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[cleolinda]

Quick linkage:

No fear: Snarkfest is coming back.

I don't know what this is, except something new for people to fight over ("Give brownie points to your LJ friends!"). Awesome.

Mmm, breakfast.

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[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, it is sort of a modern retelling of the tale of the emperor's nose. See, nobody knew what the dying emperor looked like, for it was death to gaze upon him. The primary qualification for succession was a nose of precisely the length of the emperor emeritus. The court scribes conferred and they worked out a system: electronic nose-picking machines would be sent to all the corners of the kingdom to allow the citizens to vote on long they thought the emperor's nose was. The data would be averaged on a Linux workstation and the results posted on the emperor's blog. This impressive procedure was promptly carried out, and when the recounts were over, the world knew that the emperor had a 3.14159 inch nose (except in Ohio and Florida, where it tended to grow). Thus it was that the new emperor was chosen, and he had a nose of precisely this length. If people now and again muttered that he happened to be the old emperor's son, well, this was discounted as a freak of genetics. And if the nose grew a little longer each year, nobody knew, for it was death to look upon the emperor.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

I think this story got away from me. Point is, if nobody knows how hot the emperor's nose is, you can't find out by voting. Or something.