Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #123
From: [email-masked] (ackanomic digest)
To: [email-masked]

ackanomic digest       Thursday, April 23 1998       Volume 03 : Number 123

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:00:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka:  Mr. Lunatic Fringe.

> Mount Everest.  Forbidding, aloof, terrifying.
> The mountain with the biggest tits in the world.

Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about
Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about...

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Double:Dou3le
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
Will herd cats for food.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:34:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Musical Recommendations

In keeping with a certain line of Trinkets that have been making their
appearances recently, may I recommend one of the following songs:

Peter Gabriel: Family Snapshot
Was(Not Was): 11 MPH
Godley & Creme: Lonnie

or the one I'm listening to right now,

Christine Lavin: The Sixth Floor

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Christine Lavin:Please Don't Make Me Too Happy
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
'My name is Inigo Montoya.  You stole my .sig quote.  Prepare to die.'

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:57:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2886 accepted

> > I suggest Vulcan give one scroll of crumble, its otzma card go fish, and
> > its silver spaceship to me.
> > 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

I accept all the entities Vulcan gives me.

/dev/joe

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 00:59:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Phoebe

So, I was rumaging about the House of Bits, Discount Junk, and Coffee
looking for that 0-1" tenths reading mic that was here just a minute ago,
when I found a strange matchbox.  Thinking it might be were I put the
screws I need to put the speedometer back together, I opened it  up.  Not
Suprisingly, it did not hold the screws, but Phoebe.  "Phoebe!"  I said,
"How did you get on my workbech?"  "Workbench?  Poor excuse for a
landfill, more likely.  How do get anything done on this?  Besides, I am
in the same place I always am, the Treasury."  "I thought we fixed that
feature of the ruleset?"  "Well, that is not important.  What is important
is that you must tell Acka the true shape of the earth."  

rufus

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:03:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: vacation

I proxy my support to SPAM.

I climb to the top of the Monolith, and announce, with both heads, that
the earth is banna shaped.

I go on vacation, expected duration one week.  

rufus, still looking for that #*%%! mic.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:09:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT Traub <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka Vacation

>I proxy my support to SPAM.
>
>I climb to the top of the Monolith, and announce, with both heads, that
>the earth is banna shaped.
>
>I go on vacation, expected duration one week.  
>
>rufus, still looking for that #*%%! mic.

I am calling a Witchunt against Rufus for the above message which obviously
contradicts the fact that the earth is flat.

- --JT
Huberting Hubert.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:38:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Phoebe

Well, that was quick.  :-)

Now it seems that I have found Phoebe.  (So not only do I have to write
up the P2876 Parade, but Phoebe as well.  Well, of course I can do them
both at once...)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--U2:The Unforgettable Fire
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
Monarchs are acceptable - but I draw the line at rulers.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:41:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Adjustments

In trying to get the Financier's entitylog and the RuneMaker's otzmalog
synched up, I've discovered a few differences.

The most important is that way back in January, The Gingham Wearer
auctioned off eir Otzma Card Untouch Me to Niccolo Flychuck.  As a
result, this card was not buried in Treasure 195, which, since the
destruction of the Chartreuse Goose Egg in it, now consists only of
an Automatic Sculpture.

There's another auction or two I'd missed in there, too, but that was
the only one with repercussions.  The soon-forthcoming PE page should
be more correct.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--U2:The Unforgettable Fire
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:44:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Undead

Archie Leach has decomposed, leaving eir money to the Treasury.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--U2:The Unforgettable Fire
Current Book--Dashiell Hammett:The Glass Key
Butter wouldn't melt on her knife.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:03:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Bring back the Harf!

The time for patience is over!  Let us have an Inquisition of Harfmeister
Illusion, for he is hogging the Harf!

                                 - Vynd

Representing the forces of oppresion and harf, not necessarily in that
order.

