HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Subject: Re: Collected Wisdom of the Construction Industry
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:18:35 GMT

In <BxyAB8.AsL@rice.edu> caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL) writes:

>However, unbeknownst to the average citizen, construction workers are also
>natural philosophers.  They have accumulated a store of wit and wisdom that
>serves them in good stead in their line of work -- particularly when they
>are installing 5/8" sheetrock.

>Here, collected together for your edification, is some of the timeless
>wisdom of our noble friends in the girders.

[...]

>college got me a better life,
>HWRNMNBSOL

Yeah.  Me too.

"Okay, who stole my fucking Twinkies?"

"HEY!  ASSHOLE!  That's *MY* coffe cup!"

"Hey, you catch _Star Trek_ ?  Where do they get those babes...."

"Oh, man -- I'm halfway through this driver, and I gotta take a shit."

"Aw, fuck -- twelve instructions, fifteen instructions; who's gonna give 
a shit?"

"WHERE THE FUCK IS MY PAYCHECK?!!!!"

-- 
ben							*****
fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu					***
Do not go gentle into that good night!			   ****   *
Rage, rage against the dying of the light! - DT	     ****    	   **************
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: Short Shamefull Physics
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:38:04 CST


In article <1992Nov17.155518.22381@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey) writes:
> 5150 (echeverr@scf.usc.edu) wrote:
> : In article <sf1xZhq00aw4QgymAU@andrew.cmu.edu> Mark Joseph Delano <md4y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:                                          ^^^^^^
> : 
> : .... Delano???
> : 
> : 
> : 5150
> : you've got some `splainin' to do, ajd
> 
> Oh, really?  Mr. Nepotism himself?  Tell me that's not your brother I see in
> alt.callahans.
> 
> Mind you, if I could get my brother onto talk.bizarre I would.  Seriously.

My brother just voluntarily relinquished quite excellent Usenet access.

Too sexy for t.b.
From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: pool
Date: 24 Nov 1992 04:35:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu



>Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
>From: davewood@piper.cs.colorado.edu (David Rex Wood)
>Subject: POOL - Season Standings -- CORRECTED
>Date: Mon Nov 23 14:29:43 1992

Key:    +Pts = Correct Weighted Points
        -Pts = Incorrect Weighted Points
           W = Correct Picks
           L = Incorrect Picks
          WK = Number of Weeks in Pool
          80 = Number of Weeks >= 80 Points

Pos  Ini +Pts -Pts Pct      W   L Pct    WK 80 Fav Team   Real Name
==============================================================================
  1. bap  823  277 0.7482 101  39 0.7214 11  4 Bills      Bart Pricola
 16. jgh  722  278 0.7220  89  37 0.7063 10  3 Packers    John Heim
135. huk  753  347 0.6845  91  49 0.6500 11  4 Cardinals  Ralph Kennedy

NOT QUALIFIED
-------------
Pos  Ini +Pts -Pts Pct      W   L Pct    WK 80 Fav Team   Real Name
==============================================================================
 51. ZtP  574  226 0.7175  66  33 0.6667  8  2 ???        Zippy T. Pinhead
129. bcs  403  197 0.6717  46  27 0.6301  6  0 Chiefs     Damian Jackson
-- 
=======================
"Endeavor to persevere"
=======================
From: mha1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL H. ALAIMO)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Short Shameless Sucking Up...
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:03:03 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <107.2B106327@business.fidonet.org>, Darrell.Cadwallader@f363.n363.z1
.fidonet.org (Darrell Cadwallader) writes:

> But, by using process of elimination, I scan the headers from an
>author I *alway* find funny.
>Unfortunately, it looks like Arpee White took the day off.

rp's been on quite a creative roll lately.  But then again, I read the Racing
Form.









---
-- 

 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
: MIKE ALAIMO        :
: Brain Surgeon      :    A couple SANGWICHES(tm)
: Rocket Scientist & :       shy of a picnic
: General Neophyte   :
 .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Kindred spirits (Vegans)
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:33:49 GMT

rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:

>In article <TOMF.92Nov17194712@ai.gte.com> tomf@gte.com writes:
>>Way over in REC.FOOD.VEG:
>>>   This is not a flame, just a plea - the correct spelling is "Gandhi"

>>I keep hearing "Jesus H. Christ".  His middle initial was T.

>No, its F
>as in Jesus Fucking Christ
>-rob, see ya in hell

I always prefered "Jesus Butt-Fucking Christ" myself.

But then again, I was raised agnostic.

-- 
Rowan T. Hamilton                         "To dig this is to groove on
hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu                   hella shit."
hamilton@fnald.fnal.gov                   - casey@wackenhut.com
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley)
Subject: brilliant idea for new product
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:23:16 GMT

A laptop computer powered by fuel cells.

