From: MOBTOTRM@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Date: Sat 04 Jun 1994 - 13:04:42 EEST
G'day Everyone,
Edward has a problem with a Garhound Winner:
>the baboon ended up winning
>any body have a good idea of what the Garhound
>reaction should be?
As baboons are thought of as little more than undomesticated animals, he's lucky to have been allowed to compete (maybe the idea of a baboon on horseback had such comic merit they let him by?) Given that he was permitted to compete at all, that baboon is damn lucky to have made it through to the end. I bet there quite few people out to nobble him once it was clear the comic relief was the front runner! However, if he did make it through, there'd no doubt in anyone's mind that he cheated! The second place getter would be invested as Champion, though if the crops are bad the following year everyone might grumble that maybe the baboon should have won after all!
Eeek! I've just had a terrible thought: what happens if Ed's Duck PC came second!
There is little to no way I can see the Garhounders accepting a baboon as a suitable consort for their Harvest Queen, and I think they would use whatever means (even low and nasty in the end, if neccesary) to prevent it.
Gary Newton wrote a few day's back:
>I won't go into too much detail unless people want to know more, but suffice
>it to say that there are particular registers, modes of speaking, which
>members of certain social "classes" _must_ use to one another if they are to
>be socially correct...
[fascinating details follow, deleted]
>...I'd better stop now before you all get that glazed look and slump
>over head first at your terminals... Let me know if you want more...
This didn't cause me to slump at all - yes, I would like to see more! (On this theme I enjoyed Nick's New Pelorian NewSpeak - in fact, I thought it was 'double plus good'!)
Sandy writes of the USA:
>Y
ou don't understand. Because our country is so enormous, and
>comparatively thinly-peopled...
Maybe it's just my antipodean perspective, but I think if you're looking for an example of an "enormous ...thinly-populated" country, the United States does not readily come to mind. Consider: The continental United States is approximately the same SIZ as Australia, yet has almost FOURTEEN TIMES the population! And if you're talking "thinly peopled", at least there is "stuff" (eg. settlements,towns, cities, Burger Kings, Game stores?) spread right across the North American continent - Down Here there's almost nothing at all in the interior. In fact, crossing the great Nullarbor Plain by train, the most exciting thing you're likely to see in three days is a solitary tree! (Who knows what the dingos out there pee on?)
>...a given city tends to have fewer actual RuneQuesters available, except
>for the largest metropolitan areas.
In contrast, our cities tend to have virtually all the RQers, because there are only 5 cities in Australia with a population of more than a million, and nearly 90% of the entire population live in those 5.
(Lest my Canberran friends take umbrage - let me add that although the capital is only the size of a large country town, it has lots of gamers and RQers too as it is full of university-educated bureaucracts)
Cheers
MOB
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