Hint to the Person
in the Closest Geographical Guess: You know who I am, you know what country
I am hiding in, but you still have not found me.
Deadline
for Turn 7 is: October 28th at 7am my time
THE BEST THING ABOUT
READING DOUG KENT’S BOOK “IT’S THEIR HOUSE, I’M JUST A GUEST,” WAS, WELL,
READING HIS BOOK BECAUSE…
By Larry Peery
…it
reminded me of the sheer joy of reading a real book! I picked it up and started
reading. Three hours later I put it down finished. In comparison, I dragged
Roger Crowley’s superb “Empires of the Sea” along on my Dip Farewell Tour that
began in Paris a year ago in August, then to Silver Spring and finally to
Seattle earlier this year; and I was still only a third of the way through it.
I’ve been reading Jung Chiang’s “Empress Dowager Cixi”
for months and again I’m only about a quarter of the way through it. It just
seems that today, with the demands of online media resources and the need to
constantly produce reams of Peeriblah that no one
will read, it’s hard to find the time to sit down and
just read a good book.
Make no
doubt about it, “It’s Their House, I’m Just a Guest” is a good book,
particularly for a first effort; probably because Doug focused on telling his
story and not writing his own version of Les Miz. The
story focuses on four subjects: Doug, other people, the federal prison system;
and how they interacted over a three year period.
Although
I’ve worked with Doug on DW and his various Diplomacy games and publications
for s years I’ve never really felt I’d gotten to know him. This book begins to
reveal a person much more complex than I had suspected. The other characters
were mostly stereotypes we all run into in our daily lives. I’ve never been in
a prison or jail except as a visitor and with one exception, the LA County
Jail, visiting Alcatraz, the Tower of London a prison ship turned youth hostel
in Copenhagen, and the Lubyanka in Moscow were
nothing more than interesting stops for a travel writer. However, the LA County
Jail was something else. I was inside it once in the 1970s to deliver some
legal papers to a lawyer friend who was visiting a client and to this day I can
still hear and feel the sound of those massive steel gates banging shut behind
me as I entered and the sheer joy of enjoying my freedom as I left a half hour
later. Earlier this year I took Amtrak to Paso Robles and we went through Los
Angeles. Just after leaving the train station the train slowed almost to a
crawl as it made a turn and we passed within touching distance of the tall fence
that separates the LA County Jail and the rail tracks. I thought to myself how
difficult it must be for those in jail to be able to look out and see or at
least hear those trains passing by day and night. And once again I heard the
sound of those gates slamming shut.
I suspect
being in prison is like any other institutionalized experience that most of us
have been through at one time or another. For me it wasn’t a prison; it was
cruise ship, a six star hotel, Area 51 or any one of many hospitals. Like
Doug’s prisons these institutions took me as a “guest” or temporary visitor but
being in them, even if willingly, I was still giving up some of my freedom and
privacy. Doug writes about his prison uniforms; and I recall the frustrations
of dealing with a much too small hospital gown that that didn’t cover the
essential spots. Doug writes about the food he was given; and I remember 11
course dinners with 6 different wines consumed while knowing that street people
were going through the hotel’s dumpsters looking for something to eat. He tells
about the beds he slept in, the lack of heating, etc. and I remember almost
drowning in one of those super-soft, super-deep pillow mattresses that are all
the rage now. It’s a reach, no doubt, but the fact is that both Doug and I were
giving up our freedom, our privacy and our desire to be somewhere else with
someone else. The difference, of course, is that Doug did it unwillingly and I
did it by choice.
So, I can
empathize with Doug even though I haven’t shared his exact experience. And I
can certainly say he got a much warmer welcome home from Tigger than I ever did
from Esmeralda or Farinelli.
Quote: Not
a must read, but a thoughtful read. --- Larry Peery
Excerpts
from “How Jesus Became God”
by
Paul Milewski
All page citations are to How Jesus
Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee by Bart D. Ehrman (ISBN 978-0-06-177818-6). As in other of his book’s, Ehrman gives a fairly condensed but understandable
explanation of how what was at one time the orthodox (“right”) view became
heresy (the “wrong” view). In this book
in particular, he presents a particularly good discussion of the history of the
Nicene Creed.
We do, of course, have ancient
sources, but they are not as ancient as we would like. Our very first Christian author is the
Apostle Paul, who was writing twenty to thirty years after Jesus’s death. A number of Paul’s letters are included in
the New Testament. Other Christian
authors may have been writing earlier than Paul, but none of their works
survive. The problem with Paul is that
he didn’t actually know Jesus personally and that he doesn’t tell us very much
about Jesus’s teachings, activities, or experiences. I sometimes give my students an assignment to
read through all of Paul’s writing and list everything Paul indicates Jesus
said and did. My students are surprised
to find that they don’t even need a three-by-five card to list them. (Paul, by the way, never says that Jesus
declared himself to be divine.) [Page
89]
On
how the Gospels disagree on nearly every detail in their resurrection
narratives:
These narratives are found in
Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20-21.
Read through the accounts and ask yourself some basic questions: Who was the first person to go the tomb? Was it Mary Magdalene by herself (John)? or Mary along with another Mary (Matthew)? or Mary along with another Mary and Salome (Mark)? or Mary, Mary, Joanna, and a number of other women
(Luke)? Was the stone already rolled
away when they arrived at the tomb (Mark, Luke, and John), or explicitly not
(Matthew)? Whom did they see there? An angel (Matthew), a man
(Mark), or two men (Luke)? Did
they immediately go and tell some of the disciples what they had seen (John),
or not (Matthew, Mark, and Luke)? What
did the person or people at the tomb tell the women to do? To tell the disciples that Jesus would meet
them in Galilee (Matthew and Mark)? Or
to remember what Jesus had told them earlier when he had been in Galilee (Luke)?
Did the women then go tell the disciples what they were told to tell
them (Matthew and Luke), or not (Mark)?
Did the disciples see Jesus (Matthew, Luke, and John), or not
(Mark)? Where did they see him?—only in
Galilee (Matthew), or only in Jerusalem (Luke)?
[Page 134]
Or take a second example—one that
is even more glaring. Matthew is
explicit when he says that the disciples are told to go to Galilee, since that
is where they will meet Jesus (28:7).
