# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/161 "2002-04-11T18:44:05Z")
Sorry to hear that, **Sua**. Best wishes for your mother and your nephew. ---
**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 11, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/162 "2002-04-11T20:06:05Z")
Tough breaks for all the Spontes. Hope all ends up well. Ignore my last letter, too. ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/163 "2002-04-11T20:29:08Z")
Thanks for the expressions of sympathy. I’m probably overreacting a bit - my dad, who’s a doctor, is calmer than I am. I think it’s more the combination of events that’s wearing at my reserves. Sua ---
**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 11, 2002, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/164 "2002-04-11T21:09:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by White Lightning > Geesh, Italy is such a funny little country. What a weird position… you guys should have warned me. > Oh yeah, and also, YOU GUYS ARE SO SNEAKY! I can hardly keep up. This is a lot funnier if you imagine it in an accent. Perhaps that Bronson Pinchot character, Belkie. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/165 "2002-04-12T08:15:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SuaSponte \* > \*\*Thanks for the expressions of sympathy. I’m probably overreacting a bit - my dad, who’s a doctor, is calmer than I am. I think it’s more the combination of events that’s wearing at my reserves. > > Sua \*\* Vince, I completely understand. About 10 years ago, my mom was VERY sick. My dad, also a doctor, would talk with the other docs in med-speak ( kinda like lawyer-speak, somthing you know all about: A language incomprehensable to most folks for no good reason, used to make the practitioners feel important. 😛 ), and all I could do was just smile vacantly and nod. ( Come to think of it, that’s how I usually react to English ) There was only one time when he and I were alone in a corrodor that he sagged and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said ’ We may lose her, David". I took him into an empty room and we comforted each other as best we could. Happily, my mom recovered and is in perfect health, vigorously debating me about all kinds of stuff today. Except for that one moment, dad was as calm as a clam. It’s part and parcel of being a doc. Go be there for your family, and take all my prayers and best wishes with you. Dave P.S. I take it our quintuple stab of Italy, France, Russia, Germany and Austria is off, then? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/166 "2002-04-12T10:01:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Weirddave \* > P.S. I take it our quintuple stab of Italy, France, Russia, Germany and Austria is off, then? 😉 It’d have to be - Austria’s now beyond the reach of all stabs. You and Sua will have to settle for a quadruple. 😃 ---
**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 12, 2002, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/167 "2002-04-12T12:59:59Z")
If you’ll replace Russia with England there, I’m up for a quadruple ---
**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 12, 2002, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/168 "2002-04-12T13:16:41Z")
Yeah, I’ll bet you are, you perv. I always knew you lawyers were like that… [Winter 1902 in Dip 983 has been adjudicated.](http://www.wooleysark.com/dip) Enjoy! ---
**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 12, 2002, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/169 "2002-04-12T13:28:34Z")
Oooooh! Call me a lawyer will you? I’ll sue I tell ya’. Lawyers don’t sue people, people sue people. . . with lawyers. ---
**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 12, 2002, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/170 "2002-04-12T17:08:55Z")
Welcome the new ruler of Turkey in Dip 936… Abe Babe. Start hiding the good silver now. Orders for Dip 936 are kicked back to next Wednesday. Those who have already submitted them may change them at their leisure. ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/171 "2002-04-12T19:19:32Z")
**Sua Sponte** , I’m so sorry to hear that you’re having such a stressful time of it. I’m sending positive, healing vibes your and your family’s way. Hang in there hon’. I’d love to take your place, but I’ve still got a lot of stuff I’ve got to do this month. [sigh] There just aren’t enough hours in the day. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/172 "2002-04-12T19:30:50Z")
**celestina** , _please_ feel free to take his place. It won’t take any of your time. Really. I’ll be happy to give you as much advice as you need to, erm, _simplify_ the game for you as quickly as possible. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/173 "2002-04-12T20:03:40Z")
**RTFirefly** , [giggle] how you _do_ flatter me. 😃 Are you sure y’all want me back? Well, I could play England and get it taken over in a turn or two. Hmm. If that’s what y’all want, then I’ll give it the old college try, but I warn you that I’ve got a _lot_ of stuff on my plate right now. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/174 "2002-04-13T01:27:08Z")
I’d personally be delighted, **celestina** , but you have to remember that that’s my fleet poised to thrust its way up England’s back door. But I’ll be gentle and use lots of Astroglide. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/175 "2002-04-13T01:35:25Z")
One day, just maybe, I’ll be involved in a game that does not involve threats of sodomy or a vigorous gruppenfick. We are smart people, we should pioneer some _new_ penetration metaphors. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/176 "2002-04-13T01:42:36Z")
Yeah, well, there’s only a limited number of basic possibilities. Until they invent new ways of sexual penetration, we’re pretty much stuck when it comes to metaphors of such. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2002, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/177 "2002-04-13T01:55:13Z")
How about: "relinquish Trieste or be prepared for an enthusiastic squicking” ? I’m sure I can think up something better given time. ---
**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 14, 2002, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/178 "2002-04-14T10:53:52Z")
Celestina has offered to take up the difficult mantle of England in 983. Let’s everyone wish her good luck. ---
**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 14, 2002, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/179 "2002-04-14T11:54:18Z")
When are orders due in Dip 936? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-diplomacy-here-we-go-again/97833/180 "2002-04-14T12:51:20Z")
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