From Crap to Rank
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 3:44 pm
Tim Midgett told me, and now I have seen with my eyes, that Crap has gone e-Crap. This warms my aging heart. The game was invented many years ago when Bedhead and Albiznonnini were getting to know one another and needed a quick and direct way to economize the process of mutual understanding. Let me say though that this game is not entirely binary. There was always the "apulancra" option for proposals too hideous to be fit into a simple dichotomy.
I think maybe we could learn even more about each other by playing the game of Rank. Rank was invented in the earliest days of Studio B, so for it to be resurrected in the form of EA's interactive website would be a poetic return fitting with the poetry inherent in the game itself.
It is easy to play in person, but I will leave it to the engineers to figure out how it should be played it on-line. The interlocutor first says rank the following, for example and to borrow a classic from my brother: White Zombie, Great White, and the little dried out white dog turd you occasionally find at your feet while walking down the sidewalk. The respondent or respondents rank and explain each in the following manner: Great White, because they lit themselves on fire, the little dried out dog turd, because it is rare like a diamond, and White Zombie, who would be at the bottom of most conceivable lists. The interlocutor, who always has a the correct rank in his or her mind, then responds, you have the correct order! Or, right, except the fecal diamond should be first! I'm not sure how you would work this into the ranking game. Maybe we leave this part out of the picture and just tally votes? In any case, this is the basic structure and you can see here that there is usually a controlling theme to the trio (the more connections, and I can find several in the Great White ranking, the better) . Other examples, ZZ Top, G.G. Allin, Sigue Sigue Sputnik; Timothy B. Schmidt, Sophie B Hawkins, Al B. Sure (Eagles as a rule come last but usually present can-God-create-a-mountain-he-can't-destroy-type dilemmas; try, for example, to rank Don Henley, Eric Clapton, and Glen Fry). Neu! Wham! !!!. Messina, Garfunkel, Crofts. Can, Canned Heat, Heatwave. The Grateful Dead, Bread, Dread Zeppellin. Etc.
This is basic idea. Let's play Rank!
Biznono
I think maybe we could learn even more about each other by playing the game of Rank. Rank was invented in the earliest days of Studio B, so for it to be resurrected in the form of EA's interactive website would be a poetic return fitting with the poetry inherent in the game itself.
It is easy to play in person, but I will leave it to the engineers to figure out how it should be played it on-line. The interlocutor first says rank the following, for example and to borrow a classic from my brother: White Zombie, Great White, and the little dried out white dog turd you occasionally find at your feet while walking down the sidewalk. The respondent or respondents rank and explain each in the following manner: Great White, because they lit themselves on fire, the little dried out dog turd, because it is rare like a diamond, and White Zombie, who would be at the bottom of most conceivable lists. The interlocutor, who always has a the correct rank in his or her mind, then responds, you have the correct order! Or, right, except the fecal diamond should be first! I'm not sure how you would work this into the ranking game. Maybe we leave this part out of the picture and just tally votes? In any case, this is the basic structure and you can see here that there is usually a controlling theme to the trio (the more connections, and I can find several in the Great White ranking, the better) . Other examples, ZZ Top, G.G. Allin, Sigue Sigue Sputnik; Timothy B. Schmidt, Sophie B Hawkins, Al B. Sure (Eagles as a rule come last but usually present can-God-create-a-mountain-he-can't-destroy-type dilemmas; try, for example, to rank Don Henley, Eric Clapton, and Glen Fry). Neu! Wham! !!!. Messina, Garfunkel, Crofts. Can, Canned Heat, Heatwave. The Grateful Dead, Bread, Dread Zeppellin. Etc.
This is basic idea. Let's play Rank!
Biznono