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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 08:02:53 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bernard's Day
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> Shall I remind that <most important person in your life>
> that today is a day for you to celebrate, so you deserve
> some kind of <special treat>?

Thank you, thank you, Ann!  I have a feeling it's gonna be a cornbread
day.  Oh, how I wish it could maybe be a pizza night also.  At the very
least I should be allowed more computer time today!
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:42:00 EST
From:         "Adam H. @ Drew" <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Bah fah now
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This is it--nomail msg going out soon.  It's been fun, folx, and I
shall return.

*wave*

--Adam
(ahartfie@{drew, drunivac}{.bitnet, .drew.edu})
From: TRJOANN%EMUVM1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Luis Enrique Quique Caceres)
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Subject: Re: The D-words
Date: 20 Aug 92 00:53:34 GMT
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              19 Aug 1992 01:40:17 GMT from <karsten@NETCOM.COM>

On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:40:17 GMT karsten said:
>maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") writes:
>> That last option has always struck me as the strangest of all.  Why
>> would anybody endure the horrors of things like prelims and never
>> finish the degree?
>

                                                        SINCERELY,
                                                        -QUIQUE-
                                                     TRJOANN@EMUVM1
                                              trjoann@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu
>They might come to the conclusion that they can no longer justify
>wasting effort working toward a degree for which they have no respect
>and decide the only reasonable response is to stop and get on with
>their lives.
>
>--karsten

    Close enough, Karsten, and very good too!  I'd say that's exactly
what I did myself.

                                                        SINCERELY,
                                                        -QUIQUE-
                                                     TRJOANN@EMUVM1
                                              trjoann@emuvm1.cc.emory.edu
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:21:25 CST
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <BERNARD@ENGLISH.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Goat Roast
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I refuse to be in charge of roasting the goat, but I'll be happy to be a
greeter.

             o/.\_____/   (bernard@english.msstate.edu)
              \ ______|
               /\   /\
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:18:22 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What do you call...
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              15 Aug 1992 19:04:16 GMT from <mcmahan@CS.UNCA.EDU>

On Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:04:16 GMT Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner sai
>What do you call yourself *between* semesters? If one was a
>sophomore last spring semester, and will be a junior next semester,
>whe people ask you during the summer what you are, what is the
>correct answer? :)
>
   My kids have always said whatever they were GONNA be....and did same
thing in grade/high school.  Sorta like being "eight and a HALF" or
"eight going on NINE" and such.

dan
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:47:41 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Good evening to you all
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   Bah, Natalie.
Doris
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Let's try this again, shall we? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:20:44 +0000


In article <WORDS-L%92081901132777@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU writes:
>> na, I don't have to watch my back from Giggles...
>Uh, G, do me a favor.  Reach me that soap please.
>--ggs (thanks, I needed that....)

Hey - that's Don's joke, isn't it?  From vet-l?
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:38:17 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: i musta been sleeping
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Since everyone's doing "what I did on my summer vacation" -type weather
reports, I'll clue you in on the Magic Valley. It didn't get above 100 degrees
for the first time since June 22 and everybody's walking around saying "there's
definitely a touch of fall in the air."

-abh
kids put on ski jackets here when it hits 60
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:55:06 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Authoring
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> If you think the verb "architect" is bad, how about the much more
> insidious use of the noun "author" as a verb in the world of instructional
> software.
> -abh

I'm not sure what you're talking about...you mean like authoring a
book instead of writing it?  (Perhaps a back formation from co-
author.)  Anyway, I have no problem w/ this, but I would never
architect a building.  What's the past tense?  "Architected"????
Barf.

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:39:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Giggles' News
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> >I agree. I think his wife made him clean up all of the mess he made making
> >Neiman-Marcus cookies.
> probably ate them all before they made it to the oven.!
                        ^^^^^^^^^
> --
> It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead

Before????   *Before*????   As in <antes>????  Globblobbobglugbub...
--ggs
  (admitting graciously that them cookies aint even hardly made yet)
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:57:19 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Adam (was Re: Music Junkie)
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>
> Well, you get the picture. I just had to make one embarrassing gesture on the
> net for the kid. Something to get pressed into that stupid Usenet CD for all
> eternity. Or at least until he finds cheap local telnet access.
>
> -abh

Let's hope he finds access very quickly.  Adam is a good, stable, part of
Words-L and the withdrawal symptoms will be felt by the ones remaining as
well as by the one leaving.
Doris
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Quiet
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 06:46:55 GMT


In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>> > Why is everybody being so quiet tonight??
>>
>> a.  They're busy listening to the Republicans expound on Family Values
>> b.  The Net (or parts of it) is still majorly messed up.
>> c.  I dunno
>
> Choice <a>, plus reading the first set of papers that came in from my
> seniors.

Make mine a. and <d> - my site here inn Cleveland was majorly munged.  The
beastie couldn't match the passwords to the list of "good " ones, and so 
wouldn't let us registered users in....<argggggh>  BTW- my "local" site will
be down for a good part of Friday, so y'all will be Ruth-less <bad old joke
from 1905> for a while then....
  
