Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #101
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ackanomic Digest	Wednesday, April 14 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 101

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: PayDay
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:37:56 -0400 (EDT)

I gift A$25 to Slakko for reminding me to announce this.

There were no chartuse goose cards to be destroyed so they weren't

Harfer PayDay: 1999:04:05 12:00:00
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A$25:  else...if: CotC
A$50:  Slakko:    Web-Harfer, Map-Harfer
A$25:  IdiotBoy:  Rule Harfer
A$125: K 2:       Financier, Scorekeeper, Org Harfer, Treasure Harfer,
DM
A$50:  /dev/Joe:  Promotor, Tabulator
A$50:  rufus:     Registrar, Trinket Harfer
A$75:  JT:        Postmaster, Speaker, Herald
A$25:  RATF:      General Contractor
A$25:  Niccolo FlyChuck:   Chess Umpire
A$25:  Studge:    Dean

I can't find any record of having announced last months PayDay either so
I'll do that now:

There were no chartuse goose cards to be destroyed so they weren't

Harfer PayDay: 1999:04:05 12:00:00
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A$25:  else...if: CotC
A$50:  Slakko:    Web-Harfer, Map-Harfer
A$125: K 2:       Financier, Scorekeeper, Org Harfer, Treasure Harfer,
DM
A$50:  /dev/Joe:  Promotor, Tabulator
A$160: JT:        Rule Harfer, Trinket Harfer, Registrar, Postmaster,
Speaker, Herald
A$25:  RATF:      General Contractor
A$25:  Laa Laa:   Chess Umpire
A$50:  Studge:    Dean, Count Tabula

K 2

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Nothing to fear but Ackanomic
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:38:03 -0400 (EDT)

else...if is Funky and stylish.

K 2

Towsner wrote:

> A message from your Scaremonger, to the tune of "The Ballad of Sweeny Todd":
>

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spheres 'n' Stuff
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 03:41:21 -0400 (EDT)

I'm in

K 2

Tom Walmsley wrote:

> Not wanting to be left out in the cold with all this sphere stuff I
> announce my own intention to form an institution which will own a
> spherical rator and will be called "The Wombles of Wibbledon". It will
> champion the surreal, the farcical, the wacky, and the plain stupid
> (except for those proposals which are stupid but aren't meant to be).
> It's ultimate goal will to be to change the rules of Ackanomic to the
> rule of draughts. Anyone who has ever had a 4 letter name containing an
> "e", "r" and "i" is free to join me. As is anyone else who wishes to
> champion the worthy goals I have set out.
>
> Laa Laa.
>
> --
> Tom "Garbed in Gingham" Walmsley. AIM: TGW666 ICQ: 2925739
> http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html
> See me on the television in the UK.
> Fifteen to One for Schools - Friday May 10, 4:00 p.m. C4

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From: Eric Plumb <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spheres 'n' Stuff
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 05:02:58 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, K 2 wrote:

> I'm in

As am I.

> K 2
> 
> Tom Walmsley wrote:
> 
> > Not wanting to be left out in the cold with all this sphere stuff I
> > announce my own intention to form an institution which will own a
> > spherical rator and will be called "The Wombles of Wibbledon". It will
> > champion the surreal, the farcical, the wacky, and the plain stupid
> > (except for those proposals which are stupid but aren't meant to be).
> > It's ultimate goal will to be to change the rules of Ackanomic to the
> > rule of draughts. Anyone who has ever had a 4 letter name containing an
> > "e", "r" and "i" is free to join me. As is anyone else who wishes to
> > champion the worthy goals I have set out.
> >
> > Laa Laa.
> >
> > --
> > Tom "Garbed in Gingham" Walmsley. AIM: TGW666 ICQ: 2925739
> > http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html
> > See me on the television in the UK.
> > Fifteen to One for Schools - Friday May 10, 4:00 p.m. C4
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-Hubert

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, or insanity to anyone, but they've 
always worked for me. - Hunter Thompson 

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From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:16:05 -0400 (EDT)

 Sorry I've been gone so long without going on vacation, what is my
current player status?

 Wildcard, wearing a silly agenda hat (possibly).

