From aem @ sccs Tue Sep 12 17:05:31 2000 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:54:27 -0500 (EST) From: Amy' Marinello To: _swat.org.swil @ swarthmore.edu Subject: Doctor Archnemesis Strikes Again! or SWILNews #6 Previously, on "SWILFolk": The evil mastermind Doctor Archnemesis held our heroes captive in his nefarious plot to take over campus, or the world, or the universe, or even... SWIL. Trapped in a cage suspended above a pit of Something Nasty You Don't Want to Fall Into (tm), our heroes thought that all was lost. Stalling for time, Mysterious Woman asked the evil mastermind, "Doctor Archnemesis, aren't you going to spill all the details of your nefarious plot to us before you go?" Smacking himself over the forehead, he replied, "Grepping grooblesnappers, Mysterious Woman! I plumb forgot!..." (Dum dum dummm.... -b) %_%_ SWILBusiness _%_% Abi-Wan is going to be disappointed that the rabble were distinctly unpathetic. (But I wouldn't have gotten to call them pathetic anyway, since I wasn't there, so I don't care! :-P -a) Bring Your Phone to Dinner Night is tonight! (At this point, Logic Gal gasped, "Not the telephones! You're going to take over the campus, or world, or universe, or even... SWIL, with a nefarious Telephone Mind Control (tm) plot?" The evil mastermind Doctor Achnemesis chuckled cruelly, until he got bored.) Your phone has been good to you all year. Doesn't it deserve a night out? Sharples. Tonight. Be there. ...Er, with your phone. (Didn't you see the prop? There's "enough" of it. -q) BEM: Submit now. No, wait, Monday. No, actually, make that now. (Make up your mind, Doctor Archnemesis! -q) Our schedule for upcoming meetings: March 18 (the first one after break) will be t-shirt voting, so get designs into Franzi before then! March 25 (the one after that (thanks, we couldn't have figured that out -a (nested parentheticals... ughhhhhh -b))) will be Schlock selection, so remember to bring your suggestions, or email them to Abi-Wan (abigail @ sccs). Bring stories for Walpurgisnacht home (mmm... -q) from break; it will happen the last weekend of April in the WRC. Don't bring unusual sodas (?! -a) to Walpurgisnacht unless you want to. Spamageddon voting happened! We had a long list of suggestions: Electrocution The SPAleM Witch Trial Compression of Spam Decompression of Spam Spamaghetti Light Spam on fire via many small mirrors Try freezing Spam in liquid nitrogen again, and drop it from a great height Archery or dart practice (dartchery! -b) Tie Spam to the train tracks Dance through a sunny meadow of peace and happiness (Mysterious Woman cried, "No, evil mastermind Doctor Archnemesis! Anything but that!") Centrifuge Spam (Spamtrifuge?) Keelhaul Spam (but we don't have a boat... -q) Drag Spam behind a moving vehicle, possibly a car, or Queen Amydala on rollerblades (wasn't my idea... -q) Draw and quarter Spam Spam voodoo The Spamdenberg Acid Tar and feather Spam Deep fry Spam, aka immerse it in boiling oil There were two rounds of voting. Out of the top picks (electrocution, freezing, Spamdenberg, acid, and tarring and feathering), the winner was... (drumroll! -a) The Spamdenberg. We will be sending Spam up tied to a hydrogen balloon, and blowing to smithereens. Woohoo! Jimmosk will be handling the technical details, since he has lots of experience with things like this. And now, the exciting continuation of "SWILFolk": %_%_ NonSWILBusiness _%_% The 24-hour Tolkien reading will start Friday, March 3, at 4pm. It will continue for 24 hours, ending Saturday, March 4, at 4pm. It will occur either in the WRC or ML; watch Fun for further details. (Watch "Fun" for further details? Is that a spinoff of our series? -q) (Yes, actually -a) Rebecca Paul and a few others went for Chinese food rather than be subjected to the horrors of Screw dinner in Sharples. (Jennifer and Hollis and Kyla and Eileen and Katie and I made pizza. -a) Also, this is National Pancake week. Thank you, Rebecca. (At this point, Fog Boy announces, "Haha! I have already begun to foil your nefarious plot, evil mastermind Doctor Archnemesis, by making crepes during National Pancake week!" The Doctor glowers in a frightening and evil manner.) Hollis: "I got bored sitting around Condiment Bar--" "You were sitting at Condiment Bar?" "--standing around Condiment Bar, and created this marvelous ice cream glaze. Eat some!" No one did. Jimmosk says to read "A Deepness in the Sky". Sunday, at 7:30 in Lang Music Hall, was a lutenist. You should have gone. Jimmosk will be hosting another soda tasting sometime after break. You *should* bring unusual sodas home from break for this event. (Ahh... -a) Lindsay channeled Kyla to announce that Buffy would be happening at 8 on Saturday, rather than the usual afternoon showing. (Mysterious Woman recoils in horror. "That's evil even for you, evil mastermind Doctor Archnemesis!" "I know," he replies. "So there!") Tonight (Monday), 7pm: "Rebecca", by Alfred Hitchcock. LPAC cinema. Moohoohahahahaha! Jimmosk wants to show "Neverwhere" on the Sunday after break, 8-11pm. It'll be in Kohlberg 115. Email Kyra to show interest in a Blackadder marathon (honk if your horn is broken! -b) (honk honk! -a). She'd like to share her tapes sometime after break. There was a storyreading on Sunday, which was mucho funo. Nuts to you if you weren't there. (Fog Boy replies, "How rude, evil mastermind Doctor Archnemesis! You shouldn't say 'nuts' on public television--just 'bolts'!") March 24 through 26: Go see Hollis in "Damn Yankees". For the entire 72 hours. We're serious. Really. The Thursday of break, March 9, there's an orchestra event in Philly. Contact DanB for info. (Laughing maniacally, the evil mastermind Doctor Archnemesis leaves the room as the credits begin to roll.) %_%_ The Attendance List of Blinding Colors _%_% Kyla "Arcadia-colored, thank you very much" Tornheim John "internym" Finkbiner Rebecca "Un-Screwed. And thankful." Paul =) BDan "Microwaving grapes is fun!" Fairchild Sarah "he, jim, what was the address for the Lunar Inst.?" Bergstrom Rebecca "use particle accelerator to destoy Spam" Jones Robert "finite potential, well..." McFarland Jim "there's no moose like an Obstreporous Moose" Moskowitz Lindsay "I had a dream I REALLY needed a haircut. Think my subconscious is trying to tell me something?" Herron Josh "yeah, I dreamed I was playing violin in a bus stop, in the rain. hmm..." Burdick Melissa "Oh, well, I dreamed people gave me yarn while I rushed to save the world from a medical emergency. Some people have all the luck." Running Andrew "more ways to _burn_ SPAM" Szafran ~Elliot "No, I don't _really_ live in Mertz" Reed benjamin 'Love thy phone.' r, george Kyra "WHERE ARE THE WOMEN AND THE POWER??" Jucovy (Why, they're all working for the evil mastermind Doctor Archnemesis, of course. -a) Rebecca "gosh darn that freakin' essay" Kuipers Jennifer "'There Was an Old Woman Tossed up in a Blanket 17 Times as High as the Moon'--yes, it's a tune name" Tyson Dan "I-IV-vii-iii-vi-ii6-V43-I" Blim (You don't say.... -q) chaos "it's only fun if you destroy something..." golubitsky (I guess we know whose side *she's* on.... -b) Hollis "Blinded by the music clash" Easter Salt and pepper shakers Things That Don't Work Even After You've Thumped Them %_%_ Executive Producers _%_% Abi-Wan Kenobi, Ben Kenobi, and Queen Amydala %_%_ Tune in again... same SWIL time, same SWIL channel! _%_%