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From: WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS)
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Subject: People more famous than I...
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:53:00 GMT
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Ruth responds to my babble-spasm:
>What's a conductor tocayo?  And why is it bad to resemble such a person?
(Hmmmm.  This must have been when you were e-absent...)
According to abh a tocayo is someone with whom you share a name, and why
would she lie?  I was referring to JW the composer of movie themes, with
whom I share a beard and a haircut two bits, but NOT an income!  8-(  There
is also JW the classical guitarist whom I do not resemble in the slightest
in either appearance or talent, and JW the dead British actor whom I
occassionally resemble in liveliness...   8-)

ps - Ruth, I've *tried* FTD!  Also dinners, etc.,(as witness Friday night)
to Noah Vale.  Her story is that we've known each other too long, etc, etc.
Well, I can take a hint!  She's still fun to be with, though...  Oh, well.

pps - If you people don't Stop Me Before I Post Again by picking up the
tempo I'll be forced to tell the Quaker-mule story, and in public, too!
Damn.  Wish I could post privately again...

JMW
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:07:00 EDT
From:         gilbert smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: still a loser
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> > she jumped on me in a very authoritative way (but low-key) when I
> > got out of line about aaron and then about doris' <wet> wit.
>
> I don't remember that!  What did I say re Aaron and about Doris's <wet>
> wit??

Re aaron, I was going on and on as I do sometimes and somebody said
<enough already @#$#%@#$#> and natalie chimed in with something
tasteless like "I agree."  I was devastated, coming as it did from
the goddess directrix.
Then, we (G and ggs) got doris in a huff because of the dirty
postcards and somebody, ndh I think, said something like even
brothers should know when to quit joking and natalie chimed in with
something tasteless like "I agree."
Or.... maybe my mind is <gone>....  but it makes a good story.
.
> > How times have changed, and in such a short period of time.
>
> What??  Don't I always give the final word??
.
Obviously not, since there were numerous breast-beating-what-do-
you-mean-let-me-call-my-civil-rights-lawyer reactions to the
deplorable treatment meeted out to the poor little cadets by our
very own goddix.
.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

p.s.:  I've forgiven you for everything, and I'm just happy that
most people are at least <talking to me> again.  Now, where's my
supper?
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: SUnrise, sunset....
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Karsten wrote:

>LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU writes:
>> Not a very nice thing to do talking to someone from another culture! Almost
>> deserves a slap on the butt. ;-)
>
>Have I got the newsgroup for you!

Yes? It wouldn't be called Words-L by any chance, would it? :-)

>(How good are you with knots?)

Not much practice there I'm afraid, but I used to be a whizz with handcuffs.
Would you like me to see if my black leather gear still fits?

Carolyn (extremely disappointed because her sons didn't want motorcycles for
their 18th birthdays).
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fun in Webster's
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              7 Oct 1992 20:47:13 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:47:13 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>bea.gle \'be--g*l\ n [ME begle] : a small short-legged smooth-coated hound
>DEFINE feist
>DEFINITION 0
>feist \'fi-st\ n [obs. fisting hound, fr. obs. fist (to break wind)]
>   chiefly dial  : a small dog

bet he REALLY breaks wind after too many snausages or too much pizza.....

dan
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: gas tax
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Karen wrote:

>Did you know Steve is an economist, Carolyn?!:)

It wasn't a conscious recollection... but who knows what my subconscious mind
was implying. :-)

>Yes, *twist* that knife!

With utmost glee!

Carolyn
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:29:31 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Lob's Profuse Apology (was WWHWIGTV ?
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>sort of like I won't say I'm sorry but I'll be a good guy again.  So,
>apology *accepted* whether you like it or not, and I think you are
>just the sweetest thing I ever saw in my life to quit acting like
>a hopeless *ss and to start being nice to your elders.
>I cannot begin to say how <proud> I am of you.
>--ggs (who *never* holds a grudge....)
Hmmmm, that sounds just about like it.

love, judith, who doesn't, either
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:54:13 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Presidential politics
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Posted on 12 Oct 1992 at 19:19:23 by Marty Rosen
>and an immature, disheartening grasp of important foreign issues (that
>answer on China!  Jeezus Christ).

