Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: The Late Late Late Ballot For nweek 11

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/3/02 at 7:46 PM Wonko wrote:

>Quoth Wonko,
>
>> Quoth Glotmorf,
>>
>>>> Proposal 531/2: Back from Exile (Wonko)
>>>
>>> Enrique, alwayth the crooning charmer.  Good to thee him featured in
>thith
>>> Nomiverthe.  And tho grathiouth of Wonko to thare billing with me.
>>>
>>> A pity thith propothal ith dethtined to become pig chow.  Thtill, I vote
>>> affirmative.
>>
>> Not if a rather... unfortunate accident were to befall the esteemed Mr.
>> PIG... I suspect, given popular sentiment towards the PIG, that there is
>a
>> significant chance that e will soon cease to grace us with eir
>prescence...
>>
>>
>
>My apologies, I am in error. There is no need for the PIG to be... done
>away
>with. The Pig eats the kth proposal, where k is the nth Gremlin number,
>where n is the number of proposals on the ballot. There are 30 proposals.
>The Gremlin number is 119. The 30th Gremlin number is therefore
>119/(120/30)
>rounded up to the nearest integer. That is 119/4, or 29.75, rounded up. 30.
>I am afraid that it is not my proposal which is doomed to perish at the
>hands, or should I say at the teeth, of the Proposal Ingesting Gremlin, but
>rather, it is Wild Card's Co-Commentator proposal that shall feel the PIG's
>bite.
>
>However, I suspect that this will not be an issue. The PIG's lifespan, I
>fear, is in the process of shrinking drastically.
>
>
>
>
>--Wonko

My ethteemed colleague ith in error again.  The gremlin number ith 113, not 119.  That maketh the target propothal #28, or p531.

						Glotmorf