Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #139
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ackanomic digest         Tuesday, May 5 1998         Volume 03 : Number 139

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 17:42:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Ubi Sunt

Does anyone know what happened to Proposal 2948?  Or 2990, for that
matter.  Both seem to have disappeared, and I don't remember a notice
being made (as there was for 2962) that no such Proposal existed, or that
they were retracted.  I could, again, be on crack ("I'm trying desperately
to remember which drug I've taken, but it must have been one of those that
make you forget") but I just wanted to make sure.

- -Hubert

I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy. 

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 17:46:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Whatever happened to P2948?

Whatever did happen to it breadbox? I didn't retract it and you are yet to
distribute the voting results for it? Any particular reason for this or is it
just one of those errors that inevitably creeps in whenever something is as
complex as Acka?

TGW, one proposal short of a silver stripe :-).

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 17:55:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Treasure

On Tue, 5 May 1998, K2 wrote:

> Take Possession of the Little Lamb.
> Chew the Gumball.
> Have all members vote in the same manner on (10-size) proposals.
> Recite Poetry.
> Dance on the Town Hall Steps.
> Bury a Treasure (worth at least A$50).
> Play a song on the ASS.

I proxy my support to the Razor Boomerangs.  This makes exactly half of
the members with proxied votes.  I pay A$10 to take possession of the
Little Lamb.  I give the Little Lamb to the Razor Boomerangs.  (oopsie!)

I suggest the Razor Boomerangs play the song "Coming Back to You" (a
suitably Boomerangy theme) by Leonard Cohen (a suitably awesome artist) on
the Ackanomic Sound System.

Also, I note (to the Org-Harfer K 2) that the Boomerangs revoked their
open membership policy after JT and Joe Java joined.  

- -Hubert

I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy. 

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:00:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2987

>> Proposal 2987
>> Don't feed the animals
>> else...if (Henry Towsner)

>the people responding to it. Being diagnosed with snowgod's disease isn't all
>that serious anyway, especially compared with a crime. I know I don't want to
	Oh, right.  I retract proposal 2987

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Success is the child of audacity.
		-Benjamin Disraeli

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:04:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ubi Sunt

> Does anyone know what happened to Proposal 2948?  Or 2990, for that
> matter.  Both seem to have disappeared, and I don't remember a
> notice being made (as there was for 2962) that no such Proposal
> existed, or that they were retracted.  I could, again, be on crack
> ("I'm trying desperately to remember which drug I've taken, but it
> must have been one of those that make you forget") but I just wanted
> to make sure.

Proposal 2990 is marked as having been retracted - check the web page
of current proposals.

As for what happened to 2948 ... I haven't the faintest idea what
happened there. I'll get it out ASAP.

breadbox

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:18:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Hall <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 580 (TRUE)

> Call For Judgement 580- May 03, 1998
> Judgement: TRUE
 
> Statement:

> Proposal 2936 was never declared invalid and removed from voting
> consideration, and nor was it retracted.

I am appealing this verdict.

saaremaa

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:33:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Old Fashioned Burning

Rule 670 says, in section 4:

4) If the Commission fails to produce the report within the constraints of
this rule, or if the Commission has not produced the report within 4
days since it was called, then after a 4 day grace period (to allow the
members of the Commission to dwell on what they have done) every
member of the Commission will be burned as a witch and have their score
reduced by 2 points. 

The Commission took more than 4 days after the end of the last Cycle to
produce the report.  In fact, it took at least 5 days.  Therefore, after a
4 day grace period (i.e. 8 days after the end of the last cycle) every
member of the Commission, i.e. every Senator, was burned as a witch and
had eir score reduced by 2 points.  However, seeing as the report was
still issued legally, voting shall continue on the Silver Moon.

I would also note that /dev/joe and the other Vulcan Senator, when burnt,
both had eir Spell Books of Chorg destroyed.  What a pity :-).
The burning took place at approx 1:16pm Acka time today.

