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acka-games-digest       Monday, October 19 1998       Volume 03 : Number 246

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:01:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
>JT wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
>>
>> >eckv
>>
>> eckve
>
>neckve

Challenge not in a word.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

JT wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
> >JT wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
> >>
> >> >eckv
> >>
> >> eckve
> >
> >neckve
>
> Challenge not in a word.

neckverse.

somewho appropriate :)
K 2

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:25:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

> JT wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
> > >JT wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
> > >
> > >neckve
> >
> > Challenge not in a word.
> 
> neckverse.

This word is not in the official dictionary, so JT wins the game and duel.

I note, interestingly enough, that this word appears in the OSW (Official
Scrabble Words - list based on British dictionaries) list at Marldoom, but
this is not one of the official dictionaries.  I hope all the non-American
Ackans don't revolt over this dictionary thing, with two events today. ;-o

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:53:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
>> JT wrote:
>> > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
>> > >JT wrote:
>> > >> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, K 2 wrote:
>> > >
>> > >neckve
>> >
>> > Challenge not in a word.
>> 
>> neckverse.
>
>This word is not in the official dictionary, so JT wins the game and duel.
>
>I note, interestingly enough, that this word appears in the OSW (Official
>Scrabble Words - list based on British dictionaries) list at Marldoom, but
>this is not one of the official dictionaries.  I hope all the non-American
>Ackans don't revolt over this dictionary thing, with two events today. ;-o

As herald, I do declare
The duel is won, fair and square.
Six points do to JT go
and thus from K 2 they flow.
Three more points do seconds swap
with /dev/joe the one on top.
A Mean Hat is thus down three
Then a flash of sword we see;
dancing metal and cruel fate,
K 2 does decapitate.
My victory is in verse
'cause the outcome could be worse.
Had the dictionary been
a bit larger once again
'twould be my head on the floor
and K 2 gaining the score.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 02:45:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

Analyze is a word.  /dev/joe is a mack.  Wild Card gets the British
smackdown.  Rambo's turn.

Rambo R Minuteman
K 2
risE
Vynd
JT
Slakko
/dev/joe
- --A Mean Hat.
  Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon Master - Warrior Caste - Crazy French
Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 02:56:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
> >On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> >
> >> Wild Card wrote:
> >> >  O.K. Challenge.
> >> 
> >> I take this as a challenge that it is not in a word, since the rules don't
> >> allow a challenge that it is a word with a string this short.  My word
> >> is analyze.
> 
> the word 'analyze' is spelled differently in Britain?

Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
No such consistency concerns in Britain.

Yours,
Duncan "analyzis" Richer
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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)

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 03:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
>> the word 'analyze' is spelled differently in Britain?
>
>Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
>No such consistency concerns in Britain.

Now that you mention it, yes.   I just hadn't thought about it is all.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 03:02:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:

>  Yes. The word 'analyse' is spelt significantly differently in the UK.  My
> dictionary does give the z-version as a US-variant, but I would not
> consider yz a legal combination in UK-English.

Well, we've had syzygy.
What about Boyzone?

<duck>
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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)

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:49:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> 
> >  Yes. The word 'analyse' is spelt significantly differently in the UK.  My
> > dictionary does give the z-version as a US-variant, but I would not
> > consider yz a legal combination in UK-English.
> 
> Well, we've had syzygy.
> What about Boyzone?

 Boyzone is not a word in UK-English.  Any more than Slakko is.

- -- 
Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ.             #####
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Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 05:02:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

>>This word is not in the official dictionary, so JT wins the game and duel.
>
>As herald, I do declare
>The duel is won, fair and square.
>Six points do to JT go
>and thus from K 2 they flow.
>Three more points do seconds swap
>with /dev/joe the one on top.
>A Mean Hat is thus down three
>Then a flash of sword we see;
>dancing metal and cruel fate,
>K 2 does decapitate.
>My victory is in verse
>'cause the outcome could be worse.
>Had the dictionary been
>a bit larger once again
>'twould be my head on the floor
>and K 2 gaining the score.

