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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:51:55 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
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>Posted on 16 Aug 1992 at 23:03:07 by Gilbert Smith
>
>
>Well, good.  Everyone else has gone to bed and it's only
>11 pm EDT.  Now for some action.
>--ggs

sorry giggles, but some of us have *not* gone to bed, and are
probably not going to make it to bed at all, which will make us
incredibly surly later on in the morning .... grr .... I hate
packing, I hate moving ... if I click my heels together three
times and say 'there's no place like home' will it all be
accomplished in a flash?  never mind, I don't *really* want to
go to Kansas ...

Elaine
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:32:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Grade Appeal Sample

Here's a sample response off of PURTOPOI if anyone wants to do a
sendup.

>I am forwarding a copy of our grade appeals form to you.  After a student
>speaks with the instructor to see if there was a misunderstanding about
>the grade, he or she submits a grade appeal form and copies of the
>course syllabus, policy statements, and graded work, as well as a
>statement explaining why the grade is being contested.  Then the
>student and I discuss the appeal.  We've used this process for the
>last two years and it seems to work fairly well.  Students who just
>want to gripe don't want to bother, but legitimate complaints get a
>fair hearing.  Both instructors and students are able to discuss their
>side.  I'd be very interested, though, in hearing how others do it to
>see what kinds of improvements we could make.
>             Sheryl Mylan, Director of Freshman English
>             University of Houston-Downtown


-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:27:51 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Regional usages
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:19:42 EDT, "david child" <UK05482@UKCC.UKY.EDU> wrote:
> While in the Navy, I had a roommate who would use the word "Leave" in place of
> "Let", such as, "Maybe they will leave us go home this weekend."  No idea how
 t
> his would get started, but probably in much the same way as the "in/on"
 questio
> n.  Just something to think about.  Y'all.

Was he Scots (or Scots-descent - Appalachian?)?  That isn't *quite* what
we'd say but we use leave in contexts that Englishmen wouldn't.  As in
'Leave/Let him be!'

'By your leave' means 'with your permission', and 'permit' certainly fits
in the sentence you gave.  Sounds like an old usage preserved in some region.

G
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 10:14:48 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Internet outage
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> =It seems that lately we have seen a lot of this sentiment:
> =thunderstorms approach, log off and unplug computer. This is
>
> Turn it off, yes, unplug it, no.

But turning it off won't protect it from lightning, will it?
I thought that was the whole point, about the electricity lines.
I *do* unplug my computer during bad thunderstorms, sometimes,
but it doesn't prevent me from posting because I use a laptop.
(Yes, my modem attaches to the telephone wires--haven't figured
that one out yet.)

Karen
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:58:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Silence is revealing

The whole time Ronnie was on, all wordslers fell dumb.  I can
only conclude that most of you all out there in Words-L Land are
secret Ronnie worshippers.


-Mka
A Brit when asked what he thought about the American People:
"I don't think of Americans so much as people as a play group."
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:30:36 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Japanese bookstores.
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> Posted on 11 Aug 1992 at 13:58:09 by Evelyn Duncan
>   BTW, has anyone been to the Japanese book store in NY?  I'd love to
> go there and look at all the manga.

There are several Japanese bookstores in NYC.  There is a huge
Japanese shopping center in Minnesota.  There are Japanese bookstores
in Chicago.  If you go to Kinokuniya (across from Rockefeller ctr.,
unless they've moved), that's a rather large store.  It's always
filled w/ Japanese people doing 'tatiyomi'--standing and reading.
It's irritating because the store wasn't designed for it. There's
also a Japanese book store about two blocks from my parent's house
in Michigan.

Karen
Japanese bookstores are my life--but I hate manga.
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:23:46 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
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              92 8:58 pm

> > 	I DO NOT HAVE A LIFE.
> >
> > Rita
>
> Hey, Czarina, who're you trying to impress/deceive?  I doubt *any*
> words-ler buys your story of not having a life.

