HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:52:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      SS Nos

    >I believe that Rita is fundamentally in error when she says that
    >ss#s are not to be used for identification.

I think Rita's point was that, by law, a social security number
cannot be *required* for identification. The fact that they are
used for many of our IDs (including at our school) does not mean that
the policy is in compliance with law. At our school, administrators
could recall no case of anybody objecting, so the policy here has, to
my knowledge, never been challenged.  There was a lengthy discussion
of this on The Well, and if memory serves, case law and federal policy
are reasonably specific in the view that social security numbers
cannot be required by the private sector or for most state or
government agencies as identification. This is routinely violated, and
the policy would not necessarily be applicable for international
transactions. I could check that past thread for details if it's worth
it.

Jim (342-42-2983) Thomas
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:20:00 CDT
From:         Bill Sjostrom <TA0WXS1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (54)

10) Greens [Greenpeace?] (Bill S.)

The Green party in Germany is a radical environmentalist party that
values insects more highly than people.  The expression "green" has
been applied to people, such as Al Gore, whose views on the
environment drift in that direction.
                               Bill S.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-VMS-To: _IN%"WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu"
X-VMS-Cc: AHARTFIE
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:39:00 EST
From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reading manuals
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>I set my friends' VCR clocks w/out their manuals (which they have
>usually lost).
>
>Karen

So do I.  Seeing a blinking VCR clock is one thing that *drives me
crazy*...and it's so easy to fix.

I loved that scene in "City Slickers" where one of them is guiding
the other through what one thinks is a mid-life crisis, but actually
turns out to be VCR-clock-setting trauma.

--Adam/LH
who had a very interesting lunch today with Ken and Ginny
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Sea World (was re: Gleanings (54
Date: 29 Jul 92 09:32:20
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: marley.think.com
In-reply-to: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:04:00 EST

Neal asks:

   Don's confused.  Colonel Grissom just turned 44.

   Hmmm, does that make September 14 the date I should circle in my pocket
   calendar?

No, September 16 and it's 29, not 44.

;-)

//anne//
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:50:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: gleanings
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> 7) GUOTF (Gilbert)
> ROTFL is Rolling On The Floor Laughing, so GUOTF would be Get Up Off The
> Floor.
.
Exactly right, bayla.  You are *very* perceptive.  -abh had no idea
what this meant when she read it.
>
>
> 5) The Chocolate-Cream Soldier (Bayla)
> I'm still not completely sure of the title of this play, but was counting
> on the expertise of the List to supply it.
> --bayla
.
This is The Chocolate Soldier, an operetta by Oscar Strauss, based on
the play, Arms and the Man, by George Bernard Shaw, and this is the
operetta that DonR's friend was looking for and I offered a cassette
of a cast recording of the play.  He was grateful and appreciative.
.
--ggs
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:57:08 -0400
From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: NH
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              17 Jul 92 14:09:31 EDT." <9207171419.aa15517@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

>Robymeister,
> You mention the craft show in Wolfeboro. If I recall, that's the
>one in the field at Brewster Academy for the benefit of the
>hospital, or is that a different one ? Anyway, Wolfeboro's a
>great place.
>                                                   Br. Paul

That's the one.  It is a nice place, and we had a good weekend, except
Heather didn't sell as many baskets as she hoped and the accomodations
were, uh, rustic.  Next time we'll stay in the dorms.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 11:05:06 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Atari user needs help
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
              "RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU" at Jul 24, 92 8:47 pm

>   His (and my) question concerns how to go about getting an
> Atari-produced disk printed on a system that's an IBM-clone or
> a Mac. Is this possible? Complicated? Any advice?

	Goodness.  Last person I knew with an Atari used an
IBM-compatible printer.   I think he would be better off using
a Mac lab, though.

