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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:56:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366"
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Subject:      Mario Cuomo fans - Read this.

Subj:   New Yorkers love Mario Cuomo    NOT!
From:         The Good Doctor <JSGOTTLI@CC.OWU.EDU>
I got this from a friend.  If you have seen this.......
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PSALMS OF NEW YORK

Mario Cuomo is my shepard, I shall not want,
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He restoreth my doubt in New York politics,
He guideth me to the path of unemployment,
He anointeth my wage with freeze,
So my expense runneth over my income.
Surely poverty and hard living shall
Follow this administration
And I shall live in rented houses forever.

5000 years ago, Moses said, "Pack your camel,
Pick up your shovel, mount your ass, and I will
Lead you to the promised land."

5000 years later, F.D. Roosevelt said, "Lay
Down your shovel, sit on your ass and
Light up a camel, this is the promised land."

Today, Mario Cuomo will tax your shovel,
Sell your camel, kick your ass, and tell
You that Japan is the promised land.



P.S.     I am glad that I am an American,
         I am glad that I am free,
         But I wish I were a little dog,
         And Mario Cuomo were a tree.

later

alec
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:17:36 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: info, please
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> Bayla,
> 	I don't have a new enough almanac (newest I could find was 1981)
> to check exactly, but my memory says that New Hampshire school teacher Christa
> McAuliffe died in the Challenger disaster.
>
> Nancy,
> 	That, indeed, was one day I was glad I did not teach public school.
> I find it hard enough to try to explain such happenings to myself, let alone
> to a roomful of young children.
> > 	I was undergoing my physical exam at Harvard when Kennedy was
> assassinated -- thought the Harvard radio station was playing some kind of
> hoax -- don't I wish?

In the case of the Kennedy assassination, I was with a classroom full of
high school seniors...old enough to realize more ramifications of the
whole thing, but young enough to be even more vulnerable than a lot of us.
I was shattered by what had happened...and even more shattered by the lost
looks in the eyes of those young people.
ndh
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Angel...NOT!
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> And I like being List Nobody.

But you can't be!  Err... wotsisname already is.

G
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From: bn112@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Chris Katopis)
Subject: NIMROD
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 17:11:20 GMT


What is the origin of the word NIMROD as an insult meaning
stupid, moron, fool?  did this piece of derogatory slang
originate from some biblical king?
was the king a fool or has sometype of meaning inversion
arisen?

-c
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Pasc

Ah.  Now that the net  back up, I can see we're back in a Blaise of glory..

John "Where's all that damn rain, dammit!" W.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:58:52 EDT
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Subject:      Re: snail mail
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Posted on 3 Sep 1992 at 11:03:07 by Dan Lester
>Bill lives!

I got one from him yesterday, and it is a lovely card.  A good addition to
my wall.  I recently rearranged my office, which gives me more space for
postcards.

Karen
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Ill-mannered people

>>Ken, dismounting high horse
>
>And that double back with a twist was one HELL of a dismount, too.
>
>dan

10   10   10   5   10   10   10
CS   DL   NM  MKA  ABH  NM   LJ
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:36:21 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ubi Sunt?
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>
> The worst week of my life so far.  Too many students and not enough
> seats for them and *I* had to do all the dirty work.  Now it's

How many is too many?

I'll bet you didn't have two days of inservice, then three days with
students, then two more days of inservice, one day of which featured a
speaker hired a year ago who spoke on the topic of "The First Day of School."
He stressed the point that "you don't get a second chance to make a first
impression."

The timing is about as good as mine is on the list sometimes.
doris
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:56:00 EST
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Subject:      Re: Ausbrook's lawschool

Greetings,

What is this all about?  I missed the original remark about "Japs" or
whatever, although I have seen some of the ensuing blather.  Is
Jim playing liberal netcop and trying to intimidate ausbrook, or what?

Marty Rosen
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Faorce
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:06:12 GMT


In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Never smoked the stuff, but we *did* --on those long lovely hikes in
>the country-- smoke cedar bark from the fence posts, using the labels
>from tin cans for the roll-your-own-paper.  I never inhaled, though.
Right Bill, er Giggles, we believe you.[*sure* we do]  You must have been
pretty desperate to smoke cedar bark....
>I think I probably just sat back and put my feet up and enjoyed one
>of those right after dinner with *Buddy* the legislator.
Buddy the Donkey Turd Purveyor?  Did the cedar coffin nails taste any better
than that *other* substance he introduced you to?


-- 
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	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: New nodenames
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:23:36 GMT


In a previous article, R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn) says:

>How about Inferno or Paradiso?

How about pigsty?  Or amazon?


>
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:35:16 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: In the Amazon Spirit
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>	In searching through some old files, I came upon this little
>gem.  I dedicate it to you, Harwell.