	Rashmi, this is all being pressed into CD for future generations
and posterity and all that.  Ya never know.

Rita
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:08:25 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Tim Johnson
              20 Aug 1992 15:00:40 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

I know him; he's on belief-l and politics (two of the lists I'm on).
Let me see, how should I put this:  he likes to have the reputation
of being mean.  I've learned the best way to deal with him is to act
just as nastily back to him.

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:31:06 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Cellular Phones
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              19 Aug 92 05:27:10 -0500. <9208191027.AA12256@sics.se>

  Says Natalie:

  >I have crumbling brain cells.  And to think I'm an organ donor.  What a
  >cruelty joke.  I have no organs that anybody would want.

  Sure you do! Your pineal gland is in great shape.
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:39:35 EDT
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Comments:     Resent-From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Comments:     Originally-From: Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      RE: fuzzy headed distortionn
              "GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU" at Aug 17, 92 3:47 pm

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
JAG to abh:
>                                                 If I wanted to talk
> about femNazis, I would do so directly.  You're beginning ot sound like
> one of them "fuzzy headed liberals" that tries to squirm off the hook
> by redefining the issue to attack the person, not the argument.
>

This is *too* funny -- abh being called a LIBERAL, and a fuzzy headed
one at that.  ROFLMGO.

rashmi
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Read again, I did not say --abh was a liberal, only that she was acting
'fuzzy headed'.  I was deliberately pressing one of her favorite buttons.

JAG
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 08:50:50 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dying Vax 6350
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> from this list.  I'd like to know what node went down yesterday.  It's
> lonely without words-l mail.

The UGA bitnet node was down for a while, but UGA internet was working
fine.

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     wondering why a book named -The ABC's of Typography- is in the
     Architecture library rather than the main library
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:25:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Private E-mail (again?)

   >>Jenna's right. It's tacky, very tacky, to repost private e-mail
   >>without the author's permission (or knowledge). It marks the poster

   >I *will not* make the <obvious> comment that springs to mind
   >regarding secret lists...

That's what I like about Anne. Always willing to admit her errors and
move on. Never one to stir things up by picking at scabs and trying to
incite. Never one to let facts get in the way of a good swipe. She
presumably refers to a private post by a person on this list made
public by a person on another. As I'm sure Anne recall's, there was
sufficient grounds to believe the poster had permission to post
publicly. Even so, the public poster was soundly attacked in public
and private posts, and Anne certainly recalls that my own views
were--even in the context of a the presumable
permission--unequivocally against a public posting.  I doubt, however,
that it's the consistancy or the adamant views most of us have against
revealing private e-mail that she refers to as "obvious."
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:07:47 CDT
From:         Absolut Bandwidth <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Republican convention
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>What, me agree with --abh? Yikes.

See, that was easy, wasn't it? Worship the Pig. Ausbrook does it, and he loves
it.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:34:10 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Today's Trivia
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> Posted on 14 Aug 1992 at 19:35:42 by Graham Toal
>         I'm so upset that I can't think straight.....
> I thought I wa...  oh wait, we've had that joke this year already...

Ummm...Wasn't that *another* list, Graham?

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:24:40 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Rolled trousers and peaches
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Oh, go ahead.  Eat a peach.  But don't wear white flannel
> trousers and walk upon the beach.

But would it be worth it after all?  After the cups, the marmalade,
the tea?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:32:51 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Wait up!
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> Way back when, as a child watching Saturday cartoons, I heard someone say
> "Wait up!"  I subsequently said this to my mother in the grocery store or
> something, and she said, "Don't say that.  Yankees say 'wait up.'"

Well, what do you all say if you don't say that?  Or do y'all just
walk so slowly there's no need for the expression???:)  (Hmm...this is
one of the first things I learned to say in Japanese....)