Rita
When was the last time we've had *such* a gorgeous morning?
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:08:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Speaking of UGA...
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Not that we were speaking of it recently, but we sort of were since it was
dead for a while yesterday...  When is it that it's going down officially
for a fairly long time?  It's this weekend, isn't it?  I had LINKFAIL on
'nomail' while I was out of town but remember seeing Anne's forwarding re
the upcoming downage.  (I realize I could find it on usenet -- unless it
was more than a few weeks ago -- or grep it from the archives -- gopher
is not available at the moment -- or rather the WORDS-L part of gopher
isn't.  But asking on the list is easier.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Organization: Current Science Tel: +44 71 323 0323 Fax: +44 71 580 1938
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:01:59 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gopher
Comments: To: Words-L and the Bandwidth Hogs <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:33:58 CDT, "Anne BWP Harwell" <aharwell@panam1.panam.edu>
 wrote:
> clones, and oh, well, in the NT version we'll have true pre-emptive
> multitasking, unless they need to get the product out on time so it's released

NT may be a good idea.  They're putting NT on the Dec Alpha I think.  Should
run like shit off a shovel.  The Alpha *might* also be able to run a software
emulation of a Dos machine at a speed equivalent to a 33mHz 386... (which
means you could ditch PC hardware for good...)

G
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU
X-VMS-To: IN%"WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU"
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:27:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gopher
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.EDU

	Stepping into Tony's shoes for a moment, probably because I called in
	my order for OS/2 yesterday...

>And will my permanent IP address work if tn3270 makes qemm go into tantrums
>(sometimes, anyway) when I use the slip driver?  I'm still considering

	Nothing mentioned anywhere that I've seen about incompatibilities with
	the tn3270 emulator.  Besides, with OS/2 you won't have any need for
	QEMM -- it's a true multitasker.

>os/2, btw -- getting more RAM first, of course.  My main hesitations about
>os/2 right now are (1) I've heard that it has an icon-based interface --

	But you don't *have to* use the Workplace Shell, or at least I hope you
	don't.

>YUK, (2) I've heard from a local friend that the only time os/2 has crashed
>for him was when he used tn3270 in the same way I use it, (3) communication
>programs are slow on os/2 -- and they are what I'm most interested in, and

	Are you sure about that?  Why would anything other than modem speed
	have any effect on comm programs?

>(4) for the cost of 4 more mg of RAM I might be able to do some more
>meeting-e-friends wandering.  Those are not listed in order.  In fact, I
>think reverse order is probably right for them.

	$160 doesn't go as far as it used to, Natalie.

	If you have a legal copy of Windows lying around somewhere, OS/2 can be
	yours for just $49 plus S&H.  That's the main reason I went for it --
	if I end up not using it, I haven't wasted a whole lot of money.  I
	only use Windows to play solitaire, so what the hey.

	But that direct-from-IBM introductory offer, and the $99 upgrade from
	DOS, expires on Friday (call 1-800-3-IBM-OS2, that's 1-800-342-6672).
	Its regular list price is $139 (still cheaper than the DOS/Windows
	combination).  BTW, the IBM rep told me that, along with the software
	and manuals, I'll also get a videotape demonstrating the Workplace
	Shell and other aspects of OS/2.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
neal    traven@pittvms                  Bitnet          412-624-0097 (office)
        traven@vms.cis.pitt.edu         Internet        412-624-0110 (fax)
          "If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it"  --  Dick Allen
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:15:20 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Spelling/typing
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

The book that the article you mentioned is in is called _Cognitive
Aspects of Skilled Typewriting_.  There are a lot of ... muscular-
related articles (like on response times, etc.), but two that
might be relevant to you:  "Actively Learning to Use a Word Processor"
and "Knowledge of Word Frequency as an Aid for Text Editing".

Can you tell I'm in my office?

*hugs*
Karen
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:41:04 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Last night
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> action is very much integrated into the conversation.  I think
> many conversations are 50% action, some a lot more.  It allows

But didn't you see Bernard wagging his tail when you arrived last
night?  Was that before or after Rita gave him a snausage?  He and I
both had to leave around 7:30 but we dropped back by the party very
briefly around 10 (CDT).
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S. to my last note.  I know, Frank, I can choose Isis instead of Ra.
That's where I am now.  But I don't like Isis as much as Ra because I
like being sure my mail has reached its destination.  I don't like seeing
it get just part of the way.  I'm the one with brain disease, I know.
I can't imagine life without verbose set on to watch the machines talking
to each other.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:14:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: smokin'
              24 Jul 1992 07:53:21 EDT from <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:53:21 EDT jcs said:
>Just heard that one of the Marlborough Men
>(from the adverts) died of Lung Cancer yesterday.
>
>talk about occupational hazzards....

