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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:20:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: Gleanings (54)
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>Jill, I hope that your sister would already know if her stuff is in
>the Daily Yomiuri...I mean...royalties and all.

>Karen

Ha, ha, ha, ha!  Diane doesn't get royalties if her stuff is
sent out on the wires and gets picked up.  I don't know the details
of the financial arrangements between the wires and newspapers, but
I do know that she doesn't make anything out of it.  She doesn't
even know when her articles go out on the wires, or if anyone
is reprinting them...or parts of them (the receiving newspapers
can re-edit them before printing them, or just pull pieces if they
want).  When I see them in my local paper I usually let her know,
and if she asks I save them for her or send them to her.

Royalties?...she wishes!

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:10:08 CDT
From:         "Kitty Cat Neurosis Club" <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Guilty as charged
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>WELL, if it wasn't you, it should have been.
>--ggs (thinking it was probably -abh)

It was me, you sweet old <daddy> you.

But I *love* Cousin Lenny, so there!

-abh
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 03:29:23 CDT
From:         Price Caldwell <tpc1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Neighborhood Survey
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Hey Don--

Speaking of neighborhoods, whe you were at a Chevron station, across the
street from a cemetary and across another street from a furniture store,
you were also only two and a half blocks from my house.  How come you didn't
come to see me??

(Don't answer that.)

I'm nevertheless glad to hear you graced our town.  Hope you had an easy
trip home.

--Price
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:07:43 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: bio
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              23 Jul 92 13:21:00 -0500. <9207231722.AA14518@sics.se>

 >Did you write the poems in Swedish and translate, or are they English all the
 >way?  They certainly don't *feel* translated.

  No, I wrote them in English. Since the mid sixties I've made English my
language, and I often find it hard to distinguish (in retrospect) between
English and Swedish. Anyway, for those of you who don't speak Swedish:
English and Swedish are pretty much the same language!
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:24:09 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Idle Thought

Working here with this ancient IBM PC , not AT or XT, but PC (yech), reminded
me that I made sure Joyce noticed that both Dan and Natalie have modern
PC's with Towers! ...although one tower was quite taller than the other.  Oh,
well, maybe someday I'll catch up with the real world.  Meanwhile, Model A's
are reliable.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:45:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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> ggs, just wanted to brag that I once did treat myself - carwise.  Bought
> a late model 55 Cadillac ElDorado convertible ..one with twin four barrel
> carbs, 300 HP (lot for its day) and *REAL* spoke wheels!  I may have
> looked like a dork, but that car sure did draw a lot of admiring glances!
>
> Don, waiting for this third childhood to buy some ridiculous plaything ..
> maybe a restored Panterra!

Don, you baby (that childhood is already here), my wife inherited a
'74 Cadillac ElDorado hardtop about six years ago from her step-
father.  Red leather interior, big big hood, longer than my Porsche,
and elegant white.  We still have it, though it just sits there most
of the time.  Very impressive car, but I feel *really* silly driving
it.  It gets about 12 miles to the gallon.  Approximately.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:21:00 MST
From:         Betty Zaleski <TSBZALESKI@CC.WEBER.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Women in Combat
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Don says:

>along?  These men who are trained to kill or be killed...that the only
>life that matters is your own?  These men for who reality has completely
>lost meaning ...do you women want to fight that way?  Do you really think
>NONE of these men, who are now killing machines, will not rape you?

		note all the violence...

Then signs it...

>                            Peace,
>                                  Don


...........interesting.....         ;)    LJG   tslgilmore@cc.weber.edu
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:04:54 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Which large or unabrdg dictionary ...
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>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>     way behind in mail...  but the shrimp-pasta I made from Judith's
>     recipe was a smashing success...  not as good as it was in Providence,
>     of course, but my guests had no way to know that since they were not
>     lucky enough to taste it in Providence...
Keep making it, Natalie. It wasn't *that* good the first
time *I* made it, either...

love, judith
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:18:00 EDT
From:         "J'aime beaucoup mon Miata" <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Amatuer Sports
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>
> The Ronin
> whitb0@clem.mscd.edu
>
Ohmygoddd!  First ts and then this!  When troubles come they come
not in single file on little cat's feet but in batallions.  I'm
going out for a drive.  I can't take this.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:12:59 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Mud/Irc
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>Why couldn't you just use a colon for self-reference and the appropriate
>English word on IRC?

I learned some time ago that you can just say "/me sleeps furiously"
to make "Dimwit sleeps furiously" appear as an "action" on an IRC channel.

Does this bring IRC "actions" on par with MUD?

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:58:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: Wiz of Oz is a SATANIC PLOT!!
Comments: To: mbx <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

>On Wed, 29 Jul 1992, WERTSJ wrote:
>> It's a problem because it has a *Good* witch, right?
>>
>Someone told me recently that the Girl Scouts have changed the name   theof
>Brownies for just this kind of reason.
>ndh (hoping it isn't so, but pretty sure it is)

The Girl Scouts can't deal with Brownies, and the Boy Scouts can't
deal with gays.  Pretty scary groups...and these are supposed to help
prepare kids for life?

