Date: Fri, 9 Apr 93 11:29:36 -0400
To: _swat.org.swil @ math.wisc.edu
From: jthorpe1 @ cc.swarthmore.edu
Subject: Hey!  It's...it's...it's...it's a SWILnews!

        Well, folks, the time has come once again for your to receive
your
complimentary copy of the SWILnews.  Feel free to take it home with you,
but don't come crying to me if they arrest you for stealing a computer.

        Come to the meeting this week, because....

        do you know what time it is?  (10:57 AM, but that's not
important
right now.)  It's time to CHOOSE SCHLOCK FILMS!  (Schlock!  Schlock! 
They're our films!  If we don't watch them, no one will!)  I'll be
bringing
the movie catalogs to tomorrow's meeting, so show up and pick your top
choices for the Top Three Awful Films of the Year.  In the past, we have
brought "Plan 9 From Outer Space," "Dark Star," and "Santa Claus
Conquers
the Martians."  Who knows what evil, smelly things we'll come up with
tomorrow!  So BE THERE.  (You'll have to make your own robot friends,
though.)

        We'll also have some more words about George and where it'll be
next year.  We haven't yet spoken to Teddd about the suggestion made at
the
last meeting, i.e. to stick it in the suicide singles in Bond.  At any
rate, we can discuss it tomorrow, with a special suprise appearance by a
Note From Deb Sam.  (Ooooh!)

        The date for the Post-Walpurgisnacht story reading rapidly
approaches, which can only mean one thing: it's almost time for the
Post-Walpurgisnacht story reading!  People will come from all over the
space-time continuum (at least that bit near Swarthmore in April of
1993)
to read selections of their choosing, from recipes to stories to poems
to
backs of chewing gum wrappers... It'll be a blast.  A more specific date
will be set tomorrow.

        And, of course, LIIIIIIIVE CHEEEEEEESSS!!!!  (Live cheese?)
(No.) 
Lisa will bring the sign-up list to SWIL tomorrow, so those who haven't
had
a chance to sign up to be pieces can.  Yes, you will finally have a
chance
to show your parents what your friends are really like!  And they will
have
a chance to transfer you to another school!  Fast!  This Live Chess game
will be happening on Parrish Lawn (elsewhere if rain, but of course it
NEVER rains on Parents' Weekend) Saturday afternoon (the 17th, I think).

        Remember that our illustrious speaker, Greg Frost, will be here
next Tuesday!  Granted, none of us have been able to find anything he's
written, but he CLAIMS to be a science fiction author.  If he is, we'll
have a fun time chatting with him over dinner (at 5:00 on Tuesday) and
listening to him at his talk (7:30 PM in Bond).  Signs will be going up
soon.  (Right, Lisa?  RIGHT, LISA???)

        Submit to BEM, or a pox on your proxy!

        Next year, we have an option of viewing The Prisoner or Red
Dwarf
(or both!) on a weekly basis, thanks to Jeff Hildegrad.  (ML4220, x8016) 
THIS year (more specifically, this weekend) talk to me about MST:3K.
Many
new and shiny episodes to view.

        Things happened at the last meeting, strange and wondrous
things. 
For one thing, Aaron was briefly impeached, but there weren't enough
people
there to make it stick.  For another, the following people showed up:

ATTENDANCE 4:3:93 (April, folks)
Charles "...TILE GROUT..." X. [Grout, grout, damn spot. --O]; David
"Bartolomeo de las Casas" Randall; Jim; Andrea "Sleepy + Confused but
Happy" Hall; reoN "...gniyonna yllaer teg ot gnitrats si RA" ffeoG;
Charles
"Chocolate...GROUT" X.; reoN "tuorG klahC ,oN" ffeoG; Charles "Grout
Grout
Grout Grout Grout (F.A.R.P.) Famous American Regionalist Painter." X.;
reoN
"?tuorG taerG eht toN" ffeoG; Charles "grououououout" X.; reoN
"trowowoworg
elik erom...mmM" ffeoG; Justin "In Vitro" Giacoletti; Deb "I want to be
a
non-pawn in live chess + I never see Lisa + I won't be here next week. 
Somebody should sign me up!" Sam "Thanks" Barolsky :); Josh "The
fluff-bird
smiled, and made weird gutteral fleop sounds. "You haven't learned."
Burdick [No, Josh, we haven't.  WHAT DO YOU MEAN????? --O]; Samuel
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....OUT!" Weiler; Melissa "yes; it was fine; none of
your
business" Shaner; Kendra "I am not a nerd I am not a nerd" Eshleman [But
you are dressed as one.  (Sorry, dear.) --O]; Peter "signing 'cos
someone
made up a quote for me last time" Wong; Peter "No I didn't" Wong

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