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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:22:07 -0500
From:         ANTHLAL@UMNACVX.BITNET
Subject:      you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him admire the
              view

back at the computer terminal for the first time in four days, with kind of
this weird compulsion to check my mail...much analogous to the feeling you get
when driving by a really awful traffic accident...you know, you shouldn't look,
   you don't want to look, but you do anyway...well, in any case, after fishing
through 277 pieces of new mail, i guess i'll just comment on what i remember,
at least.
(i will add, as coincidental information, that i'm just now getting over the
hangover i got when i unceremoniously fell off the wagon thursday night, needing
   desperately to turn off my brain for a few hours.  of course, there are those

who claim that "36" does not qualify as "a few".  but i digress.)
(the actual post begins after the little stars.  fyi.)

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well.  let's see.  first things first.  the governor of kentucky is named
brereton jones, and we nearly lost him a few months ago in a helicopter
accident.  don't know that much about him except that the name is certainly
more funky than "julian carroll" or "martha layne collins" or of course
"john y. brown", although not as good as "louie b. nunn" .

robert mc elwaine (holder of a bachelor of science degree, oooh!  from the
university of wisconsin at eau claire, aaaahh!  how many nobelists at that
campus, anyone know offhand?) has recently outdone himself.  i must tell
you all that i saved it and am considering passing it around.  i would
gather that bob won't mind.  i will also point out a suspicious (what else?)
resemblance between mc elwaine's "final solution to all physics problems"
and friedrich nietzsche's "revaluation of all values".  draw what conclusions
you will.

there is a guy in this terminal room who is listening to aerosmith's "rag doll".
   i may have to finish this later.

fortunately, it does not appear that this is on a tape.  we can continue.
the debate being a topic of conversation as i had suspected it mmight, we'll
give it a go.  i thought perot came out looking the best of any of them.
he reminded me of my recently departed grandfather.  crotchety, southern,
got a good head for business and not much tolerance for people who don't.
there it is, in the immortal words of emperor franz joseph.
i thought clinton was smarmy, as usual.  i thought bush looked better than he
has in a long time, physically.  it was indeed a yawner...my friend will
actually had to be awakened through the joint efforts of his wife and myself
in order that he could see the incomprehensible cnn viewer-poll graphics.
we deliberated on these for a while:
"what 'n hell izzat?", said will.
"i don't know," said ann.
"maybe it's the electrocardiogram readings of people watching," i proposed.
(we decided that mine was a correct assessment, especially when they got to
the part where viewer response was uniformly flat for a few minutes.)

look for perot to gain support, maybe 4 or five points.  it's funny...most of
the media sources i saw were saying that clinton won the debate (such as one
could, anyway), but most people i talked to today said they thought perot
looked the best of any of them last night.  most followed this up by
saying "too bad he's such a little hitler in real life, though."

is anyone looking into why chelsea clinton is on crutches?  or why the
daughters of ascendent democratic presidential candidates all seem to be
going through an intensely awkward stage just as their fathers hit the national
   limelight?

got to run.  life's passin' me by.

anneliese.
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