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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:19:21 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Survey
              29 Sep 1992 15:22:20 -0400 from <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>

Agnes,
  Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a broom that flies, but I'm
on the lookout for a flying carpet. :)  Meanwhile, I have to stick with
Metro.

Evelyn
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Superlurker
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Agnes,

I hope your synapses are in better shape now. :-)

>> Make that past tense and leave off the last three.... and BINGO!
>
>?????????
>Wha?
>
>Do you *really* mean you were an undercover cop

Yes!

>*while* lurking on words-l?

No! There weren't even PC's back in those days and all the paperwork had to
be done on manual typewriters. Dan was right, however, that's where I learnt
to hang about inconspicuously... otherwise known as 'lurking'. :-)

Carolyn
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gleanings (62)

Alas...another week and Akio understands everything I write.....
good morning Akio, and all the rest of you Wordslers..

Don, from tornadoe struck Pasco county ....but no damage here, just lots
of water ... my jungle trails are now canals..

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:00:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: stupidity

Greetings,

Well said, ggs.  We all own our own emotional responses and our own
actions.

Marty
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 11:25:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      it probably won't...
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...but if it would stop these endless and divisive threads of 'who is Santa,
who faked messages,' and on and on and on -- I'll admit it.

	I'm Santa.

	I'm also Virupaksha, Tushar, Chris, abh, Giggles, Natalie, Bernard,
	Mama Primate, Lenny, and Galmin Stound.

	While I'm at it, I'm also Judge Crater, Amelia Earhart, the
	disappearing hitchhiker, the woman who dried her dog in the microwave,
	and BOB on Twin Peaks.

	But I'm not Jack the Ripper or Martin Bormann.

Can we get back to some semblance of civility and restraint, please?

[maybe I'm really...]
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 10:29:47 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      RE: The New Yorker
              3 Oct 1992 09:27:47 EST from <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

>The NEW Yorker stinks.  Literally.  I thought a skunk had nested in
>my mailbox.

    Ah, the perfume ad.  Only when you're in the vicinity of
    that page, Michael.  In a closed space like a mailbox, yes,
    it would get kinda redolent.

    brad
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Shell Suits
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:02:25 GMT
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 pflynn@CURIA.UCC.IE ((Peter Flynn)) writes (thinking he's adressing a 
real words-discussion group like alt.usage.english):
 
>Has anyone any idea where the term "shell suit" originated and why?
>(They're those tacky shiny thin anorak-cum-pants suits).
>
>///Peter

--I believe this is based on the designation 'shell' for the thin, unlined
nylon jackets etc intended for use as the outer layer of "outdoors-
activity" clothing.  They are intended to shed water, repel the wind,
and otherwise keep the weather away from the wearer.

--bayla
From: boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU ((Joan Boorstein))
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Date: 4 Oct 92 17:55:24 GMT
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Says Bob, in his incarnation as the Ronin:

>     I missed when the list niced itself.  Maybe that is why I scare
>the living daylights out of the others in the terminal room by
>laughing loudly at odd intervals.  (At even intervals I rest.)

Bob, this comment certainly made me laugh out loud here at my
terminal.  The sleeping cats were awakened -- I enjoyed it, but the
cats sure didn't.

-- Joan (boorstein%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu)
From: gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Mensa test
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:12:59 GMT
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:33:30 EDT, "Evelyn" <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET> wrote:
> I saw this one-question Mensa test in a magazine.  This question stumped
> 45% of all Mensa members.  The object is to put the correct plus and
> minus signs in the equation to make it correct.
>
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 1
>
> Can anyone solve it, besides me?

The solution is so trivial I'm not even going to bother :-)

(You can take any adjacent pair and make 1 by subtracting the first
from the second.  Then you have an odd pile of ones which it is trivial
to add and subtract from each other to get the total)

I've always said it takes real genius to get into Mensa because you
automatically lose 30IQ points just for applying...

G
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 17:52:30 -0600
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tushar's Test
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Syaeht "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@BLADE.STACK.URC.TUE.NL>

> Why do men spell so badly?

     Gee, G, why do you spell so well?

Bob
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Date: 5 Oct 92 22:11:05 GMT
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              3 Oct 1992 20:39:35 -0700 from <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

just what i was gonna ask....my mind is blank.....WHO did the
Joshua Judges Ruth album???`


dan
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 04:04:08 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L Cookbook

> I sometimes wonder why the principal roflers on this list never say
 ROFL
> to this person's posts.
>
>Tushar

It would lead to a redundancy alert.

-Mka
Still as EFFING pleasant as ever
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:06:25 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mobile non-Ronin?
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I'd pick Atlanta. It's a truly exciting city, it has better weather and more
baseball and football.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:01:58 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Absolut Kentucky
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  Brad sent me a newspaper clipping, a humongous advertisement for
Absolut vodka in the form of a dubious work of art, one in a series of
51 (representing all the states, and DC too). Clearly the stuff is
still selling.  Anyway, he claimed, mistakenly, that a giant hare with
a small jockey on its back depicted in the ad was pure whimsy on the
part of the artist. In fact these giant hares are indigenous to the
far north of Sweden and Norway, although I understand that there are
not many of them left, and before giant hare racing was banned it was
one of the great spectator sports in the arctic region. The jockey in
the ad carries the number 12, which refers to a legendary hare
jockey, one Arvid Harskank, who won two hundred and twelve races
before being forced into retirement as a result of a scandal involving the
illegal selling of vodka to minors of the Leporidae Giganticus family.
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:56:02 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: "But You Don't Have a Southern Accent"
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> Obviously you really got into the spirit of the campaign season.
> You are here trying once again to perpetuate one of your favorite
> myths.

