I'd rather have a sensible pick than a pretty one.
I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.
Simon ,'Safe'
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2003 12:32:08 pm PST #163 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nutty - Mar 21, 2003 12:34:04 pm PST #164 of 10289
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
6 is it! Because who needs more divisors than that?
And can I say how pleased I am that my cheese butt thread notion has become general voting parlance? Carry on!
My thinking on the extraordinary circumstances is to set the bar at a clearly high mark. Also known as, the circumstances should have to be extraordinary enough and clear enough that a bunch of people all at once say, Gee, need to reconsider. Also known as, a Bureaucracy consensus.
(Also, much as I might approve a suddent TV programming move to All Butt All the Time, TV doesn't generally happen so quickly that we can't anticipate the boob tube. I mean, we fought over how westerns and sci fi are or are not alike for 2,000 posts in the Firefly thread before Firefly ever aired.)
Jessica - Mar 21, 2003 12:37:54 pm PST #165 of 10289
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
As long as the ballot has exactly two choices and one of them is 6, I'm okay with it.
Because 6 is the One True Way. Go 6! Choose 6!
Wolfram - Mar 21, 2003 12:39:19 pm PST #166 of 10289
Visilurking
All Butt on the boob tube. There's a joke in there somewhere but I'm too tired to find it.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 21, 2003 12:43:09 pm PST #167 of 10289
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
As long as the ballot has exactly two choices and one of them is 6, I'm okay with it.
Yes, this.
Deena - Mar 21, 2003 12:51:09 pm PST #168 of 10289
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Agreeing with sophia, et. al., on consensus and with nutty, et. al., on the beauty of the number 6.
Kat - Mar 21, 2003 12:58:19 pm PST #169 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Maybe the vote could be
(a) 6 months (also known as the Number of the Righteous) or (b) my vote doesn't count.
That's how it would work in Iraq....
Betsy HP - Mar 21, 2003 1:08:29 pm PST #170 of 10289
If I only had a brain...
(a) 6 months or (b) everybody who disagrees with me gets killed and we vote again.
Jesse - Mar 21, 2003 1:09:36 pm PST #171 of 10289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I keep thinking about the fact that the board here is six months old, and what that means. It feels like forever ago that we got here.
Burrell - Mar 21, 2003 1:13:29 pm PST #172 of 10289
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Okay, I am indifferent to the "should it be 3 months or 4 months?" question because right now I am leaning to 6 anyway, & I don't see a significant difference between those other two if I decide to change my mind.
Next point: closed issues aren't necessarily verbotten subjects to bring up, they are just not going to be considered for a vote. There's a difference in my book. Notice that Jon can still make jokes about preferential voting.
Last point: call me a stickler, but I see no need for language about "extraordinary circumstances." Honestly, we are a board devoted to ME tv shows--what kinds of extraordinary circumstances are going to come up that will make us all wish to suddenly have, say, a thread devoted to Seth Green's Oeuvre?