From - Sun Sep 27 15:23:26 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 15:14:11 -0500
From: Myrla Kurosawa <myrla@kef.net>
Organization: Ka'at Exploration Fleet
To: fuzzylogic@mudservices.com
Subject: Re: (no subject)

Ragnar Fyri wrote:

> I was discussing the mediocre currency units with someone on Furry the
> other day and we came up with a pawful that we thought would work better,
> but I don't remember very many of them. :P Well, when she suggested 'tails'
> I came back with 'hairs on your tail' but we agreed that wouldn't be very
> nice for people who didn't have very many of them. ;) ("245 hairs on my
> tail! Oh no! I've got mange!") Then again, the unit on Furry was 'days
> left to live' once...

One of my favorites was when they had "boots to the head", and later
followed that with "Advil" :)

> I had an idea about 'sticks and stones' once but to work right that would
> probably require a little rewrite of the find-one-unit routine so it would
> alternate between "You find a stick!" and "You find a stone!" Probably
> not worth the trouble unless someone comes up with more 'pair' currencies.

Apparantly, there is a way to do that. Toast, FM's former mayor,
describes doing just that on his homepage. He even provides a list of
all the currency names he used during his term. His page is at:
http://www.panix.com/~jpeterso/mayor/index.html

                   ...Myrla


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