Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #349
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ackanomic digest        Monday, October 5 1998        Volume 03 : Number 349

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 02:44:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Stuff

I return from Vacation.  I become Active.  I become Voting.

(Redundancy never hurts, and can't harm you either.)

I point my Big Blue Thing at K 2, press the button marked "Energize"
(located inside the tailpipe this time, which confused me for a while),
and don't supply an anagram 'cause I got Huberted outta it.

I name both my Silly Vacation Hat and my nose "Nameless Thing #X," and
describe each as "A large conical structure covered with obscure (and not
far from obscene) runes in all colors of the rainbow except black (for
such is not a color), harf (for the color of Harf is invisible to all
those who are not In the Know), and green (it's been done).  It has the
power to allow its wearer to amend the Rules in any manner, as long as e
immediately afterwards amends a random Rule to include the text 
"I was sitting, listening, seeing. hearing.
and their it happened
plunk!
a seed from the sky or my perceived two demensionally sky. Fell thud.
I sucked it up and spit it out.
And there it grows." 
[ Kent Stadler, "Re: Acka: message to the president)" ]
and then changes the Rules right back to the way they
were.  Useless, you say?  Well, that's why it's Silly."  Additionally, my
nose has the board move of being able to move to any square on the chess
board as long as it is neither occupied nor unoccupied.

I have found Treasure 230, whose map was, in full, as follows:

"This Treasure shall be found upon 867-5309's return from Vacation by a
random qualified player.  A qualified player is a player who has posted at
least one public message during 867-5309's absence and whose every public
message during that time satisfied the conditions for being Hosed by a BWG
laser (i.e., they would not have lost any money for the message had they
been Hosed and had at least A$79.)  If a player transfers A$79 to 867-5309
in the body of a message which does not satisfy those conditions, that
message shall be considered to have fulfilled those conditions for the
purpose of this Treasure.  If no players have fulfilled these requirements
upon 867-5309's return, 867-5309 emself shall find this Treasure.

Since no other player (that I noticed) spoke entirely in poetry while I
was gone, and since I did post one message (the potato pan one) which was
in rhyming couplets, I found the treasure.  If you're tempted to call a
gold digger on me, remember that you too could have found it with a little
song and dance.  I did intend to give all of that away if someone actually
found it, and it was a minimal effort for a rather large reward.  (I
realize that I originally intended to be gone until mid-October, but my
early return was, I assure you, quite unintentional and no evidence of
deviousness on my part.)  This, however, does not stop the Goose from
sneering, nor from taking up residence with me.

Since Wild Card at least gave it a try, I create a trinket worth A$35
called "Wild Card's Consolation Prize" and the description

"Well, even if eir
Haiku had eighteen syllables
At least *some*one tried."

I attempt to gift Wild Card's Consolation Prize to Wild Card, but too
late, unfortunately: it is whisked out of my hands and into eir possession
by R506.

I remove my proxy from the Twits, the Order of the Razor Boomerang, and
the Razor Boomerangs.  I suggest the Order of the Razor Boomerang use its
Secret Lab to build a Good Ballot Stuffer in my possession while I'm still
able to dictatorially control it.  This, I believe, will happen in three
days since I'm the Founder.

I change my name to "The Green Ripper".

That should be it for now.

- - 867-5309

Five out of four people are schizophrenic. 

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 02:52:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stuff

I go to *that* room
- --Anathema
  Dungeon Master - Religious Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:09:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bryan Federico" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Raft (K 2)

>K 2 has found the Raft.
Hey K2 I have the oars 
And I want to raft

Altra The FireCat

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:12:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: XAzij

Seeing as it's been about a week, I release the following Xazij publicly.

Xazij #9 Cost: A$6 

Matching Spell Book and Shades of LILITH VELKOR

Description: "She was known both for her uncanny ability
to unify people and her seemingly negative talent of seperating even the
closest of friends.  Contrary to propaganda, she was a champion of order,
and indeed it was she who developed the Illuminati-dominated
number-and-letter ordering systems that we still use today."

