word war

reesetee Padded face hole. Jul 28, 2008

bilby A plinth, yes, a plinth. Jul 28, 2008

brookdale_chick Gravenstavel..
passchendaele... Jul 28, 2008

dontcry meow Jul 23, 2008

bilby Ferret romance. Jul 23, 2008

palooka Heaven knows I've tried to discipline these people Brook, but it's been like trying to herd cats. Wordies, as you've discovered, are anarchical. Jul 23, 2008

brookdale_chick Anyone heard 'bout
gravenstavel?? Jul 23, 2008

chained_bear YES, HAVEN'T YOU NOTICED????? Jul 22, 2008

brookdale_chick 0_o
Does everyone just come here to talk about random things???? Jul 22, 2008

reesetee *is hoping no internecine wars break out, wordish or otherwise* Jul 21, 2008

sionnach Oh bilby, you are so droll! Jul 14, 2008

bilby Aww. He is kinda furry. Can't be all bad *huggles sionnach* Jul 14, 2008

sionnach Tes, thanks c_b. I'm all better again now. Merci. Jul 14, 2008

palooka He seems excitable bilby. Isn't that a sign of an Al-Flickr operative?
Talk to you all in the morning. Jul 14, 2008

chained_bear Sionnach, are you okay? Jul 14, 2008

sionnach OK. Let's just nip this in the bud right now. I object strenuously to having my ID being placed in quotes, as if in an attempt to create different classes of Wordie members, even as an obvious joke.

While I understand that palooka is just joking, the fact of the matter is that pseudo-militaristic word "games" don't really float my boat. Something for which I make no particular apology.

I will refrain from further comment, critical or otherwise, on this particular topic. Jul 14, 2008

bilby palooka, sir, sionnach is not a marsupial. I do not do recon on umbillically-fixated, coop-crawling, toilet-brush-tailed canid miscreants. That would be beyond me. Marsupial Recon is not a Haz-Mat equipped unit, sir. Jul 14, 2008

palooka Hmmm, I went through my intelligence files bilby & this billb person seems to be ok. It's just coincidental his name is similar to yours.

I'm starting to wonder about "sionnach" though. He isn't showing a lot of respect for our Wordie First Expeditionary Battalion ("First in Words, First in Word Battles") members.
What does Marsupial Recon have on sionnach?
Jul 14, 2008

sionnach Hmmm. That umbilical envy must be really gnawing, to make someone go to the lengths of creating a fake faux-wordie identity, just for the purpose of "exposing" it. Why not just call him Ern Malley and have him submit "faux-poetry"? It would be the continuation of a glorious tradition.

Ponders setting up a fake deSelby ID, but decides against it, because I have a navel and a life Jul 14, 2008

bilby bilby of Marsupial Recon reporting, sir. I have detected an attempt to infiltrate the ranks with a trojan bilby! An obvious impostor! clam , of all things to say in your only comment on Wordie. A real bilby would never say clam ... life in the desert is eternally clamless, sir. The marsupial mountebank! I therefore deduce he is carrying WMD, an operative of Al-Flickr and a threat to the stability and good order of the Wordieverse as we know it. Jul 14, 2008

palooka Chained_Bear's right about the over-running of Alincarman. I wasn't issuing commands or directing the tactical operations, so it was more of a unplanned guerilla operation than an organized military seige.
In fact I received no commendations or ribbons for Alincarman.

But contrary to sionnach's assertions, it was a fine show of Wordie firepower. Jul 13, 2008

chained_bear Despite the popular nomenclature, there is a set of classifications for armed word wars. While the action at Alincarman was not a pitched battle with clearly defined military forces in opposition, it was definitely a riot. Jul 13, 2008

Prolagus Oh, thou olde whippersnapper! :-)
(whatever it means) Jul 13, 2008

sionnach You can hardly consider the Alincar Initiative your finest hour, folks. I just took a look over there, and it reminds me of nothing so much as the aftermath of the lexical equivalent of a poorly supervised LSD ingestion experiment.

Jul 13, 2008

Prolagus Thank you, jenn. Wordie needs TEN historians. Jul 13, 2008

jennarenn Cool. Pro is the newest Wordie historian. Welcome to the dept. Jul 13, 2008

Prolagus Wait! That one was not a war.
It was a pacific conquest, as "Any word list its open!!!" can be considered an invitation to add anything you want. Jul 13, 2008

bilby The Battle of Alincarman was fought at Any words List Its open!! by a platoon of 10 Wordies. I'm not sure what ordinal number this Word War this was; Word War historians will be debating this for years. Jul 13, 2008

chained_bear Ohh yeah! Was it on his profile or list? Do you have a link? Jul 13, 2008

bilby What about alincarman? Jul 13, 2008

skipvia I nominate Prolagus as official Wordie Historian. Jul 13, 2008

Prolagus (Also known as the Wordie treatment.)

Word War I was fought around March 2008, on mi-vox's profile. Quoting Yarbo the elder, we can define it as a (...) discursive, almost literary (...) bombing that soon moved to mi-vox's list.

Unlike the first one, which can be considered defensive (see also Wordie's Arsenal for Civil Defunse), Word Wars II and III were attackive and merciless (twice, since Mercy didn't participate).

Word War II broke out in June 2008, on an ingenuous Greetings list, whose inexperienced creator forgot to close the list after him.

Just a few days later, a new conflict (Word War III) broke out on poor Waldo's list.

Finally, Word War IV, the only one the Author personally experienced, was fought in July 2008, in response to a Majuscule awesome typo provocation as you can see on Teh battelground. Jul 13, 2008