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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal%STACK.URC.TUE.NL@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Yo-Yo Ma!
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:I'm on deck, all dressed up and plenty of bandwidth on my hands. Chuckling out
:loud that Graham has finally subbed to us after all that b&m regarding the
:superiority of newsreaders. Read early, read often, old boy! Who wants to try
:some IRC 2nite?
:
:-abh

One thing I've discovered since reading this in mail is the vast superiority
of newsreaders to read, scan, and reply to this stuff.  I've been trying
to think of some way of gatewaying this into news so I can read it properly.

The *only* advantage of getting it through mail is that it gets here a whole
day sooner.

Graham (keeping *well* away from stuff like IRC; then I'd have *no* time
 left...)
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: flipping channels
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              14 Apr 1992 07:18:09 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 14 Apr 1992 07:18:09 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>almost never watch tv is perhaps a contributing factor also.)  Moral of
>the story:  avoid remote controls if there's a channel-flipper in your
>family.
   Interesting concept....but there are darn few TVs that DON'T have a
remote these days.  Of course that doesn't mean you have to use it, but....

dan  (who is back from Utah....with 1140 msgs in the queue upon return, but
now down under 1100 for the moment)
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      Re: Bomber Crews and PhDssdnd

A "newcomer"?  Nah...in the future, refer to me as an "Invader from
Generation X."

--Aaron
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Jones
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>
> >      Wait a minute, it still may be.  I am Scottish, Irish, and Welsh.
> > Quick, what are the heredities of the rest of the BWP's.  Is BWP'ing
> > an 'ethnic' thing?
>
> 	Hmm.  Greek, Irish, Romanian, Italian, Austrian, and French.
> As far as we know.
>
> Rita

Irish seems to keep cropping up here...wonder if that means anything?
ndh
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Letter frequencies (was Re: Gleanings (38))
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:36:58 GMT
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In article <01GILNNN3KLSN133TC@vms.cis.pitt.edu> TRAVEN%VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (The harder I work, the behinder I get) writes:
>	frequency order of the most common letters in written English.  Didn't

From a corpus analysed by Anne Zettersten:

Order of letters                            Type of document
etaoinsrhldcumfpgwybvkxjqz                   Everything
etaonisrhldcmufpgwybvkjxqz                   Newspapers
etiaonsrhldcumfpywgbvkxjqz                   Religious
etaionsrhlcdumfpgybwvkxqjz                   Science
etaohnisrdluwmcgfypbkvjxzq                   Fiction
etainoshrdlucmfwygpbvkqjxz                   (Ordering used by Morse)
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From:         GUBERT%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU

Suggesteth    GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU

> I'm sure we could get one of the ethnographers on the Qualrl-l@uga
> list on qualitative research to undertake the analysis.  Several have
> been making inquiries about such projects lately.

answereth  "The Ronin"

|save respond some of the grant money slip away?  And just how long
|have you been associated with collegiate level education.  I am
|shocked and outraged at this impropriety.
|
|The Ronin

Longer than I care to admit; over the course of my career I've been back
and forth between the "private" sector research companies (i.e., pollsters &
beltway bandit policy research) and universities (public and private), with
jobs including faculty, institutional research, and director of a research
center.  If you know a source, i'd be more than willing to apply -- remember,
IAM a MEMBER of the QUALRS-L list.

P.S. I'm also guilty of other improprieties.  Like telling the truth with the
statistics I provide to the administration and external agencies (if there is
such a thing as 'the' truth).

JAG
^bwp

PPS:  For the information of those offended by lack of trail in messages:
       have always known how to incorporate other messages.
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From:         torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: sad thought
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              12 Apr 92 13:01:14 -0400. <9204121717.AA26376@sics.se>

  Tony writes about the Narnia books (a recurring subject):

>The problem was
>that my reading skills were far ahead of my other reasoning - I completely
>missed the allegorical aspects of Narnia and read them as pure adventure
>stories.  When I reread them as a teenager I was appalled, both because I
>was embarassed at what I'd missed, and because I was annoyed at Lewis for
>trying to sneak such nonsense past an innocent child.

  But surely there was nothing problematic about this? On the
contrary, the very fact that you read these books as a young child
meant that you were able to filter out all the heavyhanded Christian
allegory and enjoy what is good about the books.
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Chicago is flooded...
Organization: Independent scholar
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:52:47 GMT


Rita thinks a little flood in the central city area can keep tushar and me
from reading or writing on the Net -- no such luck, Czarina!  Chicago is a
big city, and the flooded area is maybe about the size of Manhattan to Wall
Street, or Boston back to the Common.  There are *lots* of alternate nodes,
etc, through which our immortal messages flow.  Iushar and I are about 15
miles apiece from that area, in opposite directions (north for me, south
for him, as is appropriate for an ice empress and a sun god).

There will be no respite, foolish mortals.

