From daniel @ sccs.swarthmore.edu Tue Jun 3 22:29:49 2003 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 20:33:10 -0500 (EST) From: BDan Fairchild Reply-To: presidents @ swil.org To: The SWIL List: ; Subject: A SWILNews #7 of International Intrigue ***SWILAnnouncments*** SWIL 24th Reunion: There will be fun events all day, every day this weekend for the SWIL Reunion, starting Friday afternoon in the WRC. Come have fun, and hang out with alums! See the schedule at the bottom of SWILBusiness in this SWILnews for details. SWILMeeting: There will be too many SWILfolk on saturday to fit in Room 4. Thus, we will be taking over the Small Room for SWILMeeting. Come join us for the largest SWILMeeting you've ever seen. C. S. Lewis on Stage: Thursday at 7:30, Upper Tarble. Remember, anything co-sponsored by SWIL and SCF has got to be good! SWILmovie: Next week's movie is Lost Boys (Monday, 10 pm, Martin 201). Last Monday's movie was Metropolis. ***SWILBusiness*** The Rabble entered the room, trying to size up each other and the presidents. Shockingly, the Rabble were not as pathetic as they were last week. (Yup. Real shocking, that. -c) They settled on a U-shaped formation of rectangular tables for the negotiations. Italy planned a long and confusing series of moves culminating in a backstab of Germany during SWILoween. His plan was thwarted, however, when he realized that SWILoween had already happened (and that Nick and Matt were wonderful people for getting food, and that people who still hadn't paid Nick should do so). Nothing important had happened at meeting yet, or so the unsuspecting masses believed. Although few saw the political ramifications of this at the time, Benitez was found to be a metronome by the International Bureau of Standards. However, SWIL's move to declare that there was a language without verbs was easily forseen and quickly countered by SWIL's declarations that that language was Jonathan and that Japanese did have verbs. No one saw SWIL's declaration that nonsentient robots are/aren't slothful coming, enabling Russia to move its armies into Estonia. We didn't vote again, and again. Then we voted, and decided that dimpled votes are pregnant. Finland moved its fleets into Etruria. Lottery: Sam won a squid. Only after the lottery did Mali (molly is a country? -k) discover that it had been entirely left off the guest list to the reunion this weekend. In response, its Prime Minister angrily stuck the "complete" schedule of reunion events as of right now in this SWILnews: Schedule of reunion events When Where What ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fri all day WRC Base of Operations Fri 12:00-17:00 WRC gathering and gaming Fri 19:30- WRC storyreading Fri 22:30- Crum bonfire/campout? Sat all day Bond Base of Operations Sat 10:00-11:15 Rose Garden frisbee golf Sat 11:15-12:00 Old Tarble frisbee fencing Sat 12:00-13:30 Sharples SWIL meeting Sat 13:00 Sharples big group picture (like the one from swil20) Sat 13:45- Bond ? patio dancing Sat 15:30- outside Bond new games Sat ??- ??? capture the balrog Sat 19:30- Bond wink Sat 22:00- Bond filksing Sun -13:30 WRC Base of Operations Sun 13:30- Bond Base of Operations Sun all day Kirby Movies (see schedule, and add your own) Sun 10:00- restaurant dim sum outing Sun 13:30- belltower roundsing Sun 21:30-24:00 Rose Garden Puckers!!! Movie schedule (all showings on Sunday in Kirby): Time Title ------------------------------------- 15:00-16:30 Wizard of Speed and Time 16:30-17:00 Jeff's Buffy videos 17:00-18:30 Def Lauf Der Dinge See http://www.swil.org/r24/ for updates. ***NonSWILBusiness*** There was an erotic poetry reading. The presidents debated whether to stick a bad joke involving "stimulating the economy" in response, but eventually decided against it. (why, gods, why? -k) Some people attempted to go see Naqoyqatsi last Saturday, but suffered setbacks when their support from Tyrolia was cut by an unexpected attack by Swiss paratroopers from Uraguay. This put the alliance between Australia and the Romulan Empire on a rocky footing. For a nefarious scheme, comma wanted a tool suitable for cutting coat hangars. Although the new alliance between the Romulans and the complex numbers was able to block his move into Albania (Can you put that in as a comment? -c) (no! -k) (Where? -s) (Right there! -c) (if you keep this up, we're putting you in the time cube and never letting you out. -k), he successfully purchased such a tool after SWILmeeting. In a victory for those Great Powers that produce their own Time Cubes locally, including Flanders, Moravia, and New Hampshire, Time Cube was banned from meeting. (When was the last time we had a theme that made sense? -c) (Have we ever had a theme that made sense? -c) League of Nations Special Administrator Ethan Jucovy proposed a plan to raise money to buy a Gamecube for ML. The plan is that people should give him money, and when he gets enough, he'll buy ML a Gamecube, so anyone who wants to support this project should give him money. Or support his move into Belarus. By SWILvote, we bite our thumbs at Mark's cup. Ambassadors from Mark's cup demanded an apology in the General Assembly. A coup was foiled by swift action from BDan. Commentators suggest, however, that this will have little impact on anything. Giant Radioactive Insects are People Too! ~Elliot "Come to the reunion!" Reed BDan "funerary exuberance" Fairchild Qian "Never seen Shining" Qian Katie "murph" McAlister MARK "PICKLES!!" HANDLER JC "Queen Malinda of Chivial" Ravage David "Help me, giant radioactive insects are crawling in my skin!" Benitez* JONATHAN "LUCK BE A SPEC TONIGHT" SCHNEIDER** (Ahem! -rk) Sam "it's Saturday -- it must be Philadelphia" Weiler Ethan "these brownies are disappointingly tasteless" Jucovy benjamin 'the metronome dies' r, george Callicles "got lemma?" the Moose Kyra "I want a strawberry human." Jucovy Adrian "sans high Es right now. grr." Packel Rachel "I did have a quote, really!" Sapiro Ben "M&M's" Mitchell (We know where you live! -rsc) Rebecca "radioactive linguistic t-shirts" Kuipers * This footnote could possibly be radioactive! ** THIS FOOTNOTE DRESSED UP AS A SWILPRESIDENT FOR HALLOWEEN Yours in "power", Ruly, Kempt, Sheveled, and Couth (can't the Treaty of Ghent be involved? -k) (How about the Treaty of Utrecht? I like Utrecht. -c) (around the time the Romulans formed an alliance with the complex numbers and I threatened to put BDan in the time cube, I think I lost all respect for this SWILNews. -k) (OK, I think we've had enough of this. -s) (Yeah, I think so. -c) (it is really a shame, though. -k) (that isn't what "it is really a shame, though" was in response to. -k) (now take it away from Sheveled before he writes anything else. -k)