199-05-194-00-206-04-200-04-205-05-198-04-197-03-198-02-211-17
215-07-198-00-222-02-208-10-214-06-206-04-211-11-210-08-213-19
226-04-222-12-230-00-225-03-220-04-231-01-222-12-214-06-216-16
236-02-235-03-194-40-226-04-227-05-195-37-190-26-220-12-170-32
205-37-137-07-148-08-188-42-233-01-194-48-180-40-200-32-177-01

Xazij #14 Cost: A$10 

Matched Set of Model Eye and Pyramid

Description: "In Eris We Trust is written on the back of each Ackadollar...
and there's that funny pyramid, with the writing so small you can just
barely make it out"

TUPIA SOTL QTS IUUISIA DU DRIRNOD SOT DAN CANEUM OXA UNII RESU AXT QRIICES
TA TTAHTIDA ITITLINEMN DNUPIAILC

Then I bury them and reveal the following map fragment

Th*s* X*z*j w*ll b* f**nd b* th* pl***r wh* f*nds m* tr**s*r* w*th th*
s*cr*d ch** *n *t

- --Anathema
  Dungeon Master - Religious Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:13:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Raft (K 2)

At 03:09 AM 10/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>K 2 has found the Raft.
>Hey K2 I have the oars 
>And I want to raft
>

I want to come along
- --Anathema
  Dungeon Master - Religious Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:34:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: [none]

I aim my Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Much, Really at Anathema
and press the button marked "ENERGIZE."  I supply the anagram "A Mean
Hat."  (Yes, including the period.)

I support the admission of A Mean Hat. into the Order of the Razor
Boomerangs as long as e doesn't try to get an EBS. :-)

Of course, this is moot as the suggestion was made when my approval was
proxied, but s.f.w.?

- - 867-5309

If guns are outlawed, what will we shoot liberals with? 

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:36:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stuff

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>I change my name to "The Green Ripper".

I acknowledge this name change, and welcome my brother Boomerang back to
the game.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

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# Player: Anathema
# Ackanomicon Determination
# based on the following (using a 49 sided die)
#  1 - 15 Arcane Trivia
# 16 - 20 Vile Prophecies
# 21 - 25 Inner Workings
# 26 - 30 Arcane Lore
# 31 - 33 Terrorizing Pages
# 34 - 34 Ancient Artifact
# 35 - 36 Mutation
# 37 - 38 Dark Domain
# 39 - 40 Long Lost Treasure
# 41 - 41 Forbidden Fruit
# 42 - 42 Catastrophe
# 43 - 46 Not so Forbidden Fruit
# 47 - 47 Ancient One
# 48 - 49 Judgement Day

No. of sides on every die:     49
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:42:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Rafting

I declare a rafting trip

K2 And Altra have the raft and oars
IB and I will row

I huberted MTM, sorry

- --Anathema
  Dungeon Master - Religious Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:43:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: your mail

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>I aim my Really Big Blue Thing That Doesn't Do Much, Really at Anathema
>and press the button marked "ENERGIZE."  I supply the anagram "A Mean
>Hat."  (Yes, including the period.)

I am unclear as to whether the previous 'not fully specified' attempt to
use this on K 2 causes the RBBTTDDMR to explode here.

I'm going to harf this name change as having occured unless someone can
argue that it did explode on an unsuccessful attempt to use it.

- --JT

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:48:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination

A windfall of A$50!! I donate A$50 to JAM.

- --A Mean Hat.
  Dungeon Master - Religious Caste - Crazy French Scotsman - Really Weird

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:54:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Rafting Trip

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# Players: K 2, Altra, IdiotBoy and A Mean Hat
# Rafting Trip results
# 1 - Broken Conservation laws
# 2 - Lost in the Wilds
# 3 - Capsize/loss of items
# 4 - Capsize/Concussion
# 5 - Success/Boon/Daring Adventurer/7 Points

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

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 03:56:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Probabilistic Boon of the Ancients

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# Player: K 2, Altra, IdiotBoy, A Mean Hat
# Reason: Rafting the river
# Boon of the Ancients determination
# based on the following (using a 100 sided die)
#   1 -  45     Ancient Artifact
#  46 -  70     Ancient Scroll (Otzma Card)
#  71 -  80     Gods Smile (Bonus Vote) 
#  81 -  87     Ancient Relic (Trinket - Must Describe)
#  88 -  92     Ancient Knowledge (Discovery - Must Describe)
#  93 -  97     Ancient Wisdom (New Otzma Card - Must Describe)
#  98 -  99     Gods are Bored (Pointy Ears)
# 100 - 100     Gods are Grouchy (Goose)

No. of sides on every die:    100
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    4
No. of rolls per line:          4

