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\parbox{5in}{{\Huge $\cal F$}lirtacious
felicitations gentle reader, and welcome to a funky fourth
issue of {\em \underline{The Guildsman}}, er\ldots {\em Guildsperson}? Well,
there's a mini-saga behind that, actually. One of our more audacious
readers of whom we hold most near \& dear had the outrageous nerve
{\em (gag, choke)}
to actually accuse us {\em (wheeze, sputter)} of sexism {\em (Aaaarrrrgh!)}
with respect to the title
of our illustrious zine. {\em Sexism!} If I'd only known such a religion
existed, I'd have joined years ago!\\

In any case, to reluctantly deviate from
such a horridly, deviant topic, thanks for
this issue goes to Wayne {\sf (lord\_zar)} Wallace, 
Brian {\sf (asmodeus)} Saylor, Ray {\sf (Way Wrong)} Wong, and Jason
{\sf (tonto)} Bishop for additional editing, proofing, \LaTeX-work, and
all the other silly things which go into producing our beloved
zine {\em (never-you-mind what those other silly things are!)} as well
as to our numerous contributors who art, of course,
too innumerable in number to enumerate.\\

Before pressing on, however, apologies must be offered to all
those talented \& generous personages whose submissions did
not find their way within this issue. If the truth be told,
this is the first quarter
that we've received more material than we could safely shake a
ten-foot pole at, and with recent budget cuts, the situation is
not likely to improve any time soon. What that means, in the
future, is that we'll be looking at a heinously smaller
Guildsman, so please send us your very best so that we can
make the most of the little space we'll hopefully muster.\\

Thus, having once more successfully rendered the
prospective readership stupified with his
vacuous editorial verbiage, the Bard did finally spaketh such
words as were very long awaited (and with muchly abated breath,
I might add):
{\bf ``Let the show begin!"}}\
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