Mark.
gooley@netcom.com
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: deep sleep
Keywords: bork bork bork
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 15:33:16 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

biggles@next02wor.wam.umd.edu (David "Dave" Smolar) writes:
> -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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> `

I don't know whether I ought to admit it, but I immediately pasted some
appropriate incantations at the beginning and end, fed it through uudecode,
recognized the result was RTF, and loaded it into Word for Windows.

I still think it's fucking inconsiderate to waste bandwidth on headerless
uuencoded RTF just for the benefit of those few who have a NeXT.  So now I
have a new .signature.  Do tell me how it comes out.


mathew
-- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting --
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From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: leather
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:18:09 GMT
Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Organization: SGI TechPubs

---
Lance bought me Doc Martens for my birthday,  the tall lace-up 
kind.   He got them in black.  Today I am wearing a white mock 
turtle shirt, a mostly-black Guatemalan vest, faded jeans, and 
black Doc Martens.   Add the motorcycle jacket, and you have a 
fine outfit for walking around downtown Los Altos, which I did 
at lunch today.  Los Altos, for you non-SF-Bay-Area people, is
full of boutiques & hairdressers marketed at women who married
lawyers in the 50s and think that their  Jag-u-ars should take
the right-of-way at all intersections.

I stopped at the Peet's there.  I bought a pound of beans, the 
Viennese Blend and a huge black mug.

The problem with the Doc Martens-- to get back to the topic of
boots and leather, and off the topic of Los Altos--  is laces.
It takes me five minutes to put them on.   They look great, of
course.  They look babe-acious, though Lance doesn't think so,
even though he gave them to me.  The other problem is the seam
where that long tongue meets the upper.   The seam has a ridge
on the inside of the boot, a ridge that leaves a nice red welt 
across the top of my foot.  The soles are bouncey, though. And
they are great for motorcycling, though the leather is thinner
than totally optimal.

Please notice how nicely the above paragraphs are adjusted.

---
c j silverio
From: dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Rictus Hep meets the ghost of William Burroughs, part XIX
Date: 24 Nov 92 04:38:02 GMT
Organization: Manumission:  The Campus Men's Forum

"Ciao!  I'm dancing the fiasco in the St. Vitus burn unit.  You can't
count on my help!  Sure I could make this all simple for you, I could
straighten it all out, even the straight, but what's in it for you?" 
And just as quickly as that he was born.  Marilyn, too.
From: andrewc@spider.co.uk (Andrew Cannon)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: short, shamefilled confession
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:41:02 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK.

In article <TOMF.92Nov14084233@ai.gte.com> tomf@gte.com writes:
>
>L. Stewart -- IS Office 1058 (lstewart@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
>> I have done it on the roof of a moving bus.
> 
>I have ruined my knees doing it in elevators.

I just had an erotic thought about the paper shredding machine and it did'nt
make me wince.

Maybe I've been without a girlfriend for far too long.


-- 
|      Andy Cannon       | Sweater, n:                                   |     
| Misplaced Yorkshireman |            A garment worn by a child when its |     
|   Spider Systems Ltd   | mother feels chilly.                          |     
|  andrewc@spider.co.uk  |                     ......And Still the Moon  |
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: All-Time Koolest Film Star Name
From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
Date: 20 Nov 92 19:07:43 GMT

Darrell.Cadwallader@f363.n363.z1.fidonet.org (Darrell Cadwallader) writes:

>caz@owlnet.rice.edu (HWRNMNBSOL) writes:
> 
>H> "Yaphet Kotto"
> 
>"Wings Hauser" 

How about "Red Wings Hauser"?
-- 
Rowan T. Hamilton                         "To dig this is to groove on
hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu                   hella shit."
hamilton@fnald.fnal.gov                   - casey@wackenhut.com
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.butt.harp
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: RICHH'S URINAL SELECTION TIPS
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 17:59:51 GMT

richh@netcom.com (richh) writes:

> [ . . . ]
>     2)  If that urinal is taken, choose whichever urinal has the
>freshest mint to aim at.
		  ^^^^

The proper term here is "I.U.D.".   Think about it.

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mark schnitzius           |  seeking guitar songbook for the
schnitzi@eola.cs.ucf.edu  |  clash's "london calling".  does
univ. of central florida  |  one even exist?  will pay top $
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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: 5000 quatloos
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:37:43 GMT
Organization: NCAR/UCAR

In article <joshua.722114599@coombs>, joshua@coombs.anu.edu.au (Joshua Geller) writes:
> to anyone who names their daughter 'fellatia'.

Not unlikely, and possibly has already happened.  In a world with
people named Malice (Green, recent victim of alleged police brutality)
and Bimbo (Coles, basketball player), can Fellatia be far behind?

