Subject: Ackanomic Digest V2 #187
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest        Wednesday, July 9 1997        Volume 02 : Number 187

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:30:42 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  hubert

> Mohammed wrote:
> > The best bus trips may fog up.

> Mohammed has found the /dev/joe's Legacy treasure.  This was obviously too
> easy, probably due to too much acka in the puzzle.

Perhaps.  For me, at least, "shoehorns", "harf", "url" and "betty" came
right away, and "mad hatters" not too long after.  From there the rest
wasn't too hard.  If only I'd seen it before Mohammed solved it.  :-(  Oh,
well, I huberted the Grump treasure, so fair's fair...

By the way, I always thought of "Yesterday" as more of a McCartney song
than a Lennon; it was one of the last clues I got, because I kept thinking
it should be "Imagine" or something.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--John Lennon:Nobody Told Me
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
Sometimes, no matter what your religion, you have to say oy vey.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 18:14:25 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Resignation 

>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.

I remember when it happened.  Was that really a year ago?  Someone resigned
(Bascule?) and you appointed Ptang1001001sos as his replacement, but the
senate, led by myself and consisting of tinan and de'ghew and someone else
(and acting with Malenkai covertly) blocked the apoointment.  We all felt
that mr cwm knew what was what, and though Ptang would make a fine justice
we wanted the cwmster (sorry, couldn't help it) on the bench.

Mr. Lunatic Fringe
TMBSG

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 01:33:42 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: hubert

> > Mohammed has found the /dev/joe's Legacy treasure.  This was obviously too
> > easy, probably due to too much acka in the puzzle.
	Actually it was the Acka clues that sent me onto the Web in
search of information.

	I wish I had a printer here; it would have been that much
faster.  :o)

	/dev/joe's map was a double-crostic.  The type of puzzle is
known under other names too. (Games magazine, to which I, sadly, no
longer subscribe, calls them Double Cross.)  When I saw the map, my
first thought was, "Hey, great, another cryptography challenge."  And
I skipped to the next message, which was the Parade description.  I
think I lost about four months off my life, realizing as I read that
the Parade description contained the clues for something.  I did a
quick double take, scribbled down parts of the map, and set to work.
	Every time the phone rang I muttered curses under my breath.
It took me several agonizing minutes before I figured out what
/dev/joe was doing with the clues, and it cracked pretty easily after
that (starting with shoe horns, others, and glitters.)
	I was really sweating, sure someone else would get it first,
and I sent out the key phrase before I was really "finished" solving
the puzzle.
	I seem to recall from younger days that making one of these
things is no mean feat.  This is the most fun I have had searching for
treasure yet.

- -- 
Mohammed
A parrot from Hell stalked rocking horses in Nome.

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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 22:43:03 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: New Player (two-star)

We have a new player in Ackanomic!

Let me be the first to introduce to you Lipid, or Darren Richmond en
realidad, our newest voting player.  Lipid's email adress is
[email-masked].  He plans to be quite active in the game, loves
goldfish, and would really *really* like to inhale the full contents of a
fire eqtuinisher when he feels he has enough lung capacity.

In response to the market research question he writes:

>Barry

[Registrar's note: "Barry" is Robert Sevin, Aka Mitch Harding, Aka brother
to the discoverer of Harf]

In response to no question at all Lipid [Registrar's note again: Isn't
Lipid a cool name?] writes:

> the empty set (this wasn't an answer to one of your current
>questions, but if you have any more, I'm sure this will be the answer to
>it).

Even as I say to you "Two star has been selected as his mentor", would you
please being the process of welcoming him to Ackanomic?

Mr. Lunatic Fringe
Demented Registrar

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 02:01:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  bot is down

The bot is down for what looks like a few hours.  I'm moving some
stuff around.  Needless tinkering.  It'll be up shortly after odin's
done crashing for the night.

- -- 
Mohammed
O to be a dancer in Zaire!

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:05:47 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : CFJ ineligibility

I'd like to be taken off the CFJ ineligibilty list.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 08:20:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: New Player (two-star) 

>Let me be the first to introduce to you Lipid, or Darren Richmond en
>realidad, our newest voting player.  Lipid's email adress is
>[email-masked].  He plans to be quite active in the game, loves
>goldfish, and would really *really* like to inhale the full contents of a
>fire eqtuinisher when he feels he has enough lung capacity.

