Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #411
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest      Thursday, December 19 1996      Volume 01 : Number 411

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:10:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Silver Moon Candidates

Citizens of Ackamonia, the Senate has prepared a list of candidates
for the prestigious Silver Moon award.

* Snowgod's Awful Party Hall Poem (Dec 7)
* Guy Fawkes' Analysis of the game Boolean Tic-Tac-Toe
* Calvin N Hobbes' First Translation from the Codex of Kra (Nov 3)
* Guy Fawkes' "Irish" Ballad of Party Chess

These items are all accessible from Ackanomic's main web page, under
"Party Hall Parties", "Guy Fawkes' Analysis of the game Boolean
Tic-Tac-Toe", "Ackaphysicist's Page", and "The Ballad of Party Chess",
respectively.

Will our tireless Tabulator do me the honor of initiating the vote?

breadbox
senator

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:22:21 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Spelling Bee, and Score adjustment

The Spelling Bee is flying!

In rule 101 change "ules" to "rules".

In rule 401, change the name of section (xi) from "Effeciency" to
"Efficiency".

In rule 726, change "elegible" to "eligible" (in the part just amended by
proposal 1522).

In non-Spelling Bee stuff:

Proposal 1522 amended rule 207 by incorporating part of the modesty stuff,
so by rule 208 (formerly 1089.2), no scoring happens for that rule.
I have adjusted the scores accordingly - Mohammed -10, Habeous Corpus -3.
I'm not sure that the current set of rules 207 and 209 work right in all
cases, either -- somebody whose brain's not dead please look at it.

Malenkai is right, the money-granting rule says it gives the average of
all other players' A$, so each player gets a different amount depending
on how many A$ he had at the time.

The new ruleset is up -- I didn't remove "(Mutable)" from the header of
each rule yet because it will break my script for making the categorized
rule list. I deleted the Immutable category, but dropping (Mutable) from
the headers will require a little more work.  Otherwise it should all
be updated.

Some of the revision numbers are probably off too.  I need to go through
and recheck all those anyway.

The rule set is less balanced when broken into hundreds now -- the 200's,
400's, 500's and 700's combined are as long as all the other rules
combined.  Hopefully it is much more organized though.

Some proposals in the queue now were probably broken by the passage
of 1539, but I haven't checked.  OTOH, the spelling rule might fix
those automagically, especially if the name of the rule is given.

/dev/joe

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:57:39 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Silver Moon Candidates 

>
>These items are all accessible from Ackanomic's main web page, under
>"Party Hall Parties", "Guy Fawkes' Analysis of the game Boolean
>Tic-Tac-Toe", "Ackaphysicist's Page", and "The Ballad of Party Chess",
>respectively.
>
>Will our tireless Tabulator do me the honor of initiating the vote?
>
>breadbox
>senator

I would be ahppy to, but I think it is Count Tabula's job...  Correct?

snowgod

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:59:44 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: new players (mentors: Malenkai, snowgod 

I would like to welcome bot BuzzBee and G. Peefalt to the game of
Ackanomic!  This infusion of new blood into our game is great.  Welcome!

snowgod
outgoing president

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:27:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Silver Moon Candidates

>> Will our tireless Tabulator do me the honor of initiating the vote?
>>
>> breadbox
>> senator
> 
> I would be ahppy to, but I think it is Count Tabula's job...  Correct?
> 
> snowgod

Forgive me. I should have said, "Will our tireless Tabula do me the
honor of initiating the vote?"

b

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:59:36 -0600 (CST)
From: "S. Quicksilver" <sq>
Subject: fwd: this one fell through the cracks:

> BuzzBee has changes eir email address for ackanomic
> Eir new address is
> 
> 
> [email-masked]
> 
> Niccolo Flychuck
> Registrar

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 02:02:49 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Removing an observer

All of the list mail for observer [email-masked] in more than a week,
including well over 20 messages, has bounced, so I am exercising my
privilege as postmaster (rule 901) to remove him from the game.

