SC2000: Mayor's House question.
Kay Dekker
This is probably an annoyingly trivial question. If so, blame
my boyfriend: *he* wants the answer :)
When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
device to arrest the movement of a door.
Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
Kay
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Adrian Tymes
>This is probably an annoyingly trivial question. If so, blame
>my boyfriend: *he* wants the answer :)
>When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
>Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
>in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
>device to arrest the movement of a door.
>Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
Maybe it is the number of times that people stop by the door of the house?
If so, they could (and should) have renamed it "visitors"...
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Markus Wischerath
k...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
>
> This is probably an annoyingly trivial question. If so, blame
> my boyfriend: *he* wants the answer :)
>
> When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
> Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
> in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
> device to arrest the movement of a door.
>
> Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
>
the Llama Dome or the number of Alpacas in the zoo? :) I bet that
doorstops have something to do with llamas one way or another, but
I haven't figured out what it is yet. If it is in SimCity 2000, it
*must* be llama-related. :)
--Markus
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Arthur C. Adams
>>When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
>>Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
>>in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
>>device to arrest the movement of a door.
>
>>Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
I'm postive the 'Doorstops' entry is a joke.
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Christian Wolf
k...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
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>
>This is probably an annoyingly trivial question. If so, blame
>my boyfriend: *he* wants the answer :)
>
>When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
>Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
>in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
>device to arrest the movement of a door.
>
>Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
>
know the number of birds that leave their shit on your statue or the number of
bungee-jumpers that jump from your tower. Well, in fact I'd like to try the jum
p myself. Never before did it from a computer-generated building...
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Roberto Ullfig
For all you foreigners, a "doorstop" in this context is a person who does
nothing but act as a doorstop.
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Todd Klaus
: >In <1994Apr14.1...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> k...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
: >>When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
: >>Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
: >>in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
: >>device to arrest the movement of a door.
: >
: >>Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
: I'm postive the 'Doorstops' entry is a joke.
No joke! For each doorstop, there must be a door, so this number gives
you a vague idea of the size of the house (kinda like the number of
dromedaries in the zoo :)
tk
Bradley Smull
Actually, I thought it was just sort of a joke. Kind of like telling you
how many pigeons are perched on your statue.
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Adrian Tymes
Ah, but what if the doors swing both ways? Or doors without doorstops? Or if
if the dromedaries are all crowded into a single 5 meter square? (Of course, if
they *were*, the zoo would probably be shut down soon...)
James Battista
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|> In <1994Apr14.1...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> k...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
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|> >This is probably an annoyingly trivial question. If so, blame
|> >my boyfriend: *he* wants the answer :)
|>
|> >When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
|> >Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
|> >in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
|> >device to arrest the movement of a door.
|>
|> >Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
|>
A doorstop is someone who has a job but does no work -- a crony appointed by
the mayor whose job is to get his/her paycheck. Since they just sit or stand
around, all they're good for is being a doorstop.
Jim Battista
jim...@acpub.duke.edu
Michael A. Sullivan
: This is probably an annoyingly trivial question. If so, blame
: my boyfriend: *he* wants the answer :)
: When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
: Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
: in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
: device to arrest the movement of a door.
: Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
: Kay
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I kind of thought it was a snide reference to the number of employees of
the city. Since there is no City Hall until 10k population, they all
have to work at the Mayor's house. The bigger the city, the more
"doorstops" i.e. bureacrats or people who get in the way in general.
Just my two cents.
Mike
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Hymie!
s...@cs.bham.ac.uk writes:
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>>In <2omu4a$l...@herald.indirect.com> kl...@indirect.com (Todd Klaus) writes:
>>
>>>Arthur C. Adams (art...@clark.net) wrote:
>>>: >In <1994Apr14.1...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> k...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
>>>: >>When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
>>>: >>Doorstops.
>As far as I can tell the number of employees you start with is the same as
>the number of doorstops you end up with.
yes.
>So I assume that as time goes on
>the number of people willing to hold a door open for you decreases, hence
>the number of doorstops you need increases.
ack.
as time goes on, employees (people who work) turn into doorstops (people
who don't work, whose only function seems to be to sit around and act like
a doorstop.) anyone who's had arguments with civil employees knows that it's
impossible to fire one without an act of congress signed by god in triplicate.
so each year, one more employee (working person) turns into a doorstop
(non-working person sitting around). at the end, everybody's spends their
eight-hour days noting how nice it is to work for a boss who couldn't fire
you if you killed his wife.
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Stuart Sproston
>In <2omu4a$l...@herald.indirect.com> kl...@indirect.com (Todd Klaus) writes:
>
>>Arthur C. Adams (art...@clark.net) wrote:
>>: >In <1994Apr14.1...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> k...@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Kay Dekker) writes:
>>: >>When you have a Mayor's House, the Info window has an entry for
>>: >>Doorstops. I've looked in all my dictionaries, (inc. Webster's 3rd,
>>: >>in case it was an Americanism), but I find no meaning other than a
>>: >>device to arrest the movement of a door.
>>: >
>>: >>Why would anyone want to know the number of doorstops in a house?
>
>>: I'm postive the 'Doorstops' entry is a joke.
>
>>No joke! For each doorstop, there must be a door, so this number gives
>>you a vague idea of the size of the house (kinda like the number of
>>dromedaries in the zoo :)
>
>Ah, but what if the doors swing both ways? Or doors without doorstops?
As far as I can tell the number of employees you start with is the same as
the number of doorstops you end up with. So I assume that as time goes on
the number of people willing to hold a door open for you decreases, hence
the number of doorstops you need increases. Bugger know what pigeons do
tho' (on the statue).
-Dino.
(sorry for the delay).
RICHARD ABBOTT
> Bugger know what pigeons do tho' (on the statue).
>-Dino.
Ever been to Trafalger Square :-)
Richard
Kahmyong Moon
of some workers at Maxis, it was changed.
ljo...@delphi.com
anything other than the number of people who stop at your door. I don't know
if this is so, and if it is, I have no idea how to tell if it is people
complaining to you, complimenting you, or just the local girl scouts
trying to sell cookies.
Also, did you notice that with the Llama Dome, the number of bungee jumps
always equals the number of weddings?
LIB