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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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>        OK.  You'll appreciate this.  I had a crisis moment in
>Filene's department store this afternoon.  I had just bought my
>wedding dress and was walking towards the elevators when my wedding
>became "Reality" in a sudden flash (maybe it was the price of the
>dress..).  My knees gave out, and my girlfriend grabbed me and asked
>me what was the matter.  I told her, "I want my virtual life back."

Better to have that happen before the wedding than after it. My wedding
reception came to an abrupt halt when the bride groom and other assorted
guests had to keep picking the bride up off the floor every couple of minutes.

>        We then proceeded to shoe shop like possessed fiends.  I've
>never bought 3 pairs of shoes on the same day in my entire life.  Good
>thing this is all going to be over soon.
>
>--
>Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation

Yes! There's nothing like 'shopping abandon' to cure what ails you. :-)

Carolyn
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:15:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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Have just received notices from NEWLIST about two new lists, one
devoted to discussion of Touch Tone Technology and the other
for Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Librarians to discuss their special
needs and interests.  Which of these, I ask, is potentially the
*dumbest* idea?  I have heard from an only marginally reliable
source that George (of George and Franz) is the first to subscribe
to the second list.
.
Is there a list for Deeply Held Beliefs?  I certainly hope so.
I know some people who would like to subscribe.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:44:57 CST
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Eeeek
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Ra and Isis are stuck right now.  I haven't been online since last night
and am about to leave for Louisiana sans computer.  And I can't get to
today's mail.  Merde!  (I'm borrowing Bernard's account right now.  Don't
tell him.)
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Curses Soiled Again (was Re: Deep beliefs)
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:33:51 GMT

In article <Pine.2.4.9212221000.C21228@mickey.cc.utexas.edu> Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU> writes:

>I'm trying to get out of the habit myself, but find myself presented with
>a bit of a problem.  To say "[By the] Goddess!" instead of "God!" is not
>only stilted at present, but it tends to sound like a bad fantasy novel.
>And the more prevalent examples of pagan oaths in the language ("By Jove!"
>"Zounds!" and so on) make me think I should have a monocle.  "Ye gods!"
>doesn't work either, because I keep waiting for someone to say "Great honk!"

	I occasionally put myself on a crusade to clean up my langauge
(hard to believe I know).  I find that "Glory" works as a good enough
substitute for "God" or "Jesus".  Yeah, it sounds a little hokey, but
just about anything does in place of the usuals.  "Filthin'" works as
a pretty good substitute, also.




-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 14:45:02 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      pizza
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              22 Dec 1992 04:36:07 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

On Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:36:07 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
><*gag*>  Pizza with pineapple and ham actually can be pretty good, but
>*greasy* pizza with pineapple has to be the absolute pits.  Well, there is

   agree....

>one worse thing - pizza with hamburger, aka ground beef.  It doesn't matter
>how good the rest of the pizza is, or where it's from; the hamburger ruins
>it the minute it hits the cheese or the sauce. [depends on how you build a

   wrong....NOTHING is as good as hamburger and fresh tomatoes....except....

>pizza]  What's worse than hamburger?  Nothing, unless it's anchovies.

    anchovies and black olives is God's own gift to pizzadom....and a couple
days before xmas when i was feeling crappy and gail was too and didn't wanna
cook, she zapped herself a tvdinner and ordered me thick crust, lotssa cheese
pizza from Chicago Connection....and it really IS Chicago style....and of
course the pizza was anchovies and black olives....and when cinda was here
she and i shared a beef and fresh tomatoes...meaning hamburger...and the
sliced tomatoes put on top inn last minute of cooking....

dan the pizzacyclops   o-)
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:10:08 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Holidays
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>   Natalie Knows:
>   >Exacty what it is varies.  It's rice cooked with various other stuff that
>   >makes it look dirty.

Of course.  I thought everybody knew what dirty rice was.

>   That's great! I'm glad that you haven't yet stuffed yourself with turkey
> and fallen asleep in a corner.

It's not xmas yet -- not even in Europe.  Judith and I are sitting here
waiting for Brad to call us from Amory or Tupelo.

>   The action will be moving to Montana shortly.

I'm afraid I won't be a very good resource person on Montana.  I've been
there once -- on a highway across a corner of it.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>i have this hoard of blonde babe postcards that are almost antiques....but i
>lack the snail addresses of torkel and karsten and some others.....so they
>will miss out....do they wanna miss a card that BERNARD is getting?
>and GRAHAM???   and Ruth????
>
Oh no!  Dan, what have you done to me this time?  Sent me a card of a 
semi-nude geezer <ahem> middle-aged gentleman in not much of anything?
A younger version of same?  A card that had to be sent in a plain brown 
wrapper?  In a cardboard box?  In a radiation-proof box?  At least we all
know what the handwriting will be like - the same as usual.  That's not
the worst I've seen; the rather dubious honor of that position goes to me
father.....
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:16:56 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: On the shortage of lives on words-l
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              28 Dec 1992 23:34:02 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:34:02 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>Next time there is a hiatus in the listserv for a microsecond take the
>opportunity to experience the rest of the world in its numerous and
>diverse aspects. There is a whole universe out there. You could watch

      so why'd you come back, then?

