ackanomic Digest Thursday, November 26 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 426 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JT Subject: Acka: No More Goldenmean Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 02:41:48 -0500 (EST) At 01:48 today, Goldenmean became a Non-Player. Financier, please let me know of any destroyed trinkets. --JT, Registrar [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. ] [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ] [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] ------------------------------ From: K 2 Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Acka: Birthday Prezzies]] Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:19:21 -0500 (EST) K 2 wrote: Fitfth time then. muttering something about editing the description istead of the name :/ I create 35 trinkets each worth A$1 with the name "K2's Birthday Present for Someone" where in each case Someone is replaced with the current name of a non-icy player in such a way as to create a unique name. Each of the trinkets has the following description: " Its one of those useful teaspoon things which are... um... useful for hanging up. It has a picture of K2's coat of arms on it, only the central figure is rampant. " All of the trinkets are forgeries :) and I think two of em weren't created.... K 2 > > Helpful list of potentially on icy players: > > > > 404 Not Found > > Alfvaen > > Aunt Froot > > Calvin N Hobbes > > Danek > > /dev/joe > > else...if > > Ethelred > > Euphrates > > Fortunato > > Gromit > > IdiotBoy > > JT > > K 2 > > Niccolo Flychuck > > Pol Pot > > r-attila the farce > > Red Barn > > Robert Sevin > > Robin Hood > > rufus > > saaremaa > > scout > > sIRE > > Slakko > > smallpox blanket > > The Green Ripper > > ThinMan > > Thomas Jute > > two-star > > Vynd > > Wild Card ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Acka: Birthday Prezzies]] Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:07:50 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, K 2 wrote: >I create 35 trinkets each worth A$1 with the name "K2's Birthday >Present for Someone" where in each case Someone is replaced with the >current name of a non-icy player in such a way as to create a unique >name. > >Each of the trinkets has the following description: >" >Its one of those useful teaspoon things which are... um... useful for >hanging up. It has a picture of K2's coat of arms on it, only the >central figure is rampant. >" These I believe do work as intended because 'K2' and 'K 2' are not the same number of words, and therefore while they have the same primitive form are not 'the name of a player' for purposes of the forgery rule. One, "K2's Birthday Present for K 2" is not created because an entity with a name that has the same primitive form exists already (see previous attempts). The rest were created in the following order (since I have to make a random determination across the players names) K2's Birthday Present for Celia K2's Birthday Present for saaremaa K2's Birthday Present for 404 Not Found K2's Birthday Present for /dev/joe K2's Birthday Present for else...if K2's Birthday Present for Hubert K2's Birthday Present for Euphrates K2's Birthday Present for scout K2's Birthday Present for Alfvaen K2's Birthday Present for Calvin N Hobbes K2's Birthday Present for Red Barn K2's Birthday Present for Ethelred K2's Birthday Present for ThinMan K2's Birthday Present for Fortunato K2's Birthday Present for rufus K2's Birthday Present for IdiotBoy K2's Birthday Present for Pol Pot K2's Birthday Present for Robin Hood K2's Birthday Present for JT K2's Birthday Present for Slakko K2's Birthday Present for Wild Card K2's Birthday Present for Niccolo Flychuck K2's Birthday Present for r-attila the farce K2's Birthday Present for smallpox blanket K2's Birthday Present for Thomas Jute K2's Birthday Present for two-star K2's Birthday Present for Danek K2's Birthday Present for sIRE K2's Birthday Present for Vynd K2's Birthday Present for Robert Sevin This results in the creation of 30 trinkets. Each of the other 5 attempts failed as it would duplicate the primitive name of an already existing trinket. >All of the trinkets are forgeries :) and I think two of em weren't >created.... And they are now all transfered to the intended owners. --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: JT Subject: Re: Acka: AWOL (saaremaa) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:27:37 -0500 (EST) On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, JT wrote: >Pol Pot has pointed out that saaremaa has gone AWOL. >I have sent him the standard AWOL message. Saaremaa never replied to this message. He was placed on Vacation as of Wed, 25 Nov 1998 02:29:06 -0500 He has an EDR of 3 days plus 14 days leeway. --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: Duncan Richer Subject: Acka: Future Absence Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:28:20 -0500 (EST) I will be unavailable to maintain the web pages for the period 9th December to 7th January inclusive. If no-one else is acting web-harfer for this period, I suspect it will be impossible to get back up to speed. Will people please think about whether or not they wish to web-harf for 4 weeks. Yours, Slakko -- Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/ Ackanomic | U. of Cambridge Web-Harfer, CotC, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Senator | 2nd Year PhD(PMa) ------------------------------ From: JT Subject: Re: Acka: Future Absence Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 14:33:55 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Duncan Richer wrote: >I will be unavailable to maintain the web pages for the period 9th >December to 7th January inclusive. If no-one else is acting web-harfer >for this period, I suspect it will be impossible to get back up to speed. > >Will people please think about whether