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ackanomic digest       Wednesday, April 22 1998       Volume 03 : Number 122

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:05:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Mr. Lunatic Fringe.

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Hubert wrote:
> 
> Jeez!  I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!

No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our main weapon is surprise,
surprise and fear - Two, two main weapons, are surprise, fear and a
ruthless efficiency - Three, three main weapons, are surprise, fear, a
ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical dedication to the Pope
etc.
etc.

- -- 
Duncan C. "with only a cup of tea at eleven" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - President, Web-Harfer, RuneMaker, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer
- --
P.S. I'm a fully paid up member of the Spanish Inquisition I am.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:22:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Mr. Lunatic Fringe.

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Hubert wrote:
> > 
> > Jeez!  I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!
> 
> No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our main weapon is surprise,
> surprise and fear - Two, two main weapons, are surprise, fear and a
> ruthless efficiency - Three, three main weapons, are surprise, fear, a
> ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical dedication to the Pope

... And nice red uniforms -- Oh, damn.  Look, I'll come in again.

- -Hubert
Where's Bruce?

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:33:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: wherever I lay my hat

> Er, Rule 1129, or words to that effect.
> 
> In other words I'm complaining so I don't lose any money. I know it's
> not really a penalty I'm complaining about, but it doesn't specify in Rule
1129
> that it has to be.

First off, have you guys no imagination!? I mean, mine weren't exactly
fantastic but compared to this... I'm not even sure if this would count with
it being so vague and everything.

Secondly game custom dictates that it does have to be a penalty for you to
get your money back so I don't think you're in luck. See CFJ 481 for more on
this from back when I was a new player, or according to Malenkai's reasoning
therein CFJs 329 and 330. This is something that apparently comes up quite
often; anyone think that this should be clarified?

TGW.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:49:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Coming Home

I am going to the library.

And inside the jukebox roars like thunder.
I wish to play "Three Lions" by Badiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds.
I place A$5 in the banna shaped slot.

I then return to my home.

Then, just for the heck of it I create a trinket called "Replica football
shirt" worth A$10 and with a description as follows:

"It is a replica England football strip (and I'm not going to say soccer even
if most of Acka are Americans :-)) and is therefore white with bits of navy.
It has three lions on the shirt"

TGW, who would say that eir country stood the greatest chance of all those
represented in Acka of winning the World Cup this Summer had Ayla not joined
us recently. :-)

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 18:52:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Nominations and Selection

> The following players nominated for the Optional Functional Office of
> Nyarlathotep:
> 
> Slakko
> JT
> The Gingham Wearer
> Vynd
> ThinMan
> Wild Card
> /dev/joe
> 
> This is a really tough choice.  As President, I appoint
> Wild Card
> to the Office of Nyarlathotep.

What?!? I was much better suited for this important office! How dare you! :-)
This is clearly further evidence of Slakko abusing eir position by picking a
member of eir own political party above 5 much better qualified candidates
:-).

TGW, not too tired to have a dig at Slakko :-).

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:34:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Sounds good

> I can't resist.  

> I go to the Town Hall, a Common Location.

> I just can't help dancing to that Truly Great song.

> I dance on the Town Hall Steps.  Naked.  Uncontrollably, and making even
> more of a complete fool of myself than is usual.

Damn!  Huberted by Hubert!  Well, then...

I have some principles, I'm afraid, and not having heard the song(what
album is it from?  I suppose I should find that out when I research it
for the vaporware Deejay Page), even for such petty bribery I won't
pretend that I can't help dancing to it.  (Now if it were "Thela Hun
Ginjeet" by King Crimson...)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--King Crimson:Thela Hun Ginjeet
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
Klingons and Barney.  Lace and Velcro.  It's a bad idea.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 20:11:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ian K." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Application

I apply to join the Moral Kiosk.

Conditional on acceptance, I gift my Otzma Card 'Share your Income' and
one of my 'Plunky Monkey Wrench's to Rex Mundi.

Koxvolio

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:02:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gavin M. Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Application

>I apply to join the Moral Kiosk.
>

With apologies to those others who applied, I suggest that Koxvolio be
admitted to The Moral Kiosk, and I approve of this.

>Conditional on acceptance, I gift my Otzma Card 'Share your Income' and
>one of my 'Plunky Monkey Wrench's to Rex Mundi.
>
I accept these transfers, and gift 50 A$ to Fortunato.

Rex Mundi.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:32:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: wherever I lay my hat

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> > Er, Rule 1129, or words to that effect.
> > 
> > In other words I'm complaining so I don't lose any money. I know it's
> > not really a penalty I'm complaining about, but it doesn't specify in Rule
> 1129
> > that it has to be.
> 
> First off, have you guys no imagination!? I mean, mine weren't exactly
> fantastic but compared to this... I'm not even sure if this would count with
> it being so vague and everything.

