Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #307
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest       Tuesday, October 22 1996       Volume 01 : Number 307

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:59:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: R 362

> PapaSmurph failed to respond to an R 362 message for 2 day.  He
> should be removed from the game by the appropriate officers.

Did he ever become an active player?  I think he did not.

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:53:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1329 Passes

> Here are the voting results for : 1329
> 7 YES votes   3 NO votes   2 PRESENT votes
> Proposal PASSES
> 
> Calvin N Hobbes gains 10 points.                           7 -> 17
> 
> 7 YES votes:
>   Guy Fawkes                    (None Yet)                 =  139
>   mr cwm                        (None Yet)                 =  73
>   snowgod                       (None Yet)                 =  63
>   (None Yet) Unity Vote
>   Niccolo Flychuck              Vulcan                     =  86
>   Brinjal                                                  =  60
>   Malenkai                      FUN                        =  195
> 
> 3 NO votes:  3 points each
> 
>   Mohammed                                     23 -> 26
>   Thinman                Vulcan                50 -> 53
>   /dev/joe               Vulcan                74 -> 77
>   breadbox
    ^^^^^^^^

> 2 PRESENT votes:
>   IdiotBoy
>   breadbox
    ^^^^^^^^

Which of these is correct?  I will finish the score calculations
assuming that breadbox voted present, because this makes the
vote totals correct.  This is important, because if breadbox
voted NO then the proposal fails.

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:37:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Newspaper for sale, like new, CHEAP!

For Sale:  One Newspaper, never published.  Has trendy 90's name, "is",
and slight historical significance.  A$20 new, will sacrifice for A$12, or
will take two authentic snowgod second presidential election campaign
Prosthetic Foreheads in trade.  Contact mr cwm at [email-masked].

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:50:36 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Phillip R. Ackley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: P1333 Passes

> >4 ABSTENTIONS:
> >  Bascule                FUN
> >  Calvin N Hobbes        FUN
> >  Robert Sevin
> >  fnord
> >
> >
> >Players on Vacation who did not vote:
> >  fon
> >  Pascal
> 
> I note that I am not listed on these results at all.  My vote
> (I'm pretty sure I made one) is not listed, and I am not
> listed as abstaining or being on vacation.  This does not
> appear to have been a problem with the other proposals.
> 
> 
> ThinMan

Thinman,

I have you marked on my recors as abstaining.  I notwith my not so 
elegant copy and paste jobs that that I forgot to mark you as abstaining 
on the results.  This is one of the proposals I was talking about in my 
blurb...  Should you like I can try and dig up a copy of your votes again 
just to double check..  Matter of fact, I think I WILL do that when I get 
home from work tonight.

snowgod
who almost left Habeous Corpus out all together

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:53:05 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Phillip R. Ackley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1329 Passes

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> > Here are the voting results for : 1329
> > 7 YES votes   3 NO votes   2 PRESENT votes
> > Proposal PASSES
> > 
> > Calvin N Hobbes gains 10 points.                           7 -> 17
> > 
> > 7 YES votes:
> >   Guy Fawkes                    (None Yet)                 =  139
> >   mr cwm                        (None Yet)                 =  73
> >   snowgod                       (None Yet)                 =  63
> >   (None Yet) Unity Vote
> >   Niccolo Flychuck              Vulcan                     =  86
> >   Brinjal                                                  =  60
> >   Malenkai                      FUN                        =  195
> > 
> > 3 NO votes:  3 points each
> > 
> >   Mohammed                                     23 -> 26
> >   Thinman                Vulcan                50 -> 53
> >   /dev/joe               Vulcan                74 -> 77
> >   breadbox
>     ^^^^^^^^
> 
> > 2 PRESENT votes:
> >   IdiotBoy
> >   breadbox
>     ^^^^^^^^
> 
> Which of these is correct?  I will finish the score calculations
> assuming that breadbox voted present, because this makes the
> vote totals correct.  This is important, because if breadbox
> voted NO then the proposal fails.
> 
> /dev/joe
> Scorekeeper
> 

Sorry once again,

My records indicate that Breadbox did indeed vote present.  His NO vote 
was just a sloppy cut-and-paste job on my part.  I will make sure to be 
more careful about this in the future.

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:56:29 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Phillip R. Ackley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Newspaper for sale, like new, CHEAP!

