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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:53:17 EDT
From:         Theresa Wild <TWILD%URIACC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      first words

Rod,

  My oldest nephew (now 9), said 'bird' as his first word for
everything.  He would point at animate and inanimate objects and
say 'bird'.  Any attempt to correct him was futile, he would repeat
'bird'.  He was about the same age as Martin.  As my daughter is
still in the babbling stage, I will have to wait a few months to
see what she does.

Theresa
twild@uriacc.uri.edu
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Good news/bad news.

IBM just called...good news ..no more ancient keyboards in Tampa!
bad news ...they will order one for me - will arrive next week ...
I think from some small town in Southeast Texas ;-)

Don, who never makes tiepo's ....all my mistakes are intentional - just
ask my fingers, which seem to have a mind of their own.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: RE: Gender
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     Oh, Mka.  I shouldn't have teased you.  Now you're back in
     flaming reactionary mode -- just when the Indians were sitting
     down for a nice cup of tea.

     Carol
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:14:27 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gender
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> Posted on 17 Aug 1992 at 12:44:14 by Elaine M Brennan
> >I just can't IMAGINE the wonderful abh liking a blonde bimbo in red/green/
> >other color of the week/ plastic glasses.
> >dan
>
> Elaine, wearer of bright red plastic glasses

But no bimbo.

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:57:41 EDT
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Silence is revealing
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:28:07 EST, "Entropy Warrior" <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
 wrote:
> >Huh?  You guys are getting reruns of 'Porridge' or what?
> >g
> Pardon my ignorance, but what's "Porridge?"
> -Mka

A UK TV sitcom, featuring Ronnie Barker who you all seemed to be
watching last night.  Set in a prison.  I like it.

G
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:51:29 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Acronyms/Gender
              12 Aug 1992 10:04:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 10:04:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
>>                                         To me, an acronym is called an
>>acronym because it's pronounceable as a word -- like NASA or NOW or radar.
>>I wouldn't call UL an acronym because (1) I wouldn't pronounce it as a
>>word, and (2) I wouldn't even recognize it outside of the clear context.
>>Probably I would use "a" rather than "an" with it, although if writing
>>it, my fingers might produce an "an."
>
> Right on the button, Natalie!  Consider the different articles used for
> 'an' RBI and 'a' ribbie.  Both mean the same thing, but the latter is
> an attempt at an acronym for the former.

Natalie - I'm not sure that acronyms have to be pronouncable.  I didn't
mean to suggest that anyone would try to pronounce UL as a word.  "An ewl" ?
"An ool" ?

In English this question comes up only when the name of the first
letter begins with a vowel (or vowel-like sound) while its sound doesn't.

In French and other languages with gramatical gender the gender of the
first word (or probably the major noun) can also be a giveaway.

Tony H.
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: i musta been sleeping
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 04:24:14 GMT


In a previous article, CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Lobstrosities Unite) says:

>>I HAD realized he hadn't posted on some recent fairly flammable topics....
>>but even THAT has happened before.
>Right!  When? :-)
	Uhmm - said anything about the red plastic glasses yet?  Feminazis?
Feminist male garden slug bleeding heart liberals?

>>what's new up in Eburg WA??
>Funny you should ask. The temperature. Damn Mount Pinatubo
>
Maybe they should add the West Coast temps to the East Coast temps lately.
My backyard thermometer hasn't hit 70 for at least four days.  Worse, we've
been getting all the rain you guys are supposed to get!  It feels more like
October than August.  I think the Dog Days all went south to play with ggs's
beagle buddies.  Not that I'm complaining about the temperature, mind.:-)
>
-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:55:42 -0400
From:         RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject:      Off to Maine
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The family's heading to Maine for a couple of weeks, so I'll
be off the line for a while. Let me offer Anne and the baby
my best wishes.
   -Rod
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      The Quality of Mercy...

.(is) (is not) strained....

Where are those gentle rains?

Certainly not in the Blue Room Saloon....while there are many dear people
there, there still are those who have judged and found me guilty of crimes
I am not.  Certainly some of my posts were ill-advised ..I should have
realized many people could not understand the extremely open dialog that
exists in my family...and the good-natured teasing that goes with it.  I
was wrong and said so.  My apologies were sincere ...and still are.  Despite
many opportunities to strike out at my accusers, I have not.  That IS NOT
an admission of any guilt other than of inappropriate posting.  I could have
easily fought back at some of you, but I chose a much more difficult path
of, if not trying to establish friendship, at least remain civil.  And yet
I still am condemmed ..maybe not explicitely, but in many of your minds.
I am not guilty of anything other that my postings that offended some.
Dawn KNOWS of these postings...and she forgives me..and is not upset with
me.  She is a dear, sweet girl...to my somewhat amazement, she forgave
the "pearl necklace" individual, also very much to his amazement.  No,
she does not like him in the least, but she has a very forgiving nature..
given time.  Now, I repeat, I am guilty of NOTHING other than offending
some people with my posts concerning Dawn growing into a woman ....is
she much more mature than many of us?  She exceeds me....I have not yet
been able to seek peace with all....some, but not all.   Your accusations
and insinuations have hurt and offended me far than you can ever
realize.   But my conscious lets me sleep peacefully at night...does yours?

