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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Where is Ruth Who is She?
Date: 1 Sep 1992 22:31:38 GMT
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In a previous article, 185422285@VILL.EDU (Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366) says:

>You hate private education, but sent your kid to one the best
>private schools in the nation. I must be missing something. Yes,
>I went to a private school and enjoyed it.
>
I don't have any kids, Alec.:-)  If I did, I'd consider private school if only
because the ones here in town are lousy.  I'd rather they went to public 
school, but not at the expense of a good education.  Any kid of mine is
going to be computer-literate before s/he learns to ride a bike.<grin>

Ruth
who was good at falling off

>
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 22:59:17 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: NIMROD
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              23 Aug 92 13:51:00 -0700. <9208232052.AA23735@sics.se>

  PS: recent, that is, in the sense of "idiot". Nimrod himself of course
occurs in dictionaries:

bast> webster nimrod
Nim-rod \'nim-,ra^:d\ n
[Heb Nimro^-dh]
1: a descendant of Ham represented in Genesis as a mighty hunter and
     a king of Shinar
2 not cap: HUNTER
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: worse verse
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great poem, bayla.....  the subject matter is in impeccable taste.
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:35:28 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
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              29 Aug 1992 11:58:57 EDT from
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On Sat, 29 Aug 1992 11:58:57 EDT Karen Kay said:
>So guys...Anne said she would design the logo, I said I would
>get the tshirts made, Rashmi said she would help mail them.
>Anyone interested in ordering one???  (Note:  this is not a
>request for money, all I want is an expression of interest,
>please.)
>
   Yes, difinitely interested....fer sure....

dan
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:15:50 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: fire and ice
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	Care to explain the physics behind this little UL, Graham ?   And how
	the rubber gloves would help, while you're at it ?

Fuck the UL - I've been blasted my my own monitor (turned off).  It's
now the standard office prank to get new people to clean their
monitors when they first arrive.  Spray-on computer-cleaning foam.
Get's em every time.

G
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:36:06 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: English Aspiration
              27 Aug 1992 10:25:28 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:25:28 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>> Don't think.  Dangle a feather on front of your lips and try it, and see
>> if the feather jumps...
>The feather jumped.  I just tried it.  I'm glad nobody walked into my
>office as I was holding the dirty feather-duster in front of my face

Gentleone,
   You think that would have been embarrasing?  I didn't realize that it was
supposed to be a detached feather.  When I tried it, the darn goose nearly
beat me senseless.
Peace,
Elwood P. (still not completely recovered) Dowd
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From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: You are NEVER safe
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>So, has anyone heard from Professor Sjostrom since he departed this
>vale of tears?  Via Bitnet or otherwise?


I got a rash of care packages from him last week, which he said he was going to
send me just before he left. They were ultraballisticonservative magazines. And
yes, he did charge the postage to NIU, just as a little goodbye slap to the
place he loved so dearly.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:04:14 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:25:00 CDT, "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1@NIU.BITNET> wrote:
> The attacks on "pornography" are often confused, lumping Playboy and
> snuff films (as two extremes) in the same bag. The core of the

What snuff films?, he asks innocently...

G
(AFU here we come...)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:49:53 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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> >Ditto. I've no idea what 'eighth' is relevant to either, but it's a
> >good work to drop in morphological conversations.
> >G
>
> Why, what is it an example of?
> tushar

Same thing 'dogs' is an example of.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: sayings
Date: 3 Sep 1992 19:47:55 GMT
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>You have come to the right authority on this one.  When they asked
>me how I felt right after swallowing the <biscuit>, I answered,
><Just Ducky> and it caught on among the Scouts and spread over the
	I knew it!  I just *knew* it!  You don't have a brother named
Donald, do you?  Or maybe a cousin Bugs?  I won't ask about cousins who
*are* bugs; we all know about those extended <Texas> families....

>surface of the earth like <Duck Butter>.....    So, by analogy,
	That is what I thought you said - good old Texas idioms....I didn't
know you had it in you...<blushing> or maybe on you?<ducking><*quack*>
>Duck Butter=Donkey Buiscuits=Mule Muffins, therefore <Just Ducky>
>means, in fact, <I feel like sh*t>....  sort of ironic tinge to it.
	That's how it's used around here - eaten by a coyote and sh** off
a cliff.  More politely, of course.:-)

	
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:22:50 EDT
From:         Theresa Wild <TWILD@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      sayings

 Does anyone know from where the following sayings originate?

