Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #153
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ackanomic digest         Friday, May 15 1998         Volume 03 : Number 153

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 04:49:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Acka: deadbeat

>Subject: Acka: CFJ 587 (Illusion)
>
>Pandora has gone deadbeat. Illusion has been selected.

Oops! Somehow this CFJ passed me by. I remove my name from the CFJ
ineligibility list.

Pandora

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 06:07:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: SBoC Random OC determination

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Dice server wrote:

> # Player: JT
> # I am using the dice server to determine the random otzma card
> # delivered from the spell book of chorg based on the following
> # schedule:

Unless I'm much mistaken, a Spell Book of Chorg can only be read once per
week.  Therefore, I think that the reading failed, but Ayla has the book.
Fortunate, given the tide of the Witchhunt against JT.

- -Hubert

Insert random tagline here. 

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 06:26:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Multiple Treasures

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> Yjod ytrsditr ,su nr gpimf nu s [;surt ejp royjrt drmfd S;gbsrm dp,r
> S,rtovsm dys,[d. pt r;dr drmfd r, s ;ody pg yjr ytsvld pm yjr s;ni,
> Shsomdy S;; Hpfd
> nu Ept;f pm Rfhr/  S tsmfp, dr;rvyopm eo;; nr ,sfr s,omh wis;ogorf
> rmytsmys/  )Drmf r,so; gpt sm sfftrdd yp drmf dys,[d yo/_

"=_

- -Hubert

<shrug>

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 06:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Actions

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:

> On Thu, 14 May 1998, JT wrote:
> 
> > I go to the town hall and stand on the lowest step and scream at the top
> > of my lungs, "The Earth is Round!  Black is not a Color!! Muahahahah"
> 
> All right, infidel.  You asked for it.
> 
> I am calling for a Witchhunt on JT for the above, and for being better
> than me in Fictionary.
> 
> Burn, baby, burn.
> 
> Reply to this message (and don't CC: it to acka-priv or I'll get you for
> snowgod's Disease while my trigger finger's itchy) to vote.  
> 

 I am running to the Church, the Church of the EBS, and I hold the Altar
by the Horns for JT.

 H*bert.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 09:54:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Raquel Peres da Silva" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: BPH

Ouch! Can I still post the results of this hearing? I hope so.

This BPH was called against K2. The results were:

It was obviously a violation! (10 votes)
Ayla
Ayla's EBS
K 2
H*bert
JT Traub
JT Traub's EBS
Atp
Rex Mundi
Rex Mundi's EBS
Pandora

It seemed perfectly correct to me (4 votes)
Towsner
Towsner's EBS
Hubert
Alfvaen

Bye, bye, K2... :-)

Ayla
Priestess of the Order of the Razor Boomerangs
Priestess of the Church of the Evil Ballot Stuffer

Law of Cat Magnetism: All blue blazers and black sweaters attract cat hair
in direct proportion to the darkness of the fabric.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 10:09:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: SBoC Random OC determination

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>Unless I'm much mistaken, a Spell Book of Chorg can only be read once per
>week.  Therefore, I think that the reading failed, but Ayla has the book.
>Fortunate, given the tide of the Witchhunt against JT.

Hubert is quite correct and I smack myself with a wet noodle for not
reading the rules thoroughly.

Ayla still needs to accept the book from me (it's not a gift entity I
don't believe)  If she hasn't accepted by this evening I will offer it to
Hubert instead so that it doesn't get burnt.

- --JT

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[ 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: Fri, 15 May 1998 10:23:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Once again

Glaring quietly at H*bert, I climb to the top of the Monolith, and taking
a Megaphone so that all within Acka can hear, I scream.

The Earth is Round!  Black is NOT a color!

I then run back to my home laughing hysterically.

- --JT

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[ 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: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:08:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ian K." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Once again

> Glaring quietly at H*bert, I climb to the top of the Monolith, and taking
> a Megaphone so that all within Acka can hear, I scream.
> 
> The Earth is Round!  Black is NOT a color!

