Baron von Skippy on 10 Oct 2003 03:44:07 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss]Re: [Spoon-business] Whn you'r bord, what ls canyou do?


>>>> Aha! Now I have an idea for what to change this prop to.
>>>>
>>>> I amend the prop entitled __Stop That!__ to read:
>>>>
>>>> {{
>>>> __A Void__
>>>>
>>>> Add a part C.5 to r437 as follows:
>>>> {{
>>>> C.5. Void Form
>>>>
>>>> Void Form is such a form; a proposal is in Void Form if and only if 
>>>> it
>>>> has 30+ words, and fails to contain any char. which, in our standard
>>>> list of chars, occurs 'twixt d and f. Void Form has a prop bonus of 
>>>> 15
>>>> points and 1 Charm.
>>>>
>>>> A prop in Void Form with 200+ words gains its author 40 additional
>>>> points upon its passing, but only if its author asks for said points
>>>> upon its passing. [[That's a lot of points, but that's a lot of 
>>>> words,
>>>> too; and if you don't notify us of your prop's status as a 200+ word
>>>> void prop, you don't gain all that bonus.]] }} }}
>>>
>>> Ah.  I see I have a challenge presented to me.  Note that I am a 
>>> veteran of, among
>>> other things, the 52-word palindromic blog post challenge.
>>>
>>> [insert sound of knuckles cracking]
>>>
>>> Bring it on, sucka.
>>>
>> -So you wish to forbid this symbol from our proposals... a tricky 
>> proposition, obviously, but I do not quail so fast from such as this. 
>> I will support your (a tad whimsical, at minimum) prop. How much 
>> difficulty can forty words sans that, as you say, "char." truly 
>> occasion? An inquiry: is it within the laws of B Nomic to switch 
>> /linguas/, to borrow from
>                                      ^^^ What do you call that?
-Eh, so I missed one. That's an oopsies. *shrug* I caught myself about 500 times... got well past 30, though, with little difficulty.-
>
>> the Italian, randomly to allow us to hop through this hoop at such 
>> occasion as a lack of
>   ^^^ And that too!
-I call that the word "occasion." There are no "e"s in "occasion." There are, however, three "l"s in "gullible."-
>
>> synonyms without that backwards and flipped schwa? (This post contains 
>> 103 such words, not
>                                           ^^^
>               And again! I doubt you'll gain many points from this 
>Form...
-Surely you have something better to be doing. Like biting me.-
>
>> including my sig at the bottom... whoo!-
>>
>> [[BvS]]
>
-Fine, 100 such words. And a string of 58 without "e." Kind of a tough little game, innit?-

[[BvS]]
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