[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:40:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka Vacation

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, JT Traub wrote:

> 
> >I proxy my support to SPAM.
> >
> >I climb to the top of the Monolith, and announce, with both heads, that
> >the earth is banna shaped.
> >
> >I go on vacation, expected duration one week.  
> >
> >rufus, still looking for that #*%%! mic.
> 
> I am calling a Witchunt against Rufus for the above message which obviously
> contradicts the fact that the earth is flat.

This witchhunt is null and void.  No-one claimed in these quoted bits that
the earth was round, and no reference to roundness was made.  Therefore no
witchhunt can be called. 

Yours,
Slakko
crusading against illegal witchhunts
I don't like Jerry Springer!
- -- 
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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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:40:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2914

> I don't think any current player has the email address of
> <[email-masked]>.  Actually, that reminds me about
> something; do these voting results and proposal distributions
> actually count?

Hm. I wasn't intending to confuse people.

The rules only require that you register an official email address,
which is put on the mailing list. You are not required to post all
your email from that address. In fact, you can do all of your
Ackanomic business from a completely different address, as long as you
make no attempt to mislead anyone as to your true identity. I don't
think anyone here had any question that mail marked as being "from
nomicbot" was from me. (Besides, if you look at the full email
headers, you can see that the mail was really from me.)

The reason I like putting the nomicbot address on the Promoter's email
is for attributions in people's replies. (You know, "At such-and-such
date Brian Raiter said:" followed by the text of someone else's
proposal.) Also, some people like to use reply to send in their vote
when they see a proposal.

Mohammed had all of his acrobot-generated email marked as being from
"Acrobot", so I thought it was more in keeping with tradition to do
the same.

breadbox

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Coming Home

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> 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"

That's the cheapest replica football shirt I've ever seen!
(Shouldn't it be more like UKP50?)
- -- 
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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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 03:16:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: vacation

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, David Scheidt wrote:

> 
> I proxy my support to SPAM.

I remove my proxy support from SPAM (to avoid one player scamming).

- -- 
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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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:09:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Acka: ground purchase

I purchase the 3 kaa of land described on the map as squares G1, A10 and B10

Pandora

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:09:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Re: Acka: wherever I lay my hat

>Hrm.. Buildings are regulated by the rules and no where does it say that
>two buildings can occupy the same kaa of land.

>The rules
>do not forbid more than one building from occupying the same land, or even
>from overlapping.

So, do I have two buildings or one? I think I have two because, as ThinMan
points out, the Rules don't appear to say I'm not allowed two. Maybe if I'd
tried to build a classy building that would have failed, but I'm not even
convinced about that.

I don't really feel familiar enough with the Rules or Game Custom to make an
accurate assessment of the situation.

Pandora

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:15:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Re: Acka: Sounds good

>I have some principles, I'm afraid, and not having heard the song(what
>album is it from?

It was their first single and also appears on the first eponymously titled album

Pandora

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:17:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Bring back the Harf!

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> 
> The time for patience is over!  Let us have an Inquisition of Harfmeister
> Illusion, for he is hogging the Harf!

You mean Harfmeister IdiotBoy?

I agree.  Fortunately, R1112 seems to allow the above Inquisition no
matter who the Harfmeister is.  It's Count Tabula's turn now.

- -Hubert

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, or insanity to anyone, but they've 
always worked for me. 

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:32:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Vacation

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:

> This witchhunt is null and void.  No-one claimed in these quoted bits that
> the earth was round, and no reference to roundness was made.  Therefore no
> witchhunt can be called. 

Oh, give it a rest.  Allow some good old-fashioned oppression and tyranny
once in a while.  You're just jealous because nobody'll listen to your
Church's drivel about how the Earth is banna-shaped.  Maybe the rest of us
feel bannas are round, huh?

There.  I've run rings around you logically.

(always happy to get another MP reference into a post...)

> Yours,
> Slakko
> crusading against illegal witchhunts
> I don't like Jerry Springer!

I am calling a Politeness Moon Hearing against Slakko on Jerry's behalf.
Count Tabula, get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway.

