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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (74)
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:49:36 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%93011104004077@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:

> 3) Scoobie Doo (Rita R.)

	Saturday morning cartoon character.  The show consisted of a
group of five "kids" -- like late teens -- running around in their VW
van solving mysteries.  Scoobie Doo is a big, dumb, Great Dane dog who
would get super-scoobie-powers whenever he ate Scoobie Snaks.  The
show used to have celebrity "guest stars" on every show.  At the end
of every show, the caught criminal used to mutter something along the
lines of "And I woulda got away with it, too, if it weren't for them
meddlin' kids!"

	Someday, the cartoon will be considered rich in ph.d. theses
on the 70s counterculture.

"All my heros are cartoon characters."


Mrs. Czarina




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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> >I'll take Entertainment again, and I *don't* want another Aussie
> >question.  The only things I know about A. are Patrick White, On The
> >Beach, kuola bears and kangaroos.
> >--ggs
>
> Well, you're lucky it's not!
>
> "Who said: 'When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better?'"
>
>
Well, I have known all the other answers, but this one?  Can't be
Patrick White, since he is Australian.  Must be either Groucho Marx
or Mae West or Marilyn Monroe or W. C. Fields or Mark Twain.  So, I
will guess that it is===================>
.
          MAE WEST
.
If I'm right, I'll take Art/Literature.
Please let me be right.  This is *so* humbling, this damn game.
Worse than Family Feud.
--ggs
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Words-l TP: Emily's Art/Literature Question
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>Re: El Greco - now you know why I may not get that job at the Getty.... :(
>
>Emily

Happens to the best of us. I'm still hoping that you do get the job though.
I'm logging off now, so there will be no more from me until the early hours
of your morning.

Carolyn
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      We who are about to die . . .

It's been a harrowing day, friends, out there in the dog eat dog world of
copyediting-l:  flamed by people who don't know and <love> me; scorched and
singed by the lingweenies.  I have crawled back here to die by friendly fire.

Please--save me from the new-age sensitive copy editors.  Finish me off.  I am
yours.

-K

-Mka
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:56:06 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Orleans
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> >The weekend that's a little over six weeks after Mardi Gras.  :-)
> ooooooops....try a little UNDER six weeks....like 40 days....

Ur, uh, on my calendar it's a little OVER six weeks from Mardi Gras to
Easter...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dual Croning on 19 March
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> say within five thousand miles of the place - I will certaintly show up.

Hmmmmm.  As soon as Bernardykins wakes up, he's going to look carefully
at the globe to double-check my sense of miles.  (He used to be scared of
the globe, but I think he has finally outgrown that fear.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Michael E. Macmillan)
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>>   What is First Cav?
>
>The First Cav is the U.S. First Cavalry Division, an armored division.

I agree that the reference is probably to the 1st Cavalry Division,
but I don't think it's an armored division, unless that is a
relatively recent change.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:34:15 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Three-key Sequence Nonsense
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:> I was thinking later about the fact that I've never been intimate with an
:> IBM (actual brand) keyboard.
:> Never mind, your moment will come...

:Why?

Because all good things come to those who wait...

G
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:51:19 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Scoobie Doo (was Re: Gleanings (74)
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        Next time I get an invite and the time is right!  (I need a little extra
        time allowance for getting lost)

Well, keep your fingers crossed; you never who who might invitation you.

G
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: WORDS-L TP: Judge's decision and next question

>"What war added 'jeep' and 'quisling' to the English language?"
>

Ol' WW II

>Rolled a 6 for you, so you can now choose Sport, Entertainment or roll again,

Sport, please.

-K

-Mka
Btw, the first snippet was not fiction but a story about a woman jogging through
the Himalayas.

Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in North America, btw.  On the Snake, I
think.  It's *not* the Grand One.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:24:23 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: The burning fiery furnace

>  As in The Wizard of Oz (the movie). I saw a recent sequel on TV the
>other night, and it was surprisingly good. Quite creepy beginning,
>with Dorothy about to undergo electroshock therapy to rid her of her
>fantasies.

  -Places in the Heart- has a powerful storm-cellar scene as a tornado
  hits the small Texas town in which the movie is set.  Danny Glover
  barely makes it into the dugout with a child before the full fury of
  the storm.

  One of the most awful tornadoes in terms of loss of life hit Tupelo,
  Mississippi in 1936 or so.  People who experienced it often have
  these storm cellars in their backyards.  My 91-year-old grandmother
  calls hers "the stormhouse," and it is -- a concrete-block bunker
  that she keeps moderately well provisioned.  Despite her age, she
  still calls on family members to go with her to the stormhouse whenever
  a "bad cloud" comes up.

  brad
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Words-l Meets Real Life
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:33:12 GMT

In article <boswell-060193102112@gerard.eff.org> boswell@well.sf.ca.us (Gerard Van der Leun) writes:

>This is *from* RISKS. What did happen?  Especially after he was charged
>with negligible conduct.

