June 15, 2005

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June 15, 2005

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Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter:

Visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/
or our web site at http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/

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IDEAS:

Disaster: a spell for elves (or some similar elf-varient if there ever is one) that while
active causes all other spells (good and bad) to disipate themselves at 1 hour-equivalent
every 2 ticks, instead of every tick, making them last longer

Home: demon poses

-- Kiri -- this is coming.

Extreemist: why cant gtellh unscramble drunk?


Everybody: can we get additional syntax for the wear command to allow for
"wear all.<keyword>" to work? presuming it won't replace existing (as the wear all
command)

Any replies? hit reply and send them to me!
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Catalog of English Entrances to Hell:

http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/

VERY interesting National Security Archive

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

From Dove, the Oops List

http://www.micom.net/oops/

The Illustrated Catalog of Acme Products

http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html

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Subject: FW: Fw: NEW WORDS FOR 2005


Very very funny.

>
>
> >>NEW WORDS FOR 2005
> >1. BLAMESTORMING:
> >Sitting around in a group, discussing why a
> deadline was missed or a
> >project, and who was responsible.
> >
> >2. SEAGULL MANAGER:
> >A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
> on everything, and
> >then leaves.
> >
> >3 ASSMOSIS:
> >The process by which some people seem to absorb
> success and advancement
> >by kissing up to the boss rather than working
> >hard.
> >
> >4. SALMON DAY:
> >The experience of spending an entire day swimming
> upstream only to get
> >screwed and die in the end
> >
> >5. CUBE FARM:
> >An office filled with cubicles.
> >
> >6. PRAIRIE DOGGING:
> >When someone yells or drops something loudly in a
> Cube farm, and
> >people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's
> going
> >on.
> >
> >7. MOUSE POTATO:
> >The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch
> potato.
> >
> >8. SITCOMs:
> >Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage.
> What yuppies turn into
> >when they have children and one of them stops
> >working to stay home with the kids.
> >
> >9. STRESS PUPPY:
> >A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out
> and whiny.
> >
> >10. SWIPEOUT:
> >An ATM or credit card that has been rendered
> useless because the
> >magnetic
> >strip is worn away from extensive use.
> >
> >11. XEROX SUBSIDY:
> >Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's
> workplace.
> >
> >12. IRRITAINMENT:
> >Entertainment and media spectacles that are
> annoying but you find
> >yourself unable to stop watching them. The J-Lo and
> Ben
> >wedding (or not) was a prime example.
> >
> >13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE:
> >The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
> electronic device to get it
> >to work again.
> >
> >14. ADMINISPHERE:
> >The rarefied organizational layers beginning just
> above the rank and
> >file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are
> often
> >profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the
> problems they were
> >designed to solve.
> >
> >15. 404:
> >Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web
> error message "404 Not
> >Found," meaning that the requested document
> >could not be located. (For those in Toronto, it's
> also Hwy 404...
> >destination can not be located.)
> >
> >16. CROP DUSTING:
> >Surreptitiously farting while passing through a
> Cube Farm.
> >
> >17. OHNOSECOND:
> >That minuscule fraction of time in which you
> realize that you've just
> >made a BIG mistake.
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