MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Andy Su, President and Skinner, presiding.
Minutes of the previous meeting (2/14/86) impossible for anyone but the absent Onseck to decipher.
JAH: Move to approve the minutes as invisible. Passes pi-e-sqrt(2) +Spehn, and finger motions start flying for no apparent reason.
JME: Motion to commend whoever put the Jabba the Hutt on the model of the Enterprise. Passes by acclaim.
BING!
JME: Gavelcomm: a Labrador retriever is recovering after having a 10" wrench in its stomach for a month. Article attached. Also, Andy Porter showed up late at the MITSFS party and said George Scithers was fired from Amazing. He used to edit Asimov's.
JME: Whooshcomm: the Russians put up a fairly permanent space station, with private cabins and 6 docking ports, but haven't manned it yet. Article attached.
Someone's motion to commend the Russians for helping us keep on schedule passes lots-1 nyet-a few +Spehn.
BPS: Mobcomm: I filled in a few tiny gaps at Boskone, most notably the Dune Encyclopedia.
RvdH: We both got Heroes in Hell for MITSFS, free.
JME: Huntcomm: The Lunarians won. The most creative entry was from an individual. We asked for a monolith, and she brought a case of vaguely correct proportions. Then she opened it, and out fell all these stick-on stars.
CH: Moocomm: Monty Python's Holy Grail tonight at LSC.
ATS: Skinner Report: I was attacked by a Scientologist. Ad attached.
CH: Sitcomm: Monkees marathon coming, about 22 hours worth. Attached.
BING!
JME: Move to commend L. Ron Hubbard for still being dead. No vote.
JME: Write for TZ! Also, Infocom has been bought out by Activision. They should never have tried to go into business software.
OBA: um, us, uv, ur.
BING!
JME: Minicult: The Missouri senate had to overturn a committee action which was going to renumber Bill 666 due to religious complaints. The difficulty was considered comparable to last year's flap over a proposed bill to regulate public nose-blowing. Article attached.
KM: Pepsi owns 7Up, and Coke bought Dr. Pepper. RC is looking for a deal with Coke too.
CH: WWN Report: A British Navy parrot was court-martialed for attacking Scottish people, and smokers are highway hazards. Articles attached.
Paul Dworkin: Gary Larson's lecture sold out Kresge. He showed slides of some Far Side cartoons that the papers wouldn't publish.
Phonecomm: No, Lisa Nanney isn't here.
Against a background of Rabbits comes a motion to send the British Royal Navy a dead parrot stuffed with bananas. Passes everybody-the parrot-the parrot's cousins +Spehn.
Meeting adjourned, 1725 SST.