Subject: Ackanomic Digest V2 #204
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Ackanomic Digest         Friday, July 18 1997         Volume 02 : Number 204

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:47:04 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka:  i want to buy a swinger's office, darnit

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From:	Benjamin Good [SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent:	Thursday, July 17, 1997 1:16 PM
To:	[email-masked]
Subject:	Acka:  i want to buy a swinger's office, darnit

according to my mentor, if i want to buy a swinger's office, my email
must have the prefix Acka: in the subject heading.

Excerpts from mail: 17-Jul-97 Re: whoo hoo(Acka) by Aaron Humphrey@terranet. 
> I actually don't think this works.  If you want to accomplish something in
> a Public Action(which is the usual way to do things in Ackanomic), it is
> obligatory to prefix the subject line with "Acka: " or "Ackanomic: "  This
> is mostly a convenience to people who want some way to, automatically or
> manually, differentiate their Acka email from the rest of their mail, but
> it is mandatory.  (Personally, if I were running the Acka mailing lists,
> I'd set them up to put it in by default, which I believe is possible, but
> right now you have to put them in.  So you're going to have to resend this
> with the proper subject line.  My advice is to add a complaint about how
> hard it is to follow all the Rules, and they're so nitpicky, and now you've
> probably lost a major advantage in Party Chess.  It's traditional for new
> players to do that.  :-)

so here we go again:

i hereby officially declare that i am buying a swinger's office, for
whatever price it currently is, and that i am officially naming it the
Grand Exalted Office Of The People's Republic Of Ben, altho you may all
refer to it as the office of ben.  its primary function will be to own
an army of party chess pieces, which will be used to play party chess.

does that work now?

thanks,
ben 

more gratitude

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Good <[email-masked]>
Subject: ackathanks 

Excerpts from mail: 17-Jul-97 Ackanomic Digest V2 #203 by Ackanomic
[email-masked] 
> It is good to see someone excited about party chess.  I too was very   
> interested in playing when it first started.  I was swinger for a couple   
> different party's but the game was going through some rough times and the   
> parties kept losing members.  Anyway, the point of this message is to let   
> Ben know that I too will financially support his chess playing.
> 
> Techno

i'm rich, whoo hoo.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 16:59:36 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka proposals

I wish to retract proposal 2232

- - Karma {{now knows 'bout self deleting braces}}

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Date: 17 Jul 1997 16:47:56 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: Transaction 

AC>> Certainly Rule 1301 falls firmly under his supposed realm of expertise,
AC>> and for not knowing it inside and out his title must be revoked.

AC>Which reminds me.  The following game state actions are loose ends:

AC>1) Senate comment [?] on this Expert revocation provision
AC>2) The RuneMaker made some Oztma cards this month, or mabye last.  He
AC>has yet to commence an auction.  I forget if he is required to or not.
AC>3) Mohammed started buliding a Spell Book of Chorg a *long* time ago.  It
AC>is probably done.  He is probably no longer Mohammed.
AC>4) The Grab-a-Donkey results are long overdue in the CFJ 430 false thread.
AC>5) The EBS that appears to be possessed by Niccolo was ephemeral from
AC>the SBoC; I do not believe it exists.
AC>6) My records indicate that ''Round the Earth' did not publish in June,
AC>and that 'Steel Flea Gazette' did not publish in April.  I seem to
AC>remember pointing this out at the time, but don't remember the resolution.
AC>Perhaps I missed an e-mail.  If /dev/joe could grep April's archives,
AC>I'd appreciate it -- I do not have the disk space on my system to download
AC>them (down to about 4 meg :( )

AC>It has come to my attention that some players are put off, offended,
AC>whatever, by these tracking sort of messages, or those 'that action
AC>fails' messages, or they feel the "tone" of these messages is
AC>inappropriate.  No offense is intented at all, and if anyone has a
AC>suggestion as to how to improve the wording to be cooler, let me know.
AC>I apologize for any such message whose "tone" has offended anyone.

AC>It has also been suggested that I stop doing this (tracking and pointing
AC>stuff out), that I should think more in terms of a "substantive nomic" as
AC>opposed to a "procedural nomic".  I'll do that when the rules change, as
AC>far as I interpret the rules, it is part of my duty to track and post this
AC>stuff (or at least track it, posting it seems common sense though).