/dev/joe
Postmaster

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:46:20 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: President 

As a (sob) ex-president, I wish to congratulate Niccolo Flychuck on his
victory, and all of the candidates on a campaign well-run.  Perhaps next
time, I ought take on Robert Sevin for the presidency myself :)

snowgod
ex-president

the weight of the world is off my shoulders

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:49:37 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: President 

Later that night at the ackanomic academy of political sciences awards
ceremony...

...And the award for Strongest campaign management team goes to Niccolo
Flychuck for the excellent work of his campaign manager, snowgod.

... The award for the Harfiest candidate, and perhaps player altogether
goes to Robert Sevin, once and future president of Ackanomic and all around
great guy.

... And finally, the award for harfiest campaign goes to breadbox, the
first player since Kelly Martin to vote against emself while running for
office.

I congratulate all the winners

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:55:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: President

> ... And finally, the award for harfiest campaign goes to breadbox, the
> first player since Kelly Martin to vote against emself while running for
> office.

(well, the first alongside Robert Sevin....)

By the way, I'd like to extend thanks to all who voted for me. I'd
also like to extend thanks to all who DIDN'T vote for me! (Y'know, I
just entered the race so there'd be a third party; I can't imagine
what would have happened if I'd actually wound up with the job....)

b

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:57:54 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Duel/Ghost Start 

>Mitchell Harding wrote:
>
>The ghost word is: "guber"
>
>It is snowgod's turn.

snowgod plays: gubern

snowgod
you can't respect a man who won't respect his own hat :)

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:14:44 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Lantern 

The monster, now down for the count, falls into a dream in which the
boundries of his limited monster intelligence are expanded.  New and
exciting thoughts occur to him -- that there is more to life than eating
humans and performing all sorts of calculating evil in murky swamps, more
than raiding construction sites and crushing skulls. In his drugged state,
the monster makes an important discovery:

"This limited third person characterization is ruining my devopment as a
character. The story will move along faster if it's the Point-Of-View is
changed. I think I shall become the main character of this violent tale and
assure that it is told through a first person POV"

I awake from my slumber with a splitting headache, and the desire for human
flesh gnawing at my gut.  Whats that?  Someone is opening my crate!

discovery

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 04:54:19 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Benedictions for all!

Well, the Den of Iniquity isn't dangling, so it really doesn't need a 
blessing, but since I have the cash in hand...

The Den of Iniquity is hereby blessed
To give Bascule some better rest,
And as Tornados cross our nation
To scoring's discombobulation,
May the dice smile on him all the more
And give him someone else's score.
By the powers of dice server's algorithm
And my polysyllabicism,
Let that house, the Den of Iniquity
For five days hence quite blesse be.
Amen.

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Matt wrote:

> > Two days hence, I will be going on Vacation.  However, before then, for 
> > the low, low "tithe" of A$10, I will be willing to bless any dangling 
> > house and prevent it from being ripped off in the coming Tornado.
> > 
> > Guy Fawkes
> 
> Could you bless my house, Guy? I've been a little slack in church 
> attendance recently :)
> 
> Bascule -10
> Guy Fawkes +10
> 
> Bascule

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 06:22:38 EST 
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Fictionary

I vote for #6. A small, hairless dog, native to eastern Mongolia

HC

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 03:39:19 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary: Time to vote

> 5. A spicy pepper grown primarily in Ecuador

I'm tossing my fortune in with #5.

breadbox

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:03:44 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Fictionary results

The votes are in and counted, and here are the results

The correct definition of "jipijapa" was number 2:
"A Central and So. American plant (Carludovica palmata) resembling a
palm"

		Definition		Definition
Player		 Written		Voted for
- ------		----------		----------
/dev/joe	    5			    6
breadbox	    6			    5
Habeous Corpus    1			    6
Malenkai	    4			    5
snowgod	    3			    2

Guy Fawkes wrote the following definition:
GF: "A Central American grass, or a hat made from its straw"

The ing word is in the official dictionary, but only in the
first of the two Fictionary Dictionaries.  It has two defintions in
that dictionary, the first of which I gave, the second of which is
"PANAMA" (as in hat).  Considering that Guy Fawkes gave a definition
that was very close to a combination of the two online definitions,
I felt it appropriate to invoke Fictionary rule 3B.  Although it
has no relevance, Mr. Fawkes' definition is very similar indeed
to that in Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary.

