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From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: borders

Greetings,

It is certainly so.  Of course, the negotiations could fall through.  The
WSJ article indicates K-Mart already owns a small number of book
"superstores" called Basset Book Shops.  Has anyone visited one of these?

As for Hawley-Cooke in Louisville, to the best of my knowledge it remains
locally owned.

Marty
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:01:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: re: Tushar's Test
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> On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:03:26 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote
> > P.S. Speaking of Graham, if I had had any idea that giggles was going to
> > publish the results of the questionnaire, I wouldn't have been as incensed
> > at G's sending his answers to the list.
>
> Thanks.  That was the point - I thought if Giggles was going to play
> offensive games I should let him see what offensive really means.
>
> G

I'm sorry.  I am so dense I should have been voted *most* *dense*
*in* *the* *nicest* *possible* *way*, but then I intentionally did
not create that category.  So dense, I say, that I completely
missed the <offensiveness> of G's posted answers.  Seemed much
nicer, and yes even sweeter, than most of the ones I got by private
mail.  You wordslers are a bunch of vipers, that's what you are.
Vipers.
--ggs
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:00:59 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      WFF: An astounding finding!

Another analysis of the WFF poll! And it's result is truly astounding!

Did you think that people would NOT vote in the "unpleasant" categories?
Well,you were wrong! Tests showed that there was no significant difference
in the number of voters in categories considered offensive.  Whether this
reflects on the type of person who voted is yet to be conclusively determined.

The highest was 31, in the category of "youngest poster". We now present the
number of votes recieved in categories of special interest, starting with
the highest:

30 uses the foulest language
30 talks most about spouse/significant other
30 posts the most messages

The masses probably feel very strongly on the subject of foul language.
In close succession are a string of "complimentary" categories.

29 the virtual earth-mother
28 most pleasant
27 tells the most interesting stories
27 most clever

But now, the following don't differ all that much in the number of votes:

27 talks most about her/himself
26 nicest to newbies
AND
26 nastiest to newbies

Coming in close pursuit:

25 the most informative in a factual way
25 most irritating
24 most unpleasant  (just FOUR less votes than most pleasant)
24 most confusing
24 is the worst speller
24 asks the dumbest questions

These were among the most intensively voted-in categories. Of the remaining,
an interesting pair is:

18 has the most interesting life
17 has the most boring life

As noted earlier, most of those who voted, voted for "complimentary" and
"offensive" categories about equally often. WFF's it seems, bring out the
beast in you. Vote in a WFF today!

This penetrating insight comes to you from the desk of Tushar Samant.

tushar
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Blinking Lights

Did anyone see the report on TV about traffic cops getting cancer from
the radar units (mainly brain or testicular cancer)?

Evelyn Duncan
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Roninocity Revoked
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Sayeth Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>

> Congrats, Bob, er, Ronin, er, ahfergetit...I take it that means you chose
> not to go live in Atlanta? Oh, well, you'll probably do just fine near DC
> too.

     I did not choose not to go to Atlanta.  They chose not offer me
Atlanta.  From everything I could find, Atlanta was the better choice
(with the exception of being closer to my sister).  And I expect to do
well (enough) near DC.

Bob
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:00:37 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Japanese Lessons
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Posted on 28 Sep 1992 at 04:51:08 by Akio Tanaka
> Torkel,
> You get a B+ :-).

Hmm...I must be a strict teacher. I would have given him a C+. I thought
his style was close to being offensively direct, and for that I wouldn't
give it above a C. (But I give it an A for Bravery!)

>  Kore kara kaku nihonga ha chotto hen kamo shiremasen.
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Demo, Torkel-san no nihongo ha zutto mae kara hen zya nai desyoo ka?
(No offense, Torkel, watasi no mo hen desu yo.)

>  shinakute ha... Sukoshi dake kakasete kudasai.  (Amari tango wo
                                                          ^^^^^
Why? My understanding is that this means simply vocabulary items but
that kotoba can mean words/meanings/grammar--which I believe is what
he meant.

>  Kay-sensei
>  nara kibishi ku naoshite kureru to omoi masu...

WAIT!!!!  Have you been listening to Ausbrook again??  Torkel had
correcting him firmly (shades of a.s.b.!) because I am a strict
teacher, but you say being that it's me, I would correct him severely.
I prefer Torkel's characterization!!!!!

> (Comment): 'Risuto ni' should be 'risuto de'.  I am <not> saying
> that 'ni' is <wrong> here, though.  'Maseu ka' should be 'mashou ka.'

Hmmmm....ni usually indicates a point in space/time, while de indicates
the location of an action. I'd probably say ni, because of English
'on the list', but I can see why de would be preferable.

> 'Maseu ka' is an old-fashioned way of writing.  It reminds me of a
> seventy-year-old man :-).

Gosh! I've been reading so much classical Japanese lately I didn't
even twig.  Or maybe I'm a 70 yr. old man.

Karen
who constantly has to stop herself from writing omohu and ihu.
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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: test
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> Is macphil back?
Na - macphil certainly knows how to hack, but he can't spell that well.
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Posted on 5 Oct 1992 at 23:58:01 by IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
>Boy, do they hate us!!!!
>                                   Country

Boy, do you overrate your importance!!!!

