Hello, hello!
Saskatoon is throwing down the gauntlet and challenging Melbourne to a Word War. We have several unique awards that will be given out at the end of November, but I will allow James to do the honours for that, later on in this thread. (That's your cue, James!)
In addition to the regions going up against each other, I am hereby challenging the ML of Melbourne, Lauren E. Mitchell, to an individual word war. We can watch the regional progress in our regional headers; we can watch me kick her butt in this post. ;)
Let the taunting begin!
Current Status:
**This thread is posted in both the Saskatoon forum and the Melbourne forum. Through the magic of this post, people from one region may easily taunt people from the other region without needing to affiliate with the enemy. How's that for snazzy?**
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-Janna
Moderator, Character & Plot Realism Q&A
ML, Saskatoon
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Oct 28, 2009 - 12 45
YOU'RE throwing the gauntlet? Ha! Saskatoon, ladies and gentlemen, are so scared of Melbourne that they didn't dare issue this challenge until I'd already gone over there and posted in their region wars thread. Then they just had to throw down the gauntlet because otherwise they would've looked like cowards!
Also, neener neener, we're gonna win.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
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Oct 28, 2009 - 12 57
Actually, Saskatoon thought Melbourne was going to be such a pushover that we didn't even consider you for a second until YOUR ML came and voted for you in our word wards poll!
And we will stomp you all!
-----------Janna
Moderator, Character & Plot Realism Q&A
ML, Saskatoon
Canadian Overlord
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Oct 28, 2009 - 13 28
Melbournians cannot be stomped!
We are too strong of character, and too strong of words... As in, we have lots of them, and so you will see when or word count crushes your word count!!!
We can crush you in your sleep(time differences and such).
----------NaNo07: A Ghostly Belonging - WON!
NaNo08: Muntaer - WON!
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Oct 28, 2009 - 14 15
psssaaaaaaay... kick yer asses with our wordes!!! GO Oz!
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Oct 28, 2009 - 15 36
Where the heck is Saskatoon?
----------'You're still riding that old thing?'
'Well, we can't all come and go by BUBBLE!'
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Oct 28, 2009 - 15 41
Here ----------
Twitter
before abhorring, try To Understand, robots don't.
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Oct 28, 2009 - 15 41
In your scariest nightmares, that's where! Be paralyzed with fear, O citizens of Melbourne.
Saskatchewan's International Ambassador
----------Saskatchewan's International Ambassador
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Oct 28, 2009 - 15 45
And on a lighter note...
Hi! I’m James, Saskatchewan’s (self-appointed) International Ambassador. Welcome to the 2009 Incredible International Challenge. Thanks for throwing down the gauntlet, Karalianne.
In keeping with ancient traditions from times long forgotten (2003), participating regions contend for five awards.*
Bonus awards! (introduced in 2008)*
Have a fun, productive November!
Sincerely,
James
The fine print:
* Award winners will be announced in early December. Bonus awards will be awarded unless I don’t feel like it, or procrastinate, or can’t find all the numbers necessary to complete the calculations**.
** The results are not audited. Therefore, I can cheat*** with impunity when calculating them.
*** Don't worry. I won`t cheat****.
**** But I could if I wanted to. Mwa ha ha ha.
----------Saskatchewan's International Ambassador
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Oct 28, 2009 - 20 54
In your scariest nightmares, that's where! Be paralyzed with fear, O citizens of Melbourne.
Saskatchewan's International Ambassador
I just ask because we need an address to send the drop bears... although from the looks of that map we should equip them with mittens and furry hats first...
----------'You're still riding that old thing?'
'Well, we can't all come and go by BUBBLE!'
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Oct 28, 2009 - 21 06
LOL
Well, it did snow here today. Not that it stuck...
I think we'll send bunnies. Lots and lots of bunnies.
-----------Janna
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ML, Saskatoon
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Oct 29, 2009 - 00 31
LOL
Well, it did snow here today. Not that it stuck...
I think we'll send bunnies. Lots and lots of bunnies.
Thanks, but some British moron already released them over here and they're destroying our biodiversity. Now if you could release Vampire bunnies that such the blood of other bunnies, I'd be very happy.
Bunnies - destroying the land since the arrival of the white man. They're like cane toads, just not as poisonous, non carnivorous and edible...
