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Message no. 1
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Munchkins...order now, and recieve this +15 Weapon Focus...
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 00:37:43 -0500
From Der Reverend-end-end,
Der Reverend-end-end (ah doo run, run, a doo run, run)

>Sorry. I hereby claim my rights as a Munchkin-American. Or possibly screw-
>challenged. :-b

I would consequently suggest that you seek your rights as a Hopelessly Deluded
American as well. Would you believe Game-Balance-Challenged? Perhaps
Differing-Interpretation-Empowered?

>'tis a sad day indeed when passing Doctors can thwap Munchkins. And who said
>anything about age? I thought that we had all upgraded to the Cyber-carp.

(I am a carp-er...Roger the Carp-er...I design, build, and sell...)

True...but e'en Cybercarps can get old...although I rather cogitate that the
effects of extensive utilization shall manifest previous to any debilitating
manifestations of old age shall surface.

>And? No worse than the great ghost dance.

Ahhh...but for PLAYER CHARACTERS?

"Excuse me, could you pass over your character sheet?"

"Of course."

[*click* Character sheet bursts into flames...]

"I decided your character sheet should take the drain, so I gave it the Zippo
treatment." [ All Munchkins should be required to use Character Sheets
constructed from flash paper. ]

>proper phrasing of that request would be "Option 2 for 200, Mr. Clark". And
I
>hold that I'm demonstrating absurdity.

"We have a guest today, boys & girls, Dick Clark, from American Bandstand. Can
you say, 'American Bandstand?'"

[American Blandstadft]

"And EXACTLY how do you keep looking so young, Mr. Clark?"

"Well, I keep in touch with America's youth."

"Ahhh...can you say, 'Keeping in touch with America's youth?'"

[Facial Surgery]

>On behalf of those who are not quite so literate, the correct phrase is "the
>best defense is a good offense. And whilst I'm at it, for making fun of
>munchkin-americans, a boot to the head. *B00T*

"Reverend, you fail to grasp the concept of Game Balance, approach that you
might see..."

"Great, finally some answers on my Greater Dragon familiar."

"Observe closely, class: Boot to the head!" *WHOOOSH* *THWACK*

"You are fortunate, Reverend, few novice Munchkins experience quite so much of
Game Balance so soon."


]I am aware of your Screw Compendium for ShadowRun II (and Munchkins across the
^^
>How's that? I think the smell of the carp (since you're using the aged ones,
>probably pickled) has been getting to you. Screw Compendium for SRII, with a
>second edition? And which system change? To SrII from SrII?

To quote Herr Hayden:

That's uh, ah say that's uh *typo*, son.

]Further, the Dark High Lord has also invalidated more than one screw of
]yours...

And has verified others. Be careful with those blanket statements.

Yes, I was poking a hole in YOUR blanket statement. (No, I was in yours!)
Further, why would I blanket a statement already blanketed; it isn't e'en
Winter yet!

[ SAFETY TIP: Keep all blanket statements away from open flames as well as
Liberal Arts Majors ]

>In that case, certain people (who shall remain nameless) would have 4.3's.
>Possibly.

Of course. Although the reason they remain nameless is due to the fact they
possess number in their stead! (YOU are Number 6...)

] "...and so, the Universe is completely devoid of inhabitants, and any people
] you happen to meet merely the products of a deranged imagination...MINE!"

>Gee, and to top it off, the good Doctor didn't even give credit to the source.
>so here it is: --Douglas Adams, Hitchiker's Trilogy

No, it was an appropriation, an acquisition, a deviation, if you will.
Moreover, you do not credit your own quote:

>"They called me the Reverend when I entered the church unstained"


Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.

Doom Technologies & Weapon Systems -- Dark Thought Publications
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
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