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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Free Market and Disasters
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 07:04:56 GMT
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Those interested in the topic of the marketplace and how
it works (or doesn't work) during natural disasters might
be interested in an article entitled "Disasters and Market
Response", by George Horwich in the Winter 1990 issue of
"The Cato Journal" (Volume 9, Number 3).

This journal is published by the Cato Institute, a
libertarian think-tank, so it is not a surprise that this
article recommends a modest role for government in this
type of situation.

I'll read it carefully later tonight, but on initial skimming
the most intriguing suggestion is #4: "Protect the private
business sector in disaster-stricken areas from gifts and
donations of goods and services."  They offer the Jamaican
government response to the September 1988 hurricane as
evidence that this type of initiative works.  I've got to
see the complete argument for this!

--karsten

(more from karsten's magazine and journal archives)
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Mark of Maturity
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 02:54:25 GMT


In a previous article, karsten@netcom.com (karsten) says:

>ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:
>> This is not surprising; I know lots of so-called adults who are often
>> out-matured by some teenagers I also know.:-)  Are any of your cousins
>> programmers, by chance?  Lawyers? [or is that a dirty word?]
>The last time I checked most were collecting "public assistance" and
>making babies.  (They're entitled, doncha know!)

I know, I know.  Most people I know who went on "the dole" got off as fast as
they could.  Those are the mature ones.  
>
>(Only my US cousins have no sense.  My German ones are doing fine.)
Where in Germany?  We might be cousins too and not know it. [stranger things
have happened around here :-} ]

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:22:36 EDT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: I am not afraid of words-l!
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On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:10:10 GMT, "karsten" <karsten@NETCOM.COM> wrote:
> (Now was that "Richh" richh or "Saltgirl" richh?)

Does this mean you're an a.s.b lurker, hmmm?  How many does that make now,
I wonder...?

G
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Subject: Re: Name that Node III
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:43:50 GMT
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latruie.techrscs.panam.edu
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:09:55 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TGTABagnes2
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Uh, 'scuse me?

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992, Nancy Harwood wrote:

> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:00:53 -0500
> From: Nancy Harwood
> Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
> To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
>
> Well, then, you would have every right to ask what *they* are doing there?
>
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1992, Doris Smith wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:50:58 -0500
> > From: Doris Smith
> > Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
> > To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
> >
> > > And just in case you want to know in more detail, yes, I practically
> > > expired with mirth. I was saved because I am very reserved.
> >
> > 7Tushar!! Your're back. Not only that, but you reacted the way I did. And
> > I, too, am *quite* reserved.
> > Doris
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:10:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: English Aspiration
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>>with my hands in front of my mouth.  My coworkers undoubtedly think
>>I've joined some strange cult and am worshipping during breaks.

>You have.

Took the words right out of my mouth (stop that!).  Of course this
is a cult, with a Goddess, an Angel, and a Honey, along with assorted
e-relatives (hi, Dad!), and we can't forget Le Pig (as if anyone
could...).  What else could it be?  Although...if you are only
worshipping on breaks, you're not in sync with the rest of the
members.

>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>--karsten
>>
>>("Praise be to words-l, source of all that is good and right...")

>Thanks for our new T-shirt slogan!

All right...is this it, then?:

 "Praise be to words-l, source of all that is good and right,
         Where the weak are killed and eaten."

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:42:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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O.K., so, well....
I have zipped through every message posted Saturday night and
Sunday morning, and did not find a single one that I could respond
to.  All this modem talk is beyond me, since I don't use one and
am thinking that when I *do* get one, I can just ask how to use it
and everyone will have a *lot* to say about it (Like, we've already
done that!)....
What's the problem.... is it with y'all, or is it with me?
--ggs (setting myself up with that one, I'm sure....)
p.s.  Is Tushar *really* back?  Is that *really* good?  Why hasn't
he said something nasty about present company?  Where is Akio?  He
is supposed to do a Gleanings tomorrow.....  Why are all the
most <perceptive> absent?  Where is Sylvia, who is she?
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Brother Barbara
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:03:29 GMT




>     I can only imagine that this is a play on the use of "working
>     girl" to mean "prostitute."  But the semantic difference between
>     "professional woman" and "working girl" is so great that this
>     would-be quip is merely a witless insult.

