# Players needed for Diplomacy, Aberration varient. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2003, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370 "2003-11-15T03:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ppg\_shg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@ppg\_shg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ppg_shg)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/101 "2003-11-19T16:37:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soup\_du\_jour \* > \*\*Okay, okay. Cut out the namby-pamby foolishingness around. > > This is war! > > Also, the email that I sent out seems to have bounced, so I’ll place it here as well. **Jonmarzie** and I are twin brothers. We have not been married in Canada. :wally: \*\* Whoa. Twins can get married in Canada? Is that how the Sedins are related? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/102 "2003-11-19T19:11:18Z")
Has anyone heard from Johnny Bravo? I know he’s very busy with school this week, but he’s the only person I haven’t received a “I’m aware I’m in the game and it’s going on” email, and I want to make sure that he’s not suprised on Monday when I ask for orders. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/103 "2003-11-20T00:18:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Soup\_du\_jour \* > **Jonmarzie** and I are twin brothers. We have not been married in Canada. So, who is older, and by how much? Are there any childhood arguments **Shibb** could bring up at an opportune time to undo an alliance? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jonmarzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jonmarzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonmarzie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/104 "2003-11-20T02:15:47Z")
Well, **Wikkit** , I’m older by 12 minutes. There are really no childhood arguments **Shibb** could bring up. \ …except for the time he kicked me off the couch and made me go get stitches. After they wash out the wound is a good time to learn I’m allergic to iodine.:smack: \ ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/105 "2003-11-20T02:40:44Z")
The variant rules say that the Suez canal separates the provinces of Sinai and Cairo. They also say that both of those provinces operates exactly as does Kiel, Constantinople or Denmark in the regular game. So does Red touch Del, or do you have to move through one of the bordering provinces? Or is the situation equivalent to having two inland waterways, one through Sinai and one through Cairo? I like that they got rid of coasts. 1099 would have run so much more smoothly if not for coasts. \ Thanks. You’re practically ancient in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/106 "2003-11-20T03:11:20Z")
Now we just need to learn what childhood traumas **Soup** has repressed. A møøse once bit my sister. Møøse bites can be very nasty, mind you… ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/107 "2003-11-20T04:42:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wikkit \* > \*\*The variant rules say that the Suez canal separates the provinces of Sinai and Cairo. They also say that both of those provinces operates exactly as does Kiel, Constantinople or Denmark in the regular game. > > So does Red touch Del, or do you have to move through one of the bordering provinces? Or is the situation equivalent to having two inland waterways, one through Sinai and one through Cairo? > > \*\* You have to move through Cairo or Sinai. Red to Del takes two turns. ( red to Cai (or Sin) is one turn and Cai (or Sin) to Del is the next turn) ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/108 "2003-11-20T16:56:52Z")
I’ve kicked you once. I can do it again! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jonmarzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jonmarzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonmarzie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/109 "2003-11-20T17:05:40Z")
Yeah, but it’s not as recent as the time you reopened stitches trying to throw a softball like you were a cricket bowler. (We’re in the USA.) That worked well… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/110 "2003-11-20T17:08:31Z")
The proper method of welcoming the conquering fuhrer when he enters your territory(s) is to line the streets in cheering throngs. We realize that your enthusiasm may not be genuine, having just been subjugated, but we ask that you make an attempt to seem truly happy to be citizens of the German Empire. We cannot be held responsible for the consequences if the fuhrer is not convinced. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/111 "2003-11-20T17:18:53Z")
Careful! He’s wearing wedgies! ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/112 "2003-11-20T20:00:15Z")
Uh, **Mastema**. The WWI German leader was the Kaiser, not the Fuhrer. Getting a little ahead of ourselves, aren’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/113 "2003-11-20T20:53:32Z")
I prefer the style of leadership of der fuhrer. Sort of like Steelerphan wanting to rule as Lennin. ---
**Author:** ![Jonmarzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jonmarzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonmarzie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/114 "2003-11-20T21:47:52Z")
Perhaps under **Mastema** , it wouldn’t have taken them so long. ---
**Author:** ![Mastema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mastema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mastema)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/115 "2003-11-20T22:08:18Z")
Thanks to my patented “Concentration Camp-in-a-Bag” sets, you too can commit genocide in just three easy steps. ---
**Author:** ![VladAntlerkov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c68b51/32.png) [@VladAntlerkov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VladAntlerkov)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/116 "2003-11-21T00:44:54Z")
His Not Lordship, Not Emperor **VladAntlerkov** of the Not Holy Not Roman Not Empire, checking in. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/117 "2003-11-21T03:16:50Z")
Hey! Where’s my bribes? I go away for 36 hours and you forget me? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/118 "2003-11-21T03:19:16Z")
Speaking of bribes, why have no vacumn cleaner salesmen showed up at my door, no offers to buy bridges in brooklyn, or the Kiehl canal? New at this. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/119 "2003-11-21T03:29:19Z")
Works both ways, rookie. You want them to come to you? Then go to them. Important tip: If you initiate the conversation you control the dialog. That’s lesson #1. You may thank me. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370/120 "2003-11-21T04:00:43Z")
Damn it, are you telling me that the flowers and puppies and chocolates didn’t arrive, **Ginger**? Incompetent delivery men, I’ll have their head for this. If I sent you a delivery man’s head, would that help? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/players-needed-for-diplomacy-aberration-varient/213370.md?page=7)