Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #452
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Ackanomic Digest       Tuesday, January 14 1997       Volume 01 : Number 452

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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:20:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: GM auction

> snowgod has won the Grav.  Monopole auction for A$76.

Save us.

breadbox
becoming profundophobic

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 08:23:36 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Magic Potato

The bearer of the magic potato, and beldin's tailor this week is
Habeous Corpus.

Malenkai

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:17:32 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Mad Hatter (ThinMan)

>
>ThinMan has been chosen as a Mad Hatter for 23 Skidoo.

23 Skidoo's Silly Vacation Hat is a white, fur-lined arctic cap with an
integrated electronic thermometer.  A life-sized cardboard cutout of
Michael Jordan's face is attached to the forehead of the cap by an
extending arm that keeps the top of the cutout at a constant height
of 6 feet, 6 inches above the ground.  The back of the cap is
enblazoned with red numerals "23".  The wearer of this hat is enabled
to hit reverse slam dunks and 26 foot jumpshots with equal ease, so
long as the temperature is at least 23 degrees (Celcius, of course).

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:29:59 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka:  P1616 accepted

Two comments about the new tabulation bot and the results format:

1) I really would like to see a verification of quorum satisfaction
on the results.

2) More importantly, however, the bot is not listing or counting
party unity votes.

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:49:03 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Fictionary

I vote for number 6:

>6. To examine a piece of land to determine its suitability for planting
>crops.

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 07:22:18 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fictionary 

I'll go with #6 also.

>
>6. To examine a piece of land to determine its suitability for planting
>crops.

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 12:15:28 -0800 (PST)
From: fnord <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Looking to buy PFs

Since we have some new players, I thought I'd ask again...

I am willing to buy 1 PF from every player in the game.
Currently, I have a few, but would like to see my collection
expand.  Contact me privately through e-mail, and we can
discuss terms.

fnord

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:00:03 -0500 (EST)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1618 fails quorum (PLEASE NOTE)

I hereby return from this vacation.  Do I get to keep my wonderful Silly
Vacation Hat from my last vacation?  Sorry for contributing to quorum
failure, but I guess it's not *all* my fault.) 

- -mr cwm
 wearing a Silly Vacation Hat

On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Mohammed wrote:

>If you believe you voted for this, first check the automatic reply you 
>received in the mail; then complain ASAP.  The sooner the error is 
>corrected, the better.
>
>If this indeed failed to achieve quorum, then everyone not already on 
>vacation who failed to vote on it is penalized 5 points and placed on 
>vacation (see R207).  I do not have a reliable list of who is and isn't 
>on vacation.  Mr. Registrar?
>
>Proposal 1618
>Reorganization IIa
>Malenkai
>
>Yes:  7    No:  0     Present:  0   ...Proposal fails quorum.
>
>
>YES votes:
>	ThinMan
>	Robert Sevin
>	Mohammed
>	Malenkai
>	snowgod
>	fnord
>	Swann
>
>NO votes:
>
>PRESENT votes:
>
>Players who did not vote:
>	G. Peefalt
>	Jammer
>	Calvin N Hobbes
>	BuzzBee
>	Bascule
>	Niccolo Flychuck
>	breadbox
>	Clairence
>	Guy Fawkes
>	23 Skidoo
>	Strider
>	Lestrade
>	Techno
>	mr cwm
>	AirHead
>	/dev/joe
>	Habeous Corpus
>

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:30:41 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 1626

>         Create two tradeable, gift entities.  One shall be known as the
	Ow... this is kinda troublesome... I just noticed this.  Entities 
are (I think) either gift or tradeable (or nontradeable or unownable) but 
never more than one of the above... they should be tradeable, probably 
(not gift, I don't want anybody dumping something on me that has duties 
associated with it.)  ...Fantastic proposal otherwise.
	They could also stand to be *unique* entities... in fact that's
probably a pretty good idea.

- --Mohammed
will vote YES  :o)

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:25:40 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Looking to buy PFs

I am also looking to buy PFs... in a little more volume.  I'll buy PFs 
belonging to anyone who has been playing for more than a month for 15 
Ackadollars each.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:38:09 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Pythoncross and Treasure

>The player who sends /dev/joe the highest-scoring valid Pythoncross score
>record for the game defined by the Pythoncross data file between the
>"---" lines below by February 1 at noon, CST shall find this treasure.
>If no valid score records are received by that date, the first player
>to send /dev/joe a valid Pythoncross score record shall find the treasure.
>Valid score records must follow all the rules of the game, include all the
>information requested (see below), and use only words from the second
>Official Ackanomic Dictionary (the Marldoom link on the main Ackanomic
>web page).

The following was prepared by hand, but I found it convenient to
use your pythoncross output format as an electronic form.  This
is, therefore, not identical to a pythoncross output file, but
it is close enough that you should be able to relatively easilly
modify it for an electronic verification program (if you have one).

