declining to STAY ON your TARGET!

mepbmlist
#1

From: Laurence G. Tilley [mailto:laurence@lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 10:11 AM
To: mepbmlist@egroups.com
Subject: [mepbmlist] declining to STAY ON your TARGET!

>STAY ON TARGET!

thats what we DS are saying to each other in G34. Seems the free have some
fight left after all. My Harad plans to cross the river into SG area have
long gone :frowning:

>
>STAY ON TOPIC

Especially if Topic is the free agent who has kidnapped all our DS
characters. I'm down 2, FK down 1. I think Rhu is down a few. Not sure who
else is paying maintenance for people in prison. But we are starting to get
'a little upset'.

>
>Keep to the topic
>
>Keep to the list topic please,

actually if people keep the subject line correct, then I'm fine with
whatever people want to talk about. I might feel sorry for the person who
logs on every couple of days to see so many emails. But provided the title
is correct, they can delete without wasting time reading stuff they don't
want to read.

>
>MEPBM
>
>-Opheim
>opheim@online.no

MEPBM as I understand it is a leisure pursuit. This isn't an academic
or business newsgroup with a proscribed constitution. If we
can't move
from a Tolkienesque High Fantasy game to a discussion of mediaeval
history and legend, then we can't go very far at all can we?
And if we
can't have a little joking and leg pulling then we might as
well pack it
in and take up stamp collecting.

Heh, there is good money in stamp collection (or so I tell my dad when he
thinks about calling it quits after he sees the prices that the dealer are
prepared to pay, compared to what they are charging).

And I think people need to remember that most of the people on this list are
UK based. A story about arthur, wales, and similar stuff would be relevant
to most of the people who are on it. As an aussie I'm nonfussed with arthur,
I know where wales is since I'm played brittania (my romans alway stomp on
them - great game is you have the correct number of player, terrible game if
you don't). And I still don't understand the difference between british, and
english.

But I can understand that people are interested in arthur, so I'm fine with
people talking about it, and having a little bit of leg-pulling. Just make
sure that the subject line is correct (and they are so far).

thanks
m

路路路

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opheim <opheim@online.no> wrote

Regards,
Laurence G. Tilley http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk/
Talk to me live when I'm online with Yahoo Messenger
http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ My ID=LGTilley

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#2

Stay on target - bits Star Warsy isn't it as well? I don't mind -
especially when things go quiet and the mouthy lot amongst us all fancy a
bit of a chat.

And I think people need to remember that most of the people on this list

are

UK based. A story about arthur, wales, and similar stuff would be relevant
to most of the people who are on it. As an aussie I'm nonfussed with

arthur,

I know where wales is since I'm played brittania (my romans alway stomp on
them - great game is you have the correct number of player, terrible game

if

you don't).

Yep see you're a fan as well. The gaming group here won't let me take it out
of the cellophane as I always play the Welsh. (Well no-one else likes to!
:slight_smile: ) You have to submit to the Romans quickly, and get oyur population
holed up until the romans either go North (to gain points) and try to get
them to allow you to breed so that you can hit the other counties (well
that's my tactics).

And I still don't understand the difference between british, and
english.

Ah easy one here - 'sure you are pulling my leg on this one. I agree that
to a certain extent they have become homoganised over time but there is
still quite a difference between the four home Countries. Language for one
thing, culture, national sport, outlook on life, wealth that sort of thing.

路路路
#3

A story about arthur, wales, and similar stuff would be relevant
to most of the people who are on it. As an aussie I'm nonfussed with arthur,

You should be. The Arthurian legends are one of the foundation stones
of English and French literature and therefore of the cultural heritage
of those two languages. One of which you are using - if only a colonial
variant of it :wink:

And I still don't understand the difference between british, and
english.

Britannia is the name given to these islands by the Romans. The mostly
Celtic people living here hence became termed Britons, though they were
diverse tribes. The Romans trotted off after 400 years in the first few
years of the 5th century telling the now Romanised Britons (Christian)
to defend themselves, and by latter half of that century Saxons, Jutes
and Angles (Pagan from Germany & Denmark areas) were successfully
invading. It is thought that the Romano-British (That is Christian
Celts with knowledge of Latin) fighting to defend these shores, once had
a war leader who was the original model - quite a few "historical
novels" have been written on this premise.

Lots of the Britons would have been conquered, and become slaves or
serfs under the Angles Saxons and Jutes, but the self governing ones
were pushed back into Cornwall, Wales, Cumbria and Scotland (all the
unpleasant hilly bits to the North and West. The Angles Saxons and
Jutes, mix up, and begin to call themselves Angle-ish = English.

Cornwall is subjugated by the 9th century, Wales by the 13th, and
Scotland eventually comes under the same crown in 1603. By a century
later, "British" is being used again to describe all the peoples of the
mainland of the British Isles, though mostly by foreigners and
politicians. Not long after we decided that character is more important
than race, so we selected all the unsavoury types and started shipping
them off to Terra Australis :wink:

The above is of course a grossly simplified explanation, but should
serve the purpose.

Regards,
Laurence G. Tilley http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk/
Talk to me live when I'm online with Yahoo Messenger
http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/ My ID=LGTilley

路路路

Michael Peters <MPeters@nskomatsu.com.au> wrote

#4

Harlequin Games wrote:

And I still don't understand the difference between british, and
english.

Easy-peasy.

Britain: England and Wales
Great Britain: Britain and Scotland
United Kingdom: Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Or, in sports:

If a Welshman wins an athletic event: "Didn't the British guy do well?"
If a Welshman loses said event: "Tough break for the Welsh lad there." :slight_smile:

Gavin

#5