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spheres 'n' Stuff
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:52:36 -0400 (EDT)

>Not wanting to be left out in the cold with all this sphere stuff I
>announce my own intention to form an institution which will own a
>spherical rator and will be called "The Wombles of Wibbledon". It will
>champion the surreal, the farcical, the wacky, and the plain stupid
>(except for those proposals which are stupid but aren't meant to be).
>It's ultimate goal will to be to change the rules of Ackanomic to the
>rule of draughts. Anyone who has ever had a 4 letter name containing an
>"e", "r" and "i" is free to join me. As is anyone else who wishes to
>champion the worthy goals I have set out.
>
>Laa Laa.

Duh... what?

O Olde Alpha

p.s. I state my wish to join. I warn Laa Laa however that I have no idea how
the rules of Ackanomic currently work (no, none of them) and will therefore
be pretty crap in whatever this entails. Of course, given the statement of
intent above this might be apt.

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: don't have time
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:52:39 -0400 (EDT)

I switch my rebelliousness to the state it is not in.

O Olde Alpha
(annoying the harfers)

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:52:47 -0400 (EDT)

>On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
>> Today is Tuesday, the 13th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
>> Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
>> *ping* 12 times.
>>
>> Yes, it's that time again.  No, not tax time, magic letter time.
>> Post your bids.
>
>I bid A$5 for the letter 'b'

I bid A$23 for the letter 'x'

O Olde Alpha
(if and only if today is a xylophone)

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:55:46 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Gavin Logan wrote:
> >On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> >> Today is Tuesday, the 13th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
> >> Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
> >> *ping* 12 times.
> >>
> >> Yes, it's that time again.  No, not tax time, magic letter time.
> >> Post your bids.
> >
> >I bid A$5 for the letter 'b'
> 
> 
> I bid A$23 for the letter 'x'

Now that is just perverse.

I bid A$30 on the letter 'b'.

--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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From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:27:25 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Gavin Logan wrote:

> >On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:
> >> Today is Tuesday, the 13th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
> >> Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
> >> *ping* 12 times.
> >>
> >> Yes, it's that time again.  No, not tax time, magic letter time.
> >> Post your bids.
> >
> >I bid A$5 for the letter 'b'
> 
> 
> I bid A$23 for the letter 'x'
> 
I'll give A$35 for an 'f'

IB

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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Commission d'Arts
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:42:15 -0400 (EDT)

And the members are:
Studge
IdiotBoy
BLMP
else...if
rufus
two-star

I leave and am replaced by Robin Hood.

--
-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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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Revolution
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:47:56 -0400 (EDT)

The current Paradigm is Anarchy.  In three days it will become Inflationary.
The price of a kaa will be 63, they can be sold to the treasury for 47, and
the monolith multiplies by 55.

--
-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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From: Tom Walmsley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Spheres 'n' Stuff
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:28:23 -0400 (EDT)

Tom Walmsley wrote:
> 
> Not wanting to be left out in the cold with all this sphere stuff I
> announce my own intention to form an institution which will own a
> spherical rator and will be called "The Wombles of Wibbledon". It will
> champion the surreal, the farcical, the wacky, and the plain stupid
> (except for those proposals which are stupid but aren't meant to be).
> It's ultimate goal will to be to change the rules of Ackanomic to the
> rule of draughts. Anyone who has ever had a 4 letter name containing an
> "e", "r" and "i" is free to join me. As is anyone else who wishes to
> champion the worthy goals I have set out.

I now form the Wombles of Wibbledon which owns a spherical rator and has
myself, K 2, Blest Lax Monk Pal and Eric Plumb (real name Eric Plumb,
that is, not former Ackanomic name Eric Plumb, which would be plain
silly as I can't be a member twice. I would have given his Ackanomic
name but I can't remember it at the moment). If I have to pay anything
or do anything else in order to do this then I do.

Laa Laa.

-- 
Tom "Garbed in Gingham" Walmsley. AIM: TGW666 ICQ: 2925739
http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html
See me on the television in the UK.
Fifteen to One for Schools - Friday May 10, 4:00 p.m. C4

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Commission d'Arts
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:34:41 -0400 (EDT)

>And the members are:
>Studge
>IdiotBoy
>BLMP
>else...if
>rufus
>two-star
>
>I leave and am replaced by Robin Hood.

