> I think I'm more confused about how *you* are scoring these things than how Darien is. What schemes are you thinking of?

The exact same one you're thinking of, Sam. :-) So add at least +1 to all my previous scores.

You see... After I posted my first test post to feel out the scoring methodology, and he didn't reply to my post with "Oh, btw, Sam already solved how I scored the results," I figured that Darien was doing an extra step somewhere before inputting the phrases into the Search routine. Indeed, I couldn't see how to get that 530 score when playing the "rules" straight (i.e. include the punctuation marks and ALL the words in each entry). So if you put in "*Sure*, Darien..." you score Nothing, instead of a few hundred Darien posts.

Wolfspirit

Subjective test Bias: yet another reason why all Liberal Arts exams ought to be marked by robots or aliens rather than real live Liberal Arts teachers. :)