AC>Malenkai
AC>Speaker

Sorry for the total quote; believe me, though, it takes me longer to
delete it (at 4 keystrokes per line) than it takes you to scroll through
it.  Personally, I find your tracking messages very helpful in keeping
track of the game state in my own head.  Even though the retro clause
takes care of it these days, I personally find its necessity
distasteful, and much prefer for the rules to be followed without its
application.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:51:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 436 (Dread Pirate Roberts)

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Phil Ackley wrote:

> >Dread Pirate Roberts has been picked.
> >
> >Clerk of the Courts
> >------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Call For Judgment 436
> >  Subject: Pulse Entities
> >Initiator: Alfvaen
> >    Judge: Dread Pirate Roberts (selected Jul 16, 1997, 21:11h EDT)
> >Judgement:
> >
> >Statement:
> >
> >The Entity called the Pulse Shovel, owned by two-star, is not a Trinket.
> >
> >Alfvaen's Reasoning:
> >
> >This Entity was created by self-deleting text in Proposal 2196 by two-star,
> >which was "two-star is ambushed by Thargoids, loses one point, and all
> >his gaol house rock shovels are converted into pulse shovels".  This was
> >an obvious emulation of the original text of "More Blatant Elitism".
> >
> >So what happened with "More Blatant Elitism"?  "Military lasers", a
> >Trinket, was transformed into a "Pulse Laser", a gadget.  So obviously game
> >custom dictates that changing a Trinket(or class of Trinkets)with a
> >particular name into some Entity with another name does not necessarily
> >create a Trinket with that name.
> >
> >Furthermore, how would this Trinket be created?  It would have be by
> 
> 
> {snip}
> 
> I think this should be ruled false.  Certainly all that happened was the
> renaming of a trinket by a rule.
> 
> Mr. Lunatic Fringe

I disagree.  The trinket was clearly not renamed, it was "converted."  I
have no idea what, if any, game custom pretains to the word converted, but
it by no means must be that the trinbket is meerly renamed.  If I was more
than marginaly interested in this issue, I might go take a look at the
wording of the "Majik" rule, as it actually does do what alfvaen claims
the "conversion" did, or something close to it.

                                - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:49:42 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka Party!!

(With lampshade on head )
WHOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEHAAAA!!!!
Karma's on the boat  (singin') "I spent six months on a leaky boat!"
Man what a blast. Me an' wilma on irc  ooh babe . Dpr  you know how to 
throw one.  let's cut a rug. Wilma was offering me her services and I quote 
"Wilma says if you need help ask wilma help" Oh yeah. Help me Wilma help, 
help me Wilma. I was gonna bring you some handkerchiefs as a house warming 
gift dread but I forgot the size of yer nose. Now where is the TMBSG conga? 
Many thanks for the invite Dread. Nice ship you got here. I'll take my boat 
inna bottle now and party on. I thought we were all going to irc . I'll 
check in there later, yeah one of those drinks with the umbrella would be 
nice.

- -Karma (my limeriicks in wilma but it changed from the limrik format I 
wrote it in )

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:20:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: re acka archaeologist

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, Phil Ackley wrote:

> >I wish to ask if my trinket "kite mitt" value A($)150
> >could be magic?
> >
> >- karma (reading some rules)
> 
> I believe in order for something be a Majik it must be created that way.  I
> dont think that an item can transfer between the two.
> 
> Mr. Luntaic Fingert
> 

And I believe that the world is round, but that is neither here nor there.
As I recall, the Archaeologist can turn trinkets of appropriate value into
Majiks.

                                  - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:24:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Welcome to my party!

> >
> >#Trnasfer Vynd : Little Wooden Ship #2

I accept this offer, even if it isn't in quite the proper format. =)  many
thanks.

                                    - Vynd

jmccoy2umich.edu

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Welcome to my party!

On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, mr cwm wrote:

> I go to the Pirate Ship Revenge.  
> 
> Thanks for the cool Little Wooden Ship #8, Dread Pirate Roberts!  (Sorry
> about the Chartruese Goose thing - I didn't realize you were active yet
> ... not that it really would ... never mind.)
> 
> I appear to be the first guest here ... no there are a couple over there.

Doh, I accepted his party gift and forgot to actually go to the party, how
rude of me.  I am going to Dread Pirate Roberts house.  There I shall
sit in the end as far opposite of the people singing stand as I can
possibly sit, and play Rhapsody in Blue on a set of bongos and a kazoo.

                                 - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 01:13:31 +0100
From: "Gavin Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: Gaol?

Looking at the p/e page, I seem to be in Gaol. Why is this? I was in gaol
for the CPPIA thing, but I thought I got out?

