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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Ruth's Turn
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:01:10 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU () says:

>I would have been really surprised if you had known. 'The Flying Peanut' was
>the nickname used to refer to Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.... previous Premier
>of the State of Queensland - he had been a peanut farmer before he entered
>politics.
>
Holy transpacific deja vu, Batman! [Good ol' Jimmy Carter]  Don't tell me
the premier had an alcoholic brother with his own brand of beer....

>Ruth - pick a category!
>
I'll have Geography for $100, Alex, er... Carolyn.:-)

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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:18:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: T-shirts

Greetings,

Nothing but a words-l t, Karen?  Sounds like an ad for
Words-l of Hollywood.

Marty
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: I think we're alone now....
Date: 13 Dec 1992 05:50:58 GMT
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In a previous article, ll23%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu (Karen Kay) says:

>So UGA has gone down and it's just us guys w/ usenet now?
>
So it appears.  And those of us with power, of course; parts of my state
are still out, although it's down to maybe a quarter of the total we had
this time yesterday....  

What shall we talk about, now that the poor Internetters and Bitnetters can't
join in?

>
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Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:50:15 EST
From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: PSILink?

> > account on one of the better systems like The World, The WELL, or
> > Netcom?
>
> What Rita said. If you want a buttload of rants about PSI, just let me
> know, I can supply more than you can read...

I just asked for info from JVCNet in Princeton.  Sounds MUCH less
obscene than PSI.

K
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 13:26:37 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Identification etc
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Posted on 12 Dec 1992 at 12:47:43 by Graham Toal
>I hate to tell you this Karen, but Americans stand out in a crowd
>no matter what race they came from.

We already did this last spring or summer.  Not always true, Graham.

>Observations like these bring me to the conclusion that the 'typically
>American' features that we come to recognise over here are not
>genetic but culturally acquired.

Of course.  When was this ever in question?

>It's something about the mouth
>muscles that gives it away.  Must be from a lifetime of vacuous
>smiling and repeating 'hae a nice day'...

Actually, walks are more revealing.

Karen
who has never in her life said "have a nice day"
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: <sigh>
Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:44:54 GMT
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In a previous article, ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU () says:

>Posted on 16 Dec 1992 at 19:09:50 by Ruth M. Hanschka
>> Installing a second phone line here is about $50.00US, btw.
>
>Mine was $80 earlier this year.
>
Different local vampires, er, baby bells.:-(  Given half the chance, those
in-state long distance carriers will suck your wallet drier than skeleton
farts.... [to borrow a phrase from somewhere]  

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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:47:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?

> I assume that was German

Der war Schwedisch.  Torkel postiert nach Stockholm.

Steve Karlson

Go Packers!
From: ST403231@brownvm.brown.edu (Frank)
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:18:27 EST
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>From: gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
>
>        That is why the obligation on whomever the current royal stud is, is
to
>        produce only an heir and a spare.
>*cough-splutter-chortle-chortle* - I hope you don't mean Edward!
>
>G

Do you say this because of Edward's suspected sexual preference, Graham?
Or is this your way of letting us know you don't fancy him?  ;-)

Frank
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Doris becomes list cousin!
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:56:52 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

>> Kettle!

=Bayla, please supply sufficient evidence for your absurd claim that I
=have made a mockery of the holy bond of cousinship. Only then can we
=talk about this on a rational basis. I am absolutely certain that when
=you look for any proof whatsoever, you will be totally frustrated.

=tushar


tushar, my lost love, thou hast made a mockery of -all- things holy.

--bayla (grieving under the dark sun)
From: TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU (Blue eyes cryin' in the rain)
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Subject: Re: Red Line Story
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:17:00 GMT
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>BTW, the father of one of my NYU friends is the head of safety at
>SEPTA...will there be insurance  available for this Seat Sit-in? :)

        Depends on your line.  The creaky old Norristown cars are run by SEPTA,
        but those spiffy High-Speed Line trains to South Jersey are PATCO.

        BTW, welcome back, Aaron.

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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Fischer indicted!
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:26:10 GMT

ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
> *WHAT* liability???  Could someone please tell me what Fischer is
> charged w/?  They didn't say on NPR when I was listening last night
> either, just that he had been indicted.

Violating the embargo against the former Yugoslavian states.

--karsten

(He provided them with his services and accepted a few million
 bucks in prize money for winning)
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:48:39 CST
From:         Frank Peters <fwp@CC.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Water Cooled Computers
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In article <WORDS-L%92121419521964@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Tony Harminc
 <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU> says:
: >
: >IBM pig iron is water cooled.  Yes, the cold water runs through their
: >innards.  Quite an impressive amount of it actuallys.  Its one of the
: >many things that make the beasts so expensive to run.
:
: Sigh.  Mainframe Myth time again.
:
: The argument that water cooling is expensive is often made by those
: who don't have to pay for the costs of cooling their little air-cooled
: machines.  This doesn't mean that it's cheaper - just that the cost
: is distributed and no central authority ever notices the bill.  The
: same is true of the power costs, of course, and often the support too.

