# Diplomacy - Sophomore **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693 "2003-06-27T03:31:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/41 "2003-07-11T15:15:28Z")
Like anyone is really going to miss Austria’s first two moves! Sheesh, one little problem with cut & paste and everyone’s a critic So, more importantly, everyone okay with the proposed next deadline? Anyone jetting off to the Hamptons for the weekend and can’t make it? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/42 "2003-07-11T17:49:22Z")
Keep in mind, Shibb, that one of the critics is speaking for Boscone – I mean, is playing Austria. All I’m trying to do is bring peace, harmony, and Imperial domination to these poor benighted Balkan republics. I’m good with a Monday deadline. I’m just going to go jump in a lake this weekend. (Take a good look at my Location.) BTW, happy 5000 posts, Shibb! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/43 "2003-07-11T18:02:28Z")
I never understood the allure of quarry diving, although some springs are cool. Where is Dutch Springs, anyway? BTW, I’m a certified diver since about -60,000 posts ago. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/44 "2003-07-11T23:36:47Z")
Will there be a page for this game? It makes everything easier, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/45 "2003-07-11T23:54:51Z")
I was just gonna say the same thing as Wikkit. Where’s our page! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/46 "2003-07-12T10:05:04Z")
Yeah! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/47 "2003-07-13T01:06:23Z")
Ok, ok. Here’s a link for [this game](http://fff.fathom.org/pages/ShibbOleth/sophomore.html). The top part is done, I can’t add the GIFs until I get home to my place (visiting the folks right now). Maybe it works, maybe not. Let me know. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/48 "2003-07-14T13:38:39Z")
Just a helpful reminder, orders due at noon today. I’m actually logged on right now, so if the pots right I may adjudicate in a timely manner. Also, don’t forget, today is Bastille Day, so be careful not to leave your valuables out around the French… ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/49 "2003-07-14T14:33:54Z")
I’m feeling generous so you all get Bastille Day off to go free prisoners, eat pate or knit sweaters while your countrymen decapitate the local aristocracy. Your call on that one. Orders are now due noon, July 16. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/50 "2003-07-14T14:55:12Z")
Dutch Springs is about an hour north of Philadelphia. They have a lot of sunken vehicles to dive around and look at. Like any good northern quarry, Dutch Springs is **cold** at depth. 7mm wetsuits are a must, and below about 50 feet, I strongly encourage wearing DRY suits. (We dove to 65 feet on Saturday, and got real cold real fast.) ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/51 "2003-07-14T15:48:14Z")
Just so you know, “Game Press” on your game page gives a 404. I want my Game Press, dammit! I mean, how else can we do some public chatting and trash-talking? If only there were a place for people to post their messages…some sort of “board” perhaps…I’m just blue-skying here, people… ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/52 "2003-07-14T18:08:44Z")
I guess the rest of the world isn’t too interested in the hum-drum politics of a bunch of small, unimportant countries. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/53 "2003-07-16T18:07:08Z")
_sits uncomfortably, polishing his bayonet while shooting furtive glances at **Shibb** _ ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/54 "2003-07-16T18:48:35Z")
When adjucation? Og demand adjucation! ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/55 "2003-07-16T19:43:32Z")
Hey, at least you didn’t get up on 4 hours of sleep just to submit orders and see the adjudication… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/56 "2003-07-16T19:49:22Z")
You know I keep hitting the Send/Receive button just knowing that it’ll be that one time when they arrive. I could wait for it to automactically query every 10 minutes, but damn it, I don’t have the patience for that. Here we go again…crap, nothing. One more time…nope, still nothing… ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/57 "2003-07-16T19:50:58Z")
I’ve got a bunch of Hungarian Magyar infantry getting antsy over here. They’re sobering up, and they ain’t staying around for the ambiance… ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/58 "2003-07-16T21:48:32Z")
He’d better be laid up in bed recovering from his big birthday bash where he had to do a shot for every year he is old. Thats the only excuse I’ll tolerate. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/59 "2003-07-16T23:44:27Z")
OK, where does Shibb live? Who is closest to that location? Please go over to Shibb’s house and beat him with a jagged hunk of rusted metal. Thank you. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693/60 "2003-07-17T06:28:11Z")
Shibb spent the morning driving from his lovely beach vacation condo on the Gulf of Mexico to bucolic Lake Wales, Florida, so that his wife could visit her father and his kids could see their “quiet” grandfather. Then, since we were in the vicinity, we decided to pop round to Disney World. It’s freakin’ hot in Kissimmee in July, lemme tell you kiddos. Especially when you’re carrying around a portable, living, breathing BTU generator. Now, just past 2 am we’re back on the Gulf, washed up and not a creature is stirring. Assuming all orders are in & correct, I’ll adjudicate as quickly as possible. Sorry 'bout the delay. Sometimes vacation is vacation. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diplomacy-sophomore/184693.md?page=4)