[blml] An EBU L&E decision.

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Grattan Endicott<gesta at tiscali.co.uk
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Gampas at aol.com>
To: <blml at amsterdamned.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [blml] An EBU L&E decision.


> 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.
>

+=+ Now that we have TDs with white beards and red cloaks
the current threads have achieved their true level.  But, Paul, you
should  issue Santapoints. Let us award the first 1000 to Tim.
       The interlude has its encouraging side. No longer do I seem
to be reading debates about the 2007 Laws and this suggests a
high degree of acceptance for their novelties. One or two NBOs
have completed translations and are even contemplating a switch
to them on January 1st.
       The slight adjustments notified this week rectify the only
outstanding glitches that we are aware of, and I think the status
is 'green'.
                                                      ~ Grattan ~   +=+