He campaigned against cigarettes after he found out that he had cancer.
He was on CNN quite a few times.
>
>
>jenna

Evelyn
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:03:13 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Five Reasons (was tushar, boy..)
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>>That's what delete keys are for. :-)
>
>and that's just what i did.  I simply find the EXCESSIVE QUOTING kinda
>nauseating.  It MIGHT be well worth reading, if a couple lines of pithy
>or pissy stuff wasn't stuck somewhere in the middle (or end, who the hell
>knows) of 200 lines of chaff.  Just thought someone might like to know
>the problems to readers.....I NEVER worry about plugging up the liines....
>the sooneer they get plugged, the sooner they get upgraded.

As the pomo quiz tells us, the form of the text is not distinguishable
from the content. Read the margins for greater e-pleasure, and try not to
push an email text in the straitjacket rules for a printed text, for that's
the better thing to do, considering the way the electronic society is headed.

tushar
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:10:44 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Speaking of UGA...
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>'nomail' while I was out of town but remember seeing Anne's forwarding re
>the upcoming downage.
     ----------------
Isn't that a beautiful phrase :-)

love, judith
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:45:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Delayed reaction: hot water cornbread
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> Crunchy Fried Corn Cakes
>
> Delicious with beans, and also good with a vegetable plate.
> Enjoy,
> Slow-Poke Doris

Yummie Yummie. :-)
--ggs (gobble gobble I can't wait...)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:42:16 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: No Picture of Giggles (was Re: Eating Whales)
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> I'll show you mine if you show me yours.....

That's a deal.  But I need to get more copies made.  I had doubles made
of both rolls of film but ended up sending copies of all the ones of
clambake day itself to Giggles, whose plea for pictures sounded so sincere.
He doesn't know yet that while he's out of town a fat envelope from me
will be arriving.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:54:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: bio

One word one, Torkel: Wow.

Ken
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:14:00 EDT
From:         Rita Leonard x3403 <LEONARD%BCVMCMS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Neglected puppies.

-------------------------TEXT-OF-FORWARDED-MAIL--------------------------------

You're right about that parenthetical part!!  Natalie was so disorganized
when she left home this morning that she forgot to leave my usual three
dog biscuits in the food bowl!  All I can conclude from this is that she
doesn't love me anymore.  I try hard to be a good dog and am faced with
neglect and indifference.  I bet she's not even gonna bring me any
cornbread from campus today.
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \


Bernard,

You poor puppy!  I know just how you feel.  My mummy didn't leave me
any cookies today either.  Thank goodness for my cat (Abby Leonard).
She got up on the kitchen counter and knocked the whole box onto the
floor for me.  At least she loves me.

                            Burton (the no brains dopey dog) -
                               who is feeling just a little bit sick right now.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:10:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: birth order
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>I was rereading _The Birth Order Book_ the other day, and just wondered
>how many other wordslers are serious, dependable firstborns?

     I'm an eccentric, spaceheaded firstborn.

     Carol
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 04:56:11 -0500
From:         "Pat Gathright" <patg@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (53)-> Imax movie
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> >An Imax movie is a technological marvel in and of itself.  A floor to
> >ceiling screen which wraps nearly three-quarters of the way around the
> >theater; numerous (50?) speakers located behind the screen, above and to
> >the back of the seats; a sound system and photography/filming methods which
> >mimic reality.  Combine these, luxurious seats, and usually a "documentary"
> >film topic and you get Imax theatre.

