Web Fed News Yearbooks - February 1999

WEB SITE TIME SLIP

Last weekend the ibgames web site disappeared through a black hole and emerged several weeks before it left, timestamped with an imaginery date. Bemused Fedders discussed this phenomenon at length:

Your comm unit relays a message from Readerboy, "WHAT'S NEW - Recent changes. Last updated February 31, 1999."
Your comm unit relays a message from Lilalsa, "opps:)"
Your comm unit relays a message from Chooch, "Hmm, would that be a "quadruple leap year" as referenced in Kip Adotta's "Wet Dream"?"
Your comm unit relays a message from Barb, "It's Rigellian Time"
Your comm unit relays a message from Readerboy, "or is that the date in hilbert space?"

Galactic Administration scientists were rushed to the scene to recalibrate the web site and bring it back into line with time as we know it, and everything was soon back to normal (or what passes for normal in Fed DataSpace).

QUOTES OF THE MONTH

Your comm unit relays a message from Danteaf, "thats where all my soya was disappearing to for a while."
Your comm unit relays a message from Danteaf, "I feel kinda bad now."
Your comm unit relays a message from Danteaf, "I killed those WT's cause I thought they were stealing it."

"I know what you mean. Last night I felt like the last crust of bread in the middle of a flock of hungry pidgeons.", says Tammar.

Your comm unit relays a message from Elin, "thats the problem lately, we are all so busy hauling the place is too quiet"
Your comm unit relays a message from Leostada, "hmm... i haul and chat at the same time... could be why I don't understand half of what I say"

Your comm unit relays a message from Mephisto, "yeesh! The spyroom has taught me that my fellow merchies are exxxx-xtremely booooring to watch."
Which leads us to ask - what is the most boring rank to watch? High-ranking beam-owners please mail us with your suggestions.

Somewhere out there Barb has just disappeared.
Somewhere out there Barb has just appeared.
Barb grumbles about crap connections
Hazed thinks Barb should connect via the phone line not the sewer system

Your comm unit relays a message from Galinfenner, "Hi I'm back :)"
Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "Oh thank goodness, we missed you so much!"
Your comm unit relays a message from Galinfenner, "::beams:: awww I bet you say that to all the hosts."
Your comm unit relays a message from Hazed, "That was your "rent-a-compliment" service. Your invoice will be mailed to you."

Your comm unit relays a message from Danny, "What's the fun if everyone's spread out. It's like putting 5 people in a bathroom stall, giving them all an AK47, and telling them the last one standing gets a million dollars."

Your comm unit relays a message from Rockwell, "You instruct your officials to proceed with Energy construction..."
Your comm unit relays a message from Defiant, "You Instruct your GM to Find you...Quickly."

Free4all Event.
Your comm unit relays a message from Bababooie, "Dang if the Tanker gas guy
can find me I know you all can <--- runs to hide better."

Your comm unit signals a tight beam message from Countzero, "Thought this was an adult fantasy--just had a 15 year old put a price of 69 groats on my head.... :)"

Your comm unit relays a message from Slash, "I must have been a commander for too long. I'm still too cheap to buy fuel when I'm in orbit."

Your comm unit relays a message from Wrenna, "Shall we start a new rumor? Something about ..um.. new duchies being unstable and could disappear all of a sudden. ;)"

Your comm unit relays a message from Rockwell, "Hazed, why don't they have sex in the Spynet Reports?"
Your comm unit relays a message from Rockwell, "I'm gettin' tired of being called a guy."
Your comm unit relays a message from Abiqu, "dont ack like a guy and you wont be called one Rockwell ::::grins::::"
Your comm unit relays a message from Rockwell, "You wanna come over here and say that?"

Your comm unit relays a message from Dragonheart, "You know you have been playing fed to long when you steal the Lazy-boy out of the den to replace your computer chair... Just a thought :)"

CLOTHES OF THE MONTH

>ex bigshell
The rugged strongly hewn features are keen with intelligence. The pink boa and plume look good too.

MOODS OF THE MONTH

Busy sweeping up dead Martians, Stevec has just appeared.

POSTS OF THE MONTH

211124:682 - Olias: I don't want to be a duke, since they are a dime-a-dozen now. I will instead shoot for the little-known rank of Slumlord. I'll have to solve the Slumlord puzzle, where you have to build housing for Martians and then fail to upkeep it.

211150:883 - Adora: My God! It's SAFE to check prices in SOL! :) Now, who'da thunk it I'd live to see such a day!? ;) ***TRADE ETHERIA***