GUMBALL ARCHIVE



The Gumball is governed by rule 903.


snowgod (Phil Ackley) - Wednesday, April 24 1996
It is Wednesday, April 24, and in accordance with rule 495 I am chewing the gumball.


chess piece face (Paul Swan) - Thursday, May 2 1996
being that it is now thursday, alternately from last wednesday, i will now chew the gumball as defined in rule 495, though it is still slightly moist from it's previous chew...
See CFJ 166 about the legality of the above chewing.
this is not a name (Mike Epstein) - Thursday, May 2 1996
Oh, yeah? Well, I'm ripping the gumball out of your mouth and chewing it RIGHT NOW. And you can't stop me. Ha ha.

Dr McSpong (Julian Richardson) - Wednesday, May 22 1996
I am now chewing the gumball.

If anyone wants to chew the gumball today, make me an offer I can't refuse.


this is not a name (Mike Epstein) - Thursday, Jun 20 1996
So I was walking through the town square of Ackanomia peacefully late at night, trying to think of a way to settle the current, seemingly intractable dispute, and I saw a matchbox lying by the side of the path. It glittered, and it gleamed, but it turned out to have nothing but a cheap ad for mail-order stamps on the inside. It reminded me that I sorely miss the revelations of Ackanomia's resident Steel Flea.

But passing by the Library (which is due for a thorough renovation if the Historian ever stops neglecting his duties) I came across a strange pink substance sticking to the side of a tree. I looked more closely and discovered, lo and behold, a gumball.

So I brought it home, waiting anxiously for the third Thursday of this month. And now that that has come about, I proudly bite into the gumball.


snowgod (Phil Ackley) - Thursday, Jun 20 1996
Hey! It's something stuck to my shoe! Perhaps next time, this is not a name, you will place your gumball back where you found it after you are done chewing! After ripping the sticky sweet gumball remains out the traction crevices in my sole, I place it my mouth and begin to chew. I sure hope there are no diseases that can be transmitted electonically. Who says two people can't chew the gumball during the same day!

breadbox (Brian Raiter) - Wed, 11 Sep 1996 01:53:31 -0700 (PDT)
Unable to keep my mind on my research any longer, and noting that more than enough time has lapsed, I leave the Library and rush about Ackanomia, hither and yon, until I find: the Gumball.

I am now chewing the Gumball.

Calmer now, I return to the Library to resume my research. When the noisy voices of my fellow Ackanomians rises in volume, I take no notice. For I am at peace; I have chewed the Gumball of Ackanomia.


Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin) - Thu, 19 Sep 1996 19:10:11 -0500 (CDT)
Today being the third Thursday of the month, I am undeterred by the gumball's recent passage through the Little Lamb's digestive system, and I am chewing it.

Unfortunately, it leaves an unpleasant grassy aftertaste.


Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain) - Wed, 9 Oct 1996 22:04:18 -0500
Realizing this may be completely out of date...

_If_ the gumball exists _and_ no other player has said this before me today:

I chew the gumball. It's kind of hard, not having been chewed on for a while, but good, with a cool minty fresh taste.

Calvin "chewing" Hobbes


23 Skidoo (Dave Fisher) - Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:36:35 -0800
It bis now Wednesday, December the 11th, and I am sitting in my home, which is newly built, and resembles very much an construction site. Digging throughthe rubbish, looking for a copy of the rules to look through to better aqaint myself with the game in general), what should I come across but the old gumball, which has not been chewed in... how long? Anyway, I lift it to my mouth and chew, nearly chipping my teeth rock-hard substance. Is there something that happens now, something that would cause peoplee to not have chewed the gumball in so long?

/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis) - Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:06:21 -0600 (CST)
It is the first Thursday of February, and I am chewing the gumball.

Mohammed (Jason Orendorff) - Thu, 6 Feb 1997 15:19:16 -0600 (CST)
It is the first Thursday of February, and I am chewing the gumball.

--Mohammed
suspicious


Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin) - Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:56:00 -0600 (CST)
It is the first Thursday of February, and I too am chewing the gumball. I feel a strange wave of nausea pass over me, as if I have just caught some noxious Gumbally-transmitted disease. I will probably fall down with snowgod's disease, soon.

GF
stop GTD's


Mohammed (Jason Orendorff) - Thu, 20 Mar 1997 20:50:26 -0600
I wandered out my front door, thinking I might drop by breadbox's place and demand some back rent, when what to my wandering eyes should flatten me out and plow over my crushed body with squealing brakes and the roar of an internal combustion engine just barely under control, but a Jeep Cherokee, which then rips down the dirt road at a speed guaranteed to cause worry in any intelligent creature.

College students heading south for Thring Break, apparently.

As I tried to seperate my parts from those of my ex-mailbox, I noticed a gooey, stringy substance plastered to my chest. At first I thought it might be No Tea, but as it turns out, the stuff is not tubular at all, but instead stretchy. In fact, it seemed to stretch right up off my chest, past my left ear, and down the road as far as I could see, as if it had been (and in fact, still was) stuck to the tires of that Jeep.

I had but a second to ponder this when the substance finally reached the limit of its stretchability and yanked me bodily out of the road and started to drag me down the street. Desperately I tried to peel it out of my chest, but I only managed to get my hands enveloped, then my feet, then my head.

What the heck, I thought, I might as well enjoy myself. It is the third Thursday in March, and I am chewing the Gumball.


xebra bod (Brian Raiter) - Wed, 23 Apr 1997 09:06:44 -0700
Today is Wednesday, April 23rd 1997, and I am chewing what may or may not be Ackanomic's future liaison to Internomic.

Atilla the Pun (Micah Smukler) - Thu, 15 May 1997 14:08:34 -0400
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, but I am not chewing the Gumball.
Just kidding.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.
Today is Thursday, May 15, the third Thursday in May, and I am chewing the Gumball.

/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis) - Tue, 10 Jun 1997 23:07:01 -0500
Here goes nothing!

It is Wednesday, June 11th, the second Wednesday in June, and I am chewing the Gumball.

It is Wednesday, June 11th, a day with a prime date greater than seven, and I am chewing the Anti-Gumball.


Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey) - Tue, 17 Jun 1997 00:02:31 -0600 (MDT)
Today is June 17th, a prime date greater than 7, and I am chewing the Anti-Gumball. Mainly because I chickened out on blowing myself up on Thursday.

Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey) - Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:01:13 -0600 (MDT)
I am going to the vacant kaa of land at K9 which I just bought, where, since it is the third Thursday of the month, and also a prime date greater than 7, I am chewing the Gumball and the Anti-Gumball. (I wasn't going to, but nobody else had, so, drama dictates...)

I can't wait for Malenkai to get out of Gaol so I can find out what just happened to me...:-)


Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey) - Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:43:46 -0600 (MDT)
It is Wednesday, June 25th, and I am chewing the Gumball.

Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey) - Thu, 3 Jul 1997 11:00:38 -0600 (MDT)
It is July 3rd, the first Thursday in July, and I am chewing the Gumball.

Since there is currently no game rule to regulate it, I am also chewing the Anti-Gumball.




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