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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:46:31 MST
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mechanics of Response Style (was Re: amendment 2)
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:56:47 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>>  I agree with you.  Ruth's missives are particularly difficult to read.
>>Come on, beloved Ruth....before Daniel Judges Ruth.....
>>
>Uhmmm - Daniel comes after Ruth.  It's a fun book to argue over, but Joshua

  Yeah, this Daniel is coming after that Ruth....and may even judge her...
though not sure he wants her to judge him....   8-)

>comes before Judges.... As any good Lyle Lovett fan should know.<grin>

   Oh, really???????

   Well, I always.....

dan
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Posted on 20 Nov 1992 at 07:28:20 by Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-40
>Where John "What's the M for" Williams is.

A backhoe broke his net connection.  Backhoes should be outlawed, I say!

Karen
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
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Posted on 19 Nov 1992 at 17:02:47 by Natalie Maynor
>in some way memorable, either positively or negatively, and I remember those
>who have stayed in touch.

Would you write recommendations for them?

Karen
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From:         "Tony @ Brownvm" <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Perpetuating the System (was Re: Old grunt
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Posted on 14 Nov 1992 at 17:52:57 by Graham Toal

>Selfish, because you're increasing your own safety by putting others
>at risk of accident, adding to pollution that has been shown to
>decrease the IQ of children brought up close to busy roads (from lead
>in petrol),

Bzzzt!  Sale of leaded petrol/gasoline has been prohibited in Canada
for two years now, and for (I believe) slightly longer in the US.
(To be strictly accurate it is prohibited for use in ordinary road
vehicles - use in aircraft, lawnmowers(!) etc. is still permitted,
but in practice it is almost impossible to find the stuff.)

Curiously the British government continues to insist that the link
of environmental lead and IQs is still hypothetical and needs more
study.  At the same time British car makers insist that it is
impossible to make engines that run reliably and economically
on unleaded fuel.  ("British" here means the British subsidiaries
of Ford, GM, etc.)

Tony H.
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:10:42 -0500
From:         James R Llewellyn <jrlst14+@PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Forwarded greetings

I have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on here. I went to
check my mail, and the list was back. I will attempt to keep up, but my
subscription is only as consistent as the machine and system that I'm
on. If there is anything pertaining to the following topics, please feel
free to send them to me personally.

Sex
Music (anything but C&W)
Youth in America
Leather
Parties (social or political)
Any possibility of a FTF with anyone.
Anything, really. I'm not particular.

I'll be back. Unless I can't. Even then, I might be. Unless that's not
possible. Then I won't. Unless I can.

I suppose I'm more like Perot than I thought.

Peace, Love, and Baritonality,(I made it up.)
Jim
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Second Greenish Message (to: Ken, Don, Anne, Evelyn,
              wordsmiths..)
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:37:06 CST you said:
>                     group for a week. My computer is against me being on
>                     any high-volume discussion group.

   In that case methinks you're in deepshit on here....when it is running
about 150 a day or so, with a peak of 300 in flatulent times.....
  Hope you make it, and welcome from the land of giant three-headed potatoes,
but not sure how to say that in Japanese.  Akio?

   dan
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      pretty weird
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almost no mail from words-l today....and have to assume that something
is bottled up somewhere, though note i just posted came back already....
either all the wordslers died and went to hell (the land of no email) or
else some netplace is constipated.....hmmmmmmm.....

well, at least for now i'm caught up with all the stupid shit of the
last couple weeks.

and for those who want weird, but lighter, crazyshit from washington
state, you could always get an archie mcphee catalog.....they are free,
where the loompanics ones cost five bucks.....

personally i'm kinda fond of the pocket protectors with a banana slug
on them.....quite decorative, as well as functional.....

dan
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Imposter
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:20:05 GMT


Superman is dead.  Got the issue right here; it's all sort of maudlin
and touching in a comicbook kind of way.  Nico being a regular
customer of New England Comics (a friend of ours is president), he
even got the black armband and decals.