>     Carol


Aww, Carol, cool it -- "working girls" in that sense are also said to be
"members of the oldest profession," after all.  And it wasn't so long ago
that "career girl" was taken to mean the same thing -- or at least, uttered
with the same sneer.  Sadly, it was taken as <given> that the only way a
woman could succeed in business was to "sleep her way up."  

The remark was a mild, weak joke -- don't make a federal case out if it
while there are still *REAL* bastards out there who think it's just the
truth.

--bayla  
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From: hillnr@hamlet.uncg.edu (Norman Hill)
Subject: Re:      Punctuation Wars
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:01:48 GMT

It seems to me that this whole argument has been hashed once before in
this forum with the result that the majority of us decided that putting the
period outside the quotation marks makes perfect sense.  Of course if you
are using lead type perhaps you don't want the period on the end of a line 
outside of the quotes...

-- 
Norman Hill, Systems Programmer        Internet: hillnr@hamlet.uncg.edu
UNCG, Greensboro, North Carolina          Voice: (919) 334-5350

"Nothing is easier than fault-finding.  No talent, no self-denial, no brains
 are required to set up in the grumbling business."   -Robert West
From: harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell)
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Subject: Notes from all over
Date: 2 Sep 92 03:40:11 GMT
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I would just like to state the following inconsequentia, in the most
emphatic voice possible:

1). U2 have finally fulfilled the promise the made us in _Boy_, in
_Achtung Baby_. Bono rocks like a young god walking the planet, and Edge
is playing some angelic riffs.

2). I humbly decline the nomination to angelic status. I am feeling
positively wretched tonight and have been <sitting on my hands> to keep
from taking net.revenge on a <offender>. OINK.

3). "So let it be written, do let it be done." "Make it so."

4). Toad the Wet Sproket is the nicest surprise I've had in 2 months.

5). John WTMFW, I don't know what the hell you are talking about, and I
agree with you totally.

6). Dan, yes, yes, and yes. And no.

7). Ausbrook is not Tushar. I have proof. Tushar's funnier, but Ausbrook
is cooler because he deliberately serves to my backhand.

8). BRING ON MENOPAUSE.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:39:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      TGTAagnes
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Well, so, *obviously* no one, absolutely *no* *one* read,
much less appreciated, my true, unadulterated, alternative
history of poor Agnes von Whatever.  I am *so* disappointed
in the wordslers on this one.  *So* disappointed I may just
lie down and di-yuh.
--ggs (sniff sniff dab dab blow blow....)
p.s.  There is, ATS, no accounting for taste.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:29:45 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Law of Supply and Demand

Karsten ....I almost agree with you...BUT some lumber yards said they
WOULD NOT raise prices.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:45:58 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Law of Supply and Demand
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>>(Right next door to Chris's Stud Mart?)
>
>Hey!  I resemble that remark.
>
>Chris
He sure does! And if he ever decides to go retail
there'll be a line around the block...

judith
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:26:36 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: The Gospel Truth About Agnes
              25 Aug 1992 20:40:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

Gentleone,
   Thank you for your well-researched discourse on the life of Agnes.
It certainly clarifies most of the subplot of Jean Luc Godard's film
(loosely) based on her life (_Agnes?_Oh_God!_).  May I make copies of
your piece for my film students?

Peace,
Elwood P. (with her *what*? tucked underneath her arm) Dowd
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:35:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366" <185422285@CATS.UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
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>Greetings,

>I suspect the proper usage would be "user unfriendly" rather than
>"un-user friendly."

