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acka-games Digest	Sunday, June 20 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 047

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Fictionary
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:10:14 -0400 (EDT)

Oblate:

1. of a spheroid, compressed along its axis of rotation

2. Flattened; shorter in one dimension than in the other two.

3. present; offer

4. Round.

5. slightly rounded in shape.

6. a layman living in a monastery under a modified rule and without vows

7. spherical shape which is flattened on one axis, also an association
of priests and/or nuns in the service of the catholic church.

None of the submitted definitions were substantially similar to the
_actual definition_, however, upon reading the rules I note that the
requirement is for similarity to _an On-line definition_ - having
checked, quite afew of em are (this word has several definitons
apparently - I was only aware of two)..... so either I should be sneered
at or vote away.

Vynd: 0
Alfvaen: 0
K2: 6
/dev/joe: 0
Dragon Mage: 5
Studge: 2
Ai! Pedrito!: 1

K 2
who wanted bwilch

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From: "Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:14:06 -0400 (EDT)

At 04:10 AM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Oblate:
>
>1. of a spheroid, compressed along its axis of rotation
>
>2. Flattened; shorter in one dimension than in the other two.
>
>3. present; offer
>
>4. Round.
>
>5. slightly rounded in shape.
>
>6. a layman living in a monastery under a modified rule and without vows
>
>7. spherical shape which is flattened on one axis, also an association
>of priests and/or nuns in the service of the catholic church.
>
>None of the submitted definitions were substantially similar to the
>_actual definition_, however, upon reading the rules I note that the
>requirement is for similarity to _an On-line definition_ - having
>checked, quite afew of em are (this word has several definitons
>apparently - I was only aware of two)..... so either I should be sneered
>at or vote away.

If it's voting we want, I'll go for 1.
-- Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Wrangler

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From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:15:32 -0400 (EDT)

At 04:10 AM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Oblate:
>
>1. of a spheroid, compressed along its axis of rotation
>
>2. Flattened; shorter in one dimension than in the other two.
>
>3. present; offer
>
>4. Round.

I vote for this one.

>5. slightly rounded in shape.
>
>6. a layman living in a monastery under a modified rule and without vows
>
>7. spherical shape which is flattened on one axis, also an association
>of priests and/or nuns in the service of the catholic church.
>

Studge

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:28:17 -0400 (EDT)

Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole wrote:

> If it's voting we want

I'm still alittle unsure - if its only the actual definition that is
important then (IMO) we are voting - but the rules suggest subitted
definitions be compared again "an On-line definitions" and they do so after
the term "actual definitions" is definied.... It seemed safest to relase the
definitions since tht will happen either way.

Rule 12-3-3 (Fictionary):

'
The Brainiac shall also privately note the definition of the Ing Word. This
definition shall be a verbatim transcription of any of the definitions
provided by any of the Dictionaries. (Part of speech and similar details
should not be transcribed). This shall be known as the "Actual Definition".
'
and later (emphasis mine):

'
3a) 2 or more Bluffers submitted a definition that is substantially similar
to _an On-line Definition_. In this case, each such Bluffer receives 3
Gamepoints, the Brainiac is sneered at for picking an easy word, and the
round ends.
'

K 2

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Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:28:23 -0400 (EDT)

K 2 wrote:
> None of the submitted definitions were substantially similar to the
> _actual definition_, however, upon reading the rules I note that the
> requirement is for similarity to _an On-line definition_ - having
> checked, quite afew of em are (this word has several definitons
> apparently - I was only aware of two)..... so either I should be sneered
> at or vote away.

Yeah, the rule is pretty clear.  Since two or more definitions were similar
to either the actual definition or other definitions in the Dictionaries
(you said quite a few, I'm still wondering how many, since I only knew one
definition for this word...), you need to tell us who submitted good
definitions, each of those players receives 3 Gamepoints, you get sneered
at, and the game moves on to the next Brainiac.

