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Everyone talks about them, so why don't we actually use them? A real life system of scoring Brownie Points to an internationally standardised scale.
Buy flowers for your wife/lover/a total stranger .. +100pts
Save the company $1 million per year on travel expenses .. 100pts
Save the company
$1/2 million per year on travel expenses .. 50pts
Rescue a small child from the path of an oncoming out-of-control steam roller .. 50pts
Let someone in front of you in the checkout queue .. 20pts
Put out the garbage... again .. 10pts
Fail to put out the garbage... again ..(-50pts)
Forget your wedding anniversary .. (-100pts)<br.
You get the picture.
Object of the game. You reach 10,000 points and you get to do whatever you want for a whole year. Stephen King's "The Long Walk" meets "Groundhog Day" And nobody gets shot.
'The Great Explosion', by Eric Frank Russell
http://www.blancman...h/books/tgetoc.html
Features (in the later chapters) a society with no money. All transactions are based on 'obs' (obligations) gained for doing people favours. [DrBob, Nov 27 2001, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Except nobody shoots you, right? |
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You, Zippy, are obviously not a wife yet. There are some unusual neurological changes that come with the territory. |
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Isn't this the same as karma? |
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How many points for baking really excellent brownies? |
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I seem to remember your brownie recipe has an extra ingredient. That would make them neutral. |
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I have a brownie recipe. A really good one. The extra
ingredient is entirely optional (and they do taste better
without it). |
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Otherwise they'd be greenies, shurely? |
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Mmmmm, greenies ... the snack that tastes good even when you're not hungry. |
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I like this idea, but I think there should be a sliding scale applied to the accrual of points. For example, the guy who manages to forget his anniversary - even after his secretary reminds him of it - could lose 20,000 points. The welfare mother of three who babysits another woman's kids in addition to her own would get a large allotment of points for her trouble. |
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Of course, Bill Gates - who annually gives about $25M to charity, yet still manages to be something of an asshole regardless - would need to have a point system of his very own. |
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Charitable donation points should be based not on how
many dollars are given but on percentage of your total
assets. If Bill Gates has 50 billion and only gives 25 million
per year that's equivalent to someone only worth 100
thousand giving 50 dollars per year. It's not especially
generous (especially since there's no way he needs or
could use 50 billion himself). Add to that the
approximately zero hours of volunteer work and the
shoddy products he dumps on the market and he's well on
his way to negative points.
UnaBubba: Nope, not greenies. I put so much chocolate
in my brownies that nothing stops them being very dark
brown. |
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Hm...when you said "brownie pts" i thought you might mean something like what i do with my theater group: they do what i say often enough, and i bake them brownies (and no, not your herb-enhanced ones, i'm afraid....just plain ole sugar/flour/chocolate). This seems to be an effective incentive.... |
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Helping old woman across street: 50 points.
Helping old woman across street against her will: -5 points. |
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Replacing toner in office copier: 25 points.
Replacing toner in office copier with gunpowder: -20 points. |
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Teaching immigrants to speak English: 200 points.
Teaching immigrants to speak Klingon: -50 points. |
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Donating money to the Jerry Lewis Telethon: 2000 points.
Donating money to the Jerry Lewis Telethon with the express purpose of one day getting him off the air permanently: priceless |
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Make brownie points legal tender. If you get 50 for helping a lol cross the street, then you have enough to pay for someone to help you cross the street. They'll be real points that you can carry in your pocket, except they'll punch holes. Of course, they'll be taxable. Alternative plan: trade them in for gold stars that you wear on your forehead. |
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Or elephant stamps on the inside of your wrist. |
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why not use brownie points with your friends, instead of owning then money you owe them brownie points or an equivalent task. |
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I am seriously worried about this kid under the steam roller who's only worth 50 points |
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UB you were a child once - would you not consider your life more than 50 points |
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Irony: Made of ferrous metally thingies. |
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We could start this tomorrow. Just print up some pieces of paper with "Halfbakery Brownie Points: 10 pts" on them and start handing them out to nice people. The difficulty would be if people who collected lots of them expected rewards. But if you help people just to get a reward, you don't deserve any Brownie points. Based on that line of reasoning, you wouldn't even need the pieces of paper. |
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i like how it would work if we just printed them tomorrow and went from there.. that way, few ppl would know about them (at first) so nobody would do good deeds just to get them. except.. they wouldn't be legal tender for anything at all. hm. |
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Make them like the old S&H or Green Stamps. Carry a roll in your pocket. When someone does you a good deed, offer them the appropriate amount for their stamp sheet. |
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Make it a community thing and convince local retailers to honor the stamps for discounts. (Note that it would be possible to earn stamps for donating unredeemed stamp sheets to the needy) |
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I had an uncle who was a victim of a window. He fell from 14 stories. None of them was worth reading. |
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If you distribute Brownies for good deeds, then pretty soon all of your do-gooders will be too overweight to get around well enough to do enough good deeds to get more Brownies. |
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