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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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:40:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 162 (TRUE)

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> Alfvaen has judged this TRUE.
> 
> 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 (deadbeat)
> Second Judge: Alfvaen (selected April 30, 1998, 17:34)
> Judgement: TRUE
> 
> Statement:
> Hubert committed the Crime of Illegal Action on 22nd April 1998.

I am appealing this CFJ with reasoning as is set out in the next two
paragraphs:

Firstly, the CFCJ was on the matter of the Crime of Illegal Action (i.e.,
performing an action that is specified by the Rules to be illegal).  The
judge's reasoning showed how I had performed the Crime of Rampant
Exhibitionism, for which I have already been convicted.  Rule 710 says
that a CFCJ shall be judged TRUE if the Crime Y [Illegal Action] was
committed by player X [yours truly] on date Z [22nd April 1998].
Therefore, Alfvaen's reasoning is moot and belongs in CFCJ 161 or 163.  (I
might add that the double jeopardy clause (section 10) of R710 does not
prevent me from being tried for Rampant Exhibitionism twice now that I
look at it more closely; it prevents a player from being tried twice for
the same instance of "allegedly breaking the Rules," which is, of course,
Blatant Disregard.)

Next, I shall attempt to show that I did not, in fact, commit the Crime of
Illegal Action.  Rule 842 states "At all times it is illegal to dance
naked on the Town Hall Steps." [ The second clause, "For the purposes of
this rule a player is considered to be naked if e is not wearing a rule
defined garment," was not in effect on 22 April 1998. ]  The Rules did not
define nakedness, and it could be construed that the sentence fragment
"Naked." after I stated I was dancing on the Town Hall steps did not make
me so, but that is not the thrust of my reasoning.  At the time of the
creation of Rule 842 there existed a Trinket called "naked".  Since this
Trinket existed before Rule 842 was created, I would argue that Rule 842
refers to dancing this Trinket (a kind of puppet, which indeed refers to
itself being danceable) on the Town Hall steps.  In which case, it
probably exploded.  Anyway, since I did not come near that Trinket
(really!  It was the one-armed man!) I could not have danced naked on the
Town Hall steps.  Thank you, and good night.

- -Hubert

I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:49:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Church Action

I approve. All active non-vacationing members have approved. It happens.
Welcome to Metamorph.

Frank Schmidt wrote:

> > >The Church of the Good Ballot Stuffer joins Metamorph.
>
> This is hereby approved by me.J. M. Bear

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Second Call for Diplomacy.

 This is to remind people that I am currently trying to start a game of
GUNBOAT (i.e. not knowing who the other players are) nopress H31
diplomacy.

 Please contact me for any further details...

 H*bert.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:22:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Second Call for Diplomacy.

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:

>  This is to remind people that I am currently trying to start a game of
> GUNBOAT (i.e. not knowing who the other players are) nopress H31
> diplomacy.
> 
>  Please contact me for any further details...
> 
 There is one place available, BTW.

 H*bert.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:30:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ.

I decline the CFJ which was assigned to me earlier this week.

IB
(lost the CFJ in the great mail purge)

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:41:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Old Fashioned Burning

Slakko wrote:
> Rule 670 says, in section 4:
> 
> 4) If the Commission fails to produce the report within the constraints of
> this rule, or if the Commission has not produced the report within 4
> days since it was called, then after a 4 day grace period (to allow the
> members of the Commission to dwell on what they have done) every
> member of the Commission will be burned as a witch and have their score
> reduced by 2 points. 
> 
> The Commission took more than 4 days after the end of the last Cycle to
> produce the report.  In fact, it took at least 5 days.  Therefore, after a
> 4 day grace period (i.e. 8 days after the end of the last cycle) every
> member of the Commission, i.e. every Senator, was burned as a witch and
> had eir score reduced by 2 points. 

However, the commission was never "called" at all, it only "began session".
See section 1 of the rule.

