Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing? Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.

'War Stories'


Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier  

A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.

Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych


jengod - Mar 20, 2003 10:43:33 pm PST #8577 of 10001

Michelle T., these are my proposed short (and therefore not floridly witty) slugs. Were they so short as to be blinvisible and therefore non-impactful?

Bureaucracy 1:
Administrative discussions

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Debate Club
If it's proposed in Bureaucracy, it gets discussed here


jengod - Mar 20, 2003 10:44:42 pm PST #8578 of 10001

okay, I hate the third one, but the first two I think don't suck.


Jon B. - Mar 20, 2003 11:02:52 pm PST #8579 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I changed the first two. I go to bed now.


jengod - Mar 20, 2003 11:32:57 pm PST #8580 of 10001

Aha! I've got it!

Debate Club:
Legislative discussion

(And then jus 'splain the rules in the thread intro, etc.)


Susan W. - Mar 20, 2003 11:54:18 pm PST #8581 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

May I interrupt these debates with a question?

It's occurred to me that it would be cool to do Buffista charity-gifty things in honor of CC's sprog and the finale of BtVS, and I have some ideas for both. I would be happy to use my logistical skills toward coordinating them.

Is this something we should discuss in Bureaucracy, or should it go somewhere else?


Gandalfe - Mar 20, 2003 11:56:15 pm PST #8582 of 10001
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

Probably elsewhere, so that it doesn't get interrupted by a fight over font size. But I'm darned if I know where. Maybe in each shows' respective thread?


Hil R. - Mar 20, 2003 11:56:27 pm PST #8583 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I'd think that would go in Natter or the show threads, with announcements in Press. It seems like that's where those things have usually been.


Susan W. - Mar 21, 2003 12:00:44 am PST #8584 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Thanks!


Noumenon - Mar 21, 2003 12:25:43 am PST #8585 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

Sophia did a good thing by putting a FayJay "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Mar 20, 2003 6:46:02 pm EST link in her proposal. It lets you skip to the start of the discussion and reminds less-involved voters of the thread's existence.

even if a war thread gets a fourth second (and it's been less then five hours I must add), it won't be discussed for two weeks at the earliest, and won't be voted on until three weeks from now.

Since we voted for discussion to close when the vote goes up, can't we start a new discussion in four days and vote on it after the other vote closes? That would bring the third issue to vote in 12 days, on the first of April. The only problem is we'd have the voting discussion thread still open while the first vote was up, so people might try to discuss it.

If no more than four people will second a formal proposal, then no more than four would vote for it, and it would lose anyway, right?

Nah, it's different. See Sophia's

I have to preface this with the fact that I am in favor of opening the war discussion thread if a fourth is forthcoming. What harm will it do.

and I have the opposite position, where I was champing at the bit to get Wolfram's proposal seconded, but would have voted against it.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 21, 2003 12:35:28 am PST #8586 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Nou--

I will vote against it. I just think it has caused so much unecessary discussion I wouldrather just vote on it and have it lose than continue chasing our own tail.

Why is this so diffucult!