Entmoot Election 2010 - Announce your candidacy here! Campaign Managers For Sale - Page 15

hectorberlioz · 04-12-2010, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonathan

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I admit to knowing the true identity of X Perry Mint. But alas, honour prevents me from naming the person. Still, there are other Mooters besides me who possess this knowledge, Sane for instance. And Tessar

This is what you call mixing a little truth into the stew to make the lie stronger. By admitting that he knows the identity of X Perry Mint, Jonathan is trying to boggle our minds away from the fact that they are the ones who set him free and set him up as a candidate for president!

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I think that the typographical fairy has introduced a slight error in the Gazette's article. Sure, I was imprisoned. However not in prison for seven years until I was bailed out - but in Hector's basement for three weeks until I heroically escaped!

Technically this is true

. Entmoot's best prison facility is located beneath the President's chamber. The idea is that if the prisoners ever escape, they'll walk right back into the hands of the authorities. However, the prison is hardly what I'd consider a basement

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hectorberlioz · 04-12-2010, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonathan

GAAAHH!!!

... oh, sorry. I saw Hector and a wave of post-traumatic stress hit me

You're rotten

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Coffeehouse · 04-12-2010, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Entmoot's best prison facility is located beneath the President's chamber. The idea is that if the prisoners ever escape, they'll walk right back into the hands of the authorities. However, the prison is hardly what I'd consider a basement

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In Norway we call the media the "4th state power", which would translate into branches of government in English and the three traditional branches: executive, legislative and judicial. The fourth being the media.

The case of Hector provides us with the horrific example of what happens when there is a mix of the Executive branch (see Hector's VP-candidacy), the Media branch (see Hector's (oh yeah you bet that's Hector's

) Teacup Table Gazette) and the Judicial branch (see Hector's attempt to issue criminal verdicts on fellow Mooters).
The only thing stopping this disturbing mix of powers (and insanely disturbing authorianian streak of Hector's

) is the, you guessed it, Legislative branch: of which the citizens of Entmoot make up, which is why, in his brilliance, Montesquieu advocated that the Legislative branch have disproportionate oversight over the other branches.

Hector is in other words the embodiment of the saying: "Power leads to corruption, absolute power leads to absolute corruption"

The Acally-Hector ticket is dangerous. Very, very dangerous. Let the Legislative branch of Entmoot, i.e. its citizens, keep the dangers of totalitarianism and its crazy schizo paranoia in check!

***Tessar*** · 04-12-2010, 08:17 PM

Has it not occurred to anyone yet that X Perry Mint has posted during times when I've been away from the moot, and times when I'm sleeping?

Midge · 04-12-2010, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Midge, I AM NOT currently in office!!! The current presidents are The Sasquatch of Fangorn and Nurvingiel.

I know that. What has happened is obvious.

You have some weird reason for wanting Jonathan out of your way. You trump up charges against him for chocolate-stealing something-or-other and have him carted away to your personal prison, which everyone here at the Moot will admit is the most scariest prison online or IRL. But a hiccup occurred! Jonathan escaped! By that time, your charges were being looked into and found wanting, so you can't actually get him arrested again because he's not guilty of anything except being a victim. It's your dearth of political power that's allowing the innocent to be free.

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Originally Posted by Jonathan

GAAAHH!!!

... oh, sorry. I saw Hector and a wave of post-traumatic stress hit me

PROOF! Hector is indeed the cause of Jonathan's incarceration!

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Originally Posted by Tessar

Has it not occurred to anyone yet that X Perry Mint has posted during times when I've been away from the moot, and times when I'm sleeping?

Who's to say that you're not X Perry Mint's mild-mannered alter-ego and you don't even know it when you become him? You may have FELT like you were asleep, but were you really?

Midge/Varna 2010! Amazing powers of logic at work for YOU and the 'Moot!

Acalewia · 04-13-2010, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Coffeehouse

The Acally-Hector ticket is dangerous. Very, very dangerous. Let the Legislative branch of Entmoot, i.e. its citizens, keep the dangers of totalitarianism and its crazy schizo paranoia in check!

I resent that comment! Are we startng with the mud slinging already and slandering each others names and motives?

***Jonathan*** · 04-13-2010, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Acalewia

I resent that comment! Are we startng with the mud slinging already and slandering each others names and motives?