> Vynd: 0
> Alfvaen: 0
> K2: 6
> /dev/joe: 0
> Dragon Mage: 5
> Studge: 2
> Ai! Pedrito!: 1

oh, and you should add those points to the totals shown here, which are
the ones from the last round...

/dev/joe

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From: "Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:36:20 -0400 (EDT)

At 12:40 AM 6/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>TTRen: drug -> designer -> skirt
>/dev/joe: drug -> drag -> skirt
>Studge: drug -> chaser -> skirt
>K2: drug -> purchase -> skirt
>
>I had a slight problem with Studge's word and it was agreed upon in 
>discussion with the other players that "chaser" is not a valid link 
>word for drug & skirt.  Sorry.
>
>Current Scores
>
>/Dev/Joe: 2
>JT: 2
>TTRen: 4
>K2: 4
>Studge: 2

404 has gone delinq as a ref.  Speaker, if you would do your thing...
-- Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Wrangler

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Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:37:29 -0400 (EDT)

K 2 wrote:
> I'm still alittle unsure - if its only the actual definition that is
> important then (IMO) we are voting - but the rules suggest subitted
> definitions be compared again "an On-line definitions" and they do so after
> the term "actual definitions" is definied.... It seemed safest to relase the
> definitions since tht will happen either way.
> 
> Rule 12-3-3 (Fictionary):
> 
> '
> The Brainiac shall also privately note the definition of the Ing Word. This
> definition shall be a verbatim transcription of any of the definitions
> provided by any of the Dictionaries. (Part of speech and similar details
> should not be transcribed). This shall be known as the "Actual Definition".
> '
> and later (emphasis mine):
> 
> '
> 3a) 2 or more Bluffers submitted a definition that is substantially similar
> to _an On-line Definition_. In this case, each such Bluffer receives 3
> Gamepoints, the Brainiac is sneered at for picking an easy word, and the
> round ends.
> '

You need to look at the first part of step 3, where "On-line Definitions"
is defined:

   3) The Brainiac shall compare the submitted definitions with the
   Actual Definition and any other definitions in the Dictionaries
   (On-line Definitions), and report how play proceeds based on the
   following cases:

This design is intentional, because if you had to match the one specific
definition the brainiac chose, everybody'd be picking words like "well"
that have a whole page of different definitions.  Just try to pick the
right definition out of "healthy", "in a good manner", "very much",
"a hole in the ground from which water is drawn", and others. :-)

/dev/joe

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:40:43 -0400 (EDT)

I name lollies

K 2
quite possibly too late :-)

> >K2: drug -> purchase -> skirt

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:41:10 -0400 (EDT)

K 2 wrote:

> Oblate:
>
> 1. of a spheroid, compressed along its axis of rotation
>
> 2. Flattened; shorter in one dimension than in the other two.
>
> 3. present; offer
>
> 4. Round.
>
> 5. slightly rounded in shape.
>
> 6. a layman living in a monastery under a modified rule and without vows
>
> 7. spherical shape which is flattened on one axis, also an association
> of priests and/or nuns in the service of the catholic church.

I had to make sure one other player agreed with me :-)

The following are "on-line definitions" for oblate:

a. flattened or depressed at the poles
     - definitions 1,2 & 7 match this - Alfvaen, /dev/joe & Dragon Mage
b. Offered up; devoted; consecrated; dedicated;
     - cf 3 - TEFKA Trent
c. a layman living in a monastery under a modified rule and without vows
     - The Actual Definition
d. a member of one of several Roman Catholic communities of men or women
     - cf 7

4 - Studge
5 - Vynd

> Vynd: 0
> Alfvaen: 3
> K2: 6
> /dev/joe: 3
> Dragon Mage: 8
> Studge: 2
> Ai! Pedrito!: 4
>
> K 2
> who wanted bwilch

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From: "Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:42:56 -0400 (EDT)

At 04:40 AM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I name lollies
>
>K 2
>quite possibly too late :-)
>
>
>> >K2: drug -> purchase -> skirt
> \\

you named 'fickle'
-- Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Wrangler

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Subject: Acka: Fictionary
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:56:34 -0400 (EDT)

OK, the ing word this round is caique.