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> #P [email-masked]
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> #C Player: K 2, Altra, IdiotBoy, A Mean Hat
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> #C based on the following (using a 100 sided die)
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> #C   1 -  45  Ancient Artifact
> #C  46 -  70  Ancient Scroll (Otzma Card)
> #C  71 -  80  Gods Smile (Bonus Vote) 
> #C  81 -  87  Ancient Relic (Trinket - Must Describe)
> #C  88 -  92  Ancient Knowledge (Discovery - Must Describe)
> #C  93 -  97  Ancient Wisdom (New Otzma Card - Must Describe)
> #C  98 -  99  Gods are Bored (Pointy Ears)
> #C 100 - 100  Gods are Grouchy (Goose)
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 04:02:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: SBoC Random Otzma Card determination

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# Player: K 2
# This is determining the Otzma Card aquired as a random Boon of the
# Ancients
# The determination is made according to the following table
# A value of - means that card cannot be selected for some reason.
#  -    Go Fish                 (at max instance)
#  1    Map Shard
#  -    Summon Tornado          (at max instance)
#  2    Share My Expenses
#  3    Share Your Income
#  -    Swinging Sale           (at max instance)
#  -    Tactical Retreat        (at max instance)
#  4    Paratroop
#  -    Foul Fowl               (at max instance)
#  5    Truthseeker
#  -    Fix My Gadget           (at max instance)
#  6    Art Thief
#  -    Skeleton Key            (at max instance)
#  7    Artic Explorer
#  8    Lay Off!
#  9    Founder's Boon
# 10    Roulette Wheel
# 11    Training Regime
# 12    Shield
# 13    ACME InstaGadget
# 14    Felicitous Populi
# 15   Enslavement

No. of sides on every die:     15
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

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> #T Acka: SBoC Random Otzma Card determination
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> #C Player: K 2
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> #C Ancients
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> #C The determination is made according to the following table
> #C A value of - means that card cannot be selected for some reason.
> #C
> #C  - Go Fish                 (at max instance)
> #C  1 Map Shard
> #C  - Summon Tornado          (at max instance)
> #C  2 Share My Expenses
> #C  3 Share Your Income
> #C  - Swinging Sale           (at max instance)
> #C  - Tactical Retreat        (at max instance)
> #C  4 Paratroop
> #C  - Foul Fowl               (at max instance)
> #C  5 Truthseeker
> #C  - Fix My Gadget           (at max instance)
> #C  6 Art Thief
> #C  - Skeleton Key            (at max instance)
> #C  7 Artic Explorer
> #C  8 Lay Off!
> #C  9 Founder's Boon
> #C 10 Roulette Wheel
> #C 11 Training Regime
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> #C 13 ACME InstaGadget
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> #C 15   Enslavement
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 04:02:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stuff

On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, JT wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
> >I change my name to "The Green Ripper".
> 
> I acknowledge this name change, and welcome my brother Boomerang back to
> the game.

I offer JT my Spell Book of Chorg (the Boomerangs' communal one) in
exchange for one of his own.

I wait a little bit, giggle, and rescind the above offer.

I offer JT my Spell Book of Chorg.

Just as eir hand reaches out to take it, I retract mine, along with the
offer.  I giggle again.

I offer JT my Spell Book of Chorg.  (This could go on all night...)

- - The Green Ripper

If guns are outlawed, what will we shoot liberals with? 

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 04:03:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Probabilistic Gadget

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Dice rolls requested by: JT <[email-masked]>
Rolls also sent to:
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# Player: IdiotBoy
# Aquired a random gadget as a random boon of the ancients
# It was determined by the following schedule
#  1    - Scroll of Crumble
#  2    - Really Big Blue Thing
#  3    - Whamiol
#  4    - Vending Machine
#  5    - Automatic Sculpture
#  7    - Evil Ballot Stuffer
#  8    - Spell Book of Chorg
#  9    - Plunky Monkey Wrench
# 10    - Cheez-Whiz
# 11    - Silver Spaceship
# 12    - BWG Laser
# 13    - Butler
# 14    - Pyraic Frobnotzer
# 15    - BWG Laser Shotgun Attachment
# 16    - Good Ballot Stuffer
# 17    - Transtemporal Holographic Image Recording Device
# 18    - Guardian Angel
# 19    - Highlander's Sword

No. of sides on every die:     19
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    1
No. of rolls per line:          1

