Received: with LISTAR (v0.126a; list acka-games); Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:00:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 00:00:04 -0400 (EDT) From: acka-games-digest@ackanomic.org To: acka-games digest users Reply-to: acka-games@ackanomic.org Subject: acka-games Digest V4 #114 Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Listar version 0.126a List-name: acka-games List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: acka-games Digest Monday, September 13 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 114 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: K 2 Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:57:50 -0400 (EDT) I'll play both K 2 Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > > I call for games of ghost and mediocrity. I will ref ghost, but want > someone else to ref mediocrity. > > -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito! B(Scam) > DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Trinket-Harfer > Crazy French-Scotsman * Student (Scamology) ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:17:48 -0400 (EDT) On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > I call for games of ghost and mediocrity. I will ref ghost, but want > someone else to ref mediocrity. I will happily play in both. --JT -- [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:22:42 -0400 (EDT) On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, JT wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > > I call for games of ghost and mediocrity. I will ref ghost, but want > > someone else to ref mediocrity. > > I will happily play in both. > I will ref Mediocrity. IB ------------------------------ From: "Gavin M. Doig" Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:45:29 -0400 (EDT) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >I call for games of ghost and mediocrity. I will ref ghost, but want >someone else to ref mediocrity. > I'll play mediocrity. BLMP. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Edition 6.0.2 iQA/AwUBN90pqrbk8bQb5dDPEQIAZQCg0zrqKkh799A3+sth21P1s+mujNcAoN6N CHEHXXmLyl1n6PbTnNRGr1vb =+Pfr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ From: "Elio M. Garcia, Jr." Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:47:46 -0400 (EDT) Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > > I call for games of ghost and mediocrity. I will ref ghost, but want > someone else to ref mediocrity. I'll play ghost. Think I'll pass on mediocrity -- I know it all too well. ;) Reductio ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Acka: Fict. ends Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:55:19 -0400 (EDT) OK, Mao, Vynd, joe, Studge, and K 2 all sent in the right definition, which means Red Mao Gang wins. e prolly gets a trophy. No ref == no ref fee. I'm too lazy to look up anything else that happens. -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito! B(Scam) DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Trinket-Harfer Crazy French-Scotsman * Student (Scamology) ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Fict. ends Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:09:49 -0400 (EDT) On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > Red Mao Gang wins. Wheee! :) I call for a new game of Fictionary. --JT -- [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: Rachel L Walmsley Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:13:29 -0400 (EDT) Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > > I call for games of ghost and mediocrity. I will ref ghost, but want > someone else to ref mediocrity. I'll play both please. Quoth. -- Rachel Walmsley. womble@tmbg.org ICQ: 2925739 Personal page - http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html The Doh! Zone - http://www.dohzone.uk.eu.org/ Ahab says, "I don't care who you are, here's to your dream!" ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Acka: Games: Mediocrity. Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:17:49 -0400 (EDT) Is there an instance of Mediocrity which is currently being played? Tahnks- IB ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Games: Mediocrity. Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:21:24 -0400 (EDT) On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Matt Miller wrote: > Is there an instance of Mediocrity which is currently being played? Not yet, but soon :) --JT -- [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: "Gavin M. Doig" Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:48:50 -0400 (EDT) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >I'll play mediocrity. > I'll play Ghost as well. Even though I can't remember what on earth it is. [Thinks]. Oh, it's the add-on-a-letter one. BLMP. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Edition 6.0.2 iQA/AwUBN91Gpbbk8bQb5dDPEQIQeQCgvAbddL0hNbYEvsqQEit53C0V4RwAoO+B aOuXwYH1lflukccQBMAoEO3D =NVw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Acka: Fict. ends From: Joseph DeVincentis Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:48:59 -0400 (EDT) JT wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > > Red Mao Gang wins. > > Wheee! :) > > I call for a new game of Fictionary. I'll play. /dev/joe ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Acka: Ghost (Quoth) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:45:59 -0400 (EDT) Ghost has begun! The play order is: Quoth the Raven Reductio Blest Lax Monk Pal Red Mao Gang K 2 -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito! B(Scam) DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Trinket-Harfer Crazy French-Scotsman * Student (Scamology) ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Acka: Games: Mediocrity. Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:57:29 -0400 (EDT) I do, hereby, kick off a game of Mediocrity. These are the players and their scores, saith the Referee: Emperor Ai! Pedrito! 0 K2 0 Red Mao Gang 0 Blest Lax Monk Pal 0 Quoth the Raven 0 Now is the time when the players will send their plays to the Referee. IB Ref ------------------------------ From: Gabe Drummond-Cole Subject: Acka: YORL Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:07:31 -0400 (EDT) and racing down the beach toward the water the other sailors and i leapt into the creamy foam of the surf and swam as if our lives depended on it toward the slowly retreating longboats as behind us the blinded giant screamed prayers to the gods and hurled rocks as large as chariots at us missing here by a few feet smacking down here with a cruel crunch of bone and a muffled cry then a deep red spreading slowly through the mediterranean blue until finally all were aboard and rowing back but with rocks coming more quickly now and quicker and quicker until it made no sense that there could be only one giant especially a blind giant taking into consideration the accuracy with which the boulders were hurled and i said to the men i said hang tight men for by athena we will make it back to ithica yet but the men kept silent and rowed and all around me i watched my boats sink until the one i was on and one other were the only boats left and the tide had been stained a deep crimson by the lifesblood of my men and as a sudden stillness came down on us i took the hem of my robe in my hand and prayed to athena to take me home to take us all home and let me tell you that whatever that old blind fool homer says none of the rest of that is true not one whit because the giant or maybe the multiple giants didnt hit us again and instead we made it to the boat because of the hem of that robe and i will tell you why because i know it would make no sense to just say that we were saved by the hem of my robe but we were and it was truly a miracle of athena godess of wisdom because what she did was she took the hem of my robe and stretched it out in a rainbow of colors and stretched it in a shield over my two longboats and there i was standing there my robe stretched out to cover all my men and everything but me and the rocks were raining down and i took one on my forehead where i still have this scar here and i took another in the shoulder and damn near blacked out but i kept standing there with the hem of my robe stretched out over my men because i knew i was their only hope and i looked up toward olympus and i said to myself if i get out of this alive i will bow down and pray to pallas minerva three times a day for the rest of my life and although there have been some rough times and all and sometimes i couldnt tell if it was really day or night like in the underworld i still have tried my very hardest to stand up to that oath and pray to mighty athena that she protect me with her aegis from the thunderbolts of zeus and then she took us safely onto my ship and relaxed the hem of my robe and i fell to my knees as did my men and we praised her with loud clamorings and great emotion and set sail once more for ithica and thus ends the first chapter of my tale. i play 'hem'. -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito! B(Scam) DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Trinket-Harfer Crazy French-Scotsman * Student (Scamology) ------------------------------ From: Matt Miller Subject: Re: Acka: YORL Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:21:40 -0400 (EDT) Who let Joyce into the game?! IB ------------------------------ From: "Aaron V. Humphrey" Subject: Re: Acka: Fict. ends Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:34:14 -0400 (EDT) > > I call for a new game of Fictionary. > I'll play. As, of course, will I. -- --Alfvaen(Web page:http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/) Song In My Head--Shakespear's Sister:I Don't Care Current Book--Robert Charles Wilson:Darwinia We hurt the ones we love the most; it's a subtle form of compliment ------------------------------ From: "Bryan Federico" Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost and Mediocrity Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:46:58 -0400 (EDT) > I call for games of ghost and mediocrity. I will ref ghost, but want > someone else to ref mediocrity. > > > -- Emperor Ai! Pedrito! B(Scam) > DeeJay * Dungeon Master * Herald * Rule-Harfer * Trinket-Harfer > Crazy French-Scotsman * Student (Scamology) Surprizing as it is to see an email from my lazy self i have finally mustered the strength to rise up to my email and read it. I will play ghost but not medocrity. R-attila the farce ------------------------------ From: "Bryan Federico" Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost (Quoth) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:47:42 -0400 (EDT) > Ghost has begun! The play order is: > > Quoth the Raven > Reductio > Blest Lax Monk Pal > Red Mao Gang > K 2 Ack oh well so much for playing ghost R-attila ------------------------------ From: "Bryan Federico" Subject: Re: Acka: Fict. ends Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 23:48:50 -0400 (EDT) > JT wrote: > > > > On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote: > > > Red Mao Gang wins. > > > > Wheee! :) > > > > I call for a new game of Fictionary. > > I'll play. > > /dev/joe Since i cant play ghost ill play fictionary ( hows does that game work agian?) R-attila ------------------------------ End of acka-games Digest V4 #114 ********************************