Always being quick(ish) to pick up on a good idea, I follow suit: (except
that I spell it right?)

The Earth is Round! Black is NOT a colour!  

I invite all members of the Church to the Evil Ballot Stuffer to join in.
If we're going to be bad, let's be really bad together!

Go on - make it a joint hearing. I dare you.

Koxvolio

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:40:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 5886 (Joe Java)

> > rufus has gone deadbeat. Joe Java been selected.
> 
> I hate to point this out again, but since I am still Praetor I should
> still get any deadbeated-on CFJ's.

Oops. Alfvaen is of course correct. Ignore anything I said about CFJs being
reassigned after deadbeats, they actually go to Alfvaen. And Alfvaen, don't
feel bad about pointing out my mistakes: I need it.

TGW.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:22:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Schmidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Once again

> Always being quick(ish) to pick up on a good idea, I follow suit: (except
> that I spell it right?)
>
> The Earth is Round! Black is NOT a colour!

Hmmm... let's measure the superstition level of Acka...

I climb my home, and shout:
"The Round is Black! A colour is NOT Earth!"

Now I'm curious what will happen.
J. M. Bear

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:45:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A.K.A. TheWiz" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Once again

> Hmmm... let's measure the superstition level of Acka...
> 
> I climb my home, and shout:
> "The Round is Black! A colour is NOT Earth!"
> 
> Now I'm curious what will happen.
> J. M. Bear

  I call a bearhunt against J. M. Witch

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Age is wasted on the old.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:54:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexandre Owen Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Lake Vostok

/dev/joe has found the treasure containing Lake Vostok. Care to tell us
how you found it? (by the way, no other player sent in a valid
submission.)

The map was:

This treasure will be found on May 15, 1998 by the player who has sent
the writer or custodian of this map a representation of an 8 x 8 board
with pieces placed on it such that:
a) none can move according to the rules of Lines of Action
b) the number of pieces is smaller than the number of pieces in any
other submission.
 Ties may be broken by the decision of the writer or custodian of this
map.

If any player proves to the satisfaction of the writer or custodian of
this map that it is impossible to find a solution containing fewer
pieces than eir solution, then e wil find this treasure immediately.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 14:37:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Lake Vostok

> /dev/joe has found the treasure containing Lake Vostok. Care to tell us
> how you found it? (by the way, no other player sent in a valid
> submission.)
> 
> This treasure will be found on May 15, 1998 by the player who has sent
> the writer or custodian of this map a representation of an 8 x 8 board
> with pieces placed on it such that:
> a) none can move according to the rules of Lines of Action
> b) the number of pieces is smaller than the number of pieces in any
> other submission.

[As a reminder and also for who were not around when this was originally
posted, in Lines of Action there are two colors of pieces, and each piece
may move in any orthogonal or diagonal direction a number of spaces
equal to the total number of pieces in that row, provided that it does
not jump over any pieces of the other color, and that it does not land
on a piece of the same color.  Moves where a piece lands on another piece
of the same color are captures, which is irrelevant for the treasure
except in the knowledge that it is allowed.]

Purely trial and error, and process of elimination, with a little
creativity thrown in on the side.

My initial observation was that the diagonal rows across the corners are
one of the hard things to fill.  The extreme corner squares are fine either
way, but the rows with 2 squares must either be totally filled or totally
empty, and the rows of 3 squares must either have 2 like-colored pieces on
the ends or two oppositely-colored pieces adjacent to each other, or have
all 3 squares filled.  Also, I thought it might be easier to get under
32 pieces if you left some rows and columns entirely empty, since each
(orthogonal) row or column that is not empty must contain at least 3
pieces for a bare minimum of 24.  As a result, the first case I explored
was the one where all the edge squares are empty; the 3-diagonals then
require that the corners of the inner 6x6 square are also empty, and the
4-diagonals must either be empty or have two oppositely-colored pieces on
the middle squares.  The result was a 32-square section which could be
filled entirely such that no piece could move, I suspect at least one
other player found a solution of this type:

