Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Speaking of mayhem...

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 09:20  PM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

> > > Did my Imaginary Friends scam predate you?  Somehow I thought you 
> > > were
> > > around longer than that.  I created 20-some imaginary friends and 
> > > had them
> > > all vote in favor of a proposal that declared me the winner.  Dave's
> > > reaction, a few hours before the end of voting, was, "Okay, but I'll 
> > > need
> > > an email address for each one."  Hanfway through frantically creating
> > > Yahoo email addresses, I decided to just appreciate the absurdity 
> > > instead.
> >
> >
> > I think that is the second attempted scams this nweek that has 
> > _already
> > been tried_ (both in the first few months, IIRC...). Perhaps we should
> > write a "History of the Great Scams of B-Nomic"... or would that just 
> > give
> > these younglings ideas?
> -"Youngling?" I beg your pardon... anyway, this isn't a redo of the 
> "imaginary friends" scamette from nweek 6. I checked. It looks a 
> little like that, I'll admit, but there is one fundamental difference. 
> That wasn't legal. This is. I know, it's a subtle difference, but it 
> makes a world of difference.-

I think we can say with a high degree of certainty that it wasn't legal.

The problem is apparent in your message, in your usage of the word 'I' 
- it's the same 'I' every time, which is already a player; you can't 
become something if you already are it.

But we could award you 50 T-Shirts for it :) (Or better yet, we could 
give you a "Baron" shirt and 49 "I'm with Baron" T-Shirts)

--
Wonko

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