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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:18:49 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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Posted on 27 Jan 1993 at 23:10:20 by BrownVM Mailer (108969)
>>Where is the dividing line between Northern and Southern Atlantic?
>
>The Gulf Stream ?

This sounds right to me.

Karen
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Aha
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> I use the key definition function ALT F8, to define one of the function
> keys as an escape.

You mean I could put something like + as the default escape for telnet by
mapping it that way in PCPlus settings?  I've never messed with key mapping
since I've always thought that feature was there to help people with IBM
mainframes, which apparently are strange.  One of the first things I
remember hearing in my earliest e-days was that people using IBM mainframes
have to do all kinds of weird stuff to be able to use normal programs like
Procomm that everybody else can just pull out of the box and start using.
That was before I heard all the other horror stories about IBM mainframes.
I'll explore the key mapping sometime soon.  But probably not before
tonight since I'm about to embark on a long and boring day of tedious and
boring work, alas.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:35:47 -0700
From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject: Re: My Birthday is in April

Bernard, if all horses can be born on January first, you and your colleagues
may all claim the Ides of April - the *&^%@#$#@@&^%%$@*& cruellest day - as
well.

JMW

ps - tell your human companion that more kibble will reduce those feists...
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: signoff
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  Peter grumbles:

  >Not always subtle. Try putting out a quote for scripture, or
  >challenging certain language usage.
  >If netiquette (neat neologism) varies from list to list, so does
  >the lack thereof.

  You seem to think of "netiquette" chiefly as politeness, but politeness
isn't all that important from a netiquette point of view. You will get a
good idea of what people mean by the term on Usenet by reading the
"Emily Postnews" article in news.announce.newusers.

  Believe it or not, but there is such a thing as netiquette in alt.flame
as well...
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:13:44 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: The Rankings

>By a point system of 1=8, 2=7, 3=6, 4=5, 5=4, 6=3, 7=2, 8=1, and no= -5,
>Toronto and Portland come out tied at 30.

I vote 31 points for a pig roast in Edinburg--with the full three days in the
pit for the pig.  I promise to make plenty of my soon-to-be famous Bandwidth
Barbecue Sauce.  I also have dibs on the reputedly especially tender and
delicious ankle.  And of course we should pickle the feet and tongue.  The
crispy tail is all yours, Graham.

And he or she who guesses the correct weight of the pig before cooking gets the
modem.

-K

-Mka
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Buddhism
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What a coincidence!

Tushar, if you please?

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Christia,

Are there any former Buddhist on the list?  I am interested to know what the
basic beliefs of the Buddhist are and where they stand on Jesus Christ.  I know
there are many different forms of Buddhism but I believe their roots are the
same.  Please respond to me directly because I am NOMAIL most of the time now.
Thanks in advance.

John <><


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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:37:14 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Salmonbake Uprising
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>>Judith didn't even use her guest account to telnet when she was here.
>
>Nonsense. She was guest3.
>
>tushar

Well, yes, I *was* guest3, but after the first day of the first
trip, I never *used* that account. I didn't use it at all on the
second (December) trip. I just slipped from Natalie's computer
without going through RA at all, I b'lieve.

love, judith
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:36:54 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Round 4
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              "BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU" at Jan 24, 93 1:35 am

>   As I understand it, the first player to garner all six categories,
>   roll back to the center, and answer a final question (category to be
>   determined by consensus of the other players) is the winner.

Thanks, Brad!  This is exactly what I was looking for.  The playing-on
until all the cards are exhausted must be some other forgotten game.

-rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:43:38 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Asians

>   Stamboul. That's the only thing I remember about Agatha Christie - she
>   calls Istanbul "Stamboul".
>
>Constantinople.  The destination of the "Orient Express" was
>Constantinople...until it became Istanbul.

Are you trying to say that I don't remember even that one word from Agatha
Christie's novels? I'd have sworn there was "Stamboul" in several of her
books.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:01:18 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: where to have it
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Posted on 26 Jan 1993 at 17:50:40 by Bandwidth Pig
>Outer Banks. Rosen's idea.

So you voted twice?  Once for Portland and once for NC?

I vote for Portland.  I already have to pay for a conference during the
summer, and I think I am going to Turkey for three weeks at Christmas,
which is going to cost an arm and a leg.

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:56:08 +1100
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (76)
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6) Yahoo Serious's aunt/Tandy's bag (Carolyn)

Greg Pead known to the rest of the country and possibly the world as Yahoo
Serious from the movie he made and starred in under that name, is the nephew
of my next-door neighbour, Shirley Pead. Greg was born and raised locally and
was considered a 'normal' youth by local standards.

