Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #146
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ackanomic digest         Monday, May 11 1998         Volume 03 : Number 146

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:45:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re:  acka: P2920

Niccolo Flychuck wrote:

>for most ackans this is yesterday's news, but I'm no clear on one claim
>made by P2920. Specifically:
>{{[ The following is functionally implied by the rules, but needs to be
>explicitly stated for R1010 to work correctly. ]}} 
>
>Amend rule 1003, "Organizations," by inserting the sentence "A VSO may not
>own anything." immediately before the sentence
>"Any attmpet [sic] on the part of a VSO to perform any other kind of
>Orgnizational Action fails." 
>
>Why should VSOs not be able to own anything?
>They can't use what they own until they cease being a VSO, but I see no
>reason to forbid that. Part of the point of having VSOs in the first place
>is to allow continutiy of ownership of entities. Otherwise one might as
>well disband the organizations all together when it drops below the three
>member limit.

VSOs should not be able to own anything so that R1010 kicks in and
distributes a VSO's possessions among its members.  It is not essential,
but it seems more consistent to me.  I do not see continuity of entity
ownership for VSOs to be very critical, especially considering that those
entities redistributed by R1010 can easilly be traded back once the VSO
fills out its membership.

I no longer have any personal stake in the matter, so feel free to try
to remove that provision.  I'm not sure how I would vote on it.

ThinMan

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 03:35:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Herald

> I would ask that you use standard heraldic colors.  Tawny is something
> that I vaguely recognize, but it's not an established color for heraldry.
> I have submitted a proposal which will attempt to make this part of the
> rules.
> 
> Perhaps Tenne (orange) instead of Tawny?

Tawny is an Anglicization of tenne. They are synonyms.

breadbox

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 03:54:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Impeachment - The Other Process (Trinket Harfer)

On Fri, 8 May 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:

> rufus has not updated the Trinket-Harfer page since Discworld was created.
> This is a serious backlog and a dereliction of Duty.  JT has offered to
> perform the duties of Trinket-Harfer, and has in fact set up a page for
> doing so.  Therefore, I have very little choice here:
> 
> I am now publicly declaring my intention to impeach rufus from the
> Functional Office of Trinket-Harfer, in accordance with Rule 403.  This
> impeachment will only succeed if at least 2/3rds of the Senate notify me
> of their approval within 3 days.

I received approval from /dev/joe, JT and Vynd.  This constitutes at least
2/3rds of the Senate.  All approvals were received within 3 days of the
sending of this original message.

The post of Trinket-Harfer is now vacant.  Reply to this message to
nominate yourself for the post.
- -- 
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: Mon, 11 May 1998 04:08:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka : P2948, changing checkmate conditions

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> I have already seen the chess variants page (two-star told me about it on
> IRC) and agree that many different forms of chess exist. However, you
> appeared to know exactly what I meant when I said 'ordinary chess' so it was

I knew what you meant because I am aware that you are a member of a
EuroAmericancentric culture, and that would be the most likely reference.

> obviously clear enough. I don't doubt that Ackanomic Party Chess is a chess
> variant (I've even seen that on the chess variants page, it could do with
> updating actually), but with nomic being nomic there are a few things that
> I'd like to change in it and have proposed some of them already. Some of them
> I don't think I'll bother proposing since I very much doubt they'd pass, such
> as repealingarchers and tornadoes which I feel make a mockery of normal
I'd like to repeal tornadoes myself, and I think Demon Prmotion should be
downtoned. As for archers, I always viewed them as mainly defensive
pieces. However, in Party Chess there are no clear home territories, so an
archer can't be confined to the home half, or quadrant, as I suggested in
the proposal for the Nabi Chess sub game. I'd support a proposal that
would confine it remain within a certain range from the King. 
Now, and just brain storming here, it would have to be phrased so as not
to restrict the King too much. Another option is to elminate the distance
capture when it goes outside that range, and when the distance cpature is
eliminated to allow it to capture using its normal Move. 
Only one of those capturing moves should be available to it at any given
time. When I return from Vacation officialy, in a day or two, I might
propose this. 

> chess values such as well defended pieces. Nor will I try to turn party chess
> into "normal" chess, I appreciate the differentness, there are just certain
> changes that I feel ought to be made.Again, with nomic being what it is
> there will be some people who don't like these changes and some that will.
> One last thing, swingers in check are not limited to a single atomic play,
> they can make as many as they want *provided* they are theoretically capable
> of getting out of check with a single move or capture.