- -Hubert
Song In My Head: Take a Wild Guess

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, or insanity to anyone, but they've 
always worked for me. 

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:37:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Bring back the Harf!

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> 
> The time for patience is over!  Let us have an Inquisition of Harfmeister
> Illusion, for he is hogging the Harf!
> 
>                                  - Vynd
> 

Listen here, you, it's all MY harf.  I like to roll around in big vats of
it and root around in it for various fungi.

IB
who'll take a look at the queue and see what kinda harf there might be.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 05:41:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Mr. Lunatic Fringe.

On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> 
> > Mount Everest.  Forbidding, aloof, terrifying.
> > The mountain with the biggest tits in the world.
> 
> Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about
> Proust in his first book wrote about, wrote about...

Tarquin Fimtimlimbimwhimbim Bus Stop F'tang F'tang Ole Biscuit-Barrel
. . . (Silly Party) . . . 

- -Hubert, who won't get tired of this, ever

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, or insanity to anyone, but they've 
always worked for me. 

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:09:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 574 (Pandora)

>Pandora has been selected.
>
>Clerk of the Courts
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Call For Judgement 574- April 21, 1998
>Subject: Flatness
>Initiator: Wild Card (sent April 20, 1998, 17:19)
>Judge: Pandora (selected April 22, 1998, 11:15)
>Judgement: 
>
>Statement:
> The earth is not flat.
>
>Initiator's Reasoning:
> It has one hemisphere attatched.

This is quite clearly FALSE, as I am obliged to say, even if I thought
otherwise, and even if the Initiator's Reasoning is sound. Not that I am
suggesting that I would even consider thinking otherwise, or that the
Initiator's Reasoning is sound, or even that it might be.

Pandora

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:13:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Hubert <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Gingham Pile Of Ashes

To All of Acka Whom it May Concern --

I, Hubert, your Witchfinder General twice running, am ecstatic to announce
that, no matter what other bannists may claim, the banna-shaped heretic
TGW has been thouroughly burned by the upstanding and morally righteous
citizens of Ackanomia.  Reduced to eir component atoms.  Vaporized.  If e
weren't in the Afterlife right now, e'd be pushing up the daisies.  E's
rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.  

E is an ex-Gingham Wearer.

Voting was, again, 9-4-1 as follows:

BURN THE WITCH!
Attila the Pun
JT
Koxvolio
Koxvolio's EBS
Rex Mundi
Rex Mundi's EBS
The Gingham Wearer
ThinMan
ThinMan's EBS

No! E said the Earth was flat!
Hubert
rufus
Slakko
Slakko's EBS

BAA!
H*bert

I ask Slakko to, before claiming that this Witchhunt was called invalidly,
consider the fact that e voted in both this and the one on K 2.  Not to
mention that TGW voted to burn emself.

I also note that Slakko's CFJ stating "K 2 is not Enlightened" may be
trivially TRUE; the Speaker hasn't announced eir burning yet, and I
thought that needed to happen before a player was well and truly burned.

- -Hubert

Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. 

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 06:43:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Acka: trinkets ahoy

I create a trinket called 'Mr Ferry's Trouser', worth A$ 2, with the description
'The bearer of this trinket has been prepared to make a fool of emself in the
cause of Truly Great music'. I gift this trinket to JT.

I create a trinket called 'Mr Ferry's Hair', also worth A$ 2 and with the same
description, which I gift to Fortunato.

I create another trinket called 'Mr Eno's Potato Head', once again worth A$ 2
and with an uncannily similar description, which I gift to Atilla the Pun.

I create a further trinket called 'The Gods of Lame' worth a staggering A$ 10
and with the description 'The bearer of this trinket has danced naked on the
Town Hall steps (though it may be a crime) in the cause of Truly Great music'.
I gift this trinket to Hubert.

I create a final trinket called 'Remake/Remodel', worth A$ 2 and with the
description 'Even though e was too late, e entered into the spirit'. I gift
this trinket to H*bert.

I gift A$ 2 to Koxvolio, even though e was also too late.