--Bayla, who has lost her mind temporarily, after reading about 900 words-l
messages in a frenzy to catch up.
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reading to each other
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>
> Our next project is reading _Don Quiote_ together in the original.
> Rita

In Spanish??  Wow!
rashmi
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: student rebellion (was sad thought)
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On Tue, 14 Apr 1992, The Ronin wrote:
> > A Chevy through a police barricade?  This sounds like an interesting
> > story...how old were you?
>
>      17 going on 18.  There was a large scale, organized, school
> approved hazing event that I did not approve of.  (There was an
> anti-hazing statue on the books in Colorado at the time, it just was
> ignored.)  No charges were ever filed, but it left last a lasting
> impression on a number of upperclassmen.

I'll bet it did, but hopefully not tire tracks.

  The group I ran with became
> known as the 'Freshman Underground', until we became sophomores.  Then
> we were known as the 'Mines Mafia'.  For some odd reason the next
> couple of freshman classes were treated somewhat gentler.
>
I love it...anyone who's ever skipped through town with her hair in 50
pigtails, auctioned off used chewing gum on the corner of the courthouse
square, and tried to shampoo eggs and Log Cabin syrup out of her hair is
always delighted to hear about someone's striking a blow against hazing.
ndh
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: instant soprano

Asketh        Bayla Singer <bayla@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU>

>           I remember reading somewhere that in harems, the eunuchs were
> capable enough of erection etc -- but since they couldn't father children,
> the master of the house didn't ind if the harem occupants disported
> themselves occasionally.  Anyone have authoritative information?

     While I do not claim to be authoritative, I have also read of
this practice.  Even ran across one claim that the eunuchs were
sometimes preferred by the ladies at Roman orgies because they orgasm,
and thus their members didn't 'tire' as readily.

The Ronin
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal%STACK.URC.TUE.NL@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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	From daemon Fri Apr 17 03:33 DST 1992
:Graham,
:
:You were, are and ever shall be "strange meat." But that's OK, becuase "some of
:my best friends are strange meat."

Talking of clambakes, I always meant to ask; Are you a vegetarian?

G
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Interesting!
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Oops.  I guess this isn't a very good subject header.  What it means
is that I'm interested in the topic.  Probably nobody else is.  The
listserv seems to be fine right now.  I wonder where yesterday's mail
is.  Strange...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Roundabouts and such
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The soon to be fufilled feelings of revenge in
`My Boyfriend `s Back'
always pleased me.

Don
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:09:49 GMT
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Subject:      Seattle Mariners

*** Resending note of 04/06/92 12:59

>Well, in case anyone missed it, the Seattle Mariners were sold to a
>Japanese/American partnership on Friday.  Looks like Seattle gets some real
>owners.

Well, those poor, pitiful souls in St. Petersburg sure missed it.  They
thought the Mariners would some day occupy the big, empty Sun Coast Dome.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:46:52 EDT
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From:         The heart <FDOLEZAL%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      my apologies

On Wed, 15 Apr 1992 21:45:00 MDT The Ronin said:
>
>     Second, one should always avoid arguing with an ass.  People may not
>be able to tell the difference.  I withdraw from this conversation.
>
>The Ronin

How charming.

P.S.  all linguists are asses.
P.P.S. they have nothing BUT their asterix.
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:01:22 EDT
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From:         Judith Schrier <PRIMATE%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wagner's Law
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>Wagner's Law is a good topic, but get your butt up to the front and
>pay attention.  Adolph Heinrich Gotthilf Wagner, born March 25, 1935,
>died November 8, 1917.
Hard to believe nobody has commented on this yet...

>article that references some of the earlier literature (pay attention
>to the footnotes) is Rati Ram, "Wagner's Hypothesis in Time-Series
>and Cross-Section Perspectives: Evidence from 'Real' Data for 115
>Countries" in Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1987.

I bet he was real good at Time-Series...working from right to
left...

judith
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:09:40 CDT
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Archie comics
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>Americans in the Universities are not at all ignorant. But maybe that's
>not an unbiased sample. I have some more to say about this.
			 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The distilled essence of Tushar.

-abh
Virupaksha, where are you when we need you?
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From:         RKESSLER%RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: tax & penmanship
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The tax form I needed to deduct for the use of a home office related
to schedule C. I should have said that. You can still do it the usual
way on Schedule A. (I end up doing a mix of both, which feels like
something an auditor would want to hear more about, but I use the office
when I've got my professor hat on AND when I've got my writer-for-hire
hat on too.
    Thanks for the recommendations to go to the library--that's where I
found it.

