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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:56:24 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Post-Fabrications
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>
> Yup. It's real. And don't forget the phd student (math or physics, I
> think) at UCLA about 10-15 years ago who whacked his major prof over
> the head with a hammer (fatally).

Math at Stanford.  A friend has the press clipping on his bulletin board.
Apparently, the student was given the option of an early release if he agreed
to stay away from campus, and he opted for the longer prison term.

--rashmi  (rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
>
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:37:38 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Note to Bernard

>  I'm just giving this a straight answer because Tushar can't very well
>do so! Tushar is no more "logical" and "questioning" than the rest of us.
>He just has an innate sense of the checks and balances needed to stave off
>the implosion of the universe. That is, every cute and whimsical piece of
>delightful nonsense, every wonderful poetical flight of fancy, every
>profound reflection on existence, every simple but dignified statement of
>belief, calls for a moronic braying, a cold stare, an indifferent mumbling,
>an uncomprehending yawn, if we are not to sink helplessly into a morass of
>wonderful poetical heroic dignified convictions.

What stupid nonsense.

tushar
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:00:16 GMT


In a previous article, rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU (Rashmi Murthy) says:

>> I always was a sneaky devil.:-)  How do I do it?  And why do I need a filter
>> in the first place?  My messages are always quite clean -
>Aww, you know what I mean -- filter incoming mail so that list mail sits in a
>separate folder until I can read it.  Very useful, especially on days when there
>are kazillion words-l messages (haven't had many of those lately).
	<sigh>  It's a good thing to some extent - this connection has been
so slow I made a batch of cole slaw in between logging in and being allowed
to read my first message.  I kid you not - it happened at about 4pm, EDT.
>How do you sneak past??  By having a different "From" address.  It's easy to get
>around, though, just check for ak***@cleveland.freenet.edu".
	Awww, now I'll have to think up something else....
>Haven't come across anything that will screen messages for "cleanliness" yet. :)
A good thing too - otherwise half of the Words-l mail would wind up in the
bit bucket....having its bits scrubbed out with Windex....
-- 
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:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:28:36 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Superman

I read this morning that DC Comics is planning to kill off Superman.
I feel as if part of my childhood just died.

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:29:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words fail me
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> Anybody else see that?  Major-league Loon...  It's clear that Tipper is the
> brains of THAT solid-family-values household!  Brrrrrrr...{
> Lemme see, is that enough incoherent ramblings for one post?  Oh, no, I haven'
> made the Obligatory Obscure Reference yet!  Well,damn, wouldn't you know it, I
> can't come up with one just now.  Read on, G - I'm certain Uncle Giggles will
> provide <something>...if he hasn't already.
>
> John "They'll get my bow when they pry it from my cold fingertabs" W.

I would, except that I am a) speechless, b) thinking about my <nascent>
library saga, and c) planning my strategy in light of the recent
belligerent additions to this, the most pacific of lists.
--ggs
QUOTE:  "But, I know who he is."
        "You do?"
        "Yes."
        "Who is he?"
        "He's my uncle."
   (anyone identify that one?  And it is *not* TGOV.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 18:44:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <LMMCIDL%LIB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Assault Force

Unca Giggles flounders:
>                                               *What* does "tube" mean?
Well, Unc, are these not cathode ray tubes?
"Ja, das ist ein Kathode-Ray Tube!"
Anyway, for some years I've been using 'tube' in the sense of e-mail,
sending same, electronic communication, or reaching out and bugging someone.
Feel free to use it if you will, or, if not, shuttup about it.  Max nix.
As for my sig lines - well, they make sense to me, most of the time...
Okay, part of the time.  Well, sometimes, but that's as far as I go.  I'm
not being deliberately obscure, as they are always some of the wordsler who
are a tad hipper than most [and you know who you are] - they are the same
ones who are understanding in the two instances above where I forgot to
invoke the TMNYFNGRS/KYBRD command...  (Not as bad as "Syntax error detected",
but close...)
Anyway, Unc, nice tubing with you, and I'll make <some effort> to be more
blantant in the future.  Something along the lines of bouncing a road apple
of yer noggin?  8-)

John "I'd rather task an Amazon than assault one" W.   {Hey, it's Freudian..}
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:49:02 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Andrew Update

ooppps - amendment, make that "sophisticated of equipment",  not storms.
Guess Bayla doing OK, did not mention storm.  Just talked to my mother
in Maine - she's watching weather channel - wondering how we're doing.
Told her to just keep watching, especially tomorrow.