I'll read this again and comment more afterwards.

Niccolo Flychuck

> 
> TGW.
> 
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 05:22:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : returning from Vacation

I am returning from Vacation.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 06:03:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CSR 136

The following is the text of CSR 136, and will take effect in three
days if there are fewer than two objections.

Renumber Rule 2889 ("Otzma Card of Type Founder's Boon") to 1240.19
{{[what proposal 2979 intended to do]}}.

Renumber Rule 2967 ("Admissions Policies") to 1007.1 {{[from TGW's
recent proposal which almost specified a rule number but didn't]}}.

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 06:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Odo on the Wormhole.

If Odo is a Church then I accept H*bert as a member.
If Odo is a Cult then I suggest it accepts H*bert as a member and approve
of the suggestion.

Niccolo Flychuck

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:

> In case this has been lost in the various events...
> 
> I apply to join the Cult/Church of Odo on the Wormhole.
> 
> H*bert, known as Wild Card list time he asked this...
> 
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> 

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 08:29:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Sub Cruce Lumen

We are gathered here today, wherever we are, to celebrate another rare
achievement in the long history of Acka.  Few who take up the burden of
proposal submission reach the lofty peak of having 20 proposals accepted,
a target before which many simply crumble and wither.

Today we have amongst us one who has newly attained this mark this very
day.  In honour of that achievement, there is but one thing that can be
done.  Such an achievement must be lauded, in the way that Acka knows
best.

On behalf of the Game of Ackanomic, in my capacity as President of
Ackanomic, I, Slakko, present K 2 with a Blue Cross for having achieved a
Blue Cross Rank of 20.

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: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:16:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Herald

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Brian Raiter wrote:

>> I would ask that you use standard heraldic colors.  Tawny is something
>> that I vaguely recognize, but it's not an established color for heraldry.
>> I have submitted a proposal which will attempt to make this part of the
>> rules.
>> 
>> Perhaps Tenne (orange) instead of Tawny?
>
>Tawny is an Anglicization of tenne. They are synonyms.

Okay, I'd never heard it used before.  When I fix the 'Tincutures'
proposal (I forgot to include potent, counter-potent and counter-vair as
valid colours and furs) I will also include tawny.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:22:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3031

On Mon, 11 May 1998, nomicbot wrote:

>Proposal 3031
>Heraldic Tinctures
>JT (JT Traub)

I missed a few things that should have been in there.
I retract Prop 3031.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:25:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3028

On Mon, 11 May 1998, Brian Raiter wrote:

>> {{[I have submitted a few proposals recently that really were meant to
>> be modest.  Rather than retract them from the voting queue and resubmit
>> I'd like a way to make them modest post-fact.
>
>This will not work: Rule 104 prohibits the altering of a proposal's
>text after it has been distributed.
>
>As for the idea ... an adopted proposal "must guide play in the form
>in which it was voted on", to quote from the initial ruleset, and I
>feel that this is a good sentiment. It's a bit unfair to alter a
>proposal after some players have already cast their votes on it, even
>with a case as tame as this.

You are correct of course.
I retract P3028.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:44:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Religion.

In case it didn't happen last time, I am applying for membership in the
Church of Odo on the Wormhole.

IB

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:48:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: GAD: The Green Round (1)

...and GAD came to pass and the heavens were filled with the joyous
sounds of donkey grabbing...

For the newer player's GAD's rules are contained in rule 1213. I'll bump
this over to games in future rounds. 34 players wow.

Reply to grab/cover/stop playing GAD
Ignore to admire

Grabber's take your marks, get set, go.

The Green Round's GAL:

Alfvaen
Astro
Attila the Pun
Ayla
breadbox
Calvin N Hobbes
Crackfoo
/dev/joe
else…if
Fortunato
The Gingham Wearer
Goldenmean
H*bert
Hubert
IbiotBoy
Illusion
J. M. Bear
Joe Java
JT
Karma
Koxvolio
Niccolo Flychuck
Pandora
Red Barn
Rex Mundi
Robert Sevin
rufus
saaremaa
Slakko
ThinMan
Tom Kitten
two-star
UglyBigNose
Vynd

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:49:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: vacation

Ice em ;)

K 2

Guy Fawkes wrote:

> The end of the semester is hitting me particularly hard at the moment.  I
> am going on Vacation.  Expected duration: 21 days.
>
> GF

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:50:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Harf!

