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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:54:17 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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> >And heaaarrrtttts made of stone dodawadodawadado...
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
> Aw, baby, you *know* what I like
> JAG

Topsy, Paaarrrtttt Twoooooo......

I've got to quit thinking about '50s music and get back to party food!
With all of WORDS-L coming, I'm gonna need to have lots and lots of food
and drink...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:30:26 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: enclosed solicitation -- anyone else get one?
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On Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:49:45 -0500, "Joan Boorstein" <boorstein@umbsky.dnet>
 wrote:
> Did anyone else receive the following message?  I'd love to know how
> they got my email address?  I have never given to religious causes and

The traditional response is to send 10 copies back to them.

G
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 12:58:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs

Greetings,

Wait a minute, Graham, *I'M* a Professor too, so it's clearly a title of
utmost importance.

Marty Rosen, Assistant Professor
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From: maynor@walt.tmc.edu (Bernard Chien Perro)
Subject: nn vs rn 
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:38:05 GMT

Natalie is right.  I have to use rn on this machine since nn isn't
available, and I usually find lots of new articles that Natalie hasn't
seen yet because they haven't made their way to the nn reader yet.
--
  -- Bernardykins  o/.\____ /
                    \______|
                    / \  / \
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From: maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject: Re: Chilled-water @ UGA [Plus Chocolate Wafer Crumbs]
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:36:51 GMT

ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:

>Just grab a pair of plastic bags and a hammer.  Put cookies in first plastic 

I ended up crumbling them in the food processor.  Then I managed to shoot
cream cheese all over the kitchen because I was beating it in a bowl too
small for the task.  And then I got melted chocolate stuck all over the
bottom of a pan.  I finally managed to cook the things (Miniature Chocolate
Cheesecakes), and they fell apart when I took them out of the pans.  So
instead of freezing them to serve at my party next week, I ate them all. :-)
--
   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:29:55 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Hey, Giggles!!!!
              16 Dec 1992 10:50:17 -0600 from <harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU>

First message from words-l in two hours, and it had to be this one!

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:13:21 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Burke again
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              15 Dec 92 14:03:49 -0500. <9212151911.AA14517@sics.se>

  >I can help you with four-o'clocks:  a four o'clock bush has bell-shaped
  >flowers that open up at roughly 4 P.M.

  Sounds nice! Do you have a Latin name for it?
From: ll23%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu (Karen Kay)
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:59:42 EST
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Why can I send mail to Karsten, and to myself at Brown, but I can't *get*
any mail????

Karen
who is glad that telnet still works
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:34:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Deep Dish Pizza

> My Gawd, Karsten, this is pizza to die for. Why Clambake in
> Seattle when we can have a Pizza Pig-out in Champaign-Urbana?

I'm game.  When do we start?

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 13:22:12 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Contranyms
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>
> Give 'im hell, Peter, he looks stupider by the minute!
>
> tushar

Guffaw!!!! And here I am, trying to make like Adam and turn over
a new leaf, by being nice!
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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Date: 17 Dec 92 17:23:46 GMT
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>Hmmm, if I didn't know better, I'd say that was a hallmark of a fascist
>state...
>
>;-)
>
>-abh

And from the same firm that brought you tea at Fortnam's.

-K

-Mka
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:49:50 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: The Royal Dysfunctional Family
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> Subj: RE: The Royal Dysfunctional Family

> Nope, he's more like the Third Wheel!  Or third heel, considering the
> bahaviour of royals past....  Just how much truth is there in the rumors
> surrounding Princeling #3, anyway?:-) [only his hairdresser knows for sure?]

Nope! He's, maybe fifth or sixth. Looks like no one's noticed that
Chuckie baby has done his royal thing, and sired his own heir and spare,
which automatically proves his right to be a suc cessor to Henry VIII,
so he can now proceed to fulfill the other of his great forebearer's
proclivities. In other words, Di's function is fulfilled and he doesn't
need her any more except as a nanny to his little goats. If she doesn't
want to do it (and in fact she very much does), then he can always find
lots of help. Don't expect Chuck to be any different from his royal pre-
decessors (except George the Good (VI) who proved the rule in his very
name). The Queens of England seem always to have been exceptionally,
noble, and the Kings merely run of the mill bush-leaguers even in their
corruption.


*************************************************************
*  Peter Montgomery               Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca  *
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: 2 toasts
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:21:39 GMT

ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:

>Posted on 17 Dec 1992 at 16:56:07 by torkel@SICS.SE
>>  I haven't met any Macintosh user who can stand Windows.

>Interesting.  I have touched a Macintosh for many years, but using
>Windows felt *very* Macintoshy to me (especially using Word, I guess...).
>In a way that OS/2 doesn't.