-- 
/\     There may be honor among thieves, but there's none among politicians.
  \_][ <--NCAR Ilana Stern dod#009 r.b. cliff swallow ilana@ncar.ucar.edu    
      \______________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: mlegare@wetware.com (Dr. Robert (BoB) Tech)
Subject: Re: Short Shameful Girlfriend
Organization: Cappo Ferra 6
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:22:19 GMT

gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Craig Shergold) writes:

] Dit kahn@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy S Kahn):
] )  Heh.. I'm only 4'10"...  -- ASK
] 
] It's probably correlated;  I've never met an Amy over 5'0" tall.              g
] ___
] Small samples.



Ami Geiger Legare:  5' 3/4"


so there

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:55:35 GMT

mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Mark-Jason Dominus") writes:

>    Sometimes I play a phone book game: I pick a first name and try to
>find someone in the phone book with that name.  You don't want to pick
>`John', of course; that would be too easy.  

I wanna party with you, cowboy.

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mark schnitzius           |  seeking guitar songbook for the
schnitzi@eola.cs.ucf.edu  |  clash's "london calling".  does
univ. of central florida  |  one even exist?  will pay top $
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From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Blood Clot Boy)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: leather
Date: 18 Nov 1992 05:42:42 GMT
Organization: The International House of Secretions
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1ec4uoINN9hv@uwm.edu> terri@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (St Theresa of the Net) writes:
*In article <sf1r95g@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes:
*>I stopped at the Peet's there.  I bought a pound of beans, the 
*>Viennese Blend and a huge black mug.
*
*Oh, good one, ceeej. ya gotta get a huge black mug. I refer to mine either
*as the Swimming Pool of Coffee or my Security Mug.
*
*It is my friend, and when I drink coffee from my Huge Black Mug, i am
*competent, serene, and in control of whatever baboons i'm temping for.

I still want your cave newt mug.

I checked the bookstore and they don't have any.  I might even start
drinking coffee if I had a cave newt mug.


Mark "Wistfully" Lippert
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: just curious
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:48:47 CST


In article <1992Nov16.155912.27459@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mneeley@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark Neeley) writes:
> 
> What's the scientific name for eye gunk?

"qux".
From: slqmr@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: where are the vampires??
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:26:36 MDT
Organization: Utah State University




As I sat contemplating issues of no moral value, I came to the conclusion that
for things to reach a point of no return, they must first be interesting yet
dangerous to an extent. Therefore, the snail said to the igloo, "Where the hell
is the cheese dip?".
From: tomf@gte.com (Tom Fawcett)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: short, shamefilled confession
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:26:54 GMT
Reply-To: tomf@gte.com
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.
In-reply-to: tomf@gte.com's message of 14 Nov 92 13:42:33 GMT


> L. Stewart -- IS Office 1058 (lstewart@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
> > I have done it on the roof of a moving bus.
>  
> I have ruined my knees doing it in elevators.


I have suffered persistent moss infections from doing it under waterfalls.

I have risked death and mutilation from predators while doing it at a
full run on the Serengeti plain.

I have done it deep inside an unused liquid oxygen tank within NASA's Vehicle
Assembly Building; backstage in the electrician's booth of the Met during a
rehearsal of King Lear; underneath the hang of a peat bog on the Isle of Skye
in a rain storm while goats licked my feet; on the tin roof of a telegrapher's
shack by the Amazon, the metal so heated by the sun that I had long burns on
my back for days.

I give myself completely to philately.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: oxymoron
From: mike@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Cosmik Debris)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:59:29 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

In article <7941@skye.ed.ac.uk>, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
> 
> 
> Napier University
> 
> 
> Ken Johnson

Fun Run

-- 
Cosmik Debris -- "I owe money, therefore I am"
From: annie@canetoad.UUCP (Annie)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: A quote looking for a context
Distribution: world
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:03:24 EDT
Organization: The Satellite of Love

In article <1e5125INNmjp@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano) writes:

"Boiydejeezus," wheezes old Kemp the janitor, "them edit-ting boiys shore
do make a mess outta these scripts 'fore they steart filming."

(Reaches a fist into the waste basket, holds paper up to the light, squints.)

"Lemme see. 'Apocalypse Noiw' it says."

(Flips through the pages, pauses at one crossed out line.)

>"Don't burn down the bridge until i'm back from the porta-pottie."

"Boiydejeezus."

Annie
--
Accent brought to you courtesy of the Northeast Kingdom.

...uunet!canetoad!annie                          canetoad!annie@uunet.uu.net

Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:38179 alt.prose:1523
From: echeverr@scf.usc.edu (5150)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: One line bio
Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:01:08 -0800
Organization: <censored>
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu


Stop me if you've heard this before.

