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From: dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith)
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Subject: Re: Family Tree
Date: 10 Sep 92 02:26:32 GMT
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The vestigial third one.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
From: harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood)
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>
> 	And now our high school teachers on the list are going to
> get defensive.

Not this one.  I realize that we are sending to college students who are
poorly prepared, and I hate it.  I have seen our curriculum watered down
over the years and our standards lowered until what we are allowed to
expect of high school students is not what we should be expecting.
ndh
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: RE: T-shirt colors
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> Does she talk to her students this way?
> --ggs (very appreciative of this <wet> wit)
                                   ~~~~~~~~~~
I do believe this is where I (or you) came in. I don't remember any of
your posts prior to my innocent question several months ago about the
existence of wet wit, in contrast to dry wit.

 And no, not on your life do I talk to my students this way.  Although I
*did* tell about my animosity toward wire bound spiral notebooks.  One
young man turned purple he laughed so hard, and one kept asking questions
such as "Was your skirt up to here? or to here?" as he indicated various
heights on his own body.  My reply, "We won't go into that" elicited the
response "I'm just trying to get a clear mental image of this."  And yes,
I did manage to get back on the subject at hand.  I have developed facial
muscles that allow for a poker face when needed.
Doris
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:50:27 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: One of Two Jokes
              9 Sep 1992 16:55:31 GMT from <maya@CARINA.UNM.EDU>

Bernie Kosar could have used a telekinetic to keep the Colts from
sacking him.  I thought a football team was supposed to protect the
quarterback; I guess the Browns aren't a team.

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 11:51:31 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Teaching....
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              09 Sep 92 04:45:30 -0500. <9209090946.AA01934@sics.se>

  >> Ah, but turning disinterested students into interested ones is
  >Prescriptivist Alert!  Prescriptivist Alert!   What is Jim saying here?

dis-in-ter-est-ed adj
(1612)
1a: not having the mind or feelings engaged: not interested <telling
     them in a disinterested voice --Tom Wicker> <Introverted.
     Unsocial ... Disinterested in women --J. A. Brussel>
1b: no longer interested <husband and wife become disinterested
     in each other --T. I. Rbin>
2: free from selfish motive or interest: UNBIASED <a disinterested decision>
 <disinterested intellectual curiosity is the lifeblood
     of real civilization --G. M. Trevelyan>
syn see INDIFFERENT
-- dis-in-ter-est-ed-ly adv
-- dis-in-ter-est-ed-ness n
usage Disinterested and uninterested have a tangled history. Uninterested
     orig. meant impartial, but this sense fell into disuse
     during the 18th century. About the same time the original sense
     of disinterested also disappeared, with uninterested developing
     a new sense -- the present meaning -- to take its place. The original
     sense of uninterested is still out of use, but the original
     sense of disinterested revived in the early 20th century. The revival
      has since been under frequent
     attack as an illiteracy and a blurring or loss of a useful
     distinction. Actual usage shows otherwise. Sense 2 of disinterested
     is still its most frequent sense, esp. in edited prose; it shows
     no sign of vanishing. A careful writer may choose sense 1a of
     disinterested in preference to uninterested for emphasis  <eaching
     the letters of the alphabet to her wiggling and supremely disinterested
     little daughter --C. L. Sulzberger>   Fur ther, disinterested
     has developed a sense (1b), perhaps influenced by sense 1
     of the prefix dis-, that contrasts with uninterested  <when I
     grow tired or disinterested in anything, I experience a disgust
     --Jack London, letter, 1914>  Still, use of senses 1a and 1b will incur
     the disapproval of some who may not fully appreciate the history
     of this word or the subtleties of its present use.
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>> Ah, but turning disinterested students into interested ones is
>
>Prescriptivist Alert!  Prescriptivist Alert!   What is Jim saying here?

Say it if you want to! Me, I don't generally point out these standard
"mistakes". But MY reason is that it's bad manners to do that when the
meaning is clear. On the same level as pointing to bad spelling, in fact.

tushar
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Good grief, it's today!
Date: 14 Sep 1992 04:35:38 GMT
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>-- 
>Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
>	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
>			Here Be Dragons
I think I owe Torkel an apology.  I just haven't read my own .sig in ages.:-)
It tends to get skipped, as the contents are theoretically known to the owner
of the .sig.:-)  Is senility catching?

Ruth, the Nethead, and the Sievebrain

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Date:         Sun, 6 Sep 1992 08:03:04 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Tongues, Jasmine, and Football (was Re
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> one of my office mates when I was a TA at UT had an MA from NCSU.
I think this sentence fragment deserves some
sort of award..

