Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 17:32:54 -0500 From: "the rags of time..." Subject: [WRITERS] ALL: Jest A Reminder about eMJay Awards... [If you reply to this, please change ALL: to INT: Remember, ALL: is NOT for everyday use...] Since some people may have missed the beginning of the contest...and obviously aren't reading the FAQs, either:-( Take a look at the eMJay pages for some clues about this experiment in lib...er, make that labeling various members of the list. The basic notion is simple. Of the various members of the list, who is...the most up-your-nose-with-a-gummi-worm? well, not that, but several other categories are included in the official list. So take the list (found at that web page) and start keeping score. When you have your ballot ready to go, send it to jackechs@EROLS.COM and mbarker@mit.edu Oh -- today is the 3rd, roughly? and the end of the voting is the 13th. So, start counting, because you only have 10 more voting days! (most vociferous? that means most likely to cause projectile hurling to occur, right? Or is it something to do with having a steely gaze -- from the vieux de la ferraious? ah, just a magnetic personality? look for the north star, then go on two weeks past tomorrow and take a left... :-) "This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, -- often the surfeit of our own behavior, -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence." William Shakespeare tink