GLoTR Defender... perhaps when you read Vikingz alliance's flight manual you might have misunderstood.. when it comes to fleet saving, you need to plan it..... or maybe, your alliance has no such manual, ours d_does (and yes we are still recruiting)
And Yes! this old man does love to see numbers at work and at play.
till next
B_B [D_D]
“Greetings,” said number 11. “I have gathered you all here today to start the ball rolling to knock that smart arse Number 1 off his pedestal”
“nnNumber 1” said number 3 questioningly with a slight tremor in his voice.
“Yes, Number 1” said 11, with his buttocks clenched and his scrotum swollen, “Number 1 is the biggest and best possible target in the universe.”
“It seems to me,” said number 2, “that you don't know enough about number 1.”
“I know all I need to know about number 1.” said 11, “I got skills.”
“Sure you do,” said number 2, “but all the skills in the world won't help when it comes to counting out number 1.”
“He was number 1 long before I became number 8.” said number 8 who, in her private life preferred to be called twisted zero for reasons best left imagined.
"yeah" said number 5 [who used to be number 71 before he crunched his way through all the other numbers in between leapfroggishly] “He was the first number 1 that ever there was.”
Number 4 nodded four times and then proclaimed.... “He was number 1 when we were all egg shaped zeros.”
“LISTEN” shrieked number 11 “and listen close - we can get him - I know we can if we all get together - he has grown lazy and sits on his laurels admiring his own reflection in the mirror - he has minions doing his work and spoon feeding him all day long- it's just not fair said 11 [more squeakishly than shriekishly because his underpants really were gripping his scrotum over tightly] he is just a single digit, one solitary single line - straight up and down - no curves, no crosses - how hard can it be?” said number 11 over the top of numbers 4, 6, 23 and sweet 16 all of whom who were miffed at 11 for calling all the numbers together for yet another sneaky meeting to plan the take down of number 1, they had wanted to stay home with their wives and multiply, well, perhaps not 23, he is a bit odd and divisive.
“I am twice the man that number one is said number 11.”
“Faulty logic” said number 55.
“Does that make me 3 times the man that number 1 is?” smugly inquired number 111.
'Lets get together and make pie' whispered 22 to 7 quietly when she thought no one was listening.
“The other thing,” said number 33, “that none of you seem to realize is that from where number 1 stands, we all look like number 1's to him, it's the people who need to see the difference between the rest of us. Number 1 is the only one who looks like Number 1 no matter how you look at him, maybe that is why he is number 1.”
“1 am no more useful than a callus on the thumb of a sword hand,” said number 1 [who, because he is number 1 and of course had been hiding in the meeting down the back where 11 couldn't see him, in the shadows with 1.111, 11.111 and 111.111.]
“Y'all can plot and plan as much as you like to become THE number 1 in the eyes of the people and replace me in their hearts and minds, but do know that being THE number 1 means much more than you think, so much more. Being number 1 means 1 must spend every possible moment working as smart and as fast as 1 can to stay number 1, knowing all the time that gigantic amounts of numbers are all working together scheming and plotting and dreaming of becoming number 1.
When not looking behind me, there is nothing to see other than into the abyss.” said number 1 regally, “When 1 looks ahead, 1 can see what none of you have ever seen, but seemingly know all about, an infinite amount of negativity.”
“So yes, 1 have always known that there exists the possibility that 1 might not be number 1 until the final countdown” continued number 1, “1 know you all want to be number 1, but that possibility is a calculation that entirely depends on how successful you all are when you finally get your act together so that you can count me out, but 1 am not worried about you all coming after me in the future because,” said number one with dignity...
.................. “you all, already, come after me now.”
