Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #252
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ackanomic digest       Saturday, August 1 1998       Volume 03 : Number 252

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 04:00:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3338

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Gavin M. Doig wrote:
>I have pointed my Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Too Much, Really at
>Brie Clump, and pressed the ENERGIZE button, giving the anagram "Eric Plumb".

I was actually waiting for/expecting someone to do this :)  And I actually
know from previous CFJ's that the RBBTTDDTMR will in fact allow an
otherwise (possibly) illegal name such as this :)

So.. Brie Clump is now Eric Plumb and I hope to hell I'm wrong about the
player with RL name of Tom Walmsley's ability to use this to cause havoc
and destruction.  (Oh wait, he's Scaremonger (maybe) not me :)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 04:15:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka : akcA

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, JT wrote:
>> However, if I didn't, they might now be named 'Eric Plumb' and 'Tom
>> Walmsley' since the 3 days timeout for the first attempted name change
>> would occur after the ack of the second name change.
>
>Ah, someone else noticed.  I thought this was extremely amusing, and I
>rather hope it happens.  But then, I'm rather hoping the Apocalypse *will*
>come in 2000 also.  (When the computers turn back into pumpkins.)

Based on /dev/joes reasoning (which he helpfully appended to the CFJ) and
the fact that the rules really don't let me object for 'any' reason but
only 2 specific ones, I'm reluctantly giving up the argument and changing
the name since I believe it has now actually occured.  
The proposals currently in the queue (if they pass) will correct these
names as needed shortly (hopefully).

We now return you to your regularly scheduled madness.

- --JT, Registrar

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 09:04:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Very Belated Swingpoints

Swingpoints for 6th of July:

7: Koxvolio
7: Alfvaen
6: Niccolo Flychuck
5: Slakko
3: /dev/joe
1: Karma
1: Calvin N Hobbes
1: Robert Sevin (now Tin Observer)

Swingpoints for 20th of July:

7: Niccolo Flychuck
6: Koxvolio
5: Alfvaen
5: Slakko
3: /dev/joe
1: Karma
1: Calvin N Hobbes
1: Robert Sevin (now Tin Observer)
1: Crackfoo

Total Swingpoints as at 20th July:

79 /dev/joe
53 Niccolo Flychuck
42 Alfvaen
37 Brie Clump
37 Koxvolio
26 Slakko
10 rufus
 7 K 2
 6 JT
 6 Guy Fawkes
 5 Attila the Pun
 5 Fortunato
 5 Karma
 5 Calvin N Hobbes
 5 Robert Sevin
 4 breadbox
 3 ThinMan
 3 two-star
 3 Wild Card
 2 IdiotBoy
 2 Vynd
 1 Crackfoo

- -- 
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 - Web-Harfer,RuneMaker,ChessUmpire,Map-Harfer - www.ackanomic.org

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 10:19:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Agendas?

Shouldn't the Illuminatus have made a call for Agenda Conditions in this
cycle?

- -- 
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 - Web-Harfer,RuneMaker,ChessUmpire,Map-Harfer - www.ackanomic.org

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 16:14:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CSR

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, JT wrote:
>I am issuing the following CSR, which is numbered 144 delimited by VINGE
>VINGE
>Add the Artist: Vernor Vinge (Author of True Names) to the Literature List
>VINGE

The above CSR was accepted without any objections.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 16:24:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Map-Harferness

A Really Bad Earthquake has happened.

Fortunately, it is now business as usual.
This was an aesthetic earthquake - it arranged many people's land units
into contiguous blocks.  Tamson House even managed to become contiguous.

However, there is still the problem of those floating buildings.  As
all buildings are attached to the kaa to which they were built, they
must be depicted as joined to a kaa on the map.