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, mr cwm wrote:

> For Sale:  One Newspaper, never published.  Has trendy 90's name, "is",
> and slight historical significance.  A$20 new, will sacrifice for A$12, or
> will take two authentic snowgod second presidential election campaign
> Prosthetic Foreheads in trade.  Contact mr cwm at [email-masked].

Heck, for a price like A$12, how can you go wrong.  Assuming newspapers 
are tradeable (and I don't have the rules in front of me at the moment) I 
will gladly purchase your paper.  I'd trade you the foreheads, but I 
would prefer to keep them as a set until I auction them off (which 
reminds me - the whamiol was completed yesterday.  Either malenkai or I 
need to auction it.)

snowgod
acking the transaction assuming mr cwm does

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Newspaper for sale, like new, CHEAP!

I ack this transaction, trading is for A$12 with snowgod.

- -mr cwm

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, snowgod wrote:

>
>
>On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, mr cwm wrote:
>
>> For Sale:  One Newspaper, never published.  Has trendy 90's name, "is",
>> and slight historical significance.  A$20 new, will sacrifice for A$12, or
>> will take two authentic snowgod second presidential election campaign
>> Prosthetic Foreheads in trade.  Contact mr cwm at [email-masked].
>
>Heck, for a price like A$12, how can you go wrong.  Assuming newspapers 
>are tradeable (and I don't have the rules in front of me at the moment) I 
>will gladly purchase your paper.  I'd trade you the foreheads, but I 
>would prefer to keep them as a set until I auction them off (which 
>reminds me - the whamiol was completed yesterday.  Either malenkai or I 
>need to auction it.)
>
>snowgod
>acking the transaction assuming mr cwm does
>
>

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:15:51 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: R 362

Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> 
> > PapaSmurph failed to respond to an R 362 message for 2 day.  He
> > should be removed from the game by the appropriate officers.
> 
> Did he ever become an active player?  I think he did not.
> 
> /dev/joe

No.

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:18:05 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Phillip R. Ackley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Auction

Sorry to be creating so much confusion lately, but I am not sure exactly 
who is supposed to Auction the Whamiol... back to that old retractable 
errors bit (and publically knowable game custom?) it seems.

The whamiol was finished yesterday, but the way my schedule worked out, I 
was unable to call an auction (it would have been my day).  I noticed 
today, but I think that according to "auctions" it may be Malenkai's duty 
to auction it...  I quote "2) The Auctioneer will be Count Tabula if the 
day of the month when
     the Auction is called is odd , and the Inventor otherwise."

If I were to call an auction, right now, on an odd day would it be a 
legal move?  Would malenkai indeed be auctioning then?  Hmm.

snowgod
easily confused.

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:24:28 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 116 Verdict

CFCJ 116 has been judged FALSE.

Clerk of the Courts
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Criminal Judgement 116
  Subject:  Illegal Publishing
Initiator:  mr cwm
    Judge:  /dev/joe (selected Oct 18, 1996, 20:50 EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

Guy Fawkes has broken the rules.

mr cwm's Reasoning:

Guy Fawkes posted the following message:

"Any holder of a Chartreuse Goose Egg is hereby invited to submit a bid to
take this fowl most foul off my hands.  Name your price; the lowest bid
shall win.

Guy Fawkes"

R891 states that "News articles may only be posted by the owner of a
newspaper, quoting the name of the newspaper in the article.  Such an
article is said to have been published in that paper.  No player may
publish articles in a paper she does not own without the express
permission of the publisher."

The posted message quotes the name of a newspaper, is, prominently in the
center of the first line.  The posted article contains news, that is, it
contains information previously unknown, but possibly of interest, to
Ackanomians.  By quoting the name of a newspaper, this news article is
said (by R891) to have been published in that paper.  However, Guy Fawkes
is neither the owner of that paper, nor does he have the explicit
permission of that paper's publisher, mr cwm, to publish in it.  Guy
Fawkes has violated R891.

(Note that "news article" is either defined by R891 to be a message such
as this, quoting the name of a newspaper, or it is undefined, in which
case common English usage would indicate that this message containing news
is a "news article.")

Suggested penalties:

Transfer of entities: A$24 to mr cwm (A$4 in actual damages, A$20 in court
costs).

Fines: A$12 (triple damages)

/dev/joe's Reasoning:

There are several possible interpretations of rule 891.
CFJ 308 established that merely using the name of a newspaper
in a message is not sufficient to make that message be a news
article -- only messages that are written in the style of a
newspaper article are considered to be published in a newspaper.

