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From:         Adam M Hartfield <AHARTFIE%DREW.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tarmac rugrats

In article <tfilt196194@drew.edu>, AXD7104@NYUACF.BITNET writes:
> Lisa--
>
> I agree COMPLETELY with everything you said.  I wish nothing but death on
> pestilence on everyone who has ever intentionally wronged me, and cannot wait
> for the day I can spit in all their faces.
> And god, I hate Daylight Savings Time.
> --Aaron
>

I agree with both Lisa and you, Aaron..there's this one guy that I
went to HS with that if he even talks in my direction at our reunion,
he's going to find out VERY quickly what a mistake it was to treat me
the way he did when I hadn't reached my greatest potential to inflict
damage on his sorry self yet.  Grr...and normally I don't advocate
that sort of thing, but he just made my life hell from 7th grade on.


--Adam, watching millions of words-l messages roll in
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From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (39)
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              Apr 13, 92 8:26 pm

> truth is, that although I did live in that benighted state until recently, now
> that I'm catching the SNL reruns, I am developing quite an interest in MTV...
> I'm especially impressed by the way they stress the need for watchers to
 vote..
> .it's not nearly as "corrupt and horrible" as I presumed..ahem! even us 40+
> types can grow.
>

	Yes it is Carol! You'vve been *sucked* in!  My Dad is an MTV
addict.  I think he just likes watching all them pretty young things
hoppin' and jigglin' around in videos.  I used to work in the student
union at school and we had a great big TV that was unfailingly
tuned into MTV (except for the first couple of days of the Gulf War
and during the Simpsons).  I was *forced* to watch this thing during
my shifts.  Needless to say, the concept got real old after watching
"She's my Cherry Pie" and "KLF, Uh Huh" in heavy rotation.  It was
almost as bad as dealing with the ignorant ex-football jocks from
Tewksbury who thought they owned the pool tables (duh.  Ripping
clocks off the wall is wickid fuckin' cool.)

Rita
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Penmanship
Date: 12 Apr 92 12:06:59 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <9204120056.AA16515@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:
>I've noticed something odd about writing with a pen lately.  I find
>myself making "typos" (? -- I'm not sure what you call that kind of
>error when it's with a pen).  I don't remember having had that problem

They are generically called "slips", even in the technical literature
(of which I've been reading a depressingly large amout recently).

Graham
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject: Re: A solution to all BWP problems

Setting up a channel is simple.  All you have to do is type /join x, with x
being whatever name you want to use.  And if I put a "bot" on the channel
(which is basically just a detached process that sits there and does nice
things for you), then a BWP Channel would be open for chatting 24 hours a
day, thus granting us greater status amongst our Internet brethren :).

--Aaron
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Date:         Tue, 14 Apr 1992 12:54:59 EDT
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From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: nouns
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              Apr 14, 92 11:56 am

>
> idempotent? IDEMPOTENT? Leave it to G to bring everything round to sex!
>
> --Bayla
>
Huh?
Idempotent is a quantity (or operator) that is unchanged by
multiplication by itself.  Unity is idempotent, as is any identity
matrix.

Nothing at all to do with sex, Bayla

Oh, from the AHD, idem : Used to indicate a reference previously
mentioned.

rashmi
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From:         "Adam M. Hartfield" <AHARTFIE%DRUNIVAC.DREW.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Glass palaces and heavy mainframes
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>     How crude.  I was commenting more on locks that were ineffective
>and addumptions about when things were being watched and how well.  A
>large number of CC's have glass windows, but not all glass is equal.

Obviously this Dr. has been relying too much on spelling checkers
lately... :^)

Anyway, I don't think Public Safety watches anything at all.  The
only time they come around is when they have to do some
laserprinting, check their email, or deliver a package.  I've never
seen a guard walk through at night (and of course I'm lying if you're
thinking about breaking in), and there aren't any alarm bells or
anything.  The Network Center in the library is surrounded by the
all-night study room, so people are always there.