Proposal 2993, due tommorow, has been found to be harfy!  Harf the harf,
for it is harfish!

                        - Harfmeister Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 13:52:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka : returning from Vacation

I offer the capital swinger's office to Niccolo Flychuck

Uri Bruck wrote:

> I am returning from Vacation.
>
> Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:09:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Herald

On Sun, 10 May 1998, JT wrote:

> On Sun, 10 May 1998, JT wrote:
> [Stuff clipped]
> 
> My apologies.. I had intended to reply privately, but hadn't noticed that
> H*bert had sent it to the list instead of to me privately.
> 
 Which is my fault, since I hadn't reallised that I hadn't sent it to you
privately.

 Someone call a PHE on me!

 H*bert.

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:17:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 2976 accepted

 I sell back my Go Fish card under the provisions of the rule enacted by
the proposal above.

 H*bert.

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 16:59:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Swingpoint & Stabber's Knife Summary 11/5

The following Swingpoints were awarded at noon today:

I. Weight Based Swingpoints

8: K 2
7: Slakko
6: Hubert
5: Koxvolio
4: J. M. Bear

II. Fair Play Conversion

4: Alfvaen
4: The Gingham Wearer
2: /dev/joe
2: Koxvolio

(Any omissions - please let me know.)

III. Party Swingpoints
K 2 held a capital office, so Slakko's party of SPAM benefits.

1: rufus
1: Wild Card

Total Swingpoints
68 Slakko
65 /dev/joe
47 Niccolo Flychuck
37 Alfvaen
32 The Gingham Wearer
21 Koxvolio
14 K 2
10 rufus
 9 Hubert
 6 Guy Fawkes
 6 Attila the Pun
 5 Fortunato
 4 breadbox
 4 J. M. Bear
 3 ThinMan
 3 Vynd
 3 two-star
 3 Wild Card
 2 Rex Mundi
 2 else...if

Stabber's Knives awarded in the past fortnight:

 7/5/98: The Gingham Wearer, Hubert (/dev/joe surrendered)
 9/5/98: J. M. Bear (Attila the Pun surrendered)
11/5/98: Koxvolio (The Gingham Wearer surrendered)

Totals:
3: The Gingham Wearer
2: Slakko
1: Hubert, J. M. Bear, Koxvolio

- -- 
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: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:36:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Acka: Chess: /dev/joe piece losses

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 17:39:10 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Acka: Chess: /dev/joe piece losses

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 18:03:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Harf!

On Mon, 11 May 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> 
> Proposal 2993, due tommorow, has been found to be harfy!  Harf the harf,
> for it is harfish!

Great Harfmeister, has anyone done anything worthy of being called "Funky
and Stylish"?

- -- 
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: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:40:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Herald

> I look forward to beginning the duties of granting Coats of Arms.

	If I got this right, I request the following Coat of Arms:
	Par fess, base par pale, 1st or, a wheel gules, 2nd azure, a sword
argent, 3rd sable, a goat vert

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Success is the child of audacity.
		-Benjamin Disraeli

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 21:55:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Potato

Slakko keeps the Potato this week.  This should allow em to rake in a
few points...

Pandora has received the Chocolate Frog this month, and is now the
First Citizen of Ackanomic.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Luna:Pup Tent
Current Book--Elizabeth Ann Scarborough:The Healer's War
The turning world will sing our souls to sleep.

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 23:35:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Foolish Shepherds

Okay, so on Proposal 2971, which was Foolish, we had two BAA! voters
and one PRESENT voter.

Now, if P2971 had not been Foolish, n=3 and p=2, so the Shepherd gets
p*(n-p) = 2 points.

However, consider that n=6 for a Foolish Proposal, so p*(n-p) is now
8 points.

Or is the 2 points doubled from Rule 207.3?

Rule 207.3 states "...all scoring effects from rule 207 related to its
acceptance or rejection shall be doubled."  Is BAA! voting related to
the Proposal's acceptance or rejection?  I'd say not, since the scoring
is the same whether the Proposal is accepted or rejected.  So I believe
that the Shepherd on P2971(yes, okay, I've forgotten who it is and am
too lazy to find out right now)got 8 points.  Anyone who thinks
differently is welcome to CFJ it.  (Slakko?  :-)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Luna:Pup Tent
Current Book--Elizabeth Ann Scarborough:The Healer's War
I become a public health hazard after 44 hours of sleep deprivation.)

