MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Ed Keyes, President and Skinner, presiding; Kat Allen, Onseck, recording.
Minutes read.
Motion to condemn last week's minutes as being not-nearly long enough
Passes 5/3/1+Spehn
BING!
``The Library has poor taste. This is not in dispute'' -ED
Motion to set up a betting pool for how many Harry Potter books will be donated. Discussed, but fails for lack of a second.
NJ blue laws prevent bookstores from being open at midnight on a Saturday, so the ``poor'' people in NJ had to wait for Harry Potter until 9 AM.
Motion to commend the government of NJ for protecting the moral
innocence of its constituency
Passes 8-0-1+Spehn
Discussion of books which tell you how to end the world by playing Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
The MobComm mobile lost a battle with a speed bump today. All the oil is now on Vassar street.
BING!
Motion to commend the speculative fiction act for promoting government.
Passes 7-0-1+Spehn
Move that all future minutes should have a section reading ``the usual
minutes''
Passes by Skinnerial Decree
Minutes from 10-15-1999 read very quickly. JFC ( who was that day's pseudo-onseck) says ``That's a lot faster than I remember that meeting.''
ALGOL to prevent more singing from Malcom
BING!
BING!
``wheeeeer BOOM!'' -Malcom
``I live near the Charles river. Not this one, the one upstream'' -JFC
``Is that not the same river?''-ED
``It is, but not such that you can tell'' -JFC
The explosions start at 10:30. Discussion about it being late, and how this is likely for advertising reasons.
Discussion of the SuperBowl.
Discussion of glow-in-the-dark football, with no illumination.
Discussion of the glowy stock-market desk toys, and whether we can get them to flicker in ``Pokemon Time'', 13 cycles per second.
JFC is very upset that they need power, and are not powered by vibrations, or like Magic 8 Balls.
Motion to condemn the stock market for being bananna colored.
Motion does nothing 3-1-3+Spehn
Estonian wife-carrying competitions are upsetting the Finnish, reports BTS
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB105709469097077300,00.html``The Finnish wife-carriers are like the Boston Red Sox - they're fun to watch, but you know they'll never win''
Motion to ask ESPN to give us money to have a wife-carrying team
Thankfully, fails for lack of a second.
Apparently, the women must be 49 kilograms or more, the weight of the last Finn to be crowned Miss Universe.
JM suggests that MIT have a Wellesley-girl carrying team, which requires that you carry the girl back to MIT.
Move to commend the Finns and Estonians for having good taste (they
require bananna-colored backgrounds)
6-3-2+Spehn
Meeting adjourned, 1731 SST.
Special post-meeting link:
http://www.gameops.com/spot/promo/_hamster.htm