[EricH]

Originally Posted by Jacob Bendicksen

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Can someone elaborate on the impetus behind the various rules? I feel like there's some pretty great back story on some of them.

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Oooh boy. I think I can, but some of them you just have to look up the contest.

Starting with: The BIWWTM Rule, and its counterpart, The OTHER BIWWTM Rule (never invoked). These give Billfred flexibility in judging timeline, because, well work happens. The OTHER in this case allows Billfred the flexibility to give over control of the contest to some other player temporarily.

-infinity is if somebody REALLY gets Billfred hard, he retaliates. (I should probably pipe down here, because I think I might have one coming my way...).

The Koko Ed Rule was enacted to repeal Rule 2 and Rule 3, after Ed entered one with him in it.

The OTHER Heidi Foster Rule was enacted as a precaution. Billfred was a little late with the judging of a contest around the time of IRI, and somebody made some snide remark about kidnapping him. Somebody else (initials: HF) made some corny remark about only talking about such a plan... So the rule went into place.

I'm not sure about the Heidi Foster Rule.

Incidentally, the burn award was originally a docking of points, awarded to none other than Heidi Foster (for calling Dave Lavery an "unskilled fool with exotic tools", tools in question being a squirt gun).