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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:26:59 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: fudge
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: Dunno why but beefcake and fudge always does that to me.
                ~~~~~~~~

I still don't understand... you've *seen* me.  Where does the beefcake
come in?

G
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Deconstructing the Feud

	--Good grief!  Which way gets called "west"?  Anyhow, I usually figure
	direction by putting my right hand where the sun rises, which gets me
	standing on a mental compass with my nose pointing north; fo me, the
	sun traverses right to left as is.

>At last!  Exactly!  that's just what doesn't work in NZ - you'll end
>up facing the wrong way.

NOT!!!  If you face the rising sun in either hemisphere, you are
facing roughly east.  Extend your arms out to either side and pivot
as in a "left face."  Your nose points roughly north in either hemisphere.
What's disconcerting is the following.  In the northern hemisphere,
if you want the sun at your back, for instance to read a book, you
face north.  The direction of the sun's apparent movement is from
your right to your left behind you.  If you want natural reading
light in the southern hemisphere, you face south, and the direction
is from your left to your right behind you.  (That would feel a bit
odd at first.

> Huh?  you mean 'right' means 'left' in the US? :-)

I'm waiting for jim to crack wise about this?

Steve Karlson

(who was reading a book by sunlight while waiting for a regatta to
start today.  First time I've *seen* a national championship
postponed for *too much* wind.  Que sera, sera.
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 12:04:00 EDT
From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject:      A parable
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When I was a kid, I lived in a big apartment house in the city.  It
was multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, like most places there.  We weren't
necessarily mad about each other, but we got along.  People shouted at
each other across the airshafts, hogged the clothes-drying lines
between sides of the building, their kids got into fistfights on the
front stoop, then went off and played baseball in the park across the
street.

But it was our building, we were proud of it, and we took care of it.
People who moved into the vacant apartments generally moved there and
stayed did so because they figured out that life was kind of
disorderly, but could be fun.

On Saturdays in the summer, we'd pool our money, get a keg of beer and
some bottles of Four Roses.  Someone would set up a phonograph
outside.  The adults would get plastered and dance all night.  The
kids would hang out.  We might fight among ourselves, but the parties
could be fun.

Then one day a truck showed up with some new people.  They didn't fit
but they didn't leave, either.  They had live animals they brought
with them.  A sow bit a kid.  A dog killed another dog while its
owner, one of the new people, stood by and watched.  The new people
insulted the old people and each other, and it got pretty nasty...but
they always shrugged and said "Hey, I di'n' mean nothin' by it, you
just took it the wrong way."

Life in the neighborhood deteriorated.  Then one day, we moved.  No
building could be like that old one was.  But then...the old building
wasn't like itself anymore, either.

Ken
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:50:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Okay, I give.
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> Will somebody please tell me what happened on EAT-L?  I've been sick (I
> relapsed) and missed all the interesting News of The Day.
>
> Karen
> who hopes to have some interesting Wordsler tales to tell when she
> gets back from LA.

Breaking my self-imposed silence once more, to be helpful for a
change, I can report *part* or what happened.  I was on nomail when
it started, but it seems that some posters were using nick-names
that some people found offensive, or racist, or what-ever.  So one
poster, who had been particularly elusive, got desubbed by the
listowner, and several posters came to her defense, posting her
address so people could send her the posts that she couldn't get
any more.  The listowner put a password on the list (I know this
because I tried to go nomail and had to wait for the listowner
to nomail me).  The listowner then came on with a long post about
how the list was *for* recipes and pleasantries and that it had
gotten out of hand and he had the right to edit it so that it
would be what he intended it to be.  Some came to his defense
and others yelled foul.  I'm not sure what the status is now,
but the last time I looked, they were still debating the
question.
--ggs (back on silence for now... trying to decide how to do
this without hurting anybody's feelings....  this thing has a
life of its own....)
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: 747
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              05 Oct 92 09:49:15 -0700. <9210051651.AA24250@sics.se>

 >Graham, I assume you'll be expanding upon this theme on alt.anti.american?

  I don't think there was anything anti-USA about Graham's comment.
He was a bit too quick in his assumptions, that's all. Like many other
people, I consider the US of America to be the savior of the world,
and by far the most unbelievably wonderful nation ever to have graced
the surface of the earth (or the moon). Nevertheless, I have no
difficulty in recognizing many US military actions as transparent pieces
of short-sighted power politics, revoltingly disguised, in a
revoltingly idiotic US fashion, as having to do somehow with
"democracy" or "freedom" or similar slogans.
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:50:43 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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>
> > Those classes may be composed of all women, however, as many Baptist
> > churches still segregate males and females in Sunday School.  Many
>
> Didn't you always just wonder what they were teaching the men that was too
> indelicate for female ears?
>
You bet I did - especially since the all female classes didn't discuss
anything that appeared to be sacred to women or too saccharin for male ears.
Doris
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:49:54 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Frequently Asked-to-Natalie Questions
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              29 Sep 1992 05:39:21 CDT from <tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU>

well, well, well.....