>What do you think?

>Marty (in pedant mode)
I guess your correct.

later

alec
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:01:55 -0700
From:         MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      Re: Ribbit...ribbit...ribbit...
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I think LBL would be 87today.
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:08:15 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: English aspiration
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Posted on 28 Aug 1992 at 17:08:52 by Tushar Samant
> Great. Now where are the answers?

I don't know. I don't have the time to do this, but I did read Tony's
answers.  Not carefully, but I agreed w/ most of them that I saw.  I
know from seeing waveforms of my digitized speech that I aspirate all
the hell over the place.  That is, my allophones are not asp/unasp, but
more asp/less asp.

I probably shouldn't post when my mind is on something else (like the
other morning, when everyone jumped on me) or I am exhausted, like now,
but what the hell.  Tushar, what the hell are you doing?  What meaning
are careful speech pronunciations of words in isolation going to have
to you?  I think the things that confound you are words in sentences,
casually spoken.  That's what you need data on, perhaps.  I wonder
whether native-speaker intuitions count as data.

The other thing is that I don't believe your problem is w/ English
rules (which, according to observations of my own speech are
1) aspirate everywhere--I could never do the feather thing),
I think your problem is w/ Marathi rules interfaced w/ English ones.

And I probably will be getting even further behind from this weekend
on, and so will be gradually disappearing.

Karen
who is really sound asleep and not posting.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:22:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re[2]: misogynist antonym
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>> The antonym of misogynist is misanthrope.  Isn't there a Moliere play by
>> that title?

     Actually the opposite of "misogynist" ought to be "misandrist."

     Carol, delighted to find you <exactly where I left you>
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: RE: Gleanings (57)
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 21:30:42 GMT


In a previous article, gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL (Graham Toal) says:

>	Akio, why do you glean Ruth more than anyone else? Are you saying we're not as
>	interesting as she is? :-)
>No, I suspect because she's more incoherent than most of us, though JWTMFW
>is rapidly catching up (in fact he sound like he's been on acid for a week)

Actually, I'm just more prone to using crazy Americanisms than Anne is.  I 
also try to wind up in the gleanings sometimes.....  I've never been on acid,
unless you count amino acids.:-)  I prefer caffeine, personally.

>
-- 
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: I love the wording....
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:55:31 GMT

Ken wonders if he'll get lessons or a warning at the AT&T

>>
>>The half-day workshop on sexism/sexual harrassment
>	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>for the division has been changed to Tuesday Sept 15,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^           

--- However, what *I* really want to know is how they expect him to manage
this... 

 (Please remove September 25 from
>>your calendars.)

--bayla




>Do I get warned or do I get lessons?

>Ken
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:00:35 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Lots of ... ?

Has anyone heard people saying "Lotsa evening" to mean "Good evening" etc?
I heard this some days ago, and I am not sure whether I heard it properly.

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 20:19:47 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Two Tushars
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> "Bernard" is one of my least important inventions.

How have you managed the telephone stuff?  Certain WORDS-Lers have
heard Bernard bark on the phone.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Ubi Sunt?
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:00:27 GMT


In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Actually, having just begun to read some Kurt Vonnegut, -ggs
>realizes that the line is NOT Where is Silvia who is she? but
>Where is CELIA who is she?
Ruth, who has not read much Vonnegut, has no idea who or where Celia might
be, and is still uncertain of Sylvia.
>--Anyone know this source?  I've quoted this several times over
>the past few months and no response.  You wordslers, well I never.
That's because no one else here uses strange quotes from Kurt Vonnegut.:-)
Some of us prefer the Princess Bride, Python, and Julie Brown...

