So, what about it, The One Ring?
I happen to know that lots of people don't come here first when they join. What is being done about these miscreants?
Now I'm not a legal expert but I happen to know that since "COME HERE FIRST" in the welcome forum name is in ALL CAPS it has the force of common law behind it.* I think TORN could better explain this SUBTLE POINT OF LAW if he was here.
*---Did you know that if you type YOU ARE MY WIFE to someone ( in all caps, of course ) it will result in a common law marriage, even if the person you type it to is a man?
What is the penalty for not COMING HERE FIRST?
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truehobbit
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You know, I think the Yov-Faramond thing is a marvelous idea. You two could get married at the moot in SF. And you really could get married at the moot in SF too. I wonder if they allow marriages in threes? Because then Griffy wouldn't be deported. 
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - HDT
Did you know that if you type YOU ARE MY WIFE to someone ( in all caps, of course ) it will result in a common law marriage,
Darn. I always thought it had to be typed into a hotel register.
Meanwhile there is a very severe punishment for not coming here first. Yes, precious. And a reward for turning people in.
Darn. I always thought it had to be typed into a hotel register.
Meanwhile there is a very severe punishment for not coming here first. Yes, precious. And a reward for turning people in.
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
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nerdanel
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Re: What is the penalty for not COMING HERE FIRST?
I would support a lifetime ban for a first offense, without warning.Faramond wrote:I happen to know that lots of people don't come here first when they join. What is being done about these miscreants?
Why doesn't anyone TELL ME THESE THINGS? I've been going to this alleged "academic institution" for the past three years, and supposedly this is how it works. You pay them A LOT OF MONEY and in return THEY MAKE YOU A LEGAL EXPERT who knows fancy stuff about the law like how much you can legally bill people without it being extortion and what you can get away with without facing a malpractice suit. But no one ever told me this jazzy legal doctrine about INTERNET FORUM THAINS being able to MAKE COMMON LAW by TYPING IN ALL CAPS. I was under the mistaken impression that REALLY EGOTISTICAL POWERS THAT BE called JUDGES do that. Clearly this "academic institution" has been TELLING ME LIES. I'm going to sue. Assuming they haven't lied to me about how you do that.Now I'm not a legal expert but I happen to know that since "COME HERE FIRST" in the welcome forum name is in ALL CAPS it has the force of common law behind it.* I think TORN could better explain this SUBTLE POINT OF LAW if he was here.
No, I didn't! My - I think they're calling themselves a "school" - told me some nonsense about common law marriages having "elements" like the couple "living together by mutual consent" for a certain period of time and holding themselves out to the world as married. Again, I HAVE BEEN DECEIVED. Obviously I should have spent more time posting on message boards over the past years (oh wait) and I would have learned more about the common law. (this is probably true)*---Did you know that if you type YOU ARE MY WIFE to someone ( in all caps, of course ) it will result in a common law marriage, even if the person you type it to is a man?
In any case. Faramond, we're a board of capable, above-average individuals. Why are we talking about the "common" law? We should talk about elitist law instead.
And, to everyone who is reading this, because there's just never enough lovin' to go around... YOU ARE MY WIFE. No such thing as too many of those.
I won't just survive
Oh, you will see me thrive
Can't write my story
I'm beyond the archetype
I won't just conform
No matter how you shake my core
'Cause my roots, they run deep, oh
When, when the fire's at my feet again
And the vultures all start circling
They're whispering, "You're out of time,"
But still I rise
This is no mistake, no accident
When you think the final nail is in, think again
Don't be surprised, I will still rise
Oh, you will see me thrive
Can't write my story
I'm beyond the archetype
I won't just conform
No matter how you shake my core
'Cause my roots, they run deep, oh
When, when the fire's at my feet again
And the vultures all start circling
They're whispering, "You're out of time,"
But still I rise
This is no mistake, no accident
When you think the final nail is in, think again
Don't be surprised, I will still rise
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<is Nel's wife>
<one of them anyway>
<see the Mormon thread for up-to-the-minute discussion of polygyny>
I think people getting married is a sign of a healthy message board, especially if everyone marries everyone else.
I think people who don't COME HERE FIRST are going to miss out on the chance to be Nel's wife. That's probably punishment enough.
<wanders off in search of a Popsicle, or perhaps some watermelon sherbet>
<one of them anyway>
<see the Mormon thread for up-to-the-minute discussion of polygyny>
I think people getting married is a sign of a healthy message board, especially if everyone marries everyone else.
I think people who don't COME HERE FIRST are going to miss out on the chance to be Nel's wife. That's probably punishment enough.
<wanders off in search of a Popsicle, or perhaps some watermelon sherbet>
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
*stalks in on sizable Griffon paws*
*swwwwlicckkk*
That, Yov, is the sound of a Griffon's claws deploying. Tremble and cower, brief mortal, for I am ... *ahem. Heh heh*
*uses one claw to carefully punch in sentence, but mortally wounds keyboard all the same*
YOU ARE MY WIFE. ANGBASDIL. ANTHY. ELFSHADOW. FARAMOND. JNYUSA. NERDANEL. PRIM. SASS. TRUEHOBBIT. YOV.
