Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] NWEEK 46 BALLOT

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 06:26  PM, SkArcher wrote:

> 30/07/2003 23:20:56, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 12:46  AM, Baron von Skippy wrote:
> >
> > > > > Proposal 1589/1: Setting Stuff on Fire For Fun and Profit (Baron 
> > > > > von
> > > > > Skippy)
> > > >
> > > > No. And for Unbridled Hostility towards Anything McGee, I kick the
> > > > Baron in the Ass. Anything found the hole, and didn't even seriously
> > > > exploit it; this is a pure ripoff of Anything's scam. I especially
> > > > disagree with the proposed titles - if anyone deserves to be "Lord 
> > > > of
> > > > the Failure Scam", it's Mr. McGee.
> > >
> > > -Apologies to Mr. McGee, but it is because e did /not/ seriously
> > > exploit this scam that e doesn't get a "Lord" title. And your Kick is
> > > unjustified - not granting someone respect is not hostility. And how
> > > many times have you ripped someone off? I remember having about 600
> > > points at one point, up until someone - probably you - pulled a scam
> > > that destroyed them. That's hostile if this is, wouldn't you say?-
> >
> > By 'Rip someone off' I do not mean 'cause someone to lose points'. I
> > mean that e found a perfectly good scam and you grabbed it. I'll
> > concede that since e didn't exploit it, e probably shouldn't get a
> > 'lord' title; but I definitely don't think that anyone else should get
> > one. 'Lord' should be reserved for people who did something clever and
> > got a Win from it; all you did was take Anything McGee's cleverness 
> > and
> > try to get a Win from it. Which is perhaps knightworthy, but certainly
> > not lordworthy.
>
> What cleverness? What McGee did was to make a statement in a prop that 
> he edidn't even realise was going to be so large. e did it by mistake

Not exactly by mistake, if I read eir msgs correctly; e just didn't 
realize the full implications of it. That doesn't change the fact that 
nobody else did anything particularly clever either.

--
Wonko

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