Welcome, Lipid... Don't scratch the furniture.

Robert Sevin

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:37:46 +0100
From: "Gavin Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: two heads are more than one

/dev/joe wrote:
> Rex Mundi wrote:
> > #award Rex Mundi: -A$50 buying an extra head mutation.
> > 
> > I think I do have some money, as my organization creation action
failed.
> 
> Why do you think your organization creation failed?
> As far as I know, it worked and it has all your A$ and PFBonds.
> 
> /dev/joe

Someone told me I had to pay a startup charge, and since I hadn't the
action failed. Since it succeeded:

#transfer RexBank, Rex Mundi: 50 A$

Approved by me.

#award Rex Mundi: -A$50 buying an extra head mutation.

Rex Mundi.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 10:12:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: hubert

Mohammed wrote:
> 	/dev/joe's map was a double-crostic. [...]
> 	Every time the phone rang I muttered curses under my breath.
> It took me several agonizing minutes before I figured out what
> /dev/joe was doing with the clues, and it cracked pretty easily after
> that (starting with shoe horns, others, and glitters.)
> 	I was really sweating, sure someone else would get it first,
> and I sent out the key phrase before I was really "finished" solving
> the puzzle.
> 	I seem to recall from younger days that making one of these
> things is no mean feat.  This is the most fun I have had searching for
> treasure yet.

I'm glad my puzzle was enjoyed.  If I have time, I will create another
one, harder than that one and probably necessarily less acka-themed.
From the other comments that were posted, it looks Mohammed and I are
not alone in enjoying such puzzles.

Incidentally, I took a piece of code which counts all the letters in a
string (left over from the pangram treasure) and turned it into a simple
utility for counting the letters in a file; this helped immensely for the
anagramming part of creating the puzzle.

I don't know if Mr. Lunatic Fringe attempted to solve the puzzle, but
I'm sure he'd be interested to know that "snowgod" and "tower of bandwidth"
were in there as answers. :-)

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:13:04 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Transfer

I am offering mr cwm the following transfer:

#transfer Alfvaen, mr cwm: 50 A$: everybody wants, etc.
#transfer mr cwm, Alfvaen: 2 Prosthetic Foreheads: everybody wants, etc.

I leave it up to mr cwm to choose which particular two PFs he wants to give
me.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Prince:Do U Lie
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
This town ain't big enough for both of us. Damn land surveyors.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 10:16:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: acka: two heads are more than one

Rex Mundi wrote:
> /dev/joe wrote:
> > Rex Mundi wrote:
> > > #award Rex Mundi: -A$50 buying an extra head mutation.

> > > I think I do have some money, as my organization creation action
> > > failed.

> > Why do you think your organization creation failed?
> > As far as I know, it worked and it has all your A$ and PFBonds.

> Someone told me I had to pay a startup charge, and since I hadn't the
> action failed.

Yeah, I figured out what happened now.  Vynd was confused about something,
and made that comment.  The only startup charge you needed was giving
RexBank A$50 so it could buy a trade license, and you did that.

Now that you took A$ out of your bank, your head purchase works.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 11:48:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Postmaster

Red Barn's ([email-masked]) e-mail is bouncing.
("Couldn't create output file" from his email handling scripts;
probably a quota error.)  I am moving him to all the digest lists.

There are a couple people only on low-volume lists whose mail is
bouncing.  [email-masked] is only on acka-chess, and
[email-masked] is only on internomic.  Could the ambassador
check out whether coren is alive?  (bouncing on a quota exceeded msg)
I will remove rozberk myself whenever acka-chess gets enough traffic.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 12:01:21 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka:  Senate (Proposal 2212)

> As ThinMan states, that proposal was just that, a cue. Some of the
> veteran
> players may remember that in the past I often discussed splitting up
> the
> roles of the Senate, and possibly setting up another Institution. That
> specific proposal merely served as a trigger.  I do not believe that
> it is
> the Senate's inalienable right to have complete control of the
> Internomic
> Interface. Currently, we ratain the staus quo of public proposing and
> Senate voting. I don't believe it is anymore than a status quo we find
> convenient to maintain. 
> 
I don't think anyone, Senator or otherwise, will claim that the
Senate has or should have any inalienable right whatsoever.  I agree
with Niccolo that our current arrangement is as it is because we
have found it convenient to keep it so.  Or, perhaps more to the point,
no one has mustered sufficient support to change it.