This part of the tirade on Clinton.  Marty, in general, I am impressed
w/ the fact that Clinton lived abroad--he's the only presidential candidate
I can remember in a long time who has spent a significant amount of time
living alone in a foreign country.  I like this, because this experience
generally makes one sensitive to cultural values in a way no American presi-
dent in a *long* time has been.  But anyway....I missed part of the debate,
and would like to know what the question on China was?

Karen
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      "Grow" the economy?
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Clinton just spent a few minutes talking about 'growing' the economy.
Does this sound weird only to me?

Karen
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Lob's Profuse Apology (was WWHWIGTV ?

>From: "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
>
>love, judith, who doesn't, either

Nice to see this sig here again.
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WWHOMYTV
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>will actually have some time to stop and visit along the way.  Hint,
>hint.  My plans are currently up in the air (I do not even have a
>reporting date,yet.  I just know that I will be out there by
>November.)  My best guess is that I will leave October 24th and arrive
>October 27th.  I will be sitting down with road maps this weekend to
>plot (and post) my course.  Hope to see the occassional Words-l'er on
>the way.

	As I was telling //anne// the other day, I-70 carries you from Denver
	all the way to Southwestern PA, and takes you within less than an hour
	of Pittsburgh.

	In fact, I-70 would take you all the way to Frederick MD, where you'd
	hop onto I-270 for the quick trip to the Washington Beltway.

	DC is about 4-5 hours from Pittsburgh.

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                    "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
                                          -- Larry Andersen, relief pitcher
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:43:53 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: PCH

Dan,
  What I find intriguing is that PCH has promised to fire its outside
mail handlers and use inside staff from now on.  I wonder if this is a
case of "firing Murphy, if the management was unaware of what the mail
handlers were doing, or if the management practices themselves were at
fault and they would be changed?
  Any way, it looks like a bad day for Robert H. Treller and his band.

Evelyn (sad at missing Hillary for Chebyshev Polynomials)
From: ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU ((Ruth M. Hanschka))
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Subject: Re: Butt Plugs
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:22:08 GMT
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>
>>the bandwidth pigs of the world someone to pick on.  We NEED doofuses.
>
>The plural of doofus is actually "doofi."
>
What about the Superdoofus - is he a Superdoofer?
>
>John bet me that Dan Lester would be the first to respond to my query. I
>counter-bet that it would be anyone from the node *.netcom.com. Dan
>technically got a reply in first, but Karsten was the first to use the word
>"buttplug" in his post, whereupon John ceded the wager to me.
So what did you win?  Bragging rights?
>
>

--
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 99 and 44/100 percent pure
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              7 Oct 1992 10:39:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 10:39:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
>	Maybe so.  I have no idea *why* it's processed in such a way that
>	it floats.  But I'm all but certain that the '99 and 44/100' refers
>	to its specific gravity rather than any sort of purity.  Pure what?
>	Are you implying that it's entirely composed of a single compound?

I'm pretty sure that it is NOT a single compound....but had not
heard the .9944 idea before....but that figures, since it floats AT the
surface, and not farther above, like wood.  I had always assumed that
it meant my soap had no more than 0.56% of the usual culprits:  maggots,
rat turds, insect parts, etc....just like food and other products....

dan

(hey, neal, what the hell happened last nite....did NOT look promising)
From: WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS)
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Subject: Re: Tonight's ghastly debate.
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:15:20 GMT
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Yes on the VP who made the comment about the vice-presidency, and yes to
the container and the temperature, but the bodily fluid he named was not
saliva...nor sweat, for that matter...   8-)