>     Obviously my esteemed colleague's thesis didn't cover appropriate
>technology for urban warfare.  Give the Lobstrosity the previously
>discussed shotgun with a couple of loads of steel shot and he could
>make your water (I am assuming you remembered to saturate it with salt
>for better conductivity) could do about as much dammage with less
>effort.

True, a gun would certainly bring the performance of our 6310 way,
way down.  Salty water's a neat idea.  I hadn't thought of that, and
that's why I'm a professor, not a Herr Doktor (and I don't sell
Rogaine, either).

--Professor Hartfield
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET%UGA.CC.UGA.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bitnet or Internet Words-L?
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> > --Fwp, boring technogeek.
>
>      I fail to see how someone explaining why the arteries of the
> lifeblood of WORDS-L are not functioning is boring.  Or must I also
> accept being called a 'technogeek' for finding it interesting?
> The Ronin

Dear Ronin, I believe this was "irony"--remember that from English
classes?  Frank is clearly not boring, though he also clearly knows
a lot about technology.  He's on words-l (albeit through usenet), so
he just as clearly is no geek.  QED: ironic usage.

Karen
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:41:00 EDT
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From:         Adam M Hartfield <AHARTFIE%DREW.DREW.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sad thought
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My family reads to each other, too. Every night during dinner my
father and I would debate some word or another, and it would be
settled by my getting the American Heritage Dictionary or the
Americana (1958 edition).

My family has a much more complicated practice than scanning throught
the TV channels.  We're able to carry on numerous conversations at
once.  Outsiders can't follow everything so they get up and leave.
We think it's all natural to interrupt each other, and talk across
other conversations.  There've been times when out of 6 people at the
dinner table there've been 4 or 5 conversations going...it's really
quite fun.

--Adam, psyched that the entire family will be together this weekend
for the first time in 2 1/2 years
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Message From Bernard
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Bernard wants me to thank all of the cats, dogs, and human beings who
have sent him birthday greetings today.  He was going to send a note
himself, but for some reason the machine his account is on is unreachable
right now.  Now that he has his own account, I don't let him use mine.
He does have a second e-mail address, but he can use it only from campus.
So I'm writing this thank-you note for him.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         ktw%HLWPK.ATT.COM@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      TD defined
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Whoops.  The note about Samuel Reshevsky started out as a side-note
to Steve and ended up going to the List, chess jargon intact.

A TD is a Tournament Director.  At chess tournaments, TDs makes sure the
right people are paired with regard to rating and strength of game.
They keep track of wins and losses, and settle any disputes: including,
on occasion, breaking up fistfights.  Anyone who says "It's exciting as
watching a chess game" has never seen one.  Indeed, chess can be an
intellectual form of ice-hockey.

If you're unfamiliar with chess, just think of what Peter Ustinov did at
the gladatorial school in _Spartacus_, and you'll have some idea of a
TD's job.

Citoyen Ken
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From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Another Doctor coming out of the shadows...
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Poisson's spot is a shine in a shadow.

shadows.

glisten to me with my new degree

dr D T
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      Re: sad thought
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I know that in my high school, there was NO reading requirement.  My
entire reading assignments from 10th-12th grades, in ALL classes:

The Fountainhead (for ECONOMICS class, of all things)
1984 (three separate times for three separate classes)

That's it.  Poetry didn't even exist.

I often feel like a piece of shit when friends of mine speak of
literature, because I have no idea what they're talking about.  I read
constantly...magazines, newspapers, etc, but a sense of true literature
was never instilled in me. Secondary education is, unfortunately,
becoming a joke, unless you go to a private prep school, which is
where any child I have will be going if I have to work five jobs to pay
for it.

--Aaron
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Cathy and Annie

I suddenly remembered the names we had in our Physics lab for the positive
and negative electrodes. Annie and Cathy respectively.

Here at least I know who originated these - it was me. I hope they are still
used, but there isn't much chance.

