Declaration of Victory: Declaration of Victory
Passes 7-2. Nowhere in the ruleset does it say that a DoV must actaully have quorm for votes to pass, just that more than half of the voices voting are voting for. CFJth if ye must. Passed by Rodney.
Adminned at 13 Dec 2005 11:52:01 UTC
The “Total Chaos” Prop is now Instinct.
It’s said to be, now, / in the game’s effect.
Though now / it causes problems quite distinct
Which might seem to be quite a grave defect.
I used our very mobile feath’ry friend
To make the Rule say what I really want
Intent of Rules? Just something I must bend,
To let me have my long-due vict’ry jaunt.
The sentence first: ignored like lowly peasant;
The second one becomes unclear—and how!
But look: “this state” refers now to the present—
That is, the gamestate as it is right now.
My last Proposal did create this state!
So I may claim victorious status. Great!
Seventy-Fifth Trombone:
Ugh, that was hard.
But yes, in English: I moved the Chicken to the first sentence of Total Chaos. That sentence now “is considered Nonsense and is ignored for all purposes,” including determining the antecedent of the pronoun “this.” Without an antecedent, “this state” seems to refer to the current gamestate.
As my previous Proposal was the most recent cause of the gamestate as it existed prior to victory declaration, I am eligible to declare victory.
As per Total Chaos, my DoV is a Shakespearian sonnet—fourteen lines of iambic pentameter with rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Also, the bold-and-italicized text is the Haiku that the Sandbox indicates should be present; the slashes represent the Haiku’s line breaks.
And for the record, I’m perfectly aware that neither the Haiku nor the sonnet are worthy of anything but shame on my part.