Did you guys see him???

[Bruce Lindfield]

This whole forced Scrabble joke is just not working out for you, Bruce. No matter how many times you try and awkwardly wedge it into the convo.

bc

It's not a joke as such - so where does the name "the Qintar" come from?

If you do any searches on Google - it only ever comes up as a Scrabble tactic for using a 'Q' when there are no 'U's left.

I am convinced that the Qintar could only have got this name from being a Scrabble "Nerd".

Which is quite ironically funny when you see how others treat him!

So - you all see him as some big hero - whereas it is more likley to be how Maki described it in his reply!

 

[peterbright]

Bruce...they just don't want to admit it. I heard his brain had been cryogenically preserved & only thawed out so he could ocasionally post here. It's part of a government conspiracy.

 

[dlloyd]

It's not a joke as such - so where does the name "the Qintar" come from?

If you do any searches on Google - it only ever comes up as a Scrabble tactic for using a 'Q' when there are no 'U's left.

What makes you think Balkan numsimatologists wouldn't also play bass?

Perhaps he sees the incarceration of Samir Qintar as an injustice?

Maybe he's just into obscure arabic measures of area?

 

[Hawaii Islander]

http://www.answers.com/topic/qintar

He's Albanian!

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

http://www.answers.com/topic/qintar

He's Albanian!

But the big thing there is the word "formerly"!!

So it is no longer a unit of currency in Albania and only comes up nowadays in Scrabble!

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[dlloyd]

But the big thing there is the word "formerly"!!

So it is no longer a unit of currency in Albania and only comes up nowadays in Scrabble!

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[Bruce Lindfield]

So if you do a google search :

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,680 for qintar scrabble

Which is way more results than anything else apart from Scrabble!

 

[Hawaii Islander]

OK! OK! So now he's a former Albanian who now lives in Brooklyn and he's a Dodgers fan. Just a W.A.G.

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

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Well - 2 things

Firstly - nobody has heard of him in 2000 - join date for "The Qintar" - also surely it would make more sense to call yourself Samir rather than "The" ..?

The inclusion of the definite article means that it clearly refers to the unit of currency - but as I said that is no longer used today, but its name is referred to, in every Scrabble dictionary and website as a high score tactic!

QED!

 

[dlloyd]

Well - 2 things

Firstly - nobody has heard of him in 2000 - join date for "The Qintar" - also surely it would make more sense to call yourself Samir rather than "The" ..?

Huh?

Here's an article from 1999 that mentions him.

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The inclusion of the definite article means that it clearly refers to the unit of currency - but as I said that is no longer used today, but its name is referred to, in every Scrabble dictionary and website as a high score tactic!

The qintar appears to equal to 102 pounds 6 ounces according to 'Levantine Weights and Standard Parcels: A Contribution to the Metrology of the Later Middle Ages' by E. Ashtor (Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 45, No. 3 (1982), pp. 471-488)

 

[dlloyd]

Maybe he has one of these and really likes it?

 

[Bruce Lindfield]

But my point is that things like those were exceedingly rare in 2000 - whereas Scrabble dictionaries and websites on Scrabble tactics were very common!

The most likely place you would have come across that exact name would be in the context of Scrabble !!

 

[Hawaii Islander]

Maybe he has one of these and really likes it?

 

[dlloyd]

There are even nicer ones listed at qintar.com

 

[dlloyd]

...I mean, look at the workmanship on this baby...

 

[dlloyd]

Or maybe he's this guy, Mark Chipeur, who on his resume lists his past experience as:

• Bass Guitarist at Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus
• Marketing and Inside Sales at Qintar

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/030/A36

 

[peterbright]

Now he works for Bose.

 

[dlloyd]

Where was he working in 2000?

 

[jive1]

Samir Qintar, Albanian coins, Qintar electronic components - all those are reruns and have been stated before years and years ago. These Qintar theories have been hashed over years ago. You n00bs need to do a search.

 

[Benjamin Strange]

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