Bring me the head of Diego Garcia...and the Mayor of Addu Atoll too!

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: VSWG

Uh-oh, sounds like another Night of the Long Knives is in the making... Watch out, Cap Mandrake! [X(]

Yeah, he's right! Who's playing the role of the Brown Shirts?

[anarchyintheuk]

The HOA. Mandrake must defeat it to take over the SoCal Reich.

[Mynok]

The NotLK will be followed shortly by the Year of the Litigation.

[CaptDave]

Sounds to me like a good setup for a game of Diplomacy.  Wonder if there would be a way to sell tickets to watch...

[Chickenboy]

What a great game that was! I would so never play that game with anyone here, I'll tell 'ya that much! [:D] It may go a little something like this:

CB: Mynok, you'll move your navy to challenge Dixie's naval units here, right?

Mynok: Yes.

CB: OK. I'll commit to doing the same.

CB: And USS Mike, you'll move your land forces to Steve's capital here, right?

USS Mike: Affirmative.

CB: OK. I'll commit to doing the same.

====Turn 1 resolution===

CB: WTF! Both of you guys moved your armies into my capital and took it!

USS Mike: Sorry, dude-I thought that was our agreement. [:'(]

Mynok: I committed to doing the same. [:'(]

[:D]

[Mynok]

[:D]

I only played it once I think. Goobers made me play Austria.

[Grollub]

Austria can be quite fun. Hard to play good though, and definitely not the country I would like to play as a beginner [:D]

[Mynok]

Oh, they were well aware of what they were doing. [8|]

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: VSWG

Uh-oh, sounds like another Night of the Long Knives is in the making... Watch out, Cap Mandrake! [X(]

Dont listen to him Mandrake. Dont watch out. The outcome will still be the same but at least you can die swiftly and much less tense. [:D]

[stuman]

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Without even a scintilla of conscious effort, a quite robust internal security apparatus has developed in the Mandrake household. Mandrake Jr. and Stalker Girl Jr. have a serious, mutual, ovarian repulsive force field going on. This goes back to when Stalker Gril Jr's. boyfriend erroneously accused Mandrake Jr's. female friend of stealing his Ipod and Mandrake Jr's. friend retaliated by hilariously calling Stalker Girl's boyfriend an "illegal alien" even though she is first generation Persian-American. [:D]

So, naturally, both of them started informing on the other when they tried to sneak over their boyfriends during the day. Meanwhile, the "Mayan" can't stand Stalker Girl Jr's boyfriend either. I think he must have some Aztec blood. So the "Mayan" starts informing on Stalker Girl Jr. and pretty soon, Stalker Girl Jr. is passing information to Haupsturmfurher Stalker Girl about the "Mayan" not working very hard during the day. All along, because I pay the bill, the "Mayan" has been informing on Mandrake Jr.. I think Mandrake Jr. figured this out because she is the one who told me the "Mayan" was watching telenovelas during the day.

Who is informing on me? I am pretty sure the guy with the $10,000 mailbox is informing on me to Sharfurher Braun.

So, anyway, here is the game theory angle. If they could all just keep their mouths shut, maximum benefit would acrue to all, but this requires trust and there is substantial benefit to informing (revenge and a possible lucrative post in the apparatus) so the most desired outcome is inherently unstable.

Here is a simplified line diagram

Holy Sh*t. Sounds complicated.

But nice flowchart. Flowcharts are the beginning of wisdom [:D]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: stuman

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Without even a scintilla of conscious effort, a quite robust internal security apparatus has developed in the Mandrake household. Mandrake Jr. and Stalker Girl Jr. have a serious, mutual, ovarian repulsive force field going on. This goes back to when Stalker Gril Jr's. boyfriend erroneously accused Mandrake Jr's. female friend of stealing his Ipod and Mandrake Jr's. friend retaliated by hilariously calling Stalker Girl's boyfriend an "illegal alien" even though she is first generation Persian-American. [:D]

So, naturally, both of them started informing on the other when they tried to sneak over their boyfriends during the day. Meanwhile, the "Mayan" can't stand Stalker Girl Jr's boyfriend either. I think he must have some Aztec blood. So the "Mayan" starts informing on Stalker Girl Jr. and pretty soon, Stalker Girl Jr. is passing information to Haupsturmfurher Stalker Girl about the "Mayan" not working very hard during the day. All along, because I pay the bill, the "Mayan" has been informing on Mandrake Jr.. I think Mandrake Jr. figured this out because she is the one who told me the "Mayan" was watching telenovelas during the day.

