Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #297
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest      Wednesday, October 16 1996      Volume 01 : Number 297

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 01:56:24 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Financial

What follows are bond yields per bond in A$ as of the end of the recent
bond cycle.  Uncle Sam quit after the bonds yielded.  If a bond is
not listed here, it yielded 0.  All of the departed players have their
bonds converted to PBP's, which are non-Tradeable, and do not yield 
dividends or debt.

I have updated all PF's and PBP's on the player records.  I have updated
all cash balances with all financial transactions upto now, including 
salaries, *excluding* these yields per player per holdings, which are
listed following the dividends.

ThinMan owes me a frink at the upcoming Witch Burning :-)

Malenkai
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1.21      Malenkai             A   (Randy Hall)
1.08      Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
 .68      Guy Fawkes           A   (Robert Shimmin)
 .53      IdiotBoy             A   (Matt Miller)
 .52      Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
 .42      mr cwm               A   (Eric Murray)
 .28      /dev/joe             A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
 .22      Uncle Sam            A   (Sam Peterson)
 .20      Mohammed             A   (Jason Orendorff)
 .19      Bascule              A   (Matt Black)
 .15      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
 .18      fnord                A   (Michael Thomas)
 .18      ThinMan              A   (John Bollinger)
 .16      breadbox             A   (Brian Raiter)
 .12      Brinjal              A   (Simon Clarke)
 .10      Calvin N Hobbes      A   (Thierry Joffrain)
 .01      Dagny                N   (Wendy Peterson)
 .01      PapaSmurf            N   (Jacob Kanafoski)

Total yield in A$ based on above and portfolio:

Bascule +19
breadbox +16
Brinjal +12
CnH +10
Dagny +1
/dev/joe +28
fnord +18
fon +0
Guy Fawkes +110
Habeous +76
IdiotBoy +45
Malenkai +97
Mohammed +19
mr cwm +42
Niccolo +40
PapaSmurph +1
Robert Sevin +0
snowgod +60
ThinMan +29

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:24:09 -0500 (CDT)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Hall of Elders

I support Wayne's nomination.  I have already stated my support for tinan.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:16:39 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: RFC -- Robin Hood

>RFC 
>Robin Hood
>Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)
>
>Whenever the Financier submits the biweekly financial report, the 
>following shall occur, and be reflected in the report.
>
>Any player whose account contains at least one standard deviation more than 
>the mean number of A$ shall lose 10 A$
>
>Any player whose account contains at least one standard deviation fewer 
>than the mean number of A$ shall gain 10 A$.

At this point I am against just about anything that creates
more work for the Financier.  In addition, however, I don't
see what benefit would be gained from this scheme even
if we implemented it.

ThinMan
Finanacier

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:23:02 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Financial

Malenkai wrote:

>ThinMan owes me a frink at the upcoming Witch Burning :-)
>
I'd buy you two, if it were legal.

ThinMan
>Grateful

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:47:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Scores, Blue Crosses

snowgod got a blue cross bonus when his first term as president ended.
(The part about the bonus being given at the end of a series of consecutive
terms was dropped during one of the rewrites.)  This made him eligible
for a Blue Cross, so I am giving him one.

this is not a name got a blue cross bonus (and became eligible for
a Blue Cross) when his senate term ended, but the term only ended
as a consequence of his leaving the game, so (see Rule 962.2) the
blue cross bonus was only created after step 5 of the leaving-the-game
process, and his undead failed to haunt it.  I will submit a modest
proposal to fix this problem and have tinan's undead haunt the Blue
Cross Bonus.

Scoring:
Proposal 1319 was modest.
breadbox lost 34 points by using his Chartreuse Goose Egg.
Brinjal gained 3 points from Party Chess.

