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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update
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              "samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU" at Nov 23, 92 4:46 pm

> >Right. My contribution to last night's meal included the
> >three basic food groups that fit together. Chocolate goes
> >well with grease, but seldom with salt or garlic.
>
> Bill has already listed the groups. That's enough. Don't
> gross us out with graphic descriptions.

I don't see what's so gross about this.  Last time we did this, it was well
established that these were indeed the basic food groups, essential to any
proper meal.

Judith, it appears that, so far, we have two in the "seldom" category:
-mole and its inspirations (I put the various chilis with chocolate here)
-chocolate covered pretzels (as pointed out by Frank)

rashmi (trying in vain to think of more)
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!
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Tushar, please apply your program to some text, so we can see how well it does.
I'd suggest something short but familiar, such as the Gettysburg Address or the
Preamble to the Constitution or the 23rd Psalm.

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From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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   13) RICO (Anne Hy.)

Can't remember, so can't answer.

Apologetically,

//anne//
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:01:56 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Establishment (was legislating)

>When I was in the Air Force and had to process many promotion evaluations,
>I always thought the phrase "courage of his convictions" was one of the
>most hackneyed, meaningless, trite, useless phrases to describe a person's
>worth ....and I still think the same.

I don't know about "meaningless". The phrase carries meaning, and it's
this sterling quality that helps it to transcend, in rare cases, the
other drawbacks of triteness and uselessness.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 11:18:06 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      486 for thanksgiving dinner
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          Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>

Thanks to the half dozen of you who gave suggestions on new machines
both on and off list.

Hopefully my new 486/66 will be home for the holidays, and keeping me
entertained for thanksgiving.  Theoretically, if all goes well, it will
be available for pickup next wednesday, possibly a day or two earlier.

Edge Technologies is the lucky vendor.  I called about three dozen
potential, and settled on Edge, conveniently located in Nampa, 25 miles
from Boise.  They are  a national dealer, a fairly new outfit with backing
of Boise's own Micron Technologies, one of the two or three remaining
US chip manufacturers.  Obviously, the machine will use Micron DRAM.

It will be a 486/66, 256k ram cache, 8mb ram, 213mb hard drive (15ms),
V24 GUI graphics accelerator card, 15 inch MAG SVGA NI monitor, local
VESA bus, CMS Jumbo 250 tape backup, dual floppies, mouse, DOS,
keyboard (funny, but these days you gotta say that, even), etc.

Decided to hold off on cdrom drive for the moment, but by using a
dual media floppy in one slot, it saves one internal/frontpanel slot
for a cdrom in the possible future.

Buying locally means I've gotta pay 150 in sales tax, but don't have
to pay 99 or so in shipping and handling, and since the sales tax pays
my salary (or a part of it) guess I can't complain.  Overall their price
was as good as any, better than most, and the local availability and
such made the final call.  Also, a significant number of the places
that advertise "all systems shipped by second day air" indeed to that for
the 99 shipping fee, but when you press them it turns out it will be shipped
"in 3 to 5 weeks, but we don't bill your credit card until we ship".
So, like always, check out ALL the  details carefully.

dan, in the land of potatoes and Micron and HP
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:52:41 -0600
Reply-To:     Doris Smith <dorisann@tenet.edu>
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning
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Thanks Karsten, for the laugh.  I'm ROFL as I visualize Natalie playing
Tetris with her new OS/2 environment and trackball - or better yet, with a
joystick.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
From: harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood)
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Someone just asked me how to find out an e-mail address in England.  The
person he wants to write to is SFF1000@(whatever).  He is at Cambridge
University.  The address my friend has is cam.phx, but he says a Unix
finger command shows that is not correct.  He tried cam.phx.uk, but that
was unsuccessful, also.

I told him I knew these people who know something about everything in the
world...:-)
ndh

-----Nancy Harwood-----------------------------------------------------------
Journalism Department                           Telephone:  (713) 357-3254
Tomball High School                             Fax:  (713) 357-3248
13705 Sandy Lane
Tomball, TX  77375                              Inquiring minds want to know.
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:36:41 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1992, karsten wrote:

> (And you probably didn't find out ~how~ to use the twiddles, either)

Twiddles? What are these?