They do so (28:17-20). This is
both clear-cut and completely at odds with what happens in Luke. There, the disciples are not told to go to
Galilee. The women are informed at the
empty tomb, by the two men, that when Jesus had earlier been in Galilee, he had
announced that he would be raised. Since
the disciples are not told to go to Galilee, the do not do so. They stay in Jerusalem, in the land of
Judea. And it is there that Jesus meets
them “that very day” (24:13). Jesus
speaks with them and emphatically instructs them not to leave the city until they receive the power of the Spirit,
which happens more than forty days later, according to Acts 1-2 (that is, they
are not to go to Galilee;
24:49). He leads them right outside
Jerusalem, to nearby Bethany, and gives them his last instructions and departs
from them (24:50-51). And we learn they
did as he commanded: they stayed in the city, worshiping in the temple
(24:53). In the book of Acts, written by
the same author as the book of Luke, we find out that they stayed in Jerusalem
for more than a month, until the day of Pentecost (Acts 1-2). [Page 135]
Speaking of the emperor Constantine and
anti-Semitism in particular:
Constantine himself passed a law
that forbade Jews from owning Christian slaves.
This may seem like a humane measure in our day and age, when slavery of
all kinds is viewed with disgust and contempt.
But Constantine did not ban slavery and was not opposed to it. On the contrary, the Roman world continued to
work as a slave economy. Without slaves
one could not run any serious manufacturing or agricultural business. But if the pop0ulation became increasingly
Christian, and Jews could have only Jewish and pagan slaves, then any chance
for Jews to compete economically with Christians was curtailed.
Eventually it became illegal for a
Christian to convert to Judaism. Under
the emperor Theodotius I, near the end of the fourth
century, it became illegal for a Christian to marry a Jew. Doing so was considered an act of
adultery. Jews came to be excluded from
serving in public office. In 423 CE a
law was passed that made it illegal for Jews to build or even repair a
synagogue. Accompanying all these forms
of legislation were acts of violence against Jews that, even if not sponsored
by the emperor or other state authorities, were tacitly condoned. Synagogues were burned, lands were
confiscated, Jews were persecuted and even murdered—and the authorities turned
a blind eye. Why not? These were the people who had killed God.
A key example illustrates the
situation. In 388 CE the bishop of a
town called Callinicum incited his Christian
parishioners to assault the local Jewish synagogue. They did so, leveling it to the ground. When the Jewish population in town protested
to the emperor Theodosius, he ordered the bishop to have the synagogue rebuilt
with church money. At that point, a
powerful Christian leader interposed to try to reverse the emperor’s
judgment. One of the
most influential bishops at the time as Ambrose, the bishop of Milan. When word of the emperor’s intervention and
demand for reparation reached Milan, Ambrose wrote a harsh letter in protest,
arguing that the emperor was in danger of offending his own religious duty by
this intervention and insisting that the bishop should by no means be required
to restore the synagogue.
Here we have a remarkable
situation. Less than a century earlier,
Christian leaders were being hunted down and persecuted by the ruling
authorities. Now Christian leaders were
reprimanding the emperor in writing and expecting that they would be
obeyed. How the tables have turned!
Theodosius decided to ignore
Ambrose’s protest, but as it happens, he made a trip to Milan and attended a
worship service in the cathedral there.
Ambrose claims, in his own account of the affair, that
he preached a sermon directed to the emperor’s “misbehavior” and afterward, in
the middle of the service, walked down from the altar to confront the emperor
face-to-face, publicly demanding that the emperor back down. In this very public arena, the emperor felt
he had no choice. He acceded to the
bishop’s demand, the Christian mob in Callinicum went
unpunished, and the synagogue remained in ruins (see Ambrose, Letters 40 and 41). [Pages 363-364]
When reading Ehrman,
keep in mind that he is writing as a historian and is just writing about the
history of Christianity, a topic about which, in my opinion, many
self-described Christians are woefully ignorant.
THE ABYSSINIAN PRINCE #352
Jim Burgess, 664 Smith Street, Providence, RI 02908-4327 USA, (401)351-0287, jfburgess of gmail.com
E-MAIL/WEB ONLY ISSUE! PDF will be available on the website. We also are being
reproduced in Eternal Sunshine.
Web Page Address: http://www.diplom.org/DipPouch/Postal/Zines/TAP/index.html
We continue with Kendo Nagasaki, join ANY time, just
send me a guess!!!
This issue
continues the szine/subszine
inversion. As most of you know, this thing began as a ßubszine"
to Terry Tallman's North Sealth, West George,
then became its own szine with a host of subszines. The subszines
remaining will appear as sub-subszines to our new flipflopped home in Doug Kent's Eternal Sunshine.
Doug's incessant nagging is not keeping us on schedule, but will make it so we
keep going. I'd like to keep writing and doing some game GMing
(note that has been expanding). I'm set on the GMing,
and I'm starting to write a bit, hope there might be more. Let's get the new
Diplomacy game going. Since Doug may be winding down, I may have to flip that
back around again and be the centerpiece for all the subszines,
we'll see.
For production,
in addition to the HTML's of each separate product on the web page, I will also
have a PDF that you can print of the entire subszine
(including my famous handdrawn maps!). You can just
print the maps if you like, but remember maps are for pikers anyway, you don't
need no steenkin' maps, keep them up in your head
where they belong.
General
information about the mailing list is at: http://www.diplom.org/mailman/listinfo/tap
You can sign up from there, or send E-Mails to:
Tap-request of diplom.org; with
the word `help' in the subject or body (don't include the quotes), and you will
get back a message with instructions. You must know your password to change
your options (including changing the password, itself) or to unsubscribe.
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THE ABYSSINIAN PRINCE FEATURES SECTION
(CONS/LETTERS/MUSIC)
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((For upcoming
cons around the world: http://devel.diplom.org/Face/cons/index.php, but note that
some of the Americans have stopped posting the tournaments there. Shame, shame,
shame... We know that Carnage in Vermont will end off
the Nor'Easter sequence of events the first weekend
in November, the rest of the year in the Northeast is clarifying slowly.
Carnage talk is all about, if you're interested in going, now is the time to
make arrangements. Rob Premus hasn't said anything
about his tournament though. But expect updates in this space... Tempest will
be coming up on Columbus Day weekend as usual too. I think most of you have
seen it, but David Hill's article on being smoked at World DipCon
(see: http://grantland.com/features/diplomacy-the-board-game-of-the-alpha-nerds/)
has been generating lots of commentary, along with the appearance on This
American Life, which you also can listen to on the web from the This American
Life web site: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/531/got-your-back.
