Thanks to all the goons who wrote the stories in the first place, and then went through the hassle of going to a new thread to accept the license. Thanks to AYBraham for giving the idea momentum in the form of a contest. Thanks to BirdZerk! for helping me with some of the initial conversion from the forum to LaTeX. Thanks to Hamelin for suggesting I list the authors who still needed to assign permission, and for telling me about Mediafire, so I could host draft copies without letting a thousand goons know who I really am. Thanks to benitocereno for reminding me about the "any similarities" disclaimer, which probably has no legal weight whatsoever, but looks cool. Thanks to Ridgley_Fan for submitting *three* git patches, one of which had the cool idea of putting a Beretta image on the winning stories somewhere. Last but most, thanks to Ben Biddick for inspiring 117 crappy authors and one crappy bookmaker to come together for a great thing. Terrible, yes; but great. - cruft, July 2009