/dev/joe

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:41:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 162 (TRUE)

>

Nope, I destroyed that trinket before the rule was created (I didn't want to
be annoying)

See CFJ 576:

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.

> At the time of the
> creation of Rule 842 there existed a Trinket called "naked".  Since this
> Trinket existed before Rule 842 was created, I would argue that Rule 842
> refers to dancing this Trinket (a kind of puppet, which indeed refers to
> itself being danceable) on the Town Hall steps.  In which case, it
> probably exploded.  Anyway, since I did not come near that Trinket
> (really!  It was the one-armed man!) I could not have danced naked on the
> Town Hall steps.  Thank you, and good night.
>
> -Hubert
>
> I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 20:44:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Old Fashioned Burning

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> Slakko wrote:
> > Rule 670 says, in section 4:
> > 
> > 4) If the Commission fails to produce the report within the constraints of
> > this rule, or if the Commission has not produced the report within 4
> > days since it was called, then after a 4 day grace period (to allow the
> > members of the Commission to dwell on what they have done) every
> > member of the Commission will be burned as a witch and have their score
> > reduced by 2 points. 
> > 
> > The Commission took more than 4 days after the end of the last Cycle to
> > produce the report.  In fact, it took at least 5 days.  Therefore, after a
> > 4 day grace period (i.e. 8 days after the end of the last cycle) every
> > member of the Commission, i.e. every Senator, was burned as a witch and
> > had eir score reduced by 2 points. 
> 
> However, the commission was never "called" at all, it only "began session".
> See section 1 of the rule.
> 
 I call the commission burnt.

 H*bert.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 21:12:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 162 (TRUE)

On Tue, 5 May 1998, K2 wrote:

> Nope, I destroyed that trinket before the rule was created (I didn't want to
> be annoying)
> 
> In other news:
> I destroy the town hall steps and naked for cash, apologizing to the art
> and antiquities communities as I do so.

My apologies, then.  (You still have them on the P/E page, which is what
I was going by.  I thought you'd destroyed them, but was happy to find
out I was wrong.)  I hope the Supreme Court is merciless in penalizing me
for this frivolous appeal.  Of course, the first half of my reasoning
could still hold.  (let us pray...) :-)

If it was illegal, then it was only one Crime short of satisfying
/dev/joe's "three Crimes in a single Action" Agenda condition.  I could
perhaps have gotten a Blatant Disregard out of it, too...

- -Hubert

Is it OK to yell "MOVIE!" in a crowded firehouse? 

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 21:43:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 580 (TRUE)

>> Call For Judgement 580- May 03, 1998
>> Judgement: TRUE
>  
>> Statement:
> 
>> Proposal 2936 was never declared invalid and removed from voting
>> consideration, and nor was it retracted.
> 
> I am appealing this verdict.
> 
> saaremaa

Although the CotC hasn't said anything yet, I presume this appeal will
go to ThinMan and myself, since we just recently returned all of our
pending cases.

If this is in fact the case, then I am hereby declining to judge this
appeal.

breadbox

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:10:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Frink Hearing Results

And so the preterit of "frink" is declared to be "frank", by a wide margin.

  frank: 10 votes, 6 by players
JT
JT's EBS
Rex Mundi
Rex Mundi's EBS
Ayla
Ayla's EBS
/dev/joe
The Gingham Wearer
ThinMan
ThinMan's EBS

  knirf: 6 votes, 5 by players
Hubert
Vynd
Vynd's EBS
rufus
K 2
H*bert

  frought: 4 votes, 3 by players
Attila the Pun
else...if
else...if's EBS
J. M. Bear

  frinked: polled no votes at all.  Not a sausage.  Bugger all.

So the results were not unduly affected by Evil Ballot Stuffers.

Also suggested(though not needed since the results were clear):
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (Hubert)
spank (IdiotBoy)
frunk (/dev/joe, Slakko)
fuzzled (K 2)

Slakko's Evil Ballot Stuffer also attempted to endorse frunk.  I almost
added it to the original list, but decided it was more of a past
participial thing.