I hear earth goes next.

But I only read Sandman and Hacker Files anyways.

-- 
Rita Marie Rouvalis              rita@eff.org 
Electronic Frontier Foundation   | And he spun himself right down 
155 Second Street                | into the ground. Now wasn't that 
Cambridge, MA 02141 617-864-0665 | lucky?  --Deadsy 
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:12:38 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Eggspots in the fridge
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> >            oooooooooooo   Top tray: a dozen half-ovals

I'm confused.  Do the o's represent the complete ovals?  If so, which half
is not there in the refrigerator?  And are we talking about hollow ovals?

> >            nnnnnnnnnnnn   Bottom tray: a dozen inverted u-shapes

How does an inverted u differ from an n?  And isn't it sort of a half-oval
also?  Are you talking about u's up there where the o's are given and n's
here in the bottom tray?

> >           --------------  Bar in front of the bottom tray

This part is easier.  Plane geometry is much easier than solid.

>   But what are
> the things one would store there that would require that shape?

Lemon and lime rinds after squeezing?  The whites of hard-boiled half
eggs after removing the yolks?

> PLEASE RESPOND!  THIS IS TEARING ME ALL TO PIECES.

Me too.  I wasn't concerned until Brad's note stirred me up.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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>>Well, now, a newbie who makes me <smile>. How long you been lurking?
>
>Hi. Not long -- just long enough to get a feel for how out of the
>ordinary this list is. I have actually only had my bitnet account for a
>couple of weeks, and I've already discovered this e-place. Makes me
>wonder what else might be out there.
>
>I'm glad I made you smile. It's not every day I get a chance to play
>around with risque business.

        There are virtually (:) ) lots of places similar to this one but
nothing can top it......  BTW, I've been doing reverse lurking - I jumped right
in when I subscribed but then started lurking. Gets a little fast and furious
around here!

Scarlett
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:12:50 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Slamming
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Well, it finally happened: I got slammed by a rival long distance carrier.
Warthogs. Haven't yet found out the dubious method by which they claim to
have procured authorization to make the change. Phreaked me out, though.

-abh
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 21 Nov 1992 23:02:49 GMT
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In a previous article, EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Tony Harminc) says:

>Posted on 20 Nov 1992 at 15:41:10 by karsten
>
>>(newer fridges also have larger freezers)
>
>My shiny new fridge has no freezer at all.
>
OK, I'll bite; where do you keep your ice cream?  The ice cubes?  It isn't
*quite* cold enough yet to hang it all in a box outside the window.  Not
quite - give it another month....

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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> >....possible
>
> Hmmm.  One might ask oneself, "Why should today be any <different>?" if one
> were so inclined.  Goodness knows I would not be that inclined.
>      ^^^^^                                      ^^^^^^^
> Chris

If I were not rolling around on the <carpet> laughing at *this*
I would have to ask what *language* are we speaking, please????
Or I would ask, *how* inclined are you, Chris baby, and in exactly
*what* direction?  Or at *what* angle?  As *ts* would say, please
explain yourself.  Immediately.
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:40:42 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      comics

I am probably the only person who has never seen Nitendo.  Well last night
was at son's dump (er, house) and he is playing something called Super
Nitendo.  Apparently he is very good at it (at least another person said so)
but I watched for two hours this ridiculous little character, with a whole
arsenal of weapons, go thru castle after castle, gaining all kinds of things
including extra hearts, but never seeming to reach the end of whereever thing
was going.  It got to a big scorpion and he called it quits for the night.
So I naively ask, well how much longer till you get to end?  Hours?  no,
days? unlikely, week?  maybe, month?  probably, a number of them.
Now I understand comic where boy tells dad he will go to bed just as soon
as he finishes Nitendo game.  (Dad didn't fall for it).

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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>What's the deal with this list lately? Volume is way off.
>
>-abh

I usually post in the night.

