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ackanomic digest      Saturday, November 21 1998      Volume 03 : Number 421

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 01:54:29 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFJ 686 (TRUE)

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
>Wild Card has judged this TRUE.
>
>Call for Judgement 686 - November 5, 1998

Unless this is appealed, the current cycle will end on
Tue, 24 Nov 1998  at 18:22:31 -0500 (EST)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 02:10:10 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Count Tabula

I hereby start the nomination for the office of Count Tabula.

Please reply to nominate yourself for this office.

I am (at the request of two seperate players) going to hold off on
the nominations for Scorekeeper, Financier, Treasure-Harfer and
Org-Harfer until after K 2 can rejoin us as a voting player.
(or a short time before so that I do not violate the rule of Speed)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 02:18:40 -0500
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: I want to raise my freak flag

At 10:42 PM 11/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Instead, I set my rebelliousness flag, as that will have some game effect.
>
>sb.
>

it would help if i knew what you set it to, smallpox.

!!!!!!NOTE TO HARFERS!!!!!!  THERE ARE ACTIONS TO HARF BELOW THIS!

attn: SPEAKER:
Memo to myself: Do the dumb things you gotta do.  Touch the puppet head.
Over 50% of all voting players have a rebelliousness of "on"
I'm on fire!
I vote no on all outstanding IPs
To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around

attn: SCOREKEEPER and SPEAKER:
Happy! Happy! Happy!

attn: CotC:
I remove myself from the CFJ ineligibility list

attm: MAP HARFER:
I go home

attn: other players:
I apply to join all pseudofounded organizations

--Pol Pot

Possible Butthead -- Crazy French Scotsman -- Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon
Master  --  Really Weird --  Rule-Harfer -- Religious Caste -- Trying hard
not to be annoying

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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:03:38 +1100
From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ackanomic] Re: Acka: Gold Digger

/dev/joe wrote:

> > AJ joined too late:
> > 30/09/1998  21:15:54
>
> If he joined on September 30, he was not too late, as you have logged
> the event as occurring October 11.

I donate A$1 to the twits (which does exist btw).

K 2

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 20:09:17 +0000
From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Catching up

I accept JT and The Green Ripper back into the Razor Boomerangs. I don't
accept the bribes the latter tried to give me though. Useless trinkets
seem to build up too quickly for my liking anyway :-).

Gromit.

--
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: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 02:29:34 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Stoning against JT

A poem it seem that I must write
to tell about that fun-filled night.
The night for which a misplaced word
in a quote which I had never heard
caused for me my stone-ed fate
as my post Pol Pot did berate.
It started out without a hitch
as I was walking by a ditch
a strange man offered me a pill
and said it would ease the chill
that could be felt within the air.
I downed it then without a care.
And then my words, they got slurred
and my tongue felt like it was furred.
I started quoting Rolling Stones
as I heard their dulcet tones
Sing "pledge your troth to Lady Jane".
This I did, and it was my bane.
No sooner had I spake the words
when leaped upon me Ackan Nerds,
crying loud that I'd done wrong,
they fell upon me in a throng.
Unto the square they dragged me then
and stood me there before six men.
Each man there then took a shot
the first one coming from Pol Pot.
Else...if was the next to throw
then smallbox blanket adorned with a bow.
Then came Gromit and last came sIRE,
it seemed that they would never tire.
Stone followed stone until the dawn
and I found myself upon the lawn.
There I lay covered with dirt,
just me and my stoning T-shirt.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 03:36:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Puppetheads

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:
> 
> If it appears at the end of *all* of your (Acka) emails, I would have to
> say that it is the longest and most annoying sig I have ever seen.

Certainly not McQuarry.  Probably worth a good old fashioned warlording.

> > !!!!!!NOTE TO HARFERS!!!!!!  THERE ARE ACTIONS TO HARF BELOW THIS!
> > 
> > attn: SPEAKER:
> > Memo to myself: Do the dumb things you gotta do.  Touch the puppet head.
> > Over 50% of all voting players have a rebelliousness of "on"
> > I'm on fire!
> > I vote no on all outstanding IPs
> > To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around
> > 
> > attn: SCOREKEEPER and SPEAKER:
> > Happy! Happy! Happy!
> > 
> > attn: CotC:
> > I remove myself from the CFJ ineligibility list
> > 
> > attm: MAP HARFER:
> > I go home
> > 
> > attn: other players:
> > I apply to join all pseudofounded organizations
> > 
> > 
> > --Pol Pot
> > 
> > Possible Butthead -- Crazy French Scotsman -- Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon
> > Master  --  Really Weird --  Rule-Harfer -- Religious Caste -- Trying hard
> > not to be annoying

!!!!! NOTE TO READERS !!!!! THIS IS AN EXCESSIVELY STUPID SIG!
attn: everybody
I do everything I can automatically so you have to waste 5 hours a day
harfing my messages!!!!!!
- -- Dictator
Butthead -- Fraelichman -- Foolhardy -- Cthulhu -- Obnoxious --
Rule-Defined-Idiot -- Pray for me -- Successful at being bloody annoying.

