At least we don't have a Wesley Mouch in the group yet. (grin)

A virtual proto game would be too cool. I don't even know if this is possible or if what I just said makes sense but I can see it in my head. We could all work on it and see what others are doing and add to it or say "that sucks, no way". etc. How fun would that be???

LOL...I thought you had read Agenda 21. Never mind....

whether I'm Dagny or Francisco I can't tell. if it's not yet time to shrug then call me Frisco. if it's past time call me Slug.

all right then. neat. another best line of the day. it sounds well sophisticated. and abbreviated. just so.

Thank you admin

I'm toasting this little venture with a finger of Blanton's Kentucky bourbon, neat, right now

Definitively Dagny!

Go it. Sorry I took so long. Out running around w/my kids.

also, once we have a board with spaces and some cards, we can set up something for people to play it-I'm thinking about how to do that-it will help us come up with values for cards drawn

Ok, we need a way for me to present designs, so they don't get poached. Yes?

It's difficult because I fell in love with the Characters and they are all so much larger than life that my humilty gives me a hard time comparing myself to any of them, but I'll have to say I "approach" Ragnar.

I'd have to go with Ragnar!

?? As in, have I shrugged? Or am I done in the art dept. as in game board?

They would

cupcakes WOULD be nice

Fun? Hey...are you done walking your board already????

I missed all the fun last night!! :-(

A part in AS Part III??

The better question is who would I like to have a romantic liaison with? Francisco--hands down. :-) But to answer the original question: when considering the characters as archetypes, I see some of myself in each and some of myself in none.

That's actually a great question. On first pass I wanted to say, "Hank Rearden" but then I thought, "I work for someone, not really a Rearden type." Rearden to me epitomizes the emphasis on standing on your on, on a doer. Rearden wants to say, "I'm not nor will I ever be your puppet, no matter how much you twist the knife."

Galt just kind of said, "You guys are illegitimate" and went off to do his own thing, his way. Both are similar because they are doers, creators. But they definitely had different ways of handling it.

Ragnar really wanted to just visibly pose a problem to the takers: "You can't have it that easily."

Dagny was more of a, "... from my cold dead fingers" kind of a girl. She knew it was wrong, and she didn't want to let go what she had taken so much pride in building.

D' Anconia, there's a strange bird. He threw it all away, almost as for revenge, but for revenge for the ideas of collectivism more than anything else. A real show of how crony capitalism doesn't work, or at least can be exposed. But his was at a great cost to his personal wealth and family name. His may have been the biggest sacrifice in the name of ideals.

Probably Galt. Galt didn't mind working with someone as long as the ideals were pure and honest. Once they went off the rails, so to speak, he knew there was a better way and left it all to pursue it.

I am Hank Rearden but would actually rather be either Franciso or John Galt.

a combo of hank rearden and howard roarke

seriously, I'm looking forward to the comments tonight. evil laugh and rolling of the hands together