-abh
one posting too many deleted, alas
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:36:50 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      bozo

>Fantastically slick new Kinko's copycenter commercial just
>popped up on the TV:

Reminds me of another ad - it mentions that the Bozo is
flame-retardant.

tushar
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: fresh meat!
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              14 Nov 1992 14:35:46 EST from <CCOCHRAN@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Sat, 14 Nov 1992 14:35:46 EST Charles Cochran said:
>Hello! I joined this list about a week ago, and have been having
>a <large> time ever since.

Tushiebaby, did you predict THIS reply?  This newbie is hereby christened
List Fresh Meat.....as the first one to actually read enough before
jumping into the fray to name him/herself Fresh Meat.....

Welcome, Meat.....

dan in potatoland, which goes just fine with meat....
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Headless Chickens ...Everywhere
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> I was thinking in terms of temporarily "confusing" ring and wring, and
> wondering whether that kind of thing causes a large number of typos.
>
This kind of mistake is extremely embarrassing to me - and English
teacher, for heaven's sake! - and not the type of mistake I normally make.
I don't recall ever making a chalk-O of that type, but on the keyboard
there is no telling what key I'll hit; my fingers are quicker than the eye
and brain.  Squinting through trifocals doesn't aid the situation either.
And, while I'm on this subject, Tushar, I have not made a single chalk-O
since we've been talking about them.
doris
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Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update

Neal opines:

        No matter what 'n' is, chili it ain't.

AMEN

JAG
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Imposter

It seems yesterday there was some imposter using my account.  I apologize
to anyone (except for anyone who knew it wasn't really me) who may have
been offended.  The real JM you have learned to love and admire is back...
and isin't it peaceful........

Oh, and it pains me to admit it, but I agree with ggs...WW was the worst
movie ever ...I'd rather watch reruns of Lassie....

And tell me Superman isin't really dead......I listened to him on radio,
centuries ago, and KNEW nothing but kryptonite could kill him.....

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to
leap tall buildings in a single bound....

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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              22 Nov 1992 16:57:38 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

>Oh, Ken laughed. He must be Psychick.

Not to detract from your joke, Tushar, but I have just been reading of a
Dr. Physick who advised the family physician of Ann Coleman, betrothed
of James Buchanan, on the occasion of her untoward death in 1819.

Philip Syng Physick (1768-1837), professor of anatomy at the University
of Pennsylvania, and a famously deft and mercifully quick performer of
hemorrhoidectomies, tonsillectomies, and lithotomies.

--Updike, Memories of the Ford Administration, p. 111-12
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Twenty-nine years.

Ken
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Greetings,

Of course, and I shrink from suggesting that Jeeves's behavior is random.
Indeed, I disavow any connection with the notion that Jeeves's behavior is
random.  It is rather the antithesis of randomness.  In point of fact,
it is predictable that Jeeves, given an opportunity to wager will do so.

Moreover, it often occurs that Jeeves's handicapping reveals a startling
tendency to disregard relevant circumstances.  More than once, Jeeves
finds himself in rather sticky circs as a consequence, circs from which
he is extricated only with difficulty and heroic, one might almost say
Wilberforcian, efforts.

Marty
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In a previous article, rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) says:

>In article <9211221905.AA25141@tartarus.uchicago.edu> samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>>GILBERT NEEDS A CLUE OR THREE!
>>
>
>>mud-slinging sleazy slander-spree! This tiresome cervical pain has now
>
>	Cervical?  Anne!  Rashmi!  You never told us about *this* side
>of Tushar...

The more he talks the more he gives himself away, Rita.  I let it slip that
Tushie is my identical twin, and I am a 100% genuine XX type.:-)  As he's my
twin, it isn't too unexpected that he'd get <cramps> too.  Of course, he
keeps on denying everything, and thus doesn't take <ibuprofin> for his.[hers?]
<chuckle>

		Ruth
ducking quickly into a bomb shelter

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
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>If I'm not mistaken, this is the exception to Judith's rule of cooking:

>     there is no dish than cannot be improved by either chocolate or
>     garlic, but not both.

Ah, Judith's cooking! Is it not mama primate who lists the
four food groups thus:
      Salt, Grease, Chocolate, Garlic
Bill
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: November 22
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On Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:19:00 CST, "Bob (Moo Cow) Hyland"
 <HYLANDRA@sluvca.slu.edu> wrote:
> Howdie all.  I'm new here and my name is Bob.  Yes, just another Bob, I guess.
> Anyway, talk to me and let me know what's happening on this channel.  I hate
 to
> feel left out, ya know.  Oh, and happy turkey day.