I am curious to know whether Mr. Fawkes just happened to know that
word, whether he lucked into the correct definition, or whether he
had recently come across it for some other reason.

Scoring

>	3b) Exactly one Bluffer submitted a definition that is substantially
>	similar to an On-line Definition.  In this case, that Bluffer receives
>	4 Gamepoints, and their submitted defintion is removed from play.

Guy Fawkes receives four Gamepoints

>        i)   Each Bluffer receives 1 Gamepoint for every player other
>             than himself who voted for his definition.

breadbox receives two Gamepoints
/dev/joe receives two Gamepoints

>        ii)  A Bluffer receives 2 Gamepoints if he voted for the Actual
>             Definition.

snowgod receives two Gamepoints

Game Scores:

Player        Score this round  Cumulative score
- -------------  -------------     --------------
/dev/joe             2                 7
snowgod              2                 3
Thinman              0                 1
Guy Fawkes           4                 6
breadbox             2                 7
Malenkai             0                 1
Habeous Corpus       0                 0

As an aside, by my reading of the fictionary rules, the application
of rule 3B would not have prevented the me, as Braniac, from receiving
two Gamepoints had no-one voted for the correct definition (darn you,
snowgod! :)  I don't know whether that is a problem that needs fixing,
or even a problem at all.

Guy Fawkes is the new Brainiac.

Cheers,

ThinMan
ex-Braniac

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:07:24 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Silver Moon Candidates

Phil Ackley wrote:
> 
> >
> >These items are all accessible from Ackanomic's main web page, under
> >"Party Hall Parties", "Guy Fawkes' Analysis of the game Boolean
> >Tic-Tac-Toe", "Ackaphysicist's Page", and "The Ballad of Party Chess",
> >respectively.
> >
> >Will our tireless Tabulator do me the honor of initiating the vote?
> >
> >breadbox
> >senator
> 
> I would be ahppy to, but I think it is Count Tabula's job...  Correct?

Correct.  Send votes to [email-masked].  I will accept votes for 3 days
from the date of the post listing the nominees.

Count Tabula

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:09:36 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Duel/Ghost Start

Phil Ackley wrote:

The ghost word is: gubern
> It is Robert Sevin's turn.

Malenkai

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 10:47:08 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Fictionary results

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Bollinger, John C. wrote:

> I am curious to know whether Mr. Fawkes just happened to know that
> word, whether he lucked into the correct definition, or whether he
> had recently come across it for some other reason.

A little bit of both, I guess.  I knew it has some sort of hat (like 
snowgod, I have a fascination with headwear; hence my two heads for even 
more headwear potential).  I had no idea what sort of hat it might be, 
but the word sounded Spanish-ish, so I took a guess as to the rest.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:17:17 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: SwingPoints

I believe that yesterady, Tue. was the Swingpoint thing again.

So snowgod's Swingpoints and mine are converted to points.

points

Dec 16 snowgod +2
Dec 16 Niccolo +2

Three Swingpoints are created and given to myself. 
Two Swingpoint are created and given to snowgod.

So far this is what I perform as Chess-Umpire

As Vulcan Swinger, player etc. I give snowgod the three Swingpoint I just
received, in recognition of eir fine work on my campaign, and on eir
support.

To future  ventures.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 11:22:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Bomb Shelter slush fund

Blessed by the P 1539 dispensation, I am giving A$120 to Niccolo for use 
on the Bomb Shelter.

Guy Fawkes -120, Bomb Shelter
Niccolo    +120, same

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:26:52 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Bomb Shelter slush fund  (T-3.5)

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Guy Fawkes wrote:

> 
> Blessed by the P 1539 dispensation, I am giving A$120 to Niccolo for use 
> on the Bomb Shelter.
> 
> Guy Fawkes -120, Bomb Shelter
> Niccolo    +120, same
> 
> Guy Fawkes
> 
I thank you Guy Fawkes. 
I am also putting A$100 into the Bomb Shelter fund, a fact that need not
be noted by the financier.

As of now the Bomb Shelter fund stands at A$220 and awaiting your
contributions.

It is now T-3.5 days and counting.

