Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Usenetball
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 05:16:09 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1992Nov4.210004.17945@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
 
>Well, you tried - I could only be polite enough to return the favor. I was
>purposely limiting the number of innocent bystanders who could be adversely
>affected by the game.

Can anyone lurking in AFU be considered innocent? I think not!  

>: >No nuclear weapons will be allowed as game equipment. 
>: 
>: What about Nuclear ships?  These can be used but any infringement of 
>: local shipping restrictions is instant disqualification.
>
>Ships are not "game playing equipment" - unless owned or rented by the
>player. Purchasing transport on a boat or ship does not qualify it as
>equipment - it remains simply a convenient (or inconvenient) mode of
>transportation.

Very inconvenient in this case as you would have to swim to shore here.
 
>: How many players in each team, and can they be chosen from outside the 
>: playing bands?
>
>Hm, do you want this to be a solitaire game? Maybe start out solitaire
>and permute to teams of size X with 24 hours notice by the person who
>possesses the ball. Players may be freely recruited/drafted/bribed/coerced
>from any part of the world. 

The additional players should make their own way physically to the game area 
within 24 hours of being recruited using any transport method at their 
disposal. Henceforth they must abide by the previously defined
rules regarding travel between playing areas.  
In exceptional circumstances a virtual player will be allowed if they can 
coerce a living substitute, within the playing area, to play their move for 
them.  If in the course of play the substitute is wounded or killed the 
virtual player must have the same wound or death inflicted on them by a 
qualified medical person within 24 hours.  There should be at least one 
Terry present as a witness except in the case where the virtual player is 
themselves a Terry. In this case a further Terry must be present.

>How many teams are allowed at one time?

This should, I think, be a three sided game.  The maximum number of players
on any side should be restricted to two fifty.

We should therefore have a third playing area roughly between the two current
playing areas. There is a suitable Island at 0 degrees lattitude, 158 degrees
longitude West.  Whilst within this playing area the players must investigate
the effects of coriolis on plug holes and the movement and design of 
carousels.

We have yet to define the method of scoring or indeed the size and shape 
of the goal/pocket/basket/sewer_full_of_alligators to be used.

I nominate Hugh Grierson as my centre forward as a bona fide olympic 
athlete is bound to lend credence to my team.

He shall also spin to see who should start play.

Derek "I call Tails" Tearne


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