Military History Week

Scott Hardie | July 18, 2005
Ed, are you pleased with how your themed week turned out? Does anybody else have any comments about it? I will (literally) be the first to say that it was too hard for this early in the round, but please blame that on my scheduling choices. The next three weeks in the game will be easy, except for 0600 tomorrow.

(And as always, please be careful about revealing hints about goos that are still current.)

Mike Eberhart | July 18, 2005
I thought that it was good week of goos. As a matter of fact. The Sun Tzu goo that Ed requested, made me go out and buy his book. Definately think that another military week should happen. Maybe next round for sure, if you don't do it again this round.

E. M. | July 18, 2005
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Mike Eberhart | July 18, 2005
Well, I'm going to give it a shot. I found a few pages from the first chapter on the internet, and it looks interesting. We shall see... Maybe I'll get to read it while I'm out in the desert in October.

E. M. | July 19, 2005
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Mike Eberhart | July 19, 2005
No, I'm not going to the sandbox... I'm heading down to Arizona in October to do the border patrol in the desert.

Scott Horowitz | July 19, 2005
What does one do on Border Patrol???? Don't they have INS for that?

Mike Eberhart | July 19, 2005
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I'm going down to join the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp. I'm going to spend a week doing 8 hour shifts watching the border for illegal aliens / terrorists crossing into the country. Then we notify the border patrol so they can come out and aprehend them. Should be pretty exciting.

Jackie Mason | July 19, 2005
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E. M. | July 20, 2005
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Amy Austin | July 20, 2005
Shame on you, Dave (Stoppenhagen), for not guessing Chester Nimitz! I've just been itching to say something to you all week about it... but I didn't want to give it away!!! ;-D

Dave Stoppenhagen | July 20, 2005
Yeah look at my track record for the Goo Game though, sometimes I look other times I don't. Just one of the weeks i didn't look at the goo game

Scott Hardie | July 22, 2005
I didn't make it very far into "The Art of War" either, maybe 50 pages. Frankly, it's just not the kind of book you get much out of by reading a direct translation. If you want to glean the lessons, you might be better off with Cliff's Notes or Wikipedia.

I'll plan for another Military History Week for the future someday, this time with easier goos, and less schizophrenic choices. I asked Ed to diversity his requests with things like Literature and Cinema so that it wouldn't be seven Military goos in a row, but Goldie Hawn just seemed like a huge stretch. The week would have been better off if I'd let Ed pick all actual military personnel instead.

My worst decision was gooing Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan. Once again, I created a goo with 1-2 players in mind instead of the masses: Having seen Ed and Mike request highly difficult goos for the week, I thought I'd try my hand at stumping them back, but what fun was it for the rest of the player body to face three ballbreakers in a row? I really should have put something easy in there instead and let Ed and Mike worry about stumping each other.

Ed, I'm glad you enjoy creating goos. Please request more! :-)

E. M. | July 22, 2005
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