Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal - Anthologies

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Donald Whytock,

> On 3/10/02 at 12:03 AM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> Quoth Donald Whytock,
>>> 
>>> Okay, but what if it was, like, three Limericks?  Would that still be an
>>> Anthology of Limericks?
>>> 
>>> Glotmorf
>>> 
>>> 
>> The way it's written right now, you'd get 4 points for using limericks,
>> plus
>> three points for having more than one of them.
>> 
>> --Wonko
> 
> {{ _sample proposal, not to be confused with something I'd actually submit_
> 
> [[
> 
> "There was an old man from Nantucket
> Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
> But his daughter named Nan
> Ran away with a man,
> And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
> 
> "But he followed the three to Pawtucket --
> The man and the girl and the bucket --
> And he said to the man,
> 'You can marry young Nan.'
> But as for the bucket, Pawtucket."
> 
> So you see, my young friend from Yakutsk,
> If on points ya wants ta get yer hooks'k,
> Just like Paw in the tale,
> 
> ]]
> 
> {{ _Points are Kept in a Pail_
> 
> If ya wants someone's points, then ya tooks'k.
> 
> }}
> 
> }}
> 
> Sheer stupidity of the third stanza notwithstanding, here we have an example
> of three Limericks at 4 points each, 3 more points for the Anthology bonus,
> and 10 points for it being a story.
> 
> Not like I'd actually submit the above.  Propose that Players can steal each
> other's points?  Guess what spoon-business would be bursting at the seams
> with.
> 
> Glotmorf
> 
> 
No, you'd get four points for using Limericks, and 3 points for having
multiple stanzas, and whatever the literary criticism gives you(if that
passes) for being a story.

Each Limerick is not worth 4 points; the use of any Limericks anywhere is
worth 4 points, regardless of the quantity.


--Wonko

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