Subject: Ackanomic Games Digest V2 #6
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Ackanomic Games Digest      Friday, March 7 1997      Volume 02 : Number 006

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 05:21:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost play

> 	"ndfe"
	I challenge this play on the grounds that "ndfe" does not appear 
in any word.  (It was IdiotBoy's play.)

> Mohammed
> /dev/joe
> IdiotBoy

- --Mohammed

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 05:12:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Machine That Goes *ping*

I fell asleep on my couch today, and had an extremely odd and lengthy
dream. The descriptions from the scholars before me had not prepared
me for this. I saw, but did not understand, vast machineries and
intricate webs of logistically interdependent yet counterbalancing
concepts, which in my dream appeared in the forms of linked bagels.
Cream cheese and lox dripped through everything, carrying away
redundancies and suboptimal linkages through a drain in the floor.
Above it all, and at the same time enclosing it, was the Machine That
Goes *ping*. I felt that if this was the manifestation of the
Machine's truth, I could never hope to comprehend its meaning. I
despaired of fulfilling my scholarly duties. But then on the fourth
day I was visited by an Incan monkey god who told me what to write:

"IF AND ONLY IF today *** ******** ** ******* ** *** ****'* *****
******* ** * ******, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go
*ping*."

Now I just have to find somebody who can translate his simple but
beautiful language.

breadbox
scholar of *ping*

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:22:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost play

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Jason Orendorff wrote:

> > 	"ndfe"
> 	I challenge this play on the grounds that "ndfe" does not appear 
> in any word.  (It was IdiotBoy's play.)
> 

"handfed" -- adj. ermm, fed by hand.

IB

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:08:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: The Machine That Goes *ping*

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Brian Raiter wrote:

> I fell asleep on my couch today, and had an extremely odd and lengthy
> dream. The descriptions from the scholars before me had not prepared
> me for this. I saw, but did not understand, vast machineries and
> intricate webs of logistically interdependent yet counterbalancing
> concepts, which in my dream appeared in the forms of linked bagels.
<SNIP>

This sounds vaguely like how Coleridge came to write "Xanadu"... perhaps we
need an intervention with our dear breadbox.

IB

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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 10:35:05 -0800
From: Randy Hall <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ghost (/dev/joe)

"handfed" is not in the official dictionary.  There is no
ghost word.  It is /dev/joe's turn.  I guess we don't need the
turn list anymore:

/dev/joe
Mohammed

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:46:36 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Ghost (/dev/joe)

Malenkai wrote:

>"handfed" is not in the official dictionary.

This surprised me, but "handfed" is not in Websters New Universal
Dictionary, either.  I thought IB had pulled a real coup.

ThinMan
Ghost ghost

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:52:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Ghost (/dev/joe)

On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bollinger, John C. wrote:

> This surprised me, but "handfed" is not in Websters New Universal
> Dictionary, either.  I thought IB had pulled a real coup.
> 

And here I thought dictionaries were supposed to reflect usage.

Bah, I knew I should have cheated! ;)

IB

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 11:57:45 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost (/dev/joe)

The ghost word is:  o

Mohammed
/dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 13:51:57 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka:Diplomacy 

Spring '01
Germany
A Ber - Sil
A Mun - Ruhr
F Kiel - Hol

Russia
StP -> GOB
Mos -> Ukr
War -> Gal
Sev -> Rum

France
Bre-Pic 
Par-Bur
Mar s Par-Bur

England
Edi->NTH
Lpl->Yorkshire
Lon->wales

Austria
F Trieste-Albania
A Budapest-Serbia
A Vienna-Budapest

Italy
A Rom s A Ven
A Ven s A Rom
F Nap->ION

All the moves succeeded

The final positions are:
England
F North Sea
F Wales
A Yorkshire
France
F Picardy
A Burgundy
A Marseilles
Italy
A Venice
A Rome
F Nap
Austria
A Budapest
A Serbia
F Albania
Russia
F Rumania
A Galicia
A Ukraine
F Gulf of Bothnia

The next moves will be Sunday at 1300 (1 pm) Ackanomic time.

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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:23:04 -0800
From: Stephen McCulley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:Diplomacy

[email-masked] wrote:
> 
> Spring '01
> Germany
> A Ber - Sil
> A Mun - Ruhr
> F Kiel - Hol
> 
> Russia
> StP -> GOB
> Mos -> Ukr
> War -> Gal
> Sev -> Rum
> 
> France
> Bre-Pic
> Par-Bur
> Mar s Par-Bur
> 
> England
> Edi->NTH
> Lpl->Yorkshire
> Lon->wales
> 
> Austria
> F Trieste-Albania
> A Budapest-Serbia
> A Vienna-Budapest
> 
> Italy
> A Rom s A Ven
> A Ven s A Rom
> F Nap->ION
> 
> All the moves succeeded
> 
> The final positions are:
> England
> F North Sea
> F Wales
> A Yorkshire
> France
> F Picardy
> A Burgundy
> A Marseilles
> Italy
> A Venice
> A Rome
> F Nap
> Austria
> A Budapest
> A Serbia
> F Albania
> Russia
> F Rumania
> A Galicia
> A Ukraine
> F Gulf of Bothnia
> 
> The next moves will be Sunday at 1300 (1 pm) Ackanomic time.
What happened to Ludwig?  Is Turkey holding, or what?

Strider
Austria-Hungary

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:57:02 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka:Diplomacy 

Hrrmm... it appears that I forgot poor Turkey...

<singing "that's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight, losing my
supply centers">

Turkey
Con h
Ank h
Smy h

Turkey's position should be just as it is at setup
F Ank
A Con
A Smy

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 14:14:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Ghost (/dev/joe)

> >"handfed" is not in the official dictionary.
> 
> This surprised me, but "handfed" is not in Websters New Universal
> Dictionary, either.  I thought IB had pulled a real coup.
	I "found" the word, mentally, after several hours of searching, 
but figured it was hyphenated.  It isn't in my American Heritage 3rd 
either.  Weird.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 17:02:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost (/dev/joe)

The ghost word is:  on

- --Mohammed

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 19:34:34 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Ghost (Mohammed)

The ghost word is:  zon

/dev/joe

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