Pandora

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 07:36:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Burn me, I dare you!

The Earth is banna shaped, not round.
- -- 
Duncan C. "The Turtle Moves, nyahhhh" 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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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:32:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: She just ain't gunna sing

I return to my house and shut the black plastic.

K 2

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:56:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: AARON KEESLER <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Application

I also approve of this.  I think to myself, "Woo!  Cash!"

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Gavin M. Doig [SMTP:[email-masked]]
>Sent:	Wednesday, April 22, 1998 8:03 PM
>To:	[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.
>

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:07:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gavin M. Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: a question

>(the guess was 'the blooms smell heavenly')
>
>--JT

Wrong.

Rex Mundi.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:20:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2886 accepted

I accept all the entities that Vulcan gives me.

ThinMan

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:21:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel Ricker" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Sounds good

> While this song remains on the Jukebox, any Player who publicly announces "I
> just can't help dancing to that Truly Great song" and makes a fool of emself by
> dancing uncontrollably in a named common location shall be gifted a trinket
> created by me with a guaranteed minimum value of A$ 2.

(I'm already in a common location, the library)

Joe Java says, "I just can't help dancing to that Truly Great song."
E dances uncontrollably (something more akin to a seizure).

- -- JJ

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

     Joel Ricker [] [email-masked] [] ICQ# 6244364
       Check out the link below for the conclusion of ImpNom28
         http://www.Geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/1047/

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:36:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel Ricker" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: This subject is in violation of Rule 101.

For all those who are into self descriptive sentences and the like, 
ran into a Hofstader fan with the license plate that read:

NOPLATE#

- -- JoeJava
like to share.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

     Joel Ricker [] [email-masked] [] ICQ# 6244364
       Check out the link below for the conclusion of ImpNom28
         http://www.Geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/1047/

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:39:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re: Acka: wherever I lay my hat

Pandora wrote:
[I wrote:]
>>The rules
>>do not forbid more than one building from occupying the same land, or even
>>from overlapping.
>
>So, do I have two buildings or one? I think I have two because, as ThinMan
>points out, the Rules don't appear to say I'm not allowed two. Maybe if I'd
>tried to build a classy building that would have failed, but I'm not even
>convinced about that.
>
>I don't really feel familiar enough with the Rules or Game Custom to make an
>accurate assessment of the situation.

I would say that you have two.

ThinMan

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:39:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka Vacation

On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, JT Traub wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >I proxy my support to SPAM.
> > >
> > >I climb to the top of the Monolith, and announce, with both heads, that
> > >the earth is banna shaped.
> > >
> > >I go on vacation, expected duration one week.  
> > >
> > >rufus, still looking for that #*%%! mic.
> > 
> > I am calling a Witchunt against Rufus for the above message which obviously
> > contradicts the fact that the earth is flat.
> 
> This witchhunt is null and void.  No-one claimed in these quoted bits that
> the earth was round, and no reference to roundness was made.  Therefore no
> witchhunt can be called. 
> 

Is this strictly true?  Ok I admit the Witchhunt thing is annoying.. which
is a Crime in and of itself.  

However someone may interpret me saying "The sun rises in the morning." as
implying that the earth is round.. and they may well be correct.  The
purpose of the Hearing is to decide the facts of the matter.

IB
but then, I'm an idiot.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:42:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re: Acka: Vacation

>I am calling a Politeness Moon Hearing against Slakko on Jerry's behalf.
>Count Tabula, get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway.

Lookin' for adventure, in whatever comes your way.

>Song In My Head: Take a Wild Guess

And now in mine, too, darn it!

ThinMan
Does anyone else associate that song with "Fandango"?
Has anyone else seen "Fandango"?

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:55:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Re: Acka: Sounds good

>Joe Java says, "I just can't help dancing to that Truly Great song."
>E dances uncontrollably (something more akin to a seizure).

You didn't make a fool of yourself though (well, I suppose that's debatable),
and the record has changed anyway, so no trinket.

