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MITSFS Meeting Minutes

Friday, 9 May 2014




MITSFS meeting called to order, 63.4 Ksec SST,
Susan Shepherd, Pseudo-Skinner, presiding; James Hobin, Onseck, recording.

BING! That was really loud BING!

Committee Reports

There's a picnic tomorrow in PDR4, meet us in the library. There will be banana-pierogie, banana-pie, and other things. Actual picniccomm is acquiring a lovely bunch of coconuts. The vehicle for the quest for the coconut has been prepared.

Lost books committee: Monk's Magic has been returned after 9 years. Motion to commend Sueshep and Brian Sniffen for getting the fucking thing back passes 19 - 0 - 1 plus Spehn BING! There's a huge pantercomm overflow menacing the hills of the library
Van Helsing in Exile-Comm: I have two staked copies of Twilight in my apartment, those should go away.
Warcomm: Reserves in Greendex will exist one of these days
Starchamber: The new keyholder rites are almost finished!

BING!

Old Business

In the beginnning, there was DARPA. And DARPA created the routers and servers and there was internet. And DARPA looked upon what it had created and saw it was good.

BING!

Elections

Onseck:
11.
Cathleen
0.
The Earl of Lemongrab
2.
Devan Lochees (Chronicler)
1.
Thing
0.
Things
1.
Nothing
0.
Something
1.
Tetraxenongold(II)
0.
ClF_3
0.
Fire
0.
Water
0.
Air
0.
Wood
0.
Metal
0.
Earth
2.
Heart
1.
The Fifth Element
0.
The Eighth Element
0.
The Eighth Color
0.
The Element with atomic number 666
0.
Neutronium
0.
Unobtanium
0.
Scrith

Cathleen wins!

Lord/Lady High Embezzler (LHE):

8.
Sarah
3.
Tyrion Lannister
1.
Baron Wolfenbach
0.
Lex Luthor
0.
Smaug
0.
Smog
0.
Tsmdksfls
0.
Toothless
0.
Meraxis
0.
Valerion
0.
Sabatha
0.
Nergal
0.
Hecate
0.
J.K. Rowling
0.
That gesture that sueshep made
0.
The act that that gesture represents
0.
Tetra
0.
Anne Bonney
0.
Florence Ambrose
3.
Tattletale
0.
Catwoman
0.
Harley Quinn
3.
Zeetha Daughter of Chump
0.
The Other
0.
The Jaegers

Sarah and Tattletale win!

Vice:

12.
lknight
2.
Cheese pierogie
0.
Vice grip pliers
0.
Vice magazine
0.
Channel-lock brand pliers
2.
Vice
0.
Vise
2.
Vyse
0.
Ira Gamagoori
1.
Captain Levi
0.
Dende

A brief interlude: the plot of Consider Phlebas
Sightseeing, sightseeing, sightseeing, cannibals, sightseeing, MASS DEATH, sightseeing, DEATH, DEATH, BETRAYAL, DEATH.

President:

12.
Lemur
0.
Lady Satsuki Kiryuin
1.
Words that can be spelled
0.
The Albanian language
0.
Orangutan
1.
Phonetic spelling
0.
Kamina
0.
Homophones spelt homonyms
0.
Besmer process
0.
Haber-Bosch process
0.
Bourne approximation
0.
The elections process
0.
The doppler effect
0.
The Chandrashakar Limit
1.
Sansa
2.
lknight

Lemur wins! BING! Meeting adjourned by skinnerial decree, 64.76 Ksec SST.




Respectfully submitted,
James Hobin, Onseck