........ 8
..oxxo.. 7
.xoooxx. 6
.oxxooo. 5
.oooxxo. 4
.xxooox. 3
..oxxo.. 2
........ 1

abcdefgh

My early work was confined to exploring all the possibilities within this
smaller grid.  Quickly, I noted that each of the outer rows of 4 pieces
(between the empty corners of the 6x6) could either be full or have one
interior piece missing; if any of these was entirely empty, they would
*all* have to be empty, and this quickly resulted in showing the entire
grid must be empty.  The end result of this work was the horribly
asymmetrical 25-piece grid shown below.

........ 8
..o.xo.. 7
.x.ooox. 6
..o.xxo. 5
.ox..ox. 4
.xoox.x. 3
..oxxo.. 2
........ 1

abcdefgh

I continued my work by proving many things about boards with particular
lines open, noting that to beat this solution, a grid with no lines open
must have exactly 3 pieces in every row and column.  In particular, I
proved that no board could beat the 25-piece one for a variety of
configurations of empty rows and columns.

While working on an unrelated area, a brainstorm hit me and I discovered
the following, nicely symmetrical 24-piece solution, which proved to be
my best:

........ 8
..x.o.x. 7
.o.o.o.o 6
..x.o.x. 5
.x.x.x.x 4
..x.o.x. 3
.o.o.o.o 2
..x.o.x. 1

abcdefgh

I did very little work toward completing my proof that this was minimal
after finding this, despite that fact that it made the proof much
easier -- now I could ignore the cases that did not have at least one
empty row and one empty column, because those cases must have at least
24 pieces.  I had less time to work on this for a short while after
finding the above solution, and later I devoted the time to other things.

24 pieces (with 12 of each color) is a notable milestone because it is
the number of pieces players actually start with in Lines of Action.
However, since there is no move *out* of this configuration, there is
also no move *into* the configuration without having more pieces on the
board; all non-captures are reversible moves if the same player was to
get another move.  Some variant games allow for some situations (possibly
as the game is starting) when players have some off-board pieces they
are allowed to drop onto the board during their turn; in such games, the
board above may represent a possible way for the game to end in a
situation where neither player can move.  This is relevant because it
is uncertain whether or not Lines of Action, by the standard rules, can
ever end in a draw; one has never been found, but it is also not proven
that one cannot exist, and a solution to this treasure with fewer pieces
than mine above would have represented a possible draw by inability to
move.

/dev/joe

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:16:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CSR

> > I am using my power as CSRR to make the following CSR numbered 138 as
> > delimited by RGFDJ
> > 
> 
> Didn't we just have a CSR 138, issued by breadbox?

No. The one recently distributed by breadbox was 137.

TGW, CSRR.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:52:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: forehead

I go to the secert room where the Prostheic Foreheads are kept.  The
nameless ackan who guards the door took my A$7, and let me  poke around
the acres and acres of Prosthetic Foreheads.  I pick one that looks
exactly like my real head except it has a banna shaped model of the earth
on it, as well as an animation of mountains exploding to a sound track of
"God save the Harf!"

rufus

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:53:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: forehead

I put on the Prosthetic Forehead I just bouhgt.

rufus

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:18:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Lake Vostok

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Alexandre Owen Muniz wrote:

> /dev/joe has found the treasure containing Lake Vostok. Care to tell us
> how you found it? (by the way, no other player sent in a valid
> submission.)