Rex Mundi, maybe at the party.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:17:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Welcome to my party!

> Ok, so as soon as 1 PM Acka time rolls around I will start looking
> for Limericks!  I will announce a winner as soon as the votes are
> in!  Remember, voting will be via private email to me, and no voting
> for yourself.

I go to the house of Dread Pirate Roberts.

Thank you for the trinket. (Nice detail, by the way.) I will watch the
music-making partygoers. When they reach a stopping stop, I will shout
"Freebird!" (Hopefully they won't take me seriously.) I will then take
this chance to ascend to the stern and recite my limerick (though
technically it's not a limerick, due to the unusual meter, but I think
it still sounds nice):

To hold a party on a pirate ship,
Is dangerous, for one undesirous slip,
    Could send the guests crashing,
    And clinging to lashing,
And leave them with hangovers of a fiery grip.

I will then mill about and socialize for a while.

At midnight acka time I will take my leave and return home. Thanks
again, DPR.

breadbox

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:46:40 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Trinket and party 

Okay, so i'm making this trinket, and calling it Stumpy, it's descriptio is
exactly that, stumpy.  It has a value of A$10.

I'm going to Dread Pirate Roberts housewarming party and giving it to him.

#trinket stumpy : 10 : stumpy
#transfer snowgod, Dread Pirate Roberts : stumpy

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:05:27 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Limerick 

"Ding! Ding! Ding!  Could I have your attention please?  What? You can't
see me?  Hold on while I climb on to the shoulders of mr cwm (I always
imagined him being tall).

"For the dread Pirate Roberts on the occasion of his houseboat warming
party I present the following limerick

"ermuggghmm

"There once was a man with a boat.
A pirate!  He'd slash a man's throat.
His parrot was dead,
but sat next to his head,
and his wooden leg just wouldn't float.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 19:01:33 -0700
From: Hank Turowski <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Welcome to my party!

Well, the party is in full swing now.  I am going to open the invitation to
everyone at this point.  If you didn't RSVP, you won't get a Little Wooden
Ship, and you cannot enter or vote in the Limerick contest, but you can
join the Congo line.

There will be a rousing game of "Pin the Tail on the Grab-A-Donkey"
starting soon, which is just like Grab-A-Donkey, with the additional option
of pinning a tail on your donkey, which results in one of two things...
A) Your donkey has a new tail, which will be grabbed instead of your
donkey, the next time an opponent grabs your donkey OR...
B) Your donkey doesn't like being pricked by the pin, and so he kicks you
and runs away, eliminating you from the game.
(50-50 chance of either result).

Ok, not really, but come on over and have a drink!  And don't mess up my
lamp shade, karma, or as sure as the Earth was once round, but is now
shaped very much like a rice cake, Ye'll walk the plank!

DPR

- ----
Hank Turowski               Edmark, an IBM Company  C Code                 
[email-masked]            Redmond, WA             C Code Run             
[email-masked]  (206) 556-3651          Run Code Run... PLEASE!

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:13:23 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 436 (Vynd)

CFJ 436 has been reassigned to Vynd.

Clerk of the Courts
- ------------------------------------------------------------------

Call For Judgment 436
  Subject: Pulse Entities
Initiator: Alfvaen
    Judge: Dread Pirate Roberts (declined)
2nd Judge: Vynd (selected Jul 17, 1997, 22:13h EDT)
Judgement:

Statement:

The Entity called the Pulse Shovel, owned by two-star, is not a Trinket.

Alfvaen's Reasoning:

This Entity was created by self-deleting text in Proposal 2196 by two-star,
which was "two-star is ambushed by Thargoids, loses one point, and all
his gaol house rock shovels are converted into pulse shovels".  This was
an obvious emulation of the original text of "More Blatant Elitism".

So what happened with "More Blatant Elitism"?  "Military lasers", a
Trinket, was transformed into a "Pulse Laser", a gadget.  So obviously game
custom dictates that changing a Trinket(or class of Trinkets)with a
particular name into some Entity with another name does not necessarily
create a Trinket with that name.

Furthermore, how would this Trinket be created?  It would have be by
a Rule, since two-star did not personally create a Trinket called
"Pulse Shovel".  Rule 506 states "Other rules may also create and
bestow ownership of Trinkets, so long as the rule provides for naming,
describing, and valuing the Trinket."  I do not believe that the
self-deleting text in Proposal 2196 satisfies those conditions, even if
we are to assume that a Trinket is being created by it(which is nowhere
stated), since it does not provide for describing or valuing the Trinket.
(Unless it is assumed that the value and description of "Gaol House Rock
Shovel" is to be carried over, which I do not believe there is sufficient
precedent for.)