                           -Rack--    Score
+-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-+    1 HRMOETR    16 D 2 2 HERO
1 _ _ M E T A _ _ _ 1    2 MTRTISE    16 A 2 2 HIRE
2 _ H I R E , , Q _ 2    3 MTTSNTO    14 D 5 1 TENT
3 M E . # N . . U _ 3    4 MSTOPLD    47 D 1 3 MOLD (ME, OR, LO)
4 O R . " T " # I T 4    5 STPITEI    27 A 5 5 SPIT (TENTS)
5 L O P " S P I T E 5    6 TEIMELA    36 D 9 4 TEAL (SPITE)
6 D , I " " A S E A 6    7 IMEEZSI    33 A 3 1 MET  (MI, ER)
7 _ , E M . Y . , L 7    8 IEZSIPE    21 D 3 5 PIE  (LOP)
8 _ , , A , , , , _ 8    9 EZSIOUM    17 D 8 3 IT  (IT)
9 W O K E _ # _ _ _ 9   10 EZSOUMK    18 D 4 7 MAE  (EM)
+-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-+   11 ZSOUKAQ    16 D 8 2 QUIT
                        12 ZSOKAEH    38 A 7 6 SEA (IS, QUITE)
                        13 ZOKAHYO    21 D 6 5 PAY (ASEA)
                        14 ZOKHOWB    20 A 1 9 WOKE
                        15 ZHOBARE    20 A 3 1 META
                           -------   ---
                            Total:   360

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 22:56:41 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Looking to buy PFs

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Jason Orendorff wrote:

> I am also looking to buy PFs... in a little more volume.  I'll buy PFs 
> belonging to anyone who has been playing for more than a month for 15 
> Ackadollars each.
> 
> --Mohammed
> 
I'll pay A$20 per PF, I'm looking for batches of five.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:58:11 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: P1616 accepted

> Two comments about the new tabulation bot and the results format:
> 1) I really would like to see a verification of quorum satisfaction
> on the results.
	Blah.  :oP  Okay.

> 2) More importantly, however, the bot is not listing or counting
> party unity votes.
	Indeed.  This bug is fixed, and the next batch of results (due 
Wednesday-- quorum is most definitely satisfied on those) will reflect 
that (possibly).  I'll also try to get it to print everyone's party 
affiliation next to their names.

- --Mohammed

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:00:35 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Looking to buy PFs

> I'll pay A$20 per PF, I'm looking for batches of five.
> Niccolo Flychuck

Very well, make my offer A$22 per PF.

- --Mohammed
suspecting no one will sell

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:28:07 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Pythoncross and Treasure

Oops.  Darn reply-to.

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:24:56 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Looking to buy PFs 

>I am also looking to buy PFs... in a little more volume.  I'll buy PFs
>belonging to anyone who has been playing for more than a month for 15
>Ackadollars each.
>
>--Mohammed

I'll sell you ten at A$150.  Previous holders of PFsnowgod who enjoyed
complaining about ti's value are now permitted to eat their hearts out.

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:23:20 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Looking to buy PFs 

>Since we have some new players, I thought I'd ask again...
>
>I am willing to buy 1 PF from every player in the game.
>Currently, I have a few, but would like to see my collection
>expand.  Contact me privately through e-mail, and we can
>discuss terms.
>
>fnord

If I have not already sold you one (or if you wish to buy another) I will
sell one.  What do you consider a fair price?

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:27:01 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Looking to buy PFs 

>>
>I'll pay A$20 per PF, I'm looking for batches of five.
>
>Niccolo Flychuck

By the ghost of IdiotBoy, I'll sell you 5 PFsnowgod for A$100

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:29:18 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Pythoncross and Treasure 

>Oops.  Darn reply-to.
>
>ThinMan

I am calling a Public Health Emergency.  Thinman appears to be afflicted
with snowgod disease, and truth be told, we can't affford another epidemic.
Send your opinion of ThinMan's condition to [email-masked] as soon as he
officially announces the start of the hearing.

snowgod

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:34:23 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Looking to buy PFs

Phil Ackley wrote:

> I'll sell you ten at A$150.  Previous holders of PFsnowgod who enjoyed
> complaining about ti's value are now permitted to eat their hearts out.

PFsnowgod *have* been performing well of late; they are consistently
in the top 3 in dividends.  I note that 2 PFsnowgod are just waiting to
be discovered, buried in Treasure 107.  All the necessary clues have
been posted as well, and are on the Treasure page.

That page, as well as the rest of my pages are now back on-line,
with the exception that they are as of when itw crashed, which was around
new years day.  itw is not allowing ftp access yet to update them; they
expect that to be tomorrow.... :(  

I did get a copy of the Players page as of Jan 13th up there, however.
The Treasure page is fairly up to date anyway, with the exception of
/dev/joe's recent additions.  Hopefully tomorrow :)

Malenkai
Financier
assistant web-harfer

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:43:33 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Pythoncross and Treasure

Phil Ackley wrote:
> 
> >Oops.  Darn reply-to.
> >
> >ThinMan
> 
> I am calling a Public Health Emergency.  Thinman appears to be afflicted
> with snowgod disease, and truth be told, we can't affford another epidemic.

Ah, let the infected throw the first stone :).  I note that the infected
has yet to follow his prescription.  With such disregard to public health,
this plague could go on forever.

Hearing ends in 3 days.  The choices are:

"Yes, why just yesterday e posted a letter to eir aunt!"

and

"No, e, uh, meant to do that."

Count Tabula

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 19:38:58 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Two New Observers 

There are two new observers in Ackanomic:

Moses Rojas - [email-masked]
Ian Cabell  - [email-masked]

Welcome to the game, guys.  If you have any questions just ask!

snowgod
Registrar

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:57:42 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Another New Observer 

We have another new observer in Acknaomic.  His name is Ross Durossette.
His email address is [email-masked].

Let's welcome him to the game!

snowgod
Registrar

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