At: http://diplomacycast.com/files/other/DiplomacyCastEp31.mp3
you also can listen to the DiplomacyCast interview of
David Hill. Also, I will be running TempleCon again,
February 6-8, 2015, here in Providence.))
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NEW FEATURE: ROCK AND ROLL BANDS AND MOMENTS THAT
MATTER
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((If anyone
from TAP or ES has ideas for more things to talk about here
let me know. I do have five or six ideas lined up here already that I just have
to write.
So, you will
recall that I wrote these words a few issues ago about my nephew-in law Mark
Abraham's band Enter the Haggis: "pondering this
question about whether they want to keep being a rock and roll band or a roots
band." I hadn't talked to Mark about this, but when I did a few months
ago, he admitted that they'd been pondering it and that they decided to change
their name to release their new record. This would cement their move to being a
rock band. I didn't say anything about it last issue since I didn't want to be
a leak source, but a few weeks ago they broke the news on their facebook page that they are now Jubilee Riots. It is a
fascinating problem, you start a band, play
Irish/Scottish tinged music with bagpipes, and name your band something very
specific. But you grow and change, and when you really become a rock band, the
name holds you back. I think they made the right decision to change the name,
you can see their web site or facebook page. This
article I also liked: http://961wodz.com/enter-the-haggis-is-jubilee-riots/?trackback=fbshare.
The big issue though is all those people who tattooed ETH on their bodies... oh
well, just another reason why tattooing is so interesting, and so risky. The
more things change... the more they change. I'll review the new record and say
a bit more in a few issues. Up next issue, Ghod is
touring the US with his new acoustic album, see where
Richard Thompson is appearing near you and go!))
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DIPLOMACY WORLD CUP TOURNAMENT IS ONGOING - YOU CAN
STILL JOIN!
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This is the
latest incarnation of this team based tournament. I am helping to lead the Nor'Easter team for people in the Northeast part of the
United States. https://www.facebook.com/groups/123795024327261/ is the
Facebook page for the event.
And you can sign
up for the Tournament at: http://aqmn.asciiking.com/.
Other US regional teams are the ones in the Pacific, Dixie, and Chicago. Its
unique aspect, that continues to be distorting, but in interesting ways, is its
"solo only" feature. You advance from the preliminaries to the finals
only by soloing, and then need solos in the finals against the other soloists.
Though this started last January, it probably will be going on for at least
another year, and there is PLENTY of time to jump in. As usual, for those who
know me well, I screwed up my first game and allowed a solo to someone from
team US. And then I could have soloed the second game,
but well, I can't exactly say how I did it, but the Canadian player soloed
there, with help from me. I still don't have a solo in over three decades, and
now I'm waiting for my next game to start, you can join and get more games
going!!! You can easily throw games, and in this format you can do it. I wonder
why people like to drop the levels of the game in this way. It fascinates me.
But in the finals of this tournament, it shouldn't happen, should it? The rules
for the finals have been tweaked and the finals SHOULD start soon, everyone has
been queried. But you also still can join the qualifiers, openings are there
now!!! Word is we may cancel them, I think the finals should reignite interest.
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THE ABYSSINIAN PRINCE GAMES SECTION
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I am continuing
to note cut or failed support orders with a small "s" instead of a
capital "S". This will make it easier on the E-Mailed version of the szine to see what happened, since the italics don't show
there. The italics DO show on the web page just fine. Since I'm not postal
mailing the szine any more, I've dropped back to just
reporting the disguised E-Mail addresses. As someone notes, if you need some
more contact information, go back to past issues or ask me.
Standby lists:
Dick Martin, Brad
Wilson, Jack McHugh, Steve Emmert, Vince Lutterbie, Paul Rauterberg, Doug
Kent, Heath Gardner, Paul Kenny, and Hugh Polley
stand by for regular Diplomacy. I've pared down the standby list according to
who I'm actually in touch with. If I removed you and you want to be added back,
just say so. Otherwise, just let me know if you want on or off these lists,
especially OFF given the new policies.
I'm going to
start the game opening list over. Under the new regime, who wants to play what?
SPY
DIPLOMACY: Heath Gardner (not sure if that is still active), need at least six
more.
REGULAR
DIPLOMACY: need seven for another game start, the new
one starts this issue.
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THE DON WILLIAMS 57 MEMORIAL: 2014A, Regular Diplomacy
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THE DUE DATE
FOR SPRING 1901 IS OCTOBER 18TH, 2014
Winter 1900
AUSTRIA (Ozog): has a BUD, a VIE, f TRI.
ENGLAND (Wiedemeyer): has f LON, f EDI, a LVP.
FRANCE (Ellinger): has f BRE, a MAR, a PAR.
GERMANY (Abbott):
has f KIE, a BER, a MUN.
ITALY (Holley):
has f NAP, a VEN, a ROM.
RUSSIA (Rauterberg): has f STP(NC), f SEV,
a MOS, a WAR.
TURKEY (Burgess):
has f ANK, a SMY, a CON.
E-Mail Addresses of the Participants
AUSTRIA: Eric Ozog, elferic of juno.com
ENGLAND: Fred Wiedemeyer, wiedem of telus.net
FRANCE: Marc Ellinger, mellinger of blitzbardgett.com
GERMANY: Will
Abbott, wjja9 of yahoo.com>
ITALY: Melinda
Holley, genea5613 of aol.com
RUSSIA: Paul Rauterberg, paul.rauterberg of att.net
TURKEY: David
Burgess, burgesscd of roadrunner.com or dburgess of glensfallshosp.org
Game Notes:
1) We have a game
start. The players have been notified, Tom Howell (the BNC) has given us a
number (the first of the year), and we even have some Winter
1900 press.
2) The game is a
memorial for the late Don Williams. The 57 comes from our shared ages, I turn
57 next week and Don would have turned 57 precisely a month earlier on August
29. I expect press will take the 57 number in all sorts of directions. I'd like
this to be a good press game, let's see if we can keep up the good Winter 1900 start. Reminder, press around here is black, let
me know if any other house rules need explaining. Most of this press was in
"E-Mail to all".
Press:
(WILL ABBOTT,
GERMANY) I never had the honor of playing with Don Williams. I have not
appeared often in the pages of TAP. Nonetheless, I avidly
read TAP when it comes out, even the game reports. The games
with Don were usually the ones with the most entertaining press. Even in the
items he did not write, he was often a leading character, and he seemed to
bring out creativity in others. I can only hope to write press as entertaining
as that which I read in his games. I also encourage my fellow players to strive
for this level.
