Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 23:55:53 -0500
Subject: 25 Ways YOU can stop continental drift and other SWILnews (#2)

Words of wisdom for this week:
        Never trust your unconcious.  One too many Magic games and two too
many hours of sleep can cause visions of Brad Gabe dressed up as Batman and
dueling with giant wasps to dance in your head.

Anyway.

That classic of the early expressionist cinema, "Billy the Kid  vs.
Dracula" actually turned up a reference in _Film Art: An Introduction_ . 
Although technically not SWILnews, so the meeting began.
Discussion moved to the upcoming Massacre, responsibility for which has
fallen jointly on Larry and Charles.  A preliminary sign-up sheet was
passed around and will probably come around next week if anyone missed it. 
 Please sign up, we so far have a shortage of female victims.  Jere7my is
said to have most of the weaponry, so any remaining budget will probably go
for caps, although there was some talk of providing guns for the victims. 
[Kevlar might be more useful -TG]  It was suggested that the victims remain
on the floor for a while longer than the thirty seconds or so typical of
last year.  Another idea was to have them lie there until uniformed
paramedics dragged them out.   Anyone with access to a little red wagon 
might do well in this role.  [Don wants to be a victim so he can spasm when
defibrilated.  Why am I  not surprised? -L]  

  Speaking of massacres we had not one, but two dismemberments this week
after unusually lenghty debate.  Some of us are still confused as to just
how Lyndsley managed to prove sentience without decellerating. Apparently
there was a mouse involved somehow, but it didn't bother to slow down
either. The second, and only slightly less vociferous victim was Larry's
teddy bear (Most Flourescent Object hopeful 1993) who proved not only that
he was sentient but that Charles was not. However, due to the special
provision that those who can wield sharp shiny objects make the rules,
Charles will continue to serve as our minimum standard of sentience,
congratulations Charles.

A dinosaur showed up, asking a lot of questions, mostly about the reunion,
but as Beth had CIVIC training and Kendra was winging her way to Rome, the
issue was tabled.  [Whew! Got out of _that_ one pretty quick. -L]  There
will be a reunion, invitations have been mailed, if you don't get one,
e-mail.

There was some mild discussion of a movie night which resulted in the
discovery that no night is good, but some nights are better than others.
With this bit of philosophy in mind, L is checking on getting Kirby about
once every month for Movies. We will probably send a list around at some
point to get suggestions for movies to show. Shouted consensus was for
Hardware Wars, that epic tale of love and adventure that we all know so
well. 

Non-Swil business involved  some very loud banging noises and not much
else. There is a Champions game under development.  [And my subconcious is
convinced that TG is actually a crustacean. -L]

With that we will leave you, but not before... 

ATTENDANCE 1-29-94

Josh "Niggling^,Leafed" Burdick, hsutaliD ymereJ, Colin "I am not a cat"
Schatz, Kathytron Danistron, Sherry "talk to me about the reyoon
(565-4728)" Levi 85', Justin, Kristin "morris dancing" Walker [There with
bells on, of course. -L], Ahyana "Blue"-"Not in the mood for a quote
today"-Clark, Larry "Quasi-Bread" Miller, Lyndsley "Has anyone seen my
mouse?" Wilkerson, Charles "Mega walrumpus" Danforth, Robert "Grasper of
bright shiny dangerous objects" Richardson, jere7my "Hey! Wow! I can sign
the attendance list! Cool! I could write about French toast, or rutabagas,
or Bob the Janitor, or God's Nose, or _anything_! This is astounding! Hey,
I beat a vampire AND a moving wall in Secret of Mana (a Super Nintendo
game) this morning. Of course, Kendra left this morning, so it's not such a
great morning, but at least the ice has melted. Anyway, this is my
attendance list signature. First one in two years. Yahoo!" Tho?rpe [Hey!
Wow! I just finished typing Jeremy's attendance signature! Now I can get on
with the rest of my life. Just think of all the wonderous activities I can
once again be party to now that I am free of the shackles of my keyboard!
Hooray! -TG] , Andrea "Last week no bagels, this week no bread" Hall [Next
week no baklava--TG]  [Hoo boy, TG had to use his dictionary, could hardly
call him "The Lehr of Word Power"-L]  [Not that you'd want to-L]

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