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

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 11:44 PM, Baron von Skippy wrote:

> > > -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.-

Yes, but try making a meaningful proposal without e's. You can't say 
'rule', 'create', 'the', etc.

> > > 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."-

Crappy word wrapping is no excuse for bad vowels. If your email client 
didn't suck, those carrots would point at 'the Italian'.

(And before you ask, yes, miswrapping my smug comments is grounds for 
sucking.)

> > > 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.-

No thanks. My doctor recommended that I try the no-Baron diet.

> -Fine, 100 such words. And a string of 58 without "e." Kind of a tough 
> little game, innit?-

It doesn't reward random blocks of text; it rewards *proposals*.

*pause*

So I guess it does reward random blocks of text. But only random blocks 
of text that *do* things. And suchlike.

--
Wonko

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