or not they wish to web-harf for 4 >weeks. I know that I will not be able to do this even though by default I would be the acting web harfer. So I also implore someone else to step forward and volunteer. --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: Thierry Joffrain Subject: Re: Acka: AWOL (saaremaa) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 17:10:41 -0500 (EST) >>Pol Pot has pointed out that saaremaa has gone AWOL. >>I have sent him the standard AWOL message. > >Saaremaa never replied to this message. >He was placed on Vacation as of Wed, 25 Nov 1998 02:29:06 -0500 I know this process has a reason for being, but could we not have another way of dealing with it? Like a quorum call or something... It just seems very nasty as a process. CnH ------------------------------ From: Eric Plumb Subject: Acka: Riposte (sIRE) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 17:25:32 -0500 (EST) On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:55:31 -0500 (EST), smallpox mary wrote: > Know, oh most foul of mountains, that sIRE, first Scaremonger of > Ackanomic, has seen fit to engage me as his second in a duel against > you. Not content with moving in and out of the game seemingly at random, > now you attempt to repeal that very foundation of all that is Ackan - > the office of Scaremonger! Do you really expect sIRE to let slip this > affront to the honour and Harfiness, not only of himself and his > office, but of every player, past and present, who stands on the side of > Harf? Know this then, oh most plague-ridden of textiles, that I, whose name children fear to speak, have been retained as Second now that the Mighty Mountain has seen fit to acknowledge your pitiful attempt at a challenge. Pfui. Honor and Harf, indeed. Does our so-called Scaremonger realize that e has had the gall and affrontery to challenge no less than a Former Emperor of Ackanomic? TWO former emperors, for that matter? That e challenges the wielder of the Quirpele of Pneumnoultrathisisareallylongwordisntitsilicovolcanoconiosis, the mountain who single-handedly destroyed 75% of the Organizations in Acka, the upstanding citizen who managed not only to Debunk the magnificent Slakko, but was the First and Only DoppelSlakko, rule-mandated breaker of the game? That this thrice-Funky and Stylish former Harfmeister is SO game-breakingly Harfy and Honorable that even eir measly Second once nearly passed a Proposal to turn the whole of Ackanomic into a game of checkers? And, after each of these incidents, what did we hear from our Scaremonger? No fermentation of chaos, no ominous prophecies of doom and despair, but instead the sounds of whimpering and crying from eir bunk below. Turn back now from this course of foolishness, young sIRE. Your impudence will be forgiven, for you know not on what hallowed ground you tread. > sIRE awaits your response, if you dare to give one. There'll be no > escape for the mountain this time. This I have to say to sIRE: Do not meddle in the affairs of mountains, for they are subtle, quick to anger, and a hell of a lot bigger than you. Against my own bloodthirsty advice, K 2, in Eir magnanimity, has seen fit to give this young upstart a chance to repent and back out with eir Honor, such as it is, intact. Quit now, Randomly Capitalized One, or be shown the folly of your ways. If, however, our Scaremongrel wishes to persist in eir Foolishness, my First will be more than happy to drub em soundly in the venerated contest of Double Crash. K 2's got eirs, and is looking for yours. -Hubert Cogito ergo spud. (I think, therefore I yam.) ------------------------------ From: Tom Walmsley Subject: Re: Acka: Happy Birthday! Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 17:35:04 -0500 (EST) Eric Plumb wrote: > Bah, only eight? I point my Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Much, > Really at Alice, press the button marked "ENERGIZE" and supply the anagram > "Celia" so we don't have to switch pronouns now we've gotten used to it. What do you mean "only eight?"? You've only had a rather pitiful 5 names. I point my really big blue thing that doesn't do much really at Hubert, press the button marked ENERGIZE and supply the anagram "Butter". This fails because: a. I don't own a RBBTTDDMR b. Butter is one letter off being an anagram of Hubert. Unfortunately, I don't like the name Celia so I'm going to change my name again. I'm still pondering the pronoun situation but I'm not going to change back to Alice so instead I change my name, pending ack, to "Jenny", so that there can be some confusion and ambiguity if Butter ever changes back to his former name. I also urge everyone to vote against else...if's proposal to make everyone keep the same name always (surprise, surprise :-)). Celia. -- Tom Walmsley t.walmsley@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html AIM: TGW666 ICQ 2925739 Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo. ------------------------------ From: Eric Plumb Subject: Re: Acka: Happy Birthday! Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 17:58:35 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > What do you mean "only eight?"? You've only had a rather pitiful 5 names. I OK, Mr. Tambourine Entity, that's it. I've had just about enough of your lip. I have had, by my count, eight thousand six hundred fifty-seven names in the 187 dimensions I conquered under my first nomenclature alone, and that doesn't even begin to include the ones JT wouldn't let me have. For this malevolent slander which cuts to the core of my very identity, Mr. Gingham Fondler, you can expect to hear from my Second. > Unfortunately, I don't like the name Celia so I'm going to change my name > again. I'm still pondering the pronoun situation but I'm not going to change > back to Alice so instead I change my name, pending ack, to "Jenny", so that > there can be some confusion and ambiguity if Butter ever changes back to his > former name. Fine then. I change my name, minus quotes and period, to "MTM." Let's see our Registrar try and ignore THIS. Confusion and ambiguity, indeed. -Hubert, once Slagothor, Hubert, 867-5309, Tom Walmsley (was SO), Small Mew Toy, The Green Ripper, once again Hubert, and now MTM. Last night I played poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died. ------------------------------ From: Jonathan David Amery Subject: Re: Acka: Happy Birthday! Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 20:23:16 -0500 (EST) On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Eric Plumb wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > -Hubert, once Slagothor, Hubert, 867-5309, Tom Walmsley (was SO), Small > Mew Toy, The Green Ripper, once again Hubert, and now MTM. I attempt to change my name (back) to H*bert. -- Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ. ##### http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html o__####### Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing Silly Agenda Hats. \'####### Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo. Holding the Silver Key to the Vault. Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the puppethead. ------------------------------ From: Mueller Subject: Re: Acka: Happy Birthday! Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:01:52 -0500 (EST) At 08:23 PM 11/26/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Eric Plumb wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: >> -Hubert, once Slagothor, Hubert, 867-5309, Tom Walmsley (was SO), Small >> Mew Toy, The Green Ripper, once again Hubert, and now MTM. > > I attempt to change my name (back) to H*bert. > I hope this is a good time for the harfers and you can do this in one fell swoop: I attempt to change my name back to Studge. Ahhhh, that hits the spot. I go to the library. I wander in the general direction of the Ackanomicon with my eyes closed until my hands touch a moldering old book. I open my eyes, grumble, and then go find the Ackanomicon the normal way... so much for tension. Also, for when the limerick duel gets started, I note that I am Count Tabula now, and the ref of the game. Thomas Jute, soon Studge again. ------------------------------ From: Alexandre Muniz Subject: Acka: Phoebe Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:31:48 -0500 (EST) I didn't see the matchbox. I mean, that's one of the few things we know about her, from the rule, and it simply wasn't there. How often have we heard that so-and-so has found Phoebe's matchbox? But this time JT simply announced that I had found Phoebe. And so I saw her, a sense of movement in my peripheral vision which I narrowed down to a metallic speck. "Hey, Phoebe." "Hey. Whatcha up to?" "Thinking about how I should change the map to the soot-covered tome sometime." "Ah. Well, here is my wisdom for you: Do that soon." "Thanks a lot. What do you do when you aren't dispensing wisdom? Do you have any friends among the NPSE's?" I have to admit that I asked her, not out of any real concern for her welfare, but because I felt I had been cheated of real wisdom, and if I could gather a few crumbs from small talk, it would only be what I deserved. "The Non-Player Sentient Entities? Not really. The Brass Monkey and the Fat Lady have each other, and there's no place for a nanotech flea in the bargain. Plus she's been really stressed out lately, having to rack her brains so she doesn't exhaust her repetoire, not to mention the physical toll it's been taking on her. And the Machine that goes *ping* has a bizarre sense of humor, and all it ever says is *ping* anyways. All of my friends from the old times didn't make it through the Catastrophes. Or if they did, Mummu only knows where they are now. Mostly, I get books from the Library, and read them under the shade of the amber banana tree. I like to just walk around town sometimes. I think my favorite spot is the FM building." "You mean the Free Market?" "I'll let you in on a little secret: although that's what the Map-Harfer has always harfed it as, in the rules, it's just called the FM building. So I like to pretend it's the Frankenstein Monster building when I'm there." This disturbed me on some basic level; if the buildings of the city were so open to interpretation, how could I ever know that the game that I experienced bore any resemblence to the game that others experienced. I had tried to trick Phoebe out of her wisdom, and what she have me was harsh sense of disorientation which I was not prepared for. She must have known what I was trying to do. I didn't want to think about this, so I changed the subject. "You got to see Ursula a while back. That must have been very exciting for you." "Yeah, she's all right, but a bit of a ditz. She's not my real sister, you know; that was just a gratuitous pop culture reference." "I'm glad to see your opinion about pop culture references in the rules matches my own." "Well, I'm a very agreeable girl. I guess I should be going now." "Do you want me to take your matchbox somewhere?" "Nah. I kinda ditched it. It's a real pain to carry around, you know. I'll probably go back if the weather gets worse." And she hopped away, and that was that. **two-star ------------------------------ From: Alexandre Muniz Subject: Re: Acka: Happy Birthday! Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:45:37 -0500 (EST) Jonathan David Amery wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Eric Plumb wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote: > > -Hubert, once Slagothor, Hubert, 867-5309, Tom Walmsley (was SO), Small > > Mew Toy, The Green Ripper, once again Hubert, and now MTM. > > I attempt to change my name (back) to H*bert. I note, for the record, that my *real* name is still Eric Plumb. **two-star ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V3 #426 *******************************