Well, have you seen any of the headlines of the Teacup Table Gazette?

I suppose a media culture like this board has, breeds mud slinging and slandering amonst us readers...

***Earniel*** · 04-13-2010, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

How should I know?

Do I run and control what the Teacup Table Gazette says? No! of course not! She's just a teen girl from Rohan as far as I can tell.

Sez you. But I detect a certain signature in connection with the Gazette's publications that somehow leads right back to you.

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Originally Posted by Jonathan

I also laugh at the idea of me being a notorious chocolate smuggler. That's Eärniel-territory right there!

Objection! It's just rude to accuse me of illegal activities. I'll have you know that all chocolate trade in the Entmoot is legal, sound and I am the majority shareholder as well as the main client in everyone of them!

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

And this is yet another reason to vote Acalewia/Hectorberlioz this coming May. Not only will we build better prisons and hire more guards, but we will make sure that no criminal is ever released again!

And we also promise to get to the bottom of this anti-Tolkien candidate scandal!

Gah, what is it with you 'merican candidates and locking people up in dungeons without due process?!

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Originally Posted by Tessar

Has it not occurred to anyone yet that X Perry Mint has posted during times when I've been away from the moot, and times when I'm sleeping?

Careful now, the fact that you've actually checked it would be enough for some to think you've engineered it that way.

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Originally Posted by Midge

Who's to say that you're not X Perry Mint's mild-mannered alter-ego and you don't even know it when you become him? You may have FELT like you were asleep, but were you really?

Wait, Tessar is SPIDER-MAN and X Perry Mint his black-suit symbiont?

Somehow I think he may even like that explanation enough to adopt it.

Coffeehouse · 04-13-2010, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Acalewia

I resent that comment! Are we startng with the mud slinging already and slandering each others names and motives?

Don't resent it Acally! I'm more concerned with the well-being of a possible presidency of yours with the likelihood of a bloody coup by you're 2nd in command

Watch out

Acalewia · 04-13-2010, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonathan

Well, have you seen any of the headlines of the Teacup Table Gazette?

I suppose a media culture like this board has, breeds mud slinging and slandering amonst us readers...

I have nothing to do with those headlines and I'm not a part of them.

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Originally Posted by Coffeehouse

Don't resent it Acally! I'm more concerned with the well-being of a possible presidency of yours with the likelihood of a bloody coup by you're 2nd in command

Watch out

Seems yall think I can't handle Hector.

***Earniel*** · 04-14-2010, 08:49 AM

But if Hector is involved in the headlines, and you are not, doesn't that mean your VP is going behind your back and is therefore not handled? I reckon a lot of people would feel safer if you keep Hector's leash a bit shorter.

Coffeehouse · 04-14-2010, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

keep Hector's leash a bit shorter.

The deafening cry of the Hectorian ghost of Dick Cheney boomed through the corridores...

Hehe on another note I am happy to announce the completion of the Coffeehouse-ticket for the 2010 Entmoot Elections!

I introduce to the citizens of Entmoot two exceptionally great Mooters whom I have the profound and humble honour of running with.

- The Vice-Presidential candidate on this ticket is InsidiousRex
- While the cabinet post, indeed he is my cabinet, is Noble Elf Lord whom will serve as the Minister General on the administration

With the Coffeehouse, InsidiousRex & NobleELfLord-ticket we want to give the citizens of Entmoot the quality, passion and drive that a real Entmoot presidency should involve!

If we are given that trust we want to push for a better and brighter tommorow in Entmoot.

(Trumpets sounding!!!)

Vote Coffee, Insidious & Noble

Midge · 04-14-2010, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

But if Hector is involved in the headlines, and you are not, doesn't that mean your VP is going behind your back and is therefore not handled? I reckon a lot of people would feel safer if you keep Hector's leash a bit shorter.

Hear, hear!

Noble Elf Lord · 04-14-2010, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Coffeehouse

...Hehe on another note I am happy to announce the completion of the Coffeehouse-ticket for the 2010 Entmoot Elections!

I introduce to the citizens of Entmoot two exceptionally great Mooters whom I have the profound and humble honour of running with.