No, I'm just telling you exactly what this person said to me today.
I would have posted it right away if the computer I was stuffing names
into at that time had had a modem.

> P.S.  By the way, what's the current state of your answering machine
> (aside from MS, of course)?  Maybe I just ought to call and listen
> again.

I don't think I've changed it since the first time you called.  Same voice,
same message.  I leave it set to answer after two rings since I've decided
that if it takes me more than two rings to get to the phone, trying to get
to it is too much trouble.  I do answer it sometimes though.  Fairly often
if I'm here.  If you want to make sure I'm not here, call between 8 and 9
CDT tonight or between 6:30 a.m. and 4 or so p.m. tomorrow.  It's (601)
323-8384.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:18:51 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Rested Now

>Hi y'all.  I'm back.  I feel much better after my nap
>in the <closet>.
>Have y'all been talking about me?
>--ggs

Quit this nonsense and start posting.

Or maybe just a little bit more restraint in the number of letters
you post wouldn't be all that bad ...

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 18:46:45 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Blinking Lights

*** Resending note of 09/27/92 11:26

>and how he managed to, with the aid of a 500 c.i.d. Cadillac Sedan de
>Ville, set a new land speed record, turning what is usually a 4.5 hour

I used to own one of those barges ..great road car..in west Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, could easily cruise at 115 MPH.  Once went from Yuma to
San Francisco and averaged 85 MPH, passing, going in same direction, a
police car at over 100 MPH.  Fortunately, was just approaching two-lane
mountain pass, police car was behind trailer and I didn't want to get
stuck behind trailer and got up a good head of steam before I recognized
police car ...but no problem, never say him again.

Don, long since slowed down, and seriously doubt if any of my modern
vehicles would even get to 100, except maybe the 72 Celica, which I am
too chicken (or maybe sensible) to run that fast.
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:50:00 EDT
From:         "Rita Leonard 552-3403 (617)"
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Subject:      Re: WORDS-L Cookbook

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> Subject:      WORDS-L Cookbook
> Matter of fact, we could probably digest EAT-L if we gave it a go.
>
> The Ronin

Since a fair number of subscribers to EAT-L have been <thrown off>
recently for being so insubordinate as to have <nicknames>, maybe
we could adopt them and become something like  EAT OUR WORDS-L.

                                  Rita L.
                                  LEONARD@BCVMCMS
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:30:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: still a loser
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>      Rich?  Problem child?  Couldn't get into a "real" college?
>    I don't think so nut!  Let's see where, myself was accepted:
>    UNC-Chapel Hill, Clemson University, NCSU, U.S. Air Force Academy,
                                         ^^^^^^
                                         ******
                                         !!!!!!
>    The Citadel.  Those are "real" colleges, I think.  Most of which
>    you could never get into!  As for the "real" army, being enlisted
>                                  Country

All I can say to this is:
  There *is* a god.... there *is* a god....
--ggs
From: LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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Subject: Re: Lurking
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:18:55 GMT
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>Thank ghod, we finally have a wicked little old granny.

Not quite! Just practising! Right age, right state of mind - I can't help
it if my sons are slow off the mark. :-(

Carolyn
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Subject: Golden Words For Today
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Golden Words For Today:
.
"Math class is *hard*...."
.
--- Teen Talk Barbie (when her string is pulled), quoted by
the president of NOW, lodging a protest against Matell and
requesting that the company recall the new version of the
popular doll, claiming that it utters sexist remarks.
--------------------------------
Brought to you by the accounting firm of FRANZ & GEORGE.
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:09:51 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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 we have always been a group that enjoys talking about itself, first and
 foremost.

 -abh

 Words are wonderful things.  They are many and varied. Connotative
 meanings and denotative meanings abound.  Words are also changeable,
 changing their forms as dictated by their purpose.  Some words fit
 together beautifully, working as a unit to express profound thoughts,
 humorous thoughts, mundane thoughts, or just thoughts.  Other words
 produce beautiful sounds or soothing sounds or even at times empty sounds.
 Depending on their function at any particular time, words can be chameleons.
 Some work well together, some don't.  Each word performs a particular
 function in a sentence and sometimes if it is forced (by whatever means) into
 another position in that sentence, not only does the word lose its
 effectiveness, but so does the entire sentence.  Other times, changing
 positions simply creates a different meaning.

