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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 19:33:50 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Farming and hunting
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              Sep 7, 92 5:15 pm

>
> >You know, why is Prostitution the world's oldest profession? I would
> >assert that farming, or hunting is older.
> >
> >anyone else ?
> >
> >jcs
>
> Farming is what the pimps do; hunting the johns.

Don't you mean hunting FOR a john...? especially in the old days...at
harvest time...


>
> -Mka
> Hi y'all.
>

Ditto-
Agnes
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:59:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      hurricane etymology
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     Courtesy of the New York Times, the meaning of the name "Iniki":

     "Piercing pangs, as of wind or love."

     Carol (who hopes karsten doesn't start in on the subject of
     piercing pangs)
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:08:30 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
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On Sat, 12 Sep 1992, Graham Toal wrote:

> There's a limit to how much we're willing to humor newbies.  Why don't
> you take a month out and study a few lists & a dozen or so usenet groups
> and come back once you know the basics.  You ask stupider questions than
> anyone else we've ever had here, with no redeeming humor or enlightenment
> to offer us in return.


What Graham said.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:51:10 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: clambake pics
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Posted on 11 Sep 1992 at 20:38:16 by karsten
>the War on Drugs troops.  These several-hundred-dollar lighting
>fixtures are essential for keeping corals alive indoors.

That explains why all mine died....

Actually, I have huge hunks of coral (that I picked up at Ka'a'awa)that
I use for paperweights and bookends.  Plus a piece of Mt.Fuji.  My favorite
things are two pieces of brain coral.  One is basically a full brain; I
had this habit of saying 'if I had a brain I'd be dangerous', so then I
started pulling out the piece of coral.  The other one is exactly 1/2 a
brain...which I give to anyone who says 'if I had1/2 a brain...'.  Why
am I babbling like this?  Because...I'm still at work, and most of my
coral is at home.(But I had to read the list before I left...)

Karen
who knows school is in session because she can't dial in any more.
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:54:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Good grief, it's today!
Comments: To: Doretta Hanschka <ak743@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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> Just don't do it too near the computer!  Nice color screens are rather
> expensive......
>
> btw - did the hard copy B-day greeting [with attendant Rita+Giggles shot]
> show up yet?
>
> --
> Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message

The Juggling for the Perfect Klutz is, fortunately, accompanied by
three bean-bags (bean-bags reminds me of a story, which I will have
postpone for now) that do only minor damage when dropped on the
floor or shorter members of the family.
.
I have received no <hard> b-day greetings yet...  I hope this is not
a cruel joke, getting my hopes <up> just to <deflate> my ego.
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:13:08 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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	From daemon Sat Sep  5 04:59 MED 1992
	I would have guessed a.e.u. if there hadn't been two typos.  But two
	seemed kind of extreme.  I think Graham and I first met when discussing
	huckles and things on a.e.u. a couple of years ago.
	   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

You *did* remember!  *Hug*

G
(alt.usage.english; alt.folklore.urban)
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Today's pop quiz
Date: 14 Sep 1992 03:33:07 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>  Well, she was wrong. The commutativity of multiplication is a difficult and
>profound result. By the way, what can we say about the following equations
>as a definition of multiplication?
>
>
>            x*0=0
>            x*(y+1)=y*x+x
That you can't determine the value of either x or y?  That they're pretty
meaningless?  That multiplication should be practiced only by those old enough
to know better?:-)

>  >She tells me that the answer can be got by taking 14
>  >eights.
>
>  How?
Hmmm - 14*3 = 42, and 5*14 = 70, and 42+70= 112   14*8 = 80+32 = 112

Works fine.:-)

Ruth

-- 
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:43:20 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Thanatopsis
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On Sun, 13 Sep 1992, Bayla Singer wrote:

> A poem should not mean, but be. [I'm plagiarizing again: keats, I think.
> probably a <good thing> I'm *not* an English prof]

Archibald MacLeish wrote that.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:30:24 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (58
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1992, Judith E. Schrier wrote:

> What Rolston is saying is that Jodie, Isabella, and Anjelica
> are intelligent and strong, unlike all other women, who are stupid
> and weak, and like all men, who are intelligent and strong.
>
> This statement may be a compliment to the three women named, but
> it is one hell of a slur on all the rest of us.