A Tandy's bag  is a plastic bag from one of the Tandy Corporation's many
franchised stores here. Tandy's are the retailers of Radio Shack (electronic)
equipment manufactured in Japan for Radio Shack, a division of the Tandy
Corporation in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Carolyn
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:56:42 -0600
Reply-To:     Nancy Harwood <harwood@tenet.edu>
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Science/Nature Question
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"What's the common name of the world's most venomous jellyfish?"

Oh, yuck, Science/Nature!  Not a category in which I do well.  However,
since it received so much discussion on this list some time ago, I'm going
to say the Portuguese man-of-war.

Nancy
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From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Re: Thunderbird
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:02:11 GMT


>In a previous article, ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM () says:

>>> 3) Thunderbird ==  is a really *cheap* wine, was about 50 cents a
>>
>>Well, none of us <admit> to it anyway....  Thunderbird was part of the
>>pantheon of rotgut wines that included Gypsy Rose (drink a bottle and
>>take off your clothes) and Night Train. 

"Bali Hai, I hear you  calling....."
That stuff was even cheaper (and, as I recall, fortified)
:
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:18:08 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Tshirt colors

>Of course I look more handsome in my natural coat, but it is not stamped
>with an emblem of the list.  If I can't have a shirt, I'll have to see
>about having WORDS-L shaved into my natural fur.

Dog with list emblem, ha ha ha!

>P.S.  You *do* sound specist, btw.  I think Natalie looks better without
>clothes on.  Yet nobody has raised the question of why the human members
>of the list need shirts.

You leave the matter of why humans need shirts to superior human intelli-
gences. "Bernard". Worry not about complex questions.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:34:19 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: abh's Sport/Leisure Question
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:> Why the American version
:> needed a name change is difficult to comprehend though?

:How *do* you pronounce it?  I don't think Parker Bros. thought a game
:that rhymes w/ dog doo (or zoo doo!) was a good image-maker.

There we have the answer, Carolyn - Americans can't pronounce new words
by inferring the pronunciation, unless someone tells them how.  Maybe
they should have spelt it the Dan Quayle way...

G
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 21 Jan 93 14:16:12
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Neal:
	   I worry that the gray would be too dark, and the lettering would blend
	   into the background.  And that a few hundred washings would wear it
	   away.

PS.  I forgot to add to my last post:

	gray would look awesome with your eyes.

'nuff said.

	//anne//
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   "What's the highest mountain in North America?"
   .
   I am going to be very upset when I get this wrong, since everybody
   knows this.  It is very difficult for me not to look it up so I
   will not disappoint those who think I am very <smart>.
   .
   All I can do is close my eyes and scream MT MCKINLEY.
   .
   I want to die.   I'll take History next, as if it mattered.
   --ggs

Giggles,

If it makes you feel any better, I very recently (last week, in fact) asked
this question and was told the answer.  Today, when I saw the question, I
was given undeniable proof that my memory retentiveness is nil--I couldn't
remember.

	//anne, sympathetically//
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:50:50 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) says:

>> Are the following sentences exactly the same in meaning?
>> If not, how different are they from each other?
>> 1) How much do you spend a week?
>> 2) How much do you spend per week?
>> 3) How much do you spend in a week?
>> 4) How much a week do you spend?
>> 5) How much do you spend every week?
>> 6) How much do you spend each week?
>
>To me they are all the same.

To me, they're all just a bit different.  Two and three are slightly more
formal questions than one and four.  Five and six seem to be asking for
exact numbers, while the first four seem to ask for an averaged answer.
CLose enough for rock and roll, though, just as Natalie said.

5)Rocky the Flying Squirrel - the Rocky half of the Rocky and Bullwinkle
[a moose] team.  It was an old cartoon television series, in which Rocky
and Bullwinkle were the heroes [Rocky was the brains] and Natasha and Boris
[Russian Spies] were the bad guys.  It's still in syndication in most parts
of the US.

6)Rubber and park commands - The first one beats me; this is another one of
those joke/pun posts that are hard to explain after the fact.  A Park
command is what one gives to one's hard disk when moving the machine.  
It keeps it from being damaged.  [providing one is talking to a DOS machine;
Macs may use something else]  A Rubber command may have had something to
do with condoms, but it's just been too long.:-/
[swiss-cheesed short-term memory rides again!]


-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Yet Another Holiday Report.
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>Log onto my mailbox machine - discover 300 messages. Dont read them all.
>(TP ones are ideal for 'delete unread').
>
>More later...
>
>Adrian

You could at least have said "Thank you Wombat for making the subject headings
so distinctive!" :-(

Carolyn
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:46:16 -0600
From:         Bandwidth Pig <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Birthday
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1993, Evelyn Duncan wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:27:57 -0600 Doris Smith said:
> >H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y   T O   N A N C Y !
>
> Ditto!
> >
> >doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
>
> Evelyn

What she said.

