I would have done exactly the same- waiting in the window protecting my junk in a last ditch effort to guard everything that is holy and pure in this world... No kidding.

Plus the rash of staying up and being creative when going about the whole thing... YEAH! - would've done the same...

You didn't have to, like, pay for their junk did you?

Well, I'm a bad example in these situations....

Good Morning, <Lord of the Frogs>!

Heh I don't think you told the "other" Lord of the Frogs that you were in fact the <one true> Lord of the Frogs.

You DID, however, counsel him to "get a life," which was the occasion for him to drop a seemingly endless series of ham-handed, lugubrious, humorless, pedantic, supercilious, and generally addle-headed posts here at <Frogspawn>.

You played it correctly: You got rid of the would be usurper to the <Frog Throne> by "engaging" him in a debate on the epistemology of "human intentions."

Distracted, the verbose <Would be King of the Frogs> ran out of steam and eventually left the Kingdom.

Now if you had given in to "normal" human emotion and simply called him a pratt, he'd still be posting here (500 words plus per post- with statistics) on a daily basis.

Notice that at my gaffe I've adopted the "ignore the false Frog King and hope he will go away" strategy.

And without using my IGNORE button either. I"m using <Deffi's> strategy.

Heh-- That was one of the most humorous episodes ever in <Frogspawn history>...

I believe they made a film of it with Michael Caine and "Sean" Connery"

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE FROG

HAHAHAHA

heh

OK I can't help it.

You didn't vote <1..e6> surely?

"Battle of the Brains" Consultation Correspondence chess game.

<omniscient one>?

Are you promoting yourself from <Lord of the Frogs> to just <Lord>?

We subjects hope that you do not meet the fate of the <Lizard King> (Jim Morrison).

Long live <The One True Lord of the Frogs>!!

Interstingly, Golding's first effort was called "Lord of the Frogs."

This is the actual first draft:

"A plane full of school-frogs crashed on a tropical island, forcing them to compete in a Darwinian nightmare of..

Oh wait a second Frogs are already IN nature. Never mind then."

It was only later that Golding hit on the "other plan":

LORD OF THE FLIES.

Thrill as etc. etc.

You DID, however, counsel him to "get a life">

<Jess> Investigating into this dark affair, I think you got things a bit confused there - it was <Dom>, in fact, who was advised to "get a life" by one of the other Lord's minions:

<Domdaniel: <Frogbert> I regard paranoia as a good thing, in chess and elsewhere. Takk.>

<Fincher: Cut the crap domdaniel, you are acting like a clown in here...>

<Domdaniel: <Fincher> -- "cut the crap", you say. Tell you what: you produce the excreta, I'll be happy to slice and dice it.>

<Fincher: <Domdaniel> get a life!!>

Rather ironic, isn't it - especially considering the advice was delivered on the Carlsen page, of all places...

DOH!

Not only did I get it worng, I got it REVERSED@!

I should have known better than to imagine the <One True King> would resort to <ad hominem> attacks.

That's MY job! Or, at least it is since <Nietszche> died.

Heh I still like him though. He called <Kant> a "Catastrophic Spider".

I wonder what the actual German expression was?

Anyways,

Apologies to our own <Lord of the Frogs>.

Long may he leap from pad to pad.

A paranoid would say there is no true history because They keep rewriting it.

An optimist might perversely hope that, in some as yet scientifically inaccessible way, the universe contains a record of its one true past: in the vibration of molecules, or encoded in ancient light.

"Somewhere in the waste of the world, a key that will return us to our Earth and our freedom."

But they can't *all* be right ...

The best we can hope for is <One True Frog>.

In <Ratner's Star> we get the idea that "true meaning" will be revealed.

But it isn't.

Stupid maths.

On the bright side, Stephen J. Hawking recently admitted that "information can't be lost" in the universe, contrary to his theory of the last 20 years.

LORD OF THE FROGS (Book one)-

The Fellowship of the Frog.

Here are three of the best from Canada:

"See the lonely frog, out on the weekend,

Tryin' to make it pay...."

and I say

Joy to the Frogs
on each and every board
Joy to the Dutch and 1.Nf3
Joy to you and me

It told me afterwards that I was an IM ... but I tend to perform unusually well on such tests, with no relation to actual ability. My IQ is allegedly 200 and I used to pass exams without opening the textbooks. I suspect witchcraft.

Anyway, it was a Spanish. I hated having to play d5, just like I hate it in the King's Indian. But I guessed correctly that Fischer would play it, then take over the a-file, infiltrate and execute. Not unlike his first rematch game with Spassky, at least until Boris countersacked a piece for play.

I still don't think I'd ever want to play a Spanish. One reason is that 1.e4 allows a huge range of replies, even if people seem afraid of many of them these days. And another is that I'm happy with my Reti/English/KIA complexes ...

Hey, Bill.

Ullage and stillicide.

<THE FROG is up in arms!>!!

From Yahoo news:

<A song represents the soul of a country," said Marc Favre d'Echallens, who heads a group dedicated to defending French against the growing use of English.

"It appears logical that a song representing France be a French song sung in French," he said, denouncing cultural "uniformity" and the "hegemony" of the English language in the world today.

It's the latest battle in a war France has waged for decades to defend French against the encroachment — some call it the invasion — of the English language.>

I thought the Frog invaded English in 1066?