As a looong-time Mac user (sorry, but I've been Apple-loyal since before
the PC even existed), I can't stand Windows either.  It just isn't nearly
as intuitive as the Mac interface.  I was attempting to help a computer
virgin work on a document in Word for Windows (which is supposed to be
very close in design to Mac Word), and I could barely make the program
operate.  That, combined with a the disgustingly slow speed of the whole
thing (no, I don't know what speed her PC was), made me give up after a
solid hour.  I just brought her over to my room, let her do the whole
thing on my Mac, and it was done and printed in an hour.

--Aaron

PS--The above is not a flame against the command-line interface.

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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:36:08 CST
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: ALAN COREN: And A Happy Saturnalia To All Our Readers!

>: year. With an 18 Pound license-fee, the public has a right  to  a
>                ^^^^^^^^
>
>Boy, that's an old one.  Out of Punch (RIP) was it?

1976. It says so.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:54:03 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Burke again

2. Dalton Vidrine is a coonass.

  This one made Random House 2:

  coonass.  Vulgar, Disparaging, and Offensive.  (chiefly in Louisiana
  and Southeast Texas)  a Cajun [probably earlier than 1960-65; prob.
  alter., by folk etym., of LaF, F -conasse- a contemptuous term for
  a woman...]

  The Dictionary of American Regional English goes into considerable
  detail (someone just read parts of the entry to me over the phone):
  reporting it as early as 1949, and claiming its use is sometimes
  "neutral, accepted."

  No relation apparently to the vulgar slang 'coon' for a black person.

--brad
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Red Lion Story
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> Of course!  The Norristown High-Speed Line is still using Chicago
> hand-me-downs.  First the Electroliners, now a few "Spam Cans"

I shoulda guessed the Norristown line uses hand-me-downs, the cars have
that ancient look and a deafening rattle as the train trudges along - none
of the smooth comfort of most other trains.  But it's a darned convenient
line for all its grunginess, and gets one from point A to point B without
any fuss.

"Spam Cans" is perfect - never heard it called that before.

-rashmi, amazed as ever by Steve's knowledge of all things locomotive
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Fischer details (forwarded)
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:44:43 GMT

In article <01GSEHWSUU20000VTV@opie.bgsu.edu> CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
>Greetings, Rita,
>
>Details, Rita, details!

	I'm flattered Marty, but it wasn't a match to interest a
seasoned player like yourself!  Nico taught me how all the pieces move
(although it wasn't until half-way into the game that I figured out
the knights completely).  We started out discussing all the moves, but
then he stopped giving me hints when I put him in check a couple
times.  I lost, of course (his queen took my king), but the game did
last about a 1/2 hour or so.  Much more fun than checkers.





-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From: lncjb@wombat.newcastle.edu.au
Subject: Re:  IT'S ALIVE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:37:18 GMT

In article <maynor.724303711@Ra.MsState.Edu>, maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) writes:
> UGA IS UP!!
> --
>    Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

But the listserv's still not working.... right? There's no mail and nothing's
been added to the ftp Archives. :-(

Carolyn
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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 9-yr old victorian girl's essay
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You might have said you were referring to The Young Visitors when you
first posted this, Graham.  One can just as easily conclude that
young Daisy Ashford was obsessed with tipping practices as that she
was writing porn.

Tony H.
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Chilled-water @ UGA [Plus Chocolate Wafer Crumbs]
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>Re Bernardykins and procreation, have I mentioned the possibility of
>freezing some of his cells for future cloning?

I seem to recall you mentioning that previously..... months ago now.

>A physiologist friend of
>mine suggested it a year or so ago.  Although the cloning know-how doesn't
>exist yet, it's possible that it might sometime in the future and that if
>I had some of B's cells frozen, I might be able to bring him back to life.
>--
>   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Would a clone really be the same as the original though? Bernard's charisma
would be hard to duplicate and without that it just wouldn't be him.

Carolyn
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From: maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 13:28:38 GMT

jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas) writes:

>I've seen the "lurker/label" discussion periodically over the last few
>years, and although it generally tends to be rather silly, it's
>obviously of interest to somebody or it wouldn't re-occur. Gosh--almost
>like topics here.

Why is the discussion of a label silly?  I'm no longer on the CMC list
and thus didn't see the recent discussion being alluded to, but I find 
topics like the use of particular terms (in this case "lurker") interesting.
It might also be interesting to discuss the sociological and psychological
implications of lurkerdom -- e.g., Do the same people tend to be lurkers
on all lists?  Why do people choose to lurk?  Are lurkers more likely than
non-lurkers to be quiet in FTF situations? 
--
   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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*** Resending note of 12/17/92 17:10

>>(PS.  You can get a GIF of Rodney King at 128.252.135.4)

>Interesting; what's it a shot of exactly?  A scan from the videotape or
>post-riot pleading?

A very poor picture from the video ...very difficult to determine what is
happening, without prior knowledge of the incident.
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From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Red Line Story
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thrown back by karlson

>: In New York, you can definitely see out the front.
>
>NOT!  New York subway cars were designed by barbarians.  There's a
>motorman's window, and occasionally a porthole in the train door,
>but the front opposite the motorman's cab is blind.  Good thing
>there are no level crossings, because that window configuration would
>be downright unsafe.