Gosh, thanks, Czar. It's nice to know where one fits in thy worldview.

-abh
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nimrod

>As for Nimrod being used as "moron", I assumed it was onomatopoeic. Why
>"doofus", for instance?

Or a tony gloss for nerd.

Or possibly antisemitic, it occurs to me

Howz about a nimbecile?

-Mka
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Subject:      Gleanings (57)

Greetings,

I want to go on record in support of Akio's linkage of ABH and Jodie Foster,
a linkage I think is singularly apropos.

Barron's is a "national business and financial weekly" magazine published by
the friendly folks at Dow Jones and Company.  It's an excellent source of
news, statistics, financial information and analysis, and editorial opinion
about the issues that make capitalist societies work.

Marty Rosen
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:45:14 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: One Student's Opinion
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> I remember, when I was a little kid, walking barefoot uphill through 10 miles
> of waist deep snow to get to school. You kids today have it way too easy.

Yes, the snow *can* get pretty deep in south Texas. So can the fertilizer.
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 08:26:14 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Law of Supply and Demand
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>>(Right next door to Chris's Stud Mart?)
>
>Hey!  I resemble that remark.
>
>Chris


I can't resist adding that if prices reflect what the market will bear, it'll
be a long time before they top out at this place.

<oink>
-abh
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:14:10 MST
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Comments:     Resent-From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Comments:     Originally-From: Mike Masuda
              <MASUDA%SJSUVM1.BITNET@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      the banned vitamin
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hey, folks....(graham, you listening?).....is this UL territory?
   or just part of the Hangar 18 Conspiracy???    8-)     dan
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Here's a strange bit of info:

Back in the 1950s, there was a vitamin B-15 (pangamic acid) listed
as part of the RDA listings.  It occurs most abundantly in the
kernel of apricot seeds.

Now before you say "apricot seeds?!? They have cyanide in them!!!" I would
like to elaborate further.  Apricot seeds have been eaten by tribes of
people in the Tibet region for many canturies, and is well known for
its longevity-inducing properties.

Now if vitamin B-15 were cyanide, I can see the U.S. gov't's point to ban
it.  But it isn't.  Maybe the government knows something we don't know about
this secret vitamin. It was banned in the mid 1950s, I believe.

Anyone have any info on this vitamin?  What happened to it?

Mike Masuda.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:32:08 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Visiting LA and Chicago

>> who will be in dallas and denver in the next two weeks, and chicago
>> the last week of october....and can't think of any wordslers in any
>> of those places....
>
>Tushar is in chicago.
>
>-abh

Guess I sighed relief too soon.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:24:55 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)
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>there aren't a NUMBER of women (N>10) women on this list who haven't
>at SOME time been the aggressor/initiator in the sexual act.


Depends which act you're referring to.

-abh
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:15:39 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: One Student's Opinion
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> Au contraire, mon frere...I am still laughing out loud from Doris' t-shirt
> story.

Just an added note: *all* t-shirts were size XL. I managed to palm mine
off on my son, who said he'd wear it when he did his yard work.
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:10:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Rhubarb Pie
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> If they don't mean anything to you, it should provide a clue. Don't
> contribute more to ego trips now.
>
> tushar

I just *love* it when <ts> starts giving advice, particularly in
*nine* posts in a row, most of which do not make a <lick> of sense.
Even so, he <does it> so well......
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:57:46 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ubi Sunt?
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              28 Aug 1992 22:40:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:40:00 EDT Gilbert Smith said:
>Where are dan and peace don?

Last nite at that time I was in bed with my wife.
(well, I was at 2240 local time, at 2240 EDT I was playing bridge in Meridian)

Now I am at home in front of the computer as she sits nearly naked in
the lounge chair reading a Robert Parker.

The sun is about to set and I'm halfway watching an old movie on the tube.

Peace Don is probably out in the swamps chopping kudzu.

dan
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:46:00 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Clambake Pictures, Sad Story
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So, last week, I finally sent off the roll of film that had the clambake
pictures to the photolab.  (Yeah, yeah, the bake was over 8 weeks or so ago,
but I have procrastination down to an art, and hey,I was busy.)  Well, in
today's mail, I got a raincheck for a roll of film and the developing costs ...
THEY LOST MY FILM!!!!!
         Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaa  :-(  :-(  :-(

Dunno what happened, I've used this place many times in the past without any
problems.  I am feeling soooo bummed.  Was really looking forward to seeing
the pictures... given my terrible memory for faces, I'd forgotten what most
of you look like.

rashmi
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:17:55 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: No Mail At All
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Something was being reconfigured at UGA.
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Karen's messages
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:17:44 -0400, "Joan Boorstein" <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
 wrote:
> Does anyone know what is going on?
yes.
> Karen, are you posting from Brown?
yes, she is.
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:38:50 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Packet drivers and ham radio
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	Which reminds me (yes, i'm still working in exhausted mode despite
	two cups of coffee) that I told Chet (our LAN guy) that you all know
	everything and even though you didn't know the answer to the tftp
	question I asked, I told him I was SURE you would know this one:

Hey, *I* know about tftp.  It's a simple tiny anonymous ftp used for
booting servers.  A cut-down version of ftp using a simpler protocol.
Since it doesn't need passwords, it has sometimes been a security
hole.

