Post by premium on Jul 14, 2012 3:22:08 GMT -5
Day 3 - The Looking Glass
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't - till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't - till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
As evening fell, The Strawman stood above the various arguments, rustling in anticipation as they came together. “Our Leader is indisposed, but he will return! His generals are gathering, and I believe AManFromEarth is the one you should... examine. Time’s short, you lot... find him and see what his stuffing’s like! I have another to visit.” With that, he left the crowd to act and rushed off down the street.
Discussion swirled. Points were made and ignored, feelings were relied upon, anecdotes offered and accepted. Votes were cast, with Sheep tabulating the result...
Meanwhile The Strawman hunted. Down a series of alleys he rustled, looking for the one he had marked. Turning a corner, he found his path blocked. Figures cut off his escape, as Validity stepped from the shadows.
“Don’t! Don’t even try, The Dagon. You can’t distract us.... nothing you can say will save you now.”
“So what you’re really saying is that you haven’t bothered to think this through. Have you even considered working this out for yourselves? Your blind devotion to Logos says a lot about-”
They didn’t give him a chance to continue. The Good Arguments literally beat the stuffing out of him, leaving nothing but a burlap sack and an alley scattered with straw.
Back in the square, the final tally was passed around... AManFromEarth was at the top. “All I did was make a bad vote? Oh, fine, do your worst!” he bellowed.
And so they did.
The True Scotsman: Rinsing lemon cream from his hair
The Slippery Slope: Took too much NyQuil
The Dagon - The Strawman: Scattered to the four winds by The Good Arguments
AManFromEarth: Persecuted by the vote
Top Five Vote Earners
AManFromEarth: 8
Bedlam: 5
Langly: 2
Retaba: 2
Phyphor: 2
TheRoadVirus: 1
MrTLicious: 1
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