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1.  iCE has once  again  taken  a step  in designing  web  pages.  Our art has
appeared  on  more pages  this  month, and  the  group has begun design of
another web  page (html and pics) for  an  organization.  Friar  Tuck  has
taken  a step  in  fighting airbourne  microbes using the power of reason.
Force Ten took a step, but tripped.

2.  Hard  to imagine  some  of  the great accolades and achievments our motley
crue have been achieving, you'd think that we were a dominant force in the
art  scene  (wait a sec, that's right.. we are. :)).  Our very own Tonedef
has  achieved  great  success  in  the  commercial  world  doing  computer
animation segments for a Saturday morning cartoon show on CBS, in addition
to  landing  a job designing some of the web pages for IBM.  Kabal13, that
wacky  and creative  VGA  maniac, also delves in the world of print media,
making a  mixed  media comic on a regular basis.  More noteworthy however,
he won special  accolades  nationally for having the best school newspaper
based  art  project in the US...  congratulations  go  out  to him on that
special achievment.  Basehead, a music department favorite has just signed
a 6 game contract  with  Origin Systems to produce musical soundtracks for
your  upcoming  favorite  games.   Also  Natex, a necessarily inactive iCE
coder, has  found  happiness  in  the Microsoft halls.  He created a CDROM
that  went  on  every seat at the Super Bowl (go Cowboys, rah rah), and is
now  creating "The Internet Starter Kit".  Look at it in a store near you,
but  don't leave smudges  on the shiny clean windows.  That'll just create
more work for the newly-promoted chief janitor, Shaggy.

3.  iCE  would  like  to  announce the re-creation of our iCE Euro department!
Members  from  the  group  FUEL have become willingly assimilated into the
wonderful  thing  that is iCE.  In  this wonderful synergism of talent, we
hope  to  make  ourselves  a  more worldwide  presence,  which  gives  iCE
opportunities  to  participate in european demo contests, and in addition,
iCE  welcomes  a  bunch  of  fun loving yet mature members who know how to
enjoy themselves.   We are truly proud to have them represent the iCE name
in  Europe!    Welcome to:  The Knight,  Necrofiliac,  Thrasher,  Dikarpo,
Tung Lo,  Pooh, Night Angel, Warlord, Count Drakula in ANSI; Deep Freezer,
Silver Eagle, Mabuse, Ben Hurry, Byron in Coding; Kovax!, Fred, Black Lion
in Music;  and  Cray  and  Lyfe  in VGA.  This completes our collection of
knightly  names: White Knight,  The  Knight,  The Night  Angel, and  Night
Angel.  Slothy  the  psychic  would  like to forecast a handle change next
month, as  it  would  please  the  Mr. Bimble,  the  man in Fozzy's thumb.

4.  On a more serious note, we'd like  to  mourn the passing of Lemonade's pet
gerbil to the viscious and foul-tempered  ferret Smedly.  We will all miss
the little guy, but, for some reason though,  Mass  Delusion  seems overly
distraught.  Wonder why.  Hell, he even  sent  Syntax  the plastic tubing.

5.  I'd like to apologize on  behalf  of  the minimally exceptional Lord Soth.
He inadvertently created the  memberlist without gracing upon it the names
of Snake Grunger, Magnetic M,  and Anarchy.  We apologize for this heinous
error, and acknowledge their activity with solemn love.  Syntax would like
it known that he doesn't  acknowledge  anything  with  solemn  love,  so a
little chuckle will have to do.  I  also  must  note  that Magnetic M is a
trademark of MM Enterprises.  All Rights  Reserved.  (woo!  happy one year
anniversary Xavier!  Here's to  12 months  of good times. :))  Allusion to
Anarchy with permission of  the  artist  formerly known as Shaggy (aka Old
Dirty Bastard).

6.  This .NFO file is 100% Fat Free and contains No Sugar or Additives!

6b. Pet peeve  of  the  month:  groups who retain members specifically for the
purpose of writing up info files.