Oh dear.  That's still not McQ.

Have to do for now I suspect.

(not yet posted to afw - comments?)
- -- 
Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/    Ackanomic     | U. of Cambridge
Web-Harfer, CotC, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Senator  | 2nd Year PhD(PMa)

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 03:42:37 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Puppetheads

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Duncan Richer wrote:
>Certainly not McQuarry.  Probably worth a good old fashioned warlording.

YES! Please! :)

>Butthead -- Fraelichman -- Foolhardy -- Cthulhu -- Obnoxious --
>Rule-Defined-Idiot -- Pray for me -- Successful at being bloody annoying.
>
>Oh dear.  That's still not McQ.
>
>Have to do for now I suspect.
>
>(not yet posted to afw - comments?)

If he challenges you to a duel over this, I'll second you Slakko :)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:02:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3765

>> Proposal 3765
>> Space Travel
>> else...if
>
>I refuse to vote for this Proposal on the grounds that Cthulhu is spelt
>wrong throughout.
	I retract it

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
enjoy it.
		-Logan Pearsall Smith

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:58:17 -0500 (EST)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3765

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Towsner wrote:

> >> Proposal 3765
> >> Space Travel
> >> else...if
> >
> >I refuse to vote for this Proposal on the grounds that Cthulhu is spelt
> >wrong throughout.
> 	I retract it

Obviously I'm the slow one this week.  I retract proposal 3759.

Vynd

[email-masked]

> 
> --
> -Henry Towsner
> 
> 	<[email-masked]>
> 
> 	Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
> enjoy it.
> 		-Logan Pearsall Smith
> 
> 

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:12:34 -0800 (PST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Catching up

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:
>I accept JT and The Green Ripper back into the Razor Boomerangs. I don't
>accept the bribes the latter tried to give me though. Useless trinkets
>seem to build up too quickly for my liking anyway :-).

I take possession of the Razor Boomerang Swingership which is currently
Somewhere Else.

--JT

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3736
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 18:56:29 -0000

>Proposal 3736
>Agenda hat resets and No Agendas for the Illuminated
>JT
>Due: Fri Nov 27 01:56:18 1998

[snippity-snip]

>with the following GNOMES_OF_ZURICH delimited text
>GNOMES_OF_ZURICH
>   During this time, any voting player other than the Illuminatus may
submit
>   a number of Agenda Conditions equal to three minus the number of Agenda
>   Hats e owns by sending them to the Illuminatus.
>GNOMES_OF_ZURICH
>

I go to the library. I play "Gnomes of Zurich" by ... eh ... me (yes,
that'll do) which is just me singing "Harlem Shuffle" and substitiuting the
line "do the harlem shuffle" with "kill the gnomes of zurich".

I go home.

I change Pol Pot's state to non-player.

I achieve a winning condition.

sIRE

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:12:50 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ackanomic] Re: Acka: Gold Digger

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, K 2 wrote:
>/dev/joe wrote:
>
>> > AJ joined too late:
>> > 30/09/1998  21:15:54
>>
>> If he joined on September 30, he was not too late, as you have logged
>> the event as occurring October 11.
>
>I donate A$1 to the twits (which does exist btw).

Actually, you do not.

Rule 250 states:
   b) An "absent" Player is a Player whose state is Vacationing or On
   Ice. Absent players may only leave the game, change their state, or
   send public messages; they may perform no other actions.

Since you are on ice, you could not perform this action.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:25:31 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Puzzle Piece

After having finally perused an updated copy of the Ruleset, and consulted
the Thrallmaster, I have decided to act.

Thus, I hereby specify the player "breadbox", who is in Thrall to me, to
create, through eir indentured labour, a "harf lozenge" Puzzle Piece.  I
can find no reason why this should not succeed.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ )
Song In My Head--Jon & Vangelis:Mayflower
Current Book--Ann Marston:Cloudbearer's Shadow
My stream of consciousness dried up--hope it rains soon.

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:54:59 -0500
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3736

e gnomes of zurich".
>
>I go home.
>
>I change Pol Pot's state to non-player.

no you don't

>I achieve a winning condition.

no you don't

>sIRE

wouldnt want pragmatism to kick in

--Pol Pot

Possible Butthead -- Crazy French Scotsman -- Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon
Master  --  Really Weird --  Rule-Harfer -- Religious Caste -- Trying hard
not to be annoying

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3736
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 22:37:30 -0000

>>I change Pol Pot's state to non-player.
>
>no you don't

Yes I do.