>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
judith
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Yes, being In Real Trouble Now is a constant state, since I am (for
>some inexplicable reason) a person who is <always in demand> for
>something or other....  Some say that I created this state for myself
More like called on the carpet for something or other....:)

>The tc/sw has been driving the Miata the last few days while the
>jag is in the shop (oh dear they said it would be this way), so
>she thinks more fondly of car and owner, *maybe*.
Well, more fondly of the car for certain.  If it's a certain vintage of Jag
it will be in this condition often.  Get used to it....:)

>Reprints of this photograph will get you cookies from Nieman-Marcus,
>if they ever get *made*..... (many are anxiously awaiting this
Hmmm - I've never had Nieman-Marcus cookies, or Nieman-Marcus anything....

>Send all photos and other gifts to:
>.
>Mr. GGS
>117 Woodburn Road
>Raleigh, NC 27605
>(919) 834-6533    (919) 515-2475 (ncsu)
Home of Giggles Used Car Lot and Cookie Emporium!

>And, if you are not going to send something, delete this address
>*immediately* before it falls into the wrong hands.

It already has; you just posted it.<evil grin>  Now Our beloved BWP can get at
you through the <u>SNail too.  If I were you, I'd bombproof the mailbox.

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From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
Subject: Bulwer-Lytton Entry #1
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:58:54 GMT
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If this one shows up twice...well...you'll live.


     From "I'll Take Contraception"
 
     To Capatain Nemo and his award-winning thighs
 
     "C'mon seven, c'mon seven," said Lotus-Blossom, whose delicate
      Oriental features seemed as out of place on the Mississippi
      riverboat as the prodigious lump in her trousers."

RICHH

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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:32:34 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Family Tree
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I'm gonna have to log off and ponder the textuality of the family tree.
It's getting complicated.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:50:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Father's Day, Anne, Father's Day
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> And Giggles, if that story is true, and not the most creative rehashing of
> a million old drag queen jokes ever told, then you live a <charmed life>,
> is all.
>
> -abh

It's the Gospel Truth, I swear, with a little poetic  licentiousness
thrown in to make the <truth> of the text palatable.  And it's not
over yet, either.  There are <witnesses> who can testify that all
these things happened....
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:20:13 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Re[2]: Gleanings (59)

>>--ggs  (wondering if any wordslers are quick enough to have caught
>>  his attempt at political correctness....)

>     "The sender gets her money..."
>
>     Oh you are going to <catch it> from Mka now, Gilbert.
>
>     Carol, who is as quick as she can be on a Monday

Carol, *you're* the one who comes with warnings.  This is a
transparent attempt at annexation.  (I'm flattered).

I confess, I missed Giggles' attempt at political correctness.
If fact, I havn't a green idea what you all are talking about.
(So what else is new--I hear Torquemada hastening to post.)

But Giggles <catch it> from me?  Not bloody likely.  And
certainly not  if he is, as I suppose, acqauinted with my friend
the great Als.  (That's a question, if you're differently abled.)

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:25:47 EDT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Zen
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:33:56 EDT, "Rita Marie Rouvalis" <rita@EFF.ORG> wrote:
> > There's a myth floating around the nets that "Zen and the Art of the
> > Internet" is not available in ASCII.  Untrue.  In case you want a copy,
> > I just put one in docs/words-l/Net-Stuff as zen.txt.  It's 183742 bytes.
> >    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> 	The reason for this myth is that Brendan is prohibited by
> his contract with the book publisher from making it available in
> ascii.

When I picked it up a few days ago, it wasn't in ascii but ISO8859/1.  I think
I'll hang on to my copy :-)

G
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:56:48 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Family Tree
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> Hey, am I this "dgtr" thing in the family tree representation?  And if I
> have an Uncle Giggles, where's *my* blue Miata?
>
> --Susan

Yes, dear, that's you...and I *do* think sending you a blue Miata as a
get-acquainted present would be a really nice gesture on the part of your
uncle.  Besides, if Gilbert is sending you a Miata, I can just take your
nice little burgundy Civic...I love that car!
ndh (who is Susan's mom and Gilbert's sister and Doris's sister and Jill's
aunt and more than a little confused by now)
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:14:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366" <185422285@WILD.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Plumbing Woes
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>What is statlg-l/  Marilyn

a baseball and other sports list run by neal and ann
run at brown. ask neal for details.

later

alec
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:41:09 -0400
From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Re[2]: Brother Barbara
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              05 Sep 92 01:04:55 EDT." <9209042211.aa07552@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>:
>
>Not the only controvery... they were mentioned on soc.bi as
>having <interesting> love-lifes... the perfect answer to the
>fundie loonies who say that various lifestyles are 'unnatural'
>because they 'don't happen in the animal kingdom'...
>
>(I usually point out that animals don't have religion eithr, but it never
>seems to sway them...)
>
>G

Ah well, maybe monkeys are evil, but we of course are no relation to
them, having been created by God in his own image.  And God of course
couldn't be a homosexual could he?
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:48:47 -0500
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Silence
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On Mon, 7 Sep 1992, Entropy Warrior wrote:

> >-- silence has always implied consent.
> >
> >--bayla
>
> Tell that to Thomas More.

No need -- that's the maxim with which he defended his failure to speak on
Henry's marriage to Anne Boleyn (or Nan Bullen, as I like to call her).
Of course, it didn't *work*, but he was certainly aware of it.

