maybe you should have used that one on shibb 
France is a cruel mistress. She ignore my entreaties, yet eats all of the chocolates that I send to her. What would Miss Manners think?
And more importantly, what would Brian Boitano do?

I’m not ignoring you. I just have a hard time getting any Dipping in with a Tuesday deadline. I spend my whole workweek in front of a bunch of computers, so when the weekend rolls around the last thing I want to do is get online again.
My preferred threat is:
“Be nice to me or I’ll dunk you in a vat of molten cheese!”
FTR, I think Brian Boitano would be ice skating in Moscow.
YMMV, HANDA.
But what if I like molten cheese? You didn’t think of that, did you? 
Yes, we’re very fondue you, too. Let’s see fondue is from that area of France/Switzerland (Haute Savoy?) that is more or less in your Marseilles province. Maybe you can also threaten to throw them on the raclette?
<homer>
mmmmmm fondue…
</homer>
Umm. Wasn’t there a deadline at noon today?
I am eagerly awaiting the results in the West. And there’s still a lot of opportunities for Ally Changes in the east, too.
Waiting on one set of orders. The adjudication will be out as soon as possible.
I’m guessing that Sultan Garius screwed everything up when he cut the Russian communication lines.
C’mon. Spice up the end of the day for me, give me something to do here. Get that last set in, folks!
yeah, but i gave the Tsar one of my best carrier pigeons as an apology.
Sorry, garius. There was a slight mishap. See, my troops enjoy duck hunting, and their eyesight isn’t that good.
You might want to apologize in person. :-p
Not a problem old friend.
Although i WILL cut off the thumbs of those responsible. Tht should prevent any future shooting mishaps.
I guess this is what we get for having a GM who works such strange hours. Sometimes it works in your favor. Others your bird gets lead up his butt.
Ok, it’s now about 24 hours past deadline. Someone wake Omni up. How can I get any work done when I’m expecting to see adjudication any minute now?
Honestly. I expected to come into the office today with something to occupy my time.
WL, as Miss Congeniality, aren’t you permitted to step in whenever Omni is unable to fulfill his duties as GM? Or don’t you have all of the orders?
There’s always 1099. You could do the web site. Or write an evolutionary simulation program so that you can tell me how to win.
You’re Austria over in that one, right Wikkit? What makes you think that I can do better there than I can do for Austria here as myself. You seem to be doing quite fine in that one, IIRC.
Do I need to update the tote board on that one, or have I got my games confused again?