We have a machine room environment.  The air cooling system is separate
and we pay its costs (both power and maintenance/support).  It cooled
two Unisys mainframes with a significant heat output.  When we were
evaluating the purchase of a 3090 system one of the discouraging cost
factors was the monthly cost of running and maintaining the liquid
cooling system.  Note that I'm talking about the monthly cost, not the
one time installation cost.

It wasn't an extremely overwhelming cost increase, but it was
significant enough to be a factor.  Ultimately the decision was made
based on other factors (mostly software costs and the lack, at that
time, of a viable UNIX product).
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 11:45:06 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Help with a movie question
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The other night I was watching a movie on cable -- "Run", with Patrick
Dempsey as a Boston law student in trouble with gangsters.  The establishing
scenes are shot in Boston, but then the Dempsey character drives to a
New England town where his troubles begin.  I think it's a fictional city.
At one point, on the telephone, he tells someone "I'm in Sawtucket."  In
another scene there's a reference to "New Haven jurisdiction."  There are
lots of street scenes, with exploding cars and so forth.  The climactic
action takes place at a dog-racing park.  My question is:  Does anyone
know where this movie was filmed?   (As I watched it, I kept thinking this
might be the Providence area...)

brad
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From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: So is this bit.listserv stuff working?
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:56:48 GMT

In article <maynor.724296649@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) writes:
>It made it here via nn around 7:30 p.m. CST (8:30 EST).

That's the second reference you've made to newsreaders in the context
of speed of receiving news.  Are you perhaps under the misapprehension
the it makes a blind bit of difference whether you usr rn, trn, nn,
snews, cat or more?  (It doesn't)

G
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:07:35 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: URGENT CORRECTION.
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Posted on 18 Dec 1992 at 16:21:52 by Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)

>Some follow-up questions: what is Madagascar's most famous export,
>and what unusual fish inhabits the nearby waters?

Dunno about the famous export, but I think that's where they found
the supposedly extinct coelacanth (coelecanth?).

Tony H.
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentive
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:17:49 GMT


	My opinion of academia fell several more notches when I read
that.  What's next?  Equal Opportunity for those with lurker status on
our fair networks?  And what would they prefer to be called?
Conversationally challenged?  Online Impaired?  Virtually Enabled?
The mind reels crazily at the very thought.

	But the topic did inspire a most amazing bullshit session at
the office yesterday afternoon.

OH!  MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!
Quacky Duck does Particle Man!  Followed up by Istanbul is
Constantinople ala the Maltese Falcon.  Tiny Toons rule!  A most
excellent crew of Generation X'ers draws them indeed.

-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:16:47 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: The Amazing Listserv
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> difficulty... the first addressed to 'words-k' and the other 'wrods-l' -
> other listservs that I am familiar with wouldn't hesitate to bounce anything
> that doesn't meet the exact address criteria including case. I'm not very

Hmmmmm.  I've never known of a listserv that cared about case, but are you
*sure* about those typos??

> knowledgeable about such things, but it seems that this listserv has something
> the others don't. That's what makes me assume it's Harold..... or Bernard,
> perhaps? :-)

Listserv is a program written by Eric Thomas.  Although there are, I think,
some small features of it that can be implemented in various ways by the
various listserv managers, the program itself is basically the same no matter
where it's running.  (Not all sites stay up to date on the latest version of
listserv, of course.)

All of the above is referring to Eric's listserv, sometimes called "bitnet
listserv" -- the listserv that most of us are most familiar with.  I'm
annoyed that the person who wrote Unix listserv named it listserv since
people get it confused with Eric's listserv.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:11:13 CST
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Contranyms

I don't see how "poking your head" fits in with the other examples.
Anyway, this reminded me of the translation of "Vande Mataram" by
Aurobindo Ghosh. (Vande Mataram is India's national "song", though
not the national anthem. Don't ask me to elaborate.) In the English
translation there is a line which goes something like "Millions chant
your dreadful name."

For a long time I hadn't understood why the poet should say that India
had a "dreadful" name.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:10:30 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The beast among us
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Carolyn--
         Professional that I am, History.
                                         --b.c.

         PS--Am I supposed to edit something now, or later? I'm so confused.
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:14:10 GMT

>More to the point is Rita's academic bashing--it's currently PC to
>bash academics, and during a time of academic trashing in which the
>consequences include a public backlash based on hysterical hyperbole
>and misinformation, Rita's swipes are rather troublesome. It almost
>tempts me to say "having read Rita's post, my opinion of secretary folk
>has gone down another three notches".....

	Jim, I've been bashing academics since my first year in
college.  But don't take it personally; some of my best friends are
graduate students. 


BTW, will be showing up at CFP3?  I'd like to give you a big smooch in
person.