Don, high and dry ...at least today!

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:30:55 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: help
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>to persuade her with some of your weirdest reasons why she
>should join.Send them to her at LIBDAS@SUVM. Her name is Denise.

Because it'll make you strong as an ox and twice as smart.

-abh
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Mark of Maturity
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 19:38:56 GMT
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It seems to me that Dawn is more of an adult than most of my
cousins (and most of them are in their 30's).

--karsten
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:40:07 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ubi Sunt?
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I was exiled from the net last night by our weekly freestanding backup. Tenet
also was denied me because of some upgrades that took the machine offline.
Having nothing better to do, I retired at 9:30, to a night of fitful sleep,
punctuated by a recurring dream of the Goodyear Blimp plunging into the Holland
Tunnel.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 13:53:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <LMMCIDL%LIB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: system crash fix

Well, I'll guess I'll just be living over here on my "real" account for a
while...at least until registration is over...  Sorry 'bout that, gang - I
fixed it as soon as I could.  (Could be worse - last time it happened our
postmaster unsubbed me globally...)
Bernardykins, what I meant was I appreciated your patience - I got unsubbed
from a couple of lists before I could forward my account!  Sheesh.

John "But...but...but..." W.
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Rhubarb Pie
Date: 4 Sep 1992 03:36:19 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, rita@EFF.ORG (Rita Marie Rouvalis) says:

>	I need a good recipe.  Anyone got one?  Anyone know
>what it tastes like?  Giggles or one of his sistahs must.
>
My mother makes a sinful strawberry rhubarb pie.  You want I should
dig out the secret formula?

[it's in with the super-duper-hyper-boom-juice and the raspberry brownies....
filed under Busters, Diet....]
or were those the To Be Destroyed files?  Hmmm - the world may never know.....

btw- how many licks does it get to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie
Pop?

Ruth
getting weirder as the night rolls on....

>
-- 
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:14:05 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Kulchur, NY
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Posted on 3 Sep 1992 at 05:12:37 by Tushar Samant
>way is to welcome outsiders to the city. Now everyone welcomes outsiders
>to their cities, but this particular welcoming is done in a special
>manner.

Uh-oh! Were you mugged in NYC, Tushar? Is that why you were incommunicado?

Karen
who saw a robbery in Chicago
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:02:43 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English Aspiration

>> I'd like to know exactly when k, t, and p are aspirated by Americans
>
>It depends on whether you mean phonetic or phonemic aspiration.

I didn't know there was phonemic aspiration in English. (Natalie doesn't,
too.)

>Phonetically, both voiced and voiceless stops are aspirated all the
>time by Americans, though voiced less than voiceless, of course.

This is another thing I didn't know. In fact, I thought voiced consonants
were never aspirated. OK, is the /gh/ in "ghost" phonemically different
from /g/ in "good"?

No? Then the next question is: Are the /g/ sounds in "good" and "pagan"
phonetically different?

>But aspiration is only a distinctive feature for voiceless stops in
>English.

Again, this is puzzling for the same reason as above.

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 07:54:35 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
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I will, of course, buy a t-shirt even though I hate purple.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:17:06 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Two Bits of News
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Monday afternoon I got a phone call from an Associate VP telling
me that the Cumberland Group, the undergrad research group I do w/
a colleague, would be funded.  They didn't say, but we believe that
the reason we were funded is because we are presenting a paper at
the International Society for the Exploration of Teaching Alternatives
meeting in October.  I am very relieved to be funded (we were desperate
enough to consider self-funding), but it rankles that we had to threat-
en them.

