MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Jade Wang, President and Skinner, presiding. Ed Keyes is the music-videoed Onseck.
Minutes read.
M: correct the minutes from "censure" to "censor" jhawk. 3-1-3 +Spehn.
M: condemn JFC for caring about spelling of the minues. No second.
Jade destroys another CD. Not very thrilling. BING! BING!
John: "I've watched my kettle boil."
John has recently stopped receiving AOL CDs. Ed: "Are you sure you're still alive?" He's been going by his employee ID number now.
BING!
A parent comes in, and is scared by the sheer size of the library.
Pseudo-Theftcomm: John moves the complaint sheet down 2 inches to make it more visible.
Mobcomm: shipment coming in a few days. Quote from Terry Brooks in SFBC newsletter: "Although the number and size of my books sometimes mystifies and bewilders me..."
Pseudo-Telzey: we need a more durable heart-shaped slinky. Is the Telzey an assigned committee post? The skinners usually try it, anyway.
Pianocomm: Jade sent out emails, a prentice is actually here too! Doing Bluebellcomm, shelving.
A pre-meeting argument broke out about lengths of book-covering material between Jade and John.
Chroniccomm: SNF RSN.
What committee is the lock?
Plantcomm: the light fixture is still not totally fixed.
Dexmistress: our net drop has been... more activated. All sorts of weirdness in IS case tracker. The bad block check on the drive is taking way too long.
Pseudo-Theftcomm: tomorrow John will break into the third sheet of the TIF.
John: "I just remember it had a flying skull and Sean Connery in a diaper."
"Bheer" is an SF reference to non-alcoholic beer. "Whine" too. So should Pubcomm be Phubcomm? Bheercomm?
Jade: "You made a twisted piece of... thingy."
The investment value of beer vs. tech stocks. Beer is better in the can recycling profit.
Pseudo-Bondcomm: what should we do about jhawk?
Jamie: "People have been asking that for years." Bondcomm vs. Bondagecomm vs. Bond(age)comm.
BING!
An anime convention in Boston Hynes, this weekend.
Lock progress. They're really about ready to be changed, but 4 people have no record in the card office. And amazingly enough, they agreed to delay the installation. Also have a card for George Flynn now.
BING!
Jenwa is reviving her old jacket. With safety pins.
Jenwa: "It's almost more comfortable broken."
Aside about Old North Church bell dissonance.
Weird Malcolm story about a bell-tuner drinking ink as a poison antidote. All the Yale bells were donated by a plumber, so the students flushed all the toilets at once.
M: flush all the toilets in Harvard at once in protest of their bells! 8-0-1 +Spehn.
John: "Anyone want to see a picture of chickens on a bicycle?"
M: revive the skinner by feeding her a banana. No second.
Jamie's throat is sore, so no adjourment song.
John: "The one time I got complimented on my pronunciation in French class was when I had a sore throat."
BING!
M: stuff a banana down the back of John's throat. 2-4-2 +Spehn.
M: count the items in the Infinite Banana Buffet. No second.
Miller motion. Fails something-5-1 +Spehn.
M: demonstrate our faith in the skinner's world-shattering power by stuffing a banana down the back of John's throat. Something+Jamie-0-1 +Spehn.
Meeting adjourned, 174... no, 1750 SST.