Niccolo Flychuck

President in times of Crisis

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 13:09:33 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: acka: SwingPoints

> I believe that yesterady, Tue. was the Swingpoint thing again.
> 
> So snowgod's Swingpoints and mine are converted to points.
> 
> points
> 
> Dec 16 snowgod +2
> Dec 16 Niccolo +2

1. This happened last week so it doesn't happen this week.
2. That should be Niccolo +3 when it does happen.

/dev/joe
Scorekeeper

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 12:33:32 -0800 (PST)
From: fnord <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Bomb Shelter slush fund  (T-3.5)

Niccolo Flychuck spake thusly
> 
> As of now the Bomb Shelter fund stands at A$220 and awaiting your
> contributions.
> 
I will also give to the slush fund.

fnord -130 Bomb shelter fund
Niccolo Flychuck +130 Bomb shelter fund

I believe this will be A$130 well spent.

fnord

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 13:24:39 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Bomb Shelter Donation

I, too, am giving A$75 to Niccolo Flychuck for the Bomb Shelter.

- -75 Mohammed           Bomb Shelter donation
+75 Niccolo Flychuck   Bomb  Shelter donation

- --Mohammed

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:50:31 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: SwingPoints

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> 
> 1. This happened last week so it doesn't happen this week.
> 2. That should be Niccolo +3 when it does happen.
> 
> /dev/joe
> Scorekeeper

Sorry, I guess the excitement of the elections got me. 
In that case both snowgod and I  still hold our respective Swingpoints,
and my giving him those three Swingpoints I own is still valid.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:53:51 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: Bomb Shelter Fund (T-3.34)

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, fnord wrote:

> Niccolo Flychuck spake thusly
> > 
> > As of now the Bomb Shelter fund stands at A$220 and awaiting your
> > contributions.
> > 
> I will also give to the slush fund.
> 
> fnord -130 Bomb shelter fund
> Niccolo Flychuck +130 Bomb shelter fund
> 
> I believe this will be A$130 well spent.
> 
> fnord
> 

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jason Orendorff wrote:

> I, too, am giving A$75 to Niccolo Flychuck for the Bomb Shelter.
> 
> -75 Mohammed           Bomb Shelter donation
> +75 Niccolo Flychuck   Bomb  Shelter donation
> 
> --Mohammed
>

This puts the Bomb Shelter Fund at A$425 

We are very close to hitting the mark.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 22:24:58 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 1573 - and Bascule's move

And this is another possible effect of Bacule's PartyChess move.
If he had not checked the NAP King. Then by the this proposal came to the
end of its voting period, no NAP pieces would have remained on the board.
And this proposal would have probably become meaningless.

Bascule's move ensures that there will on-board pieces at that time. 
Which means that this proposal may  have some real effect.

Another thing. 
Sunday was Dec. 15
Niccolo Flychuck

On Sun, 15 Dec 1996, Guy Fawkes wrote:

> 
> Proposal 1573 -- Sun 16 Dec 18:02 CST 1996
> Make the NAP Count
> Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:15:42 -0600
From: john duncan <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: Bomb Shelter Fund (T-3.34)

Uri Bruck wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, fnord wrote:
> 
> > Niccolo Flychuck spake thusly
> > >
> > > As of now the Bomb Shelter fund stands at A$220 and awaiting your
> > > contributions.
> > >
> > I will also give to the slush fund.
> >
> > fnord -130 Bomb shelter fund
> > Niccolo Flychuck +130 Bomb shelter fund
> >
> > I believe this will be A$130 well spent.
> >
> > fnord
> >
> 
> On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jason Orendorff wrote:
> 
> > I, too, am giving A$75 to Niccolo Flychuck for the Bomb Shelter.
> >
> > -75 Mohammed           Bomb Shelter donation
> > +75 Niccolo Flychuck   Bomb  Shelter donation
> >
> > --Mohammed
> >
> 
> This puts the Bomb Shelter Fund at A$425
> 
> We are very close to hitting the mark.
> 
> Niccolo Flychuck

Put me down for A$75.

- -75 Lestrade
+75 Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:13:25 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: Building a Bomb Shelter (re:Bomb Shelter Fund (T-3.3))

With Lestrade's donation the Bomb Shelter Fund has reached A$500
We have reached our mark!!!

