Hadrian said 03/08, 12:03 AM
Every young adult barely over voting age's first game, Elephant-Donkeyland is a colorful way for proto-adults to experience the joy of political discussion play.
The game teaches color recognition and matching (limited to Red and Blue) while reinforcing the lesson of taking turns at insulting one another and being a gratuitous whiner or a **** hippy loser.
You will love to see the smile on a young person's face as they travel through the political minefield of Elephant-Donkeyland.
Includes 4 Gingerbread Pawns of Bush, Game-waterboard, Stacked Deck, and Instructions in English, Illegal Immigrant and Aborted Fetus-speak.
FLIPSIDE said 03/08, 05:33 PM
This is absolutely untrue. Elephant-Donkey is NOT the next Zathura. The game pieces here are quite varied. Imagine if you will, Zeus' own Argos Playset, where small clay figures of Phil Sandifer can be crushed in one's mighty hand, and the Kraken can be loosed upon the stony beaches of Ariana Huffington's blog. One admits that the pot-bellied and furry-toothed troglogytes of progressivism and libertarianism do run rampant here, with their Kuwato-like physiques and ****-mounted keyboards and McDonald's milkshake holder beerhats. But next to Barnstars and eGold, what greater status can there be than to climb to the top of the debate win charts of bipartisan debate and then hopefully be nominated state's representative of Narnia?
Hadrian said 03/10, 11:50 PM
Flipside is correct. Elephant-Donkey is NOT the next Zathura. It is not a space themed board game. Rather, it is much like Candyland. He seems to have missed that point in his rush to riff on his chosen targets of attack. If Flippy can reduce his recreational use of nitrous oxide, we might be offered a less euphoric and hallucinatory argument here. Flipside aim seems not to be William F. Buckley of E-D but rather William S. Burroughs. With that in mind then, here is my thoughtful question to Mr Mugwump: http://www.netherworld.com/~mgabrys/william/media/think2.wav
FLIPSIDE said 03/12, 02:36 PM
How dare you limit your accusation of me to the category of William!? And not even good Williams at that! Why not William Tell? Why not William McWhinney? Are you a homophobe? Why not Kaiser Wilhelm? Are you racist? You must also be a sexist! I have it on good information that you write the number six everywhere. But addressing the issue at hand: If Elephant-Donkey is not the next Zathura, than it must clearly be either the current Zathura, or the previous Zathura. It can clearly not be the current Zathura, as that would be the one marketed by Donald Trump. It can also not be the previous Zathura, because that would have to be the Zeroth Zathura which occurred before the first one. You clearly misapprehend Thermodynamics, and are grandstanding as an Intelligent Designer. Though I myself said E-D is not the Next Zathura, you by agreeing have agreed to an absurdity which shows that your argument has no merit except what is derives from mine. Since my argument is deliberate trash, and yours is merely derivative trash, I have the claim to originality, while you, sir, wallow in filth!
Hadrian said 03/12, 04:41 PM
With your obsession about Zathura (a space-themed game), perhaps you aspire instead to be a different William: Shatner. Perhaps a Kirk/Spock slash fanfiction site would be more suitable than a debate site for you. (See http://www.thyla.com/).
But more importantly, what I want to know is, "why do you hate Christmas so"? Because you did not get your very own copy of the stupid new board game, Elephant-Donkeyland?
The Flipster loves Zathura, huh? I prefer Zarathustra myself. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy places Zarathustra (AKA Zoroaster) first in a chronology of philosophers.
An ancient Greek philosopher noted that you can not step into the same river twice. I maintain that we can't even step into the same river once. Elephant-Donkey is like that river. To quote the Reverend Al Green: "I don't know why I love E-D like I do, after all the changes it put me through. There's sixteen debates burning on my wall, All telling me who's the fool of them all..."
FLIPSIDE said 03/24, 09:45 AM
I own the board game "Expulsion: Jewish Life in Spain from the Golden Age to 1492." Once you own a board game like that, you don't need to buy any more board games. I even got it at a discount at a moving sale. It is sheer prejudice to assert that I need to satisfy a Christmas and not a Hanukkah fealty requirement. I find this anti-semitism unacceptable and am writing as much in a letter to Abraham Foxman, so that he too may write you a letter stating that your statements are unacceptable. Since you are nothing but a vile, vicious, vituperative, venomous, Velma-loving anti-semite, there can be no further debate with you. What is in order here is a big wall of silence, and that you not be given a venue to spew your hateful bile, canards, and blood libels! Elephant-Donkey hosts debate, but it does not have to provide a soapbox for Evangelical racists. Nor shall I. Humpf!
Haha, I love this. I'd give you both a vote if I could; since I cannot, I will refrain from voting.
Consequentialist Libertarian | 03/09/08
Report Offensive CommentSpeaking of the debate win chart: there should be a 10-match minimum to be ranked.
Consequentialist Libertarian | 03/09/08
Report Offensive CommentOnce again proving the greatest talents go (relatively) undiscovered. Bravo!
jesterjabs | 03/09/08
Report Offensive CommentI agree with CL, and his old man face. I laughed out loud, but can't vote for both of you.
Kristoff88 | 03/10/08
Report Offensive CommentThis debate is strickingly odd. However, I find it one of the most humorous things I have read on this site thus far. I will not vote because I can't vote for both of you. But keep up the creativity!
shrek | 03/10/08
Report Offensive CommentEven if you'd like to vote for each of us, consider this: a vote for me will encourage more such humorous resolves...
Hadrian | 03/11/08
Report Offensive Commentshrek: thanks for the vote. How about either responding with another argument or conceding the debate that "The military is placing homophobia ahead of national security." http://www.elephant-donkey.com/elephantdonkey/show/4161
Hadrian | 03/13/08
Report Offensive CommentNo response to my last argument in more than a week. I'll take this as a default "win". Thanks Flipside.
Hadrian | 03/19/08
Report Offensive CommentWell, I tracked down FLIPSIDE, found hanging around the local SLIP and SLIDE emporium, along with his ever present post-pubescent prosti-tots, uber-Thelma and proto-Louise. When he escaped from their frantic lip-lock, the look of both pleasure and pain in his eyes told me he was in no shape to return to this debate. However, a liberal dose of purloined nitrous oxide and dressing the girls as twin Lt. Uhuru's (taking advantage of his addiction to euphoria and obsession with space themed pseudo-Lesbiania) I finally managed get him back to E-D for his final argument. He didn't notice my lead in the votes. Let's see now what the remaining votes tell us about the site: are you "Mad" or "Glad" about having topics such as this for you profound purview and pithy commentary. Indeed, do you have enough pith to peon this debate? Time for the fans to decide on the winner.
Hadrian | 03/24/08
Report Offensive CommentPlease keep it clean. Bad words will get filtered, and offensive comments will be removed.
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