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
Subject: Re: Actual Dan Quayle Interview
Originator: jcarroll@ferris
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 19 Nov 92 09:45:29 CST


In article <shosqg4@zola.esd.sgi.com>, cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
> 
> In article <28172@castle.ed.ac.uk>, damianj@castle.ed.ac.uk writes:
> |>cj writes:
> |>>I follow-up my own post to bring you this breathless update: Lance
> |>>summarizes Maddi as:
> |>>	Fucking Princeton Mensa Wank
> |Are we using "Mensa" in the sense of "pseudo-intellectual worm"?
> 
> Is there any other use?


Since this followup has now been posted in essentially the same form
by three people, I hereby petition the t.b cabal to declare it an
Official Talk.Bizarre Catchphrase.
From: grendel@canetoad.UUCP (Rage y Romance)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Low self esteem
Distribution: world
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:54:19 EDT
Organization: The Satellite of Love

In article <1992Nov23.073350.4234@dsd.es.com> rjones@itchy.dsd.es.com (Ray Jones - Perp) writes:
>
>I must kill myself.
>
>Yesterday, I went to see _Malcom_X_.  A thoroughly good film, which I
>recommend to everyone.  However, it has pointed out to me that I am
>evil, since I am white.  I am also blonde.  

Well get too it! 
None of this pussyfooting around.
Once you've admitted you have a problem you have to be a man,
suck it up and do the right thing.

I have no joke, I just like saying, "pussyfooting".
 
--
"...Sometimes piecing together ideas | ...uunet!canetoad!grendel
 as though making a collage cut      | canetoad!grendel@uunet.uu.net
 from a magazine. Hoping that my     |------------------------------
 random non sequiturs will appear as great intellectual leaps.           
 Which, of course, they do." Joe Frank's Work in Progress "Iceland"
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
From: bc@apple.com (bill coderre)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Short Melrose Prediction
Date: 22 Nov 92 09:30:28 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA


I want to go on record as predicting that Jo what's-her-name will turn
out to be a LEZ-BE-AN and end up sleeping with, like, what's her name
there. The one with CJ's haircut.

mr HEINOUS
hates the show, but watching it anyway
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: kelley@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Stephen Kelley)
Subject: Re: Whatever happened to Amy S. Kahn?
Organization: S. Peter Pryor Junior College
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:18:21 GMT

In article <By0By5.Myt@fulcrum.co.uk> igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
- 
- I went into Stacey's in Palo Alto and bought a copy of the perl book,

IS THAT THE ONE BY STEINBECK, OR THE ONE FROM 
GROVE PRESS?

BIFF
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Angel of Sleet")
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Asymmetry
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:04:42 GMT
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom


I bought a facsimile of the 1777 Britannica last week.

The 1777 Britannica was originally published in three volumes:

	Volume 1:  A-B
	Volume 2:  C-L
	Volume 3:  M-Z

If you want to hypothesize, please don't make any of the obvious hypotheses.

p.s. this is all true
--

	 The worst thing in the world is when records are destroyed
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu 

Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:38565 sci.chem:4684
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,sci.chem
Subject: Re: should be taken only on the advice of a physician
Date: 18 Nov 1992 16:02:21 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
NNTP-Posting-Host: grissom.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1992Nov18.141202.12713@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
>
>     The sugar (dextrose) is not the major flavouring.  Sodium cyclamate
>is much sweeter than sucrose and it contributes most of the sweetness.
>The dextrose is there as a filler.  Have you ever noticed how little
>stuff there is in one of those artificial sweetener packets?  If you only
>left the 33% of it that was cyclamate, it would seem really strange to
>the average consumer.  ("Hey!  I got ripped off!  There's almost nothing
>in here!")  If the dextrose were the major source of sweetness, the
>caloric value of Sugar Twin would be virtually identical to that of
>sucrose.  (Dextrose is, after all, just a fancy name for glucose.
>Sucrose is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose.)  I presume that the
>sand (silicon dioxide) is there as a byproduct of the industrial process
>that produces and refines cyclamates.

Close.  The silicon dioxide is there to prevent clump formation, and to
keep the mixture from sticking to the side of the mixing equipment in 
higher humidities.  
--scott
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: scrabble variants
Date: 16 Nov 1992 16:36:08 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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In article <schnitzi.721927184@eola.cs.ucf.edu> schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius) writes:
|fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton) writes:
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|>In <8713@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> sho@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
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|>>sho@physics.purdue.edu <<-- fifty seven points for "qux" on a
|>>                            triple word space
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|Can someone tell me what that word means?

"I don't care what it is, and I don't care where it comes from.  It's
drooling on my floor samples, and I want it OUT."

c
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From: croth@scott.skidmore.edu (catherine roth)
Subject: Re: Lunch
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:22:46 GMT

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