     19

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Original message follows:
> From [email-masked]  Mon Oct  5 01:03:03 1998
> Received: (from smtp@localhost) by xkey.com
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> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
> From: JT <[email-masked]>
> To: Dice Server <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Acka: Gadget
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 19
> #D 1
> #R 1
> #L 1
> #T Acka: Probabilistic Gadget
> 
> #C Player: IdiotBoy
> #C Aquired a random gadget as a random boon of the ancients
> #C It was determined by the following schedule
> #C
> #C  1         - Scroll of Crumble
> #C  2 - Really Big Blue Thing
> #C  3 - Whamiol
> #C  4 - Vending Machine
> #C  5 - Automatic Sculpture
> #C  7 - Evil Ballot Stuffer
> #C  8 - Spell Book of Chorg
> #C  9 - Plunky Monkey Wrench
> #C 10 - Cheez-Whiz
> #C 11 - Silver Spaceship
> #C 12 - BWG Laser
> #C 13 - Butler
> #C 14 - Pyraic Frobnotzer
> #C 15 - BWG Laser Shotgun Attachment
> #C 16 - Good Ballot Stuffer
> #C 17 - Transtemporal Holographic Image Recording Device
> #C 18 - Guardian Angel
> #C 19 - Highlander's Sword
> 
> 
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> [ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
> [ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 04:10:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stuff

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Eric Plumb wrote:
>I offer JT my Spell Book of Chorg.  (This could go on all night...)

I accept the book of Chorg which The Green Ripper just offered me.

I note that it is on page 10, and will read it soon.

- --JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 04:14:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Rafting trip

For the third time in a row, a rafting trip has been successful.
Have the fearsome rapids been tamed?

K 2, A Mean Hat, Altra the FireCat and IdiotBoy all gain 7 points, the
title of Daring Adventurer (any other players lose this title), and the
following boons.

K 2 gains an ancient scroll of Arctic Explorer.
A Mean Hat gains a bonus vote from smiling gods.
Altra the FireCat is given an Ancient Relic which he Must Describe.
IdiotBoy is given a fearsome Highlander Sword.

I salute all of them, most especially IdiotBoy with my own Highlander
Sword, and utter the cryptic words, "There can be only one!"

- --JT

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[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 13:19:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Rafting

Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

> I declare a rafting trip
>
> K2 And Altra have the raft and oars
> IB and I will row
>
> I huberted MTM, sorry

I blow a raspberry at TEFKAWeishaupt for this.
I then thwapp em for failing to realise that my name hasn't been MTM for,
well, a bit now.
I then point out to em that I have an agenda hat about being a daring
adventurer and may be willing to take eir sine of a googleplex hat off eir
hands, even though I still believe it to be true. (for a price of course :-))

RMR, pondering eir next name change (for number 7 :-)).

- --
Tom Walmsley [email-masked]
http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html
AIM: TGW666 ICQ 2925739
Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo.

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:42:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Potato (AJ)

AJ has found the Potato this week.
404 Not Found has the Tuba.

- --JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 15:01:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: My shiny new sword.

Ermm, what exactly are the benefits of having a Highlander's Sword?  I see
nothing but negatives...

IB
coward

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 17:53:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Duel

I, /dev/joe, acting as second for JT, hereby present a challenge to
a duel to IdiotBoy.  JT mentioned "There can be only one!"

/dev/joe

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:00:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Randy Hall <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: (Acka:Acka:Acka:) your mail

JT wrote:

[...]

geez, where's the postmaster when you need em? :-)

saaremaa
sorry

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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:03:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: (Acka:Acka:Acka:) your mail

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Randy Hall wrote:
>JT wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>geez, where's the postmaster when you need em? :-)

*laugh* Blame the person I replied to :)

- --JT

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[ Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.                  ]
[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 23:56:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Fictionary Round 1

With less than a day to go before the end of the round, there is still at
least one person who hasn't sent in a definition.  Seeing as how this is
the first round and all, I'm trying extra special hard to get all of your
lazy, forgetful, err, butts... in gear!  So come on, at least manage to
stick with the game through the first round. If you don't know what the
Ing word is, well, its not like you were going to get the correct
definition anyway...

Brainiac Vynd

P.S. I sent this to the main list because I thought some of our players
might not be watching the games list too closely. My apologies to that
portion of Acka who likes to keep their personal email levels to a dull
roar.

[email-masked]

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