On Monday 21 January 2008 19:28:47 Ian Kelly wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 7:23 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2008 7:21 PM, Josiah Worcester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > game. (n) A pursuit or activity with rules performed either alone or > > > with others, for the purpose of entertainment. > > > > > > There's more than one dictionary. > > > > Then a poker tournament is not a game, as the purpose there is to > > redistribute wealth. Consider also Robert Jordan's "game of houses", > > wherein noble families vie for power. > > And then there are those who would contend that the purpose of > democracy is to keep the bourgeois entertained (or at least subdued), > so as not to interfere with the oligarchy wielding the actual power. > > -root
I can at least see that CFJ 1879 *really* needed to be called. ;)
