Rachel wrote:
Ooh, March Madness! Last year I was in a “Girly March Madness” pool, in which we all filled out our brackets with completely arbitrary picks. (For example, I choose against Butler because there’s a feminist writer Judith Butler, who I hate!) We need a Freedom March Madness or something for grylliade.

David wrote:
I’ll set one up on yahoo, and see if anyone signs up.

Rachel wrote:
Oh, so now you’re STEALING MY IDEAS.

David wrote:
Ok, you set it up then. And kindly put down the gun.

Rachel wrote:
I don’t want to set it up. I’m a girl, I don’t know how to do these things. I wouldn’t even know how properly to word an annoucement about a basketball pool.

David wrote:
Have Rebecca do it. She’s competent and somewhat sane. Some variation on “Hey, lets do a Grylliade NCAA Bracket! Sign up here.” is all you need for wording. I doubt that we could organize one for actual cash, given the anonymity of our posters. You just don’t want to be mailing checks over the internet, collecting would be a bitch, and federal law likely prevents there being a site where everyone could use something like pay pal.

Rachel wrote:
Of course no money, but we could do it for libertarian credibility! I actually used to be really into NBA in like, 1994-6. I don’t know why.

David wrote:
Wouldn’t libertarian credibility require that the most talented handicapper take the money of all the losers? Although, given the geek-based nature of cause, knowledge of sports could taint a person’s libertarian cred.

Rachel wrote:
No, because we’re not into taking other people’s money. That’s what the government does, silly.

David wrote:
I took the liberty of creating it. If you’d like to make the announcement, the league # 57522 and teh password is bacon.

Rachel wrote:
Ha. You took the liberty! Can’t I just post this whole thread of conversation about setting up a March Madness Pool? Because that would be awesome. Would it qualify as meta? What exactly is meta anyway?