Karen
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Final updage on imprisoned students
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1992, Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik wrote:
>
> That's one of those incredibly frustrating, infuriating things to which
> there's really no sufficient response.
>
It's the kind of thing that makes you want to reach out and hug your own
children just for reassurance.

Consider yourself hugged, Susan.
ndh
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Subject:      Re: Interesting Word

>Rita
>Who's been renting Monty Python videos

Hmmmm. Is this a fellow Monty Python fan in the midst of these words-lers?

lara
the newest newbie, who kowtows to no one, thank you
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In article <Pine.3.03.9210031440.A16710-9100000@abernathy.tenet.edu> Anne Burton
 Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU> says:
:
: You mean the "Honey, I Shrunk the Tits" ad in the front? There's not 35
: spare IQ points between the two of them (the models, that is).

Really?  That's interesting.  What are these models' names?  How did
you meet them?  Were they friendly even if they weren't clever?
Sometimes I think that is more important in the long run.
--
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From:         Smart Dog <bernard@VERY.SPECIAL.PLACE>
Subject:      Not Tushar
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I bet I know, but I'm not telling.  If Santa sends me a direct note,
I'll know for sure.   o/.\___/
                       \_____|
                       / \ / \
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> But you haven't met me. You haven't even talked to me on the phone! So whom
> do you know and love?

Yeah, even I have done that...next call's collect, Tush!

-abh
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From:         "(Alec D. Plotkin)" <185422285@WILD.UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: 747
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That must have been horrible. El Al usually has a very good safety record.
I don't envy you.


later

alec
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 19:18:53 -0600
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Blinking Lights

Sayeth BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU

>           Slow down you crazy child....
>           It's all right you can afford
>           To lose a day or two
>           When will you realize
>           Vienna waits for you.

     Given some of the distances involved in places like Texas, it
can a very long wait.  As long as the vehicle is up to it, the driver
is up to it, and the road conditions are up to it, I have no problems
with the 90-100 mph speeds abh quoted.  Once there is traffic ...  But
then, that is one of the road conditions, isn't it?

The Ronin
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:43:29 -0700 JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS said:
>...too bad that Lyle Lovett photographs badly.  I haven't seen anyone look
>that bad since they propped some of the Daltons up on boards after they rode
>into Northfield, Minnesota!  Good thing we "Liberans" don't 'judge a book by
>it's cover...'  8-)

Just for the record: The Dalton Gang got wiped out in Coffeyville,
Kansas.  I know this mostly because of a fine novelization of the 1892
raid by Ron Hansen called -Desperadoes- (1979).

Northfield, Minnesota was where the James-Younger Gang had their
Waterloo.

brad (Looks like Words-L had a busy night last night!)
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              27 Sep 1992 06:06:07 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>The Natchez Trace has always been the best place for the blinking-light
>warnings.  Everybody warns everybody else, always.  Maybe that's because
>the "enemies" on the Natchez Trace are often Yankees -- Park Rangers
>rather than ordinary Highway Patrolers.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

  I take it you know the Rangers firsthand, from having been cited
  for speeding?  My family always travels the Trace when returning
  home to Mississippi, and we love that roadway.  The posted speed
  limit is 50mph, and if you exceed it, you WILL be pulled over.
  We love it precisely because it is a National Parkway, free from
  development, commercial traffic, and heavy-footed speedsters. :-)
  I once drove the length of it, from Nashville to Natchez, stopping
  at every nature trail and historic site.  Took me three days.

  I should have said "from Columbia, TN to Natchez."  Fall of next
  year -- knock on wood -- it will be completed all the way to
  suburban Nashville.

  brad
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Rita wonders:

   > ///Peter

	   Are you related to //anne// in any way?


perhaps a d///////stant relative???

//anne, who wears a claddagh ring, but now pointing away from the heart//
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: fudge
Date: 28 Sep 1992 04:31:32 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL ("") says:

>: Dunno why but beefcake and fudge always does that to me.
>                ~~~~~~~~
>
>I still don't understand... you've *seen* me.  Where does the beefcake
>come in?
>
Well, we can't *get* you, now can we?  So we settle for the fudge.  Some
women like hairy teddy bears, even if they do talk funny.:-)  

Of course, this wasn't really the case - fudge and beefcake are both things
women ...<I can't say it.  I was going to, but I can't - too much training
by my mother too young> ...<verb > in bed.....

Ruth
who might bluush if she could, but can't, and definitely can't in this medium

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On Sat, 26 Sep 1992, s mandell wrote:

> How's the blue-kadelic psycha-rocka-rocka old folks' dance marathon
> going?

You mean Words-L? Definitely different. The newbies have juiced things a
bit, as we were hoping they would. Daily weirdness, nothing too unusual.
C'est la guerre.

-abh
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Subject:      Re: Induction (was Mensa)

On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:32:58 GMT Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>*** Resending note of 10/06/92 14:25
>
>>arbitrary point, she declared that I had lost. I suggested another game.
>
>Of chess?

