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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:32:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Siegi wants a mouse
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> >Muffy ma chere,
> >Arf woof noof Siegi arf warf mousiarf arf woof woof.
> >--ggs
>
> Meow!  If you can't speak a civilized language (such as cat), you might
> as well speak English to make yourself understood.
>
> Muffy

Muffy meodirow,
Owe thouweet yoewee wowie aow pupeow.  Seorreowie.
--Ruby (-ggs' kitteowee cateowee)
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:36:03 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Amateurs????
              27 Jul 1992 14:56:25 GMT from <jwagner@MAGNUS.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU>

>2Judith who watched most of it yesterday and *loved* the arrow
>        shot--even if anyone within 10 feet of it could have
>        lit it with a Bic

I missed it.  Did they keep the doves out of the way this time ?
In Korea they incinerated several who had decided to perch on the
bowl after being released.

Tony H.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:11:50 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Siegi wants a mouse
              28 Jul 1992 15:02:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

Gilbert,
  It's been about 4 years now since Siegi's had a mouse because we never
get out of the house since we've moved to Akron from Mogadore (sob!)
  If we could get out of the house, I'd find her one because she can't
see well enough to find one for herself.

Muffy (full name is Ragamuffin, but Jeannie calls me that only when
she's mad at me)
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:35:00 EST
From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gopher
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Says Neal of the blue eyes:

>	If you have a legal copy of Windows lying around somewhere, OS/2 can be
>	yours for just $49 plus S&H.  That's the main reason I went for it --
>	if I end up not using it, I haven't wasted a whole lot of money.  I
>	only use Windows to play solitaire, so what the hey.
		 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hah!  That's the only thing we use Windows for, too.  In fact, I just
got a call from some non-Drew person who wanted to know if we were
running such-and-such a program under Windows...Bwahahahahaha..

--Adam/LH/"Only windows I use are DECwindows on our unix system"
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:39:18 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: IRC
              22 Jul 1992 21:42:25 -0500 from <harwood@TENET.EDU>

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:42:25 -0500 Nancy Harwood said:
>>
>> Bernardykins has just set up a Clambake channel on IRC.  But nobody has
>> joined him yet. :-(
>>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>How can I get there?  I've *missed* Bernard!

So have I!

>ndh

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:10:04 EDT
From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIT
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When married friends (he=nippon she=nzed)lived in Toronto
he wanted to get a ...yes, a hundai

course they _were_ students and did their thesis (what's the plural
again, natalie?) on a cpm machine with wordstar!

don (but when you buy it used doesn't it still contribute to GNP and
employment?)
                  dthorntn@brownvm
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:29:00 CDT
From:         Bill Sjostrom <TA0WXS1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Eating Whales

I think Karen is in error when she suggests that opposition to
killing whales is Eurocentric.  Opposition to killing whales is
largely a matter of preserving the species.  Outside of the Greens,
you will not find many people with a moral objection to killing a
whale outside of its effects on preserving the species.  As it
happens, there is a great deal of evidence that American Indians
used a variety of methods of preserving species they relied upon,
including the use of individual property rights (the only reference
I can recall on short notice is Eleanor Leacock's _The Montagnes
"Hunting Territory" and the Fur Trade_).
                             Bill Sjostrom
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:49:01 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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>
> I see nothing to be debated.  Buy a Honda Civic.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

My daughter has one, and I *love* that little car.
ndh
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:27:36 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: big league plagiarism
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>Suppose in the preface of a novel I see the author writing something like
>"chapters ## are an amiable imitation of Flaubert" (and he probably added
>"as the reader will recognise", blast him, and darn if I remember the book)
>-- however, if he says so, why is he not accused of plagiarism?
>
>--venkatesh


Ah, finally, something funny enough to appeal to my sophomore heart.


