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*pokes thread*

I believe that I win now... right?

I dunno, do you?

Perhaps now?

Well, "B" comes before "E", so I'd like to be after you, in order to maintain alphabetical-esque appearances. XD

Eh, but I'm after you?

...Nooooooo?

Stop poking holes in my logic!! XD

I can always count on Hydra to wrap up any Alphabetical argument.  X and B are such useful beginnings of names, from an alphabetical perspective, of course.  Perhaps also from a calligraphic perspective as well, but alas I am (regrettably) not a calligrapher.

Yet I have distracted myself from the material point of this thread now for too long—I am once more the undisputed winner of this thread, for at least the instant in which I make this post.  The derivative is my victory, and none can wrench that sweet taste from my unyielding grasp!!  En garde!! 

Ooooo, a wrench. Wrenches are very useful, I think I will borrow it.

I hold victory but for a moment, but in that moment the victory is more sweet than if it were held for all time

Yet a victory stolen, I believe, is that much more sweet. Yes! To snatch a victory clear fom the jaws of defeat, from the claws of another's advance, that is a victory worth holding. Yet in meer moments it too will be stolen, and another will hold it, and feel the same pride as I do now. And on, and on, and on, until luck allows one to win.

Perhaps, if I am fortunate, I may have such luck.

And that got more introspective than I intended. Ah well.

I am afraid Lady Luck wasn't smiling.

What about now?

Indeed, reality is a cruel mistress, punishing all without remorse, and allowing none to achieve everlasting victory...

The rise and fall of nations is inevitable.