Subject: Ackanomic Digest V2 #185
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest         Tuesday, July 8 1997         Volume 02 : Number 185

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 00:07:02 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Ping

Today is Tuesday, the 8th day of July, in the Year of Our Lord
1997, and the Machine That Goes *ping* Has Gone *ping* today.  Since I
have been Scholar, the Machine has gone *ping* 10 times.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:23:14 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Niccolo Flychuck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: NAP Swinger?

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Malenkai wrote:

> Ok.  Two issues:
> 
> 1) Is Ben in fact non-voting, and legally in the game.  I seem to
> remember e being voting, and thus pending, if in fact e is in the game.
> 
> 2) This would only be a temporary appointment.  If a player's only
> interest is party chess, I would recommend buying a swinger seat
> rather than taking the NAP seat for 6 weeks.  At the rate the game as
> been known to move, that may allow only one or two moves, then Red
> Barn takes over the position.

This would be my recommendation as well.

Niccolo Flychuck

I'd like to point out to  Ben that the Church of Odo may be interested to
contract someone to play Party Chess, this option may prove to be
beneficial to both the Church and the person involved. However, that
person would have to be a member of the Church. Email me for details.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:16:14 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: acka: NAP Swinger?

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Malenkai [SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Monday, July 07, 1997 11:03 PM
To:	[email-masked]
Subject:	Re: acka: NAP Swinger?

> Antimatter was appointed, IIRC.  OTOH, Ben has evinced an interest in Party
> Chess--in fact, that's his main interest in Ackanomic right now--and would
> probably be glad to be NAP Swinger, if there were to be an election(it is a
> political office, IIRC?)

Antimatter would have to resign, and Ben would have to be an active
player for this to happen.  I do not believe Ben can be an active player
until e chooses eir acka name, though.  Perhaps Antimatter wants to 
be NAP swinger, though, I dunno.

Malenkai

I bet 5A($) antimatter would have no qualms about handing the post to ben. Any takers?
- -karma

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:56:34 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: acka: NAP Swinger?

- -----Original Message-----
From:	jordan james [SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Tuesday, July 08, 1997 8:16 AM
To:	[email-masked]'
Subject:	RE: acka: NAP Swinger?

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Malenkai [SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Monday, July 07, 1997 11:03 PM
To:	[email-masked]
Subject:	Re: acka: NAP Swinger?

> Antimatter was appointed, IIRC.  OTOH, Ben has evinced an interest in Party
> Chess--in fact, that's his main interest in Ackanomic right now--and would
> probably be glad to be NAP Swinger, if there were to be an election(it is a
> political office, IIRC?)

Antimatter would have to resign, and Ben would have to be an active
player for this to happen.  I do not believe Ben can be an active player
until e chooses eir acka name, though.  Perhaps Antimatter wants to 
be NAP swinger, though, I dunno.

Malenkai

I bet 5A($) antimatter would have no qualms about handing the post to ben. Any takers?
- -karma

I retract this bet.
- - karma

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:10:56 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: re: acka trinkets

"Bascule's vacation lunchbag" isin't listed in the museum nor in the 
trinkets page, it has already been established that beldin's pants didn't 
eat it. I think it should be restored to these two directories as soon as 
possible to avoid any confusion
- -karma

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:24:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: acka trinkets

> "Bascule's vacation lunchbag" isin't listed in the museum nor in the 
> trinkets page, it has already been established that beldin's pants didn't 
> eat it. I think it should be restored to these two directories as soon as 
> possible to avoid any confusion
> -karma

Bascule's vacation lunchbag was destroyed yesterday when Malenkai
pointed out that it is a forgery.  (It contains Bascule's name but was
not created by Bascule.)  Forgeries are transferred to the treasury
(rule 506) where they are immediately converted to A$ (rule 505).

> begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
> M>)\^(@0-`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$(@ <`

[It's still here, in some of your messages.]

/dev/joe

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:15:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka trinkets

>> begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
>> M>)\^(@0-`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$(@ <`
> 
> [It's still here, in some of your messages.]

Some? I get it in every message from Karma.

Karma, I presume this is a Microsoft program you're using. There must
be a Preference somewhere that turns off the Microsoft-specific
formatting, since only other people using Microsoft programs can
decode it usefully. Perhaps you could turn it off just when replying
to Ackanomic mail. (If not, then perhaps you should also apply for
Expert status in BWG.)

breadbox
yes, I'm kidding

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Date: 8 Jul 1997 12:29:16 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Warning 

At the moment, I can do nothing to help out.  However, from the last
week of August on, I will be able to harf about 3 Meg of pages.  Given a
few more weeks, I could offer more (possibly a LOT more).