> This may also have to do with a difference as to how one views such
> Institutions.  It seems to me that ThinMan views the Senate as
> governing
> body. I see Senators as public servants.
> 
I don't quite understand that comment.  There is no contradiction or
conflict inherent in a governing body being constituted of public
servants.  Indeed, I'm not sure what Niccolo means when he says
that I view the Senate as a "governing body."  I suspect that I
disagree with his assessment, but I can't be sure until I know what
he means.

> > individual opinions matter only insomuchas they contribute to the
> > collective opinion.
> 
> Most of the second paragraph simply reiterates the democratic
> principles
> behind Acka. I suppose we all agree with that. This last sentence I am
> at
> odds with. I'd say that the collective opinion only exists as the
> interaction of individual opinions. Acka is the sum of its players,
> and
> its existence depends on the players, while the players may well have
> an
> existence beyond Acka.
> 
I suppose that my statement may have sounded a bit harsh, but in
context I think it was reasonable, justified, and correct.  All I
meant by it is that Acka is run according to the collective will, not
in response to individual voices.  I'm sorry if I offended anyone.

ThinMan

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 12:10:06 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Dangling

Alfvaen wrote:

> Now that I am back, I offer my services with the Gravitational
> Monopole.
> Who would like to have their house reattached first?
> 
My dear Alfvaen, at your convenience, please feel free to come by the
Ackanomic House of Pancakes.  You'll have to climb down the rope ladder
to get in, but hopefully that's just temporary.  Be sure to bring your
Monopole, and consider yourself invited to a lovely pancake and
sausage dinner.  While you're here, perhaps we can try to get the
place back down to the ground.

Warmest regards,

ThinMan

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:49:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: mr cwm <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Transfer

I accept the below transfer, although I'm not sure what the "everybody
wants, etc." means, and transfer to Afvaen the PF that looks very similar
to my own real F, and the PF that looks very similar to the late SMH's
real F (as these are the easiest two to keep track of).

- -mr cwm

#transfer Alfvaen, mr cwm: 50 A$: everybody wants, etc.
#transfer mr cwm, Alfvaen: 2 Prosthetic Foreheads: everybody wants, etc.

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Aaron Humphrey wrote:

>
>I am offering mr cwm the following transfer:
>
>#transfer Alfvaen, mr cwm: 50 A$: everybody wants, etc.
>#transfer mr cwm, Alfvaen: 2 Prosthetic Foreheads: everybody wants, etc.
>
>I leave it up to mr cwm to choose which particular two PFs he wants to give
>me.

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 12:10:15 -0700
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Big White Gazette, Issue 2

Aaron Humphrey wrote:
> 
>                    The Big White Gazette
>             "Wasting Bandwidth Since Last Week Sometime"

[snip]
> There are a few which have been underground twice:  the cheap plastic
> imitation of the Amulet of Yendor, Fibber the Low-Grade Brass-Painted
> Cheapo Plastic Flea, the Golden Frinking Straw, the Hubert Feathers,
> the Secret Decoder Ring, the Silver Shovel, and Strider's Presidential
> Vision.

Also, the repayment, which I am presently admiring.

**two-star

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:48:24 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Dangling

> Alfvaen wrote:
> > Now that I am back, I offer my services with the Gravitational
> > Monopole.
> > Who would like to have their house reattached first?

> My dear Alfvaen, at your convenience, please feel free to come by the
> Ackanomic House of Pancakes.  You'll have to climb down the rope ladder
> to get in, but hopefully that's just temporary.  Be sure to bring your
> Monopole, and consider yourself invited to a lovely pancake and
> sausage dinner.  While you're here, perhaps we can try to get the
> place back down to the ground.

Why, sure!  I'll head over to the AHoP and, having wings, waft gently down
to the tether.

Let's see, now how does this Gravitational Monopole work again?  Oh, yes.
It must work like this.  Just let me attach it to the house here...  Okay.
Now I just have to press this red button.  Don't worry, I'm the
AckaPhysicist, of course I know how to work this thing!