I strongly
believe that Diplomacy can be a spectator game. I have been around the
championship game at Gencon several times, and it
always attracts not only other players from the tournament, but wandering
gamers who may not have played for years, or ever. I find the showcase games in
Diplomacy World, with their commentary, extremely interesting and entertaining.
In a game like this, without the commentators, the best way to make it a
spectator game is through press. The readers can't see our negotiations, but we
can make it a fun game for them by entertaining them in the public press.
(FRED): Is Heinz
57 sponsoring this game? A year's worth of the red stuff? Seriously, bless Don
- was in a number of games with him.
(PAUL to FRED):
We could use Heinz 57 to simulate "blood" if you want to....
(KOBLENZ,
GERMANY) The town is draped in black. The anarchist organization, the Black
Spleen, successfully assassinated every living Hohenzollern. The resilience of
the German Empire, though tested, was not broken: the Imperial Guard rounded up
the entire organization. Most are no longer among the living. The remainder envy the dead.
Yet what is an
empire without an emperor? Various relatives of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II
remained among the royal houses of Europe, especially in Britain and Russia.
Yet the princes of the various German states, while they might consent to the
rule of another German, were more likely to choose independence over rule by a
foreign house. The unity of the empire demanded a German on the throne.
But
which German? Prussia
would never accept one of the princes of the southern German states, let alone
a pretender to a throne they extinguished before 1870. And so
the Imperial Government was looking everywhere for someone to put on the
throne. A pedigree was not necessary; papers showing an appropriate
lineage could be easily forged.
And so, three
agents of the office of the Imperial Chamberlain are standing on a doorstep in
a small city of the West Prussian Rhineland. The name above the door says,
"Fedewa". They knock.
"Gruess dich. Wie kann ich Sie helfen?" Greetings. How can I help you?
"Ist Wilhelm hier?" Is Wilhelm here?
"Ja,
Ich bin." Yes, that's I.
"Kommen Sie bitte
mit uns. Sie sind der neue Kaisar
unseres Volk." Come with us, Sire. You are our people's
new Caesar.
(WILL): I am
honored to be in this game honoring Don Williams, and to be playing against
such esteemed players. I only ask that you keep your knives sharp, as that will
make your stabs simple and painless. :-) It might be interesting to work the
number 57 into any ongoing press storylines. Also it might be interesting to
work in references to Don.
(PAUL to WILL):
You are asking me to stab you? I have been known to stab people "long
distance" (diplomatically) - essentially "playing the board" -
but I don't like doing it in a knee-jerk manner. Really! But if you want a
knife in the back... well, you can ask.
(MELINDA): *takes
a deep breath* *slowly looks at the opposition* *evil smile* "Let the
games begin".
(MARK): I am
honored to be in a game named after Don, what a great guy! You guys (and lady)
on the other hand... are a bunch of scoundrels, cutthroats of the highest
order... in other words, my kind (and Don's) of people! Looking forward to this
one!
(DAVID to MARK):
Scoundrel... Cutthroat... Thanks for the compliment! That's the nicest thing
anyone has called me in a while...
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THE PHIL REYNOLDS MEMORIAL: 2006B, Regular Diplomacy
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THE DUE DATE
FOR SPRING 1911 IS OCTOBER 18TH, 2014
Autumn and Winter 1910
AUSTRIA
(Burgess): bld a vie; has a
VIE, a BUD, f CON, a GAL, a TRI, a SER.
ENGLAND (James):
R a pru-SIL; rem f apu; has
f NWG, a LVN, f BAR, a FIN,
a SIL, a STP, f NTH, f ION, f GOB, a KIE, f
BAL.
FRANCE (Holley):
R a mun-BUR; has f TYH, f GOL, a NAP, a BUR,
a VEN, f ADR, a BER, f TUN, a TYO.
ITALY (Crow): has
a GRE.
RUSSIA (Kent):
has a MOS, a MUN, a WAR, a BOH, f EAS, f PRU.
E-Mail
Addresses of the Participants
AUSTRIA: David
Burgess, burgesscd of roadrunner.com or dburgess of glensfallshosp.org
ENGLAND: Drew
James, kjames01 of twcny.rr.com
or karelanddrew of gmail.com
FRANCE: Melinda
Holley, genea5613 of aol.com
GERMANY: Marc Ellinger, mellinger of blitzbardgett.com
ITALY: John Crow,
johnny.crow of hotmail.com
RUSSIA: Doug
Kent, dougray30 of yahoo.com
TURKEY: Fred Wiedemeyer, wiedem of telus.net
Game Notes:
1) The DIAS game
ending proposal failed. New draw proposals, to vote with your Winter orders are: DIAS, EF, EFR, and concession to E. If
more than one proposal passes, the SMALLEST one that passes goes. If you fail
to vote, you veto any proposal you do not vote on. Methinks there are changes
afoot, but that's up to you all.
2) Still send all
good thoughts to Heath Gardner, but he is doing a bit better.
Press:
(RUSSIA -– ALL):
At least if I was in some forest and I fell a tree would hear me. This is more
like starring in Alien...in this game no one can hear you scream.
(JAMES to WORLD):
OK, who didn't vote for the DIAS? Seriously? OK, I
guess we are going to keep playing. I'm good with that...
(MOSCOW -–
WORLD): Maybe if I just veto every draw and try to screw this game up as long
as I can, SOMEONE will reply to my emails. But, I doubt it. Sack McHugh gets
more emails in a true Gunboat game than I do here.
(JAMES to JIM):
Am I the last of the original 7 in the game? Exactly when did this game start
anyways?
(BOOB to JAMES):
Not at all, more than half the players are original. My brother David and
Johnny Crow each have been in this since the beginning as well, which was
September of 2006.
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FOR THE MEKONS ET AL.: Breaking Away, Designer's Rules
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THE DUE DATE
FOR TURN 10 IS OCTOBER 18, 2014!!