>TV. Or maybe even play a video game or something! Get out of this list-
 ^^^
  hey, THAT'd be an improvment....

>serv frenzy for a while and you'll get to know what life is.

    sure.....learn from an expert on REAL life.....

>
>For your own good,
>tushar

   gee, sounds  to me much like  when nuns preach to the rest of us about
sex and marriage.....

dan   (who with one eye closed can see through tushie's shit.....)
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:40:25 -0600
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Car talk 'tween the girlz
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Natalie --

I own a Honda Civic sedan and my husband has an Accord.  The main
difference as far as I can tell is that there's more room in the Accord,
both in the interior and in the trunk.  However, it isn't a whole lot more
room.

-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------------
"Queens never make bargains."  -- The Red Queen, _Through the Looking Glass_
-----amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu--------------The University of Texas @Austin---
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:33:45 GMT

Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:

>And we have Dallas Raines, KABC, channel 7.

So THAT'S what happened to him.  Nothing like a union shop.

So, is KABC's news, IYHO, as bad as WABC's is? Eyewitless News,
I-missed-it News, etc?

--Aaron

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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:27:38 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Curls
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          Robicheaux, who always sees things "through" trees and is practically
        incapable of ending a sentence without remarking on the color of the sky
        and the smell of the rain, is now doing push-ups and "curls". What muscl
es
        are "curls" supposed to keep in trim?

'trunk curls' aka 'stomach curls' I think.  Stomach muscles.

Not that I'm one to comment on any form of physical exercise.

G
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Chilled-water @ UGA [Plus Chocolate Wafer Crumbs]

: Whatever happened to Veg-O-Matics and the little onion-chopping jars?

I still have an onion-chopping jar.  No little wood block in the bottom;
this one has a plastic block.  I'm not sure that's a sound idea.
Mostly I chop onions with a knife on a cutting board.

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:01:53 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
              1 Jan 1993 09:51:32 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>The list seems strangely quiet this morning.  Is everybody hungover, or
>what?

   Hangovers can be dealt with.  I just hope nobody spent the night
   in jail, or worse.

   brad
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:54:49 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: New Orleans
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> > Appropos of nothing much:
> > Sitting on the counter in my dressing room is an old fashioned footed
> > bathtub with gold lettering that says "Hotel Monteleone  100th Anniversary
> > 1886-1986."
> > doris
>
> I probably took a bath in that tub.  Did I leave a ring?
> --ggs

Actually, there *are* some <rosey hips> in the tub at the moment.
doris
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Job Corps

What about calling it "a U.S. work program for poor youths"?

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:15:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Merry X

Greetings,

I'm off to Louisville for a short sojourn, then the spousal unit and
I head for the Upper Peninsula for a snowbound weekend.  I'll
probably track the list from home for a few days, so watch your
steps (I'm making a list and checking it twice).

As for Aaron, I regret I don't have the time to post a note responding
to his typically stupid post.  I hope, though, Santa puts a hot coal
in Dickey's jockstrap.

Merry X.

Marty
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: An unbelievable article.

I used to have a sub to _Chronicles_.  I gave it up because the ratio of
noise to substance was too high.  I haven't much use for literary criticism,
and _National Review_ and _The American Spectator_ do a better job with
politics and such ....

Matthew Beams posted a few excerpts from one article he skimmed ...

        Women, the authors tell us with horror, "earn approximately 65 cents
        for every dollar paid to men."  This must be corrected through
        government-mandated "equality."  As even a liberal bishop should be
        able to see, the Creator made each of us different.  There is no
        equality in the talents we receive from God or the use we make of them.
        In fact, it is our radical inequality that makes the economy possible.
        If we were identical there would be no division of labor.

Matthew editorializes:

: (Pretty fantastic, huh?  Not only does it degrade women, but blasts the
: Catholic Church.  I just have to quote one more paragraph for you.  This is
: the best reading I've done in ages!!)

There are more effective ways of making points than Rockwell does.
For instance, if women really earn 65 cents for every dollar of
identical work done by men, why don't some businesses fire all of
their male employees and hire women and profit?  I don't see
Rockwell blasting the entire Catholic Church, just those Catholics
involved in writing the report.

(back to the quotation)

        At the risk of shocking moderns:  only women are equipped physically,
        psychologically, and spiritually to bear and raise children.  (That
        seems a truism and it is, but no form of truth is popular today.)
        Because of this, women do not have the same drive for power as men, or
        therefore the same role in the division of labor.  As sociologist
        Steven Goldberg has shown, men have dominated the high-paying, high-
        prestige positions in every society in history.  To the extent that
        women come to dominate a formerly male profession - medicine in Russia,
        for example - it loses status.

