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Diplomatic Notes
(Brief Miscellanea)

Tip To Avoid "No Moves Received" (NMR):  Guarantee reliable reminders from your significant other by referring to your Diplomacy deadline as your “diamond jewelry savings installment.”

For the dubious-value Yahoo! Groups interview question which asks the reason for joining the group, I have resolved to declare my reason as "fifth-columnist" and record my membership-approval rate.

A Diplomacy player's Holy Grail:  In an otherwise Standard game that allows diplomatic transfer of supply centers, to win by the end of Winter 1901.

Based on Redscape's page for their new "Otto" Diplomacy software featuring a vintage arcade game cabinet, I speculate that their soon-to-be-unveiled Graphical User Interface (GUI) will look like this.

In Fog of War Issue 1, a featured player disclosed, "I had a hard time stabbing. To my surprise it was actually easier to accept being stabbed than to stab"--to which  more than a few readers probably thought this.

View the Speed Diplomacy custom 404 error page (best viewed with browser's left toolbar closed).

In the Speed Europa Debut game, 1-center Austria allied with off-board Bhutan.  Here is a Daguerreotype of a Bhutanese Western Union telegram to the Austrian Foreign Ministry:

Sep. 21 1906

To whom it may concern,

Unfortunately, our General Staff received its logistics training from FEMA and our Grand Offensive to relieve your forces trapped in Belgrade has bogged down on the outskirts of Thimpu with heavy casualties, mostly from friendly fire, accidents, and venereal disease. :(

A courier shall arrive by steamer with a map of our campaign and current positions.

We hope to consolidate our position and seek winter quarters while we await management advice from Sears-Roebuck.  We further have mail-ordered several self-help books which we hope will arrive before the 1907 monsoon season.

Also, we were wondering how many troops you could spare to reinforce us.

Sincerely,
Ugyen Wangchuck
Ponlop of Tongsa
Claimant to throne of all Bhutan
XOXOXO

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