Friday, December 08, 2006

Swear Jar

So the swear jar has been instituted. In the typical half-arse culture of the B, no rules or guidelines were mentioned. Its pretty much a free for all. So here is a partial list of questions that need to be answered.

- Does one have to be fully in the B to offend or is breaking the plane while standing outside enough. Is it 2 feet in or one foot in?

- What is the list of chargable words?

- Are all words charged at the same rate?

- If words are strung together in a hyphenated way, does that count as a single swear?

- How audible does the swear have to be?

- Is there an intensifier based on loudness or quantity? For example double for the second swear in one sentence or one audible from the hallway?

- Can fines be rescinded based upon creativity, situation causing the curse, people currently in the B or other circumstances?

- Will fines be assessed for typical non-swear word used in a swearing construct. For example using bull-sheet.

- Can anybody assess ad-hoc fines? Possibly the majority of the B ruling on these.

- Will offending odors be similarily taxed?

- Who will write the website to track these fines? .NET? ASP? C#? perl?

- Can we swear while quoting another person? Or telling a joke perhaps? Or reading a web page aloud in the B?

Answers. We need answers.