Innumeracy alert!  Assuming empirical sociological research is like
empirical economic research, it cannot "show" anything.  It can
reject or fail to reject hypotheses, or it can establish generalities
from which hypotheses might be drawn (and later tested)

... back to Matthew's post ...

: So, has anyone else overheated yet?  Can you even believe that there are not
: only still believe who believe things like this, but who publish their thought
s
; on it?  I'm not saying that people are not entitled to their own beliefs, I
: just can't believe someone hasn't stoned this guy yet.  :-)

So just don't take out a sub to the magazine.  The Rockford Institute
doesn't have a huge budget.  On the other hand, if someone stones Rockwell,
he becomes yet another honored martyr to PC tyranny.

Steve Karlson

Conservative, but not "paleo" or "neo"
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From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Copacetic
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Meanwhile, Cassius, copacetic with Brutus and the studs...

(Last time we discussed this half the folks said it should be spelt
with an 's'.)
Look in the archives for the derivation.  I've forgotten.  Black slang
I think.

G
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:51:03 -0500
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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              Dec 22, 92 5:34 am

>
> Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA> writes:
>
> >What *I* want is a list dedicated to <<DEEP THOUGHTS>>, as seen on Sat
> >Night Live!
>
> I have a relatively small list of "Deep Thoughts" in Unix fortune file
> format.  You're welcome to an email copy if you'd like.
>
> Why not propose an alt.deep.thoughts USENET group?  They seem to be
> letting just about any crazy idea go through these days.
>
> --Aaron
>

...Er...ahem....first I think I will get enough time to breathe, then to
sleep, then....

...Whew, I should have know someone would take this seriously...

Agnes
Scratching her head...agin
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:39:51 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Boyfriend from hell!
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Aha!  I've just had an inspiration!  The reason we haven't heard from Elaine
for months isn't that she's panicking about a book deadline - it's because
her sweetie has turned out to be The Pathological Murdering Boyfriend
From Hell, just like in the movies, and all this time he's kept her
tied to the bed and not allowed to answer the phone  Meanwhile, he's been
faking the occassional bit of mail to words-l to convince us she's still
in circulation :-)

G
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:08:37 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Questions
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              30 Dec 92 12:00:58 +1000. <9212300227.AA04666@sics.se>

  >>The oysters must be the testicles.... "to mash" often refers to
  >>making sexual advances.  A "masher" is a guy who comes on real strong
  >>to an unwilling partner.
  >That's what I thought it meant.

  In this case, mash is the clearly the "mash" of "reduce to a soft
pulpy mass", not the mash of "make sexual advances".
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:47:44 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Nerve of steel
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:22:45 -0600, "Anne Burton Harwell" <harwell@TENET.EDU>
 wrote:
> I don't know what you're bitching about, Graham, you never reply to them
> anyway. I might as well delete you off the Emergency Listserver, but I'm
> not that mean.

Oh, please do.  Only reason I didn't reply asking to be taken off
was I didn't want to annoy all those other poor sods getting 30-line
headers in their mailboxes.

G
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:59:04 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Car talk 'tween the girlz
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1992, Graham Toal wrote:

> Erm... I just hire one when I need one.  What's the Freudian significance
> you ascribe to that?

You're kidding, right?

-abh
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 08:39:32 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Copacetic
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> That's a first on me.  *Written* slang.  <Well I never>.

Yes, written slang.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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> >repugnant to all commonly held standards of humanity, then go to your
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Commonly held by WHOM???
>
> Karen

There's no easy answer to that one. I'm thinking of okthe kinds of beliefs,
such as Hitler's on Racial Purity, that turn off a lot of different people
for a lot of different reasons. The standard is fairly common, even if the
reasons for holding it are quite diverse. Similarly, there are commonly
held standards or parameters for what is desireable, things like "life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" which lots of different people
go along with, for lots of different reasons.
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:18:39 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nerve of steel
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> From: Graham Toal <gtoal@rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk>
>
>         --ggs (the one with the silver Miata.....)
>
> If you mention that fucking Miata one more time I'm
> going to ram it up your exhaust pipe.
>
> I hope you read the 672 pending messages.  631 of them were saying
> nasty things about you...
>
We also remember that Graham doesn't like this time of year very much and
he is in favor of public transportation.
doris
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From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Copacetic
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          >PS early sixties.

          Do you mean that you're from the early sixties? The first "copacetic"
        reference in W&F dates from 1926.

I meant that it was old slang (I thought black, but maybe not) which
regained a vogue in the sixties as hipster jargon.

G
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Washington and Old Dominion Railroad

: Oh, and Steve?  Any idea where the records for the Washington and Old
: Dominion RR wound up?  8-)

In your basement?  Why do you ask?  The W&OD began life as an
electric interurban; then hung on as a diesel-powered freight
railroad until 1967 or 1968.  There may still be corporate
records on file with Virginia's corporate records office; there
may be reports on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Steve Karlson
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