So "frank" is added to the Ackanomic Lexicon(rather redundant since it is
already in the Official Dictionary, but oh well), and Rule 1199 is repealed.

And now I can talk about the Right-Handed Grapefruit Juice I frank from
Malenkai's Vase.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--They Might Be Giants:Then
Current Book--Barb Galler-Smith & Josh Langston:Druids
I've got a fistful of Bufo and I'm not singing The Happy Song...

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:20:48 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Acka: SBoC Random OC determination

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:22:53 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 22:47:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Reading the Ackanomicon

As I sat contemplating the great and hideous tome before me, I knew a
sense of unknowable dread.  Only once before had I read from this tome of
ancient wisdom, and it had directed me, mindless and zombielike, to
deliver funds to Round Earth Restoration Society so that the disaster that
was coming would come even sooner.

With a quiver in my heart and tremble in my fingers, I quickly flip the
pages of the book open to a random point and begin to read slowly to
myself.

So vivid is the imagry of the text that I find myself drawn into the book
and then out again, looking over a lush jungle full of red trees bearing
yellowish-brown fruit.

As I stare in amazment, I am surrounding by foot tall blue beings, the
likes of which I've never seen nor heard of before.  Surely this must be a
dream.  But no, the creatures, while they cannot speak any tongue with
which I am familiar, still manage to convey their intent that I should
join them in their feast and that I should make merry with them.  I'm a
little worried by the fact that every time I try to talk to one of them,
he (or is it a she?) bows his head to the ground and whispers something
which sounds like a prayer, but being adventurous soul that I am, I go
with the flow and dance and party with them all night.

In the morning, sated from the feast, I awaken to find myself back in my
house with no knowledge of how I returned there.  Reaching a hand under my
back to scratch an itch, I find the cause of the itch, a wonderous Amber
Banana.

- --JT

[-------------------------------------------------------------------------]
[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to sieze the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:06:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Take Two

I suggest the Razor Boomerangs take possession of the Little Lamb.  Since
it is not owned by a player who has owned it for less than one week (it's
owned by the Razor Boomerangs) this will happen once acknowledged by JT
and Joe Java.  We don't even have to pay the A$10, it seems.  Happy, K 2?

- -Hubert

If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown, too? 

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:20:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Take Two

On Tue, 5 May 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>I suggest the Razor Boomerangs take possession of the Little Lamb.  Since
>it is not owned by a player who has owned it for less than one week (it's
>owned by the Razor Boomerangs) this will happen once acknowledged by JT
>and Joe Java.  We don't even have to pay the A$10, it seems.  Happy, K 2?

Well, I support this Organizational Action.

- --JT

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:26:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 162 (TRUE)

> Firstly, the CFCJ was on the matter of the Crime of Illegal Action (i.e.,
> performing an action that is specified by the Rules to be illegal).  The
> judge's reasoning showed how I had performed the Crime of Rampant
> Exhibitionism, for which I have already been convicted.  Rule 710 says
> that a CFCJ shall be judged TRUE if the Crime Y [Illegal Action] was
> committed by player X [yours truly] on date Z [22nd April 1998].
> Therefore, Alfvaen's reasoning is moot and belongs in CFCJ 161 or 163.  (I
> might add that the double jeopardy clause (section 10) of R710 does not
> prevent me from being tried for Rampant Exhibitionism twice now that I
> look at it more closely; it prevents a player from being tried twice for
> the same instance of "allegedly breaking the Rules," which is, of course,
> Blatant Disregard.)

I am a dunce.  I was apparently judging a CFCJ that was not submitted.
Or was retracted or assigned to someone else.  :-)  Should my verdict be
overturned, I urge the Supreme Court to throw the book at me because of
my extreme sloppiness engendered by a quick-and-dirty attempt at judgement
before I went to work this morning.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Marc Cohn:The Rainy Season
Current Book--Barb Galler-Smith & Josh Langston:Druids
You can't burn down a symme-tree.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:26:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Treasure

> I proxy my support to the Razor Boomerangs.  This makes exactly half of
> the members with proxied votes.  I pay A$10 to take possession of the
> Little Lamb.  I give the Little Lamb to the Razor Boomerangs.  (oopsie!)

