From chaos @ condor.sccs.swarthmore.edu Sat Jul 17 19:33:13 1999 Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:33:12 -0400 (EDT) From: chaos golubitsky To: _swat.org.swil @ swarthmore.edu Subject: A three hour SWILNews #9 Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale A tale of a fateful plunge That started from this Swarthmore port Aboard this massive sponge The mate was a mighty dancing man The skipper strong and... norse Five passengers set sail that day For a three hour tour A three hour tour The weather started getting rough The massive sponge was tossed If not for the courage of the fearless crew The poriphora would be lost The poriphora would be lost The sponge set ground on the shores of this Uncharted northeastern liberal arts college (just pretend it scans, okay? -h) With Terry, And Thor too, Jack Skellington And his spam, Ratatosk, The professor (that's me -Gustav) And Buffy, Here in Gustav's Crum. SWILBusiness (Thanks to Hannah for being scribe. For a more humourous account of what happened at the meeting, ask Hlokk to show you Hannah's notes.) Several coups were staged before any presidents showed up. We weren't there, so we don't know anything about them. It rained, so we moved challenge chess to the admissions porch, but it was fun anyway. Congratulations to Sarah on her mooing abilities! The Walpurgisnacht committee has regained self-awareness, and will do something real soon now (tm). Submit to BEM! Now! Heather will hunt you down with large nasty pointy things. We don't want to know. Deadline is 10 April. There will be a SWILCon round table meeting tonight at 9. Please show up if you can. Jimmy is thinking about locations for the Spam Pinata event, and wondering whether we should buy pinatas or make them. We don't know. (Pinatas that you make yourself are actually kind of hard to break. -g) Schlock will be Mon-Wed, 4-6 May. Greg offered his video to play before one of the Schlock films. Schlock voting will be next week. Nominate your favourites before then. The catalogs are currently in George, and the key is in the SWIL locker. Tonight's SWIL movie is "Frog!". You should come. Really. Non-SWILBusiness: There was interest in gaming Saturday night, but we were all out of town, so we don't know whether it happened. The scribe left, so meeting ended. Underpopulated List - 4/4: Hannah "I can't think of a nickname" Schneider Dave "MAS - Mutually Assured Soaking!" Phillips Jim "It's like three peas in the Astrodome around here" Moskowitz Amy "SIGN UP FOR LIVE CHESS" Swift Ben "I DID sign up for LIVE CHESS" Newman Anna "Strawberries!" Hess Melissa "The chairs are gonna jump - stop them!" Binde Straw "Annahess!" Berries Jim "Carve a lifesize bust out of Spam of me?!" Hormel Catherine "Arffraggle Maypole ribbons" Osborne Linda "Catherine's mother" Barrett Osborne, '71 Jim "Doing my best to boost attendance" Moskowitz Jim "ditto" Moskowitz Kyla "Oh, look, it's Jim in triplicate - which copy do we get to keep?" Tornheim Jimmy "I was supposed to meet you at seven, but now I'm eighteen. I guess I'm really late." Kong Amy "Really... live chess!" Swift Greg "My name is Michael Caine" Ingber -Hlokk, Goll, and Skogul So this is the tale of our castaways They're here for a long, long time (well, four years, to be precise. -h) They'll have to make the best of things It's a purple lime. The dancer and his norse god, too Will do their very best To help the others stay pass/fail In their small and stress-filled nest No voice-mail, no condor, no shuttle bus Not a single luxury. Like the housing lottery It's primitive as can be. So join us here each week my friend You're sure to get some rum (What!? -G) >From seven stranded cameos Here in Gilligan's Crum. (Partial credit for this week's theme goes to guest Valkyrie Joell (the punning one.))