FOOLISH JT!  you have fallen into our trap!  You've been lulled into a
false sense of security.  K 2 forfeited that duel merely to test your
pathetic skills, so e would know how to COMPLETELY crush you into the
ground, COMPLETELY and UTTERLY destroy you, SCATTER YOUR ASHES TO THE WIND!
 Bring yourself to the field of honour!  Once again, as K 2's second, I
challenge you to a duel!  This time K 2 is not playing around, and YOU
SHALL PERISH!!!!!!!!

Oh, and your mother <GENERIC INSULT HERE>!

- --A Mean Hat.
  Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon Master - Warrior Caste - Crazy French
Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:37:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

>Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
>No such consistency concerns in Britain.

Is it any stranger to have one knife but many knives, to be ecstatic because
of being an ecstasy, to be organized into an organism?

Okay, here's your etymology lesson for the day:

Greek verbs have many different endings in the infinitive: "to speak" is
"legein", "to give" is "didonai", "to examine" is "skeptesthai",
"to mix" is "kerannynai", "to put to sleep" is "koiman", etc.  (Actually,
"-ein" words are the most common...)  The actual stems of the verbs, from
which words are derived, are often difficult to extract; in the book I'm
getting this from, they're given as, respectively:

"log- or lek-", "do-", "skop- or skep-", "kra-", and "koime".

Very few Greek verbs are borrowed as verbs.  However, some are taken
indirectly through Latin.  In particular, the vast quantity of
"-ize"/"-ise" verbs are derived from the Greek suffix "-izein", which
formed verbs from nouns, and which went into Latin as "-izare", and
thus into English as "-ize".  So there's little reason for the "s" in
this form, but I'll get back to that later.

There are several common suffixes which are attached to the verb stem to
form nouns and adjectives.  The most important for our purposes are "-sis",
"-ma", and "-tes".  All those "-izein" verbs have a stem of "-is", which
is where we get "-ism" and "-ist" words in English, from the latter two
suffixes I listed above.  This might be related to the prevalence of "-ise"
verbs in British English, or perhaps, more likely, it's the intermediate
phase of French verbs ending in "-iser".  But there's nothing intrinsically
weird about "-ize" and "-ist" being related.

Now "analysis" itself comes from the verb "lyein", "to loosen", stem "ly-",
with the prefix "ana-", "up, upward, backward, again, anew", and the "-sis"
suffix.  There was no "analyzein" in this case, so perhaps "analyse" is more
proper in this case, if you consider the original Greek root to be the only
source.  What I'm saying here is, don't apply logic to etymology and its
effect on spelling.  (Or we wouldn't be writing "debt", which is descended
from a word which never had a "b" in it, the Old English "dette", which had
a "b" introduced by misguided medieval scholars who thought that it was
related to the Latin "debit".  And don't get me started on split infinitives
and ending sentences with prepositions...)

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- --Alfvaen(Web page:http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/)
Current Song--Joy Division:Love Will Tear Us Apart
Current Book--Anne Rice:The Queen of The Damned
If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Duncan C. \"Slakko\" Richer" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> >Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
> >No such consistency concerns in Britain.
> 
> Is it any stranger to have one knife but many knives, to be ecstatic because
> of being an ecstasy, to be organized into an organism?

The last one doesn't work in the Commonwealth either.
The second one I thought would have been ecstacy in Britain - and I don't
think that ending stuff in "cic" is particularly common in English nor
easy for English people to pronounce.

<very nice etymology lesson snipped).

> What I'm saying here is, don't apply logic to etymology and its
> effect on spelling.  (Or we wouldn't be writing "debt", which is descended
> from a word which never had a "b" in it, the Old English "dette", which had
> a "b" introduced by misguided medieval scholars who thought that it was
> related to the Latin "debit".  And don't get me started on split infinitives
> and ending sentences with prepositions...)

