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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3585 on: September 16, 2010, 12:15:57 PM »

Listening to last night's show after I got off was amazing... Ian has serious cognitive dissonance going on.

Dude, sometimes your team loses. It happens. It doesn't mean they are actually better in some deep way. It means they lost.

Ian be doing spin, meng.
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3586 on: September 16, 2010, 12:24:03 PM »

Yep.

http://freekeene.com/2010/09/15/andrew-carrolls-record-setting-campaign/

Ian was apparently told there wouldn't be any math.

In related news, Carroll got 450% of the "Smith" vote, an infinite percentage of ballots not cast, and 92% of the ballots cast for POTUS.

Fair enough, but the article you originally linked was just some charts of the results; not the insanely optimistic article you just linked, which I admit is better qualified for this section.  :)

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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3587 on: September 16, 2010, 12:42:50 PM »

What's wrong with a little inaccurate propaganda of our own?
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3588 on: September 16, 2010, 12:51:59 PM »

Yep.

http://freekeene.com/2010/09/15/andrew-carrolls-record-setting-campaign/

Ian was apparently told there wouldn't be any math.

In related news, Carroll got 450% of the "Smith" vote, an infinite percentage of ballots not cast, and 92% of the ballots cast for POTUS.

Fair enough, but the article you originally linked was just some charts of the results; not the insanely optimistic article you just linked, which I admit is better qualified for this section.  :)

I was just playing the odds.  Either the results go without mention (drama by omission) or they are spun into a dramatic Thomas Paine-esque "losing Philadelphia was actually a win for us, can't you see it?"

Really, though, Dale, anything that happens with y'all is drama to me, in The Young and The Restless (perhaps Days of Our Lives) sense.  As a pup, I'd patiently sit through Grandma's "stories" at lunch because the first pitch at Wrigley wasn't until 1:05.  After a while, I got hooked on the drama, good and bad.
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3589 on: September 16, 2010, 02:02:01 PM »

Really, though, Dale, anything that happens with y'all is drama to me,

I wish you wouldn't include me in the "y'all".  Aside from milking the occasional muffin crisis for humorous effect, I find the drama tedious.  I often walk away when I see the megaphones come out.  I've even taken a fairly Swiss approach to the political vs. apolitical debates lately.  People still reference me in those and I wince a little when I hear my name.

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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3590 on: September 16, 2010, 03:42:55 PM »

What's wrong with a little inaccurate propaganda of our own?

Where's the Like button?
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3591 on: September 16, 2010, 08:23:20 PM »

Really, though, Dale, anything that happens with y'all is drama to me,

I wish you wouldn't include me in the "y'all".  Aside from milking the occasional muffin crisis for humorous effect, I find the drama tedious.  I often walk away when I see the megaphones come out.  I've even taken a fairly Swiss approach to the political vs. apolitical debates lately.  People still reference me in those and I wince a little when I hear my name.


But, you are included in it (the soap opera, I mean).  You're the gay guy who's everybody's friend (or, at least frenemy) and, as you point out, is never at the epicenter of the drama.  You're a Tier 1 character with your own storyline, but you also have a major role in adding depth to the other characters in their interactions with you.

I don't think the story would be the same without you.  I think it would be much more two-dimensional.
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3592 on: September 16, 2010, 09:35:20 PM »

I don't think the story would be the same without you.  I think it would be much more two-dimensional.
Hear, hear. Dale adds flava

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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3593 on: September 16, 2010, 10:30:33 PM »

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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3594 on: September 17, 2010, 12:36:01 AM »

Listening to last night's show after I got off was amazing... Ian has serious cognitive dissonance going on.

Dude, sometimes your team loses. It happens. It doesn't mean they are actually better in some deep way. It means they lost.

Ian be doing spin, meng.

Major spin. Andrew got dead last!
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3595 on: September 17, 2010, 10:48:37 AM »

when others vote for fascism and you choose not to, you win.
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3596 on: September 17, 2010, 11:42:54 AM »

when others vote for fascism and you choose not to, you win.
getting fascism implemented is a win for you?

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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3597 on: September 17, 2010, 11:45:08 AM »

when others vote for fascism and you choose not to, you win.
getting fascism implemented is a win for you?



If winning is that easy then its one of those  "everybody gets a trophy" kind of contests. Even  in those contests, everyone still knows who the real winners are.
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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3598 on: September 17, 2010, 03:05:29 PM »

If winning is that easy then its one of those  "everybody gets a trophy" kind of contests. Even  in those contests, everyone still knows who the real winners are.
Not sure what you're talking about. Winning is a lot of hard work. Not as hard as time in the slammer, but still work.

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Re: Drama in the Free State
« Reply #3599 on: September 17, 2010, 11:57:12 PM »

If winning were that easy then it is like one of those  "everybody gets a trophy" kind of contests. Even in those contests, everyone still knows who the real winners are.
Not sure what you're talking about. Winning is a lot of hard work. Not as hard as time in the slammer, but still work.

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