Gold Star with Oak Leaf Cluster to Tushiebaby....

his best in a LONG  time....a VERY long time.....

Indeed, the true essence of Natalie captured for all time....

Now, can you do it on me, on Neal, on others???

dan
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:28:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Sunrise, sunset...

>The most disorientating experience, I've ever had with this was while visiting
>my sister in Perth (on the west coast) and watching the sun rise over land
>and set over the ocean. I lost all sense of direction because it was the
>complete reverse of what I was used to.

What's the deal?  In the States, residents of Lawn Guyland or of
Chicago can watch it rise over water and set over land; residents of
Muskegon, Michigan or San Diego can watch it rise over land and set
over water, and in the summertime, residents of Cleveland can watch
it rise over water and set over water.

Steve Karlson

(whose internal compass works much better near some kind of water)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Blinking Lights
Date: 29 Sep 1992 02:47:17 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>
>Maybe you just have more speed traps?   8-)   How else does the south
>get that reputation of sleazy sheriff setting speed traps, arresting the
>nubile young honeys, locking them up in some slimy cell to have his way
>with them, letting his bulldyke matron have her way with them, and so on,
>come about?  After all, we HAVE seen a LOT of versions of that film,
>haven't we?  Didn't Joe Bob do a whole book about them?
AAhh yes, the R-rated Dukes of Hazzard?:-)  Or, considering your reputation,
an X-rated version?

>I see the blinking with that meaning in the west, the southwest, in
>California, and in midwest (NE, IA, IL, IN, etc.).  Don't recall seeing
>it happen in New England, but not sure....
It does, at least in CT.  In the Hartford area, a lot of people are 
transplants, and have probably imported the practice.  Or else someone
learned it here and exported it to the South and Midwest.  Fuzzbusters are
illegal in CT for the moment [ a law's going through to change that] so
the motorists have to do *something*.:-)  The few times I've gone past a
speed trap lately, it's either been at the top of a hill, or just past a
construction bottleneck.  In neither case was my car able to go fast enough to
get close to being caught.  This wasn't the case for some other schmucks, who
put quite a bit of money into King Lowell I's coffers. 

Ruth the slowpoke, sometimes
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Border Grill lowdown

> back.  But it was well worth the sacrifice to meet Emily.  Karsten
> and his fish are both interesting, as well.
>
> Karen

Karen - you didn't mention your declaration of war against mgarber! ;-) But
maybe she's taken off already.......

Send me your snail mail address and you'll get a picture as soon as I get them
developed.

Emily
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Subject:      Re: garbage and bathrobes

Greetings,

I enjoy liver and other organ meats as well (me and Leopold Bloom, I
suppose).  Years ago I resided for a very boring year in Evansville, Indiana,
where the local cuisine includes deep-fried brain sandwiches on buns with
mustard, onions, and pickles.  The first time I tried one I had already
overindulged in too much stout, but I quickly developed a taste for this.
Now that I think about it, though, I almost always overindulged in some
kind of beverage first, since this is ubiquitous bar food in that town.

Marty
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: borders

>Bookstore buffs will be interested in today's Wall Street Journal which informs
> us that K-Mart, owner of the Waldenbooks chain, is in negotiations to purchase
> the Borders chain.

Uh-oh.  I liked the Borders in Ann Arbor.  It had a varied inventory,
including _War and Peace_ *in Russian*.  (I never bought it during
any of the stops I made there).  Best I check out the Oak Brook, IL
Borders before the sellout takes place.

Thanks, Marty.

BTW, what's your next move?  Santa Claus is watching.
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Greetings, Country,

Thanks for the offer.  No, I didn't choose to be a loser.  Some of us, as you
probably know, are born to lose.

Marty
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:49:53 -0700
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: WFF: An astounding finding!

>My ego is the smallest.

>Tushar

It is *obviously* not!  Que, Eee, Dee.  Bailiff, take that man out in the
corridor and whack him on the peepee...

John "Crazy from the heat" W.

ps - Dan, is that fountain still working?
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 10:25:46 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: garbage and bathrobes
              25 Sep 1992 17:37:26 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

Dan,
  Not even Ruggles Frozen Yogurt?  It's excellent!

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:54:14 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Final updage on imprisoned students

On Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:02:18 GMT Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>What a tragic story.......my heart and prayers go out to that young lady's
>family and friends.
>
>                            Peace,
>                                  Don

Mine, too.

Evelyn
From: N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith)
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Date: 3 Oct 92 22:34:00 GMT
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> > Sans thee we're but displaced orphemes.
> > ................
> > --ggs
> >
>
> That is really lovely, ggs - very good indeed. I don't know Judith,
> but she must be something special.
> (what are orphemes?)
>
> Agnes

Thank you agnes.  <Orphemes> are morphemes that have lost their
parents.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:22:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Strange news

>Has anyone heard the rumor that one or all of Anne Rice's Vampire books
>are going to be made into a movie?
>
>Evelyn

Please say it isn't so!  There are few, if any, people who could play a
convincing Lestat.  Actually, Daniel Day Lewis could probably do a very
convincing job, or maybe Christopher Lambert.  He has the correct accent.

