The best laid plans of Cake or Death

FrustratedPoet · June 3, 2003, 17:30

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Poetry! Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. And there was a Scottish poet named Rabbie Burns- Rabbie Burns to Scottish people, Robbie Burns to English people, and Rabbi Burns to Jewish people.
And he wrote poetry, he wrote a big ****ing book of poetry, but one of his most famous lines is “The Best Laid Plans O' Mice and Men Aft Gang Aglay,” meaning “The best laid plans of mice and men often go wrong.”
And because it’s poetry, people go, (mimes stroking beard) “Oh, I know what you mean there, Robbie, yes… ****ing plans ganging aglay by a ****ing truckload…” And being a poet, he must have observed humanity, must have said, “Men. Men make plans. These plans go wrong. Go wrong once, twice… often! Often, a number of plans I’ve seen go wrong… Possible idea for a poem…”

And then he must have turned his attention to the other animal mentioned in that line of poetry. If you think back to it, “The best laid plans of mice and men…” Exactly which mice plans was he really honing in here on? The best laid ones go aglay, some of the worse laid ones are okay? Some of them get through? He was ****ing off this trolley!

NOTE: This isn't posted as a poll to make sure that only team member's votes are counted.

What Civ do we want to be? The choices are

* English
* Romans
* French
* Random
* Something Else - please write-in

This poll will close the day before the game starts (whenever that is). Obviously if we want the same Civ as another team we'll have to negotiate with them and maybe fall back to our second-placed choice.

We can discuss things here as well, you don't have to just vote.

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“See, mice also make plans, unbeknownst to most people. They plan to get cheese! They run, they scamper… Oh, one’s fallen over! No cheese today… Oh, plan two: they’ve got three, another one’s got a stick, he’s gonna put the stick into the mousetrap… No, he’s broken the stick! What a jessie! Plan three – Oh, they’ve got a flip chart now! Very serious… there’s a lot of mise surrounding the meeting, and they’re having a discussion… Oh, good plan this, probably! Their best laid plan, I believe… I could just hear what they’re saying. One mouse is going,

“You aren’t supposed to blow the bloody doors off! Told you about that… What are you doing, coming in here, and making such a fracas? Now tell me the plan.”

“Well, we’ll drive the Minis into the square…”

“No, piazza.”

“Oh, it’s piazza, Charlie? And we load the cheese in the back of the Minis, and we drove it at you during a football match.”

“That’s right. Wallop, wallop, wallop, into the big coach driven by William, rounding in the Alps, and we’re free. And you’re sitting in the back, and you’re not having a migraine, and you’re gonna shut your face.”

“All right, Charlie.”

(as Burns, still taking notes) “Meanwhile, back in London, the Chief Mouse is talking to the prison governor-

“Somebody has broken into my toilet.”

“Well, I’m terribly sorry.”

“Get on to Camp Freddy, I want Charlie Crocker given a good going-over.””

Sorry, but if you haven’t seen “The Italian Job” this is all meaningless, by the way, but then if you haven’t seen it you probably haven’t lived…

Beta · June 3, 2003, 23:01

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“See, mice also make plans, unbeknownst to most people. They plan to get cheese! They run, they scamper… Oh, one’s fallen over! No cheese today… Oh, plan two: they’ve got three, another one’s got a stick, he’s gonna put the stick into the mousetrap… No, he’s broken the stick! What a jessie! Plan three – Oh, they’ve got a flip chart now! Very serious… there’s a lot of mise surrounding the meeting, and they’re having a discussion… Oh, good plan this, probably! Their best laid plan, I believe… I could just hear what they’re saying. ......"

Vox in action.

ixnay · June 4, 2003, 02:08

We must play as the English. We'll be able to go around, taking everyone's territory, and there'll be nothing they can do about it, since we will have a flag!

Jamski · June 4, 2003, 04:30

Hello boys...... still waiting for the game to start I see

Well, here's my contribution to the game so far, joining a team, and requesting the Romans, for the usual dogfood reasons (or we could play as the Greeks, and try to get constuction as soon as possible - to make concrete for our feet)

-Jam

alva · June 4, 2003, 06:01

No real preference, the Izzard theme works on soooo many levels that it doesn't really matter

.

Let's go random

Dauphin · June 4, 2003, 08:11

English or Romans, with a slight preference for Mr. Dog.

Theseus · June 4, 2003, 09:04

Plumbers

Arrian · June 4, 2003, 09:34

1st choice England, 2nd choice Rome (and, of course, the Emperor Fabulous. I can be "really interesting guy," the power behind the throne).