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 13:29:23 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 414 Appeal Verdict

CFJ 414 has been overturned to false with a penalty of 1 pt to the
original judge.

By my reckoning, the justices are fined for 5 days of tardiness
(the number of full days between when the verdict was due and p2186
was PK).

#award breadbox : -10 A$
#award mr cwm : -10 A$

Clerk of the Courts
Wondering if a used prosthetic forehead market will develop
- ------------------------------------------------------------------

Call For Judgment 414
  Subject: Modest Proposals
Initiator: Robert Sevin
    Judge: Atilla the Pun (selected Jun 20, 1997, 20:17h EDT)
Judgement: TRUE
   Appeal: FALSE

Statement:

Proposal 2136 is not a Modest proposal.

Robert Sevin's Reasoning:

The rule governing Modest proposals declares that (delimited by ') 'A
proposal is considered to be Modest if and only if the author of the
proposal prefaces the proposal with the words "This is a Modest proposal".'
Proposal 2136 begins with (delimited by ') '{{This is a Modest proposal.'
The two braces preceding the declaration of modesty makes this a non-Modest
proposal.

Atilla the Pun's Reasoning:

I can find no fault with Robert Sevin's reasoning; therefore, I find this CFJ
TRUE.  I will however note that Proposals 2133 and 2134, as well as
Malenkai's Long proposal, are also non-modest.

Supreme Court's Reasoning:

The Court agrees with the appealer in that the presence of the double
braces does not alter the fact that the proposal is prefaced with the
words "This is a Modest proposal". As to the other issues brought up
(such as whether a proposal can contain both a statement of Modesty
and a Bribe), the Court leaves those for a later CFJ to decide.

Penalty to the original judge: 1 point.

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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 13:33:56 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 414 appeal comments

Sorry, I forgot /dev/joe's appeal comments on CFJ 414.  I usually
like to provide everything in one package for those interested.
If this is BWG, sorry about that too...

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

The rules do not define a preface so game custom and standard english
usage prevails.  The interpretation of a preface as "the very first
thing in a proposal" is unreasonably narrow.  A preface is simply
a part of a book (or proposal in this case) which comes before the
main part of the text.  In several books I picked at random in my own
home, out of those that have prefaces, it could be just after the title
page (before the table of contents), or just after the table of contents,
or there could be more things after the table of contents but before the
preface (one had a publisher's note there).  Also, the proposal bribery
rule also talks about a preface with the bribe in it -- they both can't
come first, and it doesn't seem reasonable to me that game custom would
prevent these rules from being used together.  I think a more reasonable
interpretation is that a preface is any text that comes before any of the
changes described in rule 103 or before the actual rule-related part of a
rule created when a proposal beceomes a rule in full.

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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 13:35:17 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Chess hearing

The verdict of the chess hearing is "keep promotion" by a 4-2 vote.

Count Tabula

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 12:39:46 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: acka trinkets

breadbox wrote:

[/dev/joe wrote:]

[Karma wrote:]
> >> begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
> >> M>)\^(@0-`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$(@ <`
> > 
> > [It's still here, in some of your messages.]
> 
> Some? I get it in every message from Karma.
> 
> Karma, I presume this is a Microsoft program you're using. There must
> be a Preference somewhere that turns off the Microsoft-specific
> formatting, since only other people using Microsoft programs can
> decode it usefully. Perhaps you could turn it off just when replying
> to Ackanomic mail. (If not, then perhaps you should also apply for
> Expert status in BWG.)
> 
I am using Exchange rather than Outlook, but there are at least two
options that I can recommend looking at.  First, assuming that you
have entered the list address into your address book, check the
properties for that address and make sure that the checkbox about
always sending in rich-text format is _off_.  Second, make sure you
are not adding a digital signiature to your messages (under tools ...
options ... security).

At least, those are what I would check for Exchange, and I imagine that
they are still available in Outlook.