Oh, yeah.  /dev/joe has found the treasure containing Rhymes with Schubert
and the Otzma Card Grave Robber.  The map was relatively similar to the
first clue (most interesting euphemism(s) for me), and although Fortunato
made me laugh harder with HOTSPAARG (de-acronymization anyone?) /dev/joe's
constant stream of new and original nicknames such as Q*Bert, <censored>,
and "someone" won out in the end.  /dev/joe was also the only serious
contender for that clue who sent me a correct guess for the Lizard Wizard
part.  Which was invalid according to the fourth clue, but what the hey.
(By the way, the correct answer, sent in by /dev/joe, else...if and Red
Barn IIRC, was that the first gecko was lying.)  The third clue (the Boop
Boop Dupe) was also invalid, but was part of the chorus line to "Da Twee
Widdle Fishies," by I have not a clue who or else I would play it on the
ASS.  No one sent me a valid guess (or any guess, for that matter) for
the third clue.  Not a sausage.  Bugger all.  The fourth clue was a red
herring; it was actually false.  There, go figure that one out.  Red Barn
tried to guess it and is apparently still reeling from the results.

Interesting that this was a non-mathematical, non-verbal, non-logical,
non-skill of any particular area or demesne treasure, and was *still*
found by /dev/joe.

Someone oughta Impeach em.

- -Hubert

I poured Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. 

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:38:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Witchhunt Take II

Sigh.

I retract my Witchhunt against JT.

I am calling a Witchhunt against JT for stating (twice now) that the Earth
is round and black is not a color.

I am Witchfinder Lieutenant Colonel, please reply to this message to vote.

Valid responses are
"BURN THE WITCH!"
and
"No! E said the Earth was flat"

My sincerest apologies to all of you who sent votes in the last one.  If
I'm allowed to (which I sincerely doubt) I'll just keep the same votes,
otherwise you'll have to do it all over again.

H*bert is extremely sorry and promises e won't interfere this time.

RIGHT?

I give H*bert a menacing glare which seems to impart the sentiment "Or
else I'll interpret your next message as 'The Earth is round AND I give
Hubert all my money.'"

Oh, speaking of which, thanks, Sheep rufus, for the dough.

- -Hubert

I poured Spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. 

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:39:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: To the library

I go to the library.

And inside the jukebox roars like thunder.

I place A$5 into the banna shaped slot.

I wish to play "Destiny Calling" by James.

I then go down to the vault of the book.

Oh, and Hubert, your ideas sound fine to me. One thing that I think may be
fun would be if whatever is being played on the ASS counts as literature
whilst it is being played. That would be fun.

TGW.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Witchhunt Take II

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:

> 
> Sigh.
> 
> I retract my Witchhunt against JT.
> 
> I am calling a Witchhunt against JT for stating (twice now) that the Earth
> is round and black is not a color.
> 
> I am Witchfinder Lieutenant Colonel, please reply to this message to vote.
> 
> Valid responses are
> "BURN THE WITCH!"
> and
> "No! E said the Earth was flat"
> 
> My sincerest apologies to all of you who sent votes in the last one.  If
> I'm allowed to (which I sincerely doubt) I'll just keep the same votes,
> otherwise you'll have to do it all over again.
> 
> H*bert is extremely sorry and promises e won't interfere this time.
> 
> RIGHT?

I am running to the Church, the Church to the Evil Ballot Stuffer.  I am
holding the horns for JT.

Yours,
Slakko
The earth is round!
- -- 
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: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:39:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: CFJ 590 (TRUE)

This has been judged TRUE.

Clerk of the Courts
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Call For Judgement 590- May 11, 1998
Subject: The Menace
Initiator: breadbox (sent May 11, 1998, 03:52)
Judge: The Gingham Wearer (selected May 13, 1998, 17:35)
Judgement: TRUE

Statement:
Rule 1135, "The Orange Menace", has been repealed.

Initiator's Reasoning:
I think I already know what the verdict will be, but I'm tired of
always having to make these kinds of unilateral judgement calls. I
want an official opinion.

The final sentence of Rule 1135 states: "If it should be the case that
every member of the Rebellion has exercised eir privilege once, this
Rule shall repeal itself." There is now no such organization as the
Rebellion, thus "every member of the Rebellion" is the empty set. So:
is it true that every member of the empty set has exercised eir
privilege exactly once?