_______                              _____
   |                                |
   | ushar                          |_____ amant
   |                                      |
(No| much more in the department of silly |igs, sorry.)
   |                                ______|
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:19:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: No grass on interstate
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> > 	Having spend six years traveling between Austin and San Antonio on
> > Interstate 35 I have seen lots of grass on the Interstate. It is
>
> ON the interstate or BESIDE the interstate (including between the two
> parts of it)?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

<picky picky ickypay>.....  A beautiful interstate is the drive
between Eastland and Weatherford on I-20 in Texas...  a sort of
far-north equivalent of the beautiful Texas Hill Country.  I just
did that drive on Saturday morning, which will be documented soon
in a posting with the title (you guessed it)  WHTMIT....  It will
turn up <directly>.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 08:07:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Doors, etc.

>Karen
>who needs several doors because she likes to play her African
>street music loud while she works.

No wonder you haven't finished that dissertation.  Assume you've had
a look at the latest AAS newsletter--and see what the better jobs
ask for.  Turn off that racket and get it done (sorry, I was
lectured so often that I can't resist doing it to someone else
myself).  mem.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:30:41 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Pix of Don Moore et al
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              Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>,
              Don Moore <dbfabak@cfrvm.BITNET>

Two MOORE rolls of film came back today, from the Saturday visit of the
Don and Joyce and Dawn and Muffy contingent.  And the motorhome does really
have a plate that says NO MOORE printed over the floirda map.

There are a number of good pix of all of us.  (well, the 4 Moores and Dan and
Susanna...Cinda and Gail were at work, though they did get to meet Gail on
a brief tour of the HP outlet.  Cinda was busy builing disk drives in the
clean room, so wasn't able to be contacted thru the glass.

Yes, Muffy looks like his pictures.  He's not as big as some cats.  He's
nicer than cats.  Was kinda grungy after a couple weeks on the road, rather
than pure white any more.

Dawn indeed is a well-endowed young lady.  14 going on 21, for sure.
She and Susanna had a good time all day, as did the older folks.  We discussed
words-l, the clamslam, food, travels, and lots of other things.  I helped
Don change two fanbelts on the motorhome, so hopefully the air conditioner
worked ok again and they are approaching Natalie's land before too long.

dan and gail


(oh, yeah....requests for pix of any or all of the moore family are
solicited).  Good ones of Dan and Don.  Others of all of us.  Others of
Don's backside as he is over the engine.  Others are closeups of Muffy
or Dawn.  etc  etc
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:20:16 CDT
From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Scottish crayfish
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>*Barf!*
>
>Yep, that works... :-)

Evil bastard.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:25:30 -0500
From:         "Pat Gathright" <patg@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1992, Gilbert Smith wrote:
>   But I have
> always thought that the MG is the classiest of all sports
> cars because it is so understated....  not dorky at all.

Gil, you need to talk to your cousin Melicent in Victoria. Her husband
works on MGs as a hobby and has restored a niffty one for her which she
painted burnt orange, of course. If you are really interested in an MG
drop her a note.
-- patg
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:00:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: <sigh>
              21 Jul 1992 20:19:47 CDT from <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:19:47 CDT Tushar Samant said:
>>ARRFFFHHH.  No, *that* *just* *really* *pisses* *me* *off*!!!

That's what Death said when he found a sack of drowned kittens.

>
>This thing *is* *kinda* *catching* eh?  Can't complain - after all,
>the <waka>s have stopped.

Thank goodness!
>
>tushar

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:14:00 CDT
From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Chessboard after move 26 ...