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Turn 9: The Pack Reforms but No One Replenishes Enough
to Get to the Sprint Line
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86 (replenish with a 3)
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Peeta Mellark
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85 (replenish with a 4)
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Katniss Everdeen
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84 (replenish with a 5)
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Haymitch Abernathy, Effie
Trinket (5)
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83 (no replenishment)
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None
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82 (no replenishment)
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None
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81 (no replenishment)
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None
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-S-P-R-I-N-T-
-F-I-N-I-S-H- -L-I-N-E-
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80 (no replenishment)
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None
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79 (replenish with a 3)
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Travis, Ernie Davis
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78 (replenish with a 5)
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Larry Csonka
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77 (no replenishment)
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None
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76 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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75 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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74 (replenish with a 3)
|
Moist von Lipwig
|
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73 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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72 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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71 (replenish with a 3)
|
Bowie, Mustrum Ridcully
|
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70 (replenish with a 5)
|
Dziewulski
|
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69 (replenish with a 6)
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Arciszewski, Jim Brown
|
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68 (replenish with a 8)
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Ryan Leaf, Floyd Little
|
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67 (replenish with a 10)
|
Sam Vimes, Sylvester Carmouche
|
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66 (replenish with a 12)
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CMOT Dibbler, Houston
|
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65 (replenish with a 14)
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Jean Van de Velde, Roberto Rojas
|
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64 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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63 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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62 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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61 (replenish with a 3)
|
Cwierczakiewiczowa
|
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60 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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59 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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58 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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57 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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56 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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55 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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54 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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53 (replenish with a 3)
|
Crockett
|
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52 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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51 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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50 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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49 (no replenishment)
|
None
|
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48 (replenish with a 3)
|
Barszczewski
|
Addresses of
the Participants - Their Team and Their Cards
TEAM 1 (Hank Alme): cobblers of gmail.com (0 points)
Team Name: Vetinari's Terriers; TEAM CAPTAIN: Sam Vimes
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A: Moist von Lipwig
|
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(7) 3, 4, 3
|
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B: Mustrum Ridcully
|
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(3) 3, 3, 3
|
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C: Sam Vimes
|
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(6) 6, 3, 10
|
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D: CMOT Dibbler
|
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(4) 3, 3, 12
|
Total
Replenishments: 47 + 32 + 30 + 42 + 16 + 19 + 12 + 17 + 28 = 243
TEAM 2 (Andy
Bate): andydbate of gmail.com (0 points)
Team Name: Racing
Froggy; TEAM CAPTAIN: Jean Van de Velde
|
A: Jean Van de Velde
|
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(3) 14, 4, 14
|
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B: Roberto Rojas
|
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(5) 7, 8, 14
|
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C: Sylvester Carmouche
|
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(6) 8, 5, 10
|
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D: Ryan Leaf
|
|
(7) 12, 3, 8
|
Total
Replenishments: 18 + 29 + 42 + 52 + 21 + 29 + 17 + 27 + 46 = 281
TEAM 3 (David
Burgess): burgesscd of roadrunner.com or dburgess of glensfallshosp.org (19
points)
Team Name:
Syracuse Orangemen
|
A: Ernie Davis
|
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(5) 3, 3, 3, 3
|
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B: Jim Brown
|
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(11) 12, 3, 6
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C: Floyd Little
|
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(9) 16, 3, 8
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D: Larry Csonka
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(3) 4, 4, 5
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Total
Replenishments: 79 + 55 + 19 + 29 + 17 + 14 + 12 + 29 + 22 = 276
TEAM 4 (Rick Desper): rick_desper of yahoo.com (48 points)
Team Name:
District 12
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A: Katniss Everdeen
|
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(3) 7, 5, 4, 4
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B: Haymitch Abernathy
|
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(3) 3, 5, 5
|
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C: Peeta Mellark
|
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(3) 3, 3, 3
|
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D: Effie Trinket
|
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(6) 3, 3, 5
|
Total
Replenishments: 92 + 90 + 16 + 12 + 16 + 28 + 15 + 15 + 17 = 301
TEAM 5 (Brendan
Whyte): BWHYTE of nla.gov.au (1
point)
Team Name: The
Reverse Polish Notationists (a.k.a. The Unpronounceables)
|
A: Arciszewski
|
|
(12) 9, 6, 3, 3
|
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B: Barszczewski
|
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(3) 3, 3, 3
|
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C: Cwierczakiewiczowa
|
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(6) 4, 3, 3
|
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D: Dziewulski
|
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(5) 3, 3, 5
|
Total
Replenishments: 50 + 46 + 14 + 14 + 15 + 17 + 17 + 21 + 14 = 208
TEAM 6 (Andy
York): (0 points)
Team Name: Team
Alamo
Total
Replenishments: 44 + 65 + 20 + 31 + 15 + 19 + 13 + 13 + 21 = 241
Game Notes:
1) The rules are
on the TAP website in the Tinamou section.
Ask if you have any questions. Rules at:
http://devel.diplom.org/DipPouch/Postal/Zines/TAP/Tinamou/rules/BreakingAway.htm
Up above in
parentheses is the card you played to get to where you are in the field. The
replenishment card is the last card in your list. Be careful to note that the
card you played (the one in parentheses) is not available for you, for next
turn. Just for fun, I keep track of total replenishment, by turn, which is a
rough measure of how the teams are doing. Of course, it is lining up to get
across the sprint (40/80) and final (120) lines in the right places that really
counts. We can calculate an "efficiency score" later, which will be
the ratio of scoring points per replenishment. If I'm predicting how the future
of this will come out based on doing this before, about half the players will
get scores below 5% and getting better than a 10% score will be really
tremendous for this measure.
2) Wow, no one
replenished above a total of 17, and two of you had the minimum replenishment
of 12. When will the pack reform, or will it? Remember that the next Sprint
Line is at 80 (getting to 81 to score).
Press:
(BOOB to RIDERS):
You CAN write press, you know, even if it is to yell at Rick as he pedals out
of sight.
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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS KENDO NAGASAKI
|
THE DUE DATE
FOR TURN 9 IS OCTOBER 18, 2014!!
Kendo Nagasaki
games in Eternal Sunshine continue to multiply like weeds...
I'd like to get more people engaged here, not just the usual suspects from
Doug's games. The full rules for Where in the World is
Kendo Nagasaki are in: http://www.whiningkentpigs.com/DW/es58.pdf. The player who
was closest for Turn 8 has been notified by E-Mail. Note that the official
rules say you're supposed to get this by TURN 10, time to get a bit closer on
WHO Kendo is.