Who is informing on me? I am pretty sure the guy with the $10,000 mailbox is informing on me to Sharfurher Braun.

So, anyway, here is the game theory angle. If they could all just keep their mouths shut, maximum benefit would acrue to all, but this requires trust and there is substantial benefit to informing (revenge and a possible lucrative post in the apparatus) so the most desired outcome is inherently unstable.

Here is a simplified line diagram

Holy Sh*t. Sounds complicated.

But nice flowchart. Flowcharts are the beginning of wisdom [:D]

The end of wisdom? It's gotta be THE THREAD!!! Nobody ever accused that place of containing anything resembling wisdom. [:'(]

[Onime No Kyo]

At least not when youre there. [8|][:D]

[Moondawggie]

ORIGINAL:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Holy Sh*t. Sounds complicated.

But nice flowchart. Flowcharts are the beginning of wisdom [:D]

I dunno. I suspect that the flowchart is in error; even in the Mandrake household I'd bet that OKW and Hauptsturmfuhrer Stalker Girl are one and the same. He's dreaming if he feels she must report through him to reach higher authority!

Which means that Mandrake, caught in the middle (instead of being on top looking down), will most likely end up just like the ham and cheese when a Pannini Sandwich is completed.

Still, we gotta like your take on where you felt you could position yourself in this :domestic dispute." Self-esteem is something we greatly value here in California...

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

ORIGINAL:

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Holy Sh*t. Sounds complicated.

But nice flowchart. Flowcharts are the beginning of wisdom [:D]

I dunno. I suspect that the flowchart is in error; even in the Mandrake household I'd bet that OKW and Hauptsturmfuhrer Stalker Girl are one and the same. He's dreaming if he feels she must report through him to reach higher authority!

Which means that Mandrake, caught in the middle (instead of being on top looking down), will most likely end up just like the ham and cheese when a Pannini Sandwich is completed.

Still, we gotta like your take on where you felt you could position yourself in this :domestic dispute." Self-esteem is something we greatly value here in California...

Mmm....Hauptsturmfuhrer Stalker girl...leather SS breaches...caught in the middle...sandwich...positions...(wipes drool from chin)

My God how I love this thread.

Ummm...Cap'n? Will you be providing us some pictures of these various participants? [;)]

[witpqs]

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

I dunno. I suspect that the flowchart is in error; even in the Mandrake household I'd bet that OKW and Hauptsturmfuhrer Stalker Girl are one and the same. He's dreaming if he feels she must report through him to reach higher authority!

It's an episode of Undercover Boss!

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Moondawggie

ORIGINAL:

Holy Sh*t. Sounds complicated.

But nice flowchart. Flowcharts are the beginning of wisdom [:D]

I dunno. I suspect that the flowchart is in error; even in the Mandrake household I'd bet that OKW and Hauptsturmfuhrer Stalker Girl are one and the same. He's dreaming if he feels she must report through him to reach higher authority!

Which means that Mandrake, caught in the middle (instead of being on top looking down), will most likely end up just like the ham and cheese when a Pannini Sandwich is completed.

Still, we gotta like your take on where you felt you could position yourself in this :domestic dispute." Self-esteem is something we greatly value here in California...

Mmm....Hauptsturmfuhrer Stalker girl...leather SS breaches...caught in the middle...sandwich...positions...(wipes drool from chin)

My God how I love this thread.

Ummm...Cap'n? Will you be providing us some pictures of these various participants? [;)]

Probably he can't post them here... at least not in the positions you are imagining them above! [X(]

[sprior]

We need a turn.

[Onime No Kyo]

Wow! That conversation took a wrong turn in a hurry. [:D]

[Cap Mandrake]

ORIGINAL: sprior

We need a turn.

Precisely. With this lot it is like taking a bunch of 13 yr olds on a guided tour of Gettysburg with Shelby Foote and all they want to know is when they can go to Starbucks to log on to jennajameson.*


*Not sure about the spelling of jennajameson.

[Cap Mandrake]

Sign in today is UTYOHE, which is Tananese for "By Ensign McGoo! They dropped half the spamlets on the Shinto boys!"