'd like to sign up, too, please. I once did something like this on BC, and we all bombarded Firegirl in Arizona with tons of books! Was she ever surprised (and appreciative!)

It sounds like fun. Thanks for including me.

Oh, it's neck n neck.

I'll ask for signups once we've decided on a date, so hold on a bit!! :bash:

camis, you might want to ask cherie if she can send you the old post from BR that lists the rules for the Sweeps - that way you won't have to type them all from scratch yourself. :)

Good idea - I was trying to remember all the rules!

PM on it's way to you camis! :D

Received thank you :D

I've only played in one or two of these but it was fun ... kinda like playing the lottery :P

I added my vote for the end of March as I got a few things lined up already for the beginning and middle of March. I'll stay tuned for the sign-up sheet.

I voted for the end of March as well. If anything, I think that's the best time as the original rules said every 3 months. And 3 months from January 1st would be April 1st so the end of March would actually be closest to that date. :)

I would've voted for April 1st if it's an available option, so that we can stay with the 1st of each month and go every 3 months, so July 1, October 1, Jan 1...

I voted for the end of March, since the 31st is my birthday it would be the perfect day for me to Win!! HaHa!

Yes April 1st! April Fool's Day! :rolleyes: :lol: :P

OOO! It can be the Who's Fooling Who Sweeps!


(Well, OK, so it should be the Who's Fooling Whom Sweeps, but just this once it seems to loose something with proper grammar. :rolleyes: )

Hey Kyrissaean... How'd you do that? You turned the dancing banana upside down?

Ha ha! Is that ever cool!!! How did you turn the dancing banana upside-down? I'm so computer-illiterate!

For Kyri's upside-down banana, it's just a different smiley where it was upside down to begin with. Search any of the smileys on the net for 'em, or to start you off, here's a bunch of banana's including the upside down one on page 6:
http://www.smileyarena.com/emoticons/packs...-bananas-1.aspx

(This site works a little differently. When you click on a smiley, it'll offer to download it, which won't work as well for inserting an IMG link here. Instead, right click on the one you want to post and choose "Copy Image Location" from the context menu (Firefox). The procedure in IE should be fairly similar. Then you use the forum's IMG tage to insert it.)

This sounds fun! I voted for the end of March.

Thanks for explaining and the new smilies too Cherie

Yikes! that sounds confusing to me (downloading the upside-down banana). I wish you computer guru gals lived next door to me - I'd beg you to come over, ply you with books galore and make ya show me how to do all these cool computer tricks!

I think Kyri got her upside down banana from Yelim's Smileys. You grab them the same way, right click to get the image location and that put that inside an image tag here. Like so:

which yields

Make sense now?

Yup -- it's a Yelims smiley. You just click on the one you like at Yelims, and it gives you the little code thingie to copy/paste into your post over here.

Shoot, if I'd found a way to turn the regular one over here upside down, it would have been an accident and it would've totally flipped me out! :lol:

oohhh Gonna Have to ad Yelims to my bookmarks.... my son LOVES smilies! Thank You !

Oh yeah, I forgot that Yelim's makes it easy by putting the code right at the bottom for you and then all you have to do is copy that and paste it here. That makes it waaay easier for y'all who claim to not know how to do any of these computer tricks! :D So there ya go. Go to Yelim's and have fun!! :lol:

I like the rasta banana

So 1st April it is then - and Kyri has even given me a name - thanks