Current Scores:
Score   Ackanomic Name   Status  Real Name
- -----   --------------      ---  -------------
161     Malenkai             A   (Randy Hall)
143     Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
125     Guy Fawkes           A   (Robert Shimmin)
86      Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
73      mr cwm               A   (Eric Murray)
71      /dev/joe             A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
64      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
60      IdiotBoy             A   (Matt Miller)
57      Brinjal              A   (Simon Clarke)
57      fnord                A   (Michael Thomas)
50      ThinMan              A   (John Bollinger)
49      Bascule              A   (Matt Black)
20      Mohammed             A   (Jason Orendorff)
10      Calvin N Hobbes      A   (Thierry Joffrain)
1       Dagny                N   (Wendy Peterson)
1       PapaSmurf            N   (Jacob Kanafoski)
0       breadbox             A   (Brian Raiter)
0       fon                  I   (Adrian Smith)
0       Pascal               I   (Jason Reed)
0       Robert Sevin         N   (Mitchell Harding)
58 [%]  Uncle Sam            D   (Sam Peterson)

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper
Senator, /dev/senate3

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:26:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Newspaper Names

I expect all the recent efforts directed against is to work, but I think
a result will be that The H*t T*ps N*wsl*tt*r will be able to be
re-distributed legally by the alteration of its name. 

- -mr cwm
 more interested in trademarks than journalism

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:02:11 +0000
From: Bascule <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Hall of Elders

I support Wayne's nomination to the Hall of Elders

Bascule

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:03:48 +0000
From: Bascule <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: *ping*

Today is Tuesday, the 15th day of October, in the Year of Our Lord
1996, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today.  Since
I have been Scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 5 times.

Bascule
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:54:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: IdiotBoy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Bascule wrote:

> Today is Tuesday, the 15th day of October, in the Year of Our Lord
> 1996, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today.  Since
> I have been Scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 5 times.
> 
> Bascule
> Scholar of *ping*
> 
Not that I have been paying alot of attntion, but won't this thing ping
tomorrow, too?

IB
- --
IdiotBoy, as always, dumber than a box of hammers.
[email-masked]

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:57:45 +0000
From: Bascule <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> > Today is Tuesday, the 15th day of October, in the Year of Our Lord
> > 1996, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today.  Since
> > I have been Scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 5 times.
> > 
> > Bascule
> > Scholar of *ping*
> > 
> Not that I have been paying alot of attntion, but won't this thing ping
> tomorrow, too?
> 
> IB -- IdiotBoy, as always, dumber than a box of hammers.
> [email-masked] 

Much as I would like to respond to this, it would of course be
illegal for me to do so. So I won't.

Bascule

 

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:02:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: IdiotBoy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Bascule wrote:

> Much as I would like to respond to this, it would of course be
> illegal for me to do so. So I won't.
> 
> Bascule
> 
Well, of course I wasn't asking the scolar.  It's no fun asking people who
have the answers.  Much better that I get uninformed opinion!

IB
- --
IdiotBoy, as always, dumber than a box of hammers.
[email-masked]

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 18:34:24 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Harf Bounty

It could be argued that the Harfmeister is hogging the Harf.  I am
not here to analyize that, as I have not really looked at the proposal
queue all that well, but exactly zero, 0, that is 0, I mean, the goose
egg, a total of *zero* proposals are currently declared harfy.

I am offering a "Harfyness Bounty".  Upon a proposal being declared
Harfy by the Harfmeister, I will give A$10 to its author.  Its an
easy way to make a little dough just by writing some fun proposals.

Malenkai
heckling the Harfmeister again

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:16:24 +0000
From: Bascule <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

Today is Wednesday, the 16th day of October, in the Year of Our Lord
1996, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today.  Since
I have been Scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 6 times.

Bascule
Scholar of *ping*

PS IdiotBoy must have a pretty smart box of hammers.

PPS Get those magic letter guesses in! It'll only cost you 10 bucks.

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:23:50 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

Bascule wrote:

> PPS Get those magic letter guesses in! It'll only cost you 10 bucks.

I wish to name 'd' as the magic letter.

Malenkai

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:22:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, IdiotBoy wrote:

>> 
>Well, of course I wasn't asking the scolar.  It's no fun asking people who
>have the answers.  Much better that I get uninformed opinion!
>

Seems like it should to me.  I haven't, after probably all of five minutes
work, been able to fit anything into that pattern of asterisks, though.

