Rock! Paper! Scissors!... Nuke? Monkey? Sponge?

As if it weren't strange enough that there's a World Rock/Paper/Scissors Championship, here's an updated version of the game, with 25 different gestures that can be made:

• gun


• dynamite


• nuke


• lightning


• devil


• dragon


• alien


• water


• bowl


• air


• moon


• paper


• sponge


• wolf


• cockroach


• tree


• man


• woman


• monkey


• snake


• axe


• scissors


• fire


• sun


• rock

And here is a table with all of the outcomes expressed verbally.

I can see it now...

"Tree!"
"Monkey!"
"Wolf!"
"Alien!"

"Okay... um... monkey lives in tree, enrages wolf and infuriates alien, tree shelters wolf and ensnares the alien's ship, wolf chases alien... um... so who won that round?"

"Hang on a sec, let me get the chart."

But if the tree shelters the wolf, and the monkey lives in the tree, isn't the tree also sheltering the monkey?

It seems I made my last post while Space was airing the Enterprise episode "Chosen Realm"... and now they're airing it again. They must be strapped for money these days - they're airing "The Hilarious House Of Frightenstein" three times per day. Oy. (That being said, I was amused by tonight's two Stargate SG-1 episodes: "Holiday" and "The Ties That Bind".) I did manage to catch tonight's episode of "Alias", though... the one with Gina Torres. Not bad at all, even if the show's premise is a little "out there", even for SF.