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:19:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Out of the Amazon jungle

Natalie, Carol, other members of the All-Amazon Assault Force--

It's been fun.  I'm outta here 'til Monday--But I'm not going
nomail, so I'll pan out your nuggets when I get back from my
country existence.  (My cat's had to hunt for three days now--
probably leaner and meaner.)

     Thanks for the time and the talk

                Entropically yours,

                                Michael
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:34:11 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Offbeat Westerns
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> And how could I have forgotten -THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN- ??!!  We had seen
> the Japanese original (Seven Samurai), probably not on video either but you
> never know -- there's a space opera version as well, whose name I've
> forgotten, but Robert Vaughn plays "the same" part of a scared warrior!

Both Magnificent Seven and Seven Samurai are on video; I would love to
find the space opera version. I've been watching a lot of videos this
summer, and making pairs of them--one of the more interesting is Cinema
Paradiso and Welcome to the Paradise (about Japanese concentration
camps).

Karen
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From: jthomas@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Re: Baby's first word
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:22:35 GMT


>>We speak of chicken shit, but who has experience of chicken shit?
>
>Well, Rod, I run across quite a bit of it in my life.  By the way,
>have you ever heard the old German saying,

 >     <<Life is like a chicken-coop ladder: short and shitty.>>>

 >     "Das Leben is wie eine Huehneleiter: kurz und beschissen."

I'm certain that, in the interests of propriety, the above post was a
typo, and the author meant "beschmissen."

Who has experienced huehenscheize? (where are the umlauts and other
chars when we need them??): At Mich State, reknowned for its poultry
research, there were a zillion conscienscious objectors during the
Viet Nam war. When they refused to participate in slaughter of
other humanpholk, one judge took special delight in sentencing them
to cleaning out the roosts. Guess he thought there was a subtext there.

Jim (Some people, like life, are nasty, brutish and short) Thomas
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Date: 19 Aug 92 08:33:29
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In article <WORDS-L%92081814133118@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:

   John, who got called Jack again today...but never what he wants to be called...

What...Late for Dinner?

//anne, cheeseball extraordinaire today//
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 08:39:13 CDT
From:         Absolut Bandwidth <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Republican convention
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Can anyone remember a campaign where the wife of a candidate was campaigned
against as strongly as Hillary is? Or where the wives of the Republicans spoke
more eloquently (ok, in Dan's case that isn't saying anything) than the
husbands? We are ready for a change, y'all, but it's not what either of the
candidates are proposing.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:23:07 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Is Elaine a Bimbo??
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>Nope. Elaine is *still* The Model of Catholic Womanhood for me.:)))

>
>Karen

that's only because I've told you all the *good* places to shop ...
(ps -- gv's is having a sale through the end of the month ...!)

Elaine
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:01:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
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> 	Where is G, that loveable little squeeze????
>
> I'm here.  Sorry I'm late.  It's been a hard night.
>
> G

Well, good.  Everyone else has gone to bed and it's only
11 pm EDT.  Now for some action.
--ggs
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From: jthomas@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Re: Westerns
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:55:38 GMT


Bayla--Will Penny is considered a classic. You're right about the
character development, and the violence is minimal and germane.
The strenth is the power of three different subplots (won't spoil it
by laying them out), each of which could stand on its own, and
the tension depends on psychological twists. In some ways, it reminded
me of McCabe and Mrs. Miller (bitter-sweet cynicism, loveable anti-hero,
emotional ambivalence). You're right--it's an excellent example of
that genre at its best.

Jim (and it has a happy ending) Thomas
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:42:17 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: RE: Gender
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> >"he" is sexist.  I realize what your point is:  that both cases involve
> >the listeners' reactions, that the speakers do not necessarily think
> >about YourAnus or the sexism of "he."  I don't see that similarity as
> >having much to do with the topic at hand, though.
>
> If people don't think about the "sexism" of "he" it isn't there.

I didn't say that people don't think about the sexism of "he."  I said
that the speaker might not.

> walk.  I'm not in nugget mode anyway, Natalie and all.  Not
> enough entropy-fighting caffeine today maybe.

I'm not in nugget-attacking mode either.  I find semester beginnings
at least as hectic and tiring as most people find semester endings.
I would really like to declare today over and go to sleep right now,
but then I would probably wake up around midnight, ready to start a
new day.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:06:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      The D-words

>> I won't actually write the word).
>
>Whose do you think is the most boring?! It seems like a 3 way tie
>right now....
>
>Karen
>who is finishing the first draft of chapter 3 tomorrow; on to ch 4!!!!

"Boring" is not an appropriate description in connection with the
D-word.  As Nike says, just do it.

-Mka
A.B.D. and now A.B.J.D.
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:57:32 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Modems excite me...
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> Got a dialing prefix that shouldn't be there?  Or if none, try a
> comma under A.

