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05-15-2006, 05:07 PM | #441 |
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-- Chrysophylax
++ TEDDY... ...as a strategic move. Chrysophylax isn't going anywhere today, and I want to keep Giles around for the big showdown. Besides, teddy bears. Hmmpph.
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05-15-2006, 11:08 PM | #442 |
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End of Day the Thirty-Third
Teddy: 5 votes
Farmer Giles: 3 votes The Parson: 1 vote Nell: 1 vote Gram: 1 vote And so, Teddy was beaten, not softly, with a big stick. (Thus fell the last Mr. Bliss character) Day the Thirty-Fourth finds 9 contestants remaining: Those Who Belong to Faerie Goldberry Alf the Prentice, King of Faerie Smith of Wootton Major Queen of Faerie Chrysophylax Dives Those Who Don't Ægidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo (Farmer Giles of Ham) Gram, his dog The Parson Nell
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05-16-2006, 12:12 AM | #443 |
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There's one way to reinvigorate this show. Take away the central edifice and everything else collapses. I say we double-evict Giles and Smith.
++SMITH THE SACRED COW
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05-16-2006, 12:58 AM | #444 |
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LMP appears to have vanished (blame that fiendish juggernaut of a Werewolf game...) and so we can kill off Smith without fear of him dropping out. This close to the end, he likely won't be back in time.
Nice character though he is, I've never wanted to see a Smith win- just to irk SPM, and that's gotten boring. Therefore, I beseech thee all to join and the noble Anguirel (well, sometimes he's noble...) in making this day dull and boring with predictable votes like so: ++ Smith Clearly, a pseudonym.
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05-16-2006, 01:10 AM | #445 |
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Whatever happened to my vote for Gram yesterday? Not that it would have made a difference, but I feel like Bilbo at the end of the Battle of Five Armies, invisible - and I'm not wearing a magic ring! I shall have to place my vote later today to be seen...
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05-16-2006, 01:23 AM | #446 | |
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If you want your vote counted today, Esty... vote Smith. You'll have a whole legion of people making sure your vote is counted.
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05-16-2006, 01:29 AM | #447 |
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Thanks for the suggestion, but there's one problem - I want Smith to stay! I am working on a study of the autobiographical allegories in 'Smith' and 'Leaf', and the title character of the first is the last representation of Tolkien left in this game. I cannot prevent him from being voted out by others, but I shall most certainly not participate in that action! Nell, Gram, even the Parson - all possibilities...
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05-16-2006, 02:42 AM | #448 |
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In a heroic display of dishonour, I'm going to go and do exactly what I've been conplaining about. And I'm going to do it with bullish vigour, and then I'll probably go and have some cake and eat it. And you can't stop me.
Because I don't just want the big characters left, but judging by Estelyn Telcontar's post, I have a glimmer of hope that today she may give up fighting the juggernaut that has been shaping up against the ++ QUEEN OF FAERIE I may not still have my aloof dignity, but she never had any. bombariffic
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Ooh! Ooh! An opportunity ...
+ + SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR Reasons scattered throughout this thread. Quote:
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05-16-2006, 03:54 AM | #450 |
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Smith. And just when I was going to vote for Chrysophylax again.
++ GRAM A bad dog who gets his master into trouble. If absolutely necessary, I will vote for the Queen of Faerie to save Smith. But only if absolutely necessary.
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05-16-2006, 06:26 AM | #451 |
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As Stephie said (inaccurately) to profesor
Bobo while babysitting for Mrs. Pearl Forester in an MST 3000 episode: "Bad dog! Bad dog!" + + Gram
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++ Smith of Wootton Major
Evidently he's actually a minotaur in disguise... Quote:
(I mean, seriously, were-minotaurs...can you imagine?) (I have a feeling my mod will be unhappy with me...)
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05-16-2006, 08:31 AM | #453 |
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+ + SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR
I hear the summons! Anybody with the name of Smith is far too common and we can loose a million of those and still not be in lack!
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05-16-2006, 09:09 AM | #454 |
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Oh, I'm here all right. You can bet I'm here. Not a chance of me letting this pass by.
SMITH LOVERS YOU NIGHT! .... or something like that... ++ GRAM He's just a troublemaking dawg. Alcarillo, I'm calling in that favor from a bunch of days ago. Please save Smith!!! |
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Giles voters: My offer still stands. If you aid in a successful eviction of Smith today, you will have my vote for Giles tomorrow.