I am really excited at this display of unity and community responsibility
on the part of players of Ackanomic.

I am hereby declaring that I am building a Bomb Shelter.
The Bomb Shelter this Bomb Shelter in anticipation of the Tornado that is
to be visited upon our heads in a little over three days. 
 I believe this should give players time enough to gather their most
precious belongings and make way for the the Bomb Shelter.

Niccolo -500

Niccolo Flychuck
President

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, john duncan wrote:

> Uri Bruck wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, fnord wrote:
> > 
> > > Niccolo Flychuck spake thusly
> > > >
> > > > As of now the Bomb Shelter fund stands at A$220 and awaiting your
> > > > contributions.
> > > >
> > > I will also give to the slush fund.
> > >
> > > fnord -130 Bomb shelter fund
> > > Niccolo Flychuck +130 Bomb shelter fund
> > >
> > > I believe this will be A$130 well spent.
> > >
> > > fnord
> > >
> > 
> > On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Jason Orendorff wrote:
> > 
> > > I, too, am giving A$75 to Niccolo Flychuck for the Bomb Shelter.
> > >
> > > -75 Mohammed           Bomb Shelter donation
> > > +75 Niccolo Flychuck   Bomb  Shelter donation
> > >
> > > --Mohammed
> > >
> > 
> > This puts the Bomb Shelter Fund at A$425
> > 
> > We are very close to hitting the mark.
> > 
> > Niccolo Flychuck
> 
> 
> Put me down for A$75.
> 
> -75 Lestrade
> +75 Niccolo Flychuck
> 

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:11:31 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Frobnotzer

I am placing the second node of my Frobnotzer on the occurrance
of "A$500" in section III of rule 415.

The first node is still attached to the second occurrance of
"15,000 A$" in rule 1344.

I have not set it off yet.

Malenkai
awaiting bribes to either set if off or detach it

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:30:22 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Frobnotzer

On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Malenkai wrote:

> I am placing the second node of my Frobnotzer on the occurrance
> of "A$500" in section III of rule 415.
> 
> The first node is still attached to the second occurrance of
> "15,000 A$" in rule 1344.
> 
> I have not set it off yet.
> 
> Malenkai
> awaiting bribes to either set if off or detach it

Alternately, you could just offer to buy it off him :)

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:29:24 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Lantern

Phil Ackley wrote in the YORL tale:

> "This limited third person characterization is ruining my devopment as a
> character. The story will move along faster if it's the Point-Of-View is
> changed. I think I shall become the main character of this violent tale and
> assure that it is told through a first person POV"

I am interrupting this tale with my card "clever", on the grounds that
the monster is showcasing its cleverness with this realization.

Malenkai

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:42:03 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Lantern

"discovery" was successfully played and is burned.

There are 38 cards in the deck.
7 cards have been burned.

There is one loose end:
        monster

Players:
        snowgod         has   7 cards.
        Habeous-Corpus  has   7 cards.
        Malenkai        has   7 cards.
        ThinMan         has   7 cards.
        Bascule         has   8 cards.
        /dev/joe        has   4 cards.

It is snowgod's turn.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:44:49 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Lantern

> > "This limited third person characterization is ruining my devopment as a
> > character. The story will move along faster if it's the Point-Of-View is
> > changed. I think I shall become the main character of this violent tale and
> > assure that it is told through a first person POV"
> 
> I am interrupting this tale with my card "clever", on the grounds that
> the monster is showcasing its cleverness with this realization.

Hmm.  Okay, I'll buy that.  "clever" is burned, snowgod is dealt one card, 
and it is Malenkai's turn.

There are 38 cards in the deck.
8 cards have been burned.

There is one loose end:
        monster

Players:
        Malenkai        has   6 cards.
        ThinMan         has   7 cards.
        Bascule         has   8 cards.
        /dev/joe        has   4 cards.
        snowgod         has   7 cards.
        Habeous-Corpus  has   7 cards.

