Worse, they were from the south. They have strange ways, down there.

I'm enjoying the new Cat on a Warm Tin Roof game (being a fan of the various film clubs). However, I was wondering if it was worth having an entry convention to differentiate between films, books, & songs... I was thinking - keep films in bold, books in italics, and songs in quote marks?

[Uncle Korky] I don't see the point in doing that. Am I missing something?

[UK] It's all that most of us can do to even post in the right game most of the time. I think you'd be asking way too much of us. :-)

Eh, if you're posting something unusually obscure, just post a hint as well. Besides, what typographic notation would we use for plays, musicals, etc.?

[UK] Is your idea based on some local government entry convention/system/policy - ie. why do something once when you can employ three people to do it in triplicate? :)


[On the plus side - at least it blew away the tumbleweed in here]

I'm sure we can work out a comprehensive notation system. Things like poems in UPPER CASE(unless they're by e e cummings) etc.

Clearly we need to start a notation game to sort out these little stylistic niggles before the new process is formally adopted.

Although, if we do that, we're going to need meta-notation to distinguish between styles proposed, under consideration, accepted and rejected. [Chalks] That's why we need a committee, of course; if you start doing this sort of thing properly it's bound to turn out to be more complicated than one head can contain.

I nominate Chalky to be on the ad hoc search committee charged with finding a steering committee to oversee the establishment of a notation game.

But surely we need to agree on the nomination procedures first?