Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Proposal: Initialize!

9-0 is quorum. -Elias IX

Josh is already on the Monkey Line, so all others are placed on the bottom. The rest of the names were put into Kevan’s movie quote generator, and then the quotes were alphabetized. There were no repeats. Clucky gets placed on top, anyway.

“Come with Elias IX if you want to live.”
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy Denis Brandao.”
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a Bucky.”
“Go back to the lars atomica. You shall not pass.”
“I could dance with you ‘til the Amnistar come home. On second thought, I’d rather dance with the Amnistar ‘til you came home.”
“I find your lack of Brendan disturbing.”
“It is too late, my Zephyr is in your veins.”
“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful Kevan.”
“Many Bothans died to bring us this Oracular rufio.”
“My mama always said life was like a box of Hix.”
“No, Mr. Bond, I expect Icarus to die.”
“Okay, here’s the plan. We get the warhead and then hold the world ransom for… one million Chronos Phaenon!”
“One morning I shot an elephant in my Night. How he got in my Night, I don’t know.”
“That’ll do, Chivalrybean. That’ll do.”
“We can’t stop here. This is Clucky country.”

Adminned at 31 Jul 2007 11:54:14 UTC

If “Proposal: Line Dance” has not been Enacted, this Proposal does nothing.

In the Rule “The Monkey Line”, change the following words and phrases as indicated:

Change “end of the line” to “bottom of the list”.
Change “back of the line” to “bottom of the list”.
Change “code monkey” to “Monkey”.
Delete “with the Monkey Line, “.
Change “should” to “must”.

Add each Monkey that is not on the Monkey Line to the bottom of the Monkey Line (The Admin Enacting this proposal should add all such Monkeys in a uniformly random order, and should explain the method of randomization before making the additions).  Move the Top Banana to the top of the Monkey Line.

posted by Hix at 31 Jul 2007 01:44:00 UTC Comments (13)

Comments

Oracular rufio:

31-07-2007 02:44:54 UTC

It seems to me that we should either use list terminology (“The Monkey List”, “bottom of the list”, “top of the list”) or line terminology (“The Monkey Line”, “end of the line”, “beginning of the line”) but not some chimerical combination of both.

imperial for now, I suppose.

Amnistar: he/him

31-07-2007 02:50:29 UTC

Agreed, I prefer Monkey Line, as it keeps with the ideas of us sitting in a line working.

Clucky: he/him

31-07-2007 03:28:54 UTC

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Right now, the current proposal is broken. I typed it up in a rush. This is needed to actually make things work. Thanks Hix =)

Clucky: he/him

31-07-2007 03:32:06 UTC

I am not concerned with the whole list/line thing. Its still referred to as the monkey line. Were this not the pass, the monkey line proposal wouldn’t be able to be passed either.

Oracular rufio:

31-07-2007 03:47:48 UTC

Well, strictly speaking, if it doesn’t pass, than this doesn’t do anything…

I see why changing the one stray “code monkey” to “monkey” and “should” to “must” is necessary, but the rest seems kind of minor and typographical.

Probably still a good idea though.

Hix:

31-07-2007 03:53:05 UTC

It’s _called_ “The Monkey Line”.
It _is_ a list (see the first sentence of Clucky’s proposed rule).
It contains a “top” (see the second sentence of Clucky’s proposed rule).
To be consistent, the other end should be the “bottom”.

Bucky:

31-07-2007 03:58:33 UTC

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Oracular rufio:

31-07-2007 04:13:54 UTC

I see.  What about those other “(first in line)” and “(Nth in line)” bits, though?

(Sorry, I’m still getting a hang of which kinds of typos are actually gamestate-breaking.)

Kevan: he/him

31-07-2007 09:33:23 UTC

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Night:

31-07-2007 13:53:51 UTC

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Chivalrybean:

31-07-2007 16:17:49 UTC

for

Josh: Observer he/they

31-07-2007 17:25:12 UTC

for

Elias IX:

31-07-2007 18:40:23 UTC

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