There. I got lots of good good ones
In alphabetical order no less!
*swwwwlicckkk*
That, Yov, is the sound of a Griffon's claws deploying. Tremble and cower, brief mortal, for I am ... *ahem. Heh heh*
*uses one claw to carefully punch in sentence, but mortally wounds keyboard all the same*
YOU ARE MY WIFE. ANGBASDIL. ANTHY. ELFSHADOW. FARAMOND. JNYUSA. NERDANEL. PRIM. SASS. TRUEHOBBIT. YOV.
There. I got lots of good good ones
In alphabetical order no less!-
ToshoftheWuffingas
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If I marry Faramond and Faramond marries Griffy and Griffy marries Anthy, does that mean Anthy and I are married? 
I got dibs on Toshy!
Tosh, YOU ARE MY WIFE!
(does this law not work for getting husbands??
)
I got dibs on Toshy!
Tosh, YOU ARE MY WIFE!
(does this law not work for getting husbands??
)I wanna love somebody but I don't know how
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
I wanna throw my body in the river and drown
-The Decemberists
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nerdanel
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yov,
Any TRUE LEGAL EXPERT knows that the ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMON LAW OF MESSAGEBOARDS has historically DISCRIMINATED AGAINST MEN and given WOMEN LOTS OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. Like naming other women their wives, a true common-law-of-messageboards classic, as Griffy and Prim can join me in attesting.
But with hard work and perseverence, YOU CAN OVERCOME. I advise beginning with civil disobedience. But in the meantime, I think you became my wife too.
Any TRUE LEGAL EXPERT knows that the ANGLO-AMERICAN COMMON LAW OF MESSAGEBOARDS has historically DISCRIMINATED AGAINST MEN and given WOMEN LOTS OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGES. Like naming other women their wives, a true common-law-of-messageboards classic, as Griffy and Prim can join me in attesting.
But with hard work and perseverence, YOU CAN OVERCOME. I advise beginning with civil disobedience. But in the meantime, I think you became my wife too.
I won't just survive
Oh, you will see me thrive
Can't write my story
I'm beyond the archetype
I won't just conform
No matter how you shake my core
'Cause my roots, they run deep, oh
When, when the fire's at my feet again
And the vultures all start circling
They're whispering, "You're out of time,"
But still I rise
This is no mistake, no accident
When you think the final nail is in, think again
Don't be surprised, I will still rise
Oh, you will see me thrive
Can't write my story
I'm beyond the archetype
I won't just conform
No matter how you shake my core
'Cause my roots, they run deep, oh
When, when the fire's at my feet again
And the vultures all start circling
They're whispering, "You're out of time,"
But still I rise
This is no mistake, no accident
When you think the final nail is in, think again
Don't be surprised, I will still rise
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The One Ring
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I suppose I'm too late for the mass wedding.
[sigh]
That would be the story of my life.
They say you gain on the swings what you lose in the roundabouts, but I always get stuck in the roundabouts ... rolling around and around and around ... do you know how hard it is for a ring to turn right or left? ... by the time I arrive anywhere the party is over.
Did someone at least think to save me a piece of the cake?
It would be nice if it were a piece of cake with an icing flower on it, but I'll take whatever I can get.
[sigh]
That would be the story of my life.
They say you gain on the swings what you lose in the roundabouts, but I always get stuck in the roundabouts ... rolling around and around and around ... do you know how hard it is for a ring to turn right or left? ... by the time I arrive anywhere the party is over.
Did someone at least think to save me a piece of the cake?
It would be nice if it were a piece of cake with an icing flower on it, but I'll take whatever I can get.
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*gets in line with the other wives for the wedding kiss with Griff and nerdanel*
I thought we'd all been wearing you in turns, One Ring!
Are we legally married if we have not been wearing The One Ring?
*would ask nerdanel but can't afford it; wonders if she will give her a special price, being her wife and all*
I thought we'd all been wearing you in turns, One Ring!
Are we legally married if we have not been wearing The One Ring?
*would ask nerdanel but can't afford it; wonders if she will give her a special price, being her wife and all*
but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.
HEY!!!
I asked Hobby first!!!1
<sulks>
Well, I guess I'll have to make due with being Griffy's wife, and yov's.
Hmmmm... If I marry Prim, is that incest?
I think I'll just scoop up this delish looking piece of cake with the big flower icing-- it's right in the path of that big rolling ring!-- and think on this a while.
I asked Hobby first!!!1
<sulks>
Well, I guess I'll have to make due with being Griffy's wife, and yov's.
Hmmmm... If I marry Prim, is that incest?
I think I'll just scoop up this delish looking piece of cake with the big flower icing-- it's right in the path of that big rolling ring!-- and think on this a while.
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