HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:03:55 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: natalie's computer?
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> so what is it, dear natalie?   did you decide to keep the 486?  now that
> you've spent eons copying software and files, are you hooked?

It's not a 486.  It's a 386/33.  My old one is a 386/25, so the jump isn't
that great.  And this one (the 33) actually seems slower to me than the old
one.  Could that be because the disk is twice as big?  It seems reasonable
to think that it would take longer to find a file on a 200-meg disk than
on a 100-meg. My neighbor still hasn't figured out the cost, so I still
don't know what I'm gonna do.  When OS/2 balked at installation on this
one, my neighbor took the disks to his house to try on a 386/40 board.
Just a few minutes ago I saw him for the first time in a week or so, and
he said OS/2 worked on the 40.  So I may get that motherboard instead of
this one if I do keep this computer.  The only thing I know for sure is
that I'm gonna keep this disk no matter what.  I'm *not* gonna copy all
those files again.

> dan  (who also wants a 486....)

My neighbor also has some 486's sitting around his house.  I may get him
to figure out the cost based on one of them instead of the 386...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 13:05:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ubi Sunt?
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> >>O.K., but what is a <turd>?  Would I like it?  Everyone warned
> >You're not serious are you?  Is this another UK/US difference I wasn't
> >aware of?
>
> Is he ever serious?  It shouldn't be something that a North Carolinian would
> have trouble comprehending, unless he's more brain-dead than usual and his
> vocabulary server is down.  I know what <turd>s are quite well, but it's
> barely possible that us Nutmeggers retained the usage while those in the
> South dropped it.  Giggles sure tosses enough buffalo chips at the net; he
> *ought* to understand a reference to them when they are flipped back at him.
> <evil smile>
> Ruth
> tossing buffalo chip to Gilbert
>
>
The NET went down last night at 11 pm instead of 12 am as it usually
does on Sat night Sun morning, and my reply to this post either
a) got caught in the big shut-down-early-tonight, or
b) I replied in the usual way and because of ruthie's wierd reply
line, only she heard the exciting story about little -ggs as a child
and the boy-scout-donkey-biscuit-banquet.
SOOOOOO-------->
Little --ggs, at the age of 13, was at boy scout camp because his
mama made him go every summer to be <one of the boys>, and he was
laughing raucously around the campfire at some mildly dirty
6th grade jokes when his buddy slipped a <donkey biscuit> into his
(little -ggs') open mouth, which he then (caught in a fit of gasping
for air from laughing so hard) *swallowed* whole.  He was somewhat
irritated at his buddy, out of whom he would have beat the living
sh*t had he not been <indisposed> by his unexpected snack and had
his buddy not weighted about 200 lbs.   So, little -ggs *knows*
about buffalo chips and donkey biscuits and <turds> and <gt> is
just *too* naive for WORDS to even ask.....   (burp)
--ggs (getting sick from this little bit of nostalgia drawn from
the Tonkawa experience.....   )
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:25:57 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fermat update

>        Prediction: at least one of the boxes will, when all walnuts
>have been distributed, contain MORE THAN ONE WALNUT.
>
>  It works every time, except when somebody eats one of the walnuts.
>
>  This is mathematics! This is as profound as it gets! You may not
>believe me, but Tushar will confirm that this is so.

This is so. There are things called Dirichlet's theorem and Minkowski's
theorem which are practically nothing more than the 45 walnuts theorem.

tushar
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Fire and Ice
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 07:39:33 GMT
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LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Karen Kay) writes:
> I have had this problem when I was in an office w/ no windows that was
> so vastly overheated we threatened to wear bathing suits.  (They turned
> the heat down, then.:) )

For three semesters I was one of two TAs teaching a computer hardware
class in a room whose steam heating system ran at full blast year round.
We had the air conditioning on all year, too, trying to bring the
temperature down below sauna level.  (The windows were nailed shut.)

To the best of my knowledge the overheating didn't stop until the
building was finally bulldozed last year.