	You *will* unsubscribe immediately, buster.  I don't hang on
wierd, you don't hang on words-l.

	The nerve.




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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Silence...
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> > Hello Doris.  I thought premature senility was the province of us younger
> > types.  Guess not.:-)
> > --
> I think I've got a corner on this particular market - haven't noticed
> anyone else exhibiting signs of senility.  Even brother giggles is only
> forgetful in a convenient way.
>
> doris

But it is *so* convenient, like when I am listening to my tc/sw tell
me about all the things I have *not* <done>.  I just say.....
"Uhhhhh, did you ask me to do that?  Uhhhhh......"
And my kids just roll their little eyes.
--ggs
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:11:12 GMT
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In a previous article, AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior) says:

>It's been a harrowing day, friends, out there in the dog eat dog world of
>copyediting-l:  flamed by people who don't know and <love> me; scorched and
>singed by the lingweenies.  I have crawled back here to die by friendly fire.
>
Where's La Pig when we need her?!

>Please--save me from the new-age sensitive copy editors.  Finish me off.  I am
>yours.
>
Go crawl into your coffin, Ausbrook; it'll save someone else the work.
Once you're there, order out, eat Domino's and die!  Your momma wears
combat boots and likes it!  You eat Pizza Hut and like *that*!

Eat cold death, you purple slime!

[there - David Gerrold was useful for something after all]

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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 11 Jan 1993 04:58:51 GMT
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In a previous article, karsten@netcom.com (karsten) says:

>> What's he got?  Leather magazines?:-)  I've always preferred GQ and Details
>> to Playgirl anyway...as well as certain Absolut ads....
>
>Would you like the same magazine I sent abh and dan?  There is an
>Absolut ad on the back cover...
>
Actually, I was referring to one particular Details spread.... [guy wearing
custom cowboy boots - bright blue w/Absolut bottles, and nothing else]....
>
>(And an ad for the "How to Female Ejaculate" video inside the front
> cover)
>
Sounds interesting, actually.
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Lodgepole pine
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  What is it?
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: And then the naked ladies came
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harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) writes:
> GT bought tabloids "so you can get a balanced view of the news." These
> things are just filled with naked models. I found myself mouthing the name
> "Karsten" again and again...

Damn.  She claimed that the photographs were for her portfolio.

Now I'll never be Miss America.

--karsten
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Gilbert's Art/Literature Question
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I'm so excited that I finally *got* one that all I can think of
as Dennis the Menace's dog is
==============================================::
                                              ::
                                              ::
                                              \/
.
                                             SPOT
.
Obviously I have missed this one, but if I am by some outside
chance, correct, I will ask for
.
HISTORY
--ggs
From: harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell)
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1993, Andy Lester wrote:

> I just thought of something: So many people have been sending me mail
> thanking me for sending the updates, and it's really no big deal, but I
> just realized that I've only had this Internet stuff set up for about a

There's just something so Words-L-ish about this post...;-)

-abh
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Waiting in Dallas
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> Jan 30, 1992.

Are you sure about the date?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Doris Cracks A Funny
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> > > Huh??  what membership, and how does one lose it?  (oh, do you mean losing
> > > net access?)
> > >
> > > -rashmi
> >
> > No, I mean giggles losing his <member> ship.
> > doris
>
  I just cannot *believe* that doris said this.  I certainly hope I
  didn't read this.  I just never in all my life.
  this may win the prize as the cleverest response in this little
  game that is *sure* to make the W-LWD.
  --ggs
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Emily's Art/Literature Question
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:50:11 GMT

Can I have a history question, plz?  Merci.

--Aaron


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From:         Emily Horning <IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Carolyn's Science/Nature Question

> The only 'meter' that comes to mind is the 'odometer' so that's my answer,
> although I would have thought it had been around longer than that.

Nope. It was the parking meter.

> I'll take Geography next if that's right.

Pray that you roll a four or five next time. :)

> Carolyn

Emily
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: John's Geography Question

Is it too late to say, "Indian Ocean"?  That is, what the Tigris and
Euphrates empty into?  On the odd chance I'm right I'll take Literature...
(Sorry I'm messing up the game, guys.  This morning I got The Call, and had
the duty of telling my friend her father had finally succumbed to his wounds.
In a way it was a relief, but emotions are still running at flood tide.  The
chief of police even called up with his condolences - ain't that something?)
Anyway, I appreciate your tolerance and sympathy.  Thank you.