I wouldn't want to particularly annoy you about that.  After all, there
are other things I could annoy you with.
- -- 
Duncan C. "Slakko" Richer - http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/
Queens' College Cambridge, 2nd Year Ph.D. (Pure Maths) - Graph Theory
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Clerk of the Court

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:01:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

Slakko wrote:
> Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
> No such consistency concerns in Britain.

Ignoring the etymology lesson, no, I don't find it strange, since the
words are not pronounced the same.  One is voiced, the other unvoiced.

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:05:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

 Sources are the a.u.e-faq[1] and personal experience.

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Duncan C. "Slakko" Richer wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
> 
> > >Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
> > >No such consistency concerns in Britain.
> > 
> > Is it any stranger to have one knife but many knives, to be ecstatic because
> > of being an ecstasy, to be organized into an organism? 
> The last one doesn't work in the Commonwealth either.
> The second one I thought would have been ecstacy in Britain - and I don't
> think that ending stuff in "cic" is particularly common in English nor
> easy for English people to pronounce.

 Well, Ecstasy is spelt with a c according to my dictionary (Chambers).

((Following comments admit a complete lack of knowledge wider than the UK))

 But in general the main differences between UK-English and US-English is
'-our' becoming '-or' and that all words ending -ise or -ize are generally
spelt -ise in the UK, an with a short list of exceptions -ize in the US.
The one exception that works the other way round is Exorcize.  Some UK
dialects use -ize in preference to -ise for some words - such as
'surprize' in some dialects in Scotland.  Fowler actually gives words
ending -y?e as being -yse in general.
 
> <very nice etymology lesson snipped).
> 
> > What I'm saying here is, don't apply logic to etymology and its
> > effect on spelling.  (Or we wouldn't be writing "debt", which is descended
> > from a word which never had a "b" in it, the Old English "dette", which had
> > a "b" introduced by misguided medieval scholars who thought that it was
> > related to the Latin "debit".  And don't get me started on split infinitives
> > and ending sentences with prepositions...)
> 
> I wouldn't want to particularly annoy you about that.  After all, there
> are other things I could annoy you with.

 There is *nothing* wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition.

 {Oh, dear - he's go me started.}

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Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

[1] This can be found at (among other locations):
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/~onews/faq/archive/alt-usage-english-faq.html

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:07:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Slakko wrote:
> > Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
> > No such consistency concerns in Britain.
> 
> Ignoring the etymology lesson, no, I don't find it strange, since the
> words are not pronounced the same.  One is voiced, the other unvoiced.

 Not ever having understood that term all I can say is that the difference
between the y sounds in the two is the same as the difference between the
sound of "lie" and "le".

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http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html                  o__#######
Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing a Silly Agenda Hat.   \'#######
Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:26:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

Wild Card wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> > Slakko wrote:
> > > Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an
> > > analysis?  No such consistency concerns in Britain.
> > 
> > Ignoring the etymology lesson, no, I don't find it strange, since the
> > words are not pronounced the same.  One is voiced, the other unvoiced.
> 
>  Not ever having understood that term all I can say is that the difference
> between the y sounds in the two is the same as the difference between the
> sound of "lie" and "le".

The voiced/unvoiced distinction is the difference between the 's' and 'z'
sounds.  Think of the difference between the pronunciation of 'see' and
the letter 'zee' (oh wait, that's also different in Britain - try the
difference between 'said' and the letter 'zed').  I realize that the
vowel sounds in analyze/analysis also differ, and the spelling for those
is the same.  Spelling can't perfectly match pronunciation, I suppose.

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:31:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> Wild Card wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> > > Slakko wrote:
> > > > Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an
> > > > analysis?  No such consistency concerns in Britain.
> > > Ignoring the etymology lesson, no, I don't find it strange, since the
> > > words are not pronounced the same.  One is voiced, the other unvoiced.
> >  Not ever having understood that term all I can say is that the difference
> > between the y sounds in the two is the same as the difference between the
> > sound of "lie" and "le".
> The voiced/unvoiced distinction is the difference between the 's' and 'z'
> sounds.  Think of the difference between the pronunciation of 'see' and
> the letter 'zee' (oh wait, that's also different in Britain - try the
> difference between 'said' and the letter 'zed').  I realize that the
> vowel sounds in analyze/analysis also differ, and the spelling for those
> is the same.  Spelling can't perfectly match pronunciation, I suppose.