Thus all that two-star has in his position is a miscellaneous, nontradeable
entity named "Pulse Shovel".  It is not a Trinket, or a Gadget, or even a
Majik.  It has no function, and if it were given one(except possibly by
creation of a Blueprint)he would be guilty of Patent Infringement.  Good
luck getting rid of it.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:03:05 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Bronze Torch

I am awarding Mohammed a Bronze Torch.  

#award mohammed : bronze torch

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:09:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Good <[email-masked]>
Subject: gotta work on that short term memory 

i sent out a post about 5 seconds ago about my 5 free party chess
pieces.  i can't remember now if i posted it to acka-chess like i
intended to or just acka.  sorry if it shows up on the acka-digest.  if
it does, i'll resend it to acka-chess when i get a copy of it myself
from the digest.

ben 

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:12:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Good <[email-masked]>
Subject: last message 

looks like i did send it correctly.  just ignore me. 

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:22:57 -0400
From: Dice Server <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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# Ackanomicon determination for two-star
# based on the following (using a 51 sided die):
# 1 -15: arcane trivia
# 16-20: vile prophecies
# 21-25: inner workings
# 26-30: arcane lore
# 31-33: terrorizing pages
# 34-34: ancient artifact
# 35-36: mutation
# 37-38: dark domain
# 39-39: visitation
# 40-40: the secret
# 41-42: long lost treasure
# 43-44: doomsday
# 45-45: forbidden fruit
# 46-46: catastrophe
# 47-50: not so forbidden fruit
# 51-51: ancient one
# Malenkai

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> #S 51
> #D 1
> #R 1
> #L 1
> #T Acka: Ackanomicon Determination
>
> #C Ackanomicon determination for two-star
> #C based on the following (using a 51 sided die):
> #C 1 -15: arcane trivia
> #C 16-20: vile prophecies
> #C 21-25: inner workings
> #C 26-30: arcane lore
> #C 31-33: terrorizing pages
> #C 34-34: ancient artifact
> #C 35-36: mutation
> #C 37-38: dark domain
> #C 39-39: visitation
> #C 40-40: the secret
> #C 41-42: long lost treasure
> #C 43-44: doomsday
> #C 45-45: forbidden fruit
> #C 46-46: catastrophe
> #C 47-50: not so forbidden fruit
> #C 51-51: ancient one
> #C Malenkai

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:35:13 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Better late than never

We'll I'm running late, its cold out, I cannot find my Parka, but
I run over to DPR's house to join the party anyway.  I frink as much
single malt scotch as I can find.

Sorry I don't have a house warming gift, I'm poor.  It seems a bit tacky
to break down your gift for the purpose ;-) I don't even have
a limerick, but the Golden Frog rummaged up a haiku for me --

my parka is lost
in the oddest place i know
it is to be found

I now return to my Castle, seeing as the party seems to be winding
down anyway, hate to eat and run, :-) see ya in the forum.

Malenkai
party animal

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:43:52 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Party

Whee!  Well, I just stepped out for a few hours there to watch Star Trek,
and "Friends", and then have supper and rush off to "Contact".  But I
managed to stay in the Pirate Ship Revenge the whole time anyway, through
the magic of the Rules.  I would not hesitate to recommend "Contact" to
anyone; they did a very good job of being faithful to the book, and it's
worth it for the opening sequence alone(except perhaps the asteroid belt,
which isn't _that_ dense by a factor of several million).  By far the best
use of silence I've ever seen in a movie.

Anyway, I just dashed off a limerick here, on the "pirate" theme...

A pirate spends days on the sea,
With only fish for company.
Of course there's his crew,
But what can you do
With twenty men joined at the knee?

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--If I Were A Carpenter
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
The policeman's beard is half-constructed.

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:09:26 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Party

I am going to Dread Pirate Roberts' house, the Pirate Ship
Revenge, for what appears to be a rousing party.  Thanks much
for the door prize.

I was about to join Vynd for a rousing rendition of a Rhapsody
in Blue, but I think I feel more like Bohemian Rhapsody right
now.  "Lots and lots of lightning, very very frightening...."

A man, by name Dread Pirate Roberts,
eschewed most of life's basic comforts.
He lived on a ship,
and to all he did quip,
"What's a party without limerick efforts?"

