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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Presidential politics

No matter HOW the election goes, the people who will be paying taxes are the
same people who are paying taxes...             ^^^^
Just more.      ^^^

John "Buddy, can you spare a dream?" W.
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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*** Resending note of 10/07/92 15:25

Rita. doesn't think an unsecured 9% loan is too good.  hmmmmm  But that is
*not* the current GSL loan rate ... it's something like 6.94%.  The GSL
rate is set at the 91 day T-bill rate + 3.1%, not to EXCEED 9%.

Don, who maybe knows a little about Financial Aid
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>I've to ask ... Any particular reason why the Holland tunnel features so
>prominently in your fantasies, Harwell?   There was another one, I remember.

Erp, I'm...well...I never in all my life!

-abh
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>I find it incredibly laughable that he imagines nobody could be a
>liberal without also being "knee-jerk," and that learning to think for
>oneself equals becoming a conservative.  Even *I* know better!

Please be considerate towards alternative modes of thought.

tushar
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: WWHOMYTV

Uh, Bob, have you ever seen "Motel Hell"?
        "It takes all kinds of critters
         to make Uncle Giggles' fritters!"

John [nearly caught up] W.
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Subject:      Re: 99 and 44/100 percent pure
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              at Oct 9, 92 1:58 pm

>
> Greetings,
>
> I save soap shavings and the dregs from shampoo bottles in a big jar I
> keep under the kitchen sink.  Then, whenever I hear someone say something
> politically incorrect, I use the blender to make a sudsy shake with
> which to wash out the offensive mouth.
>
> Heloise

A more practical use is to put said suds on your dirty
dishes or to presoak your laundry. It does work - and washing an old
habit is more practical than to try to change bad  old habits [ever tried to
change/improve/bring-him-out-of-himself a set-in-his-ways
adult? Fooooorget it.]


Agnes
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>On the news tonight I heard that the US is supposed to be switching over
>to metric by 1996!  Congress evidently passed legislation to this effect

Yeah, it's true, but it means nothing until the military-industrial complex
stops designing hardware on the english system. Spare parts, fasteners,
machine tools, etc etc.

-abh
never owned a vehicle designed on the english system
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In a previous article, "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS" () says:

>>But it needs more sexual content, I think.  Just my opinion, of course.
>Mine as well.  Does it help if I tell you than e-w#1 is a drop-dead-gorgeous
>Natalie Wood lookalike whom, if she gave me the slightest <hint> of encourage-
>ment, I'd be all over like a duck on a junebug?  (I, unfortunately, resemble
Couldn't you encourage her to encourage you?  Via FTD, or FTP if necessary?:-)

>my conductor tocayo...)  As a sidebar, you superannuated voyeur, 8-), when
What's a conductor tocayo?  And why is it bad to resemble such a person? 
Thing?  Whatsit?  
>>Why have you waited so long to do this?CROSSTALK - XVI
>DAMN!  RUTH!  Where's my clean line???
Dunno - I got to play with wind and rain last night.  Tonight we used my
free shot at no static to record a chamber recital by a friend of mine
who plays flute, and three of her friends from the Hartt School of Music.
It worked - no sound bobbles at all, and the pianist wanted to take our baby
grand home with her.:-)  But as to where yours is, maybe the Pirate stole it;
they certainly need the help tonight. <evil smile>

>Okay, Uncle Giggles.  Last night I took e-w#1 and her friend, a six-foot-tall
>blonde Penelope Keith lookalikEW Mexican Mexican foodEWNEW
>Mexican oh shit...
That's what happens when you eat spicy Mexican food all right, only the thing
giving you fecal matter usually isn't the phone line....

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>  (2) he doesn't expect to be elected;

Awww.  My elderly mother told me that she found The Admiral "cute."  We
may be underestimating the Gray Power votes.  (Fortunately, my mother
doesn't always vote on the basis of "cute" tho.)

Thanks for the report, Doris.  I'll probably watch the tape tonight to
listen to details of growing the economy.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Subject:      I meant to ask this...
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What is a "bully pulpit"?  Perot keeps using this...

Karen
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We love you Dan.

     VMI assholes
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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
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Interesting article.  Do you mind if I show it to my Journo friend
at Private Eye?  It's almost word for word what he wrote six months ago.
Who did you say wrote this and in what paper?

G
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Greetings,

I thought it was a fine debate.  The big winners were the audience, who
demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that media questioners are
totally superfluous.

Perot's "message" is beginning to stale.  He keeps referring to the many
excellent plans floating around in the vapor that never get implemented.
With three weeks to go, I'd like to hear him describe one or two that he's
scrutinized and finds interesting.