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Luba:I'm On My Way
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
I'm sorry, she's with me now.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:51:10 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Big White Gazette, Issue 2

> >                    The Big White Gazette
> >             "Wasting Bandwidth Since Last Week Sometime"

> > There are a few which have been underground twice:  the cheap plastic
> > imitation of the Amulet of Yendor, Fibber the Low-Grade Brass-Painted
> > Cheapo Plastic Flea, the Golden Frinking Straw, the Hubert Feathers,
> > the Secret Decoder Ring, the Silver Shovel, and Strider's Presidential
> > Vision.

> Also, the repayment, which I am presently admiring.

Well, that happened after this issue went to press.  I'll make a note to
put it in the next issue.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Luba:I'm On My Way
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
Be as redditive as it is in Ys.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:52:10 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Transfer

> I accept the below transfer, although I'm not sure what the "everybody
> wants, etc." means,

"Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads".  Okay, it's
lame as a descriptive comment, but I try to be creative with these things.

> and transfer to Afvaen the PF that looks very similar
> to my own real F, and the PF that looks very similar to the late SMH's
> real F (as these are the easiest two to keep track of).

Muy obrigado.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--They Might Be Giants:We Want A Rock
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:18:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Vacation

Well, it's official, Terranet is almost 100% certainly going under.  In
fact, our Internet feed was supposed to be gone by Monday--glad it wasn't,
since nobody had informed me of this fact...

I am putting myself on vacation with an expected duration of thirty days.
I don't think it will take that long to get another account, but I'd rather
leave myself some leeway.  And so it looks like I lose the Machine
anyway...

Assuming that the Gravitational Monopole does not end up stuck to the AHoP,
I will transfer it to Calvin N Hobbes, pending his ack, so that at least
someone can make some use of it while I'm gone.

Don't you get into any trouble now.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Thompson Twins:Sister of Mercy
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
I wasn't ranting at you, I was ranting _near_ you.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 13:49:26 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: hubert 

>I don't know if Mr. Lunatic Fringe attempted to solve the puzzle, but
>I'm sure he'd be interested to know that "snowgod" and "tower of bandwidth"
>were in there as answers. :-)

I recognized the puzzle type, and decided to give it a shot the next if no
one had solved it yet, but alas, they had!

Mr. Lunatic Fringe
whpo appreciates the reference

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:53:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Registrarness

Mr. Lunatic Fringe,

Please send a command to the bot that says

#create player Darth Vader : [email-masked] : voting

and likewise for Ben, and the other new player, Lipid.

Much obliged!

- -- 
Mohammed
Hundreds of Americans from Honolulu trapped a snobbish Martian from
Mexico.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:37:51 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: re acka trinket 

I am crating a trinket called "Economy Sized Bottle of TOBASCULES SAUCE" 
 Worth 50count em.. 50A($)
This bottle is punier than a breadbox it has a green screw off cap, and 
contains what would be a badly painted pukey kind of "red barn red" colored 
sauce inside (kind of like tobasco sauce). Also inside the bottle is an 
item of some kind but 'cause of the thick opaque "Barn Red" color it would 
have to be opened to determine exactly what it is. The label taped upon the 
bottle depicts a sickingly thin man wearing a sombrero and the top corner 
of the label is torn so it reads "-BASCULES SAUCE"
- - karma

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:07:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ross Morgan-Linial <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: re acka trinket 

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, jordan james wrote:

// I am crating a trinket called "Economy Sized Bottle of TOBASCULES SAUCE" 
//  Worth 50count em.. 50A($)
// This bottle is punier than a breadbox it has a green screw off cap, and 
// contains what would be a badly painted pukey kind of "red barn red" colored 
// sauce inside (kind of like tobasco sauce). Also inside the bottle is an 
// item of some kind but 'cause of the thick opaque "Barn Red" color it would 
// have to be opened to determine exactly what it is. The label taped upon the 
// bottle depicts a sickingly thin man wearing a sombrero and the top corner 
// of the label is torn so it reads "-BASCULES SAUCE"

That is a TRULY awful collection of puns. :-)

- ------
Ross Morgan-Linial * [email-masked]

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
 - Samuel Goldwyn

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:53:56 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Big White Gazette, Issue 2

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Aaron Humphrey [SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Wednesday, July 09, 1997 3:51 PM
To:	[email-masked]
Subject:	Re: Acka: Big White Gazette, Issue 2

> >                    The Big White Gazette
> >             "Wasting Bandwidth Since Last Week Sometime"

> > There are a few which have been underground twice:  the cheap plastic
> > imitation of the Amulet of Yendor, Fibber the Low-Grade Brass-Painted
> > Cheapo Plastic Flea, the Golden Frinking Straw, the Hubert Feathers,
> > the Secret Decoder Ring, the Silver Shovel, and Strider's Presidential
> > Vision.

