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Newbie Throwing Rules

  1. Shuffle all the cards in their separate piles, and draw one NEWBIE card.
  2. Draw one SUBSCRIBE card to subscribe to a newsgroup, mailing list, IRC channel or some other net community and lurk for a while.
  3. Deal yourself quite a few WIT and CHARM cards and play them in response to anyone else's cards. It doesn't matter if you play a FLIRT card with the members of the opposite sex, as long as it's harmless. The rare and extremely valuable OBSCURE JOKE card is an extra bonus at this point. Knowing the more obscure jokes from a wide range of assorted cult viewing is very helpful.
  4. Spread your name around as much as possible by playing EMAIL or IN-JOKE cards. The IN-JOKE card gives you many kudos.
  5. As soon as someone mentions your name, throw your NEWBIE card away so that no-one will ever know that you ever had it.
  6. Draw an OLDBIE card from the pile and then proceed to play CONDESCENDING, IN-JOKE and WHEN-I-WAS-A-LAD cards to throw off at anyone else you see with a NEWBIE card. If someone with a NEWBIE card then plays an UNSUBSCRIBE card you have been successful and will have just thrown your first Newbie.

Play continues until an older OLDBIE or the MODERATOR decides to flip your card, revealing you to be a relative NEWBIE and you get yourself thrown.

Happy Newbie Throwing, folks!

NEWBIE THROWING might be a registered trademark of WotC (Wankers of the Coaster), but we're not sure.

The rules were created by Leprechaun.

Throwing.php -- Revised: March 24, 2007.