The other bit of news is that this conference is in LA, so obviously
I will be looking for free telnet access and Wordslers to meet w/.
Sept. 30th -October 3?4? (the Sunday, in any case).

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:21:38 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Who's A Girl Scout? (was Re: Note to Bernard)
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Our Brownie troop "flew up" together to Girl Scouts and then crashed.
I don't think we lasted as Girl Scouts for more than a few weeks.  I'm
not sure why.  I think maybe we concluded at the ripe old ages of ten or
whatever we were that we were too sophisticated for that kind of
foolishness.  We had done our cookie-selling as Brownies.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:24:49 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: First Internet Hunt !!!
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:08:38 MST, "Dan Lester" <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU> wrote:

I wonder what would happen if I posted this letter...


"Dear Mr Gates,
   I believe you know the answers to all the questions below and indeed
probably have them on file; I wonder, could you perhaps spare a few moments
please and mail me the answers.  Your help would be much appreciated, and
if I am ever in a position to do the same for you please don't hesitate
to ask.

regards
Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>"

> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 1. (4) I'm leaving for Japan tomorrow.  Approximately how many
> yen can I get for my dollar, give or take a few yen ?
>
> 2. (7) A hurricane just blew in!  Where can I find satellite
> photos of it's progress?
>
> 3. (6) I'm taking a job as a social studies teacher at a high
> school in Denver, Co.  Where can I find a list of local
> environmental organizations that could come speak to my classes?
>
> 4. (4) My wife just got a job at the University of North
> Carolina.  My specialty is computer/data processing work.  Where
> can I find a list of jobs in that area of the state?
>
> 5. (2) How many copies of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" does
> the University of Nevada at Las Vegas hold?
>
> 6. (6) Bill Clinton made a speech somewhere on Earth day this
> year.  Where can I find the text of it?
>
> 7. (7)  I just read an interesting paper by a Bradley Smith in
> the Chemistry Department at the University of Western Australia.
> Is it possible to get an email address for him?
>
> 8. (2)  Someone told me that there's a collection of software
> specifically for libraries stored somewhere in Canada called
> libsoft.  How do I get ahold of this software?
>
> 9. (4)  Where can I find news, discussions, and perhaps
> eyewitness reports out of what used to be Yugoslavia?
>
> 10. (6)  Could you tell me how I can find the Washington address
> for the congressman from my district?
>
> Maximum points: 48
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Rick Gates                              (805) 893-7225
> Dir. of Library Automation
> Univ. of California                     lb05gate@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
> Santa Barbara, CA  93106
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:16:22 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: English Aspiration
              28 Aug 1992 00:07:22 CDT from <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:07:22 CDT Tushar Samant said:
>
>    Pronounce the word and see if you BREATHE MORE at the
>    places marked + and don't at the places marked -.
>
>IF your pronounciation doesn't agree with what I have mentioned, post
>or mail me those words.
>
      Tushar                                Tony
>
>     +     -                             +     +
>   a p r o p o s                       a p r o p o s
>
>   +     -                             +     +
>   t a n t a m o u n t       OR        t a n t a m o u n t
>
>   -     +     -                       +     +     +
>   c a n t a n k e r o u s             c a n t a n k e r o u s
>
>   +     -   -                         +     -   +
>   p l a t y p u s                     p l a t y p u s
>
>   +     -                             +     +
>   p r e p o n d e r a n c e           p r e p o n d e r a n c e
>
>   -   -                               +   +
>   p e c u l i a r                     p e c u l i a r
>
>       -   -                             +   +
>   i m p e c u n i o u s             i m p e c u n i o u s
>
>       -                                 +
>   i m p o l i t e                   i m p o l i t e
>
>       +     -       -                   +     +       -
>   i n c o r p o r a t e d           i n c o r p o r a t e d
>
>       - +                               + +
>   i n k p o t                       i n k p o t
>
>   -   +                             +   +
>   p a t e l l a                     p a t e l l a
>
>   +     - -   -                     +     + +   -
>   p r a c t i c a l                 p r a c t i c a l
>
>   +     - -   +       -             +     + +   -       -
>   p r a c t i c a l i t y           p r a c t i c a l i t y
>
>   -     +     -                     -     +     +
>   c o n t e m p o r a n e o u s     c o n t e m p o r a n e o u s
>
>   -     -                           +     -
>   c a s t i l l i a n               c a s t i l l i a n

In summary - I think all of the cases where I agree with you about
t- are ones where t has become d, in accordance with some rule of
most Canadian/US dialects.  There should logically be a similar
rule for voicing p and k, but it doesn't seem to happen, except
perhaps a tiny bit in practicality.