Ross offered (as I heard it) to drop out of the race and head over to
D.C. to get those pols out of gridlock.  Somebody ought to take him up
on it, if only to see how he does as secretary of commerce.  Of course,
his pose as a D.C. outsider is as bogus as can be, but has a certain
charm.

Bush's performance was far above anything I've seen from him in the past,
but the guy surprises me when he puts together a complete sentence.  It's
clear he's floundering.  Hardly anyone wants to give the guy a chance to
bask in the Persian Gulf sunshine, and the heroic patina is rubbing off.
I think he actually believes the post hoc ergo propter hoc argument that
he personally won the cold war; but I think he's going the way of
Churchill.

Clinton finally mentioned Haiti, if only in passing.  It's funny to hear
this guy likened to old line democrats.  He's about as far to the right of
the liberal democratic tradition as Bush is to the left of Pat Buchanan
and the evangelical right.

I am, of course, happy that Bush's support is dwindling and that Clinton is
likely to win this election.  The irony is that the debate is so skewed
that Bush will lose for all the wrong reasons (any thinking Democrat
knows that the 1990 budget compromise was a responsible solution and
any thoughtful Republican knows it was not responsible in isolation for the
slowdown in the economy--that can be attributed to Reagan).

Marty
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              WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"

>                  a papagraph, that is...

Papa-graph == hand-written Bull?

G

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On Fri, 16 Oct 1992 16:12:05 GMT Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>Don, nomail set for too long (still set :-( ...), who <may) go from just
>barely PC'ing from Pasco Jungle with ancient equipment to other extreme
>this weekend (486 DX 33, etc) .......maybe.   Will brag later,.....again
>maybe.....

Good luck....I'm working on a  Dx2/66 deal now.  240mb.  8 or 12mb ram.
17inch monitor....etc....

since a close friend works for hp....and since hp folks can buy one at
employee prices....and since that makes it in the same price range, or
a touch lower, than clone prices....who knows....

[for any hp lurkers, the close friend is my spouse, so its perfectly
legal]

dan
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>  Take the rest of your birthday off.  Ice down a case of Iron City
>(longnecks of course).  Start playing through the complete works of
>Bob Dylan, turning up your favorites to raising-the-dead volume.  (Let
>me hear "Quinn the Eskimo" all the way down here!)  Plan the rest of
>your tax year.  Run the figures once with all clambake expenses
>deducted as a professional-development outlay.

This is a smart man.  In fact, this idea is so smart that I'm tempted
to drive over to Newark Airport, get on the first UselessAir flight
to Pittsburgh, and ask you to ice down TWO cases....

Ken
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Greetings, Judith,

Love,

Marty
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> I guess then that you would fancy a ride on the 3801...... it has been fully
> restored again now ... comes out at Christmas ... a few more months
> before I hear that old familiar sound of a steam train thundering
> along the tracks in the valley below me..... always gives me goose pimples
> ... they replaced them all with electric trains which have
> about as much character as tin cans.

Now this is twisting the knife, Carolyn.  I can handle digs at
economists.  But I've never been much turned on by steam trains
(dirty, noisy, throw cinders) and I really enjoy electric trains
(maybe because as a kid I rode the _Electroliner_, the grandfather of
all of today's bullet trains).  As much character as tin cans.  Pah!

Steve Karlson

38 fast trains a day! (old North Shore slogan)
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Posted on 15 Oct 1992 at 18:42:35 by CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET
>It's possible she now has a monopoly on
>ABC and is the only person who gets it.  In fact, that strikes me as more
>likely than the possibility that she gets only ABC, since this would suggest
>her tv gets only one channel, and such tvs are rare.

But in fact my TV *does* only get one channel.  Because there is only one
channel w/in range.

>But maybe she lives
>far from a major media market where only one network is available.

Bingo, Marty.  See, he understood me, Jim!

Karen
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*** Resending note of 10/06/92 23:55

>> But sometimes the E-MAIL viewpoint is deceiving ... I felt Natalie was a
>> somewhat strict person and even intimidating...until I met her.

>This is beyond me.

There may be many things that are beyond you! :-)

Seriously, that is only how *I* felt, and you would have to know about
my grade school years to understand....
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Thursday's Wall St Journal -- the issue that had the piece about economists
and thought police that Marty mentioned -- also has an article about the
adjustments that are often made when books are published in transatlantic
editions.  "The changes may simply involve retooling a book's cover ...
perhaps some minor tinkering with punctuation, spelling and argot, maybe
even a few judicious cuts to speed along the plot.  But few volumes --
whether fiction or nonfiction, whether first published here or abroad --
escape untouched."

