that old chestnut

Flight · September 2, 2002, 22:00

I love this game and we all know it has a great sense of humour...

KrazyHorse · September 2, 2002, 22:27

?

What's the joke?

KrazyHorse · September 2, 2002, 22:27

Ah. 1 turn to go?

Ethelred · September 2, 2002, 22:50

You can now turn off the Domestic Imbecile's bizzare desire for domestic overpopulation at the expense of dumping hundreds of shields. There is a checkbox in the preferences for population limit warnings. Check that sucker and Ms. Brain Dead won't bug you about hospitals or aquaducts anymore.

How about a Bedlam Great Wonder so we can send her where she belongs?

Theseus · September 3, 2002, 00:44

Huh? Any question?

Build the damn Hospital!!

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I'm with Ethelred, although in a modified fashion... I leave the notification on until more or less all my main cities are in fact cities (i.e., >6 pop), and after that, hospitals being much less important, I turn the notification off.

Flight · September 3, 2002, 08:16

im with theseus on this one, might just do that

Capt Dizle · September 3, 2002, 08:47

As you can see the domestic nag is a good Christain woman, urging to turn away from the pagan teachings of Darwin for the needs of the sick and infirm.

Ignore her at your peril.

"There may be some among you who think you have been decended from the ape. There may even be some among you who think that I have been decended from the ape. But I challenge any man to step forward and say that General Robert E. Lee is decended from a ape."

by General George Pickett, CSA

SpencerH · September 3, 2002, 08:49

Is it just me, or does this pop-up occur more often when there is one turn left on whatever you're building? I got caught a few times like that when I first started playing so now I just automatically click no its fine ****-off (I'll be turning the imbicile off in my next game).

Flight · September 3, 2002, 09:06

The only time it annoys me is when it is only 1 turn left and the thing it was building before is effectively already built when she nags you.
I just thought this was the typical exaggerated case, but in reality

dunk · September 3, 2002, 09:31

I beleive the pop-up occurs when that city fills up its food box and is ready to gain another population point only to find that a hospital or aqueduct is not in the city.

Flight · September 3, 2002, 10:04

if that were the case then why does it only do it around once every 20 turns going through all your cities on the same turn?

I haven't checked it isn't food related but i dont think it is

dunk · September 3, 2002, 11:13

Ok. Maybe I'm wrong. I turned that nag off as soon as I got the patch.

Ethelred · September 3, 2002, 13:47

Quote:

Originally posted by jimmytrick

"There may be some among you who think you have been decended from the ape. There may even be some among you who think that I have been decended from the ape. But I challenge any man to step forward and say that General Robert E. Lee is decended from a ape."

by General George Pickett, CSA

Robert E. Lee was descended from an ape. Look at those short legs. Especially him.

Hagbart · September 3, 2002, 17:32

I think like dunk that it is food related.

Capt Dizle · September 3, 2002, 18:05

In order words bannanas?

Jaybe · September 3, 2002, 19:17

She's just trying to play "teacher". Assuming we haven't played any civ before and that we don't pay attention to these needs of city sizes.

And to a few of us, she is RIGHT!
(Well, not me. I've already paid those dues).

Ethelred · September 3, 2002, 19:19

Naw leaves. I don't know if bannanas have a lot of calcium but they do have a lot of potassium and that is also needed for good legs. Gorillas mostly eat leaves in the wild. Thats what the huge gut is for.

I think the Domestic Twit has a neuro transmitter deficiency. Maybe she should eat more bannanas.

Ethelred · September 3, 2002, 19:25

Quote:

Originally posted by Jaybe
She's just trying to play "teacher".

I had nuns that looked more pleasant while teaching. Her sad look is worse than the furious look. The one is just anger that you could do something so stupid as to try to rush a temple in a city that is civil disorder. The other is clearly shows signs of being condescending towards a severely retarded child and that there is just no hope for Civilization.

"Oh dear, The Retardate has soiled his pants again. However will our civilization survive his misrule."

Capt Dizle · September 3, 2002, 20:12

Bobby Lee was a tall man Ethel.

Ethelred · September 3, 2002, 20:28

He still had short legs. Just look at the photos. I will take your word that he was tall. He looks short when standing by himself.

You make him sound like a 50's pop singer.

Bobby Lee and Sandra Dee together again in:

Bandy Legged Ape-Men Surf Hawaii While Enslaving the Natives.

Hear Bobby Lee sing:

My Old Jungle Home

As We Were Marching Through Wai Ki Ki

Trixie

and of course

It Was Good Enough For Moses Malone

Flight · September 3, 2002, 20:33

it might just be me but i sense a hint of 'off topic' creeping into the thread

who the hell is bobby lee?

Ethelred · September 3, 2002, 20:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Flight
it might just be me but i sense a hint of 'off topic' creeping into the thread

who the hell is bobby lee?

The whole thread is. Its is a joke thready you know.

General Robert E. Lee = Bobby Lee.

You have to follow the bouncing ball if you are going to get the jokes

miccofl · September 4, 2002, 07:55

I came home from work one day and discovered that my domestic advisor had been altering the game's txt files - there was white-out on the monitor screen and writing on the white-out. There was also an empty package of black hair dye in the recycle bin...

stonewall · September 4, 2002, 15:53

I think the joke is......

Let Beijing complete its Theory of Evolution.....

How many theories are there in the game?