From: Alan Riddell (peekee_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 01:05:34 PST
this time to the correct place...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Riddell" <peekee_at_blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Jesse Welton" <jwelton_at_pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: 203:8 VALID +1.5
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jesse Welton" <jwelton_at_pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
> To: "Fantasy Rules Committee" <frc_at_trolltech.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 1:24 AM
> Subject: 203:8
>
>
> > Let's see... We're up to 203:8, yes?
> >
> > ---203:8---
> > http://jwelton.v-space.org/frc/meow.png
> > -----------
>
> If anyone has problems viewing the picture please let me know and I will
> convert if to a gif or jpg format and attach it.
>
> Rules has a frog looking down at the top, with line coming out of its head
> and an exclamation mark as if to suggest surprise. Beneath the top frog
> there are more symbols and pictures. From left to right, a yellow square
not
> lying flat (edges vertical and horizontal) but rather at 45 degrees. I
side
> the square is a symbol in black, two vertical lines that are bent towards
> the top so they approach one another, looks a bit like
>
> | |
> | |
> / \
> | |
> | |
> | |
>
> There is then a colon
>
> There is then a picture of a frog behind a red circle with two bars across
> it in red.
>
>
> What does this rule mean?
>
> They key part is unlocking the yellow square symbol. But first to start
with
> the more obvious elements. Colons can be used for various reasons but
often
> can be read as such that, for instance in set theory the set {x an integer
:
> x >0}. Perhaps more often there is no meaning but the colon just
separates
> elements or is used as punctuation. The frog behind bars clearly means no
> frogs. Thus the line of symbols together likely is to describe certain
> circumstance in which there can be no frogs. This also explains why the
frog
> at the top is looking so surprised.
>
> So the yellow square symbol describes the circumstances in which there can
> be no frogs. I was going to say it probably means future, as that is what
> most rules typically would try to do. However there are many more obvious
> symbols for the future, a clock, an hourglass, etc. As such I do not think
> it means in future. It does suggest a narrowing, or lessening though. So I
> will take it to mean rules will contain less frogs.
>
> bla, bla ,bla
>
> VALID
>
> +1.5
>
> Judge Alan
>
>
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Rule Date: 2003-02-27 09:05:57 GMT
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