From chaos @ cs.swarthmore.edu Sat Jul 17 20:56:17 1999 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:15:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chaos Golubitsky To: _swat.org.swil @ cc Subject: A Brief Talk-through of SWILNews #10&11 SWILNews #10&11 is a 19 paragraph Strathspey for two co-presidents. It begins with the avepso8tjnse[94ibnjdklfv figure, in which Dagger pounds on the keyboard. (but not too hard--i don't want my computer to get pissed off again. -d) There is a seamless transition to a meanwhile figure, in which Cloak takes a nap on the couch while Dagger gets impatient. At this point, there is a pass by the right of the SWIL notebook, going directly into SWILBusiness: THe co-presidents will consult with Fred about schlock and something will happen. Dan Marrin has agreed to be projectionist. Yay, Dan! Movie nominations will happen next week. Suggestions should be e-mailed to Cloak this week, or brought to meeting. Senior remembrances will be May 8. If you're a senior, bring yourself. If you're not a senior, bring stories about seniors. (you can bring yourself, too. -d) Amy channeled John without his knowledge (isn't that illegal in this state? -c) (i dunno, but she is obviously very powerful and subtle. -d) and passed a sign-up list for bringing food to Walpurgisnacht, which is Friday April 30. If you're planning to bring food, tell John (jfinkbi1 @ cc); if not, plan to chip in a couple buck so he can go shopping. Amy, dropping all pretensions of channeling people (hey! i thought she really was channeling john! -d), passed around a sign-up sheet for the Spammish Inquisition. (hey, anybody wanna be spam? -d) We need inquisitors and defenders; anybody wanting to help plan should e-mail Amy (aswift @ sccs). We have sentient Rebeccas! Specifically, Rebecca Jones and Rebecca Paul, who finally proved their sentience. First they proved that Sharples Room 4 is not in real space. If the room were a subspace of real space, it would be closed under addition and multiplication of elements. The space contains vectors (Amy' and Abigail, who are rodents and therefore potential carriers of disease) (note--this is the rebecca's contention and not ours. any objections to the above statement should be directed to the proper departments. thank you. --the management -d) However, these vectors are not closed under addition because when you stack Amy' and Abby on top of each other, you don't get another person. Since we're not in a subspace of real space, they can define sentience however they want. They defined sentience as being named Rebecca. It was pointed out that the argument contained in this paragraph was a strong logical leap, so we inserted step 2, "And then a miracle occurred." And it was all good. (and god quoth, "and it was all good." somehow... -d) Then we voted them sentient, as usual, on the grounds of confusing Lindsay. Note: this entire figure should probably be walked through by a demo set if this dance is to be done at a ball. At this point, there is a segue into the Non-SWILBusiness figure. Because the co-presidents are tired, this figure may be done sitting. Non-SWILBusiness Go see Alice's senior show in the List Gallery. Housing Lotteries will be taking place tonight, Tuesday night, and Thursday night in the Field House. Show up for gaming and stress. Contra dance is Wednesday from 7-10 in Upper Tarble. We preempted the Housing Lottery! Come dance. It'll be fun. Buffy is not new this week. A motion was passed that "Felicity" and "Dawson's Creek" never be mentioned again at SWIL Meeting. Next Sunday at 7:30 the Rise Up Singing people will be here. Next Friday at 7 there will be a roundsinging in the bell tower. Recap: The attendance list of specs, schlock and sunny weather: 4/10 Jimmy "Schunny daysh schweeping da cloudsh away" Kong Rebecca "cearel sclock? yuck" Jones (for a minute i thought this was a take-off on jennifer's quotes. -d) Robert "Without an idea" McFarland Abigail "Hickory dickory dock, the mouse is not here for schlock" Friedman Jacqueline "Robert's mom" McFarland John "Wish I was here" Finkbiner Josh "ipso! facto! quid pro quo!" Burdick Andrea "Chicken noodle casserole is a bad idea" Hall Lindsay "Loathes McCabe, & why is someone playing crappy music on the Beach???" Herron (i believe that is known as "wsrn's weekend radio shows." -d) Phil """""""""""""""""""""""""" Stepleton Lliw "token Welshman" Dave "out of order" Phillips Sonia "They should play nice mood music on the beach." Mariano Sarah "Higgledy-Piggledy, Sarah Elizabeth..." Bergstrom Amy' "Completely original quote!" Marinellow Oobert "I start with an O" Monkey Jim "By order of the Fire Marshall the occupancy of this signature quote is not to exceed _100_ characters" Moskowitz Ben "Overland East" Newman Arcadia "of course I don't own a red dress" Falcone Fred "haunted towers and cousins owning inns" Bush Is everyone happy with where their hands are? -Chaos Amy "plannaspamaget-it-done-a-geddon" Swift Hannah "maroon shoelaces for ninety-nine cents cannot be resisted" Rakoff Rane "Slowly deteriorating due to lack of gaming" O'Shyne the attendance list of the anti-rain dance - 17/4 Jim "SWAPA on less than 5 hours of sleep a night" Moskowitz Amy "on time...Scott will be making use of my lateness today" Swift Abigail "(temporary) Priestess of Hecate, Goddess of the Underworld" Friedman (pretty quick to reject your deity there, aren't you? -d) Ben "vs. Megalon" Newman Rebecca "rain bringer" Jones Rebecca "I love Mertz Marsh" Paul Lindsay "Shoot, I forgot my good quote" Herron Willa "gee, aren't I a great organizer..._not_!" Bandler Robert "chocolate coating" McFarland (now, robert, not at swil meeting! -d) Otavia "boat. Machine tools. POWER DRILL!!! heh heh heh" Propper (raise your hand if you're glad otavia's not an engineer. -d) Scott "Alpha Monkey" Schneider David Bensvater Newman Ellen Newman Anna "Strawberries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hess (okay, could people *please* stop writing quotes that require me to count? i'm an engineer, not an inventorier! -d) (is "inventorier" a word? -c) Jennifer "Roisin Mhor" Tyson Dave "I go back to sleep now" Phillips Sarah "Exploder of artificial bosoms" Bergstrom (oh...my...god -d) Margie Bergstrom mother of above (what, the artificial bosoms? -d) Peter "The prince of Delta Belun is amazed by the banquet of Swarthmore sharple brunch. (But he did not know that the good brunch is only for Parents week.) Ma Arcadia "They didn't tell me I had to wear white _and_ color when I signed up for maypole" Falcone Mary "totally confused" Marinello Ron "say what?" Marinello Amy' "Eh, not too shabby!" Marinello Oobert "Many napkin balls" Monkey Megan "How did I end up the Black King _again_?" Hallam Ginger "as a parent...how did I end up as a chess piece?" Hallam -Cloak and Dagger