Judge's Reasoning:
There are no members of the rebellion. Therefore there are no members of the
rebellion who have not exercised the privilege. Therefore all members of the
rebellion have exercised their privilege.

However no members of the rebellion have exercised their privilege because
there are no members of the rebellion.

Now, I am by no means an expert on set theory but I think that the first
interpretation sounds at least as reasonable, if not more so, and since
spirit of the game seems to favour the first interpretation that is how I
shall judge. Therefore the rule in question has been repealed.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:47:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Hallo

>   I am joining AckaNomic.  I am giving Red Barn's Tie Contract #24601 to
> Alfvaen, as in Acka it should still exist.  I am becoming a voting player,
> voting "NO" on all currently active proposals and "YES" on all currently
> inactive proposals, and leaving AckaNomic.
>   Why not?

Fortunately, at the time you leave, all of your votes are discarded,
so I am free to ignore this oh-so-very RedBarnesque maneuver.

breadbox

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:13:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Re: retraction (J. M. Bear)

What am I going to do with you people? In accordance with Rule 422, I
am declaring that J. M. Bear has Gone Postal. (The other recent
offenders have escaped my wrath by the luck of the draw - I just don't
have it in me to Hose more than one player at a time.)

breadbox
Postmaster

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:40:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Once again

>The Earth is Round! Black is NOT a colour!
>
>I invite all members of the Church to the Evil Ballot Stuffer to join in.
>If we're going to be bad, let's be really bad together!
>
>Go on - make it a joint hearing. I dare you.
	Why not?  I go to the library and yell into the ASS "The Earth is
Round! Black is NOT a color!"

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Success is the child of audacity.
		-Benjamin Disraeli

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:44:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: the true shape of the Earth!

Is of course, banna!

rufus

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:46:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel Ricker" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Actions

> > 6) I change my trinket, "The Sword of Kahless" back to A$.
> 
> > 7) I create a trinket called, "The Sword of Kahless" with the value 
> > of A$ 100 with the same description as the previous Sword of Kahless.
> 
> It has been ruled by some CFJ or other that this won't work; the
> description has to be actually included in the same public message
> as the Trinket creation.  It's all Red Barn's fault.  :-)

Ok no problem.. would have included it but I don't remember its 
phrasing and the trinket page was lagging too badly and  now..

7) I create  a trinket called, "The Sword of Kahless" with the value 
of A$ 100 with the description, "The first Bat'leth, created by Kahless to defeat 
Molor the tyrant in battle. It is about a metre long and vaguely 
reminiscent of a double headed scimitar. It should be considered as 
an extension to the arms rather than a weapon if it is to be used 
successfully. It is prophesied that he who holds The Sword of Kahless 
will unite the feuding families of the Klingon Homeworld and reign 
supreme."

Phew!

Now I ask again, "Is this trinket Special?"

One other thing, now I know what my current funds are -- For the 
previous action of donating half my funds to the Church of the 
Razor Boomerangs, the official number is A$104.

- -- JJ

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

     Joel Ricker [] [email-masked] [] ICQ# 6244364
       http://www.Geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/1047/
         Home of Eleusis Nomic -- Join Today!

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:49:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: thrid time is the charm?

I walk around quietly to every person in Ackanomic and whisper in their
ear.
"Black is not a color."

- --JT
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[ 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: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:50:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Appointment (It's about time!)

Nominations for Trinket-Harfer finished on Thursday.
Congratulations JT, you were the only nominee and now have the job.
I'll link the pages in the morning.

- -- 
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: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:51:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: ASS reform RFC

> The reasons for these changes are basically that a) people don't seem to
> be playing many Mundane songs, myself included, and b) Esoteric Songs
> aren't coming up that often.  Although Chess Piece Face has been played
> quite a bit recently... (poke, Alfvaen).

Ummm.  This is a hint, isn't it?  That in fact it should have been playing
for the past three days or so, since Slakko got eir Stabber's Knives on
Mon, May 11 1998 17:18:55 EDT?  Oops.  I'm a bad Deejay, aren't I?

