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

[Eric Gerlach <egerlach@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:55 PM 2002-04-03 -0500, you wrote:
> Quoth Eric Gerlach,
>
> > First, let's get business out of the way.
> >
> > Thing #1 - Glotmorf (legally - in a message dated Mar 30) jumped off the
> > grid, which removed eir name from the roster of Turquoise, then jumped
> > back on and tackled The Voice.  It's a loophole.... e found it.  There's
> > also a bit of a bug in that Glotmorf and I are the same distance from our
> > end-zone, so who gets the ball?  I think that it should be random.  But it
> > did happen, and hasn't been recognised yet.
> >
> > Thing #2 - If I end up with the football I'm running to (10,13).
> > Otherwise I'm running to (12,12), then flying Elbonian to (6,6).
>
> Glotmorf's action was legal? How odd... This must be some strange usage of
> the word 'legal' of which I have previously been unaware... For certainly,
> eir action was forbidden by the ruleset. Nowhere does it say, "players may
> take emselves off the Grid at will by saying so". But somewhere does it say,
> "players may not change the gamestate". Unless that sentence means something
> completely different from what I believe it does, I'm afraid that Glotmorf
> did not, in any way, jump off the grid.

Thilly me.  It doethn't exthept in a comment, which hath no bearing on the 
ruleth.

Well, ith a good thing I like flying; maybe I'll fly again next nweek.

Bean