Subject: ackanomic digest V3 #383
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ackanomic digest       Friday, October 30 1998       Volume 03 : Number 383

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:30:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Duck Season

At 12:54 PM 10/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I change the season to Duck.
>
>I create a trinket, named Bugs Bunny, valued at A$1000.  It is a two foot
>tall stuffed rendition of Warner Brothers' cartoon character Bugs Bunny.
>Whenever anyone within earshot says "Rabbit Season," Bugs Bunny says
>"Duck Season."  Although such a magnificent feat of audiocompulinguistic
>engineering would be worth the A$1000 all by itself, Bugs Bunny also
>happens to be carrying a 24-karat gold carrot weighing about two pounds.
>
>I donate Bugs Bunny to the museum, thereby becoming a Member.  (I don't
>believe I was one before, but I guess I could have been.)
>
>ThinMan
> 

I change the season to Wabbit

I create a trinket, called Daffy Duck, worth A$1000.  It is "a 2' stuffed
rendition of the cartoon character Daffy Duck.  Whenever anyone within
earshot says 'Duck Season,' Daffy Duck says 'Wabbit Season.'  Although such
a magnificent feat of audiocompulinguistic engineering would be worth the
A$1000 all by itself, Daffy Duck also happens to have A$569 stuffed in his
back pocket."

I give Daffy Duck to Gromit in thanks for go-fishing that SYI by Wild Card
about a week back

- --A Mean Hat.
Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon Master -- Art Thief -- Warrior Caste -- Crazy
French Scotsman -- Really Weird

- --"how does it feel, how does it feel, to be without a home, like a
complete unknown, like a rolling stone?" [Bob Dylan]

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:07:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Head Apollo" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Duck Season

>I change the season to Wabbit

You wascal wabbit!

I say "Rabbit season" hence causing a non-existent chain of events to occur
(or rather, to not occur).

eirs

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:08:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Head Apollo" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proto-Government determination

>(Fri, 06 Nov 1998 11:52:30 -0500):
>     Elected Assembly shall become the Active Government.
>     The Revolution shall end.
>
>Scaremonger, do your worst.
>
>--JT

I set my rebelliousness characteristic to ON. (Can't we just change this to
something cool like; "I'll never rule the universe with you!", ooh I feel a
proposal coming on... apart from the anarchy that is.)

Fools! Deluded yourself into the counterculture and now you will pay the
price!!! What was wrong with democracy? Wasn't it bad enough that we had a
small-group-of-people-totally-in-control-situation (ie Vulcan) before, but
now you've actually gone and voted one through!!!

I can only suggest that a vast swarm of violent non-entities should be
called down upon your heads for the stupidity of your actions. May vast
hordes of locusts not devour your crops, may fire and brimstone not scorch
your traditional spanish dishes and may your first-born not be killed at...
wait... no, too Jewish.

Um, where was I? Uh, yeah... And Babylon, the decoration of Kingdoms, the
beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, must become as when God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah...

eirs

(e's funky, e's stylish but eirs is the scaremonger.)

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:45:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Anarchy for now

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, JT wrote:
> 
> > The Proto-Government has been set to Elected Assembly.
> 
>  I set my rebeliousness characteristic to "on".

Me too.

- -The Green Ripper, who grew up on AOL.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? 

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 20:40:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Anarchy for now

The Green Ripper wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, JT wrote:
>> 
>> > The Proto-Government has been set to Elected Assembly.
>> 
>>  I set my rebeliousness characteristic to "on".
>
>Me too.
>

OK then, what's the point of even having the Governments rulesuite if we
never keep any government but Democracy?  If people are going to revolt
without even seeing how the government works then we should change the name
of the suite to "The No Rule Changes Every So Often Rule Suite".

Studge (who admits that he might have a little bias on this issue)

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:52:14 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3689 rejected

> >> I had forgotton that 3685 was retracted.  But 3584 wasn't listed on teh
> >>points log.

> >Also, you only get 1 point per vote, not 2, so it would take 12 props or 
> >less if some were foolish (double the points for foolish props)

> 3584 may not be, but 3684 is, right above 3683.

Alright, people, let me just say this:  Proposal 3684 was received by
the email server at muppetlabs.com before Proposal 3683(which the pointlog
doesn't reflect because it rounds down to the nearest minute).  That's
what I go by, not numerical order(except where the Rules mandate it).