As a Crazy French Scotsman, I must protest as well!  This complaint is so
weak, so poorly phrased, so obviously not from the heart, as to be a
travesty!  An afront to all that is good!  I am an open minded man, as we
all know, but something like this indicates beyond any shadow of a doubt
that Pandora has been infested with foul demons.  Perhaps even taken over
by the Orange Menace!  And yet only The Gingam Wearer dares to speak out?
Truly Acka has sunk low, even lower than those dark days when I joined the
game and a Demon King held dominion over the mailing lists!

I demand that Pandora's, if that is eir real name, Pandora's money not be
returned!  Justices demands no less!  In fact, I think that the money
should be transfered to me.  I demand redress for the many penalties that
have been imposed on me in the year I have been in Acka.  To have been
given so much, only to have it slowly chipped away at by the Rules.
Faugh, what are the Rules when one is in the Right?  Rise up, citizens of
Acka, and return to me what is mine!  You have nothing to lose but your
chains!

                        - Vynd, Crazy French Scotsman

[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:43:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2886 accepted

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> > 16/18 YES votes: Proposal accepted
> 
> Thank you, citizens of Ackanomic.
> 
> > > Proposal 2886 - Tue 14 Apr 1998 19:46 EDT
> > > Enough Bickering
> > > /dev/joe (Joseph DeVincentis)
> > > 
> > > Amend R1009 by changing "Theu may not own any other type of Entity." to "A
> > > Political Party may not offer or accept trades in which it would recieve
> > > any other kind of entity, but may trade away anything it owns."
> 
> I suggest Vulcan give one scroll of crumble, its otzma card go fish, and
> its silver spaceship to me.
> 
> I suggest Vulcan give its other scroll of crumble, gravitational monopole,
> spell book of chorg, and all its other otzma cards to Vynd.
> 
> I suggest Vulcan give its vending machine, pulse laser, and swingpoint
> to ThinMan.
> 
> I approve these 3 suggestions.
> 
> /dev/joe
> 

I also approve of these three actions.  I believe ThinMan has proxied his
support, so they occur.  I accept all the entities that Vulcan gives me.

                                 - Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:48:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Bury

> You do realise of course that this treasure is grossly unfair on me else...if
> and Attila the Pun. To enter the competition you need to be 18 years old.

I hadn't even considered that before.  :-/  Maybe you can convince someone
who is of age to let you play as them.  :-)

(Is it not even possible to enter with no chance of winning?  I'm not a
U.S. citizen so I can't complete for prizes, but I'm playing for the fun
of it anyway...)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Bryan Ferry:The Bride Stripped Bare
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
I lost my lucky ball & chain; now she's four years gone.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Potato

> I'd suggest changing "only" to "not".

And this one is the winner.  Good one, TGW.

I am using my power as Beldin's Tailor to amend Rule 940 by changing
"only" to "not".

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Bryan Ferry:The Bride Stripped Bare
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
I drink blood because it's the only life I have.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:22:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Phoebe

rufus has found Phoebe's matchbox.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Queensryche:Empire
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards--it makes them soggy and hard to light.

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 22:49:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: a question

On Sunday Apr 19 I submitted a guess at the Flora Amanita treasure, but this
guess was never publically recognized or commented as being correct or
incorrect.  Could the treasure owner please comment :)

(the guess was 'the blooms smell heavenly')

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 23:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Mmm Hmm Good

I chew the gumball. Much of the Iced Coffee flavour from earlier in the day
has been leached out, leaving the gumball tasting somewhat like dirty dish
water. I pick up the discarded wrapper and place it in the nearest rubbish bin
;)

Duncan Richer wrote:

> Today is Wednesday, the 22nd Day of April, the fourth Wednesday in the
> month, and I am chewing the Gumball.  I am happy to note that the aberrant
> images of the Spice Girls apparently present on the wrapper when the
> Gumball was last chewed have now disappeared.  The Gumball instead has a
> tesselation of fleas, designed to look very similar to the Escher lizards
> tesselation.  The fleas alternately look like Ursula and Phoebe, with the
> odd aperiodic appearance of Chet.  It is actually a Penrose tiling, which
> is curved so as to have an apparently infinite number of tiles on the very
> small finite space which is the Gumball wrapper.
>
> And the Gumball itself?  This week it is Iced Coffee flavour, and it
> tastes as if someone managed to fit a whole truckload of Iced Coffee into
> just one little Gumball.
>
> Yours,
> Slakko
> --
> Duncan C. "" Richer aka
> Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
> Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
> Acka - President, Web-Harfer, RuneMaker, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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