  By George       as in      By George, I've got it.
  Just Ducky      as in      How are you doing?  (reply) Just Ducky


 Theresa
 twild@uriacc.uri.edu
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 11:40:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Getting strange

IF this goes out...it's not my fault!!!  The Vax's overloaded, and I can't
delete, purge, reclaim, dialup, logoff, flip, flop, or fly!
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Mark of Maturity
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Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 05:57:27 GMT


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

>> Where in Germany?  We might be cousins too and not know it. [stranger things
>> have happened around here :-} ]
>Dortmund, Kassel, Paderborn and plenty of other places I can't remember.
>
Could be - my mother's cousins were scattered to the four winds after WWII -
the ones that made it through alive that is. [they didn't exactly support
the Reich :-/]  If any of those is in what was the Eastern half, it would be 
possible.  If any are in the Alsace region, it's almost a certainty.[that's
the other side of the family tree]

>(...carefully avoiding the umlauts...)
I can't say as I blame you - this USer ASCII set doesn't like them much.
Ruth
doing the same
  
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:32:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas"
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Subject:      The tyranny of sub-cultural hegemony

   >Jim, the gribenas/grivenas is the crackly stuff left behind when
   >the fat is rendered -- SCHMALTZ is the fat itself.

Perhaps i should have said the "product of rendered fat." I suspect
the parochial New York influence on the def, which seems only a subset
of the Russian usage. I double-checked, and was told:  "Oy! Noo Yawk
Jews don't know from dreck!" Picky point, schmaltz is grease, not fat.
I'll dig out the distinctions if anybody really thinks it's that
important.

Jim ("sea-beef" sure looks and tastes a lot like shrimp) Thomas
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Subject: Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:52:43 GMT


In a previous article, "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS" () says:

>And Unca Giggles, you can't tube Ruth.  I've tried.  Some of the technoids
>can probably explain why.
  I sure can't - the mailer is a prize flake.  It *ought* to work, but
somehow never does.  :-(
>John "I still have my 50#, 28" draw Hoyt recurve - does that help?" W.
  Dunno - what's a 50#, 28" draw Hoyt recurve?  Oh, a bow?  Com#, by the
look of it.:-)  What do you plan on doing with it, shoot arrows at node
administrators who don't like Words-l?
>ps - whatever happened to Richard Greene?  8-)
  Dunno that either - what's a Richard Greene?


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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: disks/modems/novels

>>avoiding the first 75 pp. of Tax.
>                       ^^
>Hah!  A WORDS question: what is the origin of this doubling of
>letters to make the plural ?  It seems to be used for a very few
>words only.
>
>Tony H.
>(Waiting for a <very obvious> explanation)


Malaysian.

Orang = person
Orang orang =  people

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:55:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: TGTABagnes2

>Come on nan, be a sport.  That's what we need right now.  A story
>that will make us cry.  We are too mirthy.
>--ggs (ho ho ho)

No, Giggles.
Rashmi is too mirthy.  God alone knows what the rest of us are...

John
"Don't play me no more heavies, Leroy" W.
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 02:30:31 GMT

In article <Pine.2.4.59.9208292002.A21646@abernathy.tenet.edu>
Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU> writes:
 
>>
>> dang...I'd heard this list had gone from boring to quiet, but this
>> is ridiculous...
>>
>> hello.....hello.....hello......echo echo echo
>
>Your timing is just off.  Try us on a typical weekday/night instead of a
>weekend.
>Doris
 
not the way i remember words-l.  you must be a newbie!
From: venkates@pngs02.hep.upenn.edu
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Subject: TUSHAR
Date: 23 Aug 92 22:20:48 GMT
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TS is back. I found out on Friday just before leaving for New
York, so I could not let you know earlier. Anyway, you guys 
can give him a good piece of your mind in the next few days.
Apparently the dude hasn't heard of 555-1212.( he claims he 
lost his diary and hence didn't call...)


---Venkatesh
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:34:00 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What does this mean?
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              Aug 29, 92 6:59 am

>
> > boffo
> Is this from some Douglas Adams by any chance?

No, from a Molly Ivins column and another place that I don't recall now.

rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:07:05 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: fire and ice
              26 Aug 1992 10:00:38 GMT from <bayla@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU>

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:00:38 GMT Bayla Singer said:
>Many thanks for the windowcleaning suggestions.  Organic solvents do indeed
>work well, though no one solvent seems to do equally well on all th windows

Forgot to mention - you were concerned about damaging the glass: none
of these organics will touch it.  Just about the only things that
do anything to glass are strong bases (e.g. sodium hydroxide (Drano,
Easy Off oven cleaner)), and Hydrofluoric acid.  If you have any HF
in the house you should run-not-walk away from it :-(

>                                              One problem I have with the
>organics is that I'm an asthmatic, and can't breathe the fumes too well
>(after using a xylene-based one called "Goof Off" yesterday, I had to leave
>the house for the afternoon).

What a cutely appropriate name.  Xylene is great for disolving tar
and similar gunk, but do try not to breathe much of it.

