Subject: ackanomic Digest V4 #142
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ackanomic Digest	Monday, May 31 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 142

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From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: New Observer
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 02:00:34 -0400 (EDT)

We have yet another new observer.  Jonathan Dushoff,
[email-masked], has asked to join as an observer.  Please join
me in welcoming him.  

rufus,
who thinks the reason we are getting observers, and not players, is because 
the rules are way too complicated.  Not that I have read them recently, or
anything.rr

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Speaker (King Felix)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:17:58 -0400 (EDT)

I'm now definitely Speaker. IdiotBoy conducted a nomination and got only me
and I conducted a nomination as Count Tabula and got only me. That seems
clear enough then.

King Felix

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka: New Observer
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:17:58 -0400 (EDT)

>We have yet another new observer.  Jonathan Dushoff,
>[email-masked], has asked to join as an observer.  Please join
>me in welcoming him.
>
>rufus,

Welcome, Jonathan. Pull up a chair, put your feet up, those dogs are
barking.

King Felix

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Blue Cross Shenanigans
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:31:45 -0400 (EDT)

It is with trepidation that I award Trent his second Silver Stripe for
achieving a blue cross rank over 40. If this award has already been
distributed, I snatch it back quickly and stuff it in my mouth screaming;
"No, no, not the secret plans!". And then collapse on the floor clutching my
throat.

King Felix

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Magic Potato (Robin Hood)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:31:46 -0400 (EDT)

On 2nd May /dev/joe received the Magic Potato.
On 9th, Vynd.
On 16th, danke.
On 23rd, /dev/joe.
On 30th, Robin Hood.

Therefore, Robin Hood currently has the Magic Potato and /dev/joe has the
Great Tuba of Ackanomic.

King Felix

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: MTG* (Calvin N Hobbes)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:31:57 -0400 (EDT)

The Machine That Goes *ping* has appeared to Calvin N Hobbes.

King Felix

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Phoebe (Calvin N Hobbes)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:31:59 -0400 (EDT)

Vynd failed to post Phoebe's wisdom.
Calvin N Hobbes has found Phoebe's matchbox.

King Felix

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: elections
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:32:02 -0400 (EDT)

I believe that President IdiotBoy's term of office has expired. If this is
indeed the case, I call for nominations for the office of President. Reply
to nominate thyself.

King Felix (Count Tabula)

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From: [email-masked] (Dice server)
Subject: Acka: Ackanomicon Determination
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:32:52 -0400 (EDT)

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# Player: King Felix
# Ackanomicon Determination
# based on the following (using a 54 sided die)
#  1 - 16 Arcane Trivia
# 17 - 21 Vile Prophecies
# 22 - 27 Inner Workings
# 28 - 33 Arcane Lore
# 34 - 36 Terrorizing Pages
# 37 - 38 Mutation
# 39 - 40 Dark Domain
# 41 - 42 Long Lost Treasure
# 43 - 43 Forbidden Fruit
# 44 - 47 Not so Forbidden Fruit
# 48 - 48 Ancient One
# 49 - 54 Strange Object

No. of sides on every die:     54
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: Ackanomicon Determination
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> #C Player: King Felix
> #C Ackanomicon Determination
> #C based on the following (using a 54 sided die)
> #C
> #C  1 - 16 Arcane Trivia
> #C 17 - 21 Vile Prophecies
> #C 22 - 27 Inner Workings
> #C 28 - 33 Arcane Lore
> #C 34 - 36 Terrorizing Pages
> #C 37 - 38 Mutation
> #C 39 - 40 Dark Domain
> #C 41 - 42 Long Lost Treasure
> #C 43 - 43 Forbidden Fruit
> #C 44 - 47 Not so Forbidden Fruit
> #C 48 - 48 Ancient One
> #C 49 - 54 Strange Object
> 
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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Random Proposal (2472)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:45:03 -0400 (EDT)

The proposal selected is 2472 which reads as bound in the three asterisks:

***
Proposal 2472
That's the Way the Bee Bumbles
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

This is a Modest proposal.

{{[it occurs to me that the spelling exchequer cannot do anything to a
submission to be forwarded, as the spelling bee can only touch rules and
CFJs, not miscellaneous submissions. This also fixes the potential scam bait
I mentioned when that proposal was under consideration. Finally, it occurs
to me that the spelling bee can do much less than has been claimed by
previous spelling bee harfers, as very few words if any, by rule, are
actually misspelled.