-Arrian

Shiber · June 4, 2003, 09:44

Being the Romans would be kindof a problem, since we'll have to speak with a latin accent... which is really just made up because noone knows what a latin accent sounds like, everyone who spoke latin is dead now! We'll have to make it up.
We could be the Germans, build our first cathedral and then say "waiten ein minuten". Or we could invent tanks and perform the Heimlich Maneuver.

Theseus · June 4, 2003, 19:52

Naw, if we're Rome we get to buzz around on motor scooters, and say "Ciao!"

Shiber · June 4, 2003, 19:56

As the Carthagians, we can come down the alps with huge upside-down squirrels with a tail. Or as the Americans, we can put babies on spikes (which goes well with their industrious trait). Taste of chicken!
As Germany or Japan, we can parachute into war zones and say "No no, we've tried that already, believe us, it doesn't work out".

Theseus · June 4, 2003, 20:19

I think we should stay away from anything having to do with chickens...

BigFree · June 9, 2003, 00:21

I still need a color and an icon, please report in the Team registry thread.

FrustratedPoet · June 9, 2003, 04:51

I'm gonna vote for Romans.

"Hello, we are the Romans - we're gonna come in your country and take all your things" (said in a Mexican accent for some reason

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Arrian · June 9, 2003, 13:57

As far as I can tell, that puts us at 3 votes for Rome and 2 votes for England, with several other people suggesting things but not actually choosing one.

Rome:

FP
Big Crunch
Jamski

England:

Arrian
ixnay

Don't we need to get a move on here?

-Arrian

FrustratedPoet · June 9, 2003, 16:39

members who haven't voted = Shiber, Theseus, alva.

It is worth noting that I believe the Latin Lover team want Rome and the Monty Python team want England. Whichever of these Civs we choose will have to be fought for over a coin-toss anyway, so we could easily end up with either or neither of them.

Arrian · June 9, 2003, 16:45

Bah! Imagine that, teams fighting over who gets to be England!

Ok, so step 1 is to pick a first choice between Rome & England. Step 2 is to do the "coin toss" thing with the other team(s). Step 2.5, concurrent with step 2, is to pick a backup.

Potential backups:

Babylon (...THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON, and then Switzerland)

America (Lead by the ****ING DONUT!)

France (we'd have to be kind of ****ing french at times. And eat sandwiches when we're supposed to be doing other things).

-Arrian

ZargonX · June 9, 2003, 16:48

You'll have to fight Tabemono for France :P

Panzer32 · June 9, 2003, 17:58

I thought I already said CoD gets England?

FrustratedPoet · June 9, 2003, 18:12

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Originally posted by Panzer32
I thought I already said CoD gets England?

Thanks for letting us know.

I missed your post in the other thread so was unaware that you'd already decided on our Civ for us.

Jamski · June 9, 2003, 18:26

Yay!

Does this mean we'll be England then? Cool - we can spread amusement just with our Civ choice. (Although I wanted Rome, England is more amusing)

-Jam

Theseus · June 9, 2003, 20:14

For an alternate, what about Celts?

We can wear white robes, grow long beards, and be sexy in a late-night telly kinda way.

We even have our own GW: "We'll build THE BIGGEST HENGE IN THE WORLD!!!"

Panzer32 · June 9, 2003, 23:25

If you are not England, Monty Python gets England, Tabemono gets France.

FrustratedPoet · June 10, 2003, 04:54

Shall we just settle with England, guys?

If we decide to give it up and go with Rome we'll still have to have a coin toss for it. France is already taken too so our 3rd choice would also be contested.

I fully realise that Rome was ahead in the votes, but I would suggest that we just save everyone the bother of juggling Civ picks around any further and just stick with what we've got.

Is that OK?

If so, we need to decide on a Civ colour. EnglishOrange has already been taken. Can anyone say what the alternated colour is for England? What colour would we like?

alva · June 10, 2003, 06:15

Pitty we can't have lot's of colors

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Hey, you're the teamleader, you decide !!

FrustratedPoet · June 10, 2003, 06:18

It's supposed to be a Democracy game - I have to at least give people the opportunity to vote.

Jamski · June 10, 2003, 06:22

Lilac/purple.

Its a nice coulor for lipstick

-Jam

Shiber · June 10, 2003, 08:54

Blue, like Eddie's favorite dress.

And if you don't think that blue is the best color in the world... then you should!

Arrian · June 10, 2003, 09:45

Don't care about the colour, let's stick with England (though I admit Theseus has something there with the Celts...

).

-Arrian

Dauphin · June 10, 2003, 18:50

If we don't get England or Rome go with being America, and make our leader name Crazy Eddie.