MITSFS meeting called to order, 1700 SST, Andrew Clough, President and Skinner, presiding; Kevin Riggle, Onseck, recording.
Minutes read.
Motion to approve the minutes as inaudible (8-3-1 plus Spehn) Motion to approve the minutes as R-rated for violence (13-5-1 plus Spehn) Motion to approve the minutes as Q-rated (0-4-8 plus Spehn)
Matrix vote. Determinant is 49; all motions pass.
BING!
BING!
Malcolm reports that he recently saw a movie which was “Not rated for reasons of language, violence, underage sexuality... and messy apartments.” Also, the pharoah he thought was named Snafu may have actually been named Snahfu. “Did he get made fun of by all the other pharoahs?”
Motion to pull the old Skinner's brain out of his nose properly so he can become a god fails by Skinnerial decree.
Motion to pull Jamie's nose out through his brain brain out through his nose passes by Skinnerial decree.
Pandemonium Books and Games continues to be closed. They're running into bureacratic problems with the Cambridge zoning board. “The Licensing Committee meetings--if you have nothing else to do--they can be kind of interesting.”
Usual &c.
BING!
ELECTIONS!
Kate is appointed Vanna for the meeting.
Motion to commend Vanna as the first person to hold that office in several years who can reliably spell dies because the Skinner refuses to allow a vote during elections.
Onseck: the official candidate is Kat Allen, who was Onseck and Skinner before. Other candidates include a small, carefully manicured topiary; Boba Fett; Kate's feathered hat; the beautiful invisible peacock in the middle of the table (“No there isn't an invisible peacock there--I can see it.”); a 1963 Boeing weapons-grade squirrel retrofitted with Stinger missles; the Road Runner; Wile E. Coyote; Bullwinkle; the number three; the number one (“I am not a number--I am a luncheon special!”); and spam, eggs, bacon, and spam sausage and spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspamspam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam SPAAAAAAM spam spam spam spamspamspam.... oops, sorry, the current Onseck got distracted.
Kat Allen is elected Onseck.
LHE: the official candidate is Kate's hat. Margaret nominates herself, so she can take the money and abscond to Corning with it. Other candidates include Nicholas Von Wrench, the high leadership of Enron, Jimmy Hoffa and Igor, Mr. Potatohead, Libertarian Igor (“We're undead, not unpersons!”), a rabbit with nasty pointy teeth (“so we can have something more ferocious than Kate”), and Bun-Bun. (The Onseck tries to make a paper airplane out of his vote and fails. “Somebody's not an Aero-Astro major.” “Or if they are, there are certain planes I won't be flying on.”)
The new Onseck walks in.
Kate's hat is elected, and Kate is presumed to be the official spokesperson for the hat. (“When you are embezzling, you must wear the hat.”)
The Onseck and zir spouse-to-be play rock-paper-scissors for the position. Kat wins again.
“As far as I can tell, it is the Vice's job to submit science fiction stories, howl madly, order Russian mail-order brides...” (This comment is not in its original form. It has been formatted to fit your screen.)
Vice: Nominations go to Brian Sniffen, Finboard, if they can get themselves a salary; Aramark, if they can get themselves a salad; Andrew; Yelena; Paige; Margaret; the Instrumentality; Hastur; SIPB; the Grandmaster of the Assassin's Guild; the Chairman of LSC (who was not nominated but laminated); the President of APO; Charles Vest; and a number of others better left unmentioned.
ALC: “Oh, I just realized... well, I know I won't be Skinner after this meeting.”
Brian wins.
President: Official candidate is Kevin Riggle; other nominations are one unnamed prefrosh; the other 999 unnamed prefrosh; the one annoying prefrosh on the mitmit LiveJournal community (“There's only one?”); the once-and-future Clough; Jade; Google; 99 bottles of beer on the wall; Kat; John F. Carr, maintainer of the 64-bit Solaris OCaml port; TC Skinner; TN Skinner; and several others.
Kevin is elected President; clockwork ninja kittens are his second.
See Brian's e-mail.
First Miller motion fails, 14-15-1 plus Spehn.
Motion to anoint the new Skinner after the meeting with the Holy Banana Oil of Gor passes 28-0-2 plus Spehn. “This will sting a little; be sure to close your eyes.”
BING! Meeting adjourned, 1830 SST.