ThinMan

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:10:01 EDT 
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka:  Duel

On behalf of Mr.  Lunatic Fringe I am proud to announce that e gleefully
accepts the challenge foolishly (and prematurely) proffered by the hasty
Malenkai.  

Mr. Lunatic Fringe chooses "ghost",  and the wail of frustration and
defeat shall be heard throughout the guberniyas of all Nomics.  Prepare
to meet thy doom,  Malenkai.

Voting Gnome
trying to balance a housewarming party,  a search for a killer,  and
assist in a Duel.  WSho says you have to Vote to keep active in Acka?

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:10:01 EDT 
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka:  Lotsastuff

First:  on the Otzma Card auctions,  I bid A$25 for OCID 137.  I bid A$2
for OCID 136.  I bid A$1 for OCID 135.

Second:  to ben:  I have no ulterior motive in backing your attempt to
play Party Chess.  As I stated earlier,  it's just that I have at least
some income,  which is sometimes difficult to do without becoming a
Voting Player and paying attention to details you'd rather ignore.  I
just didn't want another Player giving up on Acka because he was forced
to deal with aspects of this humongous game that didn't interest em.

When you find yourself in need of funds,  please email me privately (but
don't forget to put "Acka" in the subject line,.  that's how I filter my
mail)  and I will transfer your needs in a public message.

Be warned:  I'm generous,  not affluent.

Third:  I have been wanting to create a special Trinket for some time, 
and this seems like the time to do it.

I am creating a Trinket known as "a bottle of Bacardi".  It is a small
sold silver flask with a gold screw-on cap.  it contains a mixture of rum
and a certain caramel coloured carbonated beverage that I shouldn't
mentiopn by name.  It's value is A$151.

Fourth:  I am aiming the new BWG Lazer at breadbox.  I will give em until
Saturday to prepare emself,  when I will load the bottle of Bacardi into
the fuel input end.  Of course,  now that the BWGL is aimed,  someone
with less consideration and more Trinkets can do this even earlier
(thereby saving me a Trinket).

Fifth:  I seem to have succeeded in tripping over my saber enough times
to be late for DPR's party.  I will console myself over not getting one
of those wooden ships or nifty PF's by consuming large quantities of
Irish whisky.  Garcon!!  leave the bottle!.

Voting Gnome

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:14:55 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Party

> I was about to join Vynd for a rousing rendition of a Rhapsody
> in Blue, but I think I feel more like Bohemian Rhapsody right
> now.  "Lots and lots of lightning, very very frightening...."

"I see a little silhouetto of a man...Scaramouche, scaramouche, will he do
the fandango..."  I'll do the air guitar at the end of that section.  Or
water guitar, as appropriate.

I've been listening to too much Carpenters(and cover versions
thereof)lately.  I'm almost ashamed at how much of it I still like.
"Don't you remember you told me you loved me baby..."

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--If I Were A Carpenter
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
Earthlings!  Your weapons are useful on us! All we have is this P.A.!

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:18:01 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Lotsastuff

> First:  on the Otzma Card auctions,  I bid A$25 for OCID 137.  I bid A$2
> for OCID 136.  I bid A$1 for OCID 135.

If OCID 137 is the Map Shard card, I'll bid A$29.  And I'll bid A$2 for
OCID 135, whatever it may be.

> Third:  I have been wanting to create a special Trinket for some time, 
> and this seems like the time to do it.
> 
> I am creating a Trinket known as "a bottle of Bacardi".  It is a small
> sold silver flask with a gold screw-on cap.  it contains a mixture of rum
> and a certain caramel coloured carbonated beverage that I shouldn't
> mentiopn by name.  It's value is A$151.

Rum...ick!  I'm a wodka person myself.

> Fourth:  I am aiming the new BWG Lazer at breadbox.  I will give em until
> Saturday to prepare emself,  when I will load the bottle of Bacardi into
> the fuel input end.  Of course,  now that the BWGL is aimed,  someone
> with less consideration and more Trinkets can do this even earlier
> (thereby saving me a Trinket).

There won't be any BWGL until at least Wednesday, as I understand the
Blueprint rules.  You _have_ tripped over your saber a few too many times.
:-)

> Fifth:  I seem to have succeeded in tripping over my saber enough times
> to be late for DPR's party.  I will console myself over not getting one
> of those wooden ships or nifty PF's by consuming large quantities of
> Irish whisky.  Garcon!!  leave the bottle!.