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
|
Rush Limbaugh in Copacobana, on
the shores of
|
Rush Limbaugh in Pisagua, Chile
|
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Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
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No Guess this Time
|
Alec Baldwin in Sajama, Bolivia
|
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Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
|
Sean Hannity in Antofagasta, Chile
|
No Guess this Time
|
|
Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
Glenn Beck in Tacna, Peru
|
Keith Olbermann in Santiago de Machaca, Bolivia
|
|
Stephen Colbert in Oruro, Bolivia
|
No Guess this Time
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: I am NOT an
American, but most Americans will have access to the TV show me and my buds
have, one way or the other, and I am nowhere near as obnoxious as you
apparently think I am.
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
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Al Franken in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
|
Rush Limbaugh in Salinas de Garci
Mendoza, Bolivia
|
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Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
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No Guess This Time
|
Gene Simmons in Oruro, Bolivia
|
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Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
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Bill O'Reilly in Arequipa, Peru
|
No Guess This Time
|
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Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
Glenn Beck in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
|
Sarah Lee née Gore in Tacna, Peru
|
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Jon Stewart in Montero, Bolivia
|
Michelle Obama in La Paz, Bolivia
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: You still
have the wrong gender, while also being quite confused about the real name of
the person you accuse me of being.
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
|
Mrs. Bill Clinton in Sucre, Bolivia
|
Sonny Bono in Jesus de Machaca
Municipality, Bolivia
|
|
Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
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No Guess This Time
|
George Will in Toledo, Bolivia
|
|
Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
|
Rush Limbaugh in Potosi, Bolivia
|
No Guess This Time
|
|
Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
George Clooney in Sucre, Bolivia
|
Jane Fonda in Arica, Chile
|
|
No Guess This Time
|
John Boehner in Honolulu, Hawaii
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: My
appearances on TV are still for entirely different reasons than yours have been, I have referred to something in which you appeared on
my show though.
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
|
No Guess this Time
|
Jimmy Carter in Cochabamba, Bolivia
|
|
Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
|
No Guess this Time
|
Harry Reid in Oruro, Bolivia
|
|
Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
|
John Boehner in Antofagasta, Chile
|
Angela Merkel in Managua, Nicaragua
|
|
Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
John McCain in La Paz, Bolivia
|
Nancy Pelosi in La Paz, Bolivia
|
|
Michelle Obama in Trujillo, Peru
|
No Guess this Time
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: Although I
have discussed the possibility of running for some much, much lesser office
someday, it's likely you have never heard of those statements of interest of
mine; I much more famously have labeled as an "idiot" a person in a
similar specific elected position as you have.
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
|
Mrs. Al Gore in Ascención,
Paraguay
|
Michelle Obama's husband in Cochabamba, Bolivia
|
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Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
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No Guess this Time
|
Bob Barker in Santiago, Chile
|
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Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
|
Hillary Clinton in Lima, Peru
|
No Guess this Time
|
|
Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
Katie Couric in Sao Paulo, Brazil
|
Dennis Rodman in Bogotá, Colombia
|
|
Hillary Clinton in Bogotá, Colombia
|
President Obama in Honolulu, Hawaii
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: OK, but I am
part of a larger group than that. ((CLARIFICATION: I am a member of a
larger group than the group you imply by your
guess.))
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
|
Diana Rigg in Anchorage, Alaska
|
Michelle Obama in Valparaiso, Chile
|
|
Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
|
Gov. Chris Christie in Hamhung, North Korea
|
Mark David Chapman in San Francisco, CA
|
|
Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
|
Stephen Colbert in Brasilia, Brazil
|
Stephen Colbert in Santiago, Chile
|
|
Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
Landon Donovan in Quito, Ecuador
|
Tom Brokaw in Caracas, Venezuela
|
|
Al Gore in Buenos Aires, Argentina
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: Oooh, I think you have the wrong gender, try again.
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
|
Diana Rigg in Pyongyang, North
Korea
|
Jennifer Jones in New York, New York
|
|
Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
|
Henry Kissinger in Sao Paulo, Brazil
|
Harrison Ford in Mexico City, Mexico
|
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Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
|
Zsa Zsa
Gabor in Beverly Hills, CA
|
Dennis Rodman in La Paz, Bolivia
|
|
Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
Stephen Ambrose in Seattle, WA
|
Scarlett Johansson in Havana, Cuba
|
|
Kim Jong-Un in Sevastopol, Ukraine
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: While I also
have appeared on television in some form, I have done so for different reasons
than you.
|
Brendan Whyte:
|
Tom Howell:
|
|
Diana Rigg in Anchorage, Alaska
|
Rex Roberts in Alexandria, Egypt
|
|
Heath Gardner:
|
Doug Kent:
|
|
Jimmy "the Greek" in Las Vegas, NV
|
Charlton Heston in Rome, Italy
|
|
Rick Desper:
|
Kevin Wilson:
|
|
Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards in Sochi, Russia
|
Pierre Trudeau in Montevideo, Uruguay
|
|
Hank Alme:
|
Mike Ruttinger
|
|
Ian Fleming in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
|
George McArthur in Seoul, South Korea
|
HINT to the Person with the Closest Geographic Guess: Unfortunately,
you are very much dead, while I am very much alive.
LAST WORD: The deadline for Diplomacy World is
coming up at the end of September. Can I inquire if we can get some more
interest in writers to write things for it? Someone seems to have awakened
Larry Peery and reignited the monster. If it was you,
can you please try to write as much as he writes? Even if it wasn't you, how
about trying to write us something. Of course, we all know that notes like
these in my last word essentially have no effect. But prove me wrong. The International
Diplomacy Hobby is really heating up, if you've never
been to a Diplomacy convention in Europe, think about making a caravan trip
over there to partake of the joys of FTF Dip in another country.
More locally,
we are trying to organize a local house game. Is anyone who is close to me or
Boston willing to get together to play? I think it is time for the fifth
reinvention of the local New England hobby. Come on, I know some of you are
close, E-Mail me and join us.
Last note: keep thinking good thoughts
about Heath Gardner as he fights through his troubles.
Acquire Game #2 -
“Juliet” – Eternal Sunshine
Players: Tom Howell,
Mark Firth, Andy Bate, Richard Weiss, Hank Alme
Turn 4
Andy
plays 8-C and buys one Festival and two American.
Richard
plays 5-G and buys 3 American.
Hank
plays 10-A and buys 3 American.
Turn 5
Tom
plays 4-A and buy one each of Tower, Luxor, and
Continental.
Mark
plays 1-G. Buys 2
Continental and 1 Festival.
