This is an actual excerpt from a very long and very Byzantine email discussion on proposed rules for an upcoming game of Battletech, edited only for legibility.
 
FITZPATRICK:
Luxton, how did you vote on #3, all new tech is allowed? If you voted on this before, I can't find it. With your vote this whole fiasco can be over and we can start designing mechs.
 
LUXTON:
#3:
Aye.
 
EARLE:
What are we, pirates? It's 'Yea'. I'm getting you all copies of Robert's Rules.
 
FITZPATRICK:
Congress uses Aye, as does, I believe, British Parliament and the United Nations. That is sufficient precedent for me.
 
EARLE:
Fucking Model U.N. Looks like we're both right/wrong.
 
Verbal responses are traditionally 'aye' and 'no', but are usually recorded and thereafter referred to as YEA and NAY
 
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rollcallvotes.html
http://www.house.gov/rules/voting_house.htm
 
SCHIERMEYER:
Oh
My
God
EARLE:
Baby got back! (bzzz-wzzz wzz-wzzz-wzzz)

Want more? see Aye vs Yea, Part II
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