You have to agree they are good ones.

tushar
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: words-l history
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>Bill Merrill... I used to make up completely new personalities for myself and
>spend the time during plane flights talking to my seat companion as if I were
>that person....I just loved it, and had a hard time stopping, actually...like

Carol Goodson ... So that was you I sat next to on the flight to Paris.
I thought you looked a little young to be a Member of Congress.
But I loved your tales of political intrigue and your insights on the
high and mighty. It was kind of hard to keep a straight face when I
told you that I was a .... an astronaut. Even though we now know
who we really are, we'll always have Paris. Bill
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: Colorado tags (was proposal)

I'm going to have to dig out my copy of _Cinders and Smoke_ and
see if I can identify all the skinny railroads serving AG 2000,
Colorado.  The current operator of the "Narrow Gauge" run on the
former Denver and Rio Grande Western; one of the other railroads
was the Silverton Northern, and the wye that the excursion train
turns on used to belong to the Rio Grande Southern (or so I was
under the impression.  Maybe our courageous MS-walker has other
information.)  I'll check and be back.

Steve Karlson

In Maine, the Maine Central was "the broad gauge."
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Subject:      Re: Gleanings (37

>Posted on 3 Apr 1992 at 09:44:26 by Uriacc Mailer (002033)
>
>Re: Gleanings (37
>
>Date:         Fri, 3 Apr 1992 15:35:44 GMT
>Reply-To:     English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.BITNET>
>From:         Anne Haycock <haycock@MARLEY.THINK.COM>
>
>Lisa taunts:
>
>   > 9) Jerry Garcia/B&J's Cherry Garcia (Lisa A./Nancy)
>   can *try* to explain them:)
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>You don't "explain" them--you *experience* them.
I should have known better.  I stand corrected.

>"Might as well, might as well; there's nothing else shakin' so you just
>might as well"  -jerry garcia
>
>//anne//
Lisa
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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              9 Apr 1992 14:20:26 EDT from <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>

On Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:20:26 EDT Rashmi Murthy said:
>Is it true that Ashe decided to reveal that he has AIDS only because
>somebody was about to publish it? (I haven't read the newspapers or
   Yes...that is what he said on Today Show this morning....when he talked
for the whole first segment  (0709-0724 or so, a segment that usually does
three stories) with his good buddy, Bryant Gumbel.

>If it is true, what do you think about the responsibility of the media
>in this regard?  Should they've respected his wish for privacy?  I
   The what?            Of course.....but you don't EXPECT anything like
  Responsibility???      that, do you?

>Another clarification: does Ashe have the virus, or the disease?
   He has been HIV Positive for four years that he knows of.  It was found
in a routine blood check on him as followup to several of his open heart
surgeries.

   On the comment  "I would be suing" that someone made....no way...
Well, you COULD sue...but wouldn't have a prayer...first reason, the
standard disclaimer you sign on any surgical procedure....second reason,
there wasn't any reliable test for HIV at the time....and there was no
mass testing of the blood supply at the time....

   At least his heart surgery was successful, and he has had ten years
or so that he wouldn't have had without that surgery...which DID save and
extend his life, despite the AIDS.  And, yes, his wife and daughter have
been tested and are negative so far...and have been tested many times over
the years.

dan
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: words-l history
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> I haven't been around as long as Natalie....but joined about a week after
> it moved to ra from yalevm, I believe.  There was even a time when it
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I've always known that Ra was special, but I didn't realize how special.
Eric Thomas will be fascinated to learn that his LISTSERV program is
running on Ra, a Sun SPARCserver/490 using UNIX. ;-)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Anne Diffily <ADBAM%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Fitting in
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>        I dunno.  I'm an associate editor, so I don't fit in at all.
>Rita

Take heart, Rita.  I am a managing editor, and Judith is an editor,
so I think we can safely establish our own clique on this list.

   Sincerely, A.D. the M.E.
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Date:         Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:21:25 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      TV
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I missed the first part of the computer series because our stupid local
tv listings were wrong!!  According to the local guide, it was on last
night at 9.  I just put the tape in that I made last night of what I
thought was about computers and found that it's about contaminated water!
Nothing against the topic of contaminated water, but I wanted to see
something about computers.  <dirty word>
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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              9 Apr 1992 17:11:15 EST from <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

Karen, whom are you older than?

