Subject: ackanomic digest V2 #228
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ackanomic digest        Friday, August 1 1997        Volume 02 : Number 228

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 16:23:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: This list is live

Since the muppetlabs' lists are now officially recognized by the
postal code, I'd like everyone to start using them regularly.

So far, they have not been tested too heavily, and I'd prefer that any
problems that might still exist be found while the wilma lists can
still be used. Also, it will make it easier to harf the archives
afterwards. 

(The archives for the muppetlabs' lists are currently not in the ftp
directory, but never fear: everything is being archived, and they will
be made publicly available sooner rather than later. And I can always
email them to people if a need arises before then.)

breadbox
ready to step into some very big shoes

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 19:48:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Chorg

> I am reading the next page (10) of my Spell Book of Chorg.  I vanishes
> in a flash of light and the sound of breakfast cereal.
> 
> I am destroying the Chartreuse Elephant and the Big Piggy Bank (a prime
> number of entities) for cash.

I can't help but notice that the Big Piggy Bank was already destroyed, on
July 19th.  So its destruction does not happen again.  :-)

> Proposed action: that GF Mini-storage, Inc., use its Secret Laboratory
> to produce a Spell Book of Chorg.  Supported and effected.

Hmmm.  So what you and Vulcan are saying here is that there should be some
time-lapse before a Gadget can be built with a Secret Laboratory?  :-)

> Proposed action: that GF Mini-storage, Inc., give a Spell Book of Chorg
> (the one with 21 pages) to Guy Fawkes.  I support this.  So let it be
> done.

Oh, god.  I suppose now I'm going to have to keep track of how many pages
each SBoChorg has, and put that up on the PE page.  :-/

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Belinda Carlisle:Live Your Life Be Free
Current Book--Dan Simmons:The Fall of Hyperion
Day++, Dollar++;

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 18:59:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Subscriptions

>> I'm inclined to go ahead and harf my part GF's actions yesterday,
>> pending others' opinions on the matter.  I certainly do not want to
>> break a clear rule, though.
> 
> As am I, as throughly-unofficially-acting-Financier.  Someone can
> submit a CFJ on the matter, but why not, until then, play a thread
> where the actions were performed as specified?

Well, if it comes down to this, then Chaos's mail was bouncing at that
time. So I can be pretty sure that he never received it. Also Red Barn
is on the digest list, and his mail has been bouncing as well, so he
also did not receive it.

breadbox
not the Postmaster, just someone with a mailbox full of mail errors

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 21:57:02 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Phoebe (Antimatter)

> Never mind that.  Who's had the Magic Potato this week?

I dunno, but I remember announcing it on monday.  Come to think
of it, I belive Antimatter has it.

> As am I, as throughly-unofficially-acting-Financier.  Someone can submit a
> CFJ on the matter, but why not, until then, play a thread where the actions
> were performed as specified?

I don't think we need a CFJ unless someone feels really strongly about
it.  We can interpret the rules ourselves once in a while :)

Malenkai

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:02:29 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Majik

I am creating a Trinket called The Death Star, worth A$100.  Its
description is as follows:

This trinket is Majik.  It is sapphire bullet of pure love number 411.  It
is very large, almost the size of a Moon(but not quite).  It looks sort of
like the AT&T logo.  A large bowl-shaped weapon on one side is capable of
destroying planets at the whim of its commander, and it contains entire
squadrons of TIE fighters piloted by Imperial Stormtroopers.  It does,
however, have one weakness, an unshielded thermal exhaust port.  If a small
one-man fighter were to make its way past the station defenses and fire a
torpedo down that exhaust port, it would create a chain reaction that would
blow up the whole thing.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Song--Brian Eno:Golden Hours
Current Book--Dan Simmons:The Fall of Hyperion
She wants to see you again, twisting on a string.

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:15:19 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Phoebe (Antimatter)

> > Never mind that.  Who's had the Magic Potato this week?

> I dunno, but I remember announcing it on monday.  Come to think
> of it, I belive Antimatter has it.

I can't find it in my email anywhere; I suppose I could have missed it.
Anyone else have a copy?

> > As am I, as throughly-unofficially-acting-Financier.  Someone can submit a
> > CFJ on the matter, but why not, until then, play a thread where the actions
> > were performed as specified?

> I don't think we need a CFJ unless someone feels really strongly about
> it.  We can interpret the rules ourselves once in a while :)

Until we start to disagree on it.  And I have a tendency to submit CFJ's
when I'm unsure about my interpretation of a Rule, or whether something not
stated explicitly is defined implicitly, like the recent Church ones, or
most of the Mad Scientist ones.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Song--Christine Lavin:Yonder Blue
Current Book--Dan Simmons:The Fall of Hyperion
This is where we drop off wood. Big truck, big wood. Big posibility for accident

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 22:16:56 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: [Fwd: Acka: Potato + Aliens]

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:24:44 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Potato + Aliens

Antimatter has found the magic potato.