Speaking as someone who knows almost all of _A Man for All Seasons_ by
heart... :)

> -Mka

--Susan
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:25:53 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (58)
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 #13 ASP stands for Academic Study Period, another name for study hall.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 09:09:37 -0400
From:         Joan Boorstein <boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Sim Bush
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Rita says:

>	Is now available for the mac.  I'll mail it to anyone who
>wants a laugh.

I want to know what 'Sim Bush' is.

--- Joan Boorstein (boorstein%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu)
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Subject: Re: He *is* afraid of words-l
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 06:07:20 GMT
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Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM writes:

>>> (Did we lose richh?  I've been providing all of these references
>>>  just to make him feel at home.  Perhaps Rita was right.)

>>	Sadly, he couldn't take it.

>     Then I can observe without discourtesy that his netname made me
>     think of a throat full of phlegm.


ritch
AITCH!

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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:51:24 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      We may not get trounced after all...
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After years and years of horrible football teams (but always good baseball
teams), I never believe it when people are saying we may do ok in an
upcoming football season.  But maybe they're right this year.  Things
look pretty good on ESPN so far.  :-)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: jwagner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Judith O Wagner)
Subject: Hopefully
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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:08:20 GMT

Yesterday my sister asked me why people get so upset by others'
use of the word "hopefully."  Who better to ask than you folks?

2Judith whose attempted explanation was termed "pathetic" by her
        erstwhile much-loved sister
.


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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:19:00 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> any bells against some recent posts.  Your spoof postings today
> were in exactly the right style.

They weren't spoofs.  They were from the South Atlantic Review.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Visiting LA and Chicago
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 18:38:01 GMT
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WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM (WERTSJ) writes:
> I was staying in West L.A. (near Palms and Sawtelle), and spent most
> of my time in that area, although I spent Monday in Glendale.  Is
> either of those near you?

West LA is close.  I live a few miles south of LAX.

> Friends?

My fish are very forgiving.

--karsten

(except the one that bites me when I clean the tank)
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:20:07 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: My trip- the conclusion.

>>> Now I am confused. Exactly what did Jenner do?
>
>
>>Small pox vaccine from cow something, serum (?).  Not sure of this, tho.
>
>>rashmi
>
>	Cowpox.  The virus of which is closely related to the smallpox virus,
>	and mild infection with which confers semi-immunity to smallpox.
>	Jenner's discovery is usually given as occurring in 1798.
>
>neal, the epidemiologic historian

Oh yes. I can't believe I forgot that. Thanks.

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:06:30 EDT
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Subject:      Re: Gossiping about Natalie and prescriptivism
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Posted on 13 Sep 1992 at 15:26:15 by Anne Burton Harwell
>See? I always knew linguistice was the percursor to brain damage! Natalie,

I don't think Frank is brain-damaged...do you?

>S.I. Hayakawa (hallowed be his name) is rolling over in his grave.

Why?

>I am complimented indeed, having never before been the cause of repeated
>visits to the same dirty restroom..

At least by someone alone, eh?:)

Karen
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     From: Mountain Gals
 
     To Sally Jesse Raphael, for she alone believed
 
     "No, no, no, Jockamo.  You kinna staple your ear to soil!"
 
RICHH

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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:03:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: My trip- the conclusion.
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     Thanks, Alec.  It was good to hear more about your trip.
     I admire your courage in working on your writing and in sharing
     it with us.

     Carol
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:50:41 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Prison camp? was Plumbing woes
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              in the rain" at Sep 8, 92 11:30 pm

> >This was on the radio today: What they need to do is get the Phillies to quit
> >for the good of baseball.
> >rashmi
>
> 	Whoaaaa, watch your back, Rashmi.  Two of the addressees of your note
> 	are devotees of the Phils.

As an on-off devotee of the Phils (more off these days than on), the two of you
have my heartfelt sympathy.

> 	But I understand why you'd say that.

The guy on the radio, actually.

> neal, whose red cap at the clambake bore a white script 'P'.

That's right, I remember now.  You were the one in the red Phillies cap and
Hawaiian shirt.   Ooops, almost forgot the <blue eyes>.

rashmi
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 09:28:46 CDT
From:         aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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>Something just occurred to me.  I thought abh was a staunch hater of
>usenet.  Why the desire for it now?  Masochism or an interest in observing
>the enemy culture?

Tempi cambi.
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 23:11:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> 	As the Wife of Giggles will tell you, words-l is a some sort
> of electronic <dating> service.

My only request is, if my <tc/sw> turns up at any of these
wordsler reunions, everyone *please* act as if you never heard
of her, *please*!!!   I beginning to think that I am IRTN.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:42:49 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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> >How many morphemes do you think there are in "armadillo" (for an English
> >speaker)?  What about "huckleberry"?
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> Ask an English speaker, I say. I think it is one and two respectively.

I vote for one and one.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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