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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 13:49:10 CDT
From:         aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Re: hi, y'all
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>This looked like a fitting title for me to make my grand re-entrance to Words.
>I missed this a lot over the summer. How are you all doing?

Lisa,

We had a little party on Pdence. That was after we had a <great big
misunderstanding> with another list. Then we all came back to our machines
after the party and proved that cannibalism can exist in the virtual world.
Other than that, not much happening here. You?

-abh
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      RE: Re[2]: A taxonomy of humor
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:10:48 EST, "Entropy Warrior" <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
 wrote:
> Speaking of prescriptivism, read Fowler on will/shall.  It's a
> scream.  (I shall/we shall=you/he/she/they will and vice versa.
> Then in the conditional it gets very cute, not to mention
> indirect discourse, where you use the form the original speaker
> would (should?) have used.)

I'm exempt from all that on religious grounds - I'm Scottish.
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:43:18 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Geophagy
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> I've read that there were (are still?) places in the South where a fresh
> bank of clay had been exposed by, say, earth-moving equipment, that one
> could observe little pockmarks where balls of clay had been spooned out
> for consumption.

I'm not sure about the exposing of pockmarked clay, but I'm pretty sure
that some people in Mississippi still eat dirt/clay.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
Subject: Personal to Carol
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 17:47:22 GMT
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Carol, do clear your throat.
There are few things less appealing than a woman whom seems as if she's 
perpetually trying to hock up a loogie(sp?).

RICHH
--helpful

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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:33:04 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (58
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Posted on 7 Sep 1992 at 13:36:20 by torkel@SICS.SE
>  Karen babbles:
Hey! Watch it!

>  >Okay, I'll buy this.  But...why is Bertie not a mindless twit?  He would
>  >certainly be more of one w/ out Jeeves, but he definitely still is one!
>
>  You have a strange notion of a "mindless twit"! What is your evidence for
>this bizarre claim?

For one, that he would be even moreso w/ out Jeeves. The man can't function.
(Why am I doing this? I haven't read these books since 1980! But I can't
let the world think that Bertie Wooster is anything *more* than a mindless
twit, because he isn't!!!)

Karen
who *NEVER* babbles or cackles, or does anything that ends in -les, more's
the pity
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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:Something just occurred to me.  I thought abh was a staunch hater of
:usenet.  Why the desire for it now?  Masochism or an interest in observing
:the enemy culture?
:   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Ah, but now she can get news on *a Mac* which makes all things Truly Wonderful.

G
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 13:13:16 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Deconstruction
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On Sun, 13 Sep 1992, Gilbert Smith wrote:

> I'm sorry, I'm too old to understand any of this deconstruction of the
> text.

Someone tell me what the difference between deconstruction and "picking
apart" is.

Pomo-ically yours,
-abh
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Story to make ABH wanna marry me #2
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1992, richh wrote:

> ok, but what if it's a girl?
>
> RICHH

Your suggestion, not mine.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:21:46 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Family Tree
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 >
> > This is lovely, Gilbert, but I thought we were *cousins*...I think it's
> > Natalie who's your other sister.  Unless, of course, there's an
> > *inheritance* involved. :-)
>
> Right.  Giggles is my blood uncle.
>                         o/.\____/
>          -- Bernard      \______|
>                          / \  / \

Bernard, I don't know about you, but I can hardly wait for my little blue
Miata to arrive...I'm sure Uncle Giggles would want me to have one.
ndh
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Family Tree
Date: 10 Sep 1992 04:11:56 GMT
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Well, first.....  you have to learn how to read these family charts.
And how to ignore them.:-)  They're generally better off ignored, especially
when dealing with these old southern families...

>But, I think that they actually *do* that sort of thing in the old
>country where <ts> comes from....  or is that somewhere else?  I
It's a lot of places.  I think Tushar's old homestead allows it, and if not
the whole clan probably moved to one of the Arab states.
>get confused, and certainly wouldn't want to <misalign> him, since
This is not too unusual, in this family.

>The knee, dear sis, is congenitally defective, I'm afraid....
>Which knee is it?
Now I **know** I must fit into this tree somewhere.  Mine's the left one.
Actually, they do run in my [official] biological family too, in three 
generations that I know of.  Still, we must be some sort of cousins.

-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:09:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Prof. Smith's Fiction
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> What's going on here? Is this a feud between the library and "Prof. Smith"?
> Or maybe this post is the sort of promotional stunt which assures that
> readers who otherwise may not have read said  "fiction" would now feel
> compelled to go and read every last syllable - sort of- along the
> lines of banning books to make them sell?
>
>
> Agnes (who is definitely NOT a ghost)

Well, I *never*!  To even suggest that anyone would pull such a
devious stunt is something that I, for one, simply cannot *phanthom*!
--ggs (at <loggerheads> with the whole library staff over this....)
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:59:56 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
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Posted on 11 Sep 1992 at 21:50:15 by Graham Toal
>I remember in my Dutch class that our teacher would ask someone how
>to phrase some construct.  They'd answer.  She'd nod.  She'd go on
>to ask every other student who would give a similar answer.  Only after
>she'd heard them all did she say they were all wrong.  And say that it
>was something so basic no-one should have got it wrong.  In fact, if

*BAD* pedagogical practice!  You merely reinforce the incorrect information.

