Subject: acka-voting-digest V3 #176
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acka-voting-digest      Friday, October 23 1998      Volume 03 : Number 176

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:52:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3691

Proposal 3691
Go for the glory
A mean Hat
Due: Fri Oct 30 15:52:10 1998

this is a modest proposal

Add the following RUBIDIUM-delimited text to the ruleset as rule 613,
titled "Winning is pretty harfy (Winning by doing a lot of stuff)"

If a player is all but one of the following things:

1 Foolish
2 Silly
3 Weird or Really Weird
4 A Crazy Scotsman or a Crazy French-Scotsman
5 Lyncanthropic
6 Hosed
7 In Debt
8 A Mentor
9 An Officer
10 An Overlord
11 In Thrall
12 Funky and Stylish or Harfmeister
13 Owner of a Blue Cross Bonus
14 Possessor of Phoebe's Matchbox
15 First Citizen
16 Stoned
17 On Fire
18 A Swinger
19 Jazz JackRabbit, Passive Contemplator, or Owner of the Amber Banana Tree
20 Third Cat, Sage o'Doe Gas, Agent of KAOS, small lab mouse, or the Puzzler
21 DoppelSlakko
22 Scholar of *ping*
23 in Gaol
24 All but one of the following: Supreme Inquisitor, Nanotech Overseer,
Gold Digger, Principal Authenticator, Comfortable Chair, Top Cop, and
Undergrad Med Student

And is not an Orange Penguin of Glory, then that player achieves a win
condition and becomes an Orange Penguin of Glory.

If at any time any of the titles or situations on the above list is not
rules-defined, it is removed from the list.  If this would leave an empty
list item, that item is removed and all the others are renumbered accordingly.

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 16:53:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3692

Proposal 3692
I forgot my delimiters
A mean Hat
Due: Fri Oct 30 15:53:00 1998

this is a modest proposal

Add the following RUBIDIUM-delimited text to the ruleset as rule 613,
titled "Winning is pretty harfy (Winning by doing a lot of stuff)"

RUBIDIUM
If a player is all but one of the following things:

1 Foolish
2 Silly
3 Weird or Really Weird
4 A Crazy Scotsman or a Crazy French-Scotsman
5 Lyncanthropic
6 Hosed
7 In Debt
8 A Mentor
9 An Officer
10 An Overlord
11 In Thrall
12 Funky and Stylish or Harfmeister
13 Owner of a Blue Cross Bonus
14 Possessor of Phoebe's Matchbox
15 First Citizen
16 Stoned
17 On Fire
18 A Swinger
19 Jazz JackRabbit, Passive Contemplator, or Owner of the Amber Banana Tree
20 Third Cat, Sage o'Doe Gas, Agent of KAOS, small lab mouse, or the Puzzler
21 DoppelSlakko
22 Scholar of *ping*
23 in Gaol
24 All but one of the following: Supreme Inquisitor, Nanotech Overseer,
Gold Digger, Principal Authenticator, Comfortable Chair, Top Cop, and
Undergrad Med Student

And is not an Orange Penguin of Glory, then that player achieves a win
condition and becomes an Orange Penguin of Glory.

If at any time any of the titles or situations on the above list is not
rules-defined, it is removed from the list.  If this would leave an empty
list item, that item is removed and all the others are renumbered accordingly.
RUBIDIUM

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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 19:03:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3693

Proposal 3693
Harf gone Stale
A mean Hat
Due: Fri Oct 30 18:03:55 1998

This is a modest proposal

Every player or organization that owns one or more vending machine is given
one random gadget other than a vending machine for each vending machine
owned. 
All vending machines are destroyed

Repeal rule 594.4 (Vending Machine)
Repeal rule 911 (Great Trombone)
Repeal rule 917 (Venerable Entities)

Remove the following text and the comma following the phrase "Great Tuba of
Ackanomia" from rule 667 (Fat Lady)

"both the Great Trombone of Ackanomia, and"

Remove the following text from rule 913 (Parades)

"The player in possession of the Great Trombone of Ackanomia, if such an
entity exists, will lead the Parade and receive not one but
ten points."

Remove the following text from rule 915 (Pros. Foreheads)

"If a player has a Rock To Wind A String Around (if such an entity exists),
she may give it to the treasury instead of paying the A$7 in the above
procedure."

In rule 975 (Voting Gnome):

Replace "Rock to Wind a String Around" with "An Amber Banana"
Replace "Santa's Beard" with "an APP of random Colour and Shape"

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