Or, as I insinuated earlier, perhaps the speaker really likes men and
needs an acceptable female outlet with whom to express these feelings
legitimately. Not you, Akio, the person you quoted.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:59:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: re: family
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> >Does this mean I don't get the grandchildren?
> >--ggs
>
> I think that, for now, no one gets them, unless we intend to
> be part of the family values debate (<shudder>), because I'm
> not married.  Of course, accidents do happen, and in the
> event of such an accident, I'll move home with my dear old
> dad, and his tc/sw...
>
> Jill
>    (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)

If such an accident did happen, you could just make up your mind
that you would never <darken the door> of *my* house again, you
ungrateful, irresponsible, immature child!   How dare you bring
this disgrace on this family....   Your aunt is in tears, your
lovely step-mother is so ashamed she cannot show her face outside
her own home, and your *father*.... well, he just *never* in his
life!
--your daddy who loves you very much
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:50:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Morsel morceau

Thought the following might provoke further the recent intercourse
on things linguistic



"The misunderstanding lies in mistaking habits or clusters for rules or
laws"

     Gary Morson

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:21:29 EDT
From:         Theresa Wild <TWILD@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      RE: clambake pics

>Fill each one with a $100 bill and send them to me. That'd make a great gift.
>
>-abh

 If I had the funds, I'd be happy to.  Unfortunately the house building
is sucking every penny dry.  I'm glad I have a few years to save before
sending Lillia to a <non-public> school.

Theresa
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:25:38 CDT
From:         aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      RE: Cook the judas goat first...
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>Only if it's a veggie simulacrum on wheels. I have an aversion to
>cooked flesh and avoid it when possible.


...then we won't be doing that Grand Tour of the IRC?

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:37:11 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: SEX ID
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Larry! Hi there, dude!

Wow, now I feel really at home. Like, I was really feeling lonely and
left out? Kind of like I was the only REAL guy around here talking with
a buncha weenies? Absolutely so fucking uncool see what I mean? So lets
be friends!

How was your summer? I had a lousy summer. No chicks to look at, anyway
UChicago is such a fucking barren place full of the ghastliest girls in the
WORLD? Thick glasses, nappy hair long cotton dresses and birkenstocks? I
think this place is not for me you know only guys with the smallest dicks
in the world should come here see what I mean?

Yeah I must finish this damn school real soon. I mean like REALLY soon?
Niteman, dude you really sound way cool man! Wheres VMI like? Whats the
scene there like? Are you a sophomore?

Hey you got some alt.sex.stories? Check em out theyre cool. If you got
some howbout trading? Im dying for part 3 of Tasty hot-sweet babe if you
send it to me I will even give you a buncha REAL cool hot giffs, tiffs,
jpeggs, bitmaps, dls, gls, quicktimes, like you havent seen before! Will
make your eyes like POP OUT man! Write to me, my email address is

             *******tushar@zaphod.uchicago.edu*******

See you around man!

tushar aka HuNk aka <<<groSlund>>>!
tushar aka HuNk aka <<<groSlund>>>!!
tushar aka HuNk aka <<<groSlund>>>!!!

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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:58:52 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Sinsemilla
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Sinsemila is the concatenation of two Spanish words, sin + semilla, literally,
"without seed." It refers to the top leaves and unopened flowers of the
marijuana plant. Just before the flowers (or "buds") open, the highest
concentration of marijuana's psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannubinol
(THC), is found in the slightly sticky, resinous tender top leaves and buds.
After the blossoms open and seeds begin to form, the resinous substance seems to
migrate more into the seeds, which diminishes the amount of THC available for
human consumption via conventinal means (i.e., inhalation of smoke or
ingestion). Sinsemilla is also widely reputed to be a much smoother compound to
smoke than the coarser lower leaves of the marijuana plant. Note, however, that
sinsemilla is not a particular regional variety of marijuana; it is simply a
highly potent form of the plant which was harvested just prior to the blossoms'
opening.

Note also that I know this stuff because I live on the border, and things like
this are common knowledge here. Marijuana plays a prominent role in folk
medicine here, and there are still little old ladies who grow a plant in their
herb garden as a remedy for arthritis. They harvest the leaves and make a
tincture which is massaged on sore joints.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 09:07:04 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Letter in Time (saves nine)
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>
>Which issue of Time did the letter appear in?

May 4

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 02:09:30 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: snaguinely:New word

>What shall SNAGUINELY mean?
>
>-Rod

Snaguine: Expecting (an undertaking) to be riddled with snags, i.e.
the (sort of) opposite of sanguine?

>PS: I didn't know that anyone had paid that message of mine any
>attention, way back when.

Everyone read it. But it probably takes an incident like this for such
a process to even start.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 23:03:52 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: College choice

>parent, she will need financial assistance. She has limited her choices to
>Georgetown, Duke, Brown, George Washington, Tulane, Johns Hopkins,
>Stanford and University of Virginia. She has considered financial aid,
>course of study, housing, and location to limit her selection to these 8
>schools. Her question is what to look at next. She would like to apply to
>3 or 4 of these universities.
>        I told Dana I know just the group to help. Your comments and
>suggestions about these universities would be appreciated.
>--patg

Tell her to go to Brown.  The graduate schools aren't much, but
it's the best undergraduate education in 'merka.  Really.