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 - Web-Harfer,RuneMaker,ChessUmpire,Map-Harfer - www.ackanomic.org

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 17:33:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : donation

I donate A$200 to the Church of Odo on the Worm Hole

Niccolo Flychcuk

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 18:33:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Dice server automated response

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# To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
# JT gets one anyway.
# The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
# And please go easy on me if I've done this wrong :-)
# 1. Alfvaen
# 2. Attila the Pun
# 3. breadbox
# 4. Calvin N Hobbes
# 5. /dev/joe
# 6. else...if
# 7. Ethelred
# 8. Eric Plumb
# 9. Fortunato
# 10. IdiotBoy
# 11. J. M. Bear
# 12. K 2
# 13. Niccolo Flychuck
# 14. Publius
# 15. Rex Mundi
# 16. Slakko
# 17. ThinMan
# 18.Tom Walmsley
# 19. two-star
# 20. Vynd

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No. of dice for every roll:    10
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          5

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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 20
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> #C To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
> #C JT gets one anyway.
> #C The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
> #C And please go easy on me if I've done this wrong :-)
> #C 1. Alfvaen
> #C 2. Attila the Pun
> #C 3. breadbox
> #C 4. Calvin N Hobbes
> #C 5. /dev/joe
> #C 6. else...if
> #C 7. Ethelred
> #C 8. Eric Plumb
> #C 9. Fortunato
> #C 10. IdiotBoy
> #C 11. J. M. Bear
> #C 12. K 2
> #C 13. Niccolo Flychuck
> #C 14. Publius
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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 18:37:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Dice server automated response

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# To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
# JT gets one anyway.
# The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
# I said I would get it wrong, didn't I :-)
# 1. Alfvaen
# 2. Attila the Pun
# 3. breadbox
# 4. Calvin N Hobbes
# 5. /dev/joe
# 6. else...if
# 7. Ethelred
# 8. Eric Plumb
# 9. Fortunato
# 10. IdiotBoy
# 11. J. M. Bear
# 12. K 2
# 13. Niccolo Flychuck
# 14. Publius
# 15. Rex Mundi
# 16. Slakko
# 17. ThinMan
# 18.Tom Walmsley
# 19. two-star
# 20. Vynd

No. of sides on every die:     20
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:   10
No. of rolls per line:          5

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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 20
> #D 1
> #R 10
> #L 5
> #C To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
> #C JT gets one anyway.
> #C The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
> #C I said I would get it wrong, didn't I :-)
> #C 1. Alfvaen
> #C 2. Attila the Pun
> #C 3. breadbox
> #C 4. Calvin N Hobbes
> #C 5. /dev/joe
> #C 6. else...if
> #C 7. Ethelred
> #C 8. Eric Plumb
> #C 9. Fortunato
> #C 10. IdiotBoy
> #C 11. J. M. Bear
> #C 12. K 2
> #C 13. Niccolo Flychuck
> #C 14. Publius
> #C 15. Rex Mundi
> #C 16. Slakko
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> #C 18.Tom Walmsley
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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 18:49:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Speaker

I am reliably informed that the nomination period for the office of Speaker is over. The following 
players nominated themselves:

Eric Plumb
JT
K 2
Slakko.

Slakko commented in eir nomination that e didn't overly want the job but would do it if no-one else 
wanted it (if e feels that I am mis-representing em then e should of course speak up) and I feel the 
same way. I therefore advise everyone to vote for either K 2 or JT. You may reply to vote.

Eric Plumb, Count Tabula.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 18:51:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Dice server automated response

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Dice rolls requested by: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Rolls also sent to:
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# To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
# JT gets one anyway.
# The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
# I said I would get it wrong, didn't I :-)
# 1. Alfvaen
# 2. Attila the Pun
# 3. breadbox
# 4. Calvin N Hobbes
# 5. /dev/joe
# 6. else...if
# 7. Ethelred
# 8. Eric Plumb
# 9. Fortunato
# 10. IdiotBoy
# 11. J. M. Bear
# 12. K 2
# 13. Niccolo Flychuck
# 14. Publius
# 15. Rex Mundi
# 16. Slakko
# 17. ThinMan
# 18.Tom Walmsley
# 19. two-star
# 20. Vynd
# To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
# JT gets one anyway.
# The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
# I said I would get it wrong, didn't I :-).
# and managed it again by not remembering the changes to pending (thanks JT).
# this time for real with all the eligible players.
# 1. Alfvaen
# 2. Attila the Pun
# 3. breadbox
# 4. Calvin N Hobbes
# 5. /dev/joe
# 6. else...if
# 7. Ethelred
# 8. Eric Plumb
# 9. Fortunato
# 10. IdiotBoy
# 11. J. M. Bear
# 12. K 2
# 13. Niccolo Flychuck
# 14. Publius
# 15. Rex Mundi
# 16. Slakko
# 17. ThinMan
# 18.Tom Walmsley
# 19. two-star
# 20. Vynd
# 21. Zaknafien Dourden

