[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Another proposal! Is the Admin on meth this morning???

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/18/02 at 3:27 PM David E. Smith wrote:

>The following is 886/0.
>
>{{
>
>Create a new rule:
>
>{{ __Road Trip!__
>
>The Administrator may, at any time while the Clock is On, Utter The Magic
>Words "ROAD TRIP!" This uttering must be done on a Public Forum.
>
>Should the Administrator do so, the following events occur in order
>immediately:
>
>* The Clock is Turned Off.
>* The mailing list "spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx" ceases to be a Public Forum.
>  [[ I'll be on the road for four days, and offline for another day or
>  two, most likely, so I *will* miss some mail. ]]
>* The phrase "seven days" is replaced with "fourteen days" in the fourth
>  parapraph of Rule 0. [[ The 7 days or so I expect to be unavailable,
>  plus the original seven days, in case I die along the way. ]]
>
>At any time after the above has occurred, the Administrator may Utter The
>Magic Words "Holy shit, I made it!" This uttering must be made on the
>mailing list "spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx". Upon doing so, the following
>events occur in order immediately:
>
>* The Clock is Turned On.
>* Rule 0 is returned to its original state before the alteration specified
>  previously. Its revision number shall remain the same, as though the
>  above alteration never happened. [[ saves me a little trouble twiddling
>  with the database ]]
>* The mailing list "spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx" becomes a Public Forum.
>* Append to Rule 212 the following: "This rule does not apply during nweek
>  XX. At the end of nweek XX the final two sentences of this rule delete
>  themselves." where XX is the nweek after the current nweek. [[ it's the
>  closest to a reward I can give for your unending patience. ]]
>* This rule repeals itself.
>
>}}
>
>Give the above Rule a Chutzpah of 817. [[ just to be safe. ;) ]]
>
>}}

Whatever happened to the Holiday rule? :)

						Glotmorf


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