Karen
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              92 11:11 pm

> My only request is, if my <tc/sw> turns up at any of these
> wordsler reunions, everyone *please* act as if you never heard
> of her, *please*!!!   I beginning to think that I am IRTN.

	"Oh, so *you're* the tc/sw!  We've heard so much... I mean,
uh, why we never suspected that handsome giggilo was attached.. I
mean, uh.  Well, you know!"

Rita
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In-reply-to: Akio Tanaka's message of Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:03:00 JST

Akio requests enlightenment:

   Akio Tanaka/7 Sep 92
   ====================
    1) Studs/Bedroom Buddies/Love Connection/Love American style (Anne Hy./Rita)

Studs/Bedroom Buddies are latenight Fox channel entertainment--Rita would
undoubtedly say, "For the weak-minded."  Not your PBS specials by any
means.  

Love Connection--80's style Dating Game where couple goes on date paid for
by t.v. show and then get to publicly discuss said date in front of
millions of home viewers.  Needless to say, it can get pretty hilarious.
Oh yeah, biggest difference b/t it and Studs is that a *NO SEX* rule exists
on LC and not necessarily on Studs.  Because Studs does not actively
enforce a *NO SEX* rule, it has become a sort of scapegoat for the
"traditional family values" crusaders who point to it and say our t.v. is
going to pot.  And whaddya wanna bet these said crusaders watch soaps.

Love American Style--a wacky "Laugh-In" era comedy show featuring several
sketches (almost like each one was a short tv show) about
"Love--American-style".  Joanne Worley was a regular.  Who else?  Anybody
remember?  Akio, if you ever have a chance to see this on re-runs or
however, you will be in for a slice of American t.v. history.  Others may
not agree, but IMO, this show, like Laugh-In, poked fun at "tradition" in
the sense that they portrayed the "alternative" lifestyles and thinking of
the times.

//anne//
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: A strange find
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Maybe the "strange find" has something to do with the ghost of
Agnes.
--ggs (beginning to get the memory back....)
From: boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU (Joan Boorstein)
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Date: 6 Sep 92 16:26:33 GMT
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>Boy, if that's where you end up if you follow their maps, that's
>once car club I'm *not* joining.

Sorry, Graham, but the car club is AAA (American Automobile Association).

Joan
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:03:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Say it with words

Greetings,

Last night I saw 5 minutes of a rerun of Married With Children.  In the
scene, Kely's boyfriend comes to the door and bestows upon his dearly
beloved a book of cartoons.  She waxes enthused that he has brought her
a book with text.   says, "In my family, we believe in saying it
with words."

Marty
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:51:53 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Plumbing Woes
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	Am I accurate in assuming that if Natalie and Ann switch jobs, Ann will
	have to learn how to roast goats?  How do they get the goat into that
	pit and under the tarp, anyway?

Jim leads it by the hand?
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:28:21 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Okay, the list has been a little slow
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1992, Karen Kay wrote:

> Subject: Okay, the list has been a little slow

Understatement of the week.

> 1) You can now fly nonstop from Atlanta to Tokyo--Ms. Harwell-Foster,
> your reasons for not visiting Akio are getting pretty weak!

Actually, I'm afraid I'll <piss his wife off>!

-abh
just kidding, Akio, that was for GGS's benefit
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:42:02 CDT
From:         aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      RE: clambake pics
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>Any ideas what to fill baby food jars with for gifts?  I just
>couldn't throw the little buggers out and have pawned all I


Fill each one with a $100 bill and send them to me. That'd make a great gift.

-abh
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Re[4]: Brother Barbara
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Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:03:51 GMT

Carol, we all react from our own perspectives and experiences.  While I am
definitely sensitive to slurs against womankind, I do think that some folk
go 'way overboard.  It did look to me as if you were in that category, no
matter how gentle the flame.  

I wish it were possible to fight <humor> with <sharper humor>, to give
those who dish out insults and then feign innocence with "Whatsa matter,
don't you have a sense of humor?" a taste of their own medicine.  The
problem isn't limited to men <insulting> women this way -- I believe I've
read somewhere that's how they compete with each other, too, and devil take
the man who gets discomforted by it.  In that context, getting <offended>
on our part means the man wins the game.  A riposte along the lines of
"Gee, Dan, you should get your head out of the video box and meet some
*real* professional women some time" might have <scored more points>.


I would like it clearly understood that I do *not* put Dan's remark in the
offensive/insulting/nastymean humor category, even though (as several large
billboards around here point out lately, with a multi-racial,
multi-occupational insignia group of poster boys), "REAL men don't use
pornography."  (Honest, i swear it, Girl Scout's Honor and all!)

--bayla



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Subject:      Farming and hunting

>You know, why is Prostitution the world's oldest profession? I would
>assert that farming, or hunting is older.
>
>anyone else ?
>
>jcs

Farming is what the pimps do; hunting the johns.

