Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #116
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ackanomic Digest	Friday, April 30 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 116

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 02:24:52 -0400 (EDT)

In a message dated 30/04/99 00:15:04 GMT, you write:

> 
>  Today is Thursday, the 29th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
>  Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
>  *ping* 24 times.
>  
>  May whoever chooses the magic letter choose more successfully than the
>  last two letter-pickers.
>  
I bid $30A for s

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 02:27:59 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 [email-masked] wrote:
> In a message dated 30/04/99 00:15:04 GMT, you write:
> 
> > 
> >  Today is Thursday, the 29th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
> >  Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
> >  *ping* 24 times.
> >  
> >  May whoever chooses the magic letter choose more successfully than the
> >  last two letter-pickers.
> >  
> I bid $30A for s

I bid $35 for e.

--JT

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From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 03:42:01 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, JT wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 [email-masked] wrote:
> > In a message dated 30/04/99 00:15:04 GMT, you write:
> > 
> > > 
> > >  Today is Thursday, the 29th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
> > >  Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
> > >  *ping* 24 times.
> > >  
> > >  May whoever chooses the magic letter choose more successfully than the
> > >  last two letter-pickers.
> > >  
> > I bid $30A for s
> 
> I bid $35 for e.

I bid A$40 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.

-- 
Duncan C. Richer aka Slakko the Lost Warner Brother | Queens' College
http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/    Ackanomic     | U. of Cambridge
Web-Harfer, Clerk of the Court, Map-Harfer, Justice | 2nd Year PhD(PMa)

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From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 04:37:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Duncan Richer wrote:
> > I bid $35 for e.
> 
> I bid A$40 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.

I bid A$45 for an 'e'.

--Dr. Gaga Nome.

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From: "Duncan C. \"Slakko\" Richer" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 07:10:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, JT wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Duncan Richer wrote:
> > > I bid $35 for e.
> > 
> > I bid A$40 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.
> 
> I bid A$45 for an 'e'.

I bid A$50 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.

Slakko
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Duncan C. "Slakko" Richer - http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dcr24/
Queens' College Cambridge, 2nd Year Ph.D. (Pure Maths) - Graph Theory
Ackanomic - Web-Harfer, Map-Harfer, Justice

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From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:51:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Duncan C. "Slakko" Richer wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, JT wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Duncan Richer wrote:
> > > > I bid $35 for e.
> > > 
> > > I bid A$40 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.
> > 
> > I bid A$45 for an 'e'.
> 
> I bid A$50 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.
> 

 I bid A$55 for 'z' to be the Magic Letter. 

-- 
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: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:22:12 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> > I bid A$50 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.
> > 
> 
>  I bid A$55 for 'z' to be the Magic Letter. 

In the hopes that this is still in time (or that the last one was not
still in time), I bid $60 for an 'e'.

--Dr. Gaga Nome.

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From: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:31:22 -0400 (EDT)

In a message dated 30/04/99 08:37:39 GMT, you write:

> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Duncan Richer wrote:
>  > > I bid $35 for e.
>  > 
>  > I bid A$40 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.
>  
>  I bid A$45 for an 'e'.

I bid A$75 for 's' to be the Magic letter
and further note that while
'bd fr s t b th Mgc lttr' is almost intelligible, 'I i o o e e ai ee' is 
completely
uninterpretable.

Robin Hood

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From: Jonathan David Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:37:44 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 [email-masked] wrote:

> In a message dated 30/04/99 08:37:39 GMT, you write:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Duncan Richer wrote:
> >  > > I bid $35 for e.
> >  > 
> >  > I bid A$40 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.
> >  
> >  I bid A$45 for an 'e'.
> 
> I bid A$75 for 's' to be the Magic letter
 
 I bid A$83 for 'z' to be the Magic Letter.

-- 
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: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 13:49:47 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jonathan David Amery wrote:
> > I bid A$75 for 's' to be the Magic letter
>  
>  I bid A$83 for 'z' to be the Magic Letter.

Just so everyone stops bidding now.  I went and checked.. 12 hours from
the time of the ping was 08:14 AM this morning.  At that point the highest
bid was $A50 for an 's' by Slakko submitted at 07:10 AM.  The next bid
after that was at 09:51 by Burn The Witch for 'z' and that was too late.

--JT

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Subject: Re: Acka: *ping*
From: Joseph DeVincentis <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:23:36 -0400 (EDT)

Duncan C. \"Slakko\" Richer wrote:
> I bid A$50 for 's' to be the Magic Letter.

This was the winning bid.

Now, I do recall some esses in the truth:

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

And now, I must also announce:

Today is Friday, the 30th day of April, and the Machine That Goes *ping*
Has Gone *ping* today. Since I have been scholar, the Machine has gone
*ping* 25 times.

Just a little reminder, Ackan students, you only get one more magic letter,
and within 3 days after the 30th ping, I have to reveal the truth and let
the machine go on to somebody else.  I did check the rules and it does
appear that the Machine may continue to *ping* during the time (up to 3 days)
after its 30th *ping*, before the truth is revealed.  I don't believe any
scholar has come to that situation before.

/dev/joe
Scholar of *ping*

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From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Oops
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:03:34 -0400 (EDT)

It occurs to me that I have been somewhat remiss in handing out the Potato
and Phoebe.  On April 12, Niccolo Flychuck found the Potato.  On April 19
it was Calvin N' Hobbes, and on April 26 it was IdiotBoy.  Phoebe has found
Vynd.

--
-Henry Towsner

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	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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