The heaviest blue thing that fits in a shoebox

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Points

15

Disquals

0

• Einar found the biggest shoes he could find (Timberland size 53) and then filled their box with concrete, and painted it blue. It weighed about 55 kilos. He had to keep it outside to dry for three days, using umbrellas to protect it when it was raining. Atle claimed the task could not be solved more ‘concretely’ than that, and Einar earned first place.
• Amir goes for the figurative meaning of heavy, bringing in One Hundred Years of Loneliness, a book with a blue cover. He doesn’t say much more about it. At the end of the task, when everyone is debating whether Einar should get more points or not, he sides with Einar, arguing that Einar’s submission was original, while everyone else’s was unoriginal. Despite this gesture, he still ends up in last place.
• Solveig brings in something which on its face appears light and pink but is, in fact, blue and heavy (on a figurative level): an extract from her diary, from 1986, which reads “Dear diary, it feels like I’ll never be happy again.” There is also something crossed out which reads, “I ask Terje.” She earns third place.
• Steinar brings in ‘the blue planet’ (i.e. Earth), in the form of a small globe, which he claims must weigh “several hundred tonnes”. When questioned about whether he has actually submitted ‘the blue planet’, he likens it to Atle’s bust, which he claims you can refer to as being Atle, even though it’s just a bust. He therefore claims that he doesn’t just have a model of Earth, but the whole planet. He admits that he doesn’t think it’s a worthy candidate, but suggests it would be more fun if he won. He ends up in fourth place.
• Ida brings in a blue pack of condoms that she’d bought the previous December, and which were still unopened. At the end of the task, she leads the argument that Einar shouldn’t win, saying it’s the most boring, despite the counter argument that he was the most original. In the end, Ida secures second place.