Exactly how does Paper beat Rock?

[KurtNYC]

The rock smashes scissors - okay.
Scissors cut paper - devastating really.
but

Paper wraps rock ?! Isn't the rock still in one piece and able to function as a rock? Perhaps bubble wrap would impair the function (until the little bubbles were all burst), but paper? I think not!

This is an outrage!

[flamingyouth]

1. I used to argue this all the time as a kid

Reading this cracked me up. Thanks. :D

[Worst Username Ever]

2. One thing I've learned from Bush

is that if you hide the rock or refuse to talk abou it, it doesn't exist.

[Lavender Brown]

3. Paper suffocates the rock

[jpgray]

4. Paper is the pacifist of the group

It wins by aggressively hugging its opponent into submission. It doesn't necessarily defeat rock--both objects win due to their peaceful coexistence. It's the asshat who chose rock in the first place that loses.

:D

[ohiosmith]

5. Quit whining and take your noogies.

[Sabriel]

6. Because "Jackhammer" is difficult to make using a hand motion

That's what I always figured. Or "Dynamite," for that matter.

[AngryAmish]

19. Dynamite is recognized in RPS

It is depicted as a single index finger. It blows everthing up.

Because it is so powerful, it can only be used once per month. So keep it until there is a particularly unpleasant task.

[snippy]

7. Ask an attorney. n/t

[pagerbear]

8. Kurt, honey, are you bored?

You've been in the Lounge a lot lately. Is there something you'd like to share with us?

[KurtNYC]

18. my boredom

[pagerbear]

22. Anything I can do

...to make your day more interesting?

[miss_kitty]

9. what if the paper is wet?

the rock will break through it.

[Worst Username Ever]

10. rock-plastic explosives-scissors.

Scissors cuts the fuse to the plastique, plastique detonates rock.

[Eagle_Eye]

11. Have you?

Have you ever tried to roll a joint with a rock? Paper beats the hell out of rocks when it is time to light up a doobie

[jpgray]

12. If someone makes a Rolling Rock beer reference I'll swallow my own tongue

:P

[madinmaryland]

14. Now that you mention it, I am getting thirsty.

I think its beer-thirty.
:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

[Eagle_Eye]

17. Its Five O'Clock Somewhere

[ClintonTyree]

20. you could carve a nice..............

stone pipe, thus making paper useless.!

[neoteric lefty]

13. Paper sits atop Rock and talks

disparangingly about Rock and all of Rock's insecurities. Paper calls Rock fat. Paper says, "All you do is sit there one your worthless ass all day doing nothing. Get a job!"

[skygazer]

15. Maybe it has to do with the pen being mightier than the sword thing

Maybe there's some devastating gossip about the rock written on the paper. It's blackmail, see. The paper drapes over the rock, the rock reads the paper and shuts right up so as not to be exposed for the mineral he is.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Paper COVERS Rock

It doesn't beat it. When under the paper, it can't be found to smash the scissors.

How's that work for an explanation?
The Professor

[NoSheep]

25. Righto Professor!

:7

[KurtNYC]

26. Imagine the shock of the scissors when they cut

through the paper and out comes the rock to smash them!

It's like Spy vs. Spy.

[gWbush is Mabus]

21. drop a piece of paper and a rock - the paper will land on top of the rock

[liontamer]

23. in the german version there is also a well

rock and scissors fall into well, paper covers well. It's all horribly asymetric

[Kellanved]

31. nah, that's the chaeter's version

We use rock-paper-scissors (Stein-Papier-Schere) too.

[WoodrowFan]

24. ironically because paper uses electronic voting (NT)

[KurtNYC]

27. LOL

[RevolutionaryActs]

28. I know what you mean, which is why I wiggle my fingers and say...

.. lave beats everything! mwhaahahahahaha :evilgrin:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

29. Yeah, you could wrap up the rock in paper, and still smash a BUNCH of

scissors, and people's mugs, with it. :shrug:

[Goathead]

30. Rock flys right through paper

everbody knows that