Tony H.
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
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Grrrrrrr!  I am *not* 'dainty'. :-|
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:01:34 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
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Debating the theory of private schooling is fine -- e.g., whether parents
with children in private schools should be given tax breaks (NO!).  Debating
whether private education is "better" than public education is impossible
in the very general terms it is being debated.  Some private schools are
better than some public schools; some public schools are better than some
private schools.  I'm glad I live in a town where the public schools appear
to be better than the "academy" -- which was started around the late '60s --
wonder why it was started then....
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who is taking a *very* brief e-break from paper-grading and feeling
     bitchy in a windowless office in building with broken a/c
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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In-reply-to: Rashmi Murthy's message of Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:15:24 EDT

Rashmi asks:

   > Flea.
   > Flea fly.
   > Flea fly flew.
   > Mosquito!
   > cumalada cumalada cumalada vista.
   > <echo: cumalada cumalada cumalada vista.>
   [..]
   > <echo: kill the big bad bug with the big bad spray>
   > PSSHHT!

   Hey, //anne//, did you learn this ditty here or in Karachi/Sri Lanka?  I
   recognize this from girlguide camp way back when.  Kinda surprising and neat
   that people half way around the world sing the same camp songs.

   (And I'm impressed that you remember the words, I'd forgotten them.)

This was ingrained in my memory once upon a time in my girl scout youth (in
the States)--the reason I remember the words is that at one time I put
together a book of GS songs 'cuz I wanted to be a CIT
(counselor-in-training) "when I grew up".  I never was a CIT...some would
argue that I've never grown up, either.

//anne, "mr. knickerbocker, knickerbocker, number 9..."//

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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 06:48:11 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Quote for the day
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[in Alec's absence]

    Logic is like a lantern; it only shines so far in the dark.
                   --Herzog Ernst, Doyen of Darkness (friend of mine)

Later,
brad
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:01:13 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Ausbrook's lawschool

On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:59:00 CDT tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas said:
>Ausbrook, you offered to send me the name of your dean, his
>address, and his bitaddress. Would you mind doing it publicly??

Hmmm... - this is in reference to the Japs comment ?  I was thinking about
that and how it seems to me that Jap has lost most or all of its offensive
nature over the years.  It sounds about as offensive to me now as Brit does.

Or are you just interested in law schools, Jim ?

Tony H.
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Subject:      Re: Ausbrook's lawschool

Tony queries:

    >>Ausbrook, you offered to send me the name of your dean, his
    >>address, and his bitaddress. Would you mind doing it publicly??

    >Hmmm... - this is in reference to the Japs comment ?  I was
    >thinking about that and how it seems to me that Jap has lost most
    >or all of its offensive nature over the years.  It sounds about
    >as offensive to me now as Brit does.

    >Or are you just interested in law schools, Jim ?

Nope. Just amazed by some of his posts. He/she/it offered the info in a
private post but never gave it, and perhaps he's just waiting for
a public invitation. Just like to know what I'm talking to, and
don't trust somebody who won't look ya in the eyes when they talk.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:45:28 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Fabrications

This morning I received a meassage from CAUSERIE that had been sent by
Dr. Fabrikant.  It was over 3000 lines, so I didn't save it.  Now,
knowing the circumstances, I wish I had.  In it, he listed all the papers
and books he had written and complained that the listed co-authors were
useless scum.

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:06:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Diana Dreams
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Everyone has stopped responding to the interesting posts about
teaching, bumper stickers, the Order of the Arrow, and the
appropriate color of the men-hater t-shirts.  So, I'm just
going to bed and to sleep to have some sweet <witty> dreams
about Diana McCaleb while my tc/sw *doesn't* talk to me all
night like she *hasn't* spoken to me all day because of a
minor altercation this morning.  Diana will talk to me
("What, you're going to take my temperature *again*????")
--ggs (now I lay me down to sleep I pray the.....)
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:56:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: The Gospel Truth About Agnes
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> 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

Well, speechless as I am, I can only say I would be proud.  Proud,
I say.
--ggs
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:41:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      TGTABagnes2
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Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that this is the *last* time, I
say, the last time I will ever research anything for anybody.
Spent hours in the library, where I had adventures that I cannot
recount (sorry, no WHTMITL), and all I get for it is *silence*...
--ggs (the rest is silence....)
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: RE: Holland tunnel
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>>I just *love* it when <ts> starts giving advice.  He is so good at it.

>In that case, ggs, Keep Out Of This.

>Practise saying "Neal, Neal, Neal" instead of writing uncharacteristic
>letters addressed to him.

	Thanks (I hope) for thinking of me, Tushar.

>More advice coming up.

>tushar

	Can't wait...

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                    "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:08:18 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: i'm a poet and didn't know it
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>the scary thing was how terrible the poem was, since i

Jenna,

Didn't you know that hackneyed phraseology, syrupy sweet sentimentality, and a
galloping indefatiguable meter are what most people define as "poetry?"

-abh
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