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ackanomic digest       Wednesday, July 29 1998       Volume 03 : Number 249

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 03:45:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spell book

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, JT wrote:

> I offer the spellbook of Chorg in my possession to 867-5309

I accept.  Pretty convenient how Ayla and JJ seem to have dropped out of
the picture rather precipitously, ain't it?

I offer the Spellbook and A$7 to /dev/joe and request a card of type
Felicitous Populi if e wouldn't mind.

- - 867-5309

I tease my plants by watering them with ice cubes. 

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 04:26:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3338

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> > {{
> >    If the player with the Real Life Name of Tom Walmsley has the Ackanomic
> >    Name of 'Eric Plumb' or any anagram thereof, that player is renamed to
> >    Mr. Tambourine Man.
> > }}
> 
> Okay then, I can't resist. I change my name to "Brie Clump".

And I mine to "Small Mew Toy".

Heck, who needs a Blue Thing when one has a Standard Harfer Fee?

- - 867-5309, who rejected gems such as "Me Tall Swamy," "We Myll Atoms,"
"Meat 'm Slowly," and "My Mow-All Set."

I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:19:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Name Change

> I am changing my *real* name to Eric Plumb.

I politely but firmly refuse to acknowledge this.

breadbox

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:27:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: RuneMaker

>> I remember nomination being called for the post of RuneMaker.
>> I also recall nominating myself for that post.
>> I haven't seen anything further on this, and it's been since before Slakko
>> left on vacation.
>> 
>> I seem to recall that breadbox is the person in charge of that election?
>> or am I misremembering and it's really MTM?  Regardless, it should proceed
>> apace.
> 
> I know I didn't start any nomination for this so it was probably with
> breadbox.

I see there is some confusion here. Count Tabula is always in charge
of all Elections currently in progress. When the Office changes hands,
the duties concomitant with the current Elections changes hands as
well.

I should have sent MTM an explicit private email informing him of the
state of the Nominations I had called while he was on vacation. The
reasons I didn't (besides my own disorganization) are 1) he returned
while I was having connection problems, and 2) nothing had happened.
The only Nomination for which I received anything was for the
Historian Office, which was cancelled when Malenkai again left the
game.

breadbox

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:20:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spell book

867-5309 wrote:
> I offer the Spellbook and A$7 to /dev/joe and request a card of type
> Felicitous Populi if e wouldn't mind.

Sorry, that scam bait costs A$40 to create.

/dev/joe
Proprietor, /dev/joe's Spellbook Reading Service

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:31:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3338

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>> Okay then, I can't resist. I change my name to "Brie Clump".
>
>And I mine to "Small Mew Toy".

As with Brie Clump's change yesterday, I don't have any reason to object
to this change, and so I will ack it.

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:36:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: RuneMaker

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Brian Raiter wrote:
>>> I remember nomination being called for the post of RuneMaker.
>
>I should have sent MTM an explicit private email informing him of the
>state of the Nominations I had called while he was on vacation. The
>reasons I didn't (besides my own disorganization) are 1) he returned
>while I was having connection problems, and 2) nothing had happened.
>The only Nomination for which I received anything was for the
>Historian Office, which was cancelled when Malenkai again left the
>game.

As I said above, I do recall nominating myself for the post of runemaker.

Here is the copy of the mail from my sent-mail folder

>Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:23:24 -0700 (PDT)
>From: JT <[email-masked]>
>To: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Re: Acka: Once again, I am Count Tabula
>In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]>
>Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Brian Raiter wrote:
>
>>The Office of RuneMaker is vacant. I am hereby announcing a Nomination
>>for this office.
>
>I nominate myself for RuneMaker.
>
>--JT

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:17:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3338

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, JT wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
> >> Okay then, I can't resist. I change my name to "Brie Clump".
> >
> >And I mine to "Small Mew Toy".
> 
> As with Brie Clump's change yesterday, I don't have any reason to object
> to this change, and so I will ack it.
> 
> --JT
> 

What about my name change?

                             - The Wages of Vynd?

[email-masked]

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:59:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3338

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, JT wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>> >> Okay then, I can't resist. I change my name to "Brie Clump".
>> >
>> >And I mine to "Small Mew Toy".
>> 
>> As with Brie Clump's change yesterday, I don't have any reason to object
>> to this change, and so I will ack it.
>> 
>> --JT
>> 
>
>What about my name change?

My apologies Vynd.  I thought I had, but see I was mistaken.  I ack your
name change from 'The Wages of Sin' back to 'Vynd'.

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:23:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spell book

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:

> 867-5309 wrote:
> > I offer the Spellbook and A$7 to /dev/joe and request a card of type
> > Felicitous Populi if e wouldn't mind.
> 
> Sorry, that scam bait costs A$40 to create.

Grumble. :-)  I retract the above offer and retire to check out the new
additions to the OC Rule Suite once more.

