The contest
The "SAP Facts Chuck Norris style" contest which was announced in the blog Humor@SAP Contest: Are you ready? has now come to an end. The task was to write the most funny SAP fact in the same form as Chuck Norris facts . After an approval process, the facts were open for voting on http://sapfacts.elsewhat.com, so it's the SDN community which has been the judge (and excecutor). There has been a lot of activity and in total 2855 votes and over 19 000 pageviews(alright it was 19 002; over 19 000 sounds much more impressive). That means that there has been 1 vote pr 175 SDN member or 0.00571 vote pr SDN member.
Who won? That's what I am going to tell you if you stop asking questions.
The Winners are (*drum roll*)
Third place
There is no third place. How could that be?
Second place
The second place is actually shared between two facts (damn, now I have to write code that handles that also)
And the grand prize(200 points) goes to
Congratulations Ibai, your fact was in a league of its own and won a deserved victory. Please note that you are now an official SDN celebrity, Craig will give you a talk on how this affects your life. Unfortunately, I haven't got your email, but I'll try to get in contact via the SDN team. 
All winner will be paid be fully paid in SDN points.
Honourable mentions
This is the final top 40 of facts. A big cheer for them all. Unfortunately, there are a lot of good facts that didn't make this list because they didn't have the required 20 votes that was needed in order to insure voting was fair. You can check those out at the new list. | Position | Fact | Name | Votes | Score |
| 1. | The matrix runs SAP | Ibai Peña | 106 | 7.66 |
| 2. | Chuck Norris uses SAP to keep track of his death count | Dagfinn Parnas | 73 | 7.5 |
| 2. | SAP stands for Shai Agassi Products | Eddy De Clercq | 64 | 7.5 |
| 4. | When SAP NetWeaver was released, there was a disturbance in the Force | Dagfinn Parnas | 52 | 7.47 |
| 5. | Oracle runs SAP | Dagfinn Parnas | 105 | 7.44 |
| 6. | There is only one number greater than the number of transactions in a SAP system - the number of pe... | Max Moder | 36 | 7.43 |
| 7. | Read in Wikipedia under the term Oracle: "... the use of Oracle bones dates as far back as the Shai... | Eddy De Clercq | 50 | 7.42 |
| 8. | SAP wins a patent for all technologies whose names have 3-letter acronyms: ERP, CRM, MDM, XML, ESA,... | Valery Silaev | 44 | 7.41 |
| 9. | By reading the source code of transaction SE38 you will temporarily be granted invisibility | Dagfinn Parnas | 63 | 7.39 |
| 10. | "ABAP is the only language understood by aliens" - SETI | Sharath V | 22 | 7.38 |
| 10. | Yes, even Larry Ellison is a homo SAPience | Eddy De Clercq | 59 | 7.38 |
| 10. | In the ABAP forum some SDNers use the Psychic Friends Network to predict the next question to have ... | Mark Finnern | 57 | 7.38 |
| 13. | HAL9000 ran 4.6C and spoke to Dave through a voice interface via EP6 SP2. While in transit the upgr... | David J. Rutt | 39 | 7.36 |
| 13. | SAP expects the Spanish Inquisition | Dagfinn Parnas | 29 | 7.36 |
| 15. | SAP is such a great software that initially there weren't any errors. But in order to have any work... | Blag | 69 | 7.35 |
| 15. | SAP XI is used by Pentagon to translate alien radio signals to plain english | Dagfinn Parnas | 50 | 7.35 |
| 17. | Oracle still hides the fact that FUSION stands for: Finally use SAP in our network | Dirk | 56 | 7.34 |
| 18. | A popular sentence when dating: "MySAP or YourSAP?" | Eddy De Clercq | 63 | 7.33 |
| 19. | One day in the near future SDN points will replace the dollar as the preferred method of payment | Dagfinn Parnas | 45 | 7.32 |
| 19. | What Yoda really meant to say about the force: Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads... | Stephen | 31 | 7.32 |
| 21. | Think Bill Gates is generous? SAP has earned $10 in donations for its partners for every $1 it make... | vinnie mirchandani | 23 | 7.31 |
| 21. | If you post a question in the SDN ABAP forum, Rich Heilman already has the answer typed in and is j... | Max Moder | 58 | 7.31 |
| 23. | SAP made Bill Gates retire. When asked why, SAP answered "Because we can" | Dagfinn Parnas | 48 | 7.3 |
| 24. | In the US Army, SAPpers are combat engineers. | Eddy De Clercq | 46 | 7.28 |
| 25. | GOD runs SAP | Dagfinn Parnas | 58 | 7.25 |
| 25. | Not 42, but SAP is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. | Fred Sterk | 34 | 7.25 |
| 27. | SAP is so secure that condoms are made from it | Eddy De Clercq | 35 | 7.24 |
| 28. | SAP only made its software so complicated because this way they were able to lay the foundation for... | Max Moder | 25 | 7.23 |
| 29. | Rich Heilman does not need ST22 - he is fixing bugs just by logging into the system. | Max Moder | 22 | 7.22 |
| 29. | SAP = MS^2 | Eddy De Clercq | 62 | 7.22 |
| 31. | SAP NetWeaver is based on alien technology | Dagfinn Parnas | 63 | 7.17 |
| 31. | The European Union has decided that by 2008, ABAP will be the only offical language used in parliam... | Dagfinn Parnas | 57 | 7.17 |
| 33. | SAP is so efficient in creating software, there is actually only one developer writing code, all ot... | Matthias Zeller | 41 | 7.12 |
| 34. | The World is goverened by SAP Master Data Management | Dagfinn Parnas | 46 | 6.92 |
| 35. | Do you think SAP break the cars engine of F1 Team McLaren ? | Manuel Rodriguez | 37 | 6.83 |
| 36. | Shai Agassi and Andre Agassi are brothers | Valery Silaev | 43 | 6.8 |
| 37. | SAP stands for "Sammelstelle Arbeitsloser Physiker" (Collection Point for Unemployed Physicists) | Matthias Zeller | 30 | 6.79 |
| 38. | Contrary to popular belief, Walldorf is actually the centre of the universe | Dagfinn Parnas | 47 | 6.76 |
| 39. | Chuck Norris is such a purist that he writes his Netweaver Java Apps in pure byte-code. | Michal Krawczyk | 32 | 6.69 |
| 40. | Active Server Pages (ASP) are based on the technical specifications of Business Server Pages (BSP) | Craig Cmehil | 43 | 6.62 |
Future
The SAP fact site will be closed for voting for a couple of weeks now, so that everyone can admire the results and bask in the glory of the winners. Afterwards, it will be open again for anyone to submit new facts as well as vote for facts. Cheers Dagfinn
PS: I'll make sure everyone gets there rightly deserved points from the SDN group.
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