It is Malenkai's turn.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:03:28 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Blessing 

I am willing to pay the first priest in good standing to bless my house A$10

snowgod

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:08:00 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Bomb Shelter Donation 

I am giving A$50 (more if I could but I can't so I won't please forgive me
if i dont) to Niccolo Flychuck for the Bomb Shelter

snowgod -50, gift
Niccolo Flychuck +50, gift

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:13:19 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Internomic: Proposals 317-318 

Two new internomic proposals.  The first one is a typographic error, but
unfortunately there is no provisions for withdrawing a proposal in
internomic.  I submitted the second as soon as I realized what I had done
with the first in hopes that the second would cause the first not to be
distributed (with a note of explanation) but it doesn't really matter.
There is no scoring for failed proposals.

I am initiating a senate vote on P317 and P318 and urging the senate to
vote NO on P317 and YES on P318.  Or even better, suppose they both pass
and ackanomic gains four points for something that would have the same
effect as a proposal that woud give us two.

>Proposal 317, proposed by AckaNomic:
>
>Rule 215 is amended so that it reads as follows:
>
>The voting members of this Nomic are: AckaNomic, Agora Thring, Imperial
>Nomic 14, and Pumpkin Patch Nomic. There are no nonvoting members.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Proposal 318, proposed by Ackanomic:
>
>Rule 215 is amended so that it reads as follows:
>
>The voting members of this Nomic are: AckaNomic, Agora, Thring and
>Pumpkin Patch Nomic. There are no nonvoting members.
>
>======================================================================
>

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:16:00 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Lantern 

>Phil Ackley wrote in the YORL tale:
>
>> "This limited third person characterization is ruining my devopment as a
>> character. The story will move along faster if it's the Point-Of-View is
>> changed. I think I shall become the main character of this violent tale and
>> assure that it is told through a first person POV"
>
>I am interrupting this tale with my card "clever", on the grounds that
>the monster is showcasing its cleverness with this realization.
>
>Malenkai

Oh, and not on the grounds that mine was an entirely clever play?  HRRMMPHH! :)

snowgod
clever enough for two fleas put together

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:58:07 -0600 (CST)
From: Guy Fawkes <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Blessing snowgod's beach cottage

This is a blessing pronounced upon snowgod's beach cottage.

Bless this house, and all within
From the rav'ging whirwind;
Since snowgod did forget to pray,
And his house now hangs this way,
'Tis i who make apology
And forestall meteorology. 
And now, for this quite modest plea,
snowgod's house shall blessed be.
But I urge him to come down
From the towers to the town,
Lest his superelevation
Be later cause for lamentation.
Not in tornadic winds, thinks I
Should winged snowgod learn to fly.

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:17:31 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Bless Your House Today! 

Priest in good standing with weather gods
will bless _your_ building for A$5

Email list and ask for Calvin N Hobbes

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:22:25 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Bless Your House Today! 

>Priest in good standing with weather gods
>will bless _your_ building for A$5
>
>Email list and ask for Calvin N Hobbes

That's cool Calvin! Could you bless my house?
Thanks!

I transfer A$5 to CnH

CnH

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 22:21:06 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Silver Stripe

1) I am awarding Guy Fawkes a silver stripe.  I noticed my page and
his eligibility are out of synch, so I may have missed it.  If not,
here it is.

2) did a transfer of A$10 from snowgod to Guy Fawkes occur?

Malenkai
ProConsul
Financier
who wonders in the new Harfmeister is also hogging the harf

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:22:25 -0800
From: [email-masked] (John Martin Lotz)
Subject: RE: Bless Your House Today!

>Priest in good standing with weather gods
>will bless _your_ building for A$5
>
>Email list and ask for Calvin N Hobbes

That's cool Calvin! Could you bless my house?
Thanks!

I transfer A$5 to CnH

I would like to do the same -
Jammer

A$5 to Calvin and Hobbes

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:36:12 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Bless Your House Today! 

>That's cool Calvin! Could you bless my house?
>I transfer A$5 to CnH

Sure thing. I ack the transfer.
And here is the blessing for Calvin N Hobbes's home, Cluzean Castle:

Weather gods, constitutionally spare
Calvin N Hobbes's geostationary home

CnH

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:43:58 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Financier 

I hereby transfer A$10 to Guy Fawkes for serices rendered

snowgod -10, payment for services rendered
Guy Fawkes +10, payment for services rendered

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:44:27 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Bless Your House Today! 