The message in question looks nothing like a newspaper article
(maybe a classified ad at best), so I judge this CFCJ to be FALSE.

Note that CFJ 308's interpretation does not conflict with the Hot
Tips Newsletter being judged to be a newspaper -- although I
haven't seen a copy of it myself, what IdiotBoy was advertising
and asking payment for was very much like a newspaper.

Note also that send copies of newspaper articles still constitutes
publishing an article in a newspaper and is prohibited.  However,
this can easily be circumvented, perhaps by deleting the name of
the newspaper in the copy.

Note (yeah, another note) that legitimate newspapers might currently
be prohibited from quoting the names of other newspapers without
permission in their articles, currently.

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:27:17 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 310 (Habeous)

mr cwm declined.

Habeous Corpus has been selected.

Clerk of the Courts
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 310
  Subject: Illegal Chess
Initiator: Niccolo Flychuck
    Judge: mr cwm (declined to judge)
2nd Judge: Habeous Corpus (selected Oct 21, 1996, 14:27h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

PartyChess move 14 - Place Bishop at f1 (Brinjal, NAP Swinger)- never
occured.

Niccolo Flychuck's Reasoning:

The move is illegal, and therefore it never occured.

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:36:19 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Auction

Phillip R. Ackley wrote:
> 
> Sorry to be creating so much confusion lately, but I am not sure exactly
> who is supposed to Auction the Whamiol... back to that old retractable
> errors bit (and publically knowable game custom?) it seems.
> 
> The whamiol was finished yesterday, but the way my schedule worked out, I
> was unable to call an auction (it would have been my day). 

From R 786:

[privileges of the inventor]

> (d) announcing publicly that the new Gadget has been built and
> initiating the process to publically Auction the Gadget, as defined
> by Rule 1023.

"Speed" gives the Inventor 3 days to do step (d) of R 786 after step
(c) is completed.

This "calling" would qualify as a rules called auction per R 1023, and was
called on Oct 21 in the Acka time zone, therefore Count Tabula should
be the auctioneer.

I do not see this as a retractable/non-retractable error situation, because
I do not see it as a error.

I will initiate the auction later tonight to give time to dispute this
interpretation of the rules.

Malenkai
managing partner of Malenkai's Loophole Service

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:48:11 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Robe check

I survey the purple garment draped about my body.  For some reason, its
CFJ-attraction properties don't seem to be working very well.  Wait a
minute -- what's this?  There's an on/off switch located under the left
armpit!  I flip the switch to the "on" position.  At first nothing seems
to happen, but then the previously somewhat dull robe lights up with a
fluorescent purple glow!  I don't know whether this will help attract
CFJs, but at least my face will always be tanned.  And I won't need a
flashlight to find my way home in the dark.

ThinMan
wearing the fluorescent Purple Robe of Justice

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:47:51 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1327 Passes

Acting Tabulator wrote:
> 
> Here are the voting results for : 1327
> 
>    Proposal 1327 - Sun Oct 13 20:41:49 EDT 1996
>    Proper Care and Handling of the Chartreuse Goose
>    Guy Fawkes (Robert Shimmin)

Proposal 455 has finally happened.  When I joined the game, it was
personal goal to get that passed, for some reason.  What a long strange
trip its been.

Malenkai
who believes the Goose needs to be fed today

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:49:26 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Magic Potato

snowgod has been chosen to bear the Magic Potato this week.

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:56:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Current Scores

1. Score log, since the last score report:

Guy Fawkes lost 2 points for retracting P1341
Normal scoring for proposals 1324-1326.
Robert Sevin lost 10 points for being burned as a witch.
Malenkai lost 2 points for retracting P1343
breadbox lost a point when CFJ 301 was overturned
snowgod lost 4 points for retracting P1332 and P1351
Guy Fawkes lost 2 points for retracting P1358
IdiotBoy scored 6 points for posting what phoebe said
Niccolo Flychuck lost 6 points for retracting P1353-1355
Duel results: Guy Fawkes +6, Malenkai +3, Robert Sevin -6, Calvin N Hobbes -3
Normal scoring for P1327-1335, except:
  Guy Fawkes is silly for P1327 and gains 5 points
  Guy Fawkes lost 2 points and Malenkai gained 2 points by temp. text in R1327 
  Proposals 1330, 1331, and 1333 were modest
  Bascule got 1 extra point for the Magic potato on modest proposal 1331

