spoon-business: The Cursed Fishbone of Babel

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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<proposal title="The Cursed Sushi of Babel">
Create a rule entitled "The Cursed Sushi of Babel" with the following
text, delimited by tags:
<rule>
  The Cursed Sushi of Babel is an Object.
  
  The player who has the Cursed Sushi of Babel may not post any message
  to an official Forum (such as the "spoon-business" list) without first
  taking these steps:
  
    1. Paste the intended message into the translation box at
    babelfish.altavista.com.
    
    2. Choose one of the following sequences of steps:
      
      a. Choose to translate the text from "English to Japanese" and
      submit the form, then copy the Japanese text into the text box,
      choose "Japanese to English" and submit again.

      b. [[This option exists because not all browsers support
      Japanese.]] Choose to translate the text from "English to German"
      and submit the form, copy the German text into the form, choose
      "German to French" and submit, then copy the French text into the
      form, choose "French to English" and submit.

    3. If there are any Japanese characters remaining in the resulting
    text, replace each one with the word "foo".
    
    4. Send the resulting text to the forum. Line breaks and whitespace
    may be added at the player's discretion.
    
  If babelfish.altavista.com is for some reason unusable, the
  player may write the entire message in pig latin instead.

  A player may, at any time, voluntarily transfer the Cursed Sushi of
  Babel into eir possession, so that the former owner no longer has it.

  Additionally, after a player has had the Cursed Sushi of Babel for
  four days, e may forcefully give it to any player. It is then
  transferred into that player's possession.

  The original owner of the Cursed Sushi of Babel is Rob.
  
</rule>
</proposal>

-- 
Rob Speer