On Friday there was a tree on the tracks but I did get to Hastings. Saturday started at 9:30am. It is a venue with food and tea but nothing else. There is a LIDL nearby, about a 15 minute walk away.

I realised that play would carry on until c21:00+. I wisely took a bye for round 3. Then I saw the sights at Hastings. It's a very nice town. I had a pint of <Theakston's Old Peculier>, which is one of my favourite beers.

Then, when I woke up at 7:40 on Sunday I had a great idea: I could simply blow out the whole Sunday. So that is what I did: I went back under the duvet.

I too enjoy a pint of <Old Peculier> though it's been a little while since I last did.

My wife and I stayed in <Masham>, home of the <Theakston> brewery, a few years ago. It's also the home of the <Black Sheep> brewery set up just down the road by one of the Theakston family after 'Scottish & Newcastle' bought the Theakston business. The latter had a bar which we visited most evenings as the beer was good. Very similar to Theakston's in fact.

Thanks for the answer <OCF>.

I'm a little disappointed, given you often criticize the puns selected. I thought you might care enough to make a contribution.

I'd also be curious to see a sampling of what you consider the good puns that are "languishing".

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Afaic - I give a lot of latitude to those willing to do the work to make a feature available. And even given that allowance, I think <Missy> is doing a helluva job running the puns.

Of course I wish other <CG>-ers would share in the work, if only to get a little more variety to the selections, and to have a backup in case <Missy> should ever become indisposed.

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I rarely criticize puns except for the people who routinely criticize others. I assume you know the usual suspects. If you don't, watch who I criticize. Heat, kitchen, etc.

<Afaic - I give a lot of latitude to those willing to do the work to make a feature available. And even given that allowance, I think <Missy> is doing a helluva job running the puns>

In my last post I wrote:

<I thought you might care enough to make a contribution.>

I have two criticisms of this - first, I neglected to mention that you've contributed many of your own puns to <CG>.

And secondly, I should criticize myself for also failing to note that criticism itself can often be constructive, and therefore a contribution in its own fashion.

Of course, sometimes criticism is just plain crabbing, too. I'm not implying this in your direction at the moment, but just making an obvious general statement.

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Random thought - maybe <Missy> should offer up a couple of random picks from the pun pool to address any issue of subjective bias?

J Tin vs A Sarana, 2017

B Amin vs TransWarp, 2009

D Reizniece-Ozola vs S Johnsen, 2011

Karpov vs Chandler, 1983

(IMHO, the best pun ever submitted on this site)

E Cohen vs R Rowley, 2001

L White vs NN, 2003

G Danilov vs W R Augustine, 1963

G Tokhirjonova vs M Lee, 2021

Joachim Hendrix vs R Stern, 2016

Deep Junior vs REBEL, 2001

I have well over a 100 I would rate A or better. Here's the listing of all puns submitted: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/sho...

But I did start looking at some of your puns <OCF>, and got this far -

D Reizniece-Ozola vs S Johnsen, 2011

Which is a game without comment by you. So do I have to cross-reference the game in that pun list you gave?

(I couldn't find Ozola there, so I guess... not?)

As far as the ratings goes on that list - there seems to be a lack of statistics on many of the puns. Or am I mistaken?

I only have one page for <Ozola--Johnsen>, huh?

Not sure what you mean here.

D Reizniece-Ozola vs Y Hou, 2016

<OCF: The stats on the pun rating page look okay to me.>

<sfod: Not sure what you mean here.>

I see the ratings and number of times they were rated. You said some appeared to be missing statistics.

<Also, is the Ozola game to be found there?>

I see, this was just a miscommunication then.

When I said

<As far as the ratings goes on that list - there seems to be a lack of statistics on many of the puns.>

I wasn't referring to the stats being missing on the page but that there are too few votes to gauge many (if not most) of the puns.

I know <CG> has a low turnout here - but I wouldn't trust evaluations of quality with less than 5 voters at the least. I'd much prefer 10 or more votes even.