The latest in California on the Boy Scouts is that two major banks
decided to stop making charitable donations to the Boy Scouts, since
they have non-discrimination policies internally, and the Boy Scouts
are therefore an organization which would not allow participation
by all bank employees.  It has caused a big stink, and several large
and small depositors have withdrawn accounts because of it.  Crazy,
eh?  One of them is my bank, and I'm drafting a letter of support for
the policy - I don't want them to only get negative feedback.  What
a crazy world!

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:28:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Vice-Presidential quotes
Comments: To: mbx <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

No, not Quayle-isms, although I do enjoy those, too.

>Rumors abound that George Bush is being pressured to drop Quayle.
> It seems unlikely that he would, but in the climate of the
>possibility, I offer the following quotes for the collective
>amusement:

>        "The Vice Presidency is not a stepping stone to
>         anything but oblivion" -T. Roosevelt

    (more quotes deleted)


>     There are more !
>                                                        Br Paul

Well, Br Paul, I've been waiting...where are they?

I read one recently (can't remember it exactly), but one VP said that
his duties "consisted entirely of inquiring daily into the health of
the president".

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:48:23 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: analog vs. digital

On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:40:36 EDT Karen Kay said:
>> Wow.  I'm not the only person who has an easier time with hands on
>> the clock than with digital clocks.
>
>I think most people are this way.

Most, but I'm not one of them.  I prefer digital clocks and watches
because I'm slightly dyslexic when it comes to analog ones.
>
>Karen

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:36:00 CDT
From:         Bill Sjostrom <TA0WXS1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Speech codes

>Hey, remind me, on or off list, of the name of this gem.  SOMEONE, and I
>think the Pres, from the U of ND is a semifinalist for Pres here at BSU.
>dan

The turkey's name is Kendall Baker.  But he just left for UND in
June, so it is unlikely the SOB has already applied to BSU.  Then
again, maybe he has.  Might be all to the good.  If he hops around
from one university to the next, maybe he won't settle down long
enough to cause any more damage.  And maybe he'll get careless,
inadvertently end up as a college president, and get shot by some
Serb, who will have one less bullet to shoot a civilian.  Cheerful
me, ever the optimist,
                            Bill Sjostrom
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:25:52 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Gopher
              27 Jul 1992 16:27:21 CDT from <fwp@CC.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:27:21 CDT Frank Peters said:

>We are talking about 160ish (and growing at an ever increasing rate)
>megabytes here.  Would anyone really use them enough to justify dedicating
>that much of my disk space to it?

Amazing, isn't it (or should I say 'eh' ?).  All our little WORDS-L
lives fit into a mere 160 megabytes.

I vote for Natalie getting a good sized SCSI disk on her PC, Frank
getting her a permanent IP address, and we'll all just download
from there.

Turning serious for a moment... I'd like to think that whatever
happens to the data, it won't get lost.  I can't volunteer space
for it, but if it's a question of a few bucks for tapes - I'll chip in.

Hmmm - maybe *I* should buy the big disk.

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:08:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Social Security

Karen Kay says:
>I believe that Rita is fundamentally in error when she says
>that ss#s are not to be used for identification.

Well, I just reached into my hip pocket, and on the red, white, and blue card
it says under my signature, "For social security and tax purposes - not for
identification".  Typical.  Bloody Government...  8-(

John "I'll be under an abutment eating Cycle 4 when *I* retire" W.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:58:43 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Delayed reaction: hot water cornbread
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This thread was cut a looong time ago, I know, but since I'm going to make
some of these tonight and finally found the recipe, thought I'd share it.
(I'm sure it can't compare to N-M Cookies.)

Crunchy Fried Corn Cakes

1 1/2 cups yellow corn meal	1 1/2 cups boiling water
3/4 tsp salt			Shortening for frying

 Measure meal into mixing bowl, add salt. Pour boiling water in gradually
and beat as you add to make a smooth batter stiff enough to shape. Mold
neatly into flat oval cakes. Heat 1/3 cup shortening in a 10 inch iron
skillet until sizzling but not smoking hot. Lay cakes in and fry
moderately fast, until under side is a rich golden brown, 3 to 4 min;
don't turn cakes until this rich color develops.  Then brown on other
side. Serve with butter. 8 cakes.

Delicious with beans, and also good with a vegetable plate.

Enjoy,
Slow-Poke Doris
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:24:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: birth order
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>I'll have to go and look it up...I paid closest attention to the first and
>second children,since both my husband and I are from two-child families,
>and have two children, as do each of our siblings.
>ndh

What did it say about second children that made you want to be one?
And does it apply to middle children, or only to second and last
children?

Jill ...a curious middle child...
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:40:41 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Babies and SS Numbers
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1992, Evelyn Duncan wrote:
> Nancy,
>   It's a new Federal rule that all children have SS Numbers.  This is to
> keep people from claiming nonexistant dependents on the tax forms.  I
> read that the number of children declared went down tremendously the first
> year this was in effect.
>
Oh...I knew our high school students had to have them, but didn't realize
it applied to babies, too.  Gee..I never thought about claiming
nonexistent dependents...guess I would not be good at tax fraud.
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:34:48 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (53)
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1992 19:39:52 +0200, torkel@SICS.SE wrote:
>   Ho, Carol! I'm waiting for a real thunderstorm to come this way,
> stepping out on the balcony, watching a vast expanse of sky. Nothing
> yet. It'll come, I'm sure.