Chris
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Date: 3 Oct 92 00:14:50 GMT
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Marty, 

The figures you posted, while informative, do not have any bearing on 
the supply-side contention that decreased tax rates would increase revenue: 
revenue is not shown anywhere in your table.  It has been alleged, though 
I do not have the figures, that revenue did indeed rise, though not as 
rapidly as required to balance spending.

--bayla

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              29 Sep 1992 21:34:27 CDT from <tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU>

>So now even the "away for one year" is taken at face value. Well, if
>someone fakes his name, you don't really take his mail as a piece of
>news-reporting, do you? If the name is fiction, so is the letter.
>
>tushar

 I see what you're saying.  But, at the level of the sentence, each
 of which bears the signature of the writer in some inescapable way
 (as you more or less put it), one can still dissemble -- typographically,
 discursively, etc. I submit to you, then, that the ability to separate
 the bogus clues from the real clues is not a test of newbieness at all.
 Granted, memory is involved (Ernie Garcia? chihuahuas?), and attention.
 Will you allow yourself to be pressed now for an unequivocal answer to
 the question "Who is Santa Claus, and how do I know?"

 brad
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Date: 2 Oct 1992 03:38:44 GMT
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In a previous article, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:

>>O woe is me. What's becoming of this world.
>>
>>-abh
>
>  It's going to the chihuahuas.
>
>  brad

Chihuahuas?  The rat-sized pooches aren't even in line for the table scraps.
It's going to the feists!  One has, after all, taken over a list.  What will
our intrepid doggie snack lovers attempt next?

Today words-l, tomorrow the Kal Kan factory?

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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Subject:      Re: Test your newbieness!!
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Posted on 29 Sep 1992 at 23:21:03 by JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
>Gawd, it's been only six days, and I already hate Internet...

WHy?  I loved it after bitnet!!

Karen
From: DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078)
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Fall has arrived in Tampa .... temperature is not expected to get higher
than low 80's ....I have my sweater on....brrrrrrrrr

John, get out of the shade and into the cool Florida sun...

PS.  Did I mention that our mayor's husband was arrested for *alledgedly*
     being involved in bank fraud, money laundering, and raketeering?
     I'm sure he will be found innocent and he has no influence on his
     wife's business decisions .....Tampa, trying to be a big city

Well, we soon will start 2 year construction on large multi-million
     dollar fish tank ...and *might* have baseball giants next door..soon

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:58:11 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Mama Judith
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              2, 92 9:42 am

	I, for one, thought the contest was an absolute piss!

	I think words-l has forgotten how to laugh at itself (I trace
the problem back to when it was decided how "nice" we all were -- what
an icky word!).


Rita
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      HOW TO SCORE A FF QUIZ
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So, this is the way our independent accounting firm scored
the quiz:
.
If your guess hits the 1st choice of the masses:   4 points
If your guess hits the runner-up choice of the ms: 2 points
--minus 1 point if you name more than one person as your
  choice UNLESS both posters you name are in a TIE for 1st
  or runner-up (that is, if, for hypothetical example, you
  name "-gt or -abh as *most* Obnoxious, I just cant decide",
  and -gt and -abh have tied for 1st place *most* obnoxious,
  then you get the full 4 points.  If -gt has won 1st place,
  you only get 3 points..... is that clear?)
.
Some posters, being cute or excessively ethical, lost some
points by making jokes, being flippant, or refusing to vote
in the "negative-impact" categories.  Tough.  I say tough.
Eat your heart out and next time tell the truth even if it
hurts.
.
So, the winners are soon to be <exposed>, and if you have a
complaint about the scoring methods, you may register said
gripe with Franz and George, who came up with this system.
--ggs (... so glad he didn't cop out in the face of all that
       opposition.....)
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:00:39 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Post WFF blues

> You think it would be fun to be voted the dullest or the most unpleasant?
> You've got an odd sense of fun.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Tell me about it, Natalie, tell me about it.

-MKa
with the post WFF blues.
(Unpleasant?  F**K you all, I'm pleasant.)
:-}
A tie with the Toal House Kooky?!!?  How mortifying.  I'll have to be even
more unpleasant in the future.

;-'
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:45:10 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      re: Tushar's Test

>I trust people realise that the reason for Tushar's great perceptive
>insight into the true identity of Santa Claus is that Tushar is the
>*only* person on the list who knew it wasn't Tushar, and therefore
>had a head start in identifying someone else...

For one, I am one of the few people who know I don't fake mail. Secondly
I am snobbish enough to believe that decieving people by faking addresses
is a pretty stupid thing. Frankly, Virupaksha has more class than anything
which has been ascribed to me.

tushar
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (62)
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>8)Ivory Soap/Austin City Limits - The first is a brand of soap meant to be
>used on humans.  It's free of perfumes and "deoderant" chemicals, and has
>been for close to a century.  The famous claim of the manufacturer is that
>it's 99.44% pure.

	So here's tonight's trivia question...

	What does that 99 and 44 one-hundredths *really* signify?

	Clue:  it has nothing to do with purity.

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