	What's the connection between ham radio and packet drivers?

A lot of the net stuff was written by the ham radio people who run
tcp/ip over packet radio.  Ka9q that I mentioned the other day is
one of these bits of softare.  ka9q is the guy's ham ID.  Most of
the software is medium independent though, so you just change
packet drivers to make it work on a real ethernet or a serial
line running PPP or SLIP.

	We have two different telnet and ftp packages, one of which allows us
	to finger.  But the packet drivers are differnt, so rebooting is

This is weird.  The whole point of packet drivers is that they present
a common interface which any program can use.

	involved.  Unfortunately, the set that doesn't allow us to finger has
	a great telnet setup.  So we're busily trying to put this all togethr.
	And this was one question that came up; Chet said that in his netroaming
	that a number of the packet drivers he came across are for ham radio.

True, but probably irrelevant.

G
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Turd Try at Turd
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:44:19 GMT


In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Here it is for the *turd* time:
	Turd time lucky?  And tecond time bounthed thwum the admiwal?
  <Looney Tunes toggle | off>!
>> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
>> 554 ruthh@admiral.uucp... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name
>>  server)
>> Subject: Re: Re: Ubi Sunt?

>> --ggs (getting sick from this little bit of nostalgia drawn from
>> the Tonkawa experience.....   )
>
>Well, FINALLY!
It got here once before, actually.  I think your mailer is sick too, Giggles.
  
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:15:32 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: TGTAagnes
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	Well, so, *obviously* no one, absolutely *no* *one* read,
	much less appreciated, my true, unadulterated, alternative
	history of poor Agnes von Whatever.  I am *so* disappointed
	in the wordslers on this one.  *So* disappointed I may just
	lie down and di-yuh.
	--ggs (sniff sniff dab dab blow blow....)
	p.s.  There is, ATS, no accounting for taste.

Well, you still haven't learned the art of adapting your writing
style for a 32-line medium.  Why not ask the experts on
ProjectH for some help?  Brenda Danet could give you some
useful tips, I'm sure.

1) No page-after-page of solid text
2) Make the first screen (which means 5 lines since most of
it will be headers) really interesting
if you can't do that, 3) make the last screen show all the significant
info since that's all that's left on the screen when you quickly
page past [see (1)] - or make it so riveting that you want to
go back and read the rest.

*Long* texts (however subtle and well-written) are just begging to
be ignored.

Actually, I don't remember seeing it.  I remember seeing the
original and skipping it [see (1) to (3)].

G
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:50:40 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pascal

>It would appear that noone yet has completed the mathematics
>lesson for today,

Back to gender.

-Mka
who is clearly suffering from entropic brain-rot.
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:13:34 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Frotteurism
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              92 11:07 pm

>
> maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") writes:
> > pay since he suffers from frotteurism, a sexual illness which compels
..[del]...
> trying to deal with frotteurs.  The cars are packed so tight
> the victims can neither see nor escape the perps.
>


"perps"???==?

NIMBY

> --karsten
>
> (There are plenty of canine and feline frotteurs on the loose...)
>
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:48:40 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Holland tunnel

>Tush,

>I bow to your superior worldliness. You, with so many interesting stories
>freshly minted in NYC, have chosen to keep them to yourself (very chic, that);
>whereas I, a mere country bumpkin whose retinas have ne'er been painted with
>the gaudy lights of The Apple, makes a coarse reference to one of her features
>and I am rightly repudiated.

Abh, read the letter first before writing. Concentrate on the word "if", the
question marks etc. In any case, always read a letter before replying. This is
my advice to you.

>                         Rightly, I say, sir! And please, whenever I dare
>to stray one millimeter out of line again, may I count on you to bring me back
>to my more familiar maudlin sensibilities?

No.

>                                               Why, without you as my constant
>reader and inspiration, I'd be distraught and foundationless, bobbing suspended
>in a sea of muck without so much as a candle's glimmer to guide me.

The sort of thing I would not like to happen. But everyone must take responsi-
bility for oneself.

>Tushar, you ARE the embodiment of Words-L, nay, Words-L right and proper,
>Words-L as is *should* be, in its more rarefied, perfected state such as most
>mortals will not see until they meet again in that heavenly country where all
>our sins shall be put away and we can gaze full on the face of Tushar, our
>strength and our redeemer.

Amen.

tushar
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