JMW

ps - as an election sidebar, one of our third-world students was just in, and
her assisgnment was to research Andre Marrou.  Good luck!  In the last 18
months a subject search turned up a grand total of ONE article, and that in
National Review!  Methinks I smell a Conspiracy of Silence...  (Fulani and
the NAP had a whole three!)  Yessiree, and well-informed electorate and a
free press is the basis of democracy...grump, grump, grump...
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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Date: 15 Oct 92 14:53:33 GMT
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>In general, I consider the Wall Street Journal an impeccable source of
>news; is there anyone out there who faults it for its liberal bias?
>
>Marty

The WSJ is as peccable as the rest--just for getting things wrong, and not
necessarily with any particular motive.  It too is wrong about Gore's votes on
the Carribean Basin Initiative--Gore voted against it in 82 when it was all by
its lonesome.  He then voted for it when it was part of a monster, logrolling
bill.  That "omnibus" bill did not renew the CBI: it enacted it.

-K

-Mka
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From:         Emily Horning <IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Against the Grain

> Any of you--the librarians, perhaps--ever read a periodical titled _Against
> the Grain_?  Is it worthwhile?
>
> Michael E. Macmillan
> (macmillm@ewc)

Haven't heard of it - why would librarians be interested?

Emily (one of several list librarians)
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Subject:      Re: Short, pithy laffer quote

Greetings, Entropy,

Thanks for the source (free access to that database, eh?)

Marty
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From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Explosion & game question
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              Karlson 753-6980" at Oct 9, 92 3:17 pm

>
> "SimCity" is a great game.  If Emily, or anyone else, buys it,
> the rest of us will probably know it by the sudden drop in their
> postings to words-l.  I own it and every once in a while stay up
> way too late playing it.  I can also vouch for A-Train, which is
> a cross between SimCity and Railroad Tycoon.
>
> Steve Karlson

I haven't come across A-Train, but like both SimCity and SimAnt.  Emily,
here's a warning if you decide to buy it -- it can take up a *lot* of time,
believe me, I know.

rashmi
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Subject: Re: hell of a game, bucs
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:29:48 GMT
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              15 Oct 1992 12:57:46 EDT from <EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:57:46 EDT <EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU> said:
>Posted on 15 Oct 1992 at 00:54:54 by Dan Lester
>
>Yeah, but was she watching the game?!:)

  Yes, she was.....though she was sitting naked in her big overstuffed
chair in my office, where I was doing email or paying bills or something.

>second day in a row, bored stiff, with nothing to do but speculate on
>other people's sex lives!!!

   hey, whatever turns you on.....we never let sex interfere with
our football or baseball or basketball....

dan
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From:         gilbert smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: There *is* a god . . .
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> Greetings,
>
> Count yourself lucky, ggs, to get by with a mere harrumph.  The killer b
> is quite capable of more scalding rejoinders.  Ask her to fetch you a
> cup of coffee sometime.
>
> Marty

If I ever *do* that, I will be careful to cover my <tracks>....
But, while you are given advice, what is your *wife* doing?
--ggs
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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Date: 16 Oct 92 20:20:00 GMT
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> just about anything that has ruined this country is surely of
> Republican leaning.
> Don't y'all thank so?

Nope.  The National Education Association is solidly in the
Democratic fold.  Social Security and Medicare are the Democrat's
progeny.  And the Bush Administration is full of "me too"
Republicans -- the kind who praise big government programs in
principle and promise to run them more efficiently.

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone.
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      A Words-L Shadow Cabinet?

>Neal should have a cabinet post perhaps...or Surgeon General? or White
>House Chief of Staff.  Ken should be Defense, I think.
>
>Karen

Hmmm.  Maybe we should have a Words-L shadow cabinet?  (I think Tushar should
be the shadow Chief Justice of the Supreme Court--he wouldn't let Rehnquist get
away with his fictionalizing the facts in his opinions--given my entrance onto
the list with the gender thread, I'll shadow Clarence Thomas, Scalia's recently
acquired siamese twin--they're joined at the pen.)