937
741
898

None of them are rules majiks and someone else can check if they
are all prime :)

Malenkai
Speaker

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 22:42:00 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: IPs

The voting periods for all the IPs are over.  All of them failed.
The following players each lose 10 pts:

Alfvaen, Niccolo, MLF, Techno, ThinMan, Antimatter

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 20:51:50 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Acka: Potato + Aliens]

> Antimatter has found the magic potato.
> 
> 937
> 741
> 898
> 
> None of them are rules majiks and someone else can check if they
> are all prime :)

Thank you.  I swear I didn't see this...I wonder what other mail I missed?
Time to grovel over the digests, I guess.

By the way, as I understand the Majik rule, it's more like: if the aliens
fail to abduct a Rule three weeks in a row, then if there exist any Majiks
with the same number as that of a Rule, one of those Rules is picked at
random instead.  I believe the existing ones are all low 800's, so fairly
safe.  Except, of course, for the Death Star.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Godley & Creme:Under Your Thumb
Current Book--Dan Simmons:The Fall of Hyperion
Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves me cold.

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 21:23:37 -0600 (MDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: PE Page Up

It may be mildly inaccurate, it may not be quite as fully clickable yet,
but it's up.  http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/acka/pe.html .
And reasonably up to date.  Except for the recent IP failures, which I
suppose mean the Senators no longer have Acting status.  Well, tomorrow is
soon enough for that.

Any mistakes, grievances, suggestions, etc., let me know.  I should have an
Undead page up too, but I haven't devoted as much attention to it.  I'm
sure it won't take too long.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Nena:It's All In The Game
Current Book--Dan Simmons:The Fall of Hyperion
How about yelling "theatre" in a crowded firehouse?

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:23:37 -0400
From: Dice Server <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Gadget Determination

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# I am using the dice server to determine GF's Gadget
# based on the following:
# 1) Electronic Potato
# 2) Scroll of Crumble
# 3) Blue Thing
# 4) Whamiol
# 5) Vending Machine
# 6) Pyraic Frobnotzer
# 7) Automatic Scuplture
# 8) Grav. Monopole
# 9) Evil Ballot Stuffer
# 10) JMCL
# 11) PMW
# 12) BV add on
# 13) Gimme Shelter
# 14) Oscar
# 15) Cheez-Whiz (lol)
# 16) Pulse Laser
# 17) Silver Spaceship
# 18) BWG Laser (rotfl)
# 19) Butler
# 20) Book of Chorg (BoA only)
# Malenkai

No. of sides on every die:     19
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 19
> #D 1
> #R 1
> #L 1
> #T Acka: Gigget determination
>
> #C I am using the dice server to determine GF's Gadget
> #C based on the following:
> #C 1) Electronic Potato
> #C 2) Scroll of Crumble
> #C 3) Blue Thing
> #C 4) Whamiol
> #C 5) Vending Machine
> #C 6) Pyraic Frobnotzer
> #C 7) Automatic Scuplture
> #C 8) Grav. Monopole
> #C 9) Evil Ballot Stuffer
> #C 10) JMCL
> #C 11) PMW
> #C 12) BV add on
> #C 13) Gimme Shelter
> #C 14) Oscar
> #C 15) Cheez-Whiz (lol)
> #C 16) Pulse Laser
> #C 17) Silver Spaceship
> #C 18) BWG Laser (rotfl)
> #C 19) Butler
> #C 20) Book of Chorg (BoA only)
> #C
> #C Malenkai

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:26:10 -0400
From: Dice Server <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: SBoC Random OC determination

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# I am using the dice server to determine the random otzma card
# delivered from the spell book of chorg based on the following
# schedule:
# 1 - go fish
# 2 - map shard
# 3 - untouch me
# 4 - share my expenses
# 5 - share my income
# 6 - swinging sale
# 7 - tactical retreat
# 8 - paratroop
# 9 - foul fowl
# 10 - truthseeker
# 11 - fix my gadget
# 12 - scientist for a day
# 13 - art thief
# 14 - skeleton key

No. of sides on every die:     14
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

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> #S 14
> #D 1
> #R 1
> #L 1
> #T Acka: SBoC Random OC determination
>
> #C I am using the dice server to determine the random otzma card
> #C delivered from the spell book of chorg based on the following
> #C schedule:
> #C 1 - go fish
> #C 2 - map shard
> #C 3 - untouch me
> #C 4 - share my expenses
> #C 5 - share my income
> #C 6 - swinging sale
> #C 7 - tactical retreat
> #C 8 - paratroop
> #C 9 - foul fowl
> #C 10 - truthseeker
> #C 11 - fix my gadget
> #C 12 - scientist for a day
> #C 13 - art thief
> #C 14 - skeleton key

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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:54:45 -0400
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: BWG

If I said name a Canadian band with an Icelandic word as a name,
who would you say?

my parka is lost
we can't even think of a word that rhymes
are clues really here?

Malenkai
Expert in Bandwidth-Wasting Gizz

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