Lenny
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> Ah... So it helped you to TALK ABOUT English grammar, not to use
> English.

I already spoke and wrote well because I had grown up in a home where
that was expected.  However, the intensive study of grammar in Latin
gave me a better understanding of what I had learned by example.

> > > Once I
understood Latin grammar, a lot of things in
English > > grammar made sense...
>
> In what ways is understanding what you're doing with grammar useful?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Even though you're doing something more of less automatically, I think it
helps to recognize and understand the patterns involved.
ndh
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From:         Mark Susskind <NY911179%PACEVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bitnet or Internet Words-L?

On Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:32:00 EDT Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore said:
>Adam told me tonight that it would be better if I subscribed to WORDS-L
>through Internet rather than Bitnet.
It is only better if you have a full Internet address.  I do not have one at
PACEVM, but 2 nodes away, CUNYVM, has one, cunyvm.cuny.edu .  I have tried it
that way, but the mail did not reach me any better.

>So I sent in a SUB request to uga.cc.uga.edu, sat back, and waited.  Now, as
>expected, I am getting two copies of each message,
Unsubscribe from one address, or set NOMAIL for it.

>but the Internet copies are arriving at least two hours after the Bitnet ones.
According to the heading information, Aaron sent his note from NYUACF, which is
on Bitnet.  It is not to Aaron's advantage to subscribe to WORDS-L through the
Internet.

>Anyone out there know if this is just a temporary thing?
No.  It is a 'feature' of LISTSERV or the mail routing systems or both.

>Is it better to subscribe through Internet rather than Bitnet?
Only if there is an Internet equivalent for NYUACF; I do not think that there
is one.

>It's more important to me to get the posts as quickly as possible;
Dam'straight! =)

>I can live with an occasional Bitnet link failure.
Me, too! =)

>(Well, it's not IMPORTANT, but that's my personal choice.)--Aaron
Yeah.  Why can't we have it all, though?

Mark R. Susskind, Mr. MRS
<NY911179 @ PACEVM.BITNET> (*sigh!*)
"When you care enough to send the faerie dust."
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From:         Joan Boorstein <BOORSTEIN%UMBSKY.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pre-Clam Slam

Rita <rita@EFF.ORG> said in response to my posting re the Cambridge
Pre-Clam Slam:

>>Sorry this response took so long in coming, but before I could answer
>>I had to clear out space in my directory -- in VMS parlance, I was
>>overdrawn.

>        Well, you just tell Betsy that I said to give you a bigger quota!!
>:-).

    This response, too, has also been delayed because I have been rather
behind on mail of late.   Betsy is the administrator of the MATH/CS
Unix network -- I subscribe to WORDS-L on the campus VMS system where
each account has a quota with mail deposited in your directory -- hard
to get one's quota increased ....

>        Ahem!  I wore my leather jacket!  Ok, so it isn't black and
>menacing looking.  I'll try to get one with a picture of bernardykins
>on it for clambake.

    I guess you'd taken it off by the time I arrived --
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From:         Clint Darling <DARLING%CATLIN.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: "Will word for food."

        Does anyone out there have information on "the reviving drop from
the Cauldron of Ceridwen"?  Robertson Davies refers to it in _Fifth Business_,
but I can't find it in any of my reference works. Welsh, perhaps?

        Thanks in advance.

Clint
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:17:00 HST
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TV

"Creative Spirit" isn't the computer series, but it is rather interesting
nevertheless.  Have a look, if you have time.  Or, actually, I should say
that the first episode of the series was interesting, and I presume the balance
will follow suit.

macmillm@ewc
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Date:         Mon, 13 Apr 1992 14:15:50 -0400
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From:         Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dress like Rita, cheaply
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>[quoted without permission from the latest issue of EFFector Online]

        I don't mind if you quote me, Portiliciousness.

Rita