>
-- 
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:42:10 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Greetings from Bill S.
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Why am I not surprised that Bill S. likes Ireland, that bastion of
> traditional family values and potato-based cuisine?  He's probably
> already quaffing Bushmill's straight from the pot and talking
> reactionary politics with the members of the local yacht club. (:-)

The card he sent was a Guinness card.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:40:49 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Rhubarb Pie

>I *do* know what rhubarb pie tastes like, and it ain't
><duck-butter>....   Actually, it is very good, and very very
>tart....  and a nice color.  The t-shirt should be that color,
>in fact (of rhubarb pie, not of d-b)....
>--ggs (getting grosser by the minute reading all these posts
>  that <mean nothing to hisseff>)


If they don't mean anything to you, it should provide a clue. Don't
contribute more to ego trips now.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:34:16 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Re: Name that Node III
              25 Aug 1992 12:43:50 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:43:50 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>latruie.techrscs.panam.edu

This rather takes us back to the "inclusive" discussion.  (Hmmm - I
think I forgot a couple of old followups on that one.)

La truie is sow.  Le cochon is pig.   Bandwidth sow just doesn't
conjure up anything close to the right sort of images in my mind.

Tony H.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:24:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Thank You For the Information
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Sr. Pinero:
Just wanted to let you know how very helpful was the information
that you sent me from the Bunerrosa Archives this past week.  Very
interesting that Ambassador Bunerrosa should have saved all those
letters written by his second wife Agnes, as well as the diaries
and personal correspondence of Agnes' mother.  I certainly
appreciate your loan of the microfilms, and still am a little
surprised that a copy was available on such short notice.
.
I do have a question that perhaps you could answer.  I understand
that some of the writers contemporaries have questioned the
authenticity of the early manuscript version of the first novel,
claiming that it could not have been written as early as 1918.
Do you perhaps have some documentation about the actual date.
This is important, because that manuscript reveals the extent
of Agnes' dementia, and I have been attempting to verify in my
research that her mental illness was an early phenomenon, and
not a condition that developed toward the end of her life.
.
I will be grateful for any additional help that you may be able
to give me, and remain, as always
.
Sincerely yours,
Gilbert G. Smith
Professor of Swedish Language and Literature
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: misogynist antonym
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:06:01 GMT



The antonym of misogynist is misanthrope.  Isn't there a Moliere play by
that title?

--bayla
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:57:58 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
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              Aug 26, 92 9:44 pm

>
> Sorry. I read it. My reaction is: What is the "B" in TGTBAgnes for?

Typo, ggs?  I read it too (well, most of it).  :-)
Is this your draft of the Great American Novel?

> And just in case you want to know in more detail, yes, I practically
> expired with mirth. I was saved because I am very reserved.

Whew.  Thanks for the restraint, which has no doubt saved us from another
round of "Where's Tushar"?

rashmi

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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:24:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings Ooops
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> N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) writes:
> > READ:    which included almost losing a <sinclair> to the
> > kerosine.
>
> Did your lodge ever use the "flaming roll of gasoline-soaked
> toilet paper on a wire" stunt?  That was always a disaster
> waiting to happen...
>
> --karsten
>
> (I wonder if many examples of the old name and symbol remain)

Am I perhaps speaking with another member of the OOTA?  jesus,
one's <past> is always with one, no?  This ritualistic organization
engaged in activities such as inducting the poor unsuspecting
Scouts through a night of being "on silence", left alone in the
woods to examine one's life and the meaning thereof, drinking
god-awful concoctions from a bull horn (a real one), and having
fellow Scouts in disguise stand over one shouting made-up
Tonkawa and Cherokee and Mohawk epithets and prayers and what-all.
I remember my induction night as if it were Saturday night a year
ago--I pledged silently to a)never  lie, cheat or steal  b) never
play with myself again, c)be truer to my god and my country, and
d) keep my mouth shut when *Buddy* was around.  It was a <peak>,
a <peak> I say.
--ggs (still obeying the Scout law....)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:13:40 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      New Subject Header (was Re: Note to Bernard)
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> Gad, but you are a pompous boor.
> //anne//

I feel compelled to change this subject header.
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