Tony H.
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:12:23 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
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> Anyone interested in ordering one???  (Note:  this is not a
> request for money, all I want is an expression of interest,
> please.)
>
> Karen

Are they yellow?
Doris
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Schoolyard taunts (Was Love Potion Number Nine)

During my <misspent> youth in Darkest Indiana the "approved" version was
"Nyah-nyah, ny-NYAH, nayh!"  "Neener-neener, NEE-ner!" was strictly Arizona
in origin.  It's my taunt of choice now.  (Well, no, it's NOT, but this IS
a family list...)
//anne//, I'm adopted, so any degree of cansanguinuity [sp?] is possible.
Every woman I meet treats me as a brother (or some other form of NSM) so I
would be more than ready to serve in that capacity.  Uh, I think it'd be
[older] brother, BTW.
Giggles, thank you for those kind words.  You're correct - I DO have a temper
like unto Donald Duck!  I try to keep in under control, and, in my own defense,
haven't struck another human being for decades now.  There are days, however...
("You wouldn't hit somebody with glasses, would you?"  "No, you idiot!  I'd use
my FISTS!")
Tushar, this is just another of my whimsical posts that you enjoy so much -
delete unread, SVP.

John "Excuse me, but could you spare some sympathy?  All I have in life is
this gun..." W.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:08:46 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
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              Rouvalis" at Sep 2, 92 2:15 pm

> 	No, Graham, you misunderstand.  Since I graduated in 1991 with
> my B.A. in English.  I should most definately have at least known about
> many of the authors that I've discovered in the past year or so.  I mean,
> Tolstoy is *not* an obscure author.
>
> Rita

Is this for real??  It doesn't sound like Rita's kidding, but this is just
too incredible.

rashmi
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:46:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: fire and ice
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> >ROFL, Tony.
>
> That's it - *that*'s the dangerous way to clean screens!
>
> Tony H.

Well, I just... uh... lick my fingers and rub them across the
screen, and as you all know, I as normal and coherent as ever.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:03:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: American media on racial slur

Greetings,

This is indeed an interesting tale.  A similar, and related, incident
occurred recently in Detroit at a General Motors press conference when
the GM folks declined to allow a representative of a Japanese newspaper
into the room.  I don't have the citation, but the incident was
reported in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week.  As I recall, the
press conference was addressing issues related to international competition
or something like that.  All the other reporters were permitted into the
room, but the Tokyo-based reporter was not.  It seems the GM folks
wanted a sympathetic audience and deemed the Japanese fellow inappropriate.

If I get a chance, I'll try to find the article and post a more accurate
account.

Marty
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:29:37 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: RevereWare
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              "droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU" at Sep 4, 92 11:15 am

>
> Says "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>:
> >> Ok, I'm moving to Toronto.  I'll really have to quit smoking though.
> >
> >What does Toronto have to do with smoking?
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> Canada has a very large <sin tax>.  About 100%.
>

Nahh, it just FEELS like it. The only solution is to quit outright.

Also - smoking is banned in most (all, I believe) official buildings
and a lot of workplaces. So you see poor smokers, smoking and shivering,
outside street doors, in the DEAD of winter...You have to pay NOT to
stay healthy, I suppose...

Agnes in Toronto
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:26:05 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Ubi Sunt?
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Posted on 3 Sep 1992 at 22:42:21 by richh
>True story.
>Rita, incidentally, was the one who...
>well
>*you* know.

Nope.  Never heard. Must have been working that day.  SO TELL ALL!!!
Tell us what the Real Rita is like!!!!!

Karen
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