On second thought, if I'm still on the moon, I don't even have the
Spellbook and am just deluding myself into thinking I do.  As is the case
with with me going to the Library (twice), playing a song on the ASS, and
reading the Ackanomicon.

- - 867-5309

This sentance has three errers. 

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:08:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: RuneMaker

> I see there is some confusion here. Count Tabula is always in charge
> of all Elections currently in progress. When the Office changes hands,
> the duties concomitant with the current Elections changes hands as
> well.
> 
> I should have sent MTM an explicit private email informing him of the
> state of the Nominations I had called while he was on vacation. The
> reasons I didn't (besides my own disorganization) are 1) he returned
> while I was having connection problems, and 2) nothing had happened.
> The only Nomination for which I received anything was for the
> Historian Office, which was cancelled when Malenkai again left the
> game.

Okay then. I start an election for the RuneMaker office if it is vacant (I
seem to recall it was). You may reply to nominate yourself.

Brie Clumps, Count Tabula.

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:08:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Fw: Acka: CFJ 634 (867-5309)

My email program is being seriously awkward at the moment (damn Micro$oft!)
so it would take more time than I have at the moment to write this up
properly. Instead, I'm just sending you this forward.

On a (slightly) different note, if anyone happens to be an expert on win95
and related software (MS internet mail) and wants to try to help me out
(two-star, you do that sort of thing don't you?) then it would be much
appreciated.

Brie Clumps, CotC.

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> From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
> To: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 634 (867-5309)
> Date: 29 July 1998 09:02
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:
> 
> I am going to have to judge this TRUE with the following
> REASONING-delimited reasoning:
> 
> REASONING
> This CFJ is trivially TRUE.  My name is Eric Plumb; 'former' means
> 'existing in a prior time,' and not necessarily 'no longer existing'
> (I actually, in the grand Ackan tradition of blame reallocation, checked
> the Definition Lookup Dictionaries on this one), and hence Eric Plumb is
a
> former name of mine as well as a current one.
> 
> Unfortunately, this judgement has no bearing on the case at hand.
> /dev/joe summed up the issue rather nicely in eir Bronze Torch reasoning,
> and I might tend to agree with em, but the author's phrasing of the
> statement leaves me no option but triviality.
> 
> Not that I usually exercise any other options anyway.
> REASONING
> 
> > In a rather odd twist of fate my dice have selected 867-5309.
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Call for Judgement 634 - July 20, 1998
> > Subject: Player Names
> > Initiator: JT (Sent 26 Jul 1998, 20:15 Acka time)
> > Judge: 867-5309 (Selected 27 Jul 1998, 19:04 Acka time)
> > 
> > Statement:
> > Eric Plumb is a former name of the player currently known as 867-5309.
> > 
> > Reasoning:
> > It has been game custom (see CFJ 584) that a players RL name may be
used
> > to refer to them.  The question then becomes one of whether a RL name
is a
> > former name of the player.  I would say that when a player first joins
> > Ackanomic they have two names, one, their RL name is 'former' in that
it
> > is the name used to reference them before they joined Ackanomic.  
Since
> > we allow it as an unambiguous reference to a player, and since it
doesn't
> > break anything to treat it this way, and in fact make a whole lot of
> > sense, I ask that this be judged true so that it becomes a formal part
of
> > game custom.
> > 
> > If this is judged true, then the currently attempted name changes of
> > 867-5309 to Tom Walmsley and Mr. Tambourine Man to Eric Plumb would
fail
> > as they are at that point attempting an illegal name change according
to
> > the following part of rule 348.
> > 
> >   No named entity may have a name that matches a former name of any
> >   current or former player, except that a player may have a name e
> >   previously held.
> > 
> > 
> 
> - 867-5309
> 
> I tease my plants by watering them with ice cubes. 
> 

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:38:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Observer

Thanks for Alfvaen for forwarding this on to me.  (References pointing to
Alfvaen as registrar need to be updated in the majordomo intro messages
and stuff)

We have a new observer watching the game who has subscribed himself to the
main ackanomic list.  I've dropped him some mail as well.

So, without further ado, please welcome
     Bernard El-Hagin <[email-masked]>

- --JT

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:53:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spell book

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>On second thought, if I'm still on the moon, I don't even have the
>Spellbook and am just deluding myself into thinking I do.  As is the case
>with with me going to the Library (twice), playing a song on the ASS, and
>reading the Ackanomicon.

I'm not sure if you are still on the moon or not, but if you are then I
couldn't have gotten the spell book from you either (fortunately this was
over 14 days ago, so it's pretty irrelevant at this point)
Anyone have any record of Small Mew Toy (or whatever he was called then :)
returning from the moon after I did?  (I know I came back before he did).

I will hold off on removing his song requests from the ASS history
until after it's confirmed as to whether or not he's on the moon or on
Acka.

- --JT

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