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Started by Ed Anger, March 31, 2009, 06:40:16 PM

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Malthus

#15
April 01, 2009, 11:14:20 AM
Quote from: Warspite on April 01, 2009, 06:31:20 AM
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I got several replies saying "good joke", "haha", etc. But then at around 11am, one of my colleagues bursts into my office:

"Do you have a box set yet?"

Thinking he surely knows it was a joke, I played along.

"No, sorry, they are not here from the publisher yet, but you can order."

"Damn, I have General Richards downstairs, I told him about this and he wants to see a copy."

:frusty:

:lol:

You'd better get busy writing the rule-book.
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Syt

#17
April 01, 2009, 11:39:36 AM
Quote from: Warspite on April 01, 2009, 06:31:20 AM
I sent this email around work this morning:

Combat Team Baghdad: Counter-Insurgency Wargaming

I'd buy this. :)
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The Brain

#18
April 01, 2009, 11:49:43 AM
According to one paper Sweden's parliament legalized gay marriage.  :lmfao:
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saskganesh

#19
April 01, 2009, 12:08:44 PM
Quote from: Syt on April 01, 2009, 11:39:36 AM
Quote from: Warspite on April 01, 2009, 06:31:20 AM
I sent this email around work this morning:

Combat Team Baghdad: Counter-Insurgency Wargaming

I'd buy this. :)
I'd like to play it. does it have interrogation rules?
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Warspite

#20
April 01, 2009, 12:09:48 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 01, 2009, 11:14:20 AM

:lol:

You'd better get busy writing the rule-book.

Well I already made a fake portion of map and fake counters :D

The problem is that when I sent out the email, I wished the product was real because it looked so cool.
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

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Malthus

#21
April 01, 2009, 12:40:39 PM
Quote from: Warspite on April 01, 2009, 12:09:48 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 01, 2009, 11:14:20 AM

:lol:

You'd better get busy writing the rule-book.

Well I already made a fake portion of map and fake counters :D

The problem is that when I sent out the email, I wished the product was real because it looked so cool.

Indeed, I'd buy it. It is a cool concept and of course timely.

Hell, why not actually do it? There is evidently a market for it.  :D
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derspiess

#22
April 01, 2009, 12:41:56 PM
Quote from: Richard Hakluyt on April 01, 2009, 02:22:20 AM
This story is a transparent fabrication :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7975851.stm

It informs us that the world's leaders are converging on London to meet with Gordon Brown and have tea with the Queen. Nobody is going to fall for that one  :huh:


Is Obama gonna give the Queen some DVDs that won't play in the UK?  I know it's been done already, but jokes that clever tend to be reusable :)
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Caliga

#23
April 01, 2009, 12:47:36 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 01, 2009, 12:40:39 PMIndeed, I'd buy it. It is a cool concept and of course timely.

Hell, why not actually do it? There is evidently a market for it.  :D

I'm actually surprised there aren't more Iraq War consims out yet.
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fhdz

#24
April 01, 2009, 12:57:12 PM
April Fools' Day is retarded.  Having said that, I'm glad I'm no longer working in IT where my friend Liz used to make my life a living hell every April 1st. :D
and the horse you rode in on

Syt

#25
April 01, 2009, 01:06:19 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 01, 2009, 12:40:39 PMIt is a cool concept and of course timely.

Hell, why not actually do it? There is evidently a market for it.  :D

:yes:

We have enough people on this board to give actual advice on the realities of this conflict and who could help playtest this.
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FunkMonk

#26
April 01, 2009, 04:52:42 PM
Quote from: Warspite on April 01, 2009, 06:31:20 AM
"Damn, I have General Richards downstairs, I told him about this and he wants to see a copy."

:frusty:

:lol: Awesome.
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grumbler

#27
April 01, 2009, 05:11:12 PM
Today was the day people took tests to qualify for AP history courses.  Last night they had a reading package about the Morales administration in Brazil, and they were all wound up with anxiety about how they were going to need to write about Morales.   I made up the real test and then created a second one, identical, except the question:
"In what ways is the Evo Morales administration in Brazil like, and unlike, the reign of Clovis I, King of the Franks."
This was the version I handed out first.

The look on their face was priceless, as none of them, of course, had ever heard of Clovis I.  The most popular response after I said "April Fools" and handed out the real test was something about how I deserved death for that trick.  :lol:
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#28
April 01, 2009, 05:18:46 PM
Apparently none of them knew that Evo Morales has never been in charge of anything in Brazil, either?
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Valmy

#29
April 01, 2009, 05:21:14 PM
Quote from: grumbler on April 01, 2009, 05:11:12 PM
Today was the day people took tests to qualify for AP history courses.  Last night they had a reading package about the Morales administration in Brazil, and they were all wound up with anxiety about how they were going to need to write about Morales.   I made up the real test and then created a second one, identical, except the question:
"In what ways is the Evo Morales administration in Brazil like, and unlike, the reign of Clovis I, King of the Franks."
This was the version I handed out first.

The look on their face was priceless, as none of them, of course, had ever heard of Clovis I.  The most popular response after I said "April Fools" and handed out the real test was something about how I deserved death for that trick.  :lol:

AP History people never having heard of Clovis I?  They fail nerdom.  Anyway I presume you mean Bolivia and not Brazil.
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