The most extreme example mentioned in the article is the lead-in:

   When "First Among Equals," Jeffrey Archer's best-selling novel about
   a power struggle in the British Parliament, came out here in August
   1984, readers got a rather different story from the one first
   published earlier that year in England. "There were four political
   parties involved, and Americans never would have gotten all that,"
   says Mr. Archer's former U.S. editor, Joni Evans.  "So we recast it
   for the U.S. audience.  And in the recast, the person who ended up
   being elected prime minister was not the same man who won in the
   British version.

   "It was all with Jeffrey's approval and I don't think it sacrificed
   any integrity," adds Ms. Evans.....

! ! ! ! ! !

At the level of the word, Irish novelist Maeve Binchy's "rawmaishing"
was translated to "whining" and James McClure's "dual carriageway" to
"parkway."

brad
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Subject:      Re: My debate analysis

> Did Perot kick everybody's ass or what?

Not mine :-)  I'm reminded of something Harry Truman said as he was leaving
office:  "Poor Ike.  All these years in the military, he's said 'do
this' and people say 'yes sir.'  Now he's going to sit in the Oval Office
and say 'Do this' and 'Do that' and nothing's going to happen."
George Bush shows the same frustration, and H. Ross, should he come
from behind, will quickly learn he can't fire Congressmen.  Or
Congresswomen.

Steve Karlson

Live long and prosper.
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> Weeeeellllll...hello there "sugar" babe....how'd you like a personal tour
> of the exotic Pasco Jungles?  You'd be safe with me ;-)
>
>
>         /\_____/\
>        -/ ''''' \-
>         {''o o''}   Muffy, sweetest and most handsome male pomeranian in
>         {  \^/  }   the romantic Pasco Jungles.
>        ////'''\\\\
>

What's a male pomeranian?  My mommy tells me I'm too young to know about
such thngs.
SugarSuede Smith
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>
>> >Could you folks pretend that today's my birthday?  I am hugely in need of
>> >cheery words and positive vibes.
>                             Aha!
		Oh no!  Graham, stop thinking those kinky thoughts.
		Or at least be a bit more explicit.{-8

>> Want Giggles to send you a Birthday <present>?:-)
>I think I've worked out what the presents are.
>I hope he remembered to include the batteries...
		D-cells, right?  You were thinking of those vibrating
massage thingies, right?  Right? [or were you thinking of a massage somewhere
the sun don't shine.  hope not - there are young'uns in here]
>Butt me no butts, Giggles.
Well, cigarette butts anyway  - those things are *nasty*

Ruth
butting back out of this one

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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: gas tax
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Because only rich gits can afford a car in central london, because of
parking costs, and they don't give a damn about anyone else.

The Tory govt is finally talking about banning cars in big cities - but
is the first one going to be London - like hell - as usual they test
unpopular schemes on the colonies...

G
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Subject:      cracking wise about inhaling

Hey, you can bet that if I smoked pot, I inhaled!!  Remember
Twain's discussion of sin: if you're going to sin, better to choose
the sins of commission?

Steve Karlson
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: still a loser
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> >> But sometimes the E-MAIL viewpoint is deceiving ... I felt Natalie was a
> >> somewhat strict person and even intimidating...until I met her.
          1)  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >This is beyond me.
>
> There may be many things that are beyond you! :-)
>
> Seriously, that is only how *I* felt, and you would have to know about
> my grade school years to understand....
  2) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  .....
  1)  I had the same impression.... maybe that's one reason (plus
  *no* *southern* *accent*) that I identified the <real> Natalie as
  Rita, who always seemed, virtually, *sweet* as can be.
  .
  2) I have to ask, even though I've forgotten with whom I am
  speaking in response to this *unsigned* post, did these grade
  school years include any episodes of <show-bottom>?
  .
  --ggs
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Subject:      Goat Roast in Starkville

Stand by to meet Captain Lifted Tack at the train station?!

Steve Karlson
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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: WHTMINJ 5
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Say, you couldn't rpost 1-4 now I'm no longer deleting you unread,
could you?

G
PS On second thoughts, don't bother - if they're all as <gripping> as
this one I probably don't care...
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Subject:      Re: one down, 74 to go

Congratulations, Chris & Heidi, and thanks for the good news
about Eric.

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the loveboat tack.
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From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> >PS. One of the girls told me that all white people smell like sour milk. :-)
> ...and all this time I thought we were supposed to smell like rotten beef.

I've been told that people in the Far East think that people in the West
smell like butter.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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