--karsten

(or is the rubble still overwarm?)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:01:07 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Re[2]: Brother Barbara
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>You know, why is Prostitution the world's oldest profession? I would
>assert that farming, or hunting is older.
>
>anyone else ?

You had to ask.

I heard an interesting paper at the meeting in Strasbourg.
There is a lot of new research going on with bonobos (pygmy
chimpanzees) these days, with a lot of controversy about the
meaning of what is learned.

A statement was made, which sounds plausible: for most animals,
male optimal reproductive strategy is to increase the number of
females mated; female optimal reproductive strategy is to
increase the amount of food available.  We're talking here
strictly about what is going to enable an individual to maximize
his/her input into the future gene pool.

And the implication is that females are going to be willing to
give sex for food, and that males will give food for sex.

Comments?

judith
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:25:51 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Archive Tape
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:15:43 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> > Akio's tape is about 65MB.  We have about 20MB more since then.
 (                              ^ This is weird!  has the volume really
  shot up that much recently or does the tape miss a lot out?)


Could you compress these and put them on line somewhere for me to FTP please,
Frank?  (Or, only if it's easier because you don't want them online for
more than an hour or so, ftp them yourself to doc.ic.ac.uk's /tmp and let
me know when you've done that?)

Thanks

Graham (about to get up to speed on wais & gopher)
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:02:47 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Repost

>Number nine . . . numeber nine . . . number nine . . .

Wow, I just ask about him, and there he bloody is again!

Shucks, I must have some kind of power of prophesy.

tushar

PS  Rashmi, be careful what you say.
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:27:33 EDT
From:         PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Mohawk

 Tomorrow night I have my first Conversational Mohawk class.
I have been trying to take this course for the last year and
a half and it is finally at a time that doesn't conflict with
something else. This will be my first experience with a
non Indo-European language. Does anyone here have experience
with any of the Iroquoian or Macro-Siouan languages ?
                                          Br Paul
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:03:51 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: FTP???
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              2 Sep 1992 18:01:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:01:00 EDT Gilbert Smith said:
>So I am making progress, but....
>Once I get to the DIR of the files, and see this:
>-rw-r--r-- 1 maynor 16     9013 Aug 22 00:27  index

the name of the file is index.

>.
>What is the *name* or this file?  I tried <get index> and
><get doc.words-l.index>  and didn't work.  What do you call it?

YOUR machine may require that it have a two.part name.....in which case
you say

get index  index.mine     (in otherwords, give it a two part name)

you could also rename it in the process

get some.file giggles.file

which would change what was called some.file in mississippi to giggles.file
in north carolina


dan


oh, yeah....sometimes things have three part names
like   some.stupid.file    and you then need to rename it to a two part
name for many machines.....

get some.stupid.file   stupidest.file
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:06:16 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: worse verse
Comments: To: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@tenet.edu>
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> >       Speak harshly to your Ay Bee Aitch,
> >        And Flame her when she teases,
> >       She only does it to Annoy,
> >        Because she needs the Attention.
>
> if it's poetry, why doesn't it rhyme?
>
But abh, poetry doesn't *have* to rhyme.
Doris (enjoying her chocolate chip cookie dough blizzard while John is
sipping his chocolate malt)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:43:42 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: RevereWare
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>it ever happen, I'll ask Paul how it compares to his real divorce.

Do you get a psuedolawyer to represent you? If so, I know a few candidates for
the job.

-abh
"you can't put a condom on your emotions"
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Rhubarb Pie
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:03:51
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In-reply-to: Theresa Wild's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:08:36 EDT

Theresa shares her recipe:
   [hope you saved it cuz I dele'd it here]

    Some people just chop the rhubarb up into the pie crust and cook it,
   but you can control the sweet/sour taste better if you cook it first.

I'm one of the latter--chop it up and put it in the pie, dump the sugar &
flour mixture on top, dot w/butter, add the lattice top and bake.  One hint
I've found, since I hate finding strings of rhubarb between my teeth, is to
de-string the rhubarb like you would celery before chopping it up.  I've
never heard of Theresa's method, but it sounds like a good way to make
great rhubarb pie.