The Little Lamb is not Tradeable, so Hubert still possesses it.  Now
it'll take a week for any Org to purchase it, though there seems to be
no lower limit on the time before one can steal it away from an Org...:-)

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--They Might Be Giants:Then
Current Book--Barb Galler-Smith & Josh Langston:Druids
"What a tasteful and relevant little story."

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:26:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 580 (TRUE)

> >> Call For Judgement 580- May 03, 1998
> >> Judgement: TRUE

> >> Statement:

> >> Proposal 2936 was never declared invalid and removed from voting
> >> consideration, and nor was it retracted.

> > I am appealing this verdict.

> Although the CotC hasn't said anything yet, I presume this appeal will
> go to ThinMan and myself, since we just recently returned all of our
> pending cases.

> If this is in fact the case, then I am hereby declining to judge this
> appeal.

If this is the case, then I get to be Acting Justice, que no?

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--They Might Be Giants:Then
Current Book--Barb Galler-Smith & Josh Langston:Druids
I saw the light.  It hurt my eyes.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:34:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Stripe

Since our esteemed President has not yet done so, I hereby announce that
the following ceremony is being held:

In the largest room in Tamson House(and there are many, one even that
occupies both kaas of land on which the House sits), every member of
Ackanomic, and cardboard cutouts(since genetic replicas are regulated
by the Rules)of all past and future players, sit in lushly upholstered
chairs, facing a dais which, like the rest of the room, and in fact the
abovementioned chairs, is decorated entirely in gingham.

Suddenly there is a flash of silver!  Alfvaen, ProConsul of Ackanomic,
enters the room just as a tiny spotlight picks out the Silver Stripe in
eir hands.  The Gingham Wearer stands proudly(yet with just the
slightest hint of expectant nervousness), clad in eir Wool Sweater(the
Purple Robe of Justice sort of tucked into a back pocket), eir Blue
Cross hanging around eir neck, and a Prosthetic Forehead(one of mr cwm's
unearthed ones, I can't make out which from here)on eir head.  Alfvaen
strides slowly the length of the room and to the dais, where e hands
the Silver Stripe to The Gingham Wearer(and it immediately attaches
itself to eir clothing, awaiting the day when it and three of its
brethren shall give birth to a Gold Stripe).

The audience sighs appreciately and then breaks into spectacular
applause(even the cardboard cutouts, through an ingenious mechanism
not considered worthy of Gadgethood).

Whew.  That was exhausting.  Maybe I'll let Slakko take care of K 2's
Blue Cross(which should be fairly soon now).

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Marc Cohn:The Rainy Season
Current Book--Barb Galler-Smith & Josh Langston:Druids
Warning: Objects in mirror are dumber than they appear.

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Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 23:38:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel Ricker" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 585 (Joe Java)

I pass on this CFJ.

> Joe Java has been selected. Malenkai (if that is his name) has only been back
> a few days and already he's causing trouble. Is this an omen for the future?
> 
> Clerk of the Courts
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> Call For Judgement 585- May 04, 1998
> Subject: Malenkai part 2
> Initiator: Slakko (sent May 04, 1998, 07:32)
> Judge: Joe Java (selected May 04, 1998, 11:12)
> Judgement: 
> 
> Statement:
> The player whose Real Name is Randy Hall has an Ackanomic Name of
> Malenkai.
> 
> Slakko's Reasoning:
> As Rule 252 requires a player returning who is an undead to register with
> that name (otherwise they do not become a player), Randy Hall could not
> have become a player known as saaremaa without paying the Standard Harfer
> Fee to change eir name.  Therefore, eir name is Malenkai.
> 

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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