No. of sides on every die:     21
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:   10
No. of rolls per line:          5

      6     11     20      1     18
      2      8     17     14      4

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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 20
> #D 1
> #R 10
> #L 5
> #C To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
> #C JT gets one anyway.
> #C The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
> #C I said I would get it wrong, didn't I :-)
> #C 1. Alfvaen
> #C 2. Attila the Pun
> #C 3. breadbox
> #C 4. Calvin N Hobbes
> #C 5. /dev/joe
> #C 6. else...if
> #C 7. Ethelred
> #C 8. Eric Plumb
> #C 9. Fortunato
> #C 10. IdiotBoy
> #C 11. J. M. Bear
> #C 12. K 2
> #C 13. Niccolo Flychuck
> #C 14. Publius
> #C 15. Rex Mundi
> #C 16. Slakko
> #C 17. ThinMan
> #C 18.Tom Walmsley
> #C 19. two-star
> #C 20. Vynd
> #P [email-masked]
> #S 21
> #D 1
> #R 10
> #L 5
> #C To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
> #C JT gets one anyway.
> #C The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
> #C I said I would get it wrong, didn't I :-).
> #C and managed it again by not remembering the changes to pending (thanks JT).
> #C this time for real with all the eligible players.
> #C 1. Alfvaen
> #C 2. Attila the Pun
> #C 3. breadbox
> #C 4. Calvin N Hobbes
> #C 5. /dev/joe
> #C 6. else...if
> #C 7. Ethelred
> #C 8. Eric Plumb
> #C 9. Fortunato
> #C 10. IdiotBoy
> #C 11. J. M. Bear
> #C 12. K 2
> #C 13. Niccolo Flychuck
> #C 14. Publius
> #C 15. Rex Mundi
> #C 16. Slakko
> #C 17. ThinMan
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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 18:55:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Speaker

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:
>I am reliably informed that the nomination period for the office of
>Speaker is over. The following players nominated themselves: 
>
>Eric Plumb
>JT
>K 2
>Slakko.

So that no one else raises the issue, I will note that if I am elected
Speaker, I will be forced (by the rules) to resign as Senator (since
Speaker cannot hold the post of Senator).  However the rules do not
prevent a senator from nominating for, nor being elected Speaker and I
would very like the oppurtunity to serve Acka in that capacity.

Thank you.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 18:58:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Swords

># To see who get's the other Highlander's swords.
># JT gets one anyway.
># The first three unique numbers are the other three players to get one.
># I said I would get it wrong, didn't I :-).
># and managed it again by not remembering the changes to pending (thanks JT).
># this time for real with all the eligible players.
># 1. Alfvaen
># 2. Attila the Pun
># 3. breadbox
># 4. Calvin N Hobbes
># 5. /dev/joe
># 6. else...if
># 7. Ethelred
># 8. Eric Plumb
># 9. Fortunato
># 10. IdiotBoy
># 11. J. M. Bear
># 12. K 2
># 13. Niccolo Flychuck
># 14. Publius
># 15. Rex Mundi
># 16. Slakko
># 17. ThinMan
># 18.Tom Walmsley
># 19. two-star
># 20. Vynd
># 21. Zaknafien Dourden
>
>No. of sides on every die:     21
>No. of dice for every roll:     1
>No. of dice rolls requested:   10
>No. of rolls per line:          5
>
>      6     11     20      1     18
>      2      8     17     14      4

Unless anyone can spot any mistakes in this one then JT, else...if, Vynd and J. M. Bear all 
now own highlander's swords. Gentlebeings, start your dueling.

Eric Plumb, Acting Speaker.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 19:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Challenge (J. M. Bear)

"Here we are, born to be kings" JT was saying to me, "We're the princes of the universe." I nodded politely; confused 
about what he was on about. After a brief pause he then asked me to challenge J. M. Bear to a duel. "Why?" I asked. 
"In the end there can be only one!!" he responded. I haven't a clue what he was on about but that's never stopped me 
before. So, erm, J. M. Bear, consider yourself challenged. Choose your field of battle and your second. 

Eric Plumb.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 19:40:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: *That* room

As it is once more a new month, I gird my loins, go to the library and
enter *that* room.

