Re: HARKEN
From: Donald Hosford <Hosford.Donald@a...>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 03:13:16 -0400
Subject: Re: HARKEN
Why don't we send any arguementers over to the old Bolton list...it's
still
there!
(I wonder how long we can use it before bolton catches on...it should
have
been eliminated long ago.)
Donald Hosford
Glenn M Wilson wrote:
> whatever, it assumes rational behavior though... not a Hu'man trait
> despite all the stereotyping of th Kra'vak notwithstanding.
>
> We could try it. What would we call it - Free Fire Zone?
>
> And what if it leaks back over?
>
> Gracias,
> Glenn/Triphibious@juno.com
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> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:42:53 +0100 Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
writes:
> >>DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
> >>>
> >>> NOW that CLINTOON is gone, i am back to watching my favorite war
> >hero
> >>> politician-TOM HARKEN.
> >>>
> >>> i am curious to hear/read how many more NVA he slaughtered after
> >>> breaking out of a POW camp, stealing a sailboat and sailing to
> >safety.
> >>>
> >>> or maybe he is slaughtering al-quida undercover in his old age
> >now.
> >>>
> >>> THROW THE BUMS OUT!
> >>
> >>And this has to do with GZG games.......how?
> >
> >Quite.
> >I normally try not to comment on the off-topic discussions,
especially
> >when
> >they evolve from an at-first legitimate thread, but this one has just
> >sprung into being with no connection at all to any previous on-topic
> >item -
> >no offence, Dawgie, but this just simply isn't relevant - I'm sure
> >there
> >are plenty of US poltical discussion forums that this would fit right
> >into.
> >
> >Following from this and all the other problems of non-topicality and
> >brushfire flame wars recently, with the attendant departure of
several
> >list
> >members that we know of (and probably quite a few lurkers too), it
did
> >cross my mind that there might be an example to draw from another
list
> >I'm
> >on.
> >
> >On John Kovalic's Dork Tower mailing list (for the Dork Tower comics,
> >if
> >you're not familiar with them - Hi John, if you're listening....),
> >John K
> >has simply set up an separate sub-list, called "Mud Bay Today" (Mud
> >Bay is
> >the fictional town in which DT is set) specifically for anything that
> >is
> >drastically off-topic or inflammatory to the main DT list. As soon as
> >anyone on the DT list mentions anything to do with (eg) gun control,
> >religious intolerance, politics etc etc, they are immediately told
> >(usually
> >by several list members, not by an admin overlord) to take it onto
> >the
> >"MBT" list, where anyone interested in following the thread can do so
> >and
> >the rest of us can get on wiht the topical stuff. AFAIK, on "MBT"
> >anything
> >goes, and you can flame away until the brushfire war turns into full
> >nuclear exchange if you wish...... BUT only those who are really
> >interested
> >will be getting the mails - if you want to follow a particular
thread,
> >just
> >sub on to that list for a while and come off it again when the thread
> >is
> >over or everyone is dead - in some ways it could have a gruesome sort
> >of
> >attraction to lurk on, a bit like watching gladiatorial combat or
> >rubbernecking a car crash..... <GRIN>
> >
> >So, does anyone else think that something like this MIGHT just work
> >here?
> >Somewhere to move the heated exchanges to by mutual consent?
> >
> >Jon (GZG)
> >
> >
> >>
> >>Mk
> >
> >
> >
>
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