-a
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:01:32 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Thanks for the words
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> Olde Englishe name is Harminc), so it doesn't count.  Is US jumper related
> to US jump suit ?  And where does jump suit come from

I thought about that when I was asking the question yesterday.  I don't
know of a connection between "jumper" and "jump suit" except that they're
both items of clothing.  I assume that "jump suit" is a self-explaining
compound:  a suit used when jumping out of planes?

> but it's for jumping out of planes in.  The female outfit is similarly
> constructed, but most wearers don't jump in them.

Doesn't "jumper" as a type of dress pre-date "jump suit"?  And I'm not
sure I would say that a jumper is similarly constructed.  (Nor would I
limit the "most wearers don't jump in them" to jumpers.  Or at least I
wouldn't have a few years ago when men were running around everywhere
wearing cotton "jump suits" -- a ridiculous-looking garment IMHO.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: Library Automation

In that case, Bayla, go up to the reference desk and ask the nice person
there to go make a search on OCLC for you.  Tell him you'll wait.

JMW

ps - Our district doesn't have call # searching either.  Well, we DO, but
as it was cobbled over from Dewey to LC it doesn't work worth a damn...
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1993, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> kept forgetting about.  It's sort of a word question.  When you hear
> the word "meditation," what do you first think of?  I'm not looking for

Huh? You say something?

-abh
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>Bayla, since it is now almost 12 noon here, I will use my time for an example:

I expect Bayla knows how to add 1 to a number. Do you have to take
everything Natalie says at face value?

tushar
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: An offer you can't refuse

Whoa!  "Viva Lost Wages"!  Hey, I could practically commute on Herb Kelleher's
flying Greyhounds!  And it would give me a reason to finally go to the damn
place and visit my father's Teamster pension money...  8-(  I'd druther go
to the Pacific NW, though, as abh has brought out the seafood lover in me...
<tasteless joke deleted>

JMW, who has decided on Taco Smell for lunch rather than chance the fugo fish
sandwich at Jack-in-the-Box...
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Where is my head? It's so obvious!

LAS VEGAS!!!!!

Tom Jones live on stage, Sigfried and Roy, slot machines beng pulmmelled
by robotic midwesterners wearing windbreakers, mobile home parks, a hotel
built on the theme of a medeival castle, <call girls>, <call boys>, <call
transvestites>, and did I mention Wayne Newton!

Oooh, yes, this is truly it. The only place in America where everyone is
equal and free, as long as there's credit left in the Visa.

Yoo-hoo! Sigfried! Roy!

-abh
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
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Thank you, Ann, for forwarding this week's Gleanings to me.  I resurface for an
instant to discuss my own listings.

> 5) Knute Rockne/Rocky Bleier/Stone Phillips/Pebbles Rubble/Chris Rock/
>    Rocky the Flying Squirrel/Kenesaw Mountain Landis/Rick Mount/
>    Rocky Nelson/Alex Rocco/Tom Shales/Horst Buchholz/Phil Silvers/
>    Rocky Raccoon (Neal)

        As I recall, this had something to do with silliness about rocks and
        such, and I just contributed a whole list of people whose names related
        to that general subject.  In order:

        Rockne -- famous Notre Dame football coach in the 20s and 30s
        Bleier -- football player (Notre Dame and Pittsburgh Steelers), now a
                TV sportscaster here
        Phillips -- NBC news reporter
        Rubble -- daughter of Barney, neighbor of Fred Flintstone on the TV
                cartoon show 'The Flintstones'
        Rock -- comic actor, co-star on 'Saturday Night Live'
        Squirrel -- star of the great cartoon 'Rocky and Bullwinkle'
        Landis -- first Commissioner of baseball
        Mount -- basketball player (was on the cover of Sports Illustrated
                while still in high school, later Purdue and a pro)
        Nelson -- marginal baseball player
        Rocco -- marginal actor
        Shales -- TV critic for the LA Times (?) and National Public Radio
        Buchholz -- marginal actor (a 'horst' is a geological formation)
        Silvers -- comedian and actor, most famous as Sgt. Ernie Bilko on TV,
                also a star of the movies 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
                the Forum' and 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.' (Silver, of
                course, is a mineral found in rocks...)
        Raccoon -- title character in a fine Lennon-McCartney song, on the
                White Album

19) John MacLaughlin (Neal)

        Political pundit of the loud, self-promoting, conservative type.  He is
        very entertaining, and not at all demagogic like the execrable Rush
        Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan.  MacLaughlin runs several
        discussion/commentary shows, mostly on Public Broadcasting.  He was
        once a Catholic priest, but left the Church to marry a former nun.

[no contributions expected for G(77)]
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> circumstances.  For example, the word "netiquette."  Chuq von Rospach
> wrote the original document explaining the very basics, and is given
> credit for making up the word, but I'm sure others came up with it at
> around the same time, and if Chuq were not around, someone else would
> have.

Don't forget who coined the word "e-oops"!!  I keep reminding you because
it's my only claim to being remembered in the net annals.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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