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Chris de Burgh:Power of Ten
Current Book--Fritz Leiber:The Mind Spider & Other Stories
'Double-check the redundancy generator, will you?'

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:58:03 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Plonk

> I purchase the agenda hat owned by the mad hatters.

Do you wear this hat?  So far you don't seem to have.
Or does this just bring your count up for the below?

> I purchase an extra head.
> I reveal and wear the following hat: 6. The owner of this hat has owned
> exactly eleven different agenda hats.

> I make sure I am still wearing The "Mutton Chops" Hat(A8) and wear it if
> I am not.

You are, according to my records, which of course may be fatally flawed.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Chris de Burgh:Power of Ten
Current Book--Fritz Leiber:The Mind Spider & Other Stories
Do you see the noses growing?  Wonder where the truth is going.

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:04:53 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (John Bollinger)
Subject: Re: Acka: Anarchy for now

Senator Studge wrote:
>OK then, what's the point of even having the Governments rulesuite if we
>never keep any government but Democracy?  If people are going to revolt
>without even seeing how the government works then we should change the name
>of the suite to "The No Rule Changes Every So Often Rule Suite".

Just so.  I never was very fond of the governments rule suite to begin
with.

I probably would not feel so rebellious, however, if the the outcome of
the proto-government determination had not been stacked.

ThinMan

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:34:41 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Probabilistic Gadget

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Dice rolls requested by: JT <[email-masked]>
Rolls also sent to:
    [email-masked]

# Player: /dev/joe, K 2, ThinMan, Balsamic Dragon, Bascule
# The above players had their vending machines replaced with a random
# gadget.  The rolls are for those players in order.
# It was determined by the following schedule
#  1    - Scroll of Crumble
#  2    - Really Big Blue Thing
#  3    - Whamiol
#  4    - Automatic Sculpture
#  5    - Evil Ballot Stuffer
#  6    - Spell Book of Chorg
#  7    - Plunky Monkey Wrench
#  8    - Cheez-Whiz
#  9    - Silver Spaceship
# 10    - BWG Laser
# 11    - Butler
# 12    - Pyraic Frobnotzer
# 13    - BWG Laser Shotgun Attachment
# 14    - Good Ballot Stuffer
# 15    - Transtemporal Holographic Image Recording Device
# 16    - Guardian Angel
# 17    - Highlander's Sword

No. of sides on every die:     17
No. of dice for every roll:     1
No. of dice rolls requested:    5
No. of rolls per line:          5

      6     16     17     16      1

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> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:34:19 -0800 (PST)
> From: JT <[email-masked]>
> To: Dice Server <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Acka: Replacing Vending Machines
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> #P [email-masked]
> #S 17
> #D 1
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> #T Acka: Probabilistic Gadget
> 
> #C Player: /dev/joe, K 2, ThinMan, Balsamic Dragon, Bascule
> #C The above players had their vending machines replaced with a random
> #C gadget.  The rolls are for those players in order.
> #C
> #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 - Automatic Sculpture
> #C  5 - Evil Ballot Stuffer
> #C  6 - Spell Book of Chorg
> #C  7 - Plunky Monkey Wrench
> #C  8 - Cheez-Whiz
> #C  9 - Silver Spaceship
> #C 10 - BWG Laser
> #C 11 - Butler
> #C 12 - Pyraic Frobnotzer
> #C 13 - BWG Laser Shotgun Attachment
> #C 14 - Good Ballot Stuffer
> #C 15 - Transtemporal Holographic Image Recording Device
> #C 16 - Guardian Angel
> #C 17 - Highlander's Sword
> 
> 
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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:37:41 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Non-Player

Ayla today became a Non-Player.

Financier, please inform me if any trinkets were destroyed by this.

- --JT

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:38:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: sword-Thinman!

I offer thinman A$1 for his highlander's sword
- --A Mean Hat.
Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon Master -- Art Thief -- Warrior Caste -- Crazy
French Scotsman -- Really Weird

- --"She's a diamond in their dull gray lives--and that's the hardest kind of
stone" [Madonna, Evita]

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:50:26 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: CSR 163

> CSR 163:
> Add the following entry to the Literature List:
> Work: Cerebus ; comic series by Dave Sim

It has been more than three days since this was posted, and there was
at most one objection, so it is passed.