In the meantime, just delete fewer posts.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:07:34 EST
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: what? no report yet?
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>Posted on 23 Nov 1992 at 18:32:11 by Graham Toal
>
>Re: what? no report yet?
>
>
>See Giggles! Even strange newbies know how to use wackawackas <appropriately>.
>
>G
>(Hmmm... Brennan.  Brennan.... sounds vaguely <familiar> actually.  It'll <come
>back to me...)

humph.  so much for *your* private mail, toal ...
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>Reversi is like Othello.  It's not as addicting as Microsoft Solitaire,
>though, IMHO.
>
>Evelyn

Talking of addictions.... Anyone share my addiction for "Forty Thieves"?
Is 11,000 games in 18 months excessive?

Carolyn
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Handbook for Torture?

> My undergrad research group, the one I asked you all the reconstruction
> methods question for, has moved on...  Now we would like to find out
> about torture.  What is the purpose of torture?  Is it mental or
> physical?  We were wondering if there is a standard handbook, like the
> 60's terrorist handbook for bomb-making?
>
> Karen

Hmmm, how about _Behavior modification : the art of mind murdering_ by Richard
Camellion. Don't know if it's really a handbook, though...

The Maleficarum was also a good suggestion.

Reminds me of the time (when I worked in Interlibrary Loans here) that someone
ordered a manual for *police officers* called _How to Kill_.  Creepy!

Emily
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Words-L Weekly Digest
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11/9 - 11/15

Ruth/Graham debate on Biblical teaching and tolerance of difference ends
agreeably enough, even if there is some afterburn.  Jim T. offers as a
coda the proposition that conflict like this is to be preferred over
"pseudo-civility" because it allows us to penetrate to one another's
inner core.  Carolyn scolds Tushar, List ___, for deficiencies in the
human-relations arena; ts, meanwhile, switches from math to computer
science.  Mama judith and blomberg do lunch, more than once.  The
Ausbrook returns.  Gilbert yawns.  Natalie journeys to a professional
meeting in Knoxville Town to give a speech she may or may not have
prepared in advance.  Jeeves is unmasked as the father of Bertie Wooster.
New posters: Llewellyn, Prince of Pitt segways in; followed by bekka,
also a student at Pitt; Charles Cochran @ uga (who demonstrates
mastery of the use of angle brackets in his first post); and
Kip Shaw or "Kish" from SMSVMA (?).

Respectfully submitted,
brad
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Headless Chickens ...Everywhere
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ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Emily Horning) writes:
> Emily (anyone remember the sketch on Letterman a few years ago - the fastest
> typists in the world? :)  )

Yes, I saw it.  Dave had some sort of speed-typing stunt, but it
backfired when the woman produced what looked like gibberish.

I don't know if they ever figured out the problem, but I'm pretty
sure the woman was a Dvorak typist who didn't realize she had been
given a QWERTY typewriter.

--karsten

(who learned to type 60 wpm on a manual QWERTY typewriter)
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Subject: Re: Headless Chickens ...Everywhere

> > > Emily (anyone remember the sketch on Letterman a few years ago - the faste
st
> > > typists in the world? :)  )
> > Yes, I saw it.  Dave had some sort of speed-typing stunt, but it
> > backfired when the woman produced what looked like gibberish.

Hmmm - the one I remember had a woman who claimed to be the fastest typist in
the country (or something) and Dave set her up to compete against one of the
NBC secretaries. So Dave set them both up in front of typewriters, and they
began typing furiously, and when the camera moved from the secretary's to the
other woman's typewriter, you could see that her typewriter didn't have any
paper in it!

> > --karsten
> > (who learned to type 60 wpm on a manual QWERTY typewriter)
>
> rashmi
> (who never learned to type)

Emily (who never took a typing lesson, but can now type pretty fast)
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From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: No hay mucho tiempo

> ...
>So sensible and so much like the Spanish way of making a verb
>negative simply by prefacing it with "no".  Are there other
>languages besides Spanish in which this simple formation of
>the negative occurs?