//anne, rhubarb purist...say NO to strawberries//
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:13:17 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: mohawk
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:49:27 EDT, "Bill Merrill" <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
 wrote:
> Before we get into this (again) I wanted to ask what exactly is meant
> by "mindset." This is one of those 90s expressions that I have
> never felt comfortable using because I have been unable to pin down

In common use in the 80's.  It means a preconceived view of some field
such that different views just don't occur to you; for instance, in
computing there's the 'small machine' mindset, where you would never
dream of writing a program that used 300Mb of virtual memory to do some
operation that you'd normally do by multiple passes and 64K buffers...

I've heard the word used, sensibly, in computing quite often; I can't
vouch for its apporpriateness in other fields though.

G
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: Note to Bernard
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:31:51 GMT

In article <9208291804.AA21748@Walt.CS.MsState.Edu>
Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
 
>> Hey, Bernard, I was just leafing through my new Plow and Hearth
>> catalog and noticed they sell a flea trap--it has a 4-watt bulb that
>> warms this sticky stuff that releases a flea-attracting scent. Effective
>> w/in a 15-foot radius. They also sell pet wipes call Flee Away.
>> Just thought I would keep you up-to-date.
>
>Although I appreciate your keeping me up to date, I'm concerned about
>whether I would like the flea-attracting scent.  Would they let me do a
>sniff-test of it before buying?  I realize that I don't wear the trap
>or anything like that, but presumably it would need to be somewhere near
>me.  I'm also not sure about the pet wipes.  Exactly what is involved
 
speaking of scent and the time of year reminds me of a creative prank
used against neighbors growing up.  my parents have a large number of
trees lining their property and used japanese beetle traps to divert
the creatures from the trees.  the scented pads are quite inexpensive
and pleasant smelling so they aren't too noticeable when placed up
under the front seat of a car /c the windows left down.
 
i never did hear how they removed several hundred/thousand beetles
from their car.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:52:54 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English Aspiration
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              Aug 28, 92 10:50 pm

>
> > YOU don't fill out that test, by the way.
       ~~~~~
> > tushar

Ooops, I read this as didn't in my head the last time around.  No wonder
my response makes no sense.  (I knew I wasn't supposed to answer the test
when you first posted it.)  Oh, well.  Sorry about that.

rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)



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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:09:34 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Repost
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>>She and Grant should be on the road as we speak.  Wonder how it's going?!:)
>
>   more likely coming....
>
> ...
>
>dan

Sometimes I wonder where we would be without Dan's refreshing humour.
My faith is always reaffirmed when I hear his novel but still somehow
irresistibly earthy phrases.

tushar
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: mohawk
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>
>In any event, the mindset implied by the language structure was
>fascinating.  Of course, there *are* those (you know who you are, and I'm

Before we get into this (again) I wanted to ask what exactly is meant
by "mindset." This is one of those 90s expressions that I have
never felt comfortable using because I have been unable to pin down
a precise definition from context. Its meaning lies between "attitude"
"weltanschauung," but where? Is "way of thinking" at all close?
Does one acquire a mindset or are you born with one? Can you change
your mindset?  Am I mistaken or do I detect an implication in the word
that one mindset is superior to or more correct than another, as for example
when democrats speak of "the republican mindset?"
Bill "left my mindset at home"
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: quote of the day
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:24:25 GMT



"It is impossible that those who are actively engaged in the business of
life should have time for profound thought."
                                 --- Joseph Henry (1854)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:28:38 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: I am not afraid of words-l!
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	You are so, rich rhubarb, you yummy stalk, you.


Cz.
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:08:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Name of someone who mispronounces words

>        I am looking for a word that means:
>someone who constantly mispronounces a word no matter how many
>times you correct them.

A toal.

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:33:58 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ain't Technology Grand?
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Oooh, it feels goooood.  I love being software.  Thank you, mem.  Now
it really is time to log off.  After my e-oops, non-incriminating though
it was, it then took me ages to figure out why I was suddenly receiving
list mail in triplicate.  It's because I was playing around and decided
to change Bernard's name on his two list subscriptions.  After adding
him under new names, I forgot to set nomail for those accounts.

