TLPTP WINS THREAD ... err ... dunno ... what is 26 good for ?
21 Nov 2016 9:15:08 UTC
Topic 202982
Welcome to our favorite playtime for viscous mind sets team building game ! :-}
I think we ought to gradually expand the rule set with each iteration. Then in a few short months we will have a document comparable to a software disclaimer ! Also I did say 'viscous' above ... anyway :
RULE 1/2 : Ignore some of the following rules. ( Yes. That's how software disclaimers work. Get with the program folks. )
RULE 3/4 : Obviously to adhere to RULE 1/2 a/a I should then say : for multiple consecutive posts by a single epic fool contributor, we now have the 'quadratic penalty condition' (QPC) : rounds at SETI Refugee Bar = (n-1)2 where n is the number of consecutive posts and n > 1 eg.
n = two => rounds = 12 = 1
n = three => rounds = 22 = 4
n = four => rounds = 32 = 9
n = five => rounds = 42 = 16
... this is not because I am inherently nasty, just appealing to all the inner drunkards out there ( no iffense ontended ).
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RULE ONE*: (This is a very important one, people) Having fun will be tolerated, as will insults of the OP (that's me)
RULE TWO: I won. If you're having problems dealing with that, counselling may help. Nuclear strikes might be more satisfying though. I'll leave that up to you.
RULE THREE: Post until I tell you to stop. That will happen once someone has met my winning criteria.
RULE FOUR: Read rule one again
RULE FIVE: I will try to remember to PM the winner to tell them to start a new thread, the button for which is at the bottom of the page this thread is on, in case anyone's wondering
RULE SIX: Is for me to sort out, so you can all ignore it. Yes :) unless you happen to be one of our esteemed moderators, in which case you can't.
RULE SEVEN: Double/triple/quadruple etc posts can prove quite expensive in the café. Pleading subsequent homelessness may get you some sympathy, but with an "I told you so" thrown in as you are handed a cardboard box and a tub of lard for waterproofing it (at no cost to yourself). Beyond that, I really don't know what else I can do to help.
* Taken from inaugural speech made by Kim Jong-un (9 March 2014)
Below (that's down people) you will find the original rules. Above (that's up) you will have already found the modified rules.
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[RULES:]
1. Winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, old winner posts declaration of new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread. (My preference is for the winner to ask the mods to lock the old thread after the new one is started.)
6. No double posts. Violator buys a round for the house in the SETI Refuge Bar.
Take it away mindless holograms punters ......
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Bonus points for answering
Bonus points for answering the thread title. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
BTW : The QPC for n > 5 =>
BTW : The QPC for n > 5 => ARE YOU SERIOUS !! This defers to Rule 303 ( from Breaker Morant ). I shoot you ( not Bryan Brown nor Edward Woodward ) at dawn with a marshmallow gun. More than once.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I heard once that it's two
I heard once that it's two thirteens, but it actually is a lot more interesting than that, I think. I was going to quote wiki but this:
put me off a bit.
Still... it's the smallest number that is not a palindrome to have a square that is a palindrome. Not saying that's good for anything though...
edit: are the marshmallows toasted or still flaming?
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
( no iffense ontended ) Well
Well exactly piss the boggle will you, fanks :-)
Ah, Sunday night at the London Palindrome, stuff of memories .....
@Annie - ummmm, marshmallows, the London Fire Brigade have asked me to pass on their kind condolences.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Congratulations on your
Congratulations on your winning the last thread Mike!!
As for me I'm just waking up and it's cold outside, near freezing here on the east coast of the US this morning!!
anniet wrote:I heard once
I have gone right off any-old-random-contributor-wikis. So yes that is Wikipedia folks. On a good day you will see the insides of other people's heads. Best of luck. I occasionally use it though to look at the bottom-of-page references, so I maybe track to primary sources. I think Jimmy's original hope was that it would get more coherent with each passing year, but it is mere layers of congealed brain snot now. It is a valuable document though. Later generations will be able to look back and see how collectively incoherent we are. Sort of an anti-Rosetta Stone.
Well now I never knew. I always learn one new thing everyday, but the trouble is I also forget two others. You will be pleased that you are currently in first place for the accessory prize though ...
As they leave the barrel, yes.
Cheers, Mike. ( White Hunter, Black Marshmallow )
( edit ) Great joke from the Civilization VI game :
"Never criticise a rifleman until you have walked a mile in his shoes. That way, he will be barefoot and you will be out of range."
Boom boom ..... argh .... forgot about the Javelin missile ....
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote: "Never
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IVCwYPjFXc
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
Chuck Conners was accurate out to 2 or 3 miles !
Better not criticize him at all !
Bill
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As for "I take it you have a
As for "I take it you have a younger sibling or two Mike...?" ( previous thread ) :
No Annie. I was the fifth of five ( not the Firth of Forth ). This I think explains alot. Exactly about what ...... who can say ? Perhaps why I have a massive
log on my shoulderepic cynicismcredit card defaultnumber of enemiesreputation in my own mindoverstated medical skillindictment sheet with every regional crime task forceleft fifth toe ?Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
No Annie. I was the fifth of
Scotland weather forecast for 21st November
There will be highs in the Lowlands
Lows in the Highlands
Rain in the Firth, Forth, Fifth, and Sixth
And strong winds up the Trossachs
Och Aye!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now