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Alright, everyone! The time has come to vote on who will emerge victorious for the 4th round. IF you are new to ACRO, you will select your top three choices. Your first choice will receive 3 points, the second choice gets 2 points, and your final choice will get 1 point. Let the voting begin!


1. Theatrical Villain Articulation (Just a fancy way of saying monologue)
2. Toodeloo! Vacation Awaits!
3. Tapping Vintage Alcohols (Bringing out the very best years for my friends.)
4. Terrifying Villains Add.. (Excitement to any adventure)
5. Tigers Vain Animals (Yes, but all those stripes!)
6. Taking Vacation Again? (Seriously... Do you ever work?)
7. Technological Virtual Assistant (Don't all these AI bots just remind you of Clippy?)
8. Tigers (are) Vicious Animals
9. Transylvania Vampire Attractions (TripAdvisor: stay away from cemeteries at night)

--- Happy Birthday Mats!

Sound the trumpets! -------

Bring on the and .

From Bosco the dragon and all of us at DreamLyrics, we hope you have a great birthday!

Mats does not currently appear to be in any games at the moment.

On this day in history...
1347 - Cola di Rienzo took the title of tribune in Rome.
1570 - Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues the first modern atlas.
1674 - John Sobieski became Poland’s first King.
1882 - The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed.
1927 - By the Treaty of Jedda, the United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merged to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1939 - The first telecast over telephone wires was sent from Madison Square Garden to the NBC-TV studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The event was a bicycle race.
1971 - Peter Cetera (Chicago) was beaten up by four men at a Chicago Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. The men objected to the length of Cetera's hair. Cetera underwent four hours of emergency surgery.
1978 - Mavis Hutchinson, at age 53, became the first woman to run across America. It took Hutchinson 69 days to run the 3,000 miles.
1983 - First publications of the discovery of the virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo individually.
1990 - The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.

Sharing his May 20th birthdate are
Seth Pomeroy 1706
Frédéric Passy 1822
King Faisal I of Iraq 1883
Gardner Fox 1911
Edward B. Lewis 1918
Bud Grant 1927
Bronson Pinchot 1959
Zebekia 1966
Tony Stewart 1971
Busta Rhymes 1972




So grab you a slice of this giant birthday cake and join Bosco the Dragon and me as we wish Mats a wonderful birthday and hopes and wishes for many, many more down the road.

---- Happy Birthday, Mats!!!

--- Happy Birthday Zebekia!

Sound the trumpets! -------

Bring on the and .

From Bosco the dragon and all of us at DreamLyrics, we hope you have a great birthday!

Zebekia currently seems to be characterless and elsewhere...

On this day in history...
1217 - The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.
1690 - England passed the Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II.
1883 - The eruption of Krakatoa begins, leading ultimately to the volcano's destruction three months later.
1916 - Norman Rockwell’s first cover on "The Saturday Evening Post" appeared.
1933 - "Charlie Chan" was heard for the final time on the NBC Blue radio network, after only six months on the air.
1942 - "I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo" was recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.
1970 - "Let It Be," the film by The Beatles, premiered worldwide.
1980 - The submarine Nautilus was designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
1989 - The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
2002 - East Timor becomes independent from Indonesian rule.

Sharing his May 20th birthdate are
Francis Cotes 1726
Sir William Congreve 1772
Emil Berliner 1851
R. J. (Reginald Joseph) Mitchell 1895
Moshe Dayan 1915
Jack Kevorkian 1928
Ron Reagan 1958
Brian Nash (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) 1963
Mindy Cohn 1966
Mats 1971




So grab you a slice of this giant birthday cake and join Bosco the Dragon and me as we wish Zebekia a wonderful birthday and hopes and wishes for many, many more down the road.

---- Happy Birthday, Zebekia!!!

--- Happy Birthday Meklar!

Sound the trumpets! -------

Bring on the and .

From Bosco the dragon and all of us at DreamLyrics, we hope you have a great birthday!

Meklar hasn't been around lately and he has been missed for his inventive and irreverent wit!. Hopefully, we'll see him around here again sometime in the near future!