-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 21:24:31 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: T-shirts

>I've been sitting here in my nightie trying to figure out what to wear
>Karen
>who is Indecently Glad that she is not teaching now

Don't you mean, "Indecently Clad"?

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:27:07 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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>>What's a 60's mentality. I am attracted to the list and I don't know
>>what it is.
>
>Is 50's worse?  "In the mood" to "rock around the clock"

Oooooh....*serious* dancin' music!  It doesn't get better than them...
just add "string of pearls"...

love, judith
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:12:06 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: T-shirts
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Posted on 18 Dec 1992 at 12:31:35 by CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET
>Nothing but a words-l t, Karen?  Sounds like an ad for
>Words-l of Hollywood.

To paraphrase Don, "Aaaaaargh, Marty!"

Karen
who is fully dressed, thank you very much!
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Subject:      WORDS-L TP: URGENT CORRECTION.
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Ruth that's a History not Geography question I sent you.... I think I'm still
half asleep. :-(

The Geography question is:-

"What major island lies 250 miles off the south-eastern coast of Africa?"

Carolyn
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:53:44 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts
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Posted on 16 Dec 1992 at 18:46:05 by Michael E. Macmillan
>>It's a Supra 14.4, and it's slicker than dog shit, thank you.
>Now, is that the name of the modem or the cable?

I thought it was the name of a car!!!

Karen
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Chess: 31. and Chess books

Here is the chessboard after White's move 31 Kf2-f3

---------------------------------------------------------------------
                                          White   Black       White   Black
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+       M. Rosen S. Karlson   Rosen  Karlson
|   |:::|   |:R:|   |:::|   |:::| 8    1. e2-e4   e7-e5   17. Qc4xe6  f7xe6
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      2. d2-d4   e5xd4   18. Be2-c4  Nf6xe4
|:P:|   |:::|   |:::| K |:P:| P | 7    3. Qd1xd4  Nb8-c6  19. Nc3xe4  Bb7xe4
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      4. Qd4-c4  Ng8-f6  20. Bc4xe6+ Kg8-h8
|   |:P:|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::| 6    5. Nb1-c3  d7-d6   21. c2-c3   Be7-f6
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      6. Ng1-f3  Bf8-e7  22. Bf4-d6  Rf8-d8
|:::|   |:::|   |:::|   |:::|   | 5    7. Bf1-e2  O-O     23. Be6-d5  Be4xd5
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+      8. O-O     Nc6-e5  24. Rd1xd5  Rd8-d7
|   |:::|*P*|:P:|   |:::|   |:::| 4    9. Qc4-b3  b7-b6   25. Rf1-e1  Kh8-g8
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     10. Bc1-e3  Bc8-b7  26. c3-c4   Ra8-d8
|:::|   |   |   |:::|*K*|:::|   | 3   11. Nf3xe5  d6xe5   27. Bd6-c7  Bf6-d4+
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     12. Ra1-d1  Qd8-c8  28. Rd5xd4  c5xd4
|*P*|*P*|   |:::|   |   |*P*|*P*| 2   13. Qb3-c4  c7-c5   29. Bc7xd8  Rd7xd8
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     14. f2-f4   Qc8-c7  30. Kg1-f2  Kg8-f7
|:::|   |:::|   |*R*|   |:::|   | 1   15. f4xe5   Qc7xe5  31. Kf2-f3
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+     16. Be3-f4  Qe5-e6  32.
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:18:46 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs
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>Perhaps more interesting, why do mathematicians like Donne??  And is it
>significant that I loved math and that Donne has always been my favorite
>poet??
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I don't know about its significance, but Donne was the only poet we did in
high school that I didn't have problems writing a critique on..... and yes,
I loved maths as well.

Carolyn
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:44:51 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (72
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Posted on 14 Dec 1992 at 12:59:39 by Akio Tanaka

>By the way, are foreign residents required to be fingerprinted in the
>United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden or any other
>places?

Not in Canada, and I very much doubt in the United States.
> 1) Loglan/Lojban (Tony H.)

Loglan is a language created by James Cooke Brown originally in
the 1950s.  It is a completely logical language - it does not have
grammatical ambiguities.  There was a split in the Loglan movement
a few years ago - Dr. Brown decided that he owned the language, that
it was not in the public domain, and he didn't approve of certain
changes being made by others.  Lojban is a public domain version
of Loglan.  Discussion lists exist for both versions.

> 8) Orientar (Tony H.)

The Christmas carol 'We Three Kings of Orient Are' was being discussed.
It poses some parsing difficulties for adults, but children seem generally
to have solved it in various creative ways.  This is (I'm sure) one
common one - assuming that Orientar is a place.  Perhaps this comes
from an alternate wording that appealed to eight year olds:

  We Three Kings of Orientar,
  Tried to smoke the Rubber Cigar.
  It was loaded, it exploded,
  We don't know where we are.

Tony H.