Sorry, Steve, but I have to agree with the others here, at least, with Bayla,
about the IRT. I _know_ that sometime this summer I was in the front car of a
West Side IRT train, watching all the curves and the like, and being somewhat
freaked out by the experience.

if it wasn't the IRT, it was the MTA--Green Line?--because I haven't been on
any other system lately.

b.c.
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:39:57 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Burke again
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>   coonass.  Vulgar, Disparaging, and Offensive.  (chiefly in Louisiana
>   and Southeast Texas)  a Cajun [probably earlier than 1960-65; prob.

I have several Cajun friends who refer to themselves as coonasses.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:35:25 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: My Top 10
              18 Dec 1992 09:43:44 -0600 from <harwell@TENET.EDU>

>5). Giggles' introduction of <> becomes standard W-L usage
>
>-abh

I've been wondering about this.  I am used to using *asterisks* as
BOLD indicators and <angle brackets> for sound effects and theatrical
setting discriptions.  I would like to know what standard W-L usage
is I don't look like a stupid newbie. =:-)

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:04:01 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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              19 Dec 92 16:35:31 -0800. <9212200041.AA19239@sics.se>

  Peter mumbles:

  >If you want to paint yourself into that corner, that's your
  >business.  I've said my say.

  If you say so. It would seem, then, that like many other people who
speak about deep beliefs and how they should be respected, you haven't
thought about what you're saying. I think it's a pity that you're
content to mouth these pious platitudes.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:46:03 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: (no subject given)
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On Thu, 17 Dec 1992, Aaron L Dickey wrote:

> Oh, BTW Anne, how do you feel about Camille Paglia?

She's my hero.

-abh
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: (no subject given)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:33:04 GMT

"Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"  <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:

>A very poor picture from the video ...very difficult to determine what is
>happening, without prior knowledge of the incident.

Hm...I'll just stick with the QT MooVie then.  Between it and my
Elvis-&-Nixon desktop picture, every day's a happy day.

--Aaron
From: ST403231@brownvm.brown.edu (Frank)
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>Posted on 13 Dec 1992 at 20:14:10 by Rita Marie Rouvalis
>
>
>        Jim, I've been bashing academics since my first year in
>college.  But don't take it personally; some of my best friends are
>graduate students.
>
>
To quote one of our favorite people, I'll take that as a compliment.
Thanks, Czarina dear.
>
Frank
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*** Resending note of 12/17/92 07:35
*** Resending note of 12/17/92 07:27

>Oh, and Aaron, I haven't had a chance to re-welcome you to the list. I
>have one word for you: RodneyKing.

>-abh

Oh, Anne.....be nice.

(PS.  You can get a GIF of Rodney King at 128.252.135.4)
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From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: EEEEEEEEEEK!!!
              16 Dec 1992 17:20:40 CST from <tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU>

>tushar
>"amiabletogether"

If you want her, you just might be.

* Alt-Brad *
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Christiane Amanpour
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: It's apparently been a rather rough day, even the generators
: had been been drowned out in an unusual downpour. She is a real trooper.
                                                                 ^^^^^^^

Isn't it spelled 'trouper' in the theatrical sense? :-)

G
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 19 Dec 1992 07:01:36 GMT
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I was out at a "Singles' Group" Christmas party, making merry and helping
devour yet another messy chocolate cheesecake.  It was delicious, if 
somewhat broken up.:-)  No, no one got stinking drunk, or even a little
drunk; it wasn't that kind of a party.  I won't rule out anyone's being
slap-happy or punch-drunk though.  Things got a little late and a bit loud...

About the only thing we missed was some loud Led Zep on the stereo....:-)

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Date: 16 Dec 92 12:12:34 GMT
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> Uh oh....hey, I wear jeans and sweatshirts and teach in cut-offs when
> its warm. I don't own a real pair of shoes (the dog ate my last pair
> [....]
> Believe me, Rita, I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the
> looks-like-an-academic party. People usually guess my profession as

I've been skipping over about 90% of the mail lately because of other
stuff I've had to do and thus missed the beginning of this discussion.
I'm confused by what I just read, though.  The two statements above appear
contradictory to me.  I've known a fair number of people whose reason for
choosing this profession was that they wanted to wear jeans, sweatshirts,
cut-offs, and not own "real" shoes.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Unprecedented Chicago journalism
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> but geez, down there where it almost never snows, what's the idea
> playing football inside?)
>
It rains a lot?
doris
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
From: maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject: Re: I think we're alone now....
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:02:56 GMT

One of the fears expressed when we first got the usenet connection was
that usenetters would "take over the list" by talking to each other at    
times like this.  So far, the gang here tonight doesn't look exactly
like outsiders, though: Karen, Brad, Bayla, Natalie.
--
   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)