- The Vice-Presidential candidate on this ticket is InsidiousRex
- While the cabinet post, indeed he is my cabinet, is Noble Elf Lord whom will serve as the Minister General on the administration

With the Coffeehouse, InsidiousRex & NobleELfLord-ticket we want to give the citizens of Entmoot the quality, passion and drive that a real Entmoot presidency should involve!

If we are given that trust we want to push for a better and brighter tommorow in Entmoot.

(Trumpets sounding!!!)

Vote Coffee, Insidious & Noble

Oh dear...

Well, it's good marketing, of course, to say that all that praise is not without a cause.

(God damn it, I'm turning into a politician!

If that happens, hector is a small worry...

lol.)

Insidious Rex · 04-14-2010, 01:22 PM

Thats right a three person ticket is the charm! CoffeeHouse - Insidious Rex - Noble Elf Lord. Frankly, Id vote for anything that started with coffee. Especially in the morning... But just remember, we cannot be bought, but we do offer spare change that you can believe in.

Coffeehouse · 04-14-2010, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Insidious Rex

Thats right a three person ticket is the charm! CoffeeHouse - Insidious Rex - Noble Elf Lord. Frankly, Id vote for anything that started with coffee. Especially in the morning... But just remember, we cannot be bought, but we do offer spare change that you can believe in.

Haha yeah I know who wouldn't vote for something that started with coffee?

Our platform is simple, we offer our best efforts to all Mooters - and the chance to find the magic in yourself

So support the Coffee-Insidious-Noble ticket with, as Vice-Presidential candidate Insidious correctly points out (unlike other tickets we don't take illegeal campaign contributions), with spare change you can believe in!

***Earniel*** · 04-14-2010, 03:33 PM

Well, colour me impressed, I never had thought to see anyone ensnare the likes of IR as VP...

Okay candidates, VP-candidates and general ministers, I have a question to ask to each of you.

Your answers earlier seem to indicate that everyone of you is interested in maintaining and helping to spread the love for Tolkien. Then can you explain to me, why only one and a half (*) of you have picked a chapter in the Unfinished Tales Chapter Discussion?

Think and answer carefully.

(*)I say one and a half because only Varnafindë has chosen and posted a chapter intro. Coffeehouse's original chapter was scrapped and he has yet to choose a new one.

***HOBBIT*** · 04-14-2010, 04:12 PM

Hey now, the 2000 Entmoot Presidential Election was completely fair and competitive. Ben never supported me openly - publicly or in private. If he voted at all, I'm not sure that he did vote for me.

It was decided that the winner of the election would be made a real moderator, so I'm not sure how Ben felt about his younger brother becoming a moderator at his message board. I had my own relatively successful Harry Potter message board and if anyone was around at that time, they may recall that I was already the moderator or administrator at a ridiculous amount of ezboards.

I was also 11 to 12 at the time (and Ben 14). Amazing.

The runner up, Gilthonial I believe (or something like that), seemed to take the loss pretty hard. He was 20-something or perhaps even 30-something and wanted to win.... he disappeared soon after that.

inked · 04-14-2010, 05:21 PM

Gud goly, Miz Moly! A triumvirat fur Presidant? Nein! No! Nicht!

Juz luk at de nams! Cofe, Insidiusm and Nobl Elf Lord! A vot fur dem iz lik a vot fur Alexander de Grat's folow-up governorz.

Hektor fur Presidant! Acally fur Presidant! Hektor und Acally fur ko-presidants!

"Spare Change" iz al dat de TRIUMvirat kan ofer! Vat dey kan spar! Dey vil wrek de EntMut! Run it into de dirt! Den all de Entmuters vil be saying und vailing:"How's dat hop und chang vorking fur du? HAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHA!"

Entmooters of the vurld, Bevare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coffeehouse · 04-14-2010, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

Well, colour me impressed, I never had thought to see anyone ensnare the likes of IR as VP...

Yes, it's for all to see that the brilliant Insidious has taken up arms in the 2010 Entmoot Election. Just think what our accomplished presidency and cabinet will achieve on the diplomatic front if we are carried to victory

A vote for Coffee, Insidious & Noble is a vote for a clear, no-bull attitude with those who would stand in the way of Entmoot's happiness!

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Originally Posted by Eärniel

Coffeehouse's original chapter was scrapped and he has yet to choose a new one

Oh it was? Well I'll gladly accept a new chapter

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Originally Posted by inked

Gud goly, Miz Moly! A triumvirat fur Presidant? Nein! No! Nicht!