-Mka
Hi y'all.
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:58:13 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Belle, qui tiens ma vie
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  This is for you Francophiles! I don't know a word of French myself, or
rather, this is the only French I know. I suppose you recognize it?



              Belle, qui tiens ma vie
              captive dans tes yeulx,
              qui m'as l'ame ravie
              d'un soubzris gracieux,
              viens tost me secourir
              ou me fauldra mourir.

              Porquoy fuis tu, mignarde,
              si je suis pres de toy?
              Quand tes yeulx je regarde,
              je me perds dedans moy,
              car tes perfections
              changent mes actions.

              Approche donc, ma belle,
              approche toy, mon bien,
              ne me sois plus rebelle
              puis que mon coeur est tien,
              pour mon mal appaiser,
              donne moy un baiser.

              Plustost on verra l'onde
              contremont reculer,
              et plustost l'oeil du monde
              cessera de brusler
              que l'amour qui m'epoinct
              decroisse d'un seul poinct.
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From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Family Tree
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              09 Sep 92 20:24:22 CDT." <9209092130.aa02930@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>:
>>
>> Well, as I said before, I *don't* think I'm going to try to explain this
>> family situation to Gilbert's cousin-in-law Joe...I already have trouble
>> trying to get him to go to my family reunions.
>> ndh>
>>
>My hubby doesn't know a thing about e-mail or Words-L.  Bless his heart, he
>thinks I'm doing school work.
>Doris

This fooled Paul for awhile too.  Until I started showing him postings and
dragging him to pre-clam slams.

- RobyMeister
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From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@RA.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
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Torkel comments and asks:

>>   Well, she was wrong. The commutativity of multiplication is a difficult and
>> profound result.
>>
>>   >She tells me that the answer can be got by taking 14
>>   >eights.
>>
>>   How?

If I recall correctly, Tushar's mother had asked what was 14 fives and
14 threes.

So here the problem uses not the commutativity but the distributivity of
multiplication over addition (and, of course, the ambiguous use of "and"):
		14*5 + 14*3 = 14*(5+3) = 14*8.
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: re: family
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 (By the way, you must know that I
> would *never* do anything to make Auntie Doris cry!)

I know you wouldn't, you are such a sweet neice.
>
> since I don't seem to have any list sisters???? ...my list daddy
>
> Jill

Hmmm.  If we added my daughter to the list she could be your list sister,
just as the absent (from the list) spouse of ndh is your Uncle Joe.  But
the question would be, would you want the go out on that three knobbed
branch of the tree, which you would have to do if your first cousin were
also your sister.  Hmmm.  More thought needed here. Where *is* the maker
of the <tree>?
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Spoken English
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 05:24:27 GMT
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From an article by Merrill Goozner in a Chicago Tribune this
weekend (sorry, I cut off the date and page):

   "[Shuhei] Kurosawa is part of a growing number of young
   Japanese who have lived in the U.S. and sampled the relative
   freedom of its education system.  He attended 9th and 10th 
   grades at Lexington High School in Massachusetts...

   When he returned to Japan he was put back a grade because he
   had missed a full year of Japanese language training.  He also
   learned English as a spoken language - not the way it's taught
   in Japanese schools, where a student can emerge from six years
   of instruction speaking nary a word...

   `My teacher asked me what I thought about the Japanese school
   system after seeing America's,' Kurosawa said. `I told him 
   it sucks.'"

There's nothing like immersion for picking up the finer points
of a language.

--karsten

(It sucks.  It sucked.  It will suck...)
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*** Resending note of 09/15/92 13:36

>Don't you recognize a courtship ritual when you see one?

>JAG

Ok!  Something like John Ritter and that lady in the trenchcoat last night.
They both, after many battles, ended up together in an oversized, water-filled
ashtray!   Great show! .....well, I liked it.
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:40:32 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Good grief, it's today!

Thank you.

"Stutter letters" refers to words like "godddddd".

tushar
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: internet gurus
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> Where do I send the LIST command to get a list of the internet lists?

The latest (I think) list of listserv lists is the one here in our ftp
files:  ftp.msstate.edu -- docs/words-l/Net-Stuff/interest.groups.  It's
the one that is always available via ftp from ftp.nisc.sri.com as
netinfo/interest.groups.  A much shorter file (more lists but without
the detailed descriptions) is also here as docs/words-l/Net-Stuff/list.of.
lists.

> If I send it to (for instance) ooga-cooga-edyu, I get an abbreviated
> list, which I am assuming is the list of lists there? or not?

Right.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:27:38 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Visiting LA and Chicago
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Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka writes:

>Actually, his real name probably isn't Samant at all.  Could it be Wooster?

Mokshagundam Virupaaksha Takshakabhushana Kaamaakshivara.


>A descendant of Bertie of mystery-reading fame?

Bertie is not famous for reading mysteries.

>                                                 This would explain a few
>things.....you *do* speak the Queen's, don't you Tushar....

King's, old girl.

tushar
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