"I am gone forever." Exit, pursued by Commodore Amazing.
"Commodore Amazing prevents a bad marriage."
"More Commodore Amazing, with less art."
I don't know exactly what this is supposed to accomplish, but there it is. I assume Commodore Amazing has his reasons. For what it's worth, he's grouped us alphabetically by pseudonym, and everyone has been given the same lines both days. Funnily enough, mikeburnfire goofed.
Tamuz, you declared that you disliked the speed of the two largest bandwagons and added your nomination to one of them in the same post? I can hardly credit that no one else has had the same wtfbbq reaction I did. (If you're wondering, it sounds kind of like a sputter.)
Lee, if you just felt that the speed of the bandwagon indicated scum, why not simply say so? It is not the fact that you changed your opinion -- I've changed one or two of my own -- but the fact that you convoluted your words that worries me. You presented the presence of scum on the mikeburnfire wagon as the outcome of your two outlined cases, when those cases themselves were only refinements of the notion that there were scum on the mikeburnfire wagon. That's circular reasoning.
Mikeburnfire, you prefaced your audition with the observation, "With so many intelligent people piling on DG, it's somewhat hard for me not to as well. Yet, I won't for now."
One, such blatant fawning creeps me the hell out.
Two, why didn't you? Because you nominated me -- only fair; turnabout is fair play and I am nominating you -- and VitaminR on request... and Commodore Amazing, for "I'm not happy about doing things that may have undesired consequences," said even as you did it. Or tried to. This was the ironclad nomination that overrode your instincts on DrippingGoofball? I for one am not buying any of it.
By the way, yes, it was an accurate prediction. The question become
how did you know
-- not that there was a risk of an innocent lynch, or even a probability, but that we were
doomed
to.
Others have wondered before me on VitaminR's failure to nominate himself, either yesterday or today, if he wanted nominations so desperately.
My primary reason for nominating SpamWise hinges on my reasoning for voting mikeburnfire yesterday: namely,
if
mike is scum and the scum were steering the nominations, the people who made three
successful
nominations and yet somehow missed mike (and were in turn never nominated by him) are likelier to be scum. Yes, I know how large a word "if" can be. Still, SpamWise is the only one of those.
Suppose the following assumptions are made (and yes, everything hinges on those assumptions; disprove one and the entire edifice collapses): One. Mikeburnfire is scum. Two. Yesterday, scum did not nominate other scum. This is a somewhat weaker set of assumptions than I as working from yesterday -- though still, I freely concede, quite strong. (I rejected the assumption that those nominated were all town, and that all nominees had at least one scum, as I felt they were much too far-reaching.) At any rate, it follows that those people who voted mike
and
ended on the lynch block are the likeliest places to look for scum; thus especially DrippingGoofball's, Fritzler's, Kelly Chen's, Turbovolver's and Tamuz's bandwagons need perusal.
--Thok voted for two of these: DrippingGoofball and Kelly Chen.
--mathcam likewise voted for two: Fritzler and Turbovolver.
--Adele and petroleumjelly voted for one each, but also voted Commodore Amazing, who missed the logjam by one nomination.
--Voting for one: SpamWise (who had two other nominees in the traffic); me; Cogito; VitaminR; Fiasco.
--Adele, by these assumptions, cannot be scum with any of petroleumjelly, SpamWise, Fiasco or mathcam
--VitaminR cannot be scum with either mathcam or Thok. Since those are the top two suspects by this way of looking at it, he looks clearer... which in turn makes Cogito and petroleumjelly look worse (for nominating him earlier).
So my revised list of suspects,
should mikeburnfire be proven scum
, is as follows: Thok; mathcam; petroleumjelly; Adele; SpamWise; Cogito. As such I will
unnominate: SpamWise
.
I think it's pretty clear that TSS's awesomeness did alter the roles each of us recieved, and thus he's obviously pro-town. -- Save The Dragons