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- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Chris de Burgh:Power of Ten
Current Book--Fritz Leiber:The Mind Spider & Other Stories
"I mean, you know how stupid I am about plot."

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:51:16 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: A tribute to the sword

I psuedo-found the society named 'Arf wif eir ead'.

I invite Studge, A Mean Hat. /dev/joe and Gromit to join.

- --JT

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:20:25 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

> I psuedo-found the society named 'Arf wif eir ead'.
> 
> I invite Studge, A Mean Hat. /dev/joe and Gromit to join.

I announce my intent to join Arf wif eir ead.

/dev/joe

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:24:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

I announce my intent to join it too.

I pseudofound a society called "Way too tired to think of a good name"

same invitations

At 11:20 PM 10/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> I psuedo-found the society named 'Arf wif eir ead'.
>> 
>> I invite Studge, A Mean Hat. /dev/joe and Gromit to join.
>
>I announce my intent to join Arf wif eir ead.
>
>/dev/joe
> 
- --A Mean Hat.
Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon Master -- Art Thief -- Warrior Caste -- Crazy
French Scotsman -- Really Weird

- --"She's a diamond in their dull gray lives--and that's the hardest kind of
stone" [Madonna, Evita]

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:30:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

A Mean Hat. wrote:
> I pseudofound a society called "Way too tired to think of a good name"

I announce my intent to join Way too tired to think of a good name.

I pseudofound a society named "The Adverse Adepts".

I invite A Mean Hat., JT, Gromit, Studge, and r-attila the farce to join.

/dev/joe

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:31:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

On 10/30/98, /dev/joe wrote:
>> I psuedo-found the society named 'Arf wif eir ead'.
>> 
>> I invite Studge, A Mean Hat. /dev/joe and Gromit to join.
>
>I announce my intent to join Arf wif eir ead.
>
>/dev/joe
>

Ditto

Studge

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:35:47 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mueller wrote:
>On 10/30/98, /dev/joe wrote:
>>> I psuedo-found the society named 'Arf wif eir ead'.
>>> 
>>> I invite Studge, A Mean Hat. /dev/joe and Gromit to join.
>>
>>I announce my intent to join Arf wif eir ead.
>>
>>/dev/joe
>>
>
>Ditto

With this, the organization of 'Arf wif eir ead' is founded.
The initial membership is
    JT
    /dev/joe
    A Mean Hat.
    Studge.

I suggest and approve that Arf wif eir ead adopt a communist single player
membership style.

- --JT

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:36:17 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:
>I pseudofound a society called "Way too tired to think of a good name"

I announce my intent to join this society.

- --JT

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:36:31 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
>I pseudofound a society named "The Adverse Adepts".

I announce my intent to join this society.

- --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: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:39:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Mueller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

DevJoe wrote:
>A Mean Hat. wrote:
>> I pseudofound a society called "Way too tired to think of a good name"
>
>I announce my intent to join Way too tired to think of a good name.

Me too.

>I pseudofound a society named "The Adverse Adepts".
>
>I invite A Mean Hat., JT, Gromit, Studge, and r-attila the farce to join.

OK, I attempt to join The Adverse Adepts.

Then, just for good measure, I start the ball rolling on a society named
"Slut Weasel 2000".

Studge

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:53:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

Studge wrote:
> >I pseudofound a society named "The Adverse Adepts".
> >
> >I invite A Mean Hat., JT, Gromit, Studge, and r-attila the farce to join.
> 
> OK, I attempt to join The Adverse Adepts.

I am now officially founding a society named "The Adverse Adepts"
with members:  /dev/joe, JT, Studge

I suggest and approve that The Adverse Adepts adopt a communist single
player membership style.

I approve the suggestion that Arf wif eir ead adopt a communist single
player membership style.

> Then, just for good measure, I start the ball rolling on a society named
> "Slut Weasel 2000".

I announce my intent to join this org.

/dev/joe

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 23:58:49 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: A tribute to the sword

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
>I am now officially founding a society named "The Adverse Adepts"
>with members:  /dev/joe, JT, Studge
>
>I suggest and approve that The Adverse Adepts adopt a communist single
>player membership style.

I approve this suggestion.

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[ It's hard to seize the day when you must first grapple with the morning ]
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