# SDMB Diplomacy - Here we go again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2002, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833 "2002-03-12T13:15:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**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:** [April 17, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/221 "2002-04-17T14:22:42Z")
Unless I’m petitioned for a delay they are. ---
**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:** [April 17, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/222 "2002-04-17T23:32:27Z")
And I have been. Orders for 983 are now due Friday. Then orders for Winter are due Saturday morning. Then it’s back to the normal Tues/Thurs/Fri thing next week. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/223 "2002-04-18T00:12:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **Jonathan Chance** \* > Then it’s back to the normal Tues/Thurs/Fri thing next week. I’ll believe that when I see it. 😉 ---
**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:** [April 18, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/224 "2002-04-18T00:16:44Z")
Smarty-Pants! Be happy I’m not one of those ‘Turn A Week’ GMs! ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/225 "2002-04-18T03:00:40Z")
Please trust me when I say that I am happy about that. ---
**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:** [April 18, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/226 "2002-04-18T12:09:17Z")
And just to keep things moving… [Fall 1904 in Dip 936 has been adjudicated…](http://www.wooleysark.com/dip) Things are getting complicated there. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/227 "2002-04-18T12:39:38Z")
Hadn’t peeked at 936 until just this morning. That is one funky game! ---
**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:** [April 18, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/228 "2002-04-18T12:50:47Z")
It is indeed. You tell ME what’s going on there. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/229 "2002-04-18T13:21:47Z")
It’s really a big game of Musical Chairs. England’s in France, France is in Italy, Germany’s in Austria (and a bunch of other places - Germany’s playing a kick-ass game), and somehow Russia goofed and wound up reoccupying half of his own country. And Turkey’s just sitting in the corner looking disconsolate, because the big kids won’t let him play. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Clarissa\_xx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Clarissa\_xx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clarissa_xx)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/230 "2002-04-18T14:01:08Z")
Why is it that I can coordinate 11 or so units on a map three or so times bigger with province names really hard to read with no errors, but screw up 936??? I HAVE noticed my hair is getting blonder since Spring has started… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/231 "2002-04-18T14:37:11Z")
:innocent eyes: But isn’t Dip supposed to be played like musical chairs? I think the Dip 936 game is going exactly as those folks planned it to. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/232 "2002-04-18T15:03:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > **And Turkey’s just sitting in the corner looking disconsolate, because the big kids won’t let him play.** > (smilie removed at the request of the Secret SDMB clique) You bet I’m disconsolate. The Russkies rioted and burned it down. We lost a lot of good olives in that incident. [Homer Simpson] "Stupid Russians. Always hurrying everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/233 "2002-04-18T19:28:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*and somehow Russia goofed and wound up reoccupying half of his own country. \*\* I’d like to point out that I was attacked north and south right off bat… ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/234 "2002-04-18T20:30:08Z")
And west, too, if I recall correctly. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/235 "2002-04-18T20:55:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > I’d like to point out that I was attacked north and south right off bat… Exactly! YOu got all the help you could have asked for to get somewhere else, and yet you’re right back in the same place!! So WTF are you doing back in Russia? Man, you _suck_ at Musical Chairs!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/236 "2002-04-18T21:45:39Z")
Heck, the way he was dogpiled in the beginning of the game, I’m impressed that he still _has_ a chair. More of a 3-legged step stool really, but you _can_ sit on it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/237 "2002-04-19T13:20:15Z")
Yawn. ---
**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:** [April 19, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/238 "2002-04-19T15:04:06Z")
Is that an editorial comment RT? Due to computer problems I’ve been forced to delay 983 again. Orders Monday. Complaints? Go ahead. On the other hand… ---
**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:** [April 19, 2002, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/239 "2002-04-19T15:05:53Z")
[Winter 1904 in Dip 936 has been adjudicated.](http://www.wooleysark.com/dip) ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/240 "2002-04-19T16:32:32Z")
Does anyone else have these visions of **'Fly** sitting outside **JC’s** at 7:01 a.m. EST each morning turns are due, tapping his foot manically and chain smoking, eyes darting back and forth at anyone who passes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833.md?page=13)