On this day in history...
* 1940 - Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
* 1940 - Reynaud forms French govt
* 1941 - 1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
* 1941 - Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
* 1944 - Hitler begins attack on English/US "terror pilots"
* 1945 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
* 1945 - Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed
* 1950 - Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
* 1956 - US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
* 1958 - US performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
* 1959 - "Gypsy" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 702 performances
* 1964 - US begin intelligence flights above Laos
* 1966 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
* 1970 - National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
* 1979 - Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR

Sharing his May 20th birthdate are
* 1916 - Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy)
* 1916 - Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
* 1917 - Raymond Burr, BC Canada, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
* 1931 - George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-93)
* 1941 - Anatoli Semyonovich Levchenko, USSR, cosmonaut (TM-4)
* 1944 - Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland (Labour, 1990- )
* 1948 - Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
* 1950 - Roger Hodgson, London, rocker (Supertramp)
* 1951 - Al Franken, comedian/writer/actor (SNL, Stuart Saves His Family)
* 1952 - Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
* 1974 - Fairuza Balk (The Craft, Gas Food Lodging)
* 1981 - Beth Botsford, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-gold-96)
* 1985 - Frustaci Septuplets, Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7



So grab you a slice of this giant birthday cake and join Bosco the Dragon and me as we wish Mek a wonderful birthday and hopes and wishes for many, many more down the road.

---- Happy Birthday, Meklar!!!

--- Happy Birthday Ian!

Sound the trumpets! -------

Bring on the and .

From Bosco the dragon and all of us at DreamLyrics, we hope you have a great birthday!

The former GM of CHR: Children of The Horned Rat , Ian hasn't been around much lately... unfortunately.

On this day in history...
1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery.
1608 - The Protestant states formed the Evangelical Union of Lutherans and Calvinists.
1857 - The electric fire alarm system was patented by William F. Channing and Moses G. Farmer.
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
1926 - Thomas Edison spoke on the radio for the first time.
1935 - T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England.
1965 - FBI agents visited Wand Records investigating the lyrics to the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen.
1967 - The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the United States and Britain that banned nuclear weapons from outer space.
1979 - Eric Clapton and George Harrison's ex-wife, Patti Boyd were married.
1999 - "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" was released in the U.S. It set a new record for opening day sales at 28.5 million.

Sharing his May 19th birthdate are
Johns Hopkins 1795
Ho Chi Minh 1890
Max Perutz 1914
Jim Lehrer 1934
Francis Scobee 1939
Nora Ephron 1941
Pete Townsend (The Who) 1945
Joey Ramone 1951
Yazz 1963
Jessica Fox 1983




So grab you a slice of this giant birthday cake and join Bosco the Dragon and me as we wish Ian a wonderful birthday and hopes and wishes for many, many more down the road.

---- Happy Birthday, Ian!!!

Birthday

Not trying to get people doing the same thing but to help those of the Anal Retentive sort (umm like me) I know that we appreciate when everything lines up:

Aqua's posting of the results are done with the [code ] prompt




Aqua made a score sheet using Excel that makes it extremely easy to just copy and paste the results. Here is the link: ACRO Scoresheet

Devon

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ACRO Scoresheet 4/18/24


Welcome to the next Game of ACRO... The slate is clean. Everybody starts even. Even the dealer.... Well since you did win last game... Everyone else gets a head start . Away we go!!!!

• Round 1: SPI: TennesseeMaiden (Dealer): Winner of the Deal: Gypsy: Suspicious Person Indicated (Hands above your head!): 11pts
  Real Winners:
  Mina: Some Peculiar Interests! (I've seen your browsing history): 9pts
  Miales: Satisfying Pleasurable Indulgences (You say hedonistic... I say gratifying): 9pts
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• Round 2: BEP: Gypsy (Dealer}: Whiner of the Deal: Miales: Beating Every Player (Except one... Please Except one): 11pts
  Real Winner:
  TennesseeMaiden: Bacon, Eggs, Pancakes...(I love breakfast!): 11pts