I have been meaning to play a Mundane Song for a while, but haven't.  But
I'll let The Gingham Wearer's play for a little while, though.

(Oh, by the way, Hubert?  It's Kay Kyser who did "Three Little Fishies".
It shows up on Dr. Demento's "The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time,
Vol. 1--The 1930's".)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Alannah Myles:Arival
Current Book--Michael Coney:Cat Karina
What if no one's watching?

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:54:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Cortex And Viruses

> Actually, I was planning on starting another viruses game, so I
> might as well announce it now.  Whoever wants to play Viruses say so.

"Seau".

> The game will start in about a week and a half, after I'm finished
> with certain things.  And alfvaen, I'll be contacting you about those
> CFJs now that it was helpfully pointed out I don't just have to wait
> for Guy to return.

Actually, I was looking at Rule 416, and here, apparently, is how it
works:

"When a Justice goes on Vacation, a randomly selected Justice (not
including any Justices that are on vacation or owners of the same
Supreme Cortex as the Vacationing one) shall fill that Justice's seat
in the Supreme Court in an Acting capacity. The Clerk of the Courts
shall make the random selection. This paragraph takes precedence over
Rules that would prevent the same player being an Officer and an Acting
Officer in the same Office."

So it looks like breadbox and/or ThinMan gets to be acting Tweedledum
for the CFJ's under that Cortex's jurisdiction.  I missed that when I
read through that set of Rules before...

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
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Current Book--Michael Coney:Cat Karina
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull the Necronomicon out of my hat!

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:04:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Raquel Peres da Silva" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: A piece of advice...

Hi!

I have been select to judge CFJ 591, on which Pandora states that TGW
didn't learn eir lesson. Its reasoning mentions a BPH's log: that would be
really helpful, but I just can't find it anywhere. Is there such a thing?
Do you know where I can find it?

BTW, would it have been OK if I had asked TGW and Pandora to give me this
or any other information about the case?

Thanks in advance,

Ayla

P.S. Just in case you're concerned, I have found a job (they called me this
morning). :-)

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:17:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Treasure.

I create a Trinket valued at A$50 called "I beat /dev/joe." with the
description "And I liked it!"  (Perhaps this will keep ole /dev from
finding this one as quickly.)

The map is as follows:

- -----Thus begins the map

This is the map.

Send a private message to IdiotBoy which tells which of the following
lines
don't belong.  If you send such a message and guess wrong, you will be
ineligible to find this treasure.  Will this be treasure 262?

A little hint:  2 of them don't.

Lines follow.

- -----Thus begins the lines.

iQCVAwUBNVzYxYpTijFJnAv5AQHMnQP/colUdi7wVreKdIrbpkZqvdXif705Lc0x
oDp6OUzsStsZ7wj23/l6KglsuVqD++1NIKa0BfrcdTEM9apQRA5eBFLNId7Ljqn3
c0uWHolkaxZ3YIzKZcZRDm6wF2TlbQUOB8bkksJTaO/y8vBYG2U+f1nE1QiOtkA0
/K9gj6m77s4Bx1I4w23jZhbi1Chw2/gvjOkAwqR1JGpzImadsI2aVco7WKkIuefZ
hZuHhihJnRoUmvszTBBjNE0Yc7ISkCFoB0/1S29MUWUChT+hHzwhclerYx2DRsy3
e7XIKdltbsU=
=P4aN
- -----Thus ends the map.

IB
giving /dev/joe about 35 minutes.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:18:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Treasure.

Moron, you forgot to bury it as treasure.

Oh, right.  I bury "I beat /dev/joe." as Treasure with a map just like the
one in the previous message.  (Seriously.)