>
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:12:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Let's try this again, shall we?
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> na, I don't have to watch my back from Giggles...

Uh, G, do me a favor.  Reach me that soap please.
--ggs (thanks, I needed that....)
From: N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith)
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Subject: Re: The Adventures of Giggles
Date: 18 Aug 92 01:36:00 GMT
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> Oh, goodie. Now that hilarious tale can be read and re-read whenever I
> need a good laugh.  But I would hate for * bruther* to get a swollen head, so
> let's not tell him how very much I enjoyed reading it.  Let him continue
> thinking Sis is in a bad mood. Or was it someone else who was in a bad
> mood? Things *are* so confusing sometimes.
> Doris

Obviously this confusion is a congenital family defect.  I'm not
sure but I think it is tc who is in a bad mood, at least tonight.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:17:09 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gramm crackers

>ahistorical and shortsighted, but that's for another discussion).  Just
>now, I'm wondering how it is that in the Republican collective mind
>(such as it is, and recognizing--of course--that it is largely a
>collective unconscious) the Democrats are to blame for the economic plight
>of America, but the Republican presidents are responsible for
>our so-called foreign policy victories.  One might note that the same

Hard not to give at least Bush a chapeau for the state of the
world.  And I'm not saying he or it is perfect.

Hard also not to at least grant the point that the pres can do a
lot in the world without Congress--but he can't do much in
America without it.  Whether Bush's programs are non-existent or
not is another matter.

Just want to go on record as saying that gridlock in Washington
contributes to the war on Entropy, so I'm for it.

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:29:27 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gender
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> >I don't see how language can be separated from users of language.
>
> I wish I could jump up and down on the screen in front of you
> waving, smiling, saying "YES, THAT'S EXACTLY MY DUMB-HEADED, HAM-
> HANDED POINT."

I wish you could too.  Have you got a graphic gif?

> the language.  All *I'm* saying is that it ain't in the language,
> it's in some people's heads. The end. Finis.  I master the
> obvious again.

This is beginning to make me think of the old question of whether a tree
makes noise if it falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it.
Can language exist except in relation to what's in people's heads?

> >That is absurd.  What would the parallel term be for blacks?
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> I really don't mean to be obtuse--but parallel to what?  I don't

Man/woman vs person/black??

Logging off now...  A suivre demain?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:07:00 MST
From:         "Lisa J. Gilmore" <TSLGILMORE@CC.WEBER.EDU>
Subject:      BUSH
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Hey-----          Vote for Barbara Bush...

LJG      --  anticipating a flame war
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 10:22:02 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: List wars
              21 Aug 1992 08:48:06 EST from <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

On Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:48:06 EST Entropy Warrior said:
>>
>>That's what I said:  having the power and choosing not to use it is
                                            --------
>>Buddhist.
>
>I was trying
>to say that the Buddhism is in the *choosing*.  It is still
>Buddhist to *choose* to destroy the enemy, while you are right,
>it is not Buddhist to do it simply because you can.  The quality
>of the act is what counts, not the act or non-act.
>
>Yes?

Yes, of course.
>-Mka
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:10:52 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Real Freshpeople
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              17 Aug 92 05:55:49 -0500. <9208171056.AA10726@sics.se>

  What profound things can any of you think of that I should tell them today?

  Not a single one, but here are some random words of wisdom that will
no doubt serve as well as anything:

> fortune
Besides the device, the box should contain:

* Eight little rectangular snippets of paper that say "WARNING"

* A plastic packet containing four 5/17 inch pilfer grommets and two
  club-ended 6/93 inch boxcar prawns.

YOU WILL NEED TO SUPPLY: a matrix wrench and 60,000 feet of tram
cable.

IF ANYTHING IS DAMAGED OR MISSING: You IMMEDIATELY should turn to your
spouse and say: "Margaret, you know why this country can't make a car
that can get all the way through the drive-through at Burger King
without a major transmission overhaul?  Because nobody cares, that's
why."

WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret.
                -- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"
> fortune
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
                -- Oscar Levant
> fortune
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important
point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly
important thing to people.
                -- Donald N. Smith, president of Burger King
> fortune
Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?

> fortune
Whatever became of Strange de Jim?  Well, he found a substitute for
cocaine: "You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils
as far as they will go.  Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding
hundred dollar bills."
                -- Herb Caen

> fortune
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach
their children to speak it.
                -- G. B. Shaw
> fortune
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
                -- George Bernard Shaw
> fortune
The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory,
in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system.

        But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for
        whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
                -- Matthew 5:37
> fortune
What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow
in his footsteps?

> fortune
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit,
call it the target.