6c. Pet peeve of next month:  people who make premature decisions.

6d. True fact:  Force Ten was Patrick Buchannan in a previous life.

7.  This  month  we  welcome  a  few new members, and welcome back two others!
Biscuit has rejoined the ranks  of  the  galactic  penguin  turnip  lords.
Sparr rejoins our Euro division as he leaves that other nondescript group.
And  we'd  like  to  extend  a  warm welcome to Rai, who joins us from the
small island-nation of Kwalakazmir,  which  is  completely ruled by Kowala
bears.  He  sent  smoke signals over to the neighbor island, Mesuckisucki,
where The Emaciated Cow resided.  So intoxicated by the rhythmic clouds of
fanned fire, Mr.  Emaciated  FedEx-ed  his  first born child to iCE.  This
child of destiny has  now  become  of  age, and is known as Corpulent Cow.
Pull up a couple of those barstools, we'll pour ya both a cold iCEy one.:)
Just watch out for Friar, he'll offer to pay for your drink and invite you
back to his place "to  see the next version of iceview" (know what I mean,
know what I mean, wink wink, nudge nudge).

8.  The Deuce, aka  Squidgalator2,  will  be  recognized  with  the  numerical
portion of his nick intact.  We apologize for any  prior confusion.  Mr. 2
is also known to go by the names "squidge"  and  "myelocardiograph".  As a
side note, Lemonade will now be referred to as "Man of many fingers" after
the wrong table was wheeled in to  have surgery performed by the slightly-
tipsy Syntax Error.

8b. FYI:  When  we apologize we don't pull out bibles, read it, preach it, and
attempt to  force,  by law,  to abide  its  church,  then say racist slang
words,  and  attempt  to  cause  inflation!    We  are  iCE!    We support
anyonelseforrepublicannominationotherthanpatrickbuchanan!   Of course, iCE
doesn't support any major political candidates, but we do make Force Ten's
opinion heard (Rick is a ankle grabbing liberal!)

10. DRINK MILK.  FIFTY MILLION GOATS AND ONE SLOTH CAN'T BE WRONG.

11. BoA  and  Sprite  chaperoned  at  the  annual  LogoMafia smoke-out concert
series, where bands like Blues Traveler, The Black Crowes, Pink Floyd, and
The Greatful Dead  played  LIVE  out  of  BoA's  VW  Beetle's stereo!  All
LogoMafiosos appeared to be enjoying themselves.

12. Toxic Marshmallow changed  his  handle to Tox because he couldn't remember
how to spell Marshmallow  one  evening  and  thought that Toxic was blase.

13. Ever notice how the elevator doesn't like to go to this floor?

14. Just a shameless  advertisement to the  newest and best  web  magazine out
there,  compliments of  our  very own  Surreal  Logic.   Check  it  out at
http://129.210.64.114/nwOrld/index.html
It has probing interviews, great articles,  and the latest in HTML design.
We honestly recommend EVERYONE go check this out...  it's what the caribou
call elite.

15. Our packs will once  again  be  found  on  arpeggio.res.cmu.edu   and,  of
course, ftp.cdrom.com.  Unfortunately,  wit.com   is  down  again.    Look
for our own FTP site in the near future.

16. We give a salute to  Fire  and  Dark, who really have the right idea about
how to run a group.  We  hope  to  work  beside them in the months to come
in putting our spin on the scene,  and  showing  the world that it doesn't
take a bunch of ego-ridden assholes to make good art. :)

17. Where is 9?

18. Welp, that's all folks!   Another pack we're quite proud of!  See ya next
month!  Great job to  everyone in iCE who drew this month!  Special thanks
to TNA (who tends to rule on occasion),  Apox, Lemonade, and Snake Grunger
for the role you played in educating some of our newer artists..great job!

Force Ten     Friar Tuck      Lord "Boombastic" Soth      Syntax Error