Re: Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal

"Egbert Ferreira" <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:57:56 -0200
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.worldmasters.chat.wm2002
Message-ID <000c01c4f45c$5076ad60$fc34fea9@home>
sorry for your snow...

Now seriously...  I would really enjoy some snow here at Rio for a change!
Today it was 36 Centigrades degrees at shade.  Our minimal here is 14C. 
Hard winter! :-/

[ ]´s
Egg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mczet" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal


>
> Shaaaaadup and get back in your beach chair. All that fun and sun is
> starting to turn your brain into mush. Your not allowed to have fun on a
> beautiful tropical island while we're freezing our butts of in a foot of
> snow in Wisconsin. Oh, and Julio says you owe him a round.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Egbert Ferreira" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 1:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal
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>> Julio is DEFINITELY the most sucessful dip-recruiting of all history! ;-)
>> Luiz Bayard recruited him!  The same Luiz Bayard that also recruited me
> for
>> WM99! :-)
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>> But putting him (Julio) on the team was a personal choice of mine! :-)
>> I admit I am really proud of being his captain! ;-))
>>
>> Goooo Julio! :-)
>>
>> [ ]´s
>> Egg
>> ER´s captain
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>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "mczet" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal
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>> >
>> > Hell, we don't care what the context is. We're just going hop up and
> down
>> > and hoot and holler shouting 'wimpy, wimpy, wimpy!' Its
>> > our.....ummmm.....idiom.
>> >
>> > On the other hand, at least I'd be able to say that the only game I 
>> > lost
>> > in
>> > the WM02 was to the guy who won the whole thing. So, with that in mind.
>> > Goooooooo Julio!!!!
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>> >
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: <[email protected]>
>> > To: <[email protected]>
>> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:01 AM
>> > Subject: [wm02-chat] Re: WM02FINL Game End Proposal
>> >
>> >
>> >> >>Somebody wants to throw in the towel in a *final* in  1903?
>> >> >>What wimps. :-)
>> >>
>> >> I am always struck by the bravado of people who are not playing is a
>> >> game
>> > to
>> >> think they know enough to comment.  Speaking as someone actually in
> the
>> > game
>> >> (and who did not propose the end-vote), the end-of-game proposal makes
>> >> perfect sense in the context of the game.
>> >>
>> >> Even though the game is only 6 turns old, I have literally hundreds of
>> >> emails from this game to provide a broader context.  I'm sure most
> other
>> > players
>> >> do too, totaling over 1000 emails most likely.  To think  you
> understand
>> > the
>> >> internals of the game by reading a call for an end vote is  like
> looking
>> > at a
>> >> still shot from a movie and saying you know the plot.
>> >>
>> >> However, as the game is still going on, it would be silly for me to
>> > explain
>> >> all the reasons here.
>> >>
>> >> --Bruce
>> >>   The near-death Germany
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