From rule 8-2-4:

"When the rules call for a Commission d'Arts it shall begin session and the
Dean, Poet Laureate and President and sufficient randomly selected players
to give it 5 members automatically join"

You selected 6 and I'm pretty sure I'm poet laureate. Well, maybe. Then
again, I thought I was scaremonger.

O Olde Alpha
(not much of anything it seems)

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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Commission d'Arts
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:42:31 -0400 (EDT)

>You selected 6 and I'm pretty sure I'm poet laureate. Well, maybe. Then
>again, I thought I was scaremonger.
	Er, yes, I think.  rufus and BLMP are not on the CDA, O Olde Alpha is.

--
-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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From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:46:57 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jonathan David Amery wrote:

: Sorry I've been gone so long without going on vacation, what is my
:current player status?

As the person in charge of harfing such things, I think you are an active
player.  We have been pretty lax about calling people awol.

rufus
-- 
http://www.ackanomic.org/~rufus/registrar.html

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From: Gabe Drummond-Cole <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Look who's back in town
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:50:15 -0400 (EDT)

I return to Ackanomic.

(not a moment too soon)
-- Trent

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From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:59:21 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, David Scheidt wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> 
> : Sorry I've been gone so long without going on vacation, what is my
> :current player status?
> 
> As the person in charge of harfing such things, I think you are an active
> player.  We have been pretty lax about calling people awol.
> 

 Oh, good :).

 Since I hit quota I was a bit worried I wouldn't've recieved any awol
notifications :)

-- 
Jonathan D. Amery, http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html     #####
Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing Silly Agenda Hats.     o__#######
Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.                               \'#######
Standing between the light and the dark, the candle and the flame.

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From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Look who's back in town
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:07:39 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Gabe Drummond-Cole wrote:

:
:I return to Ackanomic.
:
:(not a moment too soon)
You had five hours.  

rufus

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Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:28:34 -0400 (EDT)

JT wrote:
> I bid A$5 for the letter 'b'

This was the only bid posted within the first 12 hours after the machine's
*ping* was posted, so it wins and the later ones are ignored.

Hmm, I don't remember any b's in the truth:

IF AND ONLY IF today ** ****** ** ***t***** t** *** ***** ******* ****** **,
THEN the Machine That Goes *ping* shall go *ping*.

Now that that's out of the way...

Today is Wednesday, the 14th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
*ping* 13 times.

/dev/joe
Scholar of *ping*

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Subject: Re: Acka:
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:31:54 -0400 (EDT)

Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> > : Sorry I've been gone so long without going on vacation, what is my
> > :current player status?
> > 
> > As the person in charge of harfing such things, I think you are an active
> > player.  We have been pretty lax about calling people awol.

>  Oh, good :).

> Jonathan D. Amery, http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html     #####
> Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing Silly Agenda Hats.     o__#######
> Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.                               \'#######
> Standing between the light and the dark, the candle and the flame.

This matches my records as well, but I note that you are a player named
Burn the Witch, not Wild Card.

/dev/joe

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Subject: Acka: Sphere, and No P4148
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:52:33 -0400 (EDT)

> Proposal 4148
> See the Constellation 4148
> else...if
> Due: Wed Apr 21 17:44:18 1999

Anarchy started an hour before this, so this proposal was not legally
submitted.

Also, though nobody can legally submit proposals for the next 3 days,
I have added sphere Wombles of Wibbledon, alias wow, to the bot.

/dev/joe

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From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:34:55 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Joseph DeVincentis wrote:

> This matches my records as well, but I note that you are a player named
> Burn the Witch, not Wild Card.
 
 Oh, yes, who won that election?

-- 
Jonathan D. Amery, http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html     #####
Burn the Witch of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing Silly Agenda Hats.o__#######
Holding the Silver Key to the Vault.                               \'#######
Standing between the light and the dark, the candle and the flame.

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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:38:34 -0400 (EDT)

> Oh, yes, who won that election?
	If that was Math Troll (and I think it was), there was a four way
tie, which I won.

--
-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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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Vacation
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:36:41 -0400 (EDT)

	Well, I'm off to Italy tomorrow.  I'm going on a two-week vacation
(but I'll be back next sunday).  Interestingly I seem to be my own
replacement:)  Have fun...

--
-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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