spoon-discuss: RE: spoon-business: CFJ 688

["Gavin Doig" <gmd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> CFJ 688 reads:
> "Statement: A player may drink a glass of champagne at any time, regardless 
> of whether any glasses of champagne exist.
>
> "Analysis:
> Rule 503 states "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." 
> Admittedly, the "causes it to be destroyed" clause might *imply* that there 
> has to be a glass of champagne there, but it doesn't actually seem to be 
> *required* anywhere (and note that one could certainly drink someone else's 
> champagne). Common sense would indicate this statement is false, but the 
> rules take precedence, and they say one may drink."
>
> Ruling:
> After reading the rule in question, I have to, sadly, judge this CFJ to be 
> TRUE.
>
> Analysis:
> There is no place where a price tag is put on a glass of Champagne.  While I 
> hope that this hole is patched soon, I would also note to uin that, having 
> drunk in excess of two dozen glasses of bubbly (I counted), e now will be 
> inebriated for about 20 nweeks, or, with no switches to wtime, 6 months, 
> real-world. Go ahead, uin, throw a Beer Can. Copper's getting rusty.
>
>                                                        Bottoms up,
>                                                           BvS
>
I think my irony meter just overloaded.

Although - "in excess of two dozen"? I think not, unless you're counting some from some previous nWeek.

uin.
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