Econ majors (and all others who are interested),
Google "El Diputado Distributa." It is a blog by a liker of G.K. Chesterton's pet economic system, Distributism.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Gype, not yet.
Gype...not yet
I did a google search for gype, to see if I could find the rules or compile them from all the Original Chestertonian sources. If you type in"gype chesterton -"Dr. Thursday"" you get about 170 answers. Paradoxically, if you type in "gype chesterton -"Dr. Thursday" -aaa" you get about 101 answers.The sites that were excluded when you typed in -aaa were sites that seemed to be lists of all the words there are in alphabetical order. I also learned that practically the only things you find on google are blogs that mention gype but tell you nothing about it, G.K. Chesterton's autobiography, and Maisie Ward's biography of Chesterton. I also found:Lawrence D PO Box 635 Chesterton IN 46304-0635 26421 Andersen Paul Frank ...... Olmsted OH 44070 50920 Gype Lawrence Keith 5980 Whiteford Dr. Highland ... Apparently, someone has actually played this game within the last 10 years and it involved water pistols as a form of punishment for the outside version and scrabble letters for the inside version. It is my personal conclusion that gype is a game for which the rules are to be decided democratically by the players. The idea of the game is absurdity. The game is meant to be adapted to the situation. Apparently, Chesterton's sedentary version was meant to be a visual-spatial strategy game. If you can find, in Chesterton's works, more descriptions of the game then the ones I found, I might try to give you a set of real rules. It is my personal recommendation that we, as the Innocent-Smith style nation of "Users of Diversity," form our own official set of rules so that we may play it over the internet or take it to the next convention.
I did a google search for gype, to see if I could find the rules or compile them from all the Original Chestertonian sources. If you type in"gype chesterton -"Dr. Thursday"" you get about 170 answers. Paradoxically, if you type in "gype chesterton -"Dr. Thursday" -aaa" you get about 101 answers.The sites that were excluded when you typed in -aaa were sites that seemed to be lists of all the words there are in alphabetical order. I also learned that practically the only things you find on google are blogs that mention gype but tell you nothing about it, G.K. Chesterton's autobiography, and Maisie Ward's biography of Chesterton. I also found:Lawrence D PO Box 635 Chesterton IN 46304-0635 26421 Andersen Paul Frank ...... Olmsted OH 44070 50920 Gype Lawrence Keith 5980 Whiteford Dr. Highland ... Apparently, someone has actually played this game within the last 10 years and it involved water pistols as a form of punishment for the outside version and scrabble letters for the inside version. It is my personal conclusion that gype is a game for which the rules are to be decided democratically by the players. The idea of the game is absurdity. The game is meant to be adapted to the situation. Apparently, Chesterton's sedentary version was meant to be a visual-spatial strategy game. If you can find, in Chesterton's works, more descriptions of the game then the ones I found, I might try to give you a set of real rules. It is my personal recommendation that we, as the Innocent-Smith style nation of "Users of Diversity," form our own official set of rules so that we may play it over the internet or take it to the next convention.
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