JMW
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Silence...

Ken,
  We're having a "False Spring" here, too.  It feels like March outside:
cool, windy, and moist.  Temperatures are to be in the 50's today.

Evelyn
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
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              Rouvalis" at Jan 11, 93 5:22 pm

> >tie the knot!  Why does Rita detest new poster Gerard van der Leun so?
>
>         He ees my boss, man.


Czarina, you're on-line!!  How did the big day go?  How does it feel
to be hitched?

-rashmi
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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              12 Jan 1993 10:09:29 EST from <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

>>"What city did Adolf Hitler plan to rename Germania?"
>
>I should know this. It must be one he never got to, probably either Moscow or
>London. I will say London. No, strike that, Moscow. He had respect for other
>Germanic peoples, but not Slavs at all, and would probably have wanted to
>obliterate such slavicisms and reinforce the the demise of those nasty little
>eastern people (although, of course, with a latin word).

  When I read this question, I said "Ah, Berlin" and forgot about it.  But
  Blomberg's reasoning makes sense.  I'll be interested to know the answer.

  Before I gave it away for Christmas, I read the relatively new what-if-
  Hitler-had-won-the-war novel, -Fatherland-.  A murder mystery set in 1964
  Berlin.  Hitler has done lots of things to the city, including building
  a Great Hall of the People so vast that it has its own weather inside.
  But he has not renamed the city.  Hmmmmm......

brad
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> Nancy, a friend asked me back before Christmas about the words to the
> childhood song "Goober Peas", which I had never heard of.  He claimed there
> was something in them about a Confederate general being reassured because
> his troopers were eating goober peas.  I told him that this question was
> too insignificant to bother Words-L about!  But, now that you've brought
> it up....
>
> brad

I submit, from experience, that *nothing* is too insignificant to
bother Words-L about, unless maybe it has to do with <gt>'s knack
for screwing up the .gif capabilities of .ra.
--ggs
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Subject: Re: News from a newly
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              Jan 5, 93 6:55 pm

> But that was surely before the Miata, and my memory is gone, anyway.
> Do you talk funny now that you've been in MOE?

yeah, have you spoken to your mom recently, Anne?  what did she have to say
about your accent?

-rashmi
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: John's Science/Nature Question
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>"What was a gatling gun?"   Bwah-hah-hah!!!!!!!  Boy, did you ever ask the
>wrong dude THAT question!!!!!  First off, it's capitalized, as Doctor Gatling
>(DDs) was a personal noun rather than someone who gattled in his spare time.

Sorry if I offended you.... that was my typo - so eager to proffer an easy
question to you, it slipped by me.

>What do you want to know?  That it was an early example of a "machine gun"?

Whoa! That's enough.... the earliest form of machine gun, it says on the card.

Talk to you again in Round 3.

Carolyn
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1993, Graham Toal wrote:

> It's not a silent h, pillock.  urgh is a morpheme which is pronounced /uru/.
> What we have here is ignorance of your own history and an inability to tell
> the difference between place names of Scottish origin and of German origin.
>
> The 'spelling prescriptivists' were anything but. Spelling ignoramuses more
> like.

Yes!  I remember getting in trouble in 4th grade social studies because I
insisted it was pronounced "ed-in-bur-ah" instead of "ed-in-burg."

Actually, since Edinburg, Texas is missing the important h for correct
Gaelic pronunciation, maybe we could say that the one here is "ed-in-burg"
and the real one (no offense, Anne) is "ed-in-bur-ah."

Just a thought...

Actually, this puts me in mind of an incident that happened last month and
I have since been meaning to mention on here:  I have always, when
addressing mail overseas, put the name of whatever country to which I am
sending the mail in the language of that country when I knew it.
Furthermore, my father has cousins in Dublin who always write the country
as "Eire" on their letters, so I have always followed that example when
sending mail to them.  Well, when I went to get my two overseas Yule cards
posted (one to the U.K. and one to Eire), the clerk made me cross off
"Eire" and put "Ireland" instead, claiming that it all had to be in English.

Has anyone else found this to be the case?  I have sent mail overseas many
times and I have always put Eire on letters to these folks and never had a
problem until now.  Aside from my irritation at having to ruin my nice
red-inked calligraphy with scummy black ballpoint, I am wondering if this
is standard, or just some postal clerk who doesn't get out much and thinks
that Dublin is next to Edinburgh (or even Edinburg).

'Sides, I'm running out of countries in Europe to which I know the current
name in their language, so this was an insignificant yet meaningful source
of personal pride.

> G

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