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#1 User is offline   Rain 

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Posted 2009-March-26, 16:01

In celebration of April 15th, forum ranks have been updated!

Now taking ideas for next ranking system. Something fun or whimsical, yet clearly showing a train of progression will be nice.

I may do dog breed by size next if there's no better idea :angry:
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Posted 2009-March-26, 17:41

I vote for the dog breed idea :angry:!
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Posted 2009-March-26, 21:11

I vote for "rank" ranks....viz

musty
punky
malodorous
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sulfurous
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rotten
decaying
putrid
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Posted 2009-March-26, 21:13

Or perhaps "rank" ranks....viz

private
corporal
sergeant
lieutenant
etc
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Posted 2009-March-27, 06:57

Food chain rank

Bridge plays rank (where sure trick is the first and some kind of squeeze is the last)

Contract rank (from 1♣ to 7NTxx)

Distribution rank (from 4333 to 13000)

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Posted 2009-March-27, 07:09

Dog breeds are fine with me. I believe dog breeds are often known by their English names in non-English-speaking countries so it should be intelligible.
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Posted 2009-March-27, 07:13

Dog breeds?

Why?

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Posted 2009-March-27, 08:29

ACBL masterpoint ranks! Everyone knows and loves them....don't they??? <_<
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Posted 2009-March-27, 08:42

OK but please base them on rare elements, then. I wanna be a niobium or plutonium life master.
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Posted 2009-March-27, 08:48

helene_t, on Mar 27 2009, 09:42 AM, said:

OK but please base them on rare elements, then. I wanna be a niobium or plutonium life master.

I wanna be an einsteinium life master! Or better yet, an Ununhexium Life Master...
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Posted 2009-March-27, 08:52

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Posted 2009-March-27, 09:07

Amazing what people bother to put on wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ficti...tomic_particles

I am missing two:
- "moron" which was a sub-atomic particle invented by winstonm to account for some of the nuclear reactions going on in the U.S. polical system
- "postludium" which was a highly explosive element, distilled by some evil criminal in a Donald Duck story
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Posted 2009-March-27, 09:55

How about Cheneyum....the dick element?
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Posted 2009-March-27, 11:31

I dislike the dogs idea and stuff that is typical to many forums such as military ranks. And the tax idea is decent enough except some of those taxes only exist in the US (or at least in nations that are a federation of states).

It should either be funny, or bridge related, preferably both. I quite like the card play techniques suggestion. Maybe: Cash a trick, finesse, backwards finesse, end-play, unblock, squeeze, etc.
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Posted 2009-March-27, 14:22

I Object!

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Posted 2009-March-28, 11:59

mtvesuvius, on Mar 27 2009, 03:48 PM, said:

helene_t, on Mar 27 2009, 09:42 AM, said:

OK but please base them on rare elements, then. I wanna be a niobium or plutonium life master.

I wanna be an einsteinium life master! Or better yet, an Ununhexium Life Master...

Einsteinium is cool :
http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/links/sci_...leportation.pdf

Look at page 40 and laugh
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Posted 2009-March-28, 12:37

helene_t, on Mar 28 2009, 05:59 PM, said:

mtvesuvius, on Mar 27 2009, 03:48 PM, said:

helene_t, on Mar 27 2009, 09:42 AM, said:

OK but please base them on rare elements, then. I wanna be a niobium or plutonium life master.

I wanna be an einsteinium life master! Or better yet, an Ununhexium Life Master...

Einsteinium is cool :
http://www.quantum.univie.ac.at/links/sci_...leportation.pdf

Look at page 40 and laugh

Very funny indeed! ;)
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Posted 2009-March-28, 17:07

Next time colors please.
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Posted 2009-March-29, 10:43

I like the idea regarding bridge techniques mentioned by brianshark.
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Posted 2009-March-29, 10:54

Me 2.

They could be ordered by difficulty. Something like:

Cashing winners
Ruffing losers
Finesse
Pseudo squeeze
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Devil's coup
Smother play
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