ThinMan

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 18:52:47 +0100
From: "Gavin Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Phoebe (Rex Mundi), CFCJ 137

I had been pondering the matter for hours. Was /dev/joe really guilty of a
crime as heinous as Zuriti'ili? Certainly anyone who owns that many
entities could easily have committed Zuriti'ili, but that didn't mean that
they had, and I didn't want to unjustly convict someone of something so
dreadful that the very mention of its name has been known to make
prosthetic foreheads drop off. 
I was so perplexed by this thorny moral dilemma that I didn't notice the
approach of night until it was too dark to see. I got up to go and turn on
the light, but tripped over some of the kipple littering my floor, and fell
with a sort of squelchy thud onto some unnamed horror of decomposing
dinner. Pulling myself up onto one elbow, I remembered the matchbox I had
found before my unpleasant time in cell 96 of the Ackanomic gaol.
When I opened the box and reached inside for a match, I instead laid my
finger on something small and metallic.
"Is that..." I began, but a small voice interrupted.
"Phoebe? Yes, who else would live in a..."
"Matchbox", I interjected. "I can't tell you how glad I am that I found
you; you see, I have to decide whether /dev/joe is guilty of..." I broke
off, unable to speak the word.
"Zuriti'ili, I know" finished the flea. "I understand your difficulty;
Zuriti'ili is indeed an unpleasant..."
"Crime." I butted in quickly, unwilling to lose this strange contest of
finishing sentences. "Tell me Phoebe, do you, old and wise, know whether or
not /dev/joe is..."
"Guilty?" I was startled by the speed of Phoebe's interruption, and as she
spoke her voice became faster "Yes, he is," and faster, "and you should
also know" until it was so high pitched "that Zuriti'ili can never involve"
that at the end "a prime number of named, ownable entities." it was little
more than an ultrasonic squeak, with so little pause between the words that
this time I had no chance of finishing Phoebe's sentence.
At that point, my elbow slipped in the rotting food, and by the time I
reached the light switch and illuminated the room, Phoebe and her matchbox
were Somewhere Else, or at least elsewhere.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 12:57:27 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Bond Dividends for July 7

I got busy and forgot these.
The bond cycle ended yesterday (July 7) at noon EDT.

Score changes used for bond cycle calculation:
- ----------------------------------------------
Alfvaen: 71
Antimatter: 22
Atilla the Pun: 22
AZTEC GOD: 13
Ben: 0
breadbox: 32
Calvin N Hobbes: 35
CarsesraC: 1
Chalmers: 1
Darth Vader: 0
/dev/joe: 25
fnord: 25
Guy Fawkes: 27
Joon: 1
Karma: 13
Malenkai: 106
Mohammed: 53
mr cwm: 19
Mr. Lunatic Fringe: 45
Niccolo Flychuck: 31
Red Barn: 1
Rex Mundi: 16
Robert Sevin: -6
Sammy: 1
Techno: 27
ThinMan: 15
two-star: -17
Voting Gnome: 17
Vynd: 31

This was a calmer bond cycle than the last one; no 100-point swings;
no A$200 dividends paid.
 
Bond Dividends
- --------------
Alfvaen: 52.19  -->  69*71 + 10*32
Antimatter: 20.9  -->  95*22
Atilla the Pun: 22.0  -->  100*22
AZTEC GOD: 13.0  -->  100*13
Ben: 0.0  -->  100*0
breadbox: 26.88  -->  84*32
Calvin N Hobbes: 35.0  -->  100*35
CarsesraC: 1.0  -->  100*1
Chalmers: 1.0  -->  100*1
Darth Vader: 0.0  -->  100*0
/dev/joe: 38.5  -->  90*25 + 2*106 + 15*27 + 10*15 + 49*17
fnord: 24.595  -->  1*32 + 2*25 + 93*25 + 1*19 + 1*45 + 1*-6/2 + 1*-17/2
Guy Fawkes: 20.25  -->  75*27
Joon: 1.0  -->  100*1
Karma: 13.0  -->  100*13
Malenkai: 83.74  -->  79*106
Mohammed: 65.36  -->  11*71 + 2*25 + 5*25 + 2*106 + 87*53 + 5*19 + 3*45 + 17*31
mr cwm: 20.76  -->  1*25 + 5*53 + 94*19 + 5*-6/2 + 1*15
Mr. Lunatic Fringe: 42.44  -->  1*106 + 5*53 + 54*45 + 3*31 + 50*27
Niccolo Flychuck: 31.76  -->  5*71 + 5*32 + 5*25 + 5*106 + 2*53 + 5*45 + 50*31 + 5*1 + 5*-6/2 + 5*27
Red Barn: 0.9  -->  90*1
Robert Sevin: 3.88  -->  1*25 + 1*106 + 10*45 + 85*-6/2 + 2*31
Sammy: 1.0  -->  100*1
Techno: 33.75  -->  25*45 + 30*31 + 30*27 + 30*17
ThinMan: 27.5  -->  5*71 + 10*106 + 89*15
two-star: -6.785  -->  5*22 + 1*53 + 99*-17/2
Voting Gnome: 3.4  -->  20*17
Vynd: 30.38  -->  98*31
Ackers: -0.12  -->  4*-6/2
Narf: 0.05  -->  5*1
Markovian Dream: 6.75  -->  25*27
Odo on the Wormhole: 7.1  -->  10*71
RexBank: 16.0  -->  100*16
Treasure 107: 0.9  -->  2*45
Treasure 172: 0.42  -->  1*25 + 1*17

Note, I don't believe Treasures actually own the buried stuff, so
I don't think those buried bonds generate dividends.  My program
calculates them though, becuase it doesn't know any better.