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 23:36:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Ice

Thanks to K 2 for reminding me(see, I left all my notes in the entitylog--
what will I do now that I'm no longer Financier?)--Guy Fawkes went On Ice
May 9 at midnight EDT.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--REM:Automatic For The People
Current Book--Elizabeth Ann Scarborough:The Healer's War
Slip me some more of that crimson, Jimson.

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 23:50:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Fortnightly Dividends, May 11, 1998

Fortuitously, the last Cycle ended during the previous fortnight(just
after the last dividends, actually), so the score changes over the last
Virtual Fortnight are just the current scores of all current players:

107     Alfvaen               A   (Aaron Humphrey)
97      Slakko                A   (Duncan Richer)
87      breadbox              A   (Brian Raiter)
87      K 2                   A   (Kelly Kelly)
59      ThinMan               A   (John Bollinger)
57      The Gingham Wearer    A   (Tom Walmsley)
55      JT                    A   (JT Traub)
48      Vynd                  A   (John McCoy)
45      else...if             Ag  (Henry Towsner)
34      Koxvolio              A   (Ian Koxvold)
30      Pandora               A   (David Kenning)
24      IdiotBoy              A   (Matt Miller)
23      Astro                 A   (Roie Marianer)
21      Joe Java              A   (Joel Ricker)
21      UglyBigNose           A   (Ricardo Peres da Silva)
20      /dev/joe              A   (Joseph DeVincentis)
19      Attila the Pun        A   (Micah Smukler)
18      Ayla                  A   (Raquel Peres da Silva)
18      J. M. Bear            A   (Frank Schmidt)
15      Crackfoo              N   (Jerome Herrman)
15      saaremaa              A   (Randy Hall)
14      Hubert                A   (Eric Plumb)
10      rufus                 A   (David Scheidt)
5       Rex Mundi             A   (Gavin Doig)
1       Calvin N Hobbes       A   (Thierry Joffrain)
1       Fortunato             N   (Aaron Keesler)
1       Goldenmean            N   (Joshua Herreshoff)
1       Hoover 2300          nI   (Kent Stadler)
1       Illusion              A   (Andrew Stefanski)
1       Karma                 N   (Jordan James)
1       Niccolo Flychuck     nV   (Uri Bruck)
1       Robert Sevin          N   (Mitchell Harding)
1       Tom Kitten           NP   (Jackie C. Badger)
1       two-star              P   (Alexandre Muniz)
- -3      Guy Fawkes           AI   (Robert Shimmin)
- -12     H*bert                A   (Jonathan David Amery)

The dividend payouts are of course the same except that Guy Fawkes
loses A$2 and H*bert A$6.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--REM:Automatic For The People
Current Book--Elizabeth Ann Scarborough:The Healer's War
wotthehell wotthehell  theres life in the old girl yet

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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 23:58:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Cheese

Slakko did indeed gain a Gouda from winning Party Chess.  /dev/joe,
having won Viruses and Abstract Crescent, need win only one more to
achieve it as well.

Nobody has obtained any new Stiltons; I already commented on K 2's
fatal stumble after nine in a row.  The closest is the icy Guy Fawkes
with 9 in a row, and Slakko with 8.  (And behind them is rufus with
5.)

The Gingham Wearer is closest to a Cheddar, with two harfy Proposals
having passed since P2716, but there are nine other candidates with
one each.  (If P2993 passes, H*bert would make a tenth.)

I'm not sure right now about Edams--if /dev/joe is Inventor, then I think
e obtained one then(with Senator, Vulcan Swinger, AckaPhysicist,
Justice, and Inventor--Wizard didn't count because it was Capital).
And K 2 got one upon adding Financier and Undead-Harfer to Caped Crusader,
Treasure-Harfer, and Org-Harfer.

As for brie, I believe that Hubert lost eirs when I returned judgement
on CFCJ 162, since that Rule still isn't fixed to have them destroyed
only upon a _final_ TRUE verdict.  All the newcomers have them, of
course.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--REM:Automatic For The People
Current Book--Elizabeth Ann Scarborough:The Healer's War
"How are you today?"  "Fine--I'm feeling very gruntled."

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