 O.K. In that case my vote goes for Analyse and Analyzis.  :-)  Honest,
that's the way I pronounce them...

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http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html                  o__#######
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Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo.  Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:28:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> Analyze is a word.  /dev/joe is a mack.  Wild Card gets the British
> smackdown.  Rambo's turn.
>
> Rambo R Minuteman
> K 2
> risE
> Vynd
> JT
> Slakko
> /dev/joe

I shall start with:

l

Rambo R Minuteman.

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:56:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: ghost

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
> > >On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> > >
> > >> Wild Card wrote:
> > >> >  O.K. Challenge.
> > >> 
> > >> I take this as a challenge that it is not in a word, since the rules don't
> > >> allow a challenge that it is a word with a string this short.  My word
> > >> is analyze.
> > 
> > the word 'analyze' is spelled differently in Britain?
> 
> Don't you think it is a bit wierd to analyze something to get an analysis?
> No such consistency concerns in Britain.

I might, if we didn't pronounce the z pretty clearly over here. What does
analyze sound like in British, I wonder?

Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:57:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

A Mean Hat rambled:
> FOOLISH JT!  you have fallen into our trap!  You've been lulled into a
> false sense of security.  K 2 forfeited that duel merely to test your
> pathetic skills, so e would know how to COMPLETELY crush you into the
> ground, COMPLETELY and UTTERLY destroy you, SCATTER YOUR ASHES TO THE WIND!
>  Bring yourself to the field of honour!  Once again, as K 2's second, I
> challenge you to a duel!  This time K 2 is not playing around, and YOU
> SHALL PERISH!!!!!!!!

As second to JT, I hereby announce this acceptance of the duel.
JT has chosen Double Crash as the game, and I think they were
going to play it on IRC, if I understood correctly.

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:09:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: acting officers

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
>A Mean Hat rambled:
>> FOOLISH JT!  you have fallen into our trap!  You've been lulled into a
>> false sense of security.  K 2 forfeited that duel merely to test your
>> pathetic skills, so e would know how to COMPLETELY crush you into the
>> ground, COMPLETELY and UTTERLY destroy you, SCATTER YOUR ASHES TO THE WIND!
>>  Bring yourself to the field of honour!  Once again, as K 2's second, I
>> challenge you to a duel!  This time K 2 is not playing around, and YOU
>> SHALL PERISH!!!!!!!!
>
>As second to JT, I hereby announce this acceptance of the duel.
>JT has chosen Double Crash as the game, and I think they were
>going to play it on IRC, if I understood correctly.

This will in fact be played on IRC.

As herald, I hereby announce the beginning of this duel although it won't
actually be played until around 9 PM PST on IRC.  I will ask /dev/joe to
log the game and provide that log to the forum at the conclusion of the
duel.

I will also point out that this is the 6th duel this month and thus no
more duels may be called (except by sword owners) for the rest of the
month.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:20:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ghost Duel (A Mean Hat vs Vynd)

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, JT wrote:

> A Mean Hat's Actron: Matt Damon
> Vynd's Actron: Ricardo Montalban
> 
> You have three days to object or to agree to the actrons chosen.
> 
> --JT, Referee

I apologize for the delay. I accept A Mean Hat's Actron.

Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:40:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Bacon Duel (A Mean Hat vs Vynd)

A Mean Hat objected to Vynd's choice of 'Ricardo Montalban'.

I am afraid that I have to deny this objection based on the information
in the IMDB.

A Mean Hat loses 1 point.

The current scores are
A Mean Hat : -1 Gamepoints
Vynd       :  0 Gamepoints

Both players have three days to post their bacon chains between the above
actrons to me.

- --JT

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