Undead and organizations collect/pay dividends now, though -- at
least I think it works with undead; somebody with time to check the
rules please figure it out.

For the bot, actual dividends paid:

#award Alfvaen: 53 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Antimatter: 21 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Atilla the Pun: 22 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award AZTEC GOD: 13 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award breadbox: 27 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Calvin N Hobbes: 35 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award CarsesraC: 1 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Chalmers: 1 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award /dev/joe: 39 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award fnord: 25 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Guy Fawkes: 21 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Joon: 1 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Karma: 13 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Malenkai: 84 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Mohammed: 66 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award mr cwm: 21 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Mr. Lunatic Fringe: 43 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Niccolo Flychuck: 32 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Red Barn: 1 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Robert Sevin: 4 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Sammy: 1 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Techno: 34 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award ThinMan: 28 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award two-star: -7 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Voting Gnome: 4 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Vynd: 31 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Ackers: -1 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Narf: 1 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Markovian Dream: 7 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award Odo on the Wormhole: 8 A$ : dividend Jul 7
#award RexBank: 16 A$ : dividend Jul 7

/dev/joe

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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 12:40:04 -0800
From: "Jerome Herrman" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Vacation 

Microsoft Mail v3.0 (MAPI 1.0 Transport) IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
From: Jerome Herrman
To:  'acka'
Subject:  Acka: Vacation
Date: 1997-07-08 12:39
Priority: 3
Message ID: 7AC1C645A3F6D011948C0060976638FA
Conversation ID: Acka: Vacation

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I hearby return from vacation.  The first thing I am doing is going to   
Mr. Lunatic Fringe's house to get a treasure toga.

Techno

While an intelligent blind funny detective from another planet was with a
team of kangeroos, one cosmic Russian from Indiana stole all the air.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 14:24:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Resignation

To:  Ackanomians
From: mr cwm

By this message I resign as Justice.  It's been an enormous amount of fun,
but I've been at it for quite a long time, and feel both a need to get
re-acquainted with the rules and to let someone else have a crack at
Justicing.  I thank the Senate for my original appointment, and the
Players for refraining from filing Impeachment Papers.

- -mr cwm, ex-Justice

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 14:29:18 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Resignation

mr cwm wrote:
> By this message I resign as Justice.  It's been an enormous amount of fun,
> but I've been at it for quite a long time, and feel both a need to get
> re-acquainted with the rules and to let someone else have a crack at
> Justicing.  

I applaud mr cwm for his long period of service on the supreme court.

> I thank the Senate for my original appointment, and the
> Players for refraining from filing Impeachment Papers.

I don't think any of the current senators were on the senate that
approved mr cwm's appointment as justice, but I was the president who
appointed him.  Yeah, it was *that* long ago, about a year.  In fact,
looking at my email archives, I see it was one year ago today when
I appointed him.

/dev/joe

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:05:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: New Treasure

I am creating a trinket worth A$250, called /dev/joe's Legacy.
/dev/joe's Legacy is a pointed wizard's cap, purple with yellow
numbers, greek letters, and mathematical symbols all over it.

I am burying /dev/joe's Legacy as a treasure.  I am revealing the
following information related to the map.