2. The magic potato needs to be redistributed today.

3. Current scores:

Score   Ackanomic Name   Status  Real Name
- -----   --------------      ---  -------------
212     Malenkai             A   (Randy Hall)
152     Habeous Corpus       A   (Ed Graham)
152     Guy Fawkes           A   (Robert Shimmin)
91      Niccolo Flychuck     A   (Uri Bruck)
80      /dev/joe             A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
73      mr cwm               A   (Eric Murray)
72      IdiotBoy             A   (Matt Miller)
63      snowgod              A   (Phil Ackley)
60      Brinjal              A   (Simon Clarke)
57      fnord                A   (Michael Thomas)
55      Bascule              A   (Matt Black)
53      ThinMan              A   (John Bollinger)
26      Mohammed             A   (Jason Orendorff)
17      Calvin N Hobbes      A   (Thierry Joffrain)
2       breadbox             A   (Brian Raiter)
0       fon                  I   (Adrian Smith)
0       Pascal               I   (Jason Reed)
- -16     Robert Sevin         N   (Mitchell Harding)

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:04:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1333 Passes

> Here are the voting results for : 1333
> 10 YES votes   0 NO votes   2 PRESENT votes
> Proposal PASSES

>    Proposal 1333 - Sun Oct 13 20:43:58 EDT 1996
>    Cat-eat-Cat
>    Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
>    Decision: Accepted
> 
>      This is a Modest proposal.
> 
>      A proposal to ammend R1085 in the following manner:
>      The follwing text will be added to section 3, immediately following
>      the first sentence of that section.
>      "A CopyCat cannot Capture another CopyCat."

This is an invalid rule change.  There is no rule 1085 now, it got
moved to rule 985.something when the rule suites passed.

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:23:36 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Ackanomic: Proposal 1365

On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Guy Fawkes wrote:

> 
> Proposal 1365 -- Sun 20 Oct 7:07 CDT 1996
> In Which We Crack Down on Crime
> Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)

Someone's been overdosing on Milne lately :)

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:11:30 -0500
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 311 (CnH) 

>Calvin N Hobbes has been chosen, and has 3 days to accept/decline.

I decline. I've not read any of the rules about this and do not have the
time to do so. Hopefully someone with better knowledge will be chosen next.

CnH

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:14:30 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1333 Passes

Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> 
> > Here are the voting results for : 1333
> > 10 YES votes   0 NO votes   2 PRESENT votes
> > Proposal PASSES
> 
> >    Proposal 1333 - Sun Oct 13 20:43:58 EDT 1996
> >    Cat-eat-Cat
> >    Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
> >    Decision: Accepted
> >
> >      This is a Modest proposal.
> >
> >      A proposal to ammend R1085 in the following manner:
> >      The follwing text will be added to section 3, immediately following
> >      the first sentence of that section.
> >      "A CopyCat cannot Capture another CopyCat."
> 
> This is an invalid rule change.  There is no rule 1085 now, it got
> moved to rule 985.something when the rule suites passed.
> 
> /dev/joe

Perhaps the CSRR officer could make this change, as Acka has approved it
in principle.

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:59:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Michael J. Thomas" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Poet Laureate stuff

I apologize to the President of Ackanomic for
my delay in presenting this poem as he requested.

Eulogy for a Gnome

All hang your heads, and plan no more
To lower, with artifice, your score.
For no more shall we have the chance
To gain the peculiar circumstance
To cast two votes whilst others have one
Because you are the buddy of a little one. 

Twas not murder, nor deeds concealed.
Merely the act of a Rule Repealed,
That caused the loss that all do know
And sadly I must say it so.
"The Gnome is gone, but not forgotten.
And Chartreuse Goose Down is much softer than cotton!"

Also, according to the rules, I am required to keep
a Poet Laureate's page.  This page is accessible at

http://cyberplex.punk.net/~thomasm/poet.html

Many thanks to Guy Fawkes for his original layout
and design of the original Poet Laureate pages.

fnord
Poet Laureate

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:36:55 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Phillip R. Ackley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Magic Potato

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Malenkai wrote:

> snowgod has been chosen to bear the Magic Potato this week.

About time that little lamb paid off!

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:26:43 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 311 (Robert Sevin)

>>Calvin N Hobbes has been chosen, and has 3 days to accept/decline.

>I decline. I've not read any of the rules about this and do not have the
>time to do so. Hopefully someone with better knowledge will be chosen next.

Robert Sevin has been chosen next, and has 3 days to accept/decline.