Pandora

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 10:59:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Harf Pint.

Ok, ok, so maybe I came to love the power and prestige (and
chyks!) associated with being Harfmiester.  Maybe I was trying to add a
bit of suspense to my selections of Harfy proposals.  I certainly didn't
just not realize that I was Harfmiester.

Finding the nearest phone booth in which I may assume my Secret Identity,
I am become Harfmiester, Master of the Proposal Queue, Defender of Harf in
All Its Forms.

Doing some designating:

I designate P2888 as Harfy.  (If it is within my powers, I also designate
it Nearly Incomprehensible.)

I further designate P2892 as Harfy.  (A big shout out to my main man,
Vynd. [(This is not the Inquisition I seek.) "This is not the Inquisition
I seek."]

Just for the Sake of the Harf:  let's make P2911 Harfy, as well.

I don my glasses and am once more-
IB

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:24:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel Ricker" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Sounds good

> >Joe Java says, "I just can't help dancing to that Truly Great song."
> >E dances uncontrollably (something more akin to a seizure).
> 
> You didn't make a fool of yourself though (well, I suppose that's debatable),
> and the record has changed anyway, so no trinket.

Didn't say the record had to be playing... 

Ah well, guess thats what I get for not being up at 3am..

- -- Joe Java

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

     Joel Ricker [] [email-masked] [] ICQ# 6244364
       Check out the link below for the conclusion of ImpNom28
         http://www.Geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/1047/

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:40:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: A new web page from your Tabulator

There's something coming.

There's a new car on the horizon.

It's coming very slowly.
It makes a noise.

It has kittens painted all over it.
With a new kind of fur.
Cleaner ... but with a unique smell.

(Actually, forget the intro.)

Anyway, what I'm here to tell you is this: There's a new web page on
muppetlabs. It provides a new way of seeing your current votes.

Since it provides access to private information, it requires
authentication. So, in order to be granted access, you must first go
to http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/acka/register.html and enter
your Ackanomic name. You will be registered with a randomly generated
password, which will be emailed to your official address. Once you
receive this email, you can then use this password to visit
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/acka/tabulator/ and, from there,
you can see your current voting status at any time. Handy, no?

A lot of this stuff is new, so if it doesn't work right, don't panic.
Just send me email and let me know what happened.

By the way, I've also written a new nomicbot manual, not quite as
terse as the last one, and marked it up. You can find it at
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/acka/nomicbothelp.html. I would
encourage the Registrar to give this URL to every new voting player
when they register. (In my time as Tabulator, I've noticed that a lot
of new players will cast their first votes and/or submit their first
proposal before their mentor has a chance to show them how to use the
nomicbot.)

While I'm on the subject, I'd like to take this opportunity to let
everyone know that, yes, the nomicbot does recognize the new "BAA!"
vote, and yes, it can be abbreviated as "B" (or "b", naturally).

breadbox

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
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...)

I'm pretty sure that that's not possible, if I remember correctly. I'm sure I
can live without playing it anyway, but I thought I should probably point it
out.

TGW.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Adjustments

> The most important is that way back in January, The Gingham Wearer
> auctioned off eir Otzma Card Untouch Me to Niccolo Flychuck.  As a
> result, this card was not buried in Treasure 195, which, since the
> destruction of the Chartreuse Goose Egg in it, now consists only of
> an Automatic Sculpture.

I'm almost certain that this is wrong. I think I had 2, auctioned off one and
then buried the other. I don't have time to go through the archives at the
moment but I'm almost certain this is the case.