As long as you're not the Bob who started all the trouble on nyx last week...

> Bob (Moo Cow) Hyland

Hyland.  Hyland.  Hmmm....  It'll come back to me.

G
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
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>That one's easy.  -abh, of course, because she is good at
><tickling my fancy....>, as she has proven already.
>--ggs (with apologies to Natalie, who failed to beat -abh to the
><punch>...)


Me too.  Always nice to have a little piggy to roast in a <pinch>.

-K

-Mka
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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Natalie,
 Tetris is a in which you try to fit falling blocks of various shapes
together to form a solid line.  Windows' Reversi is not similar.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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> mean in the sense of doing it as a <profession> or at least <summer job>
> Tell us more.....

Not a job.  Just a one-time-only task.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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In-reply-to: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU's message of Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:30:29 CST

Dearest T:

   Look, I didn't ask for any alias. I was merely referring to hunk
   (most kindly supplied by Betty) as the most intuitive list alias.

Would that I could entitle you List Hunk, however, I have yet to see a
picture and cannot support such nomenclature without <visual> evidence.

//anne, how do you ftp/gif and what's the title of the gif T's in?//
From: ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (blomberg cepeda)
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Subject: Re: Reification
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Bayla: The way I have always understood "reify" is as the antonym of
"symbolize": whereas a "symbol" is something concrete made general, made to
stand for a whole concept, "reification" is making something which is general
into something concrete, or at least thinking of it that way.
       Two uses: Clifford Geertz, on defining culture: "This may seem like an
obvious truth, but there are a number of ways to obscure it. One is to imagine
that culture is a self-contained "superorganic" reality with forces and
purposes of its own; that is, to reify it." (Interpretation of Cultures, 10-11)
       Also--I picked up from friends in soc. many years ago the habit of
referring to buying a tourist T-shirt while on vacation as "reifying the
experience."
                            Hope this helps
                                           b.c.
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On Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:01:25 EST <ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU> said:
>Posted on 12 Nov 1992 at 23:19:36 by RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
>>the article is in plainer English (except for those chiefly stools).
>                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>This continues to amuse me!  Am I the only one who does *not* think
>of something to sit on when they read this????
>
   Well, at least I HOPE that you and I are not the only ones....just as
I hope that those chiefs don't have to sit on/in their chiefly stools....
even babies don't like that.....they generally let you know quickly....

dan
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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>      --ggs,
>        We like you, at least *most* of the time.
>        However, you *do* have a knack for being somewhat <tacky>
>        at times.
>
>        Joe P.(who is *never* <tacky> himself.)

Could be worse.  You could have a knack for sailing on the knocked
tack.

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the <lifted> tack
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update

Green Bay chili combines chocolate, grease, salt, and garlic.
(among other things)

Maybe that's why the cheeseheads stand alone?

Steve Karlson
From: ubacr45@ucl.ac.uk (Mr G Toal)
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In article <9211220329.AA13173@cbis.ECE.Drexel.EDU> rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU (Rashmi Murthy) writes:
>Hmmm, wonder who I had dinner with couple of months back - Tushar or Mahalingam?

Didn't you <peek>?

G
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Aztec Thanksgiving
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        What is the appropriate music to play during such a meal?  Janis
        Joplin singing "Piece of My Heart"?

Or 'Young Hearts Run Free'?

G
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Handbook for Torture?
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> Loompanics is in Washington state somewhere.  They carry all sorts of
> strange stuff - a book on razor fighting sticks in my mind, plus
> various bomb and weapons cookbooks - "More Kitchen Plastic Explosives"
> and the like, illegal drug lab manuals, how to forge various ID,

And just how did you end up on their mailing list, Tony?  Hmmmmm.....
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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>And since you included the word "sentimental" in your title, perhaps you
>won't flame me if I sentimentally wish you well in your new field.

Thanks. I won't.

Although I can't help mentioning that I have found the way to a place in
the Good Books - ladle out more of the ellipsis-spattered mawkorama.

tushar
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>> Natalie, Mississippi has an excellent example of "low or sunken wall"
>> serving as a defensive wall!  Have you not been to Vicksburg?
>>
>> But of course, if you didn't recall a cemetary just a block and a half
>> away........ ;-)
>
>Ah yes.  July 4, 1863, is a well-known date in Mississippi.

The surrender of Vicksburg was on that day, right?  Some interesting
stuff was happening in southern Pennsylvania at the same time.

Ken
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