 So is Words-L a wonderful thing.  The members are many and varied.  Some
 are deep thinkers, some more superficial; some are conservative, some more
 liberal.  The members are also changeable, changing their moods and personas
 as their purposes and surroundings change.  Some members work and play
 together beautifully, sometimes producing informative postings, sometimes
 producing philosophical postings, sometimes humorous, sometimes mundane,
 and sometimes empty.  Some members produce thoughts that are absolute
 poetry, some that are soothing and comforting, some that evoke
 introspection, some that entertain, and some that grate.  Roles of the
 members change at times, as do roles of words, but change indicates
 life, absence of change, death.  Words-L is dynamic, full of electrical
 charges that produce the spark of life while occasionally flaring out of
 control, only to be doused by the more temperate and again rising from the
 ashes of discord to meld once again.

Doris
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:21:45 BST
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Speeding
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On Sun, 27 Sep 1992 15:35:03 +0100, torkel@SICS.SE wrote:
>   I've read these messages about how neat it is to exceed the speed
> limit and fool the cops, and it seems motorists are pretty much the
> same the world over. On the one hand, statistics indicate that

I was about to post a diatribe on idjit motorists, but Torkel has said
all I wanted to say.  Speed limits aren't arbitrary impositions to stifle
your freedom of expression; they're there to stop idiots killing people.
Using fuzzbusters *should* be illegal because it encourages deliberate
pre-meditated reckless driving.

It's amazing the number of idiots who think they're above-average drivers.
For a start, half of you aren't.  And secondly, the average driver isn't
that good...

G
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 09:59:33 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Shell Suits
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              Oct 5, 92 2:05 pm

> ///Peter

	Are you related to //anne// in any way?
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Sunrise, sunset...
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Agnes,

Sorry to disappoint you, but I am not a Kiwi. I guess I misled you by
referring to my fellow countrymen as 'obnoxious away from their homeland'.
Telling things the way they are and 'taking the Mickey out of' ourselves
is an inherent part of the old Australian culture.

>Aha! flushed you out with that KIWI comment, did I? Good thing too-
>some of us were wondering about wurdslers in parts of the world where
>languages OTHER than English  (eg KIWI) were being spoken....

I have , however, been exposed to the peculiarities of Kiwi English - 50%
of the senior lecturers in our department are expatriot New Zealanders.
There is also a 25% American contingent.

>Welcome on board (and out of the lurkers' cupboard), Carolyn!

Your welcome is appreciated..... I hope you still mean it now that you know
I'm an Aussie.

Carolyn
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: left is right is left

> Uh, let's see: Clinton is on the right wing of the democratic
> party ...

I recently read Matthew Rothschild's explanation why he would not
be voting for Bill Clinton.  It's in the latest _Progressive_.
Almost convinced me to vote for Slick Willie, he did ....

Steve Karlson

I bought my <yacht> well before the <luxury tax> took effect.
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Date: 6 Oct 92 15:08:00 GMT
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Greetings,

What!! abh arguing for government intervention?  Next she'll be
advocating net censorship!  In this case, though, she's right (or left,
as the case may be).  It's interesting to me that the principal author
of the cable bill was Danforth of Missouri, a Republican Senator (those with
good memories will recall he was closely linked with Justice Thomas,
whose candidacy for the Supreme Court he helped sponsor).  Obviously,
Bush wasn't able to get any old debts repaid this time.  Even the Wall Street
Journal, hardly an ardent supporter of government intervention, agreed
that the cable ads opposing re-regulation had distorted the situation.

I guess people who get the bulk of their news watching MTV will have
slightly different views on this one.

Marty
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Subject: Re: I *KNOW* WHO YOU ARE

*** Resending note of 09/28/92 12:15

>at least they'll be entertaining.  Perhaps we'll even have a couple of
>people threaten to signoff.

>Marty

Well you <know> I would! ....in the most unlikely case anybody would say
anything mean about me :-)

Don, who just wrote <tactful> letter to St. Joseph's Hospital in response
to year old hassling for bill in which they have made *extreme* mistakes!
But not all bad!  I have uncovered (in last few years) over $14,000 in
erroneous charges, that, after much letter writting, got reversed, and
received from the grateful state of Florida $2,000 for my efforts!

So, come on St Joe's, do your worst! (they usually do)

Don, the tactful business letter writer
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Date: 2 Oct 92 21:22:00 GMT
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>Tattered Cover, a local independent, but not exactly small.  When a
>near-by department store left its building, TC moved in and filled all
>four floors.  It is run the way a book store should be.  Regular
>signings and readings from local and national authors.  Chairs so that
>one can browse the books.  An incredibly knowledgable staff with a
>well-done computer system for tracking availibility.  Just make sure
>you never let your checkbook/chargecard/wallet make the trip with you.
>It would be a very expensive mistake.
>
>The Ronin

Don't remind me...the Tattered Cover is my favorite bookstore.
It's the one thing I missed the most when I left Denver; whenever
friends say they are going to Denver for any reason, I always
suggest that they make a stop at the Tattered Cover.  The ones
that have followed my advice usually tell me that I was right -
it really is the *best* bookstore.  I love that place, and if I
had the money, I'd open one just like it myself (ever since I
was a child I've wanted to own and run a bookstore).

They probably noticed when I moved - the sales figures took a
dip!

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)