TGW, almost certainly. :-)

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2914

> > I don't think any current player has the email address of
> > <[email-masked]>.  Actually, that reminds me about
> > something; do these voting results and proposal distributions
> > actually count?
> 
> Hm. I wasn't intending to confuse people.
> 
> The rules only require that you register an official email address,
> which is put on the mailing list. You are not required to post all
> your email from that address. In fact, you can do all of your
> Ackanomic business from a completely different address, as long as you
> make no attempt to mislead anyone as to your true identity. I don't
> think anyone here had any question that mail marked as being "from
> nomicbot" was from me. (Besides, if you look at the full email
> headers, you can see that the mail was really from me.)
> 
> The reason I like putting the nomicbot address on the Promoter's email
> is for attributions in people's replies. (You know, "At such-and-such
> date Brian Raiter said:" followed by the text of someone else's
> proposal.) Also, some people like to use reply to send in their vote
> when they see a proposal.
> 
> Mohammed had all of his acrobot-generated email marked as being from
> "Acrobot", so I thought it was more in keeping with tradition to do
> the same.

If that's what the rules say then great, I have no problem with it. I just
thought I'd best bring it up in case someone waited a week or so and then
submitted a CFJ saying that they were all illegally distributed. That could
really be nasty.

TGW.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Coming 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"
> 
> That's the cheapest replica football shirt I've ever seen!
> (Shouldn't it be more like UKP50?)

The exchange rate is A$5 in a UKP.

TGW.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Bring back the Harf!

> > The time for patience is over!  Let us have an Inquisition of Harfmeister
> > Illusion, for he is hogging the Harf!
> 
> You mean Harfmeister IdiotBoy?
> 
> I agree.  Fortunately, R1112 seems to allow the above Inquisition no
> matter who the Harfmeister is.  It's Count Tabula's turn now.

I can't recall the exact response so I will accept these two (in addition to
the correct ones).
"He's hogging the harf"
He isn't hogging the harf".

Reply to vote.

TGW, Count Tabula.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Vacation

> I am calling a Politeness Moon Hearing against Slakko on Jerry's behalf.
> Count Tabula, get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway.

Sheesh, are you trying to break my back?

I don't exactly recall the responses but I think these might be correct:

"Yes it was polite"
"No it was not polite".

TGW, Count Tabula.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 161 (K 2)

K 2 has been selected.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Criminal Judgment 161 (April 23)
Subject: Exhibitionism
Initiator: JT  (sent April 22, 1998, 18:05)
Judge: K 2 (selected April 23, 1998, 12:46)
Judgement: 

Statement;
  Hubert committed the crime of Rampant Exhibitionism on Apr 22.

Initiator's Reasoning:
  I now quote from the message titled 'Re: Acka: Sounds Good' authored
by Hubert on Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:25 Acka time.

>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.

It is not the second Tuesday of the month, and furthermore he was Naked.
The first is sufficient for the crime to have been committed.

Suggested Penalty:
  Post the full lyrics to Virginia Plain.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 57

JT has been selected.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 576- April 23, 1998
Subject: Evil
Initiator: K 2 (sent April 22, 1998, 22:57)
Judge: JT (selected April 23, 1998, 12:57)
Judgement: 

Statement:
Slakko owns a trinket called Evil.

Initiator's Reasoning:
Actually I believe Slakko doesn't own the trinket called evil (I just
wanted to be positive).

Prior to 2nd April K 2 was in possession of a trinket called evil.

On Thu, 02 Apr 1998 09:42:09 K 2 posted:
...
In other news:
I destroy the town hall steps and naked for cash, apologizing to the art

and antiquities communities as I do so.
I gift evil to Hoover 2300 and don the Chartreuse Cape.
...

Thus "Evil" was transferred to Hoover 2300. This was a legal action, the
fact that this was erroneously reported does not change the fact that it
occurred.

Hoover 2300's two subsequent messages (dated Thu, 02 Apr 12:58:27 and
18:21:48) did not transfer any entities (tho e did create a trinket in
the second) thus evil remained in eir possession.

On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:10:07 K 2 posted:
I gift evil to Slakko <sigh>

Since at that time K 2 was not in possession of any gift entity called
evil this action failed (as it was impossible).