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:57:52 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Snaguinity
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Rod, the new word doesn't seem to be catching on.  If we can't get the
Words-L crew to use it, how will it ever be foisted upon the larger
English-speaking world?  I hereby propose that you and I each use it
once a day in a posting, unobtrusively, in order to hammer it home.
Here is my first contribution -- not unobtrusive, but just to get the
ball rolling:

  As he read Carol's and Neal's descriptions of wild-river rafting,
  conflicting emotions passed through his mind.  On the one hand:
  images of hard days on the water in supervised struggle with raw
  nature, and planter's punch around the fire of an evening; on the
  other: a snaguine dread of drawing the straw that would mean
  shitbox duty.

brad
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 11:05:49 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Father's Day, Anne, Father's Day
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  Ausbrook continues:

  >You're doing just fine, Torquemada.  Eat more, worry less, and it
  >is inevitable that you too will become human.

  Well, I can see that there is genuine venom in this, which I find
interesting in a way, because I am again reminded of how unpredictable
such outbursts are. Also it reminds me of the one time that I set out
myself to get to somebody in a nasty, personal, and explicit way on the net -
this was in a local (Swedish) politics group, at the time of the Gulf
war. I had been reading his stuff with considerable irritation for
some time, and had a few more or less civilized exchanges with him.
Then when he posted an article one night in which, under some peculiar
influence of the CNN "news" from the war, he stated that those
who were opposed to the war in Sweden (!) were guilty of treason,
I couldn't take it any more, but wrote a nasty reply ending with the
question why he felt compelled to convey to the net his heavy
breathing in front of the TV set. In his reply he stiffly consigned
me to his kill file. Now I knew from previous exchanges that he
felt very much hurt and misunderstood when people spoke harshly to
him, and this in spite of his own language being immoderate in the
extreme as he denounced the opinions and persons of those who
opposed his views. A peculiar phenomenon, but not uncommon. Indeed
he had written to me earlier saying that I would never say such
unpleasant things if we were talking face to face. This is often
mentioned as a feature of the net - the greater ease with which
people are abusive to each other - and there is no doubt that this
feature exists. However, at the same time I don't doubt that I could
have told this person face to face that he was babbling nonsense
of a peculiarly silly and revolting kind without thereby causing him
to feel abused in the same way. Indeed, brutally worded disagreements are
common enough e.g. at SICS without any ill feeling being engendered.

  So it might be interesting to attempt a sociological experiment here.
I think I'll start actively encouraging Ausbrook's dislike for me, by
posting lots of messages in which I say that he is babbling about
Fermat's theorem and other matters, until there is on the face of it
no question of his talking to me in other than venomous terms.
Then we'll see how we get along at the next Clambake.
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 00:51:50 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Neologism?
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garmonbozia = pain and suffering

So, has anyone else seen Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me?  I am willing
to state, without equivocation, that this is a great work of the
imagination.  Or something like that.

I know it's being discussed to death over on alt.tv.twin-peaks.  I
was just curious about the Words-L perspective.

What a great soundtrack!  It's playing as I write this.  My life
is complete.

brad
      "In a town like Twin Peaks no one is innocent."
                                   --liner notes
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:09:48 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Leaving... ?
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Noooooooo, Tony!!  You are not allowed to leave!!  Ever heard of U of
Toronto??  Find it.  Now.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject:      snaguinely:New word
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<<This is it! This is the neologism that Rod Kessler was
<<searching for. This is the word that The English Language
Discussion Group can contribute to the living language. I
<<love this word!

Okay, Brad, let's run with it. But I can't find Karen's
message about nuclear energy in Japan. What shall
SNAGUINELY mean?

-Rod
Rkessler@RCN.MASS.EDU

PS: I didn't know that anyone had paid that message of mine any
attention, way back when.
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 17:03:34 CDT
From:         aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      RE: Prostitution (wasRe: Re[2]: Brother Barbara)
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>And by the way, the symbol of the Great Mother in Her death aspect is a
>white ravenous sow, in the Celtic, Germanic, Greek and Sumerian cultures.

...all known for their indigenous developments in the advancement of high speed
network computing.

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:45:57 EDT
From:         PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Abbie hoffman

Abbie Hoffman was born Nov 30,1936. Oddly, both Barry Freed
and Spiro Igloo were born on the very same day !

                                            Br Paul
 btw - If I don't get a branch on the tree,I'll  leave.
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: A new superhero

>>I'd introduce a new superhero from another list:  Rapeman -->
>He is actually a Japanese comic book character, and has been for some time.
>
>Karen

Ahhso.

-Mka
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Sneakers
Summary: review
Keywords: movie
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 00:14:38 GMT

Saw a movie a few days ago: -Sneakers- with an
all-star cast.  Fun, if you like -Mission Impossible- or -The A Team-.  I
found some of the plot details a bit unbelievable (at one point, they show
that a motion sensor doesn't react if you pass something across it very
slowly: why they don't just *cover* the damn thing instead of having Robt
Redford inch across the room, I don't know).  James Earl Jones gets to
deliver the most perfect of deadpan lines, near the end of the movie: I'll
<spoil> it via email if anyone asks.

--bayla
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