- -mr cwm

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:32:29 +0000
From: Bascule <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: *ping*

Aspiring Students of The Machine That Goes *ping*

The diligent student Malenkai was the first to name a magic letter, 
d. I've been racking my brains, and yes, I think there were some ds 
in there somewhere...

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

Bascule
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 16:37:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Godelian propositions

While reviewing the discussions over the Copycat CFJ, I noticed the
following. It's off the subject, but I had to comment.

>         An example of what you're talking about might be: according
> to Godel's theory, there exists a true but nonprovable statement
> within any sufficiently robust, formal mathematical framework.
> However, actually finding such a statement is not something Godel's
> theory covers, and even if you did find one, trying to prove that it
> was indeed true but nonprovable would be an exercise in ridiculum.

This is not true. Much of Godel's proof involves describing such a
proposition in great detail. GEB, and other books that discuss Godel's
proof, also give descriptions of Godel's fatal proposition.

When an unprovable proposition is found, mathematics can choose to
decide that it is either true (but unprovable) or false (again, but
not provably so). In the case of Godel's proposition, deciding it is
false has the implication that it is also provable (due to its
self-referential nature), so the former choice, true and unprovable,
is taken.

Also, other statements have in fact been shown to be unprovable. For
example, it is known that the set of all real numbers is infinite in
size, and that this size (referred to as C) is greater than
aleph-null, but whether C is equal to aleph-one or some higher aleph
is unprovable. (I seem to remember that Cantor was quite upset when
this was first discovered.) I believe that modern mathematics assumes,
when necessary, that there is in infinite number of alephs between
aleph-null and C.

b

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:57:21 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1338

Proposal 1338 - Tue Oct 15 19:57 EDT 1996
Towers
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Create a new rule called "Towers" which reads:

1) There are two types of towers: Ostentatious Towers and Public
Towers.  An Ostentatious Tower is a tower that a player adds to a
building they own (the term "Ostentatious Tower" is always with respect
to a particular player).  A Public Tower is a tower that a player adds to
a public building, (that is, a building defined by the rules which
is owned by no player, and is not haunted by an Undead), or to a kaa
of public land.

2) A player is always said to be "permitted" to build (or extend) an
Ostentatious Tower associated with them.  A player is said to be
permitted to build  (or extend) a Public Tower provided they submit a
plan to the Senate, and the Senate votes approval of that plan within
3 days of its submission.  Such a plan must describe a tower that
could legally be built (or a legal extension of an extant Public Tower).
The Public Tower so built (or extension thereof) as a result of this
permission must accord with the plan approved by the Senate.

3) There is no limit to the number of towers that may be added to a
building, and there is no upper limit to their height, so long as they
are constructed (or extended) via procedures defined in the rules.
Towers are protected, as is the act of constructing (and extending)
them.

4) A tower is constructed as follows, provided the player is permitted
to contruct it.  The player publically announces which building they are
adding a tower to (or which kaa of land they are building it on), a
description of the tower, and the height of the tower (as a positive
integral number of meters).  Towers must be at least 35 meters tall.
Towers cost A$3 per meter to construct, and if a player cannot afford
the construction costs, they may not build a tower of that height.

5) A player may also extend the height of a tower they are permitted to
extend by an integral number of meters, at a cost of A$5 per meter, by
publically announcing they are doing so, and by describing the extension.

6) A building's height is the height of its tallest tower.  All
buildings without a tower are less than 35 meters high, unless the
rules specify otherwise.  A stand-alone tower built on a kaa of land
without an attached building is considered a building in its own right.

7) Any tower in the Gaol's evidence room is twisted into a pretzel-shaped
blob, and will not exceed the height of the Gaol.  Towers may not 
manipulate protected entities or perfrom protected actions except where
specified by the rules.  Towers may only be destroyed as specified in
the rules.

8) It is said that a tower of sufficient height will reach close to the
edge of the stainless steel hollow walls that surround the earth, and
it is known that a Brass Monkey is taller than two average cat-heights.