Here is the position after Black's move 26 ... Ra8-d8

---------------------------------------------------------------------
                                          White   Black       White   Black
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+       M. Rosen S. Karlson   Rosen  Karlson
|   |:::|   |:R:|   |:::| K |:::| 8    1. e2-e4   e7-e5   17. Qc4xe6  f7xe6
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      2. d2-d4   e5xd4   18. Be2-c4  Nf6xe4
|:P:|   |:::| R |:::|   |:P:| P | 7    3. Qd1xd4  Nb8-c6  19. Nc3xe4  Bb7xe4
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      4. Qd4-c4  Ng8-f6  20. Bc4xe6+ Kg8-h8
|   |:P:|   |*B*|   |:B:|   |:::| 6    5. Nb1-c3  d7-d6   21. c2-c3   Be7-f6
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      6. Ng1-f3  Bf8-e7  22. Bf4-d6  Rf8-d8
|:::|   |:P:|*R*|:::|   |:::|   | 5    7. Bf1-e2  O-O     23. Be6-d5  Be4xd5
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      8. O-O     Nc6-e5  24. Rd1xd5  Rd8-d7
|   |:::|*P*|:::|   |:::|   |:::| 4    9. Qc4-b3  b7-b6   25. Rf1-e1  Kh8-g8
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     10. Bc1-e3  Bc8-b7  26. c3-c4   Ra8-d8
|:::|   |   |   |:::|   |:::|   | 3   11. Nf3xe5  d6xe5   27.
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     12. Ra1-d1  Qd8-c8  28.
|*P*|*P*|   |:::|   |:::|*P*|*P*| 2   13. Qb3-c4  c7-c5   29.
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     14. f2-f4   Qc8-c7  30.
|:::|   |:::|   |*R*|   |*K*|   | 1   15. f4xe5   Qc7xe5  31.
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     16. Be3-f4  Qe5-e6  32.
  A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:49:54 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I feel so CHEAP
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> I just found out that the "Tushar" I was flirting with on the chat
> tonight was an IMPOSTER. I need a shower.
> -abh

It's a little scary to think that there might be more than one Tushar.
ndh
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:29:57 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I feel so CHEAP
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:33:00 EDT <ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM> said:
>>tonight was an IMPOSTER. I need a shower.
>>
>But imagine if you'd been flirting with him in the shower....
>
   Sure, Ken....had one dropped their soap in the shower....then it would
have been something to do with their Tusher....or something like that....

dan
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:07:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: IRC Night tonight
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>Well, it sounds like the IRC Nat hosted last evening was not spectacular. Let's
>not make tonight's swim in the Big Pond a similar experience. Remember, channel
>#bandwidth opens tonight at 7:00 Central time. All you lurkers out there, this
>is a pain-free, obligation-free way of losing lurker status and bellying up to
>the Bandwidth Bar. And all you more confirmed BWP's, this will be *the* party
>on the net tonight.

>Hope to see you there!
>-abh

	I'll try, but I'm not optimistic.  I tried to get on IRC last night
	from our Unix machine (ugh), which is supposed to be our only one that
	can do so, but it kept on refusing to connect.  Any ideas?

	I also tried to telnet to bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu, but it didn't
	want to have anything to do with me either.  Doesn't anybody like me
	anymore?	:-(

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neal    traven@pittvms                  Bitnet          412-624-0097 (office)
        traven@vms.cis.pitt.edu         Internet        412-624-0110 (fax)
          "If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it"  --  Dick Allen
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:08:16 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Craftsmanship
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              "RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU" at Jul 26, 92 10:05 pm

	I almost never think of New Yorker writers as emerging talent,
but talent that has been on the scene for awhile and is simply just
starting to get widespread recognition.  Maybe because I seem to have
already seen most of the writers elsewhere, despite not reading as
much new stuff as I'd like to.  Maybe we just run in different circles,
Rod ;).

	BTW, Congrats on being anthologized!  That's pretty cool.  Oh,
I never told you this, but the woman I workshop with, Suzanne Berger
(who says she at least knows of you), was amazed that I knew you from
the Net. (I had given her one of your bumper stickers and she'd asked
where it had come from.)  Oddly enough, most of the people in our
workshop have come together via the Net.

Rita
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:36:36 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Don Moore!
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What's really funny is that Don called me from about a block from my
house, but I got confused and thought he was calling from somewhere on
the other side of town.  So I drove up and down a long street pretty
far from here, wondering what to do about not being able to find them,
and finally checked a street very near here on the chance that the small
cemetery he mentioned was the one almost beside my house. It was!  Muffy
was in easy barking distance of Bernard the whole time I was looking
for them!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:57:11 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: My Mac can do these...
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>npuvpyy yjr nsdystfd@eff

