Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 17:29:50 -0500
To: _swat.org.swil @ cc.swarthmore.edu
From: jthorpe1 @ cc.swarthmore.edu
Subject: SWILnews #5 out of 4 dentists recommend one dentist get treated
for
 multiple personality disorder.

        Yeah, yeah, yeah, settle down, here's another SWILnews submitted
for your approval.  Weed it and reap.

        We've been formally invited by Security to take part in a
haunting
of Old Tarble on October 29th and 30th, which is unfortunate because
those
are the dates we decided for the Pterodactyl Hunt and SWILowe'en Party,
respectively.  However, we'll talk to Owen Redgrave and amongst
ourselves
to see if we can work something out.  An organizational meeting is
scheduled for Tuesday next.  But speaking of those two events... (Nice
segue, huh?)

        Lesley and Don Lehr have been spotted shopping for garbage bags
and
other goodies for the Hunt, which as I mentioned will be on the
(hopefully
unseasonably warm) 29th of October.   Monster sign-up will take place
THIS
SATURDAY, so please be there if you want to be a monster!  We will also
finish fleshing out (bleah) the rules at that time.  The Phoenix is
going
to do an article on the Hunt after October break, btw, so we'd better be
prepared for a biggish turnout.


        Andrea is (even as I speak!) working on plans for the SWILowe'en
party--any helpers who'd like to, well, help can let her know at the
meeting.  She'll need help decorating, shopping, and all that jazz.

        In the things-to-buy department, I found several copies of the
leather-bound _Frank Miller's Batman_ on sale for $10.00 at
Waldenbooks--a
great price for a really cool set of graphic novels.  Also, "Weird Al"
Yankovic has a new album out, called "Alapalooza", and it is on sale for
about $12 at The Wall.  (Technically SWIL business?  I dunno.)  Listen
to
Botticelli if you want to hear it... (bribe, bribe, bribe)

        Once again, the proof of sentience rests in your hands, because
THREE of you may well become elite non-members of SWIL on Saturday.
Those
three are: Elizabeth Christian, Jeremy Dilatush, and Julianna Patrick!
So
bring your sentient brains (and, more importantly, your bodies) to the
meeting Saturday, and you can become one of US.  (Join us...JOIN us...)

        Come to ML4201 after Saturday's meeting to watch the next
episode
of The Prisoner with other SWILfolk.  We think that those annoying
tracking
lines will go away sometime soon...

REVIEW by jere7my tho?rpe: _The Deeper Meaning of Liff_ by Douglas Adams
and John Lloyd (producer of Blackadder)
Well, for those of you who have a yen to complete your Adams collection,
by
all means hunt down this book and buy it.  Unavailable in the States for
a
long time, _The Meaning of Liff_ has been expanded, revised and
illustrated, and is now on sale as _The Deeper MoL_ in hardcover at
Waldenbooks for $16.00.  The price is a bit stiff, but the contents are
classic Adams and Lloyd.  Essentially, it is a book of sniglets, odd
words
for things that should have words for them but don't.  Only, in this
case,
the words are city names, mostly from Britain but some from around the
world, and the definitions are wonderfully amusing.  If you'd like to
take
a look at it, stop by ML4201 (to watch The Prisoner, perhaps?) and I'll
show it to you.  (That way you won't have to stand ahenny at my
bookshelves...)

Now....
ATTENDANCE for 10:2:93
Charles "Wombats in 16" of Hallowell" X.; Colin "What was that about
stiff
requirements?" Schatz; Jeremy "Isn't this the Future Truck Drivers of
America meeting?" Dilatush [10-4, good buddy.  --O]; Julianna "Yes, I
have
been to SWIL before" Patrick; Nina "Who are all you People and how did
all
you people end up in my bedroom?" Paynter [Didn't you hear?  We're the
Future Truck Drivers of America. --O]; Kendra "Juul means beautiful eyes
in
Norwegian" Eshleman; Elizabeth "Slaughterer o' E. Coli" Christian; Don
"Duckula!" Lehr; Lesley "Randy Quaid is truly gifted" Tsina; Jim "What?"
MacLeod "Whatever..."; Josh "Fashionably late" Burdick; Sam "Wishing he
could go to Philly" Weiler; Andrea "Why not Philly?" Hall; Beth "That
Civic
Training makes me want to draw some blood" Bruch [Wait 'til next
meeting,
Beth! --O]; Dan "here for a minute" Wells

                                                ----praefecti quondam
                                                        praefectique
futuri