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 162 (TGW)

I have been selected.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Criminal Judgment 162 (April 23)
Subject: Exhibitionism 2
Initiator: K 2  (sent April 22, 1998, 22:57)
Judge: The Gingham Wearer (selected April 23, 1998, 12:50)
Judgement: 

Statement:
Hubert committed the Crime of Illegal Action on 22nd April 1998.

Initiator's Reasoning:
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:20:00 Hubert posted:
....
I dance on the Town Hall Steps.  Naked.
....

Rule 842 states:
At all times it is illegal to dance naked on the Town Hall Steps.

Of course this brings up the question of what exactly naked is in
ackanomic. Is it the fact that one is not wearing a rule defined
garment? Or simply that one describes oneself as being naked? Either way
Hubert was naked.

Suggested penalty:
Transference of a Wool sweater from the treasury to Hubert to cover eir
nakedness.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFCJ 163 (Joe Java)

Joe Java has been selected.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Criminal Judgment 163 (April 23)
Subject: Exhibitionism 3
Initiator: K 2  (sent April 22, 1998, 22:57)
Judge: Joe Java (selected April 23, 1998, 12:52)
Judgement: 

Statement:
Hubert committed the Crime of Rampant Exhibitionism on 22nd April 1998.

Initiator's Reasoning:
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:20:00 Hubert posted:
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.

This was a crime according to rule 842 as:
i) it was not the second Tuesday of a month
ii) e did not pay $A2 to breadbox (The First Citizen)
iii) the dance was not described in verse.

rule 842 states:
Failure to comply to these requirements constitutes the crime of Rampant
Exhibitionism.

The offender should be burned as a witch, eir ashes scattered across the
entire banna shaped earth and eir land sown with salt.

Suggested Penalty:
A 22 line apology. (preferably in verse approved by both the poet
laureate and the first citizen)

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 574 (FALSE)

This has been judged FALSE.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 574- April 21, 1998
Subject: Flatness
Initiator: Wild Card (sent April 20, 1998, 17:19)
Judge: Pandora (selected April 22, 1998, 11:15)
Judgement: FALSE

Statement:
 The earth is not flat.

Initiator's Reasoning:
 It has one hemisphere attatched.

Judge's Reasoning:
This is quite clearly FALSE, as I am obliged to say, even if I thought
otherwise, and even if the Initiator's Reasoning is sound. Not that I am
suggesting that I would even consider thinking otherwise, or that the
Initiator's Reasoning is sound, or even that it might be.

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 572 (TRUE)

Joe Java has judged TRUE without reasoning.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 572- April 18, 1998
Subject: Winning (again)
Initiator: K 2 (sent April 18, 1998, 05:57)
Judge: Ayla (declined)
Second Judge: Joe Java (selected April 18, 1998, 16:35)
Judgement: TRUE

Statement:
K 2 has achieved a Winning Condition within the past 7 days.

K 2's Reasoning:
K 2 submitted the target "else...if" and the target word "excellent" to
Slakko, as President, for the List of Harf.  This message arrived at
Slakko's inbox at 23:52 BST on the 17th of April, equivalent to 18:52 Acka
time on that day.

Later that day else...if did post a message including the word
"excellent".  K 2 claimed his winter cap.  Notwithstanding Slakko's first
message, which claimed to make K 2 wear sandals, the target word
"excellent" was in the else...if message, and hence K 2 earned half of
else...if's score, 101 points.

This took K 2's score to at least 363, whereas the Magic Number was 347.
At that time no other player had a score in excess of 347, so K 2 achieved
the points winning condition.

Judge's Reasoning:
[None]

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:00:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Vacation

> > I am calling a Politeness Moon Hearing against Slakko on Jerry's behalf.
> > Count Tabula, get your motor runnin' and head out on the highway.
> 
> Sheesh, are you trying to break my back?
> 
> I don't exactly recall the responses but I think these might be correct:
> 
> "Yes it was polite"
> "No it was not polite".
> 
> TGW, Count Tabula.

To try to stop an outbreak of snowgod's disease I'm now posting this to
acka-priv. Please reply to this message to vote and not the last one.

TGW.

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