I do not remember noticing a third instance, but maybe there was.
(you played coreectly in "This or That?" .. and moonwolf, a member since almost two years, just slipped there. No big deal.

To tollbaby: I don't consider "being helpful" to say "Instructions are at the beginning of a thread" when they are spread all over the place, internally contradictory, and often more precedents than written rules.
Considering the topics I raised above can anybody tell me the rules here (in MQG and LMBQG they are pretty clear, or at least the precedents are consistent - here precedents are very inconsistent, and written rules self-contradictory, if ever written at all)
I list them again:
1) contrary to MQG and LMBQG where the proponent gives more and more hints till his quote is found, but a quote rarely gets cold, unless the proponent loses interest, do we put a time limit after which anyone can post a new one? How long? Seven days? Ten? More?
2) again contrary to MQG and LMBQG do we demand prompt posting of a new quote after acknowledgement of success by the proponent? Again, how long? 24 hours? 48? Longer?
3) do we renounce the MQG etiquette of waiting for acknowledgement? Indeed, at the beginning of this game winners whoe were positive of their answers posted immediately
4) about the "penultimate poster prohibition"?
4a) when it applies, how long? 5 days as in the other games, or just 3?
4b) if the rules here are decided to differ from the other games, there would be more cold quotes and "jumpstarts". So does it apply also, in that case, to the jumpstarter (to simplify the rules) or not (as would be more logical considering the rationale of the rule) ?
4c) on the other hand, what about the person who posted the quote that grew cold? Can (s)he answer the jumpstarter's quote at once or does the 5 (or 3?)-days prohibition apply?
"Helpful" would be a clear and unambiguous answer to these questions.
For the record, the current quote is by Sue
mccormack44 wrote:John Daniels had been in the pressroom almost an hour when Merrill McDaniels came in.