a. 26-20-107-100-127-8-84-47-38-145-16-120-5-78-123-154

b. 151-32-136-73

c. 105-148-42

d. 40-152-122

e. 93-138-94-1-27

f. 6-124-134-17-82-74-156-54-24

g. 135-23-36-52-118

h. 79-41-126-81-116

i. 44-7-65-96-149-63

j. 95-131-50-104-133-108-15

k. 9-13-155-64-61-2-125-86

l. 75-3-51-90-21

m. 14-45-137-56-153-143-25-34-110-66

n. 49-142-58-115-89-12-4

o. 139-10-57-29-85-76

p. 37-70-114-11-147-146-150-31-106-111

q. 112-18-98-68-77-129-103

r. 48-28-33-91-72-109-46-101-39

s. 97-60-19-88-53-132-102-121-35-80

t. 43-92-99-119-69-87

u. 55-59-130-117-22-83-141-71

v. 140-30-62

w. 67-128-113-157-144

1e-2k-3l-4n 5a-6f 7i-8a-9k 10o-11p-12n 13k-14m-15j-16a-17f-18q

19s-20a-21l-22u-23g-24f-25m 26a-27e-28r 29o-30v-31p-32b-33r-34m-35s-36g

37p-38a-39r 40d-41h 42c-43t-44i-45m-46r 47a-48r 49n-50j-51l-52g-53s-54f-55u

56m-57o-58n-59u-60s-61k-62v-63i 64k-65i-66m 67w-68q-69t-70p-71u-72r

73b-74f-75l-76o-77q-78a 79h-80s 81h-82f-83u 84a-85o-86k-87t-88s

89n-90l-91r-92t-93e-94e-95j 96i-97s 98q-99t-100a 101r-102s-103q-104j-105c-106p

107a-108j-109r-110m-111p 112q-113w-114p 115n-116h 117u-118g-119t

120a-121s-122d 123a-124f-125k 126h-127a-128w-129q-130u-131j-132s 133j-134f

135g-136b-137m-138e-139o-140v-141u-142n 143m-144w-145a-146p 147p-148c-149i

150p-151b-152d-153m 154a-155k-156f-157w

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:09:15 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Parade Description

The following parade description is interesting.

All the players of Acka gathered for the parade, which began in front of
one of Ackanomic's most famous buildings, where a jolly red A was dancing.
We passed a B standing on the side of the road, who reminded us of
something which Acka holds sacred.  A character right out of Tolkien was
holding a small C.  We reached the shore, where a D was swimming in a
small arm of water.  An E standing there told us a story about a fabulous
place, which some say is round.  We saw a stand of what looked like those
things you use to help put on tight footwear; they were covered with F's.
But they weren't real -- these had fangs shaped like G's, and we know
there's no such thing.  Barney Rubble's wife then joined the parade,
wearing a dress shaped like an H.  A dark, sinister, evil-looking I was
lying in the road and most of the paraders tripped on it; one of them felt
as if he'd gained +2/+1, though.  The next thing we saw was amazing --
a name from acka's past -- which was covered with tiny J's everywhere.
Another word followed it, covered with K's; this was one of the silliest
words we could imagine.  At this point, we realized that the sun had
ascended past the L-shaped clouds.  Through somebody's lack of ability,
we missed seeing the M entirely.  But soon we went through an area where
the road was covered with small, N-shaped stones.  Then we ran into the
thief from the YORL story, who we caught stealing an O from the sign of
some building.  Next we encountered the last of a dying breed, those who
craft headwear for players who have been on vacation for a long time;
one of them was working on a chapeau with a P atop it.  Next we entered
Acka's baseball stadium, where the world series was about to begin; since
Toronto was playing this year, they played both "O Canada" and "The Star
Spangled Banner", and some strange beast shaped like a Q delivered the
words in a beautiful voice.  John Lennon was there too; he followed those
other songs by singing one of his own, while wearing a jacket with a
large R painted on the back.  Finally we paraded on out of the stadium,
and we met an S who suggested we play one of Acka's sub-games.  Next
we met a T quoting maxims; but the parade was loud, so all we heard
was "Do unto ...."  Near him was a U also quoting stuff; we heard the
end of one of his sentences, "... is not gold."  A rabid-looking V ran
past us shouting out some web address.  Finally, we ended our trip near
a group of small pools of water, one of which somewhat resembled the one
Cow Town is in, but when we looked into it there was just a W at the
bottom.  Now, some of us were disappointed we did not encounter an X,
Y, or Z on our trip, but I went home and tried to make a record of the
trip.

/dev/joe

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 13:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Resignation

> By this message I resign as Justice.  It's been an enormous amount
> of fun, but I've been at it for quite a long time, and feel both a
> need to get re-acquainted with the rules and to let someone else
> have a crack at Justicing.

It has also been an enormous amount of fun serving with you, mr cwm.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:06:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka trinkets

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Brian Raiter wrote:

> >> begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT
> >> M>)\^(@0-`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$(@ <`
> > 
> > [It's still here, in some of your messages.]
> 
> Some? I get it in every message from Karma.
	Same here.  I'm getting used to it.

- -- 
Mohammed
With a resounding WONK, lions trapped an alien.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 17:05:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  hubert

The best bus trips may fog up.

- -- 
Mohammed
A detective went out of control.

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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 15:13:49 -0700
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  hubert

Jason Orendorff wrote:
> 
> The best bus trips may fog up.
> 
> --
> Mohammed
> A detective went out of control.

Darn. I just needed a few more minutes. Oh, well.

**two-star

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