Karen
who really *does* want to know
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:20:39 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Little Aaron Tyler
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              17 Aug 1992 14:17:32 CDT from <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>

On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:17:32 CDT Bandwidth Pig said:
>>Any ideas on a baby gift; it's been 15 years since I had to buy for a
>>baby boy.
>
>Yeah, get him a Barbie doll so he grows up "sensitive and caring."
>
   Naaaahhhh...that's a sexist toy....that will just give him unrealistic
expectations re: tits and waists

dan
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:16:58 EDT
From:         PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      "feminist"men

     I have tried to resist commenting on this one but it keeps
coming up so I guess I'll give in.
     Feminism is a term that seems not to be very clearly defined
in general use. It also seems to be a term that generates lots of
heat (both for and against). I think that at least one reason for
the high emotions is that many people (especially men) equate
feminist with anti-male. Certainly there are feminists who are
anti-male, but I don't think that the basic concepts of feminism
are at all anti-male.(Feminism is certainly anti-patriarchy and
and anti-male-privelege, however)
      In some ways the term feminism itself perpetuates the very
stereotypes it seeks to destroy. Strictly defined sex roles ( men
are strong, women are nurturing, etc.) are one of the barriers to
full equality. By labeling certain values as feminine (feminist)
the easy assumption is that those are qualities that men don't have.
(and vice versa) I wish that our society didn't see things in such
black and white terms but it seems to.
      I find that my own personal view of the world is very similar
to "feminist" ideas, but I find myself wishing that there were
another word for it. I don't mind having values that others label
as "feminine" but I don't like to be called anti-male. So, I tend
to settle for describing myself as "pro-feminist" and doing a lot
of explaining.
                                                   Br Paul
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:01:12 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: i musta been sleeping
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> I don't care if they all move to Houston, but I had hoped that the weather
> there would be normal this week so that they would all look sweaty and
> dragged out on tv.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Give it a day or two and they will, if not from the humidity then from the
frustrations caused by traffic.
Doris
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:11:15 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: when did in become on
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 00:27:25 EDT, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU wrote:
> Maybe Graham has some light to shed here; I remember being struck by
> a preposition of his once:  "Your post was waiting for me at the weekend."
>                                                           ^^
>  brad                           Come to think of it, how else could you
>                                  say that?  I guess I would have said,
>                               "Your post was waiting for me this weekend."

Never heard 'on' except in yank movies.

Wouldn't you say "meet me at six o'clock"?
Or do you say "meet me six o'clock"?

G
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:23:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Woknet

>several of us could give him lessons.....especially if he is on RiceMail,
>which it appears he is.....hmmmmmm
>
>dan

What's RiceMail--the stuff that travels over the WOKNET?  (The
question was serious.)

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:31:17 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: The Evidence

>Your mother was obviously not an English Teacher, nor your father an English
>Professor. I was brought up to believe that flaming on typos is a favor you
>do for the poor benighted souls who make them.
>
>-abh

How benignant of you.

-Mka
who is overcome with entropic gratitude whenever shown the error
of his/her ways.
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 11:20:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: Acronyms/Gender
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In fact, I debated over a/an when I was typing out the post and wasn't
sure which one was appropriate.  I guess I said "Urban Legend" and
decided to go with an, though "a UL" sounds right too.  Trust a
words-ler to notice it!

     The one we debated here in the techno-sweatshop was "an SQL
     database" vs. "a SQL database."  Some people say "sequel," some
     "ess-queue-ell."  Finally decided on "an" because it doesn't
     presuppose usage of jargon.

     Carol "let's call the whole thing off"
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:30:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject: Re: Rolled trousers and peaches
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>> Oh, go ahead.  Eat a peach.  But don't wear white flannel
>> trousers and walk upon the beach.
>
>But would it be worth it after all?  After the cups, the marmalade,
>the tea?

But then you might have to force the moment to its crisis.

Ken
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:57:26 CDT
From:         Raving Misanthrope <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Men and Feminism
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>P.S. My friend Cole calls himself a feminist sympathizer. I like the
>resonances!