> Also, the repayment, which I am presently admiring.

Well, that happened after this issue went to press.  I'll make a note to
put it in the next issue.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Luba:I'm On My Way
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
Be as redditive as it is in Ys.

Good morning, is this the gazette? Oh great I got the right number! I was 
hoping to place this ad. may you contact me to confirm this please? Thank 
you. Yer all so nice! Have a nice day too!

I have a cramped store which is called "Canines
> Tattoo Parlour" on area k9 on the map. any player
> may come here and get a peel off tattoo made and provide a description if
> they wish for 200A($) and I will buy them back at any time later than 3
> days for 195A($) as long as they r not too badly desecrated or disfigured
> from there original state.
>
> -Karma (Tattoo You)

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:15:08 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: buried treasure

I am burying the "Economy sized bottle of TOBASCULES SAUCE" and give these clues

{The second month of a Jason year, add thee year up but only one time and the sum of the primes is where it lies.}

(not part of clue)
If found and opened what's inside must be announced aloud.

In case there is gizz the clues are only what's written in these{}

- -karma (happy hunting)

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:30:41 -0700
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: GM random determination

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 20:36:38 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Appointments

I am appointing Rex Mundi NAP swinger.
I am appointing Calvin N Hobbes Ackaphysicist.
I am appointing Vynd Mad Scientist (by rule, I cannot remain it
by default.  This points out one of the many holes in that rule).

The Prez should nominate a Justice.

Malenkai
Speaker

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 20:37:53 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Machine (fnord)

The Machine has teleported to fnord's house.

Malenkai

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:50:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Appointments

> The Prez should nominate a Justice.
	Okay.  Who wants it?

- -- 
Mohammed
Watch out for a babbling parrot bearing shovels.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:52:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Inventor

I am destroying the lonely blueprint for the Miniature Tread
Attachment Device (MTAD).

- -- 
Mohammed
blah

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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 01:51:07 +0100
From: "Gavin Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: trinket creation

The text at the bottom of this message (HOW IT WORKS) is actually part of a
spam I received. They claim to have sold $5 million worth of these things,
and
there's a phone number and everything.

#transfer RexBank, Rex Mundi: 5 A$
Approved by me.

#award Rex Mundi: -5 A$: trinket creation

I am creating a trinket called The Laundry Clean Disk(tm).

Description:
This is a bulky chrome plated 50's SF B-movie style washing machine, which
sadly fails to actually wash clothes, or do anything else. Stuck to the
side is a somewhat faded label which reads:

HOW IT WORKS
**********************
The Laundry Clean Disk(tm) works on "Quantum Mechanics" (Physics),
not chemistry. With a method called 'Structured Water Technology"
The Laundry CD(tm) activates your laundry water naturally through
this proprietary process which structures water to mimic the
cleaning effect of detergent - without detergents or chemical agents.
NOW!! the NEW Dishwasher Disk(tm) for your dishwasher. It really works!!

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Appointments

>> The Prez should nominate a Justice.
> 	Okay.  Who wants it?

