Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 13:46:08 -0400
To: swil @ cc.swarthmore.edu
From: mshaner1 @ cc.swarthmore.edu
Subject: sniffling sneezing coughing aching stuffy head fever so you can rest
 SWILnews

Charles Danforth, leader of the Pterodactyl Hunt, has begun recruiting for
said event (which will transpire on Oct. 2) and has received numerous
applications for monsters of all descriptions.  The current need is for
run-o-the-mill orcs and hobgoblins, so if any of y'all out there want to
spend an evening hitting fellow Swatfolks with newspapers, talk to the Big
Kahuna.  (Charles, that is.)

Lloyd Alexander.  We currently have 10 people signed up; an additional 2
could go if they so choose.  This is the list so far; if you want to be a)
on or b) off it, talk to me (Melissapline o' the Standardized Testing)
soon.  Mike Rothbart will be our van driver, so Mike, I've put in a van
request; actually physically picking the thing up is your problem.  Anyway,
we have Mike, Jessica Sklar, Kendra Eshleman, Lisa Stefanowich, Deb
Barolsky, Daniel Long, Jason Adler, Andrea Hall, Beth Bruch, and Sam
Weiler.

Someone should be treasurer. 

Then there was carnage.  Mua ha ha ha.  We shredded five freshlings on
Saturday; two additional freshlings who could have been dismembered but
noooo... chose not to show up.

First, Evan Dorn juggled while standing on one foot on top of the table. 
Sentience was doubted when Bondage suggested that he sing the "Star
Spangled Banner" and he did, but we were lenient...

Kylian Robinson just kind of sat there for a while, then took song
requests.  Newly dismembered Evan suggested a Weird Al song, so Kylian
tapdanced on a chair and sang "I Want a New Duck," until he forgot the
words.

Lisa Stefanowich mounted a complete defense a la Amos J Peaslee class of
ought-something, dragging random bystanders (including Discipline) into her
argument.  We were snowed.

Sam Weiler did a reading from JRR Tolkien dedicated to Deborah Tanner.

Joshua Fairfield recited "Jabberwocky" with much er, help from the
audience, and, as Bondage points out, elan.

Adam Preset, if you show up next week, this could be you!!!

In order to commemorate their sentience, we had a vote.  The issue: to
purchase or not to purchase videocassettes for our own SWIL video library. 
Said issue is still undecided, since the vote was close enough, and there
were so few people there, that we thought it best to wait until a better
representation showed up.  (I.e. if you want to have a say, show up on
Saturday).  [Hey, that rhymes --D]

ATTENDANCE FOR 19 SEPTEMBER
Jen "Chinchillas 'r' Us" Setlow; Nisha Garg; Nao "Marshwiggles are lively
compared to me" Parkhurst; Gloria "I hope my underwear is shrinking in the
wash" Wong; Charles "_not_ your average rapist on the street" Danforth;
Robert "Elephants with flip-flops, & DEMONS" Richardson; Josh
"munchbellchantbeep & dingle" Burdick  [attorneys at law? --B]; Dan
"Dragon" Wells; F. Nathan "Legolas" McKnight; Lisa "Dare-to-be-Dismembered"
Stefanowich; Badwithanar "Fried Aardvark chips" Gabe; Laura "the Spec"
Green; Kathy "my roommate eats double-dipped nerds" Davis; David
"Were-chef's salad with a nice vinaigrette on top by the light of the full
moon" Randall [and a large orange drink --D]; Melissa "sprint-thanks
Joshua" Running [Running sprinting?  Huh. --B]; Joshua "You're welcome"
Fairfield; Adam "Born to be Dead" Preset; Jacob "No longer sure of my own
sentience" Mattison [Neither are we, Jacob.  Neither are we. --B]; Justin
with authority enough to kick people around [And the black belt don't hurt.
 --B]  [Justin, however, might... --D]; Samuel "Prickly Pink Porcupines
Paint Purple People Polkaing" Weiler [Preposterous! --D]; Evan "electrical
engineers do it with less resistance" Dorn; Eric "It was amazing,
Stupendous, INCREDIBLE...if I only could remember what it was." Nute;
Kendra "Grr..." Eshleman; Laura Portier; Mike "present in memory only, and
most certainly not my own" Rothbart [Mike?  Mike was at the meeting?  Hey,
Jere7my, do you remember Mike being at the meeting? --D]; Geoff "things in
the quotes" Noer


                                - Blacka & Dder