-K

-Mka
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From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: gas tax

Greetings,

As Ross observed, US gas is no more cheaper than gas in any other part of
the world (I think--Steve can correct me if necessary--Adam Smith
demonstrated this long ago).  US *taxes* on gas are the lowest in the
world.  One could argue, I suppose, that raising or lowering taxes on a
particular commodity in order to encourage one kind of behavior or
discourage another amounts to social engineering (whatever that is!?).

Low taxes on gas encourage people to travel in gas-powered conveyances.  Low
taxes on gas also keep people from complaining about the fuel efficiency of
the autos they drive.  I suspect if gas taxes in the US increased to the
level of taxes in Britain, US consumers would demand that Detroit raise
mileage levels.

Marty
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:34:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Racist and sexist economics

Greetings,

Well, Steve ad Bill had better be on notice.  Today's Wall Street
Journal reports that an ad hoc committee of economists has distributed a
set of "Guidelines for recognizing and avoiding racist and sexist biases
in economics."  It looks like the thought police have outdone
themselves with this one.

Marty
From: WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS)
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Date: 11 Oct 92 18:39:00 GMT
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--ggs waffles for breakfast:
>I really wasn't talking about the middle name/initial in quotation
>marks.... that is definitely a <marked case>....
        I didn't use my middle initial until I'd achieved my majority
(Note I didn't say I'd "grown up"!) and then only at the behest of my [then]
bank.  It didn't stop them from confusing me with other John M. Williams's,
though...  In the Battle of Rourke's Drift during the first Zulu War there
were two JW's in just that one detachment. Well, okay, so it WAS a Welsh
unit...  8-)  Both won the VC, I believe...
Lemmee go check the white pages briefly...  Okay, there's 72 "John's" listed,
and 4 John M's...talk about getting lost in the crowd!                ^^^^^^

308 John Williams
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From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: The <Award>
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              92 7:45 pm

> Will all of you hotshot special eastern females please let us lame
> western males know what the hell these damn things are?  Doubt that we
> would get into any coveting, but.....

	We can't until Theresa <gets hers>.
	Sorry PotatoMan.

Rita
From: gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Date: 15 Oct 92 16:32:18 GMT
Organization: Current Science Tel: +44 71 323 0323 Fax: +44 71 580 1938
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1992 08:29:42 EDT, GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU wrote:
> Please don't confuse my argument with advocacy.  My routine method of getting
> such folks to leave me alone is to tell them that one superstition is as
> good as another -- which I probably believe.
>
> JAG

Good grief - if you rephrase that as 'one superstition is as bad as another'
then we're in total agreement.  I think it's the first time I've ever agreed
with anything you've said.

G
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From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Just Saw It
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The apology was just ahead of the e-oops in my mail.  Not a bad e-oops.
I rather liked it.  But then I rather like WORDS-L style.  :-)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: rita@EFF.ORG (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
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Date: 15 Oct 92 13:43:20 GMT
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	I don't believe I've ever owned anything quite like it in
my entire life.

Rita
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Date: 15 Oct 92 16:12:27 GMT
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Jim (You can get the ranch that another "Willy Horton" is coming)"

Maybe we know what it is on this list, too.  But Jim, your specialty
is criminal justice.  Could you direct us non-specialists to any
evidence that early release programs reduce crime, or are by some
standard effective at rehabilitating prisoners?

Steve Karlson
The cheesehead stands alone.
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I take it you come down on the incapacitation side in this issue?

JAG
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>Is this why you're the colpleat storyteller -- even if you have to make
>up the 'details'?
>
>JAG
J, please don't be offended, but what the heck is "copleat"?  Was that supposed
to have been "complete" with a few finger-slips?
Chris
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compleat...oops!

JAG