Re: [s-d] [s-b] Proposal: Some players are more equal than others

[Kerim Aydin <kerim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Craig Daniel wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Aaron Coquet <farfromunique@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> it isn't "Treat (them) right. Good Forever." Right is an intensifier for
>> Good. you are treating them /RIGHT/good, and you're doing it forever. Unless
>> I missed punctuation.
>
> The punctuation on the pope cards is a line break and a change in
> formatting rather than punctuation in the usual sense. See
> http://principiadiscordia.com/book/43.php for reference.

The "right good forever" reading is a partly-forgotten Agoran in-joke.  
When the rule was first proposed way back when, the proposer understood 
the pope card to have the "right good forever" reading (and in defending
said reading claimed that it proved that Eris spoke in a Texan drawl when 
She wanted).  Although the reading of "Right.  Good forever." was pointed 
out almost immediately back then, the Agorans of the time thought it was 
Funny and adopted it.  So it's crufty Agora-specific (or Pope Max Flax 
Beeblewax[*]-specific) humor.

-Goethe.

[*] Pope Max Flax Beeblewax: a ca. 1991 denizen of alt.discordia, perhaps 
hailing from Texas, Nomic player, and co-creator of the Discordian Tarot 
(http://www.elsewhere.org/ddeck/)



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