# A Battle Of Wits: Rock, Paper, Scissors Roshambo 2: The Resurrection.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 23, 2002, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200 "2002-08-23T09:23:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/141 "2002-09-25T01:50:59Z")
Counters with a bag of marbles.
Attacks with My bi-polar, schizofrenic, (name any mental disease you want) girlfriend standing behind me reading what I just wrote. oops
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/142 "2002-09-25T05:00:56Z")
Counters with a well deserved slap to the back of the head and no nookie for a month.
Attacks with [The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins](http://www.tolkiencollector.com/bbaggins.mov) as sung by Leonard Nimoy (Quicktime movie).
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### Author:  [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/143 "2002-09-25T05:17:08Z")
Acck…Ive seen/heard that…I DO NOT have the nerve to counter it…
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### Author:  [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/144 "2002-09-29T03:16:45Z")
Oh, and as a side note. I still havent decided if this is good or not, but she’s now my EX-Girlfriend.
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### Author:  [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/145 "2002-09-29T03:32:35Z")
Counters with the rare ear drum removal surgery.
Attacks with the alphabet backwards. ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/146 "2002-09-29T04:00:26Z")
Counters with a cryptogram.
Attacks with a 1 lb. bag of M&M’s.
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### Author:  [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/147 "2002-10-12T08:11:29Z")
Counters with 3 Huge, Carnivorous, CGI-Generated M&M ‘puppets’. (from those annoying commercials)
Attacks with ‘THAT WHICH CANNOT BE COUNTERED’.
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/148 "2002-10-12T12:48:27Z")
Counters with ‘THAT WHICH CANNOT BE ATTACKED’.
Attacks with 70,000 hostile and fickle Cleveland Browns fans.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/149 "2002-10-13T08:29:20Z")
Counters with 70,000 really great hotdogs laced with tranquilizers.
Attacks with Medieval Humeric Theory.
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### Author:  [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/150 "2002-10-14T04:29:47Z")
OK, I bring up a contestion:
Can ‘THAT WHICH CANNOT BE COUNTERED’ be countered with ‘THAT WHICH CANNOT BE ATTACKED’?
Im a Coder so it seems to me like this brings up an infinite loop of logic.
To me it seems like this is similar to the philosophical question of: “what happens when an unstopple force comes against an unpassable barrior”
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### Author:  [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/151 "2002-10-14T14:32:13Z")
You’re saying that you can’t create an infinte loop in code? Watch this:
10 PRINT “Yes you can.”
20 GOTO 10
Actually, “THAT WHICH CANNOT BE COUNTERED” should have been attacked with “THAT WHICH CAN ATTACK EVERYTHING/ANYTHING”. As it is, yours and **ShibbOleth** ’s counter and attack are still locked in mortal combat, probably forever. They could, however, create a hole in time-space whereupon our universe will be unceremoniously sucked in. Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/152 "2002-10-14T17:32:32Z")
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Sure.
\<\< it seems to me like this brings up an infinite loop of logic\>\>.
Which would prevent the attack from getting through.
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### Author:  [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2002, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/153 "2002-10-17T05:13:31Z")
LOL This reminds me of “the good old days” of playing Magic: The Gathering. Anyone else who is hardcore into that game will know what I mean. (I got into it around Beta Series)
Horseflesh:
I never said it was immpossible to make an infinite loop in code, I just said it was like it (TRUST me, in my bumbling in the various “Schools of Coding” Ive created MANY I Loops.
Ruling:
Lets call this situation a “Closed, Time-Like Loop” and say neither attack or counter happened. Sounds good?
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### Author:  [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-battle-of-wits-rock-paper-scissors-roshambo-2-the-resurrection/125200/154 "2002-10-26T00:27:57Z")
Which means that someone needs to counter Medieval Humeric Theory - (don’t knock it - it says that sugar is the perfect food)
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