Is every possible conjugation of a verb negated just by tacking
on a no?

tushar
From: DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Don Thornton)
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Date: 18 Nov 92 22:05:32 GMT
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Dan>: multistate lottery that Idaho is a part of .  last nite a coup
Natalie:
:I may be able to become a lottery winner right here in Mississippi.  On

But Natalie you have to play to win and you surely wouldn't play a game
where the total return to players is about fifty per cent, maybe you
would. Wouldn't roulette be a better bet? At least that pays about
94 per cent back to the players. Of course if you're going for that
big win. Good Luck!
                       -don
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!!!!!!!!!!!
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              Nov 24, 92 12:24 am

> I used to shop in the B.Altman's store in St Davids, when there was
> such a store... took my kids to their Weds nite buffet dinners,
> so I didn't have to worry about ordering stuff they wouldn't eat.

I miss the Altman's store too.  It closed only about three years ago though -
were you here then?

> Why am I homesick?

I dunno.  BTW, I think of you whenever I pass the Franklin Institute!!

rashmi
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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>
> Maybe Clinton will do what LBJ did when asked about his war wounds.
>
> On Larry King.

I thought that was LBJ's gall bladder scar.
ndh
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From:         PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      what can it mean?

Bernard Chien Perro         11
Paul Barfoot                11
Rod Kessler                 11

 Who are the <people> in my neighborhood. In my neighborhood. ...

 One of these things is not like the others. .....


Everybody sing along ...
                                                      Br Paul
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: emulaser

>has anyone out there ever used emulaser or a similar product?
>
>it is supposed to turn your printer into a postscript printer....i have
>a laserjet, and this will be a software product to do the postscript
>conversion....

I haven't tried any of the software Postscript solutions, preferring
instead to use a cartridge.  They are a bit pricey but may be a
better solution, depending on which Laserjet you have, how much you
want to use Postscript, and how much tolerance you have for fiddling
around with software.  I have been happy with the performance of H-P's
cartridge in my Laserjet III, but it didn't come cheap and required
additional memory in the printer to boot.  Now I covet a new
Laserjet 4. <sigh>

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:05:00 CST Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815) said:
>the Bears' placekicker is Kevin Butler.

One of my bosses is also named Kevin Butler; I just tried to picture him
as a football player and couldn't:  he looks more like a lay preacher or
missionary.

It's the same with Drew Pearson:  I used to read his columns when I was a
child and can't picture him as a football player, either.
>
>Steve Karlson

Evelyn
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Subject: Freedom of Association
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:43:00 GMT
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Greetings,

Graham's posting regarding Illinois is somewhat confusing to me.  First,
what laws precluded in the "in-migration" of black workers in that state?

Secondly, the case will, I understand, be tried in a federal court, not a
state court.  Federal courts throughout the US have necessarily tried
cases that reflected local problems and have often dealt with issues in
a manner that was not popular among those residing in the affected district.
Although there have been some notable bad judges sitting on the bench in
Illinois in years past, and probably are still, I see no reason to conclude
that the chance for a reasonable hearing in Illinois is any less than it
would be in, say, New Hampshire, California, or Alabama.  Possibly Graham
needs a quick summary about how US courts function, since I believe it is
quite unlike the judicial process in GB.

As far as the Nazis, etc. are concerned, the same right to freely associate
applies to them as applies to the CP or any other left wing organization, and
well it ought.

In this particular case, I'm inclined to agree with those who hold that the
Boy Scouts have the right to determine what qualifications can be required
of members, including belief in a deity, and can legally bar those who
don't meet the qualifications from membership.  Of course, I also agree
with those who would contend that offering this organization tax-exempt
status (which I believe it possesses) amounts to social engineering and
ought to be stopped.

Marty
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