The Imax theater in San Antonio is 3 stories high and recently featured
"Dances with Wolves" as the last night feature. I was amazed that I could
read the credits at the end of the movie. Usually they are so small the
you can't even make out the letters much less read it. I read they are
making an Imax movie of rock groups. Can you imagine Mick Jaggar's lip
three stories high!
--Patg
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:58:26 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Eating Whales

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:10:41 +0200 <torkel@SICS.SE> said:
>   >Ambergris.
>  A funny thing about this: according to webster it's a matter of speculation
>to associate ambergris with sperm whales:
>:a waxy substance found floating in or on the shores of tropical waters,
>     believed to originate in the intestines of the sperm whale,
>     and used in perfumery as a fixative
Gentleone,
   It appears that Webster didn't keep up with the whalers.  Ambergris does
indeed line the intestines of sperm whales, presumably as protection from
cuttlefish skeletons and other sharp objects in the sperm whale's diet.  As
whalers deduced.  In the great tradition of killing Golden Geese, whalers
were quick to harvest the sperms just for the abdominal content, often
discarding the rest of the whale.
Peace,
EPD
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:40:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: This and that
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

AnneD, Resident List Pregnant Lady, writes:

>3.  Shopping at thrift stores such as Goodwill and Sallie's (Sal-
>    vation Army):  Oh please!  Just because we're so-called "white
>    collar types"  (I am *not* a computer nerd, thank you!), we
>    should pay those inflated store prices to clothe our families?
>    This is especially true for kids' clothes -- kids grow so FAST.
>    All my kids' clothing comes either from the Sallie or from
>    friends' hand-me-downs, except for underwear and shoes.  So

The Wolmans' favorite clothing stores:

	NBO
	Annie Sez
	Marshall's
	The Gap
	LL Beans & Lands End
	Freeport, Maine

Marshall's has the atmosphere of a schlock-bazaar, sometimes they get
shipments of one pants size (28-52, obviously NBA castoffs), but you
can get lucky at up to 60% off.  Annie Sez is limited.  NBO is the
first place I look for serious clothing.  The Gap is where we go when
we want to get quality new stuff for unobscene prices.  The mailorder
places are lots cheaper than the stores, and the quality is usually
better.

Freeport will turn into a summer ritual in my house.  We're going back
again in two weeks.

Last year, I bought a bowtie in Brooks Brothers, just because....
I've worn it exactly once, at my son's bar mitzvah.  I figured I'd
pass on the outlets that one time.

Ken
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:06:37 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: My Mac can do these...
              21 Jul 1992 15:02:32 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Phones; the problems we've had with phones this week (if I were a
drinking person, I'd take a good shot of Scotch).  OK, the university
paid 2.3 million dollars to have ATT put in a new phone system; it doesn't
have the money for tutoring students, but a new phone system, it has the
money for.  As of now, we only have one phone working in this office
suite, one phone sounds like a Geiger Counter in Three Mile Island, and
calls to the third go off to Electronic Systems.  We'd do better with
tin cans and string.

Evelyn
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 11:39:21 -0900
From:         RUTH M RYAN <JSRMR%ALASKA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: dreary weekend

Hi folks. I've been lurking on this list for a few weeks now, and
enjoying the "dribbling insanity" that floods my mailbox.  I hope
you won't get serious in any great hurry...  this list provides the
entertainment sorely lacking in my acadamia-dominated life.
-  Ruth (jsrmr@alaska.bitnet)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 14:53:09 -0500
From:         "Pat Gathright" <patg@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: No grass on interstate
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Sun, 26 Jul 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> ON the interstate or BESIDE the interstate (including between the two
> parts of it)?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Most of the interstates in Texas have grass outside the lanes and on the
median between the lanes of traffic except when you come to a big city. The
trip to Austin is 90 miles and I would say that 90 percent has grass in the
median.
--pat
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:39:47 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Please ignore
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> >      Is this a timid lurkerly toe in the water?  Come on in and swim
> >      with the sharks...
> >      Carol
>
> Or with the whales.
> Doris

Or with the bandwidth pigs...while pigs may not fly here, they do swim.
ndh
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:31:02 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: birth order
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> ndh (who would have much preferred to be a second child)

You've *got* to be kidding - you *like* hand-me-downs?
Doris (a second child)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:34:58 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Rain Songs
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

"Impsy-Wimpsy" over here...
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU