[blml] An EBU L&E decision.

[Gampas at aol.com]

In a message dated 02/11/2007 02:21:24 GMT Standard Time,  
guthrie at ntlworld.com writes:

[Paul Lamford]
E.Reppert seems to think I cannot make any decisions  on the Laws of
Bridge I like and these can be overturned by an AC.

[Ed  Reppert]
You *can* do whatever you damn well please. And if your customers  are
happy with it, that's fine with me (though if you're  awarding
masterpoints sanctioned by some authority, that authority may  have
some objection). What you can't do, though, is violate, ignore,  or
modify the laws of the game and then claim you're still  playing
duplicate contract bridge.

[nige1]
Ed, I think Paul's last  post was intended as light relief from Tim's 
"droit de seigneur" theories of  directing :) eg ordering the women to 
dance naked on the tables! Does the  WBF employ Tim to recruit 
directors? if so, he's doing an excellent  job!  Perhaps, I've been 
over-critical of current laws.
 
[Paul Lamford]
Indee it it was intended as satire, but that  always confuses the serious. 
And I certainly won't be inviting Ed Reppert to our  Christmas Social if he is 
going to kick up a fuss about playing anticlockwise or  having aces as low and 
deuces as high. Especially if he thinks "every idiot who  goes about with a ‘
Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own  pudding and buried 
with a stake of holly through his heart". We  did discontinue awarding 
masterpoints in our Christmas Social, following  complaints from Brother Anthony that 
he played under different rules, by the  way.