I read *that* book.

(OiCoRT, please note that I do have the forked tongue, so if the page I
read has some random outcome, I have some chance of influencing the
effect)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 19:45:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka : akcA

> Based on /dev/joes reasoning (which he helpfully appended to the CFJ) and
> the fact that the rules really don't let me object for 'any' reason but
> only 2 specific ones, I'm reluctantly giving up the argument and changing
> the name since I believe it has now actually occured.  
> The proposals currently in the queue (if they pass) will correct these
> names as needed shortly (hopefully).
> 
> We now return you to your regularly scheduled madness.

If that's all the case, then (RL) Tom Walmsley took the name Eric
Plumb on July 29th 07:49 EDT, and (RL) Eric Plumb took the name Tom
Walmsley on July 29th 14:53 EDT (mere hours after the Registrar acked
the name change to Small Mew Toy).

Rex Mundi's attempt to use The Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do
Too Much, Really was therefore unsuccessful.

breadbox

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 20:18:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3349

>I would recommend for Publius to retract this proposal and resubmit it
>with the errors corrected.
>Also as someone else pointed out on the Ackanomic IRC channel while I was
>typing this, it should probably be a duty of the Tabulator, not the
>Promoter to make this determination (for now they are the same player,
>but)

I strongly object to the bit of this that requires any officer to act within 24 hours and will vote against this 
unless it is changed to 3 days. Other than that, I quite like this and would probabbly vote for this if that, 
and all of JT's other points were fixed.

Eric Plumb.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:25:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Agendas?

> Shouldn't the Illuminatus have made a call for Agenda Conditions in this
> cycle?

Oh, right, forgot about that.  We'll see if there's any greater response
to this than there was last time.  The official call will come in another
message.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Prince:Sign 'O' The Times
Current Book--Jo Clayton:Shadow of The Warmaster
Don't put all your legs in one basket.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:25:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Agendas

This is an official call for Agenda Conditions for the current Cycle(I
believe 23).  Any voting player with fewer than three Agenda Hats may
send me agenda conditions.  Read the Rules for further details.  :-)

You may reply to this message to do so, since unless I messed up majorly
it's going to acka-priv.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Prince:Sign 'O' The Times
Current Book--Jo Clayton:Shadow of The Warmaster
Money talks, but it can't sing & dance and it can't walk.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:26:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Map-Harferness

> Fortunately, it is now business as usual.
> This was an aesthetic earthquake - it arranged many people's land units
> into contiguous blocks.  Tamson House even managed to become contiguous.

Oh, no!  I missed that part, or I would've voted against it.  :-)

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Prince:Sign 'O' The Times
Current Book--Jo Clayton:Shadow of The Warmaster
Reluctant to find he's stuck in the 90's again...

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:30:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka : akcA

> > Based on /dev/joes reasoning (which he helpfully appended to the CFJ) and
> > the fact that the rules really don't let me object for 'any' reason but
> > only 2 specific ones, I'm reluctantly giving up the argument and changing
> > the name since I believe it has now actually occured.  
> > The proposals currently in the queue (if they pass) will correct these
> > names as needed shortly (hopefully).

> > We now return you to your regularly scheduled madness.

> If that's all the case, then (RL) Tom Walmsley took the name Eric
> Plumb on July 29th 07:49 EDT, and (RL) Eric Plumb took the name Tom
> Walmsley on July 29th 14:53 EDT (mere hours after the Registrar acked
> the name change to Small Mew Toy).

> Rex Mundi's attempt to use The Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do
> Too Much, Really was therefore unsuccessful.

In that case, I use _my_ Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Too Much,
Really, on our current Acting Speaker, Count Tabula, and Clerk of The
Courts, and declare eir new name to be Brie Clump.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Prince:Sign 'O' The Times
Current Book--Jo Clayton:Shadow of The Warmaster
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:41:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka : akcA

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
>> Rex Mundi's attempt to use The Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do
>> Too Much, Really was therefore unsuccessful.
>
>In that case, I use _my_ Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Too Much,
>Really, on our current Acting Speaker, Count Tabula, and Clerk of The
>Courts, and declare eir new name to be Brie Clump.

Trying to make my life hell are you eh?  :)  Well, not much I can do about
this, except rename him once more.

- --JT

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