{{9) renumber this rule to 841}}

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:59:03 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1339

Proposal 1339 - Tue Oct 15 19:58 EDT 1996
Ammend 985.1
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)

This is a Modest proposal.

Append the following sentence to Section 4.A. of R985.1
"This section defers to section 3.C. of this rule."

{{[While 3.C. explicitly defers the entire rule to a PCPD rule which
defines another means of Capture. 4.A. takes precedence over 3.C. this
should fix this]}}

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:01:25 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1340

Proposal 1340 - Tue Oct 15 19:59 EDT 1996
(Oops)
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend Rule 1099, section 3) to read as follows:

3) If a departing player has been nominated, their confirmation period
starts at the time of their nomination and ends 3 after their nomination.
During the confirmation period, players may send messages to the public forum
supporting the nominee (maximum one such messge per player).  The nominee
shall receive one confirmation point for each such message posted in
accordance with the rules.  They shall also receiv one point for each cycle
(or game) they won while a player, up to a maximum of 5 points from this
source.

{{[The confirmation periods for Wayne and this is not a name shall now
end, if they have not already done so.]}}

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:02:40 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1341

Proposal 1341 - Tue Oct 15 20:00 EDT 1996
Smile!
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Create a new rule with the following text:

        @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
        @@@@@        @@@@@
        @@@   @@  @@   @@@
        @@    @@  @@    @@
        @                @
        @   @        @   @
        @@  @@      @@  @@
        @@@   @@@@@@   @@@
        @@@@@        @@@@@
        @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:19:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

Oh, this is a stretch. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Bascule: it is possible that the Machine said to you: "IF AND ONLY IF
today has a week name spelling of an odd number of letters, THEN the
Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*."?

b

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:26:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

At the risk of public ridicule, I propose that the Machine's Truth is

  IF AND ONLY IF today has a name that consists of an odd number of
  letters, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.	 

Am I right, or am I an ignorant fool?

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 19:40:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Forehead

I am placing 6 A$ in Bascule's Vending Machine in exchange for a Rock To 
Wind A String Around.

I am exchanging this Rock for a Prosthetic Forehead of the following 
description.

	This prosthetic forehead mostly brilliantly white, with small 
ruffles forming a vertical strip down its center.  It has two shiny brass 
buttons, polished to mirror quality, one placed directly between the 
wearer's eyebrows and another in the center of the wearer's forehead.  
Careful examination of the buttons finds that each bears a motif very 
similar to the text of Proposal 1341.  At the hairline, it sports a black 
bow tie.

I am taking off snowgod's lovely campaign forehead, so that I might 
recover from a sore head in time to wear my formal forehead before the 
end of the next Public Gathering.

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 01:39:42 +0000
From: Bascule <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> Oh, this is a stretch. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.
> 
> Bascule: it is possible that the Machine said to you: "IF AND ONLY IF
> today has a week name spelling of an odd number of letters, THEN the
> Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*."?
> 
> b

Well, you students had better buck your ideas up if you want to
determine the truth. My left toenail clippings could have come up
with a better try than this. This guess is the sorriest apology for a
try at the truth that I have _ever_ come across in all my time as
Scholar of *ping*. I am ashamed to hold the title of Scholar of
*ping*, since I have obviously failed to teach even the most _basic_
skills to my students, culminating in this crass insult to the
Machine. I mean, we all know that breadbox is a pretty slow learner,
well, to tell the truth, he's utterly hopeless, but I had thought
that with a bit of patience and hard work, he might yet make a decent
student. However, he obviously has not spent more than five minutes
studying the Machine, and he jumps in with this feeble, half-baked 
effort. I am only sorry that such a pathetic attempt should be 
punished with a meagre A$5 fine.

a disappointed 
Bascule
Scholar of *ping*

 

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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 01:47:14 +0000
From: Bascule <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

> At the risk of public ridicule, I propose that the Machine's Truth is
> 
>   IF AND ONLY IF today has a name that consists of an odd number of
>   letters, THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.	 
> 
> Am I right, or am I an ignorant fool?
> 
> Guy Fawkes

To the Most Learned Guy Fawkes

I congratulate thee, Guy Fawkes, on your painstaking hard work in
elucidating the solution to this most esoteric of alphabetical
Machinistic riddles. Acka has a new Scholar of *ping* who is most 
worthy of the title. Long may the Machine go *ping* in Xanadu!