>>I achieve a winning condition.
>
>no you don't

Yes I do.

sIRE

(bitchier by the second)

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From: "Gavin M. Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Resignations
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 04:19:36 -0000

>Since K 2 was on ice, there was no tie.   the two 'tied' players both
>recieved seats.
>
All too easy.

sb.

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 17:37:17 -0500 (EST)
From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Puzzle Piece

>Thus, I hereby specify the player "breadbox", who is in Thrall to me, to
>create, through eir indentured labour, a "harf lozenge" Puzzle Piece.  I
>can find no reason why this should not succeed.

Woah! cool. "Harf Lozenges", the fisherman's friend.

sIRE

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 17:54:07 -0500 (EST)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Quick question

Is unsubscribing from the mailing lists sufficient to be considered having
'left the game' without a public message to that effect?

I have seen some claims that it has been considered to be that in the
past, but I'm curious.

The reason I ask is that saaremaa unsubscribed from the ackanomic and 
acka-voting mailing lists, and is now not subscribed to either.  If I
need to, I will submit a CFCJ asserting the crime of disinterest, but
if his unsubscribing is sufficient, I will just place him On-Ice and
save the A$25.

Thoughts?  Opinions?

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 17:56:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Quick question

At 05:54 PM 11/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Is unsubscribing from the mailing lists sufficient to be considered having
>'left the game' without a public message to that effect?
>

I think so

- --Pol Pot

Possible Butthead -- Crazy French Scotsman -- Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon
Master  --  Really Weird --  Rule-Harfer -- Religious Caste -- Trying hard
not to be annoying

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:19:22 -0500 (EST)
From: [email-masked] (Micah Smukler)
Subject: Acka: Sorry!

I probably should have sent this message a long time ago, but...

If I am on Vacation, or in any state which was formerly known as
being on Vacation, I cause myself to leave that state.

If I am a Player of Ackanomic, I cause myself to leave the Game
of Ackanomic.

- -AtP
who found out the hard way that school and Acka don't mix for him
this year.

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:06:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Puzzle Piece

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> 
> After having finally perused an updated copy of the Ruleset, and consulted
> the Thrallmaster, I have decided to act.
> 
> Thus, I hereby specify the player "breadbox", who is in Thrall to me, to
> create, through eir indentured labour, a "harf lozenge" Puzzle Piece.  I
> can find no reason why this should not succeed.

As Puzzler, I am naming the following Bag:

Harf Lozenge, Blue Square, Red Round.

Alfvaen has reaped the benefits of being the first player to use the
Puzzling Rules.
- -- 
Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/    Ackanomic     | U. of Cambridge
Web-Harfer, CotC, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer, Senator  | 2nd Year PhD(PMa)

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:10:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Puzzle Piece

At 09:06 PM 11/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
>
>> 
>> After having finally perused an updated copy of the Ruleset, and consulted
>> the Thrallmaster, I have decided to act.
>> 
>> Thus, I hereby specify the player "breadbox", who is in Thrall to me, to
>> create, through eir indentured labour, a "harf lozenge" Puzzle Piece.  I
>> can find no reason why this should not succeed.
>
>As Puzzler, I am naming the following Bag:
>
>Harf Lozenge, Blue Square, Red Round.
>

Fails.  You need 4 pieces for a Grab Bag.

- --Pol Pot

Possible Butthead -- Crazy French Scotsman -- Daring Adventurer -- Dungeon
Master  --  Really Weird --  Rule-Harfer -- Religious Caste -- Trying hard
not to be annoying

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:09:55 -0500 (EST)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Quick question

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, JT wrote:

> Is unsubscribing from the mailing lists sufficient to be considered having
> 'left the game' without a public message to that effect?
> 
> I have seen some claims that it has been considered to be that in the
> past, but I'm curious.
> 
> The reason I ask is that saaremaa unsubscribed from the ackanomic and 
> acka-voting mailing lists, and is now not subscribed to either.  If I
> need to, I will submit a CFCJ asserting the crime of disinterest, but
> if his unsubscribing is sufficient, I will just place him On-Ice and
> save the A$25.
> 
> Thoughts?  Opinions?
> 
> --JT

I am a little uncomfortable with this idea. Its one thing if they say
"I've had enough, get me out of this crazy place!" and then they
unsubscribe from the lists. Its a little silly to expect someone who is
quiting to pay much attention to the rules. But I'd like to draw the line
somewhere before quietly unsubscribing from the lists.

Vynd

[email-masked]

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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:33:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Quick question

On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> > Thoughts?  Opinions?
> > 
> > --JT
> 
> I am a little uncomfortable with this idea. Its one thing if they say
> "I've had enough, get me out of this crazy place!" and then they
> unsubscribe from the lists. Its a little silly to expect someone who is
> quiting to pay much attention to the rules. But I'd like to draw the line
> somewhere before quietly unsubscribing from the lists.
> 
> Vynd

Uh, I, uh.... what he said.

IB

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