We just had it.  I was wearing <those> green shorts and a t-shirt.  It
was like diving in a swimming pool.  We were going to the movies, so
I stripped off in the gents and dried everything under the hot-air
hand drier.  Worked quite well.

G
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:51:05 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: quick answer needed...help
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>What do you call it when you mention something when you say you aren't
>going to....as in....
>
>Rather than saying what a jerk you are, I'll just talk about your good points.


Sorry, I don't know what that's called, but in case there is no answer,
how about using "obvious pun deleted"? Captures the essence beautifully.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:53:28 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: My Mac can do these...
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:54:15 -0500, "Pat Gathright" <patg@TENET.EDU> wrote:
> very moment my Mac is my favorite. I guess I don't understand the
> single-mindedness of some people to think that one machine is superior to
> all others. I guess the beauty of the machine is in the eye of the beholder.

Some of us disdain the Macintrash not because of the interface (some of
the bits they stole from Xerox are quite sensible) but because they're
a bunch of money-grubbing conmen who'd rather pay lawyers than programmers.

npuvpyy yjr nsdystfd@eff

G
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:46:31 CDT
From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: My Mac can do these...
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>Rita,
>  What's wrong with Windows?  I happen to like it:  Microsoft Word is
>much, much better than WordPerfect!

Oh, Evelyn, stop it! You are killing me...let me pick myself back up off the
floor from laughing so hard.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:22:00 EDT
From:         "Jaiske Jydits Yeitsu Miata" <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Almsay irtythay ivefay eventeensay
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> Ordlay, owhay onglay iltsay owthey ooklay onay? Escueray
                      ^^^^^^^^
> aimay olesay omfray erethey estructionsday, aimay arlingday omfray
> eethey aiahnslay.     Almsay irtythay ivefay eventeensay.
> --eegee-essgay   (.....argechay!)

Achemay at-they "iltway", easeplay.  Orrysay.
--eegee-essgay
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:12:00 EST
From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reposting of Something Interesting
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>From:	_IN%"WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu"  "English Language Discussion Group"
 23-JUL-1992 11:56:12.94
>Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1992 19:04:00 EST
>to the list yet, and with my famous 3-week delays, I want to make
>sure it gets out.
>
>--Adam "Look at the pretty batch queues, mama!" H.

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH...........<throws hands up in frustration>

--Adam
founder of Delayed Postings, Inc.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:42:33 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Multiples of 80
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Even outside of DV, XMODEM pauses on all multiples of 80 blocks.  I just
downloaded a virus-scanner after stupidly ending up with it as a file on
Ra with the filename 'a:'.  That was because I ftp'ed it and forgot that
I was ftp'ing from Ra instead of from my own computer.  :-(

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who just triumphed over telephone-phobia and ordered OS/2...

P.S. Now who's gonna tell me exactly how to order more RAM and install it
myself?  I need to get into hardware more.  A neighbor built my computer,
and I've had no need to mess with its guts.  Just about my only hardware
experience has been swapping a modem and videocard between CompuAdd computers
in the office a while back.  Unless you count shaking ashes out of keyboards
as hardware experience.  Oh -- I do know how to yank off keys and mess with
the springs beneath them.  And I know how to make sure everything is plugged
in.
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 11:19:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366"
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Subject:      Re: IRC Night tonight

>       I also tried to telnet to bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu, but it didn't
>       want to have anything to do with me either.  Doesn't anybody like me
>       anymore?        :-(

Don`t worry, we like you.



later

alec
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:56:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: hi

>hi guys

Wouldn't you just know that someone named Prudence would enter here
so . . . well . . . prudently.  mem.
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From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: My Mac can do these...
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              92 1:55 pm

> No.  I like the standard DOS interface.  For multi-tasking I like DESQview.
> The only rival for standard DOS interface is Unix.

	Thanks for the best laugh I've had today!

Czarina
Picking herself up off the carpet.
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From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: Wiz of Oz is a SATANIC PLOT!!
Comments: To: mbx <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

>The Wiz has been (and continues to be) soundly protested by
>some rightwingers (including in a Chicago suburb) because it
>teaches kids about witches and subverts *C*hristianity.
>It's a form of creeping satanism.

It's a problem because it has a *Good* witch, right?

Ok, let's get rid of all fairy tales (I mean, they have
*fairies* in them!), science fiction (well, it might,
and often does, portray a future in which familial
relationships include much more than the nuclear (nu-cu-lar!)
family, or in which robots or computers are *alive*,...), and
anything else which one or more people disagree with.  Now
that that's taken care of, I'm going to settle down with a
good book...hey, wait a minute, what happened to all the books?

>Like Karl Popper said, the worse the logic, the more
>interesting the conclusions.

I like that.

>Jim (But Glenda was a babe, and it enhanced her witching) Thomas

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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