>I would like to do the same -
>Jammer
>
>A$5 to Calvin and Hobbes

Jammer

I'd love to take your money, really, but your house isn't dangling, so it's
safe and doesn't need a blessing. Since it's boring to just say "I'm
blessing my house, there" I went for originality. It also makes sure that no
one will forget it _did_ get blessed.     :)

CnH

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 20:23:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official dictionaries

I took advantage of this moment inbetween Fictionary rounds to look at
the dictionaries for Fictionary. Discovered the second one is
inaccessible from Lynx, due to using a Netscape-ism in their
form. Sigh.

b

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:27:15 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Official dictionaries

Brian Raiter wrote:
> 
> I took advantage of this moment inbetween Fictionary rounds to look at
> the dictionaries for Fictionary. Discovered the second one is
> inaccessible from Lynx, due to using a Netscape-ism in their
> form. Sigh.
> 
> b

I haven't looked at their code, but you can probably call their cgi
from a locally-written html fragment.  In any case, there is no reason
why more on-line dictionaries cannot be added to the Fictionary game,
if you can find them.

As for Acka official dictionaries, that dictionary is not official, so
it shouldn't be a big deal.  I do hope my proposal to make the official
dictionary the union of the old and the new one passes though.  Neither
of those require web access at all.

Malenkai

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:00:14 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Official dictionaries

Malenkai wrote:
> Brian Raiter wrote:
> > 
> > I took advantage of this moment inbetween Fictionary rounds to look at
> > the dictionaries for Fictionary. Discovered the second one is
> > inaccessible from Lynx, due to using a Netscape-ism in their
> > form. Sigh.

> I haven't looked at their code, but you can probably call their cgi
> from a locally-written html fragment.  In any case, there is no reason
> why more on-line dictionaries cannot be added to the Fictionary game,
> if you can find them.

I just checked and I was able to look up words in both official
dictionaries from lynx 2.3 BETA on wilma.  I then tried lynx from
another machine, version 2-4-2, and it was busted as breadbox describes.
Odd.

> As for Acka official dictionaries, that dictionary is not official, so
> it shouldn't be a big deal.  I do hope my proposal to make the official
> dictionary the union of the old and the new one passes though.  Neither
> of those require web access at all.

Since the topic came up, the new official dictionary is currently
inaccessible due to the network being down. (A traceroute ends up
looping endlessly between two machines/routers/whatever within
bbnplanet.net -- fast response from there though, about 77 ms).
I was actually on the server when the net died, about to start a game
of scrabble; this was a couple hours ago. (BTW, if anybody else gets
an account on the server, let me know and we can play a game of
scrabble sometime.)

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:28:17 -0600
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Duel/Ghost Start 

>The ghost word is: gubern
>> It is Robert Sevin's turn.

The ghost word is: guberni

Robert Sevin

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:35:29 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Grav. Mono. 

I bid A$40

CnH

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:36:39 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Lantern

No, I was mistaken.  The drug had still not worn off, and I mistook
a loud creaking sound coming from the rear of the train car for the
opening of my crate.  Curious, hunger muted, I peered through the hole
in the end of the crate, towards the back of car where the noise was
coming from.

The men were jimmying open a strongbox with crowbars.  It obviously
wasn't that strong of a strongbox, my clever mind thought, as a couple
of heaves and swears later, the men had the lid busted off.  Anxiously,
the man with the dart gun reached in a grabbed some sort of metal object.

It was a silver ring with an intricately carved inscription on it.
The man with the gun exclaimed exitedly to a red-headed man to his left
some order that I could not hear over the sound of the train, then pointed
at me, then barked another order to an older man.

The red-headed man grabbed a notebook and leafed through it, then looked
at the ring, and back between the ring and the notebook several times.
They exchanged words, then walked towards my crate with grins on their
faces.  As they came closer, my clever mind noticed that the ring was
too large for any of the humans to wear, but just the right size for an 
8 foot tall, 500 pound bulk of a creature...

ring

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:37:39 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Duel/Ghost 

Mitchell Harding wrote:

> The ghost word is: guberni

It is snowgod's turn.

Malenkai

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