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05-16-2006, 09:21 AM | #456 |
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This game-much though it might seem to the contrary-is not contrived solely to fill LMP with happiness. His nemesis has been overlong in coming. You should have seen this, Poet of Little Men-no man can elude fate. You've enjoyed this lark and coasted on popular support at the expense of many of us, but you couldn't have expected this to last to the end...
Come, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of Smiths...
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05-16-2006, 09:26 AM | #457 |
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You think Smith did nothing? He was the primary carrier of the doom of Wootton. If not for him, beauty would have died in Wootton. Cakes would have been all airy frost and no nourishment. Gates, horse shoes, and hearth utensils would have been ugly and functional alone.
You cravens! You've admitted that you're against happiness! As good as orcs, I tell you! See if there is not a rumbling of support to save Smith from the likes of ye. Down with the orcish rebels! Those who would see the noble thrown down and the criminal raised up, should be thrown down themselves! |
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I'm all for elitists, but this elite has made the dire error of not including me.
Say what you will, LMP, you've presumed on your non-existent Right to Happiness long enough!
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05-16-2006, 10:06 AM | #460 |
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Dreamers useless? Shocking falsehood!
Who has the insight to see the world for what it could be rather than how it is, and thereby gives us visions for the future? The dreamers. Who brings beauty into the world through art, music, and literature? The dreamers again! Why, without the Smiths, there would be no Beethoven, Mozart, Monet, or (gasp) LOTR. We wouldn't even be here now to have this argument if there were no Smiths around. Save Smith!
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05-16-2006, 10:08 AM | #461 |
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Surely you can all see that smith was innocent, corrupted by the evil queen of faerie?
Hey dol, derry dol, Kill the Queen. bombariffic
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This vote quoted below is a slanderous attack on the beliefs of vegetarians everywhere. I can barely countenance the copying of it save that I must make you aware of which vote it is so as to avoid such sullying of the reputation of the Downs for fairness, tolerance, respect, civility, community, courtesy and etc etc--which rant of course does not exclude the Lord Etceteron, as he certainly must have had a high level of tolerance even as he practiced it little.
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But at least this day has brought more excitement and controversy in one day than there has been throughout the rest of the show to date. The viewing figures are soaring in response. Which cannot be a bad thing, whichever way the voting may go. And the Smithsonians have at last been compelled to put up a defence of their sacred .. er ... cabbage, rather than simply assuming his continued survival. Happily, and as I could have predicted, the exercise has established that there is no credible case for his continued survival, let alone his victory. 'Tis sentimentality alone which grips the thread by which his survival hangs ...
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++SMITH
Boring name, boring guy. Bet the Queen was bored by him, too.
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Be warned, foul miscreants, you will not be rid of me so easily. Beware the revenge I shall wreak upon your plans should you succeed in your malfeasance!
For example: Anybody who's playing Dueling Wizards who votes against Smith of Wootton Major will NOT get a good death write-up. Worse yet, I'll have the EW & GW pick YOU as their choice to make mincemeat of! FEEEEEEL the WRATH of Elempiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!! |
05-16-2006, 01:31 PM | #469 |
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Who needs animals and players who can only bark and try to get others into trouble?!
++Gram
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On that note, a couple more Smith voters would be much appreciated to alleviate fears of Gram getting it instead. Quote:
I'm not playing. Anguirel's not playing. SPM's been killed already. The real lynchpins of the anti-Smith campaign are invulnerable in that respect. Lalaith, Spawn, Kuru, Morm... you're in possible danger, I suppose. Stick to your guns! Don't let this domineering politician use his influence elsewhere here! It's a classic situation of a bigwig in one field trying to pressure people in another. Stick to your guns!
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Come on, folks! Don't vote out Smith. Gram is a much better candidate for elimination today. So vote for Gram. And, yes, I'm sentimental. Unapologetically so. So there.
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But why vote for Gram? Can anyone give a good reason, other than the fact that he's a dog? Dog's are useful in survival situations. They can hunt food, keep guard, provide good company and all sorts. In marked contrast to Smith, who has conspicuously failed to do even a single useful thing while on the Island. Always off searching for Faerie. Never contributing to the tasks or the camp chores. Tsk! And Gram may misbehave occasionally. But that shows character. Something in which Smith is singularly lacking. Quote:
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