    My penmanship was always poor. I was kept after school to practice
by a principal with old fashioned values. I even believed for a while
that handwriting was as important as, say, reading skills or math reasoning.
(They had me fooled about good behavior, too.) Nowadays I'm proud of my
scrawl and use a fountain pen. A couple of years ago my wife let me
accompany her to parent night for my stepson, then a 2nd grader. The
teacher seemed only to want to talk about penmanship skills. I had a few
words for her on the subject...and now my wife keeps me at home on
parent night. Maybe college professors shouldn't be allowed to go
to parent night anyway?
-Rod
Rkessler@RCN.MASS.EDU
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Tushar whines

//anne// says:

>Tushar whines:

Why this elegant variation ? Whines, Complains, Confuses, Shouts, Brays,
when all I am doing is only bloody saying things ? Anne, behave yourself
and use the right word.

tushar
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From:         "The harder I work, the behinder I get"
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Subject:      Re: Happy Horoscope
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For your birthday, Karen, Sydney Omarr says:

	You are an original thinker, possess pioneering spirit, are daring,
	innovative, sensual, romantic.  Members of the opposite sex are drawn
	to you despite fact that you can be stubborn, self-indulgent.  Father
	had considerable influence.  Leo, Aquarius persons play key roles in
	your life.  Current cycle emphasizes business venture, promotion,
	production, marital status, possible addition to family.  September
	most memorable month for you in 1992.

Comparing this with the Tampa version, I see that they agree on addition of
family members (any announcements for us?).  It looks like your finances should
improve soon.  Kinda disappointing, though, that Syd thinks *something* will be
more memorable than the July clambake.  On the other hand, just imagine how
wonderful *that* will be, if it can top the clambake!

You're 41 today?  But you sound so young...

neal
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bomber Crews and PhDssdnd
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>
>         IMO, every group will develop a set of in-jokes.  The test is
> whether or not we are willing to let others in on it. Were you made to
> feel reasonably welcome, Stu?  You seem to be adjusting to the list!
		.......
> the list because I felt my trust had been taken advantage of and *very*
> excluded.  I've never run into either on words-l.
>
> Rita
>
I agree with Rita.  Guess it takes a while to get the flavor of this
(or any) list, and though there maybe some goodnatured (for the
most part) teasing, I don't think there is a deliberate attempt to
exclude newcomers.  And as evidence, we seem to have acquired atleast
half a dozen regular contributors in the past few weeks - the
"newcomers" have been ahead of me in the BWP stats consistently :-).
And, besides, the "in-jokes" aren't all that cryptic, right, Stu? :^)

rashmi, somewhere between a lurker and a fullfledged BWP
From: gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (38)
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:06:16 GMT
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.

In article <9204070829.AA00660@isis.sics.se> torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU writes:
>in France that has not been occupied by the Romans (thanks to the
>magical potion brewed by the druid Miraculix).

Oh yes, and the names are different in every country too.  The
British version is 'getafix'.

G
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      CompuServe Flat Rate - New

Just in case anyone's interested....

CompuServe now offers a flat-rate ($7.95 per month) service, giving you
access to a subset of the usual stuff.  Most importantly, it gives you
unlimited email and acess to the news wires.  So, if you hate your mail
software, yo could always switch your WORDS-L sub over there and use a nice
front-end to wade through it all.  God knows it sounds enticing to me...

--Aaron
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN

> the only way.  In order to be a good writer, there is a necessary
> process of objectification of language.  You need to divorce your ego
> from your writing, and treat the words as manipulable objects.

That I agree with.  But we were talking about grammar, not stylistics.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: tarmac rugrats
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From Steve Karlson:
>
> "You're the oldest, you HAVE to set an example" (Mama K)
>
Yup, I heard a lot of that growing up.  And the thing that bugged
me was that my brother is only a year and a half younger
than me!!  The most unfair aspect was that whereas I had to "earn" all
the privileges of growing older, like getting an allowance, staying
out late, whatever, my brother obtained them at the same time as me,
and with a fraction of the effort.  I always told him that he was
lucky I had "trained" our parents.  We did some ganging up against
them.  The funny times were when we would be arguing about
something, and then dad would try to intervene - we would forget our
spat and argue with him, instead.  My poor dad - we are responsible
for a lot of his gray hair.

rashmi
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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: instant soprano
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              at Apr 16, 92 9:55 pm

The Ronin writes:
> Even ran across one claim that the eunuchs were
> sometimes preferred by the ladies at Roman orgies because they orgasm,
						            ^^^^
							whom? ^^
> and thus their members didn't 'tire' as readily.
		 ^^^^^^
		good choice of word....

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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Academies and Dictionaries (was Re: Gleanings (38))
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> ...I am not disagreeing with you, just repeating what I learned in a course
> entitled: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE....that's what the textbook writer
> said.  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Ur, uh, I bet that's not exactly what the author said.  I bet it was in
reference to the attempts to establish an Academy in eighteenth-century
England.  I bet it said that the attempts failed for various political
reasons (along with English distaste for copying something France had
done) and that some presciptivists rushed to fill the perceived need by
writing dictionaries and prescriptive grammar books -- e.g., Johnson for
the former, Murray and Lowth for the latter.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sad thought

> Just food for thought...could it be because private schools in the North
> were begun in order to provide a better education, while private schools in
> the South were usually founded to avoid integration?

That has always been my opinion, although I certainly can't prove it.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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