ackanomic Digest Thursday, March 18 1999 Volume: 04 Issue: 074 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Towsner Subject: Acka: MTG* Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 17:06:00 -0500 (EST) I was in my house (which I'm too lazy to describe) doing something (ditto) when something happened (bet I don't even need to include this parenthetical comment). As a consequence, a Machine (you guessed it) and told me a secret (but I'm too lazy to think of a good one): IF AND ONLY IF today *** *** ** *** ****** ** *** **** *** *** ***** ** ***** ** * ******* ******, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*. -- -Henry Towsner < Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Acka: MTG* From: Joseph DeVincentis Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:30:13 -0500 (EST) else...if wrote: > I was in my house (which I'm too lazy to describe) doing something > (ditto) when something happened (bet I don't even need to include this > parenthetical comment). As a consequence, a Machine (you guessed it) > and told me a secret (but I'm too lazy to think of a good one): > > > IF AND ONLY IF today *** *** ** *** ****** ** *** **** *** *** ***** ** > ***** ** * ******* ******, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go > *ping*. Rule 12-6 says: III. Within seven days of a player receiving this title, the Machine shall manifest in the Scholar's dreams and utter one truth. This truth shall take the form, "IF AND ONLY IF today {if clause}, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*." It must be a truth the Machine has never uttered before. In the Machine's truth, {if clause} will be replaced by no more than twelve words. The truth above is clearly in violation of this rule, as it contains 17 words. In the interest of getting an actual Machine That Goes *ping* game going, I am calling for the Scholar's removal. /dev/joe ------------------------------ From: Towsner Subject: Acka:MTG* Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:20:57 -0500 (EST) IF AND ONLY IF today the sum of the digits of the date and the month is prime or a perfect square, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*. -- -Henry Towsner Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith ------------------------------ Subject: Acka: Machine that goes *ping* From: Joseph DeVincentis Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:48:39 -0500 (EST) I just had the strangest dream. I dreamt that the Scholar of *ping* announced a 17-word truth. After such a ridiculous event, I then dreamt that the Machine was in my house, and it was trying to tell *me* the truth. All I could really remember of it, though, was: IF AND ONLY IF today ** ****** ** ********* *** *** ***** ******* ****** **, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*. /dev/joe ------------------------------ End of ackanomic Digest V4 #74 ******************************