Andy
plays 11-D and buys 3 American.
Richard
plays 4-H and buys 3 American.
Hank
is up!
Diplomacy
“Jerusalem” 2012A, W 11/S 12
England (John Biehl – jerbil “of” shaw.ca): Build A London.. F Barents Sea - St Petersburg(nc)
(*Bounce*), A Burgundy – Marseilles, A Gascony
Supports A Burgundy – Marseilles,
A
Kiel Fingers A Berlin (Hold), A London – Norway, F Marseilles
- Gulf of Lyon,
F Mid-Atlantic
Ocean - North Africa, F North Sea Convoys A London –
Norway, A Norway – Finland,
A
Paris – Burgundy, A Ruhr Supports A Kiel, F Sweden
Supports A Norway – Finland,
F Western Mediterranean Supports F Marseilles - Gulf of Lyon.
Italy (Mark Firth – mark.r.firth “of” capita.co.uk): NMR! F Ionian
Sea Hold (*Dislodged*, retreat to
Eastern
Mediterranean or Albania or Adriatic Sea or Tyrrhenian Sea or OTB), F Naples
Hold, F Tunis Hold.
Russia
(Richard Weiss – richardweiss “of” higherquality.com): Build F St. Petersburg(sc)..
A Berlin Supports A Munich – Kiel, A
Finland - St Petersburg (*Disbanded*), A Livonia - Moscow (*Fails*),
A Moscow Supports A Finland - St Petersburg
(*Fails*), A Rumania – Ukraine,
F St Petersburg(sc) - Livonia (*Fails*).
Turkey
(Geoff Kemp - ggeoff510 “of” aol.com): Retreat
F Naples - Rome..
F Aegean Sea Supports F Greece - Ionian Sea, A
Bohemia Supports A Tyrolia - Munich (*Fails*), A
Bulgaria Hold,
F Greece - Ionian Sea, A Munich - Kiel
(*Fails*), F Piedmont Unordered, F Rome - Naples (*Fails*),
A Serbia – Budapest, A Silesia Supports A Tyrolia - Munich (*Fails*), A Trieste – Venice,
A Tyrolia -
Munich (*Fails*), A Venice - Apulia.
Concession to England Fails
Now Proposed – E/I/R/T. Please Vote. NVR=No.
F 12 Deadline is October 28th at 7:00am my time
PRESS
Turkey: Apologies for lack of contact, I have had to be
medically repatriated from Greece to the Uk
due to an accident whilst on holiday. I am ok thanks, just somewhat frustrated
as somewhat incapacitated at the moment plus also have no access to laptop or
Pc so all communications re emails are taken from my iPad or phone. I hope to
have better access within a week or so, please bear with me. Thanks. PS: Quartz
& Tween are on hold until things improve. Thanks.
Anon: Now 'who' voted against this this time?
Turkey -
........Why did I bother!
Diplomacy
“Walkerdine” 2012D, F 07
Austria
(paul.milewski “of” hotmail.com): A Serbia - Bulgaria.
France
(Jim Burgess – jfburgess “of” gmail.com): F Aegean Sea - Greece
(*Fails*), F Apulia – Venice,
A
Burgundy Unordered, F Eastern Mediterranean – Smyrna, F English Channel Hold,
F
Gulf of Lyon - Western Mediterranean, F Ionian Sea Supports F Aegean Sea -
Greece (*Cut*),
F
Mid-Atlantic Ocean Hold, F North Atlantic Ocean Hold, F Norwegian Sea Hold,
A
Trieste Supports F Apulia – Venice, F Tunis - Tyrrhenian Sea, A Yorkshire - Edinburgh.
Germany
(Steve Cooley – tmssteve “of” gmail.com): F Barents Sea Hold,
A
Budapest Supports A Galicia – Rumania, F Denmark
Supports F North Sea, A Galicia – Rumania,
A
Moscow Supports A Ukraine – Sevastopol, A Munich Hold,
F North Sea Hold, A Norway Hold,
A St
Petersburg Hold, A Tyrolia Supports A Trieste, A
Ukraine – Sevastopol, A Vienna Supports A Budapest.
Russia
(Hank Alme – almehj “of”
alumni.rice.edu): Retreat A Budapest - Rumania..
F
Adriatic Sea - Ionian Sea (*Fails*), A
Rumania – Ukraine,
A
Sevastopol Supports A Rumania - Ukraine (*Disbanded*).
Turkey (Civil
Disorder): A Albania Unordered, A
Armenia Unordered, F Constantinople Unordered,
F
Greece Unordered.
Deadline
for W 07/S 08 is October 28th at 7am my time
Supply Center Chart
Austria:
Bulgaria, Serbia=2, Plays
1 short
France:
Belgium, Brest, Edinburgh,
Liverpool, London, Marseilles, Naples,
Paris, Portugal, Rome, Smyrna, Spain, Trieste, Tunis, Venice=15,
Build 2
Germany:
Berlin, Budapest, Denmark,
Holland, Kiel, Moscow, Munich, Norway,
Rumania, Sevastopol,
St Petersburg, Sweden, Vienna, Warsaw=14, Build 2
Russia: None=0,
OUT!!
Turkey:
Ankara,
Constantinople, Greece=3, Remove 1
PRESS
JIM-BOB
pleads here:
I know I've been bad too, but can we play this out properly.... for Don?
Black
Press Gunboat, “Fred Noonan”, 2013Arb32, W 09
Seasons
Separated by Player Request
France: Has F Barents Sea, F Brest, A Burgundy, F
Edinburgh, F English Channel, F Mid-Atlantic Ocean,
F
Norwegian Sea, A Picardy.
Germany:
Build A Kiel..Has F Belgium, A Holland,
A Kiel, A Munich, F North Sea, F Norway, A Ruhr, A Silesia.
Italy: NMR! Removes F Eastern Mediterranean, now in Civil Disorder..Has F Apulia, A
Budapest, A Serbia,
F
Tyrrhenian Sea, A Vienna.
Russia: Has A St Petersburg, A Warsaw.
Turkey: Build F Constantinople, F Ankara..Has F Ankara, A Bulgaria,
F Constantinople, A Galicia, F Greece,
A
Moscow, F Naples, A Rumania, A Sevastopol, F Smyrna, F
Tunis.
All Draw Proposals Fail. Now Proposed: F/G/T, F/I,
F/G/I/R/T.
Please
vote. NVR=No.
