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¿Question #2977?
meshuggener: Have you ever submitted a clever answer to a question only to find that someone else had beat you to the punch?

Narlgoth: I don't look, then you can't be thrown by other answers. After the fact though it is fun to see if somebody else thought the same way as you!
Ladybug3: nope
lokisfun: I hate that!
esbegan: oh god :(
Woelf: Often I've tried to submit the clever answer only to find that I'd already done so myself.
Just Hal: yes
kathleenryan: Yes, each time it is extremely traumatizing.
Jatoha: who hasn't?
mariuszrybnik: No?
pwilz: This has never happened once. Well, maybe once.
jessitron: nah. The trick is not to look at other answers. Then you can keep your satisfaction.
DerDa: I seldom do both answering and looking what other people answered, because The System Doesn't Encourage It.
Harkonnen13: Yeah
wolfman87: no
Blacknightjj: yes
chrisnd: Ouch...
DKahnt: yes
old hat: Yes
ValerieF: not yet...
cleonhard: Wait, there was punch? What about cookies?
plutonick: you tell me
waza: No, I don't read other peoples answers
DHEK: Nope. I don't usually check the answers, but I'm sure some of the clever answers I've given were already thought up by someone before me.
franklincobb: Yeah, but what can you do?
POvidiusNaso: Early on I did. Then I switched tactics.
TheArchAngel: no
aleo09: yes. just happend ... neeples
Skadar: Who punched me?
martybjsg: Yes, all the $%@# time!
evilone: All the time... I'm not that clever... :)
dougpartridge: Never
Ogma: Sure. And that's as clever as THIS answer is going to get.
greglios: Probably have but I don't usually check the other answers.
prolifekilledmywife: Why bother checking?
wookie1138: all the time
janiera: No
Avatar_69: Yes. It happens more than I'd like
Big Bad Lex: Fraid so
kroxldyphivc: No.
WatchmanX2000: sure.
Platinum Dragon: Yes.
Loquutus: Sure have.
bigbadsteve: well, i am not so sure about clever, but yes
TaliaIsabelle: Not yet
skrutsch: yes
Odat: To the best of my knowledge I've never done anything clever.
slapdash: haven't checked
dietevil: yes
brainrob: No
Mike A: I try not to submit clever answers for fear of outdoing the GeekQuestion itself. That's a bit like outdressing the host at a party. Bah, screw the host.
Dante_Cubit: Don't give a toss.
obob: that's why I don't bother to look. Fire and forget!
mrbeankc: many times
sourwyrm: no
puffinge: sure, GeekAnswers is a tough world.
Great Dane: I don't know
verandi: yes
edosan: Trick question -- no GeekQuestion can be classified as "clever."
Lord_Prussian: Yes
ssmooth: I haven't seen anybody else's answers to these questions yet... but I'm sure I'm not the only smart aleck in the crowd.
2amp: yes
shotokanguy: I've got a clever answer, but I'm afraid some else has already said it.
djlg: Yes.
scriptorum: Many times.
Belash: i try not to read other peoples answers
heli: don't think so, but tell me if you see one
skelebone: Sometimes, but I marvel at how many clever answerers think along the exact same lines.
Randy Cox: seems to happen a lot here
The Unbeliever: 42
chaddyboy_2000: Yeah.
snoozefest: not sure - rarely look at answers
Spielfreak: Mmmmmm.... punch.
CDRodeffer: Yes.
Tim Synge: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
jttm: I think someone else has asked this before
CortexBomb: It's not a rare thing