Hope not.
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 3 Oct 1992 19:28:42 GMT
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In a previous article, tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:

>Well, not all that much of a curiosity, but still fairly interesting.
>Quoted below is an entire posting of Ruth Hanschka.
Actually, that's Ruth M. Hanschka, if you check the From line.  But, as
it's difficult enough to get people to spell my last name correctly, the
middle initial isn't usually something I worry about.:-)

>>Either that or senility; it's hard to tell at his <age>, and state of
>>relative <newbieness>.  Then again, he's been out of <circulation> for
>>a while, and this his <circulation> has been cut off.  This has been known
>>to do strange things to an older gentleman's <mind>.  Perhaps that's it.
>
>Absolutely no reference to peanuts.

Why?  Do you want some?  OK - no problem.<heh>

<plink>

<plink plink>

<plink plink plink>

<plink plink plink plink>

<plinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkpl
inkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplink
plinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkplinkpl>

well, you get the idea...

repeat ad nauseum or until room is full of peanuts

Ruth
There, will that do?

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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: The New Yorker
Date: 5 Oct 1992 00:50:22 GMT
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In a previous article, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:

>   (this was Wednesday or Thursday), I took it along to my favorite
>   barstool after work and was thumbing through it.  Another regular
>   sat down beside me.  First thing she said was, "Ummm, what's that
>   you're wearing?"  All I was wearing was my usual smoke-and-sweat
>   sachet, of course, but I didn't let on it was the magazine until we
>   started analyzing the contents together.
At least one person found a use for that perfume ad!  If you think one ad
in the New Yorker gave the magazine a "bouquet", you ought to smell a fashion
rag like Vogue.<holds nose>

>   I have not yet been tempted to "open to experience the luscious
>   intensity of Narcisse."  Will I regret it if I pull that strip?
So that's what it was!  DON'T PULL THAT STRIP!!!  You'll get the scent full
blast, and won't get it out of the office/apartment/glove compartment for
days....

Ruth
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: clothes
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1992, Doris Smith wrote:
>
> > ndh (who *doesn't* say "crick")
>
> Well, *I* do.  I've had one in my <neck> for two days.
> Doris

Well, of course I say "crick" for *that kind*!  :-)  What else *would* you
say?
ndh (glad it wasn't in one of your three knees)
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (61)
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              28 Sep 92 17:49:00 +0200. <9209280853.AA10557@sics.se>

  Akio suggests:

 >Kore kara kaku nihonga ha chotto hen kamo shiremasen.  Motto renshu
 >shinakute ha... Sukoshi dake kakasete kudasai.  (Amari tango wo
 >shirimasen node.)  Tanaka-san ha nihonjin nanode, enryo shite,
 >watashi no nihongo wo naoshite kurenai kamo shiremasen ga, Kay-sensei
 >nara kibishi ku naoshite kureru to omoi masu...

  Doomo arigatoo gozaimasu! Shikashi, doomo sumimasen ga, shitsumon ga
aru kedo..

  Now that I've managed to draw you out, you won't get away so easily.
Also, where is taihen kibishii Kay-sensei?

 "Kore kara kaku nihongo wa chotto hen kamo shiremasen" is not really
what I wanted to say. I did in fact want to say that it was my
intention to write in very peculiar Japanese, and I suppose bluntly
expressing such intentions is typical "hen na nihongo". Similarly with
"sukoshi dake kakasete kudasai". Far from "sukoshi dake kakasete
kudasai", I only intended to state a factual reason for my not posting
very much.

  On the other hand, in writing "naosu", I did in fact mean "naoshite
kureru".

  Anyway, my question is the following. Is it even possible to make the
blunt statement "From now on, I will only write in very peculiar
Japanese, although I won't be writing much, since I have a poor
Japanese vocabulary" in natural Japanese, and if so, how?

  Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Perotian quote

> Just talked to giggles, who is shut away among the ready-to-wear,
> and he says to tell you all that:
>   1)  *He* thought Perot was talking about WORDS-L, and
>   2)  He's not coming out of the <closet> until certain people
>       stop makeing (sic) nasty, uncomplementary, truely (sic) unpleasant
>       remarks about him.  So, stop it all ready. (sic)

If he sticks to saying doting things about his grandkids and tc/sw
I suspect nobody will hassle him about anything, including his spelling.
But if he's contemplating posting anything about the game, or political
economy, he should just keep playing with FAG.

BTW, let him know a Lobstrosity with sand in his shell is cranky!

Steve Karlson

Luff 'em and leave 'em
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: The New Yorker
              4 Oct 1992 06:32:08 -0400 from <boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>

Joan, the image of you hanging your copy of The New Yorker on the
clothesline to air out has brightened my otherwise dreary Sunday
morning!

The magazine is printed, assembled, and mailed at the big R. R.
Donnelley plant in Danville, about 30 miles from here.  Think of
what it must have been like there, with thousands of the issues
stacked up and being handled.  I just called the factory and asked
the person answering if there had been any worker complaints or
jokes; she laughed, but said she hadn't heard of any.  I will investigate
this further....

brad
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