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Oct 29, 2009 - 03 25
There was only one vote for Melbourne. I voted for a Bend, Oregon, because I know a writer who's there. Everyone is an equal portion of awareness operating a body to interface with the world, so if you're going to disrespect everyone else's votes by subverting the whole process of voting by challenging Melbourne based on only one vote, then you're being completely unfair to everyone else who placed any votes for locations which have not been issued challenges. Either drop the challenge with Melbourne, or issue challenges with every location which got any votes at all -- those are the only options for making this fair. Why should one vote placed for Melbourne result in a challenge, if one vote placed for Bend didn't result in a challenge? There is no good excuse.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 03 44
huh?
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Oct 29, 2009 - 03 48
I know there are some pretty big sentences in there, but the concept is simple. I have faith that you'll be able to figure it out.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 03 50
I have no doubt that anyone understands what you're saying, but why are you telling us?
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Oct 29, 2009 - 03 53
Yeah, I'm with LadyLovelace. I does reed english heeps good and stuff, mmkay? But why the hell post here and tell us?
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Oct 29, 2009 - 03 56
The statement covered the "why."
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 10
There was only one vote for Melbourne....
.. but it was an EFFING AWESOME SUPER POWEREDD FANTASTIC VOTE! So, like, it kicks your vote any day of the week.
... you don't get out much, do you.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 14
All hail Wonderdog!
----------Reality Escapes Her.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 15
Hi there Alan! I'm Lauren, I'm the ML for Melbourne.
The reason Melbourne was officially challenged rather than Bend or any of the other one-vote regions is that Janna issued a challenge to the MLs of the one-vote regions, and I happened to be first to respond (I was surprised, considering the time zone difference between us -- I guess Janna must've stayed up late MLing!). She posted this at the end of the region war thread in Saskatoon's forum:
It was simply a case of first in best dressed, rather than any intentional effort to exclude any region. There are only so many spaces for regions in the 'Where We Stand' section of the region header, and I, on behalf of Melbourne, just happened to be quickest to respond to the challenge. The decision wasn't made on the poll result; it was made on that extra challenge.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 17
... and her vote was awesome... srsly... awesome....
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 19
I'd really like to not have to lock this thread, everyone, so can we please cool it? This is supposed to be friendly taunting, not digs at people's intelligence or social lives, mmmkay?
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 19
Lauren, I always love that you're so resourceful :) It makes your level of awesome be even more awesome than awesome.
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<3
----------Reality Escapes Her.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 25
Locking threads is always censorship, thus ebil, especially when even one person feels a burning desire to say more in the thread.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 28
Contacting the MLs of places that got one vote is disrespectful to the people who voted for places that got two or more votes.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 32
I think you're being disrespectful to our ML. :(
----------Reality Escapes Her.
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 35
Regions that got two or more votes got automatically challenged, as far as I can tell from the thread in question. Regina, Montana, Calgary and Wales were contacted to see if they were interested, and once their MLs responded, the challenges were issued. Regina, Montana and Calgary joined the war; Wales did not opt to join the war. There wasn't any disrespect to places that got two or more votes; in fact they were given first preference to opt in to the war.
Then the final place in the war was determined by contacting the MLs of the one-vote regions, and it was first in best dressed for that spot.
----------Municipal Liaison for Australia and New Zealand :: Melbourne
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 42
It's all in the name of good fun, Alan, go with it... No need to cause issues when there aren't issues...
Challenges can still occur between other regions...
And I don't quite understand how contacting the MLs of the "One Vote Regions" is unfair to those with two or more votes, would you care to explain this to us all?
----------NaNo07: A Ghostly Belonging - WON!
NaNo08: Muntaer - WON!
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Oct 29, 2009 - 04 47
OMG, you folks are from Melbourne Australia <3
My favorite author David Icke did a show in the Melbourne Convention Center earlier this year, on April 11th. I have a DVD of that show =)
Were any of you folks in attendance at that show?
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Oct 29, 2009 - 06 59
My favorite author David Icke did a show in the Melbourne Convention Center earlier this year, on April 11th. I have a DVD of that show =)
Were any of you folks in attendance at that show?
Um... you're complaining about an announcement regarding the challenging of Melbourne, Australia, which is stated to be visible to members of both Saskatoon and Melbourne forums... with the ML for Melbourne posting... and you've only just realised a large number of people commenting are from Melbourne?
*posts drop bears*
No I didn't see David Icke in April. Actually, I can't really remember what I was doing in April. I think it was probably job applications. Oh well...
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