[s-b] Sweet Zombie Jesus on a Pogo Stick.

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow.... I go away for a few hours and suddenly there are 30 messages 
waiting....

Ok, here are answers and responses to everything that's tried to happen:

1) The Proposal Mixup

I goofed. My software, it seems, gets confused if one person starts 
submitting a proposal while another player is in the middle of doing 
so. I knew there was a chance this would happen, but I figured 
proposals are so rare these days that it probably wouldn't come up 
until after I had time to fix it.

'Home is where you hang your hat' is p1918; 'Down to Brass Tax' is 
p1919 and the other props are numbered one higher than the tracker 
seems to think. Thanks for resubmitting 1920 - that'll keep new numbers 
straight until I have time (probably tomorrow) to fix the prop records. 
And the software. Damn.

2) The Tomato Fiasco

I cite CFJ 688, available at <http://www.bnomic.org/history.php?rn=688> 
. (look at the bottom one, that's the most recent). This CFI (then 
called a CFJ) was made in reference to the sentence

"A player may drink a glass of champagne by announcing that e is doing 
so in a public forum, this causes it to be destroyed."

The claim was that this sentence allowed players to drink Champagne at 
any time, regardless of whether they had champagne or even whether any 
champagne existed.

The ruling (see the appellate ruling, as the original judgment was 
overruled) was that since "a glass of champagne" was a defined game 
object, "to drink a glass of champagne" was not a standalone action but 
instead an action performed upon a game object.

By this precedent, "to throw a tomato" requires the existence of a 
tomato, as tomatoes are defined under the rules. So nobody has thrown 
any tomatoes.

3) Zarpint's Tax Shelter

I'd forgotten that Research could be given away, and that societies can 
hold it... Vines though, cannot be transferred under the rules, so you 
can't give your Vine to a society.

4) Other proposals

Araltaln's first prop probably wasn't meant to be a "New Rule". Also, 
its first statement looks more like a statement of fact than an action 
to take, so I would guess it has no effect. Nice Voidism, though.

Araltaln's second prop is clever, but I hate Cinquains in the rules and 
will probably vote against it.

5) Hand Jobs

Norinel is still the Hand Job Master, as far as I know.



And I have a concert in half an hour, so I'll take care of fixing 
proposals, etc. tomorrow.

--
Wonko

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our 
thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one 
another in the waking state?
                -- Plato

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