Deadline
for S 10 Will Be October 28th at 7am My
Time
PRESS
None. You guys suck.
Diplomacy “Sweet Spot” 2013A, W 08
E/F/I/R/T Draw Passes!
End Game Report and Statements Next Issue
Woolworth
II-D “Coney Island” 2013Bcb19, F 07
Balkans
(Secret): A Bur-Par, A Swi-Bur,
A Pie-Swi, A Ser S F Tri, F
Tri S A Alb, A Alb S F Tri.
England
(Secret): F Iri-Mao, F Bre
S F Iri-Mao, A Lon-Pic.
France (Civil
Disorder): No units.
Italy
(Secret):
F Por-Mao, F Gol-Mad,
A Mar-Gas, A Rom S A Ven, A Ven
S F Tri, F Wms S F Alg-Mor.
Russia
(Jim Burgess - jfburgess
“of” gmail.com): A Mun S A Swi-Bur,
A Ruh-Bel, F Kie-Hol,
F Hel S F
Kie-Hol, A Ber-Kie, A Sil-Ber, F Gob-Bal, A Sev S A
Rum.
Scandinavia
(Geoff Kemp - ggeoff510 “of” aol.com): F Swe
S A Den, F Nth S A Den, A Den H,
F Wao
S F Iri-Mao, F Eng C A
Lon-Pic.
Spain (Civil Disorder): F Mor U, A Bel U, F Hol U.
Turkey
(Hugh Polley – hapolley “of” yahoo.ca): F Ion C A Smy-Tun, A Rum S A Ser, A Mac-Bul, F Mao-Hao,
F Alg-Mor, F Ems C A Smy-Tun, A Smy-Tun.
Deadline
for W 07/S 08 is October 28th at 7am My Time
Supply Center Chart
Balkans: Ser, Gre, Bud, Vie, Tri, Swi, Par=7 Build 1
England: Lon,
Lpl, Bre=3 Even
France: None=0 OUT!!
Italy: Nap,
Ven, Rom, Cre, Mar, Por, Mad=7 Build
1
Russia: Mos, War, Sev, Stp, Gal, Ber,
Kie, Mun, Hol=9 Build
1
Scand.: Nwy, Swe, Den, Edi, Ice=5 Even
Spain: Bel=1 Even
Turkey: Ank, Con, Smy, Bul, Rum, Tun, Mor=7 Even
PRESS
Scandinavia: Apologies for lack of contact, I have had to be
medically repatriated from Greece to the Uk
due to an accident whilst on holiday. I am ok thanks, just somewhat frustrated
as somewhat incapacitated at the moment plus also have no access to laptop or
Pc so all communications re emails are taken from my iPad or phone. I hope to
have better access within a week or so, please bear with me. Thanks. PS: Quartz
& Tween are on hold until things improve. Thanks.
Unknown
Player
- Is this A gunboat game without email? No one wants to make a deal? France and Spain both NMR, so GM we can say
secret ruler of Spain was Brad Wilson?
RUSSIA: I agree, we all
are bums, we should be shot.
By
Popular Demand
The goal is to pick something that fits the
category and will be the "most popular" answer. You score points
based on the number of entries that match yours. For example, if the category
is "Cats" and the responses were 7 for Persian, 3 for Calico and 1
for Siamese, everyone who said Persian would get 7 points, Calico 3 and the
lone Siamese would score 1 point. The cumulative total over 10 rounds will
determine the overall winner. Anyone may enter at any point, starting with an
equivalent point total of the lowest cumulative score from the previous round.
If a person misses a round, they'll receive the minimum score from the round
added to their cumulative total. In each round you may specify one of your
answers as your Joker answer. Your score for this answer will be
doubled. In other words, if you apply
your Joker to category 3 on a given turn, and 4 other people give the same
answer as you, you get 10 points instead of 5.
Players who fail to submit a Joker for any specific turn will have their
Joker automatically applied to the first category. And, if you want to submit
some commentary with your answers, feel free to. The game will consist of 10 rounds, with the
10th round being worth double points. A prize will be awarded to the winner. Research is permitted, but cooperation or
collusion between players is not!
Round 10 Categories – Double Points (Joker is therefore X 4 –
double the double)
1. A city in Florida.
2. A brand of ice
cream.
3. A borough of New
York City.
4. A film that Lauren
Bacall appeared in.
5. A Play-Doh color.
Selected Comments By
Category
Previous
Turn – Hugh Polley “As most Subscribers are men
I voted for condom, better thinkers than I went for pill.”
Florida –
Hugh Polley “All Canadians have heard of
Miami so let’s go with that for Joker.”
Andy Lischett “I picked Ocalo
because I like the sound of it, even if it is a loser.” Rick Desper “Miami
has to be the pick ahead of Orlando, right?”
Marc Ellinger “This one should be easy,
biggest and best known city in FLA.”
Ice
Cream – Andy York “Blue Bell maybe that's too regional, ok HEB Country Creations...again,
too regional.” Brendan Whyte “But in New
Zealand I prefer Mooloo.” Marc Ellinger “Granola
heads unite (personally I refuse to buy it, since they discontinued Peanut
Butter and Jelly flavor!)” Dane Maslen “The ice-cream is a worry: Blue Bell and Breyers
(both of which I've never heard of) and Häagen Dazs (which I choose to avoid as an answer because of its
spelling) had larger sales in the U.S. in 2013 than Ben & Jerry's, but at
least I've heard of that and can spell it.”
Borough –
Andy York “Diamond District - oops, Gotham, wrong city.”
Bacall –
Andy Lischett “To Have & Have Not is
an easy Joker because it's probably the only LB movie anyone (including me)
will remember.” Marc Ellinger
“Bogie and Bacall, what could be better (except maybe the Duke and Bacall!)”
Play-Doh – Andy York “Good grief, there are a lot of
them out there these days.” Hugh Polley “As a kid I had play-doh,
seem to remember yellow, blue and white.”
Marc Ellinger “The logo, canister and play-doh are all yellow!”
Dane Maslen “For Plah-Doh
I've picked one of the four colours in the Play-Doh Classic Colors 4-Pack and given my spell-checker a
nervous breakdown by mixing British English and American English spellings.”
Dick Martin Wins!
Marc Ellinger,
Bendan Whyte, and Mark Firth each score the high
round at 130, with Andy Lichett bringing up the rear
at 56.
Where in the World
is Kendo Nagasaki?
