Monday, February 9, 2009

Weeeee are the champions, my friends... and Weeee'll keep on fiiightin' till the end!!

Yes, yes, Team Tales is most certainly the champion team. Well, I wouldn't say "certainly"... since nothing is certain. But since Postmodernism embraces chaos, fragmentation, absurdity, ambiguity, and word play (word "killing"), Team Tales's artful craft in utilizing these elements in our reasoning and strategy merits the winning award. We were witty and absurd in concocting rules to spin the game in our favor and were constantly questioning the authority - sorry, Mrs. Kirk, welcome to Postmodernism! Aren't you glad you taught us so well? Haha. These very strategies I am sure will be the ammunition for the other team in their case against our victory, but that would show a certain narrow-mindedness and disregard for jumping completely into the postmodern game of THENDYWAMPS. Let's celebrate some chaos and celebrate our ability to mold our own realities - make life what we want. After all, it is all a game, right? Well anyway, let's have a look at the rules that clearly support our win: The first significant one is that neither team may make rules that apply to the other team. The Tales then devised a method to increase our money earned by making a rule that every even number rolled gets us $50 and every odd $100. We were upped by our worthy opponents who turned that back on us and ruled that they get twice the amount of money we earn each time. Very clever I must say. Well, it all comes down to the ultimate last rule, however. We ruled that the next team to roll the die wins the game. Period. We rolled. We won. Period. That is the meaning we constructed from what we were given - we are born and we die and everything else is abstract and unknowable - we have certain concrete rules, and everything else is ambiguous and ready to be construed into whatever reality we make of it. The Tales chose to encompass in our reality winning the game of THENDYWAMPS.

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