Clerk of the Courts
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 311
  Subject: Illegal Chess
Initiator: Niccolo Flychuck
    Judge: Calvin N Hobbes (declined to judge)
2nd Judge: Calvin N Hobbes (selected Oct 21, 1996, 22:27h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

PartyChess move 14 - place bishop at f1 (Brinjal, NAP) - never occured,
and neither did any of the events that followed it.

Reasoning:

The move was an illegal move.
The Chess-Umpire was supposed to declare it illegal.
I claim that the play was illegal, and therefore never took place.
Consequently, all other PartyChess events which followed could also not
have taken place.

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:30:21 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Poet Laureate stuff

Michael J. Thomas wrote:
> 
> I apologize to the President of Ackanomic for
> my delay in presenting this poem as he requested.

I also wished to commission the Poet Laureate for poems for
Elder Wayne and Elder this is not a name.  What are the terms?

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:36:02 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Phillip R. Ackley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Poet Laureate stuff

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Malenkai wrote:

> Michael J. Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > I apologize to the President of Ackanomic for
> > my delay in presenting this poem as he requested.
> 
> I also wished to commission the Poet Laureate for poems for
> Elder Wayne and Elder this is not a name.  What are the terms?

I wish to pay for these two poems out of my presidential pocket, assuming 
Malenkai doesn't object.  I  believe I asked first, right Fnord? :)  I 
had origianlly hoped to retract my request for a poem eulogizing the 
gnome, and replace it with one for tinan and Wayne, but the rules didn't 
allow that.  Anyhow, I'm willing to pay for it.

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:35:23 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 311 (IdiotBoy)

Robert Sevin declined.

IdiotBoy has been chosen next, and has 3 days to accept/decline.

Clerk of the Courts
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 311
  Subject: Illegal Chess
Initiator: Niccolo Flychuck
    Judge: Calvin N Hobbes (declined to judge)
2nd Judge: Robert Sevin (decined to judge)
3rd Judge: IdiotBoy (selected Oct 21, 1996, 22:36h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

PartyChess move 14 - place bishop at f1 (Brinjal, NAP) - never occured,
and neither did any of the events that followed it.

Reasoning:

The move was an illegal move.
The Chess-Umpire was supposed to declare it illegal.
I claim that the play was illegal, and therefore never took place.
Consequently, all other PartyChess events which followed could also not
have taken place.

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:39:30 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Poet Laureate stuff

Phillip R. Ackley wrote:

> I wish to pay for these two poems out of my presidential pocket, assuming
> Malenkai doesn't object.  I  believe I asked first, right Fnord? :) 

I asked years ago :)  Is this a competetion?  In any case, I will pay 
for the poem honoring Wayne, and snowgod can pay for the poem honoring
tinan.  Hows that?

As for competetion, I'm about to enter the newspaper business...

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:45:50 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Auction Whamiol

I am starting the auction for the Whamiol now.  I will be posting 
the high bid on the current events web page, and to the the public
forum from time to time.

Send me your bids. 

The last Whamiol went cheap, as we had no new players for the longest
time.  Then when it was sold, lots of new players joined, now we
havne't had any new players for a while again.  Perhaps this Whamiol
will bring us good luck too.

Malenkai
Chief Cheese

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:30:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: IdiotBoy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 311 (IdiotBoy)

I realy, really, really hate to do this.  But I decline, as well.  I don't
know anything about PartyChess, and I don't think I could do justice by this
CFJ.

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

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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:57 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 311 (Brijnal)

IdiotBoy declined.  Pretty soon, ThinMan and his cloak will be the
only justices on the list :)

Brinjal has been chosen next, and has 3 days to accept/decline.

Clerk of the Courts
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 311
  Subject: Illegal Chess
Initiator: Niccolo Flychuck
    Judge: Calvin N Hobbes (declined to judge)
2nd Judge: Robert Sevin (decined to judge)
3rd Judge: IdiotBoy (declined to judge)
4th Judge: Brinjal (selected Oct 21, 1996, 23:41h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

PartyChess move 14 - place bishop at f1 (Brinjal, NAP) - never occured,
and neither did any of the events that followed it.

Reasoning:

The move was an illegal move.
The Chess-Umpire was supposed to declare it illegal.
I claim that the play was illegal, and therefore never took place.
Consequently, all other PartyChess events which followed could also not
have taken place.

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End of Ackanomic Digest V1 #307
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