Send me your definitions, bluffers!

/dev/joe

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From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Re: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:05:38 -0400 (EDT)

Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole wrote:
> 
> At 04:40 AM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >I name lollies
> >
> >K 2
> >quite possibly too late :-)
> >
> >
> >> >K2: drug -> purchase -> skirt
> > \\
> 
> you named 'fickle'

How odd, I name "hose". Postmaster, please do your stuff. 

Laa Laa, who still filters acka messages by title.

-- 
Tom "I am not a walrus" Walmsley. mailto:[email-masked]
http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html ICQ: 2925739
"Among wizards?" said Ridcully. "Mister Stibbons, unusual behaviour is
perfectly ordinary for wizards." - Terry Pratchet, The Last Continent

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:59:27 -0400 (EDT)

Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole wrote:

> At 04:40 AM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >I name lollies
> >
> >K 2
> >quite possibly too late :-)
> >
> >
> >> >K2: drug -> purchase -> skirt
> > \\
>
> you named 'fickle'

sigh - so many sub games - the lolly thing is prolly just a drug induced
hallucination

K 2

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:01:45 -0400 (EDT)

I'm a BAD person

K 2

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From: "Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Crescent (Round 4 results)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:31:38 -0400 (EDT)

K 2 10
Burn the Witch 6
Slakko 42
Dragon Mage  3
/dev/joe  1999

Scores:
/dev/joe: 9
Slakko: 9
Burn the Witch: 8
Dragon Mage: 7

Reply to this message with your next picks:

0 /dev/joe
1 K 2
2 Burn the Witch
3 Slakko
4 Dragon Mage

-- Ai! Pedrito!
DeeJay * Wrangler

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Re: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:07:16 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Gabe (Ai! Pedrito!) Drummond-Cole wrote:

> At 04:40 AM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >I name lollies
> >
> >K 2
> >quite possibly too late :-)
> >
> >
> >> >K2: drug -> purchase -> skirt
> > \\
> 
> 
> you named 'fickle'

I hereby point a big fire-hose at Ai! Pedrito, and declare him to have
Gone Postal for not having included the requisite 'Acka:' subject tag in
his mail.

--Dragon Mage

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Re: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:17:04 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, K 2 wrote:
> I name lollies
> 
> K 2
> quite possibly too late :-)
> 
> 
> > >K2: drug -> purchase -> skirt

I declare K2 to have gone Postal for the above quoted message which lacked
the required subject tag.

--Dragon Mage

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:08:16 -0400 (EDT)

>I'm a BAD person
>
>K 2
>

Cheer up, you make a good mountain.

K F

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Word Un-Association (K2)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 17:35:32 -0400 (EDT)

>404 has gone delinq as a ref.  Speaker, if you would do your thing...
>-- Ai! Pedrito!
>DeeJay * Wrangler
>

So be it.

Emperor Felix

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From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Middles The Place To Be!
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:07:32 -0400 (EDT)

Sorry about the lateness here...

Numbers Picked:
/dev/joe......1 
Trent.........4  removed
Dragon Mage...4  removed
K 2...........7          the winner
Alfvaen.......9           

K 2 gets a point.

New Scores:
Alfvaen.......1
/dev/joe......1
Dragon Mage...0
K 2...........1
Trent.........1

Send in your next number, 1-10 inclusive.

Studge

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From: "Gavin M. Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: bacon (Ai! Pedrito! vs. Alfvaen)
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:31:04 -0400 (EDT)

>I rule Ringo Starr to be too obscure. (Although he does appear to be
have
>played bongos in Canadian Beat-Combo "The Beatles" - of whom I have
never
>heard.)
>
He was in 200 Motels...

BLMP.

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