Better than Bacardi, I suppose...  Is it time to bring back the Bartender
rule?

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--If I Were A Carpenter
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
Can you think without clicking?  --billbill

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:28:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 436 (Vynd)

I accept.

                            - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:27:35 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Lotsastuff

Who wrote the message Alfvaen is replying to?  This is the second
message I apparently missed.  Is mail queued up to me on wilma?  IAC,
could the Postmaster send me the digest for July 17th?  Did anyone find
the Parka treasure?

Thx,
Malenkai
- --------
Aaron Humphrey wrote:
> 
> > First:  on the Otzma Card auctions,  I bid A$25 for OCID 137.  I bid A$2
> > for OCID 136.  I bid A$1 for OCID 135.
> 
> If OCID 137 is the Map Shard card, I'll bid A$29.  And I'll bid A$2 for
> OCID 135, whatever it may be.
> 
> > Third:  I have been wanting to create a special Trinket for some time,
> > and this seems like the time to do it.
> >
> > I am creating a Trinket known as "a bottle of Bacardi".  It is a small
> > sold silver flask with a gold screw-on cap.  it contains a mixture of rum
> > and a certain caramel coloured carbonated beverage that I shouldn't
> > mentiopn by name.  It's value is A$151.
> 
> Rum...ick!  I'm a wodka person myself.
> 
> > Fourth:  I am aiming the new BWG Lazer at breadbox.  I will give em until
> > Saturday to prepare emself,  when I will load the bottle of Bacardi into
> > the fuel input end.  Of course,  now that the BWGL is aimed,  someone
> > with less consideration and more Trinkets can do this even earlier
> > (thereby saving me a Trinket).
> 
> There won't be any BWGL until at least Wednesday, as I understand the
> Blueprint rules.  You _have_ tripped over your saber a few too many times.
> :-)
> 
> > Fifth:  I seem to have succeeded in tripping over my saber enough times
> > to be late for DPR's party.  I will console myself over not getting one
> > of those wooden ships or nifty PF's by consuming large quantities of
> > Irish whisky.  Garcon!!  leave the bottle!.
> 
> Better than Bacardi, I suppose...  Is it time to bring back the Bartender
> rule?
> 
> --
> --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
> Current Album--If I Were A Carpenter
> Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
> Can you think without clicking?  --billbill

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:23:53 -0700
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Party

I attempt to go to DPR's party, but find that I am too late and 
everyone is leaving. I meant to show up sooner. Oh well. I didn't have a 
good party gift anyway, except maybe the pulse shovel, and I'm not sure 
I can part with that. I am going home. (unless anything happened while I 
was reading the Book that wouldn't allow me to do so.)

**two-star

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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 00:31:20 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Duel

> Mr. Lunatic Fringe chooses "ghost",  and the wail of frustration and
> defeat shall be heard throughout the guberniyas of all Nomics.  Prepare
> to meet thy doom,  Malenkai.

We need a referee.  Any volunteers?

Malenkai
wonders what exciting e-mail he missed today

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:36:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 138 (AZTEC G0D) 

>Recommended Penalty:
>
>A DEDUCTION of 10,000,000 points.

I wholeheartedly support a penalty of 10,000,000 factorial, not a paltry 10
million.

I hereby leave Metamorph, and affirm my membership only in Harf. I would
like to still be found guilty, however.

Robert Sevin

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:36:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Duel

> > Mr. Lunatic Fringe chooses "ghost",  and the wail of frustration and
> > defeat shall be heard throughout the guberniyas of all Nomics.  Prepare
> > to meet thy doom,  Malenkai.
> 
> We need a referee.  Any volunteers?

I will volunteer.  I think this is the first duel since I arrived that I
haven't been involved in, so I have to get my nose in somewhere.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--If I Were A Carpenter
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
It goes without saying that...

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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 21:46:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Trinket and party(Acka)

> Okay, so i'm making this trinket, and calling it Stumpy, it's descriptio is
> exactly that, stumpy.  It has a value of A$10.
> 
> I'm going to Dread Pirate Roberts housewarming party and giving it to him.
> 
> #trinket stumpy : 10 : stumpy
> #transfer snowgod, Dread Pirate Roberts : stumpy
 
This probably fails because this wasn't a public message.  (Hey, if Ben
can't get away with it, you can't either...)

(Trying to take over some of Malenkai's duties...:-)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Current Album--If I Were A Carpenter
Current Book--Heather Spears:The Taming
Damn!  Another Romulan Warbird got sucked into the warp engines!

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