Bascule
no longer
Scholar of *ping*

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:55:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

CONSISTS!! Dammit, I kept thinking "contains," which doesn't allow for
a following preposition.

Congratulations to Guy Fawkes, and many kudoes to ex-scholar Bascule,
whose public ridiculing of me left me ROFL.

b

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:32:35 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*

Bascule wrote:

> To the Most Learned Guy Fawkes
> 
> I congratulate thee, Guy Fawkes, on your painstaking hard work in
> elucidating the solution to this most esoteric of alphabetical
> Machinistic riddles. Acka has a new Scholar of *ping* who is most
> worthy of the title. Long may the Machine go *ping* in Xanadu!

The machine starts whirring.   Switches are switching, lights are
flashing, buttons are clicking.... Something that sounds like "Doh!"
can be heard coming from the Financier's abode.

The machine shakes and shimmies a little more, and out the back pops
a shiny new Electronic Potato, which the Chartreuse Goose, (who has not
been fed in quite some time), starts pecking at.

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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:08:09 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Grab-a-Donkey

Round 3 of Grab-A-Donkey is beginning!  Don't get caught *admiring*
your donkey!  Get your moves in.  The current GAL is below.  

mr cwm and the dead players have been removed.

It can also be found at: http://www.itw.com/~malenkai/ackagal.htm

Round Ends Friday, October 18 1996, 23:06 EDT

- --------------------------------------------------------------------
Grab-a-Donkey GAL at the start of round 2 (excluding dead
players), and moves/results:
- -------------------------------------------------
Bascule (Matt Black) [[email-masked]]
    Move: covered his donkey
    Result: successful
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL + 1 grab

Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain) [[email-masked]]
    Move: admired his donkey
    Result: none
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL

/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis) [[email-masked]]
    Move: grabbed mr cwm's donkey
    Result: successful
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL + 1 grab

Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin) [[email-masked]]
    Move: covered his donkey
    Result: successful
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL

Habeous Corpus (Ed Graham) [[email-masked]]
    Move: grabbed Techno's donkey
    Result: successful (techno actually grabbed Wayne's donkey)
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL + 1 grab

IdiotBoy (Matt Miller) [[email-masked]]
    Move: covered his donkey
    Result: successful
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL

Mohammed (Jason Orendorff) [[email-masked]]
    Move: covered his donkey
    Result: successful
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL

mr cwm (Eric Murray) [[email-masked]]
    Move: grabbed ThinMan's donkey
    Result: unsuccessful (covered)
    Actions against: /dev/joe grabbed his donkey
    Final Results: removed from GAL

Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck) [[email-masked]]
    Move: admired his donkey
    Result: none
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL

snowgod (Phil Ackley) [[email-masked]]
    Move: covered his donkey
    Result: successful
    Actions against: none
    Final Results: remains on GAL

ThinMan (John Bollinger) [[email-masked]]
    Move: covered his donkey
    Result: successful
    Actions against: mr cwm attempted grab
    Final Results: remains on GAL
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

mr cwm is removed from the GAL.  The current GAL is:

Bascule (Matt Black) [[email-masked]]
Calvin N Hobbes (Thierry Joffrain) [[email-masked]]
/dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis) [[email-masked]]
Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin) [[email-masked]]
Habeous Corpus (Ed Graham) [[email-masked]]
IdiotBoy (Matt Miller) [[email-masked]]
Mohammed (Jason Orendorff) [[email-masked]]
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck) [[email-masked]]
snowgod (Phil Ackley) [[email-masked]]
ThinMan (John Bollinger) [[email-masked]]

Malenkai
Wrangler

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