IB

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Matt Miller wrote:

> I create a Trinket valued at A$50 called "I beat /dev/joe." with the
> description "And I liked it!"  (Perhaps this will keep ole /dev from
> finding this one as quickly.)
> 
> The map is as follows:
> 
> -----Thus begins the map
> 
> This is the map.
> 
> Send a private message to IdiotBoy which tells which of the following
> lines
> don't belong.  If you send such a message and guess wrong, you will be
> ineligible to find this treasure.  Will this be treasure 262?
> 
> A little hint:  2 of them don't.
> 
> Lines follow.
> 
> 
> -----Thus begins the lines.
> 
> iQCVAwUBNVzYxYpTijFJnAv5AQHMnQP/colUdi7wVreKdIrbpkZqvdXif705Lc0x
> oDp6OUzsStsZ7wj23/l6KglsuVqD++1NIKa0BfrcdTEM9apQRA5eBFLNId7Ljqn3
> c0uWHolkaxZ3YIzKZcZRDm6wF2TlbQUOB8bkksJTaO/y8vBYG2U+f1nE1QiOtkA0
> /K9gj6m77s4Bx1I4w23jZhbi1Chw2/gvjOkAwqR1JGpzImadsI2aVco7WKkIuefZ
> hZuHhihJnRoUmvszTBBjNE0Yc7ISkCFoB0/1S29MUWUChT+hHzwhclerYx2DRsy3
> e7XIKdltbsU=
> =P4aN
> -----Thus ends the map.
> 
> IB
> giving /dev/joe about 35 minutes.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:31:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Raquel Peres da Silva" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: SBoC Random OC determination

> Ayla still needs to accept the book from me (it's not a gift entity I
> don't believe)  If she hasn't accepted by this evening I will offer it to
> Hubert instead so that it doesn't get burnt.

Do I need to accept the book???? Good Heavens, you're all trying to drive
me crazy! If there's still time, yes, yes, I do, I accept the book, give it
to me...

Ayla
Priestess of the Order of the Razor Boomerangs
Priestess of the Church of the Evil Ballot Stuffer

Law of Cat Magnetism: All blue blazers and black sweaters attract cat hair
in direct proportion to the darkness of the fabric.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:32:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Raquel Peres da Silva" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Once again

Why not? Being burnt could be an interesting experience.

Standing up in front of my house, I, too, yell:

The Earth is Round! Black is nor a colour neither a color!

Ayla

> > Glaring quietly at H*bert, I climb to the top of the Monolith, and
taking
> > a Megaphone so that all within Acka can hear, I scream.
> > 
> > The Earth is Round!  Black is NOT a color!
> 
> Always being quick(ish) to pick up on a good idea, I follow suit: (except
> that I spell it right?)
> 
> The Earth is Round! Black is NOT a colour!  
> 
> I invite all members of the Church to the Evil Ballot Stuffer to join in.
> If we're going to be bad, let's be really bad together!
> 
> Go on - make it a joint hearing. I dare you.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:34:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Once again

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Raquel Peres da Silva wrote:

> Why not? Being burnt could be an interesting experience.
> 
> Standing up in front of my house, I, too, yell:
> 
> The Earth is Round! Black is nor a colour neither a color!
> 
 I yell "The Earth is Banna Shaped!", "The set of colours doesn't include
either 'Black' or 'Sable'"

 H*bert.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:54:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: SBoC Random OC determination

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> 
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> #T Acka: SBoC Random OC determination
> 
> #C Player: Joe Java
> #C (Corrected because, as was pointed out to me, I'd forgotten to add
> #C several newer card types.  With one extra for good luck.)
> 
> #C I am using the dice server to determine the random otzma card
> #C delivered from the spell book of chorg based on the following
> #C schedule:
> #C 1 - go fish
> #C 2 - map shard
> #C 3 - summon tornado
> #C 4 - share my expenses
> #C 5 - share your income
> #C 6 - tactical retreat
> #C 7 - paratroop
> #C 8 - truthseeker
> #C 9 - scientist for a day
> #C 10 - art thief
> #C 11 - grave robber
> #C 12 - lay off!
> #C 13 - rod & staff
> #C 14 - shield
> #C No skeleton key(max in play)
> #C No fix my gadget(max in play)
> #C No swinging sale(max in play)
> #C No foul fowl(max in play)
> 
> 

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:54:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Non-Herald

> >Two recently awarded coats were blazoned "per cross" such-and-such.  This
> >is a term that is _never_ used in heraldry.  It seems like a logical
> >extension, with "per fess", "per pale", and "per saltire", but nonetheless
> >you never see it.  Instead is used "quarterly".