Right, not left.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:56:41 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: birth order
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> > I was rereading _The Birth Order Book_ the other day, and just wondered
> > how many other wordslers are serious, dependable firstborns?
> > ndh (who would have much preferred to be a second child)
>
> But nan, if *you* had been the second child, where would *I* be?
> --ggs

Sweetie, you've been riding around with the top down too much...it's
*Doris* who's your sister...I'm your cousin, and Melicent is your niece.
ndh (cousin Nancy Louise)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:10:28 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (54)
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              27 Jul 1992 15:21:00 JST from
              <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:21:00 JST Akio Tanaka said:
>-------------------------------
> T  o  t  a  l      1.0527 MB

Wow!  We're slipping.  Of course me not having dialup access, and thus being
some 3 days behind, might have something to do with it.

>13) Galen Rowell/Tibet (Dan)

Galen Rowell is, IMNSHO, the world's greatest living nature/wildlife/scenic
photographer.  He is also THE greatest in this arena, ever, in color.
(remember, folks, Ansel Adams did B&W)

Anyway, he spoke in Boise last week, and showed a mess of his slides of
Tibet.

The occasion was a fund raiser (tickets were ten bucks) for Tibetan
refugees, 2 of whom are now in Boise, with 5 more coming next month.
His book on Tibet is his photos with text by the Dalai Lama.

He has done a number of other books, some of which are probably in your
library.  His text is always fascinating, especially to a photographer.
I'll never reach his levels, either in climbing mountains or photography,
but I am please to have three more pages of photos, including the cover,
in the latest _Idaho Librarian_.  Hardly National Geographic, which
publishes lots of Rowell's stuff, but what the hell.....

dan
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:23:28 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: CNN
              24 Jul 1992 14:17:59 U from <harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU>

On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:17:59 U Anne said:
>Richard Blackwell is back on CNN. He's so cute, he makes me want to bomb Saddam
>all over again...

Is Wolf going back to Saudi Arabia?  That's what my Mom wants to know.
>
>-abh

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:54:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: kids having kids
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Adam, your friend Joy sounds like a strong woman.  Good luck to
her!  She's very lucky to have that kind of family support.  I
hope she is very happy with her daughter.

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:43:09 EDT
From:         ann mandi <AMM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: birth order
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>>I was rereading _The Birth Order Book_ the other day, and just wondered
>>how many other wordslers are serious, dependable firstborns?
>
>Anne Harwell responds:
>   Me is.
>
 and Anne Haycock adds:
>Me too.  And to tell the truth I'm pretty sick and tired of "shudda knowin'
>better" and behaving in "predictable" fashions...predicted by whom?  Ptth.
>
>//anne, still serious and dependable but, dammit!, don't pigeonhole me!!//

I'm a firstborn too, of 4.  And I agree completely with //anne//'s
comments.

Do you think there's a connection between being firstborn and being
named ann(e)?

ann mandi
AMM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:29:58 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Eating Whales
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:49:57 EDT, "Karen Kay" <ll23@nemomus.bitnet> wrote:
> I forgot--whales are also highly valued for their ....
> you know.  What we get from sperm whales to make
> scent.  Is it sperm???  Oh no!  Have I been rude
> on words-l?

No, it's *worse* than that...

G
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:37:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: APOLOGIES
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> 	--ggs's list persona seems to be matched by the corporeal persona
> of one Paul J.  Which probably explains why I think -ggs is just *so* *cute*.
>
> - RobyMeister

Well, I just *never* in my *life*
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:45:35 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: quick answer needed...help
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              24 Jul 1992 17:41:10 EDT from <EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:41:10 EDT <EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU> said:
>Circumlocution?
>
>Karen

no....that is "a roundabout lengthy or indirect way of expressing...."

the key to the poorly worded example is saying what you're not going
to say in the process of 'not saying it'....


dan
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:43:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (54)

11)  Sammich
        I don't know about anyone else, but _I_ got this from Walt Kelly's
"Pogo"!  Albert Alligator was always raving about having a livverwich sammich...
John "The SS Phoebe B. Beebe" W.

"Some people talk about Paris what ain't been as far as Fort Mudge"

                                - Pogo Possum
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