From chaos at cs.swarthmore.edu Sat Jul 17 20:05:22 1999 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:10:13 -0500 (EST) From: Chaos Golubitsky To: _swat.org.swil at cc Subject: The Dinosaurs are Coming! Grab Your Pterodactyl! or SWILNews #7 this is the campus that swil occupies these are the alumni who came to the campus that swil occupies these are the activities that entertained the alumni who came to the campus that swil occupies these are the current students who participated in the activities that entertained the alumni who came to the campus that swil occupies this is the homework that was neglected by the current students who participated in the activities that entertained the alumni who came to the campus that swil occupies these are the failing grades obtained as a result of the homework that was neglected by the current students who participated in the activities that entertained the alumni who came to the campus that swil occupies this is the swilnews that was... oh, never mind. SWIL Business: It was determined by majority vote that the non-members present got over eight hours of sleep Friday night. (Unfortunately, a majority of SWIL copresidents have not gotten eight hours of sleep since then, so please forgive any sdalkfhdsalfds -H) Halloween happened. Pumpkin carolling was a great success, in that a lot of the locals remembered us from last year, and no one told us to get off their property before they called the cops. SWILoween also went very well, with first prize for underhandedness going to Larry, who singlehandedly won mafia. Many thanks to Lindsay, who organized it (SWILoween, not mafia). Lindsay brought a lot of food to SWILoween, and hasn't been paid back for all of it yet, so if you attended and haven't given her $3 or so, please do so. There are chocolate-covered parrots. For more information, see Jimmosk. Submit to BEM. The deadline is Winter Break. We're looking for prose, poetry, or art that falls under any category of speculative fiction. Heather needs a co-editor. Submit to Heather. Quote of the week: "Give me a cover, or Peggy's doomed!" We celebrated Skogul's sixth appearance in Sharples this academic year. Alternate quote of the week: "Will, what the fuck is wrong with you?" We also celebrated tales of honor and glory from last week's Pterodactyl Hunt. Dave, the Orc King, was honorably wounded by an arboretum tree tag. Megan's loyal Dactyl Guards wrote a ballad about her, as follows: There was a dactyl had a guard and Megan was her name-o M-E-G-A-N, M-E-G-A-N, M-E-G-A-N and Megan was her name-o There was a dactyl had a guard and Megan was her name-o -E-G-A-N, -E-G-A-N, -E-G-A-N and Megan was her name-o and so on... Editor's note: there was a significant pause in the writing of this SWILnews while Hlokk and Goll tried to figure out how to spell "squawk". (If you have a preferred spelling, submit it to BEM -H) SWIL's twentieth reunion will happen this weekend. The major impact of this on the lives of current SWIL members is that next week's SWIL meeting will take place in the small room in Sharples, rather than in room 4. Besides that, there will be a lot of activities, and Jim will e-mail the fun list. For more information, contact reunion at swil.org. Jimmy volunteered to make a sign to warn unsuspecting Swatties away from the small room, and Amy* volunteered to post it at breakfast on Saturday. *Amy Marinello. If you have any suggestions of means of differentiating the Amys, please let us know. Current suggestions are: Frosh Amy and non-frosh Amy Amym and Amys (aka: Amy the unpronouneable and Amy the confusing) Amy and Amy who is not the Amy who is not the Hannah who is not the Hannah who is not the Hannah who is not Amy Philcon is happening 13-15 November. If you want to come, tell Kira. If you want to be Jess Harbour for the weekend and get a cheaper ticket, contact her. If you already have a ticket, we'll be in touch with you to discuss transportation issues. The movie was Flight of the Navigator. Next week's movie is Flash Gordon. We will be voting on movies for next semester on 21 November, so start e-mailing us with suggestions. Presidential elections will be 12 December, and nominations will be 5 December, so start thinking now about whether you'd like to be president of this august organization. (9 out of 10 graduate schools claim that former SWIL presidency is not sufficient reason for immediate rejection of applicants -H) Third Quote of the Week: "We're not congress. Perhaps you've noticed this." Ben brought up the idea of running a revised version of SWILCon this year ("a literary symposium with stuff"). We will send e-mail later this week with details about Ben's proposal, and non-members can vote on whether they're interested in it happening. Non-SWIL Business: Andrea wants to watch some "Films for the Millenium". Contact her if you're interested. Babylon 5 is in new episodes. The title of this week's episode might be a spoiler, so we won't tell you what it is. (Read: Skogul isn't here, and neither of us knows what it's called.) You can watch it at Jim and Josh's apartment (Greylock 301) in real time 10:00pm Wednesday, or 7:30pm Monday in surreal time. Lindsay wants to go see some movies. Contact her if you're interested, and/or have a car. Buffy, the Vampire Slayer is also in new episodes. Megan will be showing this week's episode tonight at 8pm and 10pm. The Masked Attendance List - 31/10: Phil "..-. --- --- -... .- .-." Stepleton Ben "Mag. 3.14159" Newman Robert "something safe and unambiguous" McFarland Anna "I'll throw an acorn at you!" Hess Amy "26535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862 089986280348253421170679" Marinello (for those keeping score at home, Skogul got stuck on 9. no, not that 9, the other one. -H) Lindsay "lumpy oatmeal but happy" Herron Jennifer "my head's on upside down" Tyson Andrea "Sunrise to Sunset" Hall Jay "no mysterious code" Scott Jim "Mysterious? It's as easy as pi!" Moskowitz Josh "tired feet" Burdick Megan "Ouch" Hallam Dave "Blood sugar is good" Phillips Kyla "I'm a techie and I've been hanging lights all morning!" Tornheim John "Documentation is for weenies" Finkbiner Alecia "catwoman" Magnifico Heather "I own the teal umbrella" Weidner Jim "Suppose every pope from now on followed the example of John Paul, and took the name of the _two_ previous popes. What would the next ten popes be named? Paul John Paul, John Paul Paul John Paul, ...?" Moskowitz Jimmy "You know what's really scary... Last year Al Bloom caught me with my plains untapped." Kong Phil "Redundant attendance" Stepleton Catherine "Fucking scaffolding company. Argh." Osborne (Weekly entry in the "more than we needed to know" category. -H) -Hlokk, Goll, and Skogul