> Actually, I would beg to differ with you in this Alfvaen.  *all* of the
> references I have available to me allow the use of Per Cross, including
> A.C. Fox-Davies 'The art of Heraldry'.  I would prefer to reserver
> Quarterly for the combination of arms, and Per Cross for the simple arms
> as I have done.

On your head be it, then!  Each usage of "per cross" will be like a
dagger in my breast, but I shall not quail!

> >But it's also used in the more humble case when you just have your field
> >divided as if by a cross into four quarters of alternating colours.  So
> >"quarterly Gules & Or" is what our current Herald would be blazoning
> >"Per cross Gules & Or".

> See above, and if you have AC Fox-Davies book available look at page 61,
> the description for the arms emblazoned on plate IX, number 25, which is
> blazoned (and I quote) 'Per cross argent and sable, or alternatively,
> quarterly argent and sable'.  Given that both are correct I choose to
> reserve one for a specific meaning and use the other.  Fox-Davies does
> note that quarterly is more common, but again, this is a judgement call
> that I made.

Actually, Fox-Davies is at a friend's, but I really don't think that "per
cross" and "quarterly" are anywhere equivalent in usage.  I mean, they
may mean the same, but I really don't recall seeing "per cross" hardly
at all.  And in Julian Franklyn's _Heraldry_, it says "per pale and per
fess together giving four boxes is simply called quarterly, or to be
precise, quarterly of four."  "Per cross" turns up exactly zero times
therein.

> >(The other exception is more rare; there is a Y-shaped charge, moderately
> >rare, called a pall, and when the field is divided correspondingly, it
> >is called "tierced in pairle".)

> Per pall and tierced in pairle are both equally correct (at least
> according to some sources).  I would however use tierced in pairle rather
> then per pall in this case. However, both of those forms are not found in
> *british* heraldry.  That however does not make them illegal since they
> have reached some acceptance elsewhere.

Franklyn doesn't mention anything about "tierced in pairle" being
exclusively British, but he mentions the alternative description being
"per chevron and in chief per pale" rather than "per pall", which I have
seen even less than "per cross"(which, as you may recall, I have never
seen).

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Donovan's Greatest Hits
Current Book--Michael Coney:Cat Karina
From the sleep of reason, a life is born.

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 21:18:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel Ricker" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Once again

It seems a perfect time to start a  demonstration this can be fun -- 
Standing out in front of the library, I, too, yell:

The Earth IS Round I tell you! Black is NOT NOT NOT NOT a color!

- -- JJ

> Why not? Being burnt could be an interesting experience.
> 
> Standing up in front of my house, I, too, yell:
> 
> The Earth is Round! Black is nor a colour neither a color!
> 
> Ayla
> 
> > > Glaring quietly at H*bert, I climb to the top of the Monolith, and
> taking
> > > a Megaphone so that all within Acka can hear, I scream.
> > > 
> > > The Earth is Round!  Black is NOT a color!
> > 
> > Always being quick(ish) to pick up on a good idea, I follow suit: (except
> > that I spell it right?)
> > 
> > The Earth is Round! Black is NOT a colour!  
> > 
> > I invite all members of the Church to the Evil Ballot Stuffer to join in.
> > If we're going to be bad, let's be really bad together!
> > 
> > Go on - make it a joint hearing. I dare you.
> 

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

     Joel Ricker [] [email-masked] [] ICQ# 6244364
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