How about these as well:
Feminist groupie (for the Woodstock crowd)
Feminist fello-traveler (for you McCarthy era veterans)
Feminist wannabee (for the Madonna kidz)

-abh
yeahright, and now I'm supposed to believe that a feminist can share in a male
bonding experience
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:19:26 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: rapture schedule
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              17 Aug 1992 14:16:20 CDT from <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>

On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 14:16:20 CDT Bandwidth Pig said:
>>for those who haven't already heard, THE Rapture, not just any old rapture,
>
>Guess some of us will be getting ready to chack out those IN.THE.SKY nodes
> Natalie
>keeps sending from.
>
   And some of us will be checking out the hotter.than.hells.own.fires
nodes that are somwhat similar to Idaho or Arizona these days....but
probably ALL cool compared to PANAMland.   right?
From: GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (jcs)
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Subject: Re: ADBAM and Baby Diffily
Date: 14 Aug 92 18:26:13 GMT
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>Posted on 14 Aug 1992 at 14:12:58 by Karen Kay
>
>Re: ADBAM and Baby Diffily
>
>> Yay!  Congratulations to all the Diffilys and a big hug for little Mr.
>> Diffily.
>> ndh
>
>And a big hug for Big Mr. Diffily, too.  I didn't talk to him much at
>the clambake but he was really great w/ the kids. I admire both of them
>for taking on such a huge family so suddenly with such savoir faire.
>
>Karen
>I adore babies!--other people's babies....

You all will be pleased to note that as soon as i heard the
announcement, i marched my butt up to the record store and
special ordered the Mitch Ryder's greatest Hits cd for
anne.  You know how she lusts for Mitch.  I found out that
they have a cd player, so that is my baby present to her.

(we had a little shower, but its against our family tradition
to give baby presents before the baby is born, in fact,
its considered bad luck)

Jenna going home to see mummer this weekend, and takin' her
the the Hamburg Fair.
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Weird
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 04:28:58 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

A friend of mine works as a consultant for several small banks in
Chicago.  He charges $60-100 an hour to set up their PCs and
networks.  Last year he got a panicky call that one of their file
servers had crashed and wouldn't boot up.  Every time they powered
it back up the screen stayed blank and it beeped at them.  He was
unable to figure out what was wrong over the phone, so they asked
him to drive in to look at it.

When he got there he found somebody had a book on the edge of the
keyboard pressing the "Escape" key.  He charges for commute time,
so the bank got a bill for close to $200 for this...

--karsten

Remembering the call from my dad asking where the "any" key is...
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: To Architect
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:18:52 GMT
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gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal) writes:
> OK, perhaps I should rephrase that.  Architectures driven mainly
> by hardware designers aren't worth the silicon they're etched on.

I'll agree with that.  That's probably how the niche of computer
architecture came into being - neither the software people nor the
hardware designers normally knew enough about each other's fields to
avoid the major pitfalls.

(Have we beaten this topic to death yet?)

--karsten

...in a much nicer mood than yesterday...
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:20:40 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Internet outage
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> I recall of a home surge protector that would accomodate both the 110
> and phone lines.  We lost a surge protector on the mainframe several

Mine is for both electricity and phone line.  It's part of the Kensington
Masterpiece Plus box.  I got it mainly for the phone line.  I still unplug
everything (including removing modem cord from phone jack) during storms
or when I'm going out of town.

Speaking of weather, today is gorgeous here.  It feels like late October
instead of mid August.  I think the weather is going crazy this year.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: UK05482@UKCC.UKY.EDU (david child)
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Subject: Regional usages
Date: 12 Aug 92 17:19:42 GMT
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While in the Navy, I had a roommate who would use the word "Leave" in place of
"Let", such as, "Maybe they will leave us go home this weekend."  No idea how t
his would get started, but probably in much the same way as the "in/on" questio
n.  Just something to think about.  Y'all.
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:29:57 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Today's Trivia
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	I'm so upset that I can't think straight.....

I thought I wa...  oh wait, we've had that joke this year already...

G
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