For that matter, the spelling exchequer may not be able to do very much now
either for the same reason.]}}

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Amend rule 430, "Spelling Exchequer", to replace:

"
When the Miscellaneous Submission is a text that is to be privately sent to
another Office, the player submitting the text may choose to allow it to be
Directly Forwarded. A player doing so must indicate this wish, and specify
the intended final recipient unambiguously. In this case, if the Spelling
Exchequer finds no errors, or finds only errors that the Spelling Bee would
be permitted to fix,
"

with:

"
When the Miscellaneous Submission is a text that is to be privately sent to
another Office, the player submitting the text may choose to allow it to be
Directly Forwarded, as long as that player is a player other than the
Spelling Exchequer. A player doing so must indicate this wish, and specify
the intended final recipient unambiguously. In this case, if the Spelling
Exchequer finds no errors, or finds only errors that the Spelling Bee would
be permitted to fix if the text in question were a rule,
"

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Amend rule 340, "Conventions", to replace:

"
I. Unambiguous spelling errors shall be treated as if the mispelled word
were spelled correctly.
"

with:

"
I. Unambiguous spelling errors shall be treated as if the mispelled word
were spelled correctly, except during the process of rule-sanctioned
spelling correction.
"
***

King Felix (OiCoRT)

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From: Matt Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Random Proposal (2472)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:51:33 -0400 (EDT)

As Rule Harfer I note that this is a Null Proposal.

IB

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From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Random Proposal (2472)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:52:53 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 31 May 1999, Gavin Logan wrote:

> The proposal selected is 2472 which reads as bound in the three asterisks:

This has no effect, as none of these rules exist anylonger.

ruufs

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From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Phoebe (Calvin N Hobbes)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:10:15 -0400 (EDT)

>Calvin N Hobbes has found Phoebe's matchbox.

As I was floating along in Acka, I heard a voice I easily recognized.

"Phoebe!"

"Yes Calvin. Did you hear what I said?"

"I'm sorry" I replied, blushing as though my sixth grade temporal dynamics
teacher had caught me tweaking the space-time continuum near an M class planet.

"I said 'wake up, you just got The Machine That Goes *ping*.'"

"Oh! I haven't had it in years. The last time, I lost it on a technicality
the very same day I got it. That must have been over two years ago. Could be
closer to three."

"Forget about the past Calvin. Not quite the frenetic world of its ancient
times, today Ackanomic is closer to a volcano waiting to erupt onto the
world stage, springing out of its box much like Athena, fully armored from
the forehead of Zeus."

"I see." And I was about to ask what I should do, but she disappeared and
that was that.

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From: Thierry Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: MTG* (Calvin N Hobbes)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:42:14 -0400 (EDT)

>The Machine That Goes *ping* has appeared to Calvin N Hobbes.

I wake up from a dream induced by this ancient technology and utter the Truth:

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

CnH

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From: "Gavin Logan" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Phoebe (Taser)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:09:41 -0400 (EDT)

Taser has found Phoebe's matchbox.

King Felix

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From: "Antonio Rodriguez" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Phoebe (Taser)
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:01:39 -0400 (EDT)

Phoebe has imparted this essential knowledge:

Rich Little, Rick Morranis, Bryan Adams, The Bare Naked Ladies, Tom
Cochrane, Lorne Greene, Sarah MacLachlan, Alanis Morissette, John Candy,
Wayne Gretzky, Dan Ackroyd, Pamela Anderson, Neve Cambell, James Cameron,
Jason Priestly, Keanu Reeves, Ivan Reitman, Martin Short, Donald Sutherland,
Kiefer Sutherland, Alex Trebek, Crash Test Dummies, Celine Dion, Phil
Hartman, Margot Kidder, Leslie Nielsen, Anna Paquin & Corey Haim are all
Canadians. Support proposal 4177, lest we be fully dominated by them!!

Tony R.
aka Taser

-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Logan <[email-masked]>
To: ackanomic <[email-masked]>
Date: Monday, May 31, 1999 7:09 PM
Subject: Acka: Phoebe (Taser)

>Taser has found Phoebe's matchbox.
>
>King Felix
>
>
>
>

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