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Daniel Barkalow wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, John Colagioia wrote:
> > Actually, someone posted a hacked-together patch a while ago to do just that.
> > The sample game then used the command "get (something-I-don't-remember) and
> > duck."  Yes, there was a duck.
> I think you're thinking of my joke game, which features the command "get
> eggs and duck", but parsed it as getting the eggs and the duck, but in the
> process of picking up the duck, you bend over, but only if you refer to it
> as a duck.

That's possible, too.  Now that you mention it, your name does seem familiar with
respect to this topic...


> I do vaguely recall a patch, but I don't think there was a sample game.

Hm.  I'll dig through my Inform directory and see if I can find it, somewhere.