Damn! All that work I had to do to get this post, and then I find out
that Mohammed will give it away to anyone! NOW they tell me ...

breadbox

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 18:17:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: re acka trinket 

> I am crating a trinket called "Economy Sized Bottle of TOBASCULES SAUCE" 
>  Worth 50count em.. 50A($)
> This bottle is punier than a breadbox it has a green screw off cap, and 
> contains what would be a badly painted pukey kind of "red barn red" colored 
> sauce inside (kind of like tobasco sauce). Also inside the bottle is an 
> item of some kind but 'cause of the thick opaque "Barn Red" color it would 
> have to be opened to determine exactly what it is. The label taped upon the 
> bottle depicts a sickingly thin man wearing a sombrero and the top corner 
> of the label is torn so it reads "-BASCULES SAUCE"
> - karma

Note: this message contains zero gizz. Whatever you did, it worked.

breadbox

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:56:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Interesting

I have an interesting string to quote; it is:

'Jukkasjarvi Cheez-Whiz 11543556'

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:06:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: re acka trinket 

On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, jordan james wrote:

> I am crating a trinket called "Economy Sized Bottle of TOBASCULES SAUCE" 
>  Worth 50count em.. 50A($)
> This bottle is punier than a breadbox it has a green screw off cap, and 
> contains what would be a badly painted pukey kind of "red barn red" colored 
> sauce inside (kind of like tobasco sauce). Also inside the bottle is an 
> item of some kind but 'cause of the thick opaque "Barn Red" color it would 
> have to be opened to determine exactly what it is. The label taped upon the 
> bottle depicts a sickingly thin man wearing a sombrero and the top corner 
> of the label is torn so it reads "-BASCULES SAUCE"
> - karma
> 
> 

hrm, I'm afraid this action fails because, err, well, ok, so maybe it
doesn't fail exactly.  On a lighter note, this particular message looks
absolutely normal to me, no BWG taped to the end, no unreadable
attachments, nada.  whatever you're doing, it works.  thanks. =)

                           - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 22:21:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Monster!

Achem.   Zey said I was mad at zee Univercity, but I'll show zem, I'll
show zem ALL!!!  I vill suceed vhere all bevore me haf vailed!  I am
building a Monster and it's name is Trumpy!  Trumpy vould never hurt
anyvon!

                          - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 22:21:11 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Monster!

> Achem.   Zey said I was mad at zee Univercity, but I'll show zem, I'll
> show zem ALL!!!  I vill suceed vhere all bevore me haf vailed!  I am
> building a Monster and it's name is Trumpy!  Trumpy vould never hurt
> anyvon!

Are you sure you can do this?  I was under the impression that you had
to add to the other monster.

Malenkai

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 22:26:37 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Interesting

/dev/joe wrote:
 
> I have an interesting string to quote; it is:
> 
> 'Jukkasjarvi Cheez-Whiz 11543556'

/dev/joe has found treasure 158.  The map was:

T158 Map: Post 'Jukkasjarvi Cheez-Whiz 11543556' as a quoted string to
the public forum.

#transfer buried,/dev/joe : 4 BV

Malenkai
cleaning out some mail folders

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:27:43 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Appointments

> I am appointing Calvin N Hobbes Ackaphysicist.
> I am appointing Vynd Mad Scientist (by rule, I cannot remain it
> by default.  This points out one of the many holes in that rule).

Perhaps I am missing something here, but is it necessary to appoint a
new Ackaphysicist and Mad Scientist simply because I'm on vacation?
And I'm not sure if an "Acting" Mad Scientist makes sense.  What
happens to my Blueprint-Under-Construction?  More importantly, what
happens to Vynd's?  Acting AckaPhysicist is okay, especially if the GM
was transferred successfully(I wasn't sure if I timed it right; if not,
somebody should use an OMCL(ha!) to transfer it while I'm on vacation.  :-)

On vacation, but not gone...

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Ray Stevens:The Streak
Current Book--Dan Simmons:Hyperion
People who live in glass houses shouldn't.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:32:02 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Gifts

I am giving one bonus vote to Malenkai.
I am giving one bonus vote to ThinMan.

They must accept these gifts before they will happen.

/dev/joe

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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 22:32:17 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Appointments

> Perhaps I am missing something here, but is it necessary to appoint a
> new Ackaphysicist and Mad Scientist simply because I'm on vacation?

Yes, unless they were optional offices or unless I wanted them by default.
I am certain the Mad Scientist is not; I am not sure about the AP.

> And I'm not sure if an "Acting" Mad Scientist makes sense.  

Many of the rules do not make sense.  That does not eliminate the
requirement to follow them, IMHO ;-)

> What happens to my Blueprint-Under-Construction?  More importantly, what
> happens to Vynd's? 

dunno.

Malenkai
Expert in offices
who always tries to follow the rules, no matter how bizzare

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