You know you've played civ too long when...

[Hendrik the Great]

...you have to start another thread called "You know you've played to long when..." to break the previously set record.

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[Iain Lindley]

...yeah. When you see this thread come around again...

[tobyr]

Regarding Coug's first posting above:
"...you can't belive why they don't transform Sahara into Plains."

In the 1940's Willy Ley proposed something similar, in a book about ten proposed engineering miracles. The technique involves cutting through a rock wall somewhere along the Congo, allowing it to flood much of the jungle in the middle of Africa, and turn the Sahara into usable land.

At the time, little was known about predicting ecological consequences. Ley saw the flooding of some of the worst, insect-infested land in the world as a great value. But even if, as he thought, relatively few people would have to be relocated, he expected that the political implications of this engineering feat were such that it would never be feasible.

- toby


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criticalpaths@mindspring.com

[klesh]

...when you post while at your college's library whilst you should be studying your sociology...

[EdN]

When your wife asks about your retirement plans you tell her not to worry, You'll just set Luxury to 100% 1 turn before!

I have a life - I'm the queen of the English Empire!

[Hunter Hutchins]

Oh for the love of....!?!

What happened to the old thread? Did it get too gummed up? This is....a..Sequel!! NO!
no, wait I just read up there

[This message has been edited by Hunter Hutchins (edited March 01, 2000).]

[Teeks]

--When your mom wakes you up for school at 7:15, you exclaim, "But Mom, I have 20 turns left!"
--When you get confused as to why a Research Lab hasn't popped up in the middle your little suburb because the SETI Program began.
--You wonder why America didn't collapse into Anarchy when we sent troops over to aid the ethnic Albanians from Serbian terror.

...And finally...
--You wonder why the U.S. capital has corruption, since corruption is supposed to be eliminated there.


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[tobyr]

You assume that John Possidente's new child must be a spy.

- toby

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criticalpaths@mindspring.com

[Mer'Zhul]

...When you play all night, go to sleep at 7:00 am, and turn a metallic gray

grey for you Brits and/or subsidiaries

[Father Beast]

when you play for 5 days without checking your mail, and miss the deadline for final draft of your EC3 idea.
(korn469 saved my butt)

[Emperor10]

You wonder why the Eiffel Tower hasn't helped the French's reputation...

You can't believe China was ever conquered...couldn't the Great Wall just force Khan's mongol horde to make peace?

Instead of going to the football game, you insist on going to the "collesium"

You believe Evolution is true, yet you build cathedrals anyways...

You are relieved to be traveling in Communist countries, citing that there's no corruption...

You wonder why Clinton doesn't just fortify troops in enemy territory to avoid Senate interference...

You are shocked that even with Leo's Workshop, Florence wasn't able to conquer the world.

[Paul Hanson]

You wonder why every city in Italy doesn`t have a cathedral, because of Michaelangelo`s Chapel.

You wonder why people whine about nuclear war; if they have enough engineers to clear up the pollution, what`s the problem?

How come people don`t generate zones of control? Oh, they do, but we`re allied with everyone.

[War4ever]

your wife gives birth to a baby thus raising the population by one point but your house hasn't gotten any bigger

[af.Ulm]

You wonder why we don't just send out a couple of engineers and build roads all over the world so everyone can live rich and happy.

[af.Ulm]

You always take the train because you know it's faster thain air.

Wonder how stupid dictators really are when they don't change to democracy to produce more trade.

Wonder why armies keep building tanks and other useless stuff, when everybody knows that howitzers are both better and cheaper.