It's been a llllooooonnnnnnnggggg day.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Law of Supply and Demand
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:42:52
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In-reply-to: Lobstrosities Unite's message of Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:31:00 PST

Chris boasts:

   >(Right next door to Chris's Stud Mart?)

   Hey!  I resemble that remark.

Not with only one filly in your stable, you don't.  Unless, of course,
you've recently become the manager of a male whorehouse...

//anne, who *must* be anti-family values cuz she watches _Studs_// 
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From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
Subject: Re: I am not afraid of words-l!
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 21:58:04 GMT
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Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG> writes:

>> Hmm.  If Richh decides he likes words-l we're in for
>> some interesting times.

>	Nah.  He can't hack it.

Bite me.
(you'd be surprised where that "top" and "bottom" stuff can play.)

>> (Now was that "Richh" richh or "Saltgirl" richh?)

>	Rhubarb Rich.

Heh.  That has a nice OshKosh Bgosh overalls corncob pipe straw hat
huck finn barefoot yummy ring to it.

"rhubarb"  RICHH

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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:04:05 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: writing (correction)

>I say go for another Alliterative Revival.  Find an f-word for
>"glittering" in "glittering future forever foregone if funding...."
>I can also think of more f-words for what comes after that part.

God, are you serious?

Don't ever do that.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:39:38 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings Ooops
Comments: To: "Amazons in need of a <sinclair> station!"
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Posted on 2 Sep 1992 at 11:54:42 by Dan Lester
>>where to go...do you just say "fill me up?"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
>
>Yes, but only if it is a full service station.....
>unfortunately, most of them are self service these days....must be part of

Can you tell just by looking? :)

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:06:51 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: Re: One Student's Opinion
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>sis dear, you are getting *so* good at clever retorts.  This one is
>truly a <diamond in the rough>.... I'm not sure -abh is <quick> enough
>to get these little gems.... but we will surely hear from her...

Au contraire, mon frere...I am still laughing out loud from Doris' t-shirt
story. The one about fertilizer, however, I fell out of my <high chair>
laughing at the first time.

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:51:00 EDT
From:         ktw@POLARIS.ATT.COM
Subject:      I love the wording....
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Just got this as Divisional email here at AT&T:

>To Division 792:
>
>
>TAKE NOTE:
>
>The half-day workshop on sexism/sexual harrassment
	      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>for the division has been changed to Tuesday,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>September 15.  (Please remove September 25 from
>your calendars.)
>
>I hope this change will make it easier for everyone
>to attend.



Do I get warned or do I get lessons?

Ken
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:22:19 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English Aspiration
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> >                                           ...  I'm not sure whether to
> >interpret the yankee "you" as "y'all" or "you."  If I interpret it as
> >"y'all," I'll ignore the question.
>
> Sigh. I guess nobody is interested. I'll stick to taking a survey in the
> department.

The reason I would not have answered it if I interpreted "you" as "y'all"
was that my answer wasn't very interesting.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:57:09 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ribbit...ribbit...ribbit...
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> Did you have any *other* brothers with three knees?

First, let's clear something up. My dear old dad had no sisters, only 7
brothers (and yes, brides were found for all 7).  As for *my* brothers, I
have one *real* brother who has always made me laugh so hard my cheeks
(facial) hurt and my sides hurt. Instead of going into the entertainment
business, he turned into a computer person - starting out as a programmer
and now an executive with (shhhhhh) [ibm].  And he *still* makes me laugh,
although not as often as my three kneed brother.
doris
From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
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Date: 27 Aug 92 06:00:44 GMT
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CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
> I'm sure the NRA and its corporate
> supporters will start lobbying for a change in these lily-livered
> gun control laws.  Heck, if the rest of the faculty had guns, maybe they
> could have prevented this whole thing, right?

I suspect the NRA response would be that since gun control laws can't
stop somebody like this from having a gun then there is no point in
preventing normal people from having guns that can protect them.

--karsten

(Perhaps a lack of tenure control laws is the true problem?)
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