A?  What's A?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 06:52:00 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: latin
              17 Aug 1992 03:39:13 PDT from <pwiebe@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>

Hmmm, I didn't do too well -- 12 out of 42.  Unless you give me partial
credit for these answers:
  instead of aftershave I guessed shaving cream
             ballet               discotheque
             hot pants            panties
             baby bottle          lollipop
             police agent         public servant
             insurance agent      traffic policeman

      How on earth does one get barman out of thermopola?

      --brad
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:43:42 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Wait up!
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> Well, what do you all say if you don't say that?  Or do y'all just

We say "wait."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 10 Aug 1992 22:10:00 EDT
From:         "PLOTKIN, ALEC DAVID" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Marty, Are you back?
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>> Is there another Democrat on line again.

>Betcha I've voted for more Democrats than you -- or maybe even Marty.
>(How old are you, Marty?)  Guess I should've worn my McGovern button at
>the clambake -- along with my various other buttons, including relatively
>recent ones like Mondale and Jesse Jackson.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I beg for your forgiveness. I am young and head-strong Democrat hoping
for a bright future under Bill and Al. I am sure I missed others so,
those who I have forgotten, sorry. Some people interested in politics
might be interested in the Clinton,Perot and Bushe list being
run at Marist.

later

alec
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:16:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: gonadological oppression
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> >  I consider a feminist to be a person who
> >believes that women *are* equal to men and whose actions are grounded
> >in that belief.
> >--ggs (suspecting that this may be  a wee bit simplistic, but hoping
> >       that his sincerity will be appreciated....)
>
>
> Giggles, you mucho macho munchkin, you, you can come play 'feminists' in my
> <clubhouse> anytime.
>
> --bayla

Well.... o.k., but only if I don't have to wear a dress!
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:29:26 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Old machines

*What* is a Martin D-45?

One of the world's most beautiful guitars--the first one was made
for Gene Autry.

>if given half a chance.  Wanted to fix it up for the 16 year old,
>but his mother refuses to let him drive it, saying it is not a
>safe car for the kid.  (As if any one were)
>--ggs (whose battery is about to fall out of the 914 because of
>       that old devil *rust*.....)

Just had a new battery tray welded in myself.  And with cast-iron
underbody, if they're whole, 914's are extremely safe--except in
snow.

BTW--In Washington a Beamer tried to turn right from the left
hand lane (on 34th street going down to the National Observatory,
for those of you who know the place)--right in front of me, in
the right hand lane.  Took out the whole side of the Beamer.  Not
even a smudge on the 914.

-Mka
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From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: OS/2
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Is this applying to mice, or to your fellow WORDS-L readers?

-Shag

     Depends.  Are you little feet <tasty>?

     Carol
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From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Geekazoids
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>O.K., -abh you loveable little sticklette you, how about
><eequettegay>?  Will *that* do?

No, and cut out the sticklette stuff too, giggles, I'm starting to get cross ;-)

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:56:49 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      So Long
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 I'm going to be setting nomail on Saturday, and believe me, I'm going to
> miss this virtual family very much.  Y'all have been a part of my
> life for the past year and a half, and it's going to be very
> difficult to adjust to life without Words-L.
> --Adam (ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})

You'll be missed, Adam...best wishes and hurry back.
ndh
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:16:19 EDT
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: soapbox/bullshit
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:03:50 EDT, "Karen Kay" <ll23@nemomus.bitnet> wrote:
> Graham, as I have reason to know first-hand, is a provocative guy.:)
evocative, not provocative.

G
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Words, by golly!
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On Tue, 11 Aug 1992 22:13:32 -0500, "Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik"
 <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU> wrote:
> Even though it is the case that Christian child abuse is the only type
> proven on official record, many people (from Christians to Wiccans)
> believe that there is this huge underground organization of Satanists that
> has taken over entire towns, et cetera.  Hysteria knows no religious
> doctrine, apparently.

Quite the reverse - hysteria is the root of religious doctrine.  Most of the
satanic stuff turns out to be rumours put around by other Xtian organisations -
they mutually fuel each other's paranoias.

Are they still touting that stuff (that was disproven years ago) about
finding a girls clothes on some garbage dump, which proved human sacrifice
had taken place?  That used to be their favourite one.  Had a life of
it's own, that story.  Got passed around and embellished more than
Craig Shergold and his postcards.  And at least Craig was for real...

> > Check with alt.folklore.urban who keep records of this stuff.
> Thanks, but I have already, since I've taken up the mantle of being one of
> the people who contradicts these idiots.  But I had just received a

I used to do stuff like that, but I gave up.  Bozos who are conned by this
shit will just find some other loony notions to pick up on even if you
disabuse them of this one; Bozos who are proselytizing it won't be
convinced anyway - like all believers in the intangible, they're not open
to rational discussion.  Look at the bandwidth that was wasted with that
'hsr4' guy on the great snuff movie debate on a.f.u last year.

The best you can do is to make sure you keep those people away from *your*
children...

> particularly choice bit of propaganda from an organization right here in
> Texas the evening I included "ritualistic" in my original post.

I have quite a good article on Satanic Child Abuse (confusingly referred
to throughout as SCA) which appeared in the first issue of "The Oldie"
over here about 6 months ago.  If you mail me your fax number, I'll send
it over when I find it.
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