October 20th, 2010's challenge: Mind Tricks

Vader might have lost his way, but at one point in time he was a Jedi, and to this day he's a master of Jedi mind tricks. For tomorrow, Lord Vader says that every one must convince someone else of an outrageous lie. What the lie will be is up to you, but it can't be something stupid like "Obama is a Muslim." It has to be pretty outlandish, since the more outlandish it is, the more likely it is that you're in tune with the Force. Points are based on the weirdness of the lie.

Slightly weird lie: 1 point
Pretty weird lie: 2 points
Slanderously weird lie: 3 points

Each additional person you an convince of the same lie is worth an extra point. If you convince two people of a slightly weird lie, that's two points; two people convinced of a slanderously weird lie is worth 4 points.

Heaven help us all.

October's 19th, 2010's Daily Challenge: Alphabet

Vader is a well spoken man. Even when he was force choking someone, he had the propriety to accept his tacit apology. Vader's reward for tomorrow will go out to his most verbose followers. The challenge is to start each of your sentences with a different letter of the alphabet, starting with A and working your way down in order. As usual, there are points awarded based on performance. Behold the scoring rules:

Conversing alphabetically up to the letter H: 1 point
Discussing all the way up to the letter P: 2 points
Ending the alphabet by getting all the way to Z: 3 points.

Forget not that this has to be done during the course of one conversation with the same person. Going somewhere else and then coming back to continue talking is not acceptable.

Have fun.

October 18th's 2010 Daily Challenge: Push-ups

 The Imperial Army didn't conquer the galaxy with a bunch of wussy soldiers. Stormtroopers were men of strength. One of the purposes of Vader' challenges is to help the world to stretch and realize their full potential, so tomorrow's task is to do 10 push-ups.

It's not enough to do these in the privacy of your own home though. Vader wants his army to glorify him with it's splendor, and so he desires that everyone does these 10 push-ups in public, preferably during a passing period, if you're a BYU student. If not, find a crowded sidewalk or a busy parking lot and drop and give Vader 10. Since Vader wants his control over the galaxy to remain tight, recruits are also desired. Each additional passerby who you can get to join you in your push ups is worth 5 points.

The Rules:

Doing 10 push-ups in public: 2 points
Doing 10 push-ups in public, and attempting but failing at getting someone to join: 3 points
Doing 10 push-ups in public with a stranger: 7 points
Each additional stranger is worth points

Good luck.

October 17th 2010's Daily Challenge: Facade

We all like sounding like pretentious twits. There are no exceptions to that rule. So tomorrow's challenge is going to be universally adored, because Lord Vader demands that everyone uses the word "facade" at least twice during Sunday School. If you can work it into the same comment, so much the better. In fact, that's worth extra.

Here are the scoring rules:

Saying facade twice, but not in the same comment: 1 point.
Saying facade twice in the same comment: 2 points
Saying facade three times in the same comment: 3 points

The number of points is in fact proportional to the number of times you say facade during a single comment. If you can work it in 50 times, not only do you deserve some sort of literary award for being able to actually do that, but you'll also get 50 points.

Good luck.