Juz luk at de nams! Cofe, Insidiusm and Nobl Elf Lord! A vot fur dem iz lik a vot fur Alexander de Grat's folow-up governorz.

Hektor fur Presidant! Acally fur Presidant! Hektor und Acally fur ko-presidants!

"Spare Change" iz al dat de TRIUMvirat kan ofer! Vat dey kan spar! Dey vil wrek de EntMut! Run it into de dirt! Den all de Entmuters vil be saying und vailing:"How's dat hop und chang vorking fur du? HAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHA!"

Entmooters of the vurld, Bevare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL....... dude you've completely lost you're marbles haven't you?

Love the German accent, it's like listening to the worst Schwarzenegger-impersionation (or the best)

04-14-2010, 08:49 AM	#291
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	But if Hector is involved in the headlines, and you are not, doesn't that mean your VP is going behind your back and is therefore not handled? I reckon a lot of people would feel safer if you keep Hector's leash a bit shorter. __________________ We are not things.

04-14-2010, 01:22 PM	#295
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Thats right a three person ticket is the charm! CoffeeHouse - Insidious Rex - Noble Elf Lord. Frankly, Id vote for anything that started with coffee. Especially in the morning... But just remember, we cannot be bought, but we do offer spare change that you can believe in. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-14-2010, 03:33 PM	#297
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Well, colour me impressed, I never had thought to see anyone ensnare the likes of IR as VP... Okay candidates, VP-candidates and general ministers, I have a question to ask to each of you. Your answers earlier seem to indicate that everyone of you is interested in maintaining and helping to spread the love for Tolkien. Then can you explain to me, *why only one and a half () of you have picked a chapter in the Unfinished Tales Chapter Discussion*? Think and answer carefully. ()I say one and a half because only Varnafindë has chosen and posted a chapter intro. Coffeehouse's original chapter was scrapped and he has yet to choose a new one. __________________ We are not things.

04-14-2010, 05:21 PM	#299
inked Elf Lord Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: sikeston, MO, usa, earth, sol Posts: 3,114	Gud goly, Miz Moly! A triumvirat fur Presidant? Nein! No! Nicht! Juz luk at de nams! Cofe, Insidiusm and Nobl Elf Lord! A vot fur dem iz lik a vot fur Alexander de Grat's folow-up governorz. Hektor fur Presidant! Acally fur Presidant! Hektor und Acally fur ko-presidants! "Spare Change" iz al dat de TRIUMvirat kan ofer! Vat dey kan spar! Dey vil wrek de EntMut! Run it into de dirt! Den all de Entmuters vil be saying und vailing:"How's dat hop und chang vorking fur du? HAhaHAhaHAhaHAhaHA!" Entmooters of the vurld, Bevare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! __________________ Inked "Aslan is not a tame lion." CSL/LWW "The new school [acts] as if it required...courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that requires real courage to say, and that is a truism." GK Chesterton "And there is always the danger of allowing people to suppose that our modern times are so wholly unlike any other times that the fundamental facts about man's nature have wholly changed with changing circumstances." Dorothy L. Sayers, 1 Sept. 1941

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04-12-2010, 08:17 PM	#284
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	Has it not occurred to anyone yet that X Perry Mint has posted during times when I've been away from the moot, and times when I'm sleeping?

04-14-2010, 04:12 PM	#298
*HOBBIT* Saviour of Entmoot Admiral Join Date: Nov 1999 Location: NC/NJ (no longer Same place as bmilder.) Posts: 61,986	Hey now, the 2000 Entmoot Presidential Election was completely fair and competitive. Ben never supported me openly - publicly or in private. If he voted at all, I'm not sure that he did vote for me. It was decided that the winner of the election would be made a real moderator, so I'm not sure how Ben felt about his younger brother becoming a moderator at his message board. I had my own relatively successful Harry Potter message board and if anyone was around at that time, they may recall that I was already the moderator or administrator at a ridiculous amount of ezboards. I was also 11 to 12 at the time (and Ben 14). Amazing. The runner up, Gilthonial I believe (or something like that), seemed to take the loss pretty hard. He was 20-something or perhaps even 30-something and wanted to win.... he disappeared soon after that.