> fortune
Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child -- if you parboil them
first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
                -- W. C. Fields
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Date: 14 Aug 92 19:30:02 GMT
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              14 Aug 1992 06:54:32 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:54:32 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>every year when it doesn't seem to end any earlier.  This year we're having
>our first ever "fall break."  But since it's only two days (a Monday and
>Tuesday in mid October), I can't see how that requires starting as early

The monday and tuesday DOES balance things for the Wed-Fri you are off
for thanksgiving.  U of Idaho has finally decided to just close the whole
thanksgiving week.  Last year was the first time.

In Colorado, ALL the public schools and most of higher ed closed for a
monday/tuesday in early October for "Hunting Vacation".  Yes, it said
that on the official schedules.  Was for the days after deer and elk seasons
opened on saturday.  Guess they either needed more time to find one,
or to recover from the hunting camp drinking....

dan
From: WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM (WERTSJ)
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Subject: alumni associations
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:30:00 GMT
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> left without notice primarily because I thought I might return and they
>ight not notice the interval of absence.  It apparently took most of a
>ear before the appropriate people realized I was actually gone.  It took
>another year for the Alumni Association to find me.

>--karsten

I can't believe it took the Alumni Association that long to find
you...I think the one at my undergraduate school was asking us for
money *before* we graduated.  Our entire graduating class carried
pennies with us as we walked to the podium to receive our degrees
from the president of the college.  We shook his hand, handed him a
penny, and continued on.  When the first person did it, he was a bit
puzzled; by the 10th or 15th he was laughing pretty strongly.  After
about 30 or 40 people, he stopped the ceremony to explain to the
audience what was going on...and to suggest to the rest of the class
that they step up their gifts to at least quarters.  (Obviously, I
went to a small college - around 1000 students in all - my class was
about 200-220 people.)  Some of the later graduates did actually give
him quarters.  It was a fun graduation...and a good school.  I do
continue to give them money each year...not a lot, but some, so that
I help out wrt the percentage of alumni giving (which is used in
persuading corporations that the college is worth contributing to).

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:50:01 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Giggles' News
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> I don't think Giggles was in Cancun at all.  My spies didn't see him
> there...

I agree. I think his wife made him clean up all of the mess he made making
Neiman-Marcus cookies.
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:50:59 -0500
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: the ugly american syndrome.
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Well, I haven't yet been to Europe, but I have been mistaken for a
European in the US (once Irish, once Welsh, once English, and French a
couple of times).

--Susan
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:42:59 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Not being taken for an American
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> >Has any American ever been taken for an American abroad?
>                   ^^^^
> Everyone says this, but no one on the list has come forth and said
> that they were always taken for an American. I find this interesting.
                 ^^^^^^
I'm confused now by your question.  Did you mean "ever" or "always"?
My answer to the "ever" question is yes; my answer to the "always"
question is no.

> I think this is all very interesting.  I have found myself recently,
> particularly in French-speaking Canada, making sure that the people
> I was talking to knew I am American.

Why?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 12:45:44 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Internet outage
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              15 Aug 1992 12:09:24 -0500 from <dorisann@TENET.EDU>

On Sat, 15 Aug 1992 12:09:24 -0500 Doris Smith said:
>Good grief, Don, at those prices that surge protector should protect
>against everything from burglary to dust motes and cobwebs to hard drive
>crashes.  I cringed when I paid a mere $50 for mine.

Well, I went the other way, sorta....I bought a UPS for $150 or so....and
I just keep on computing.  The UPS also serves as surge protector, and when
we get those occasional glitches from storms or otherwise....I just keep
on computing.  If the power REALLY goes off I have some ten minutes to
come to a graceful saving and exiting.

I don't worry too much about either one, partly because both our phone
and power lines are buried....for quite some distance.  And, lightning
is highly unlikely as there are 100 foot high powerpoles for a 33kv or so
line about a hundred feet away from me.
                                          dan


and, welcome on saturday, don....and this is my first saturday since the
clamslam....as it is the first time that the 9600 dialup (or 2400 for that
matter) has worked worth a damn...since the new phone system.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:19:27 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Tim Johnson
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>Um, not this one, Jenna.  Who is the guy?  And what makes so
>many of our friends here in Words-Land at Brownvm so chummy with him?
>Most importantly, how do you suggest getting even with him?
>You can tell *me*, honest.  <endearing, innocent grin>  <big eyes>
>
>Frank

oh, no, Frank ... not the <big eyes>!  how come some of the rest
of us haven't been treated to the <big eyes> ??

Elaine
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 00:04:18 -0500
Reply-To:     Nancy Harwood <harwood@tenet.edu>
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Good evening to you all
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> I am appalled that the teachers are required to greet the students; I
> think it should be the other way around.  (That is the Japanese part.)
> Do the students *respond* to this greeting, or merely treat it as
> tribute to their importance?
> Karen

Interestingly enough, I find that most of them do respond.  I like your
idea...it would be refreshing for them to be expected to make the first
move.  What I like to do is pick out a kid or two from those nameless
faces passing in the hall...preferably the kind who are always alone...and
speak to them every time I see them.  Lots of times these kids, after a
few puzzled glances (Why is that weird lady talking to me?), begin to
initiate the daily contact themselves.
ndh
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