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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:26:58 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Peeing and Walls (was Re: Inexcusable favo
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Posted on 22 Dec 1992 at 16:24:02 by Ruth M. Hanschka
>>As for the rest of the story, no, I don't remember how my mother answered
>>the question, but take my daughter as evidence that I figured it out.  So
>OK, no problem.:-)  My parents must have told me rather young too; I don't
>remember *not* knowing the difference....

I don't remember not knowing either...but I have 7 siblings, so I think
I simply discovered by changing diapers.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 20:41:47 HST
From:         Michael Macmillan <mmac@PEGASUS.COM>
Subject: Re: Bye ... good holidays
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              (Dec 24,  9:52pm)

As long as you're hanging around, Joan, let me thank you for
passing along that little EDT macro.  It works like a charm,
and I've found it helpful.  And thanks to the author, too,
asn't it?  Best wishes for the holidays.

Michael E. Macmillan (mmac@pegasus.com)
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:56:14 -0700
From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Assisting the police in their inquiries

Uh-oh.
The Phoenix Gazette, Monday, December 21st, 1992.
        "Two veteran Phoenix College faculty members have been temporarily
        "banished from campus for firing critical salvos at the college
        "establishment.
                                * * *
        "The college wheeled into a big pothole in April when administration
        "announced that an unexpectedly large increase in spring enrollment
        "caused a financial squeeze, forcing them to trim summer offerings.
                                 * * *
        "Faculty and students reacted angrily to the fiscal troubles, and
        "Zinky and Welsch admit they were vocal, lashing the administration
        "over the campus electronic mail network for fumbling the ball.
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        "According to Zinky, Harrison accused her of being unprofessional in
        "her use of the electronic-mail network.           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Jeez.  I hadda read about it in the papers.  8-(

JMW
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Pizza Toppings
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:28:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.145826.4733@eff.org> rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
:In article <9212280134.AA00734@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) writes:
:
:>So whats the difference from a kebab? (Doner kebab perhaps?)
:
:	A Gyro is a sandwich -- the Greek version of a hamburger
:sandwich.  A kebab is skewered mean and/or vegetables.

Not here it isn't!  They generically call 'kebab' anything served in a
pitta.  Doner Kebab is sliced (pressed) lamb in pitta with salad.

G
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians

: Nethead squared (or is that cubed.. ?)

Squared.  Everybody knows it's AMERICA^3.

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the lifted tack.
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:30:20 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Goofing off Saturday
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> I only started my shopping on Monday evening.... only got there because Kevin
> dragged me out to do it. I took Helen to buy her presents yesterday and
 tonight
> I'm taking Tony over to Charlestown Mall..... tonight is the last night
> shopping before Christmas. Last Year on Christmas Eve the shops were open to
> midnight but they're closing at 5.30pm tomorrow. If I didn't have my 6 year
 old
> daughter who still believes in Santa then I doubt that I would get much
> pleasure out of Christmas at all.

The stores here usually stay open until about 6 on Christmas Eve...as I
know all too well, since I'm usually there.  :-)
Having children around at Christmas does make it more enjoyable...we're
going to have a wonderful time for Patricia's first Christmas, but at five
months and 18 days, she may miss some of the excitement.  She'll also miss
her Mattel Melody Lights Go Round, the one toy I really wanted to get for
her...all the other eager grandmamas obviously got there first.
ndh
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: About this trivia game
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>Be my guest, fight over the honor with cdc.gov, have at it...I never was
>any good at this stinking game anyway.
>
>-abh

I'm not letting anyone off the hook, now that the game has started..... it's
'bad sportsmanship' to quit just because you don't think you have a chance
of winning and it seems a very even game at the moment, so abh has a much
chance as anyone.

Carolyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 1 Jan 1993 05:18:54 GMT
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In a previous article, LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU () says:

>>The shootings were apparently random, and I don't think anyone has any idea
>>why he did it, kid included. :-(
>>
>>--
>I'd not heard of that one either. My guess is that since we also have had
>our own version of such massacres in recent times - Strathfield Massacre;
>Hoddle Street Massacre and more recently and closer to home the Wyong Massacre
>- the media here no longer has interest in such happenings overseas since there
>are enough of these types of stories on their home ground.
>
Sounds like.:-(  There have been other undergrads run amok before, and 
possibly since.  It's sad that such incidents are no longer "news".  It used
to be that the murder of a local college student got front page headlines; now
it's somewhere back in the local news....

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Job Corps

>
>  What is the Job Corps?

The dictionary definition of Job Corps: a U.S. government program
providing vocational training and work experience for disadvantaged
youths.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:

>> 1) So what do you make of Carolyn's explanation?
>>    Answer honestly.
>I love this: coming from soneone who 24 hours ago was boasting of having a
>life.

My thoughts exactly.:-)

>Of course, Wombat was saving face--it WAS an e-oops!

Nope, sorry.  It was a posted answer to an ongoing conversation.:-)  I posted
the original....

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:41:28 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Song (for Natalie)

Well done, Torkel!  You should publish your poem.

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 11:04:40 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Pizza Toppings

The local Greek Orthodox Church serves lunch just about every Thursday.
The lunch consists of soup, gyro (lamb inside of pita), salad with feta
cheese, and dessert (I always pick baklava).  There's also a salad bar
with toppings for the gyros (and the makings of the vegetarian gyros).

The lunch is delicious and costs $5.25.

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:52:21 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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On Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:57:28 EST <ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM> said:
>
>The kid likes TOYS?  Watsamatter with her?  When ours were tiny like
>that, they'd make their own.  That is, we'd go out and buy them
>something like a See 'N' Say, and they'd think the best part of the
>toy was the box it came in.

yup....yesterday jayla was here all afternoon....and only slept an hour of
it...and was great....she got toys too....she's 11 months now, and toddling
about, and also crawling part of the time....her favorite things were NOT
the toys, or even opening the presents.....but eating the paper and the
boxes that they came in....

she did sit on my lap at table and say 'nana', which does NOT mean grandma
or anything like that....it means 'give me some more goddam bananas out of
your jello salad and do it NOW, please, thankyou verymuch....'

so i fed her bananas and some 'idaho bananas' (also known as mashed potatoes)
she ate the idahobananas too, but did NOT think they were as good....may have
been because i put salsa on my baked potatoes instead of milk or butter... 8-)


dan
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: More songs about buildings and food
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> That reminds me.  I didn't realize until very recently that the term
> "English peas" is regional.  Why are English peas called English (in the
> U.S. South)?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

They came over from England with the Mayflower pilgrims?
doris
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:39:25 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Deep Beliefs
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              21 Dec 1992 22:06:30 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

>want, even for Christmas. [or Twelth Night, for anyone who gives gifts then]
>[or for Chanukah, the Solstice, or Cat Claw Sharpening Day or whatever it is]
>
>Happy Bah Humbug, if you prefer.
>--
>                ###     Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###

Don't forget Boxing Day.

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:30:00 PST
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: English peas

> > for me.  Another delicacy that I remember from my childhood, but never see
> > anymore, was cashaw - a kind of squash I think.
>
> The following is written on an aged yellow index card in my recipe box:
>
> Kushaw
> Parboil, remove insides (save shell)
> Saute insides in butter w/sugar to taste
> Replace in shell & bake 40 mins at 400.

Is this kushaw/cashaw like crookneck squash? I have a similar recipe, but mine
calls for brown sugar.

>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Emily (my new year's resolution: I signed up for karate lessons!)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:57:12 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Betty's Art/Literature Question
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> >doris-come-lately
>
> What was your reason for not joining the game.... huh? :-)
>
> Carolyn

It is better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than open my mouth and
prove it beyond a doubt.  Of course, I am hard-headed and never did listen
to good advice.
doris
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:25:29 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Flying in China
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I'm at work, cleaning off my desk (can you tell?!) and came across
another little tidbit about Chine in Far Eastern Economic Review.  It
turns out that the world, except for China, the former Soviet Union, and
Vietnam, measures altitudes in feet.  China, etc. use meters.  I find
this totally bizarre, and wonder why...  American imperialism?

Scond, the writer (Don Cohn) makes the point that Chinese air traffic
controllers speak English only to foreign airplanes; to Chinese
airplanes, they speak Chinese.  He implies that this is abnormal
("Foreign pilots find this disconcerting because only by listening to
conversations between the tower and other pilots can they get an
accurate picture of the location of other planes in the vicinity.") but
doesn't say so explicitly.  Is English the lingua franca of air traffic
control?

Karen
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 12:28:02 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Blackberries
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>Posted on 26 Dec 1992 at 20:21:30 by LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
>>What's the status of blackberry vines where you are? Here, they're considered
>>a 'noxious weed' and we're not allowed to grow them in our backyards.
>
>Who 'doesn't allow' it????  That sounds so bizarre to me!
>
>Karen

I think the eradication of noxious weeds is a Council By-Law..... probably
dates back to when this was a rural area.... sheep have big problems with
blackberry vines, but they also make safe harbours for snakes and other
vermin.

Carolyn
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Subject:      Re: Camillemania

> Jim (What do Paglia, Rush Limbaugh, and Andrew Dice Clay have in common)
> Thomas?
Ooo! Ooo!  May I try that?!  Alex, I'll take Famous Misogynists for
$1000.

I can understand Limbaugh: he's a two-time loser whose ego probably
crushed his wives even more than his 320-lb bulk.  I can understand
Clay, or whatever his real name is, in the context of him being a guy
who pushes dress racks up 7th Avenue.  Serious question, then: why
would a woman be a woman-hater?
--
Kenneth Wolman          |       To die of fear of revealing yourself
AT&T Bell Laboratories  |       to the person who loves you is murder.
(908)582-4815           |
Kenneth.Wolman@att.com  |               --Stan Rice, "Anne's Curls"
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:26:26 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Say Something To Jeffrey
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Somebody say hello to my nephew.  I'm showing him e-mail.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Copacetic
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>   I hadn't seen this word before I came across it in Burke's book. My
> sources seem to suggest that it's a bit dated. Is it in common use in the
> South in particular?

I wouldn't say that it's widely used, but I've never thought of it as
particularly dated.  It probably shows up in writing more than in speech.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 08:37:56 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Car talk 'tween the girlz
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> That's a good sign.  I have a feeling that abh knows what she's doing when
> choosing cars.

Wise beyond your years, Natalie. Actually, it's motorcycles you should
listen to me on; with cars I just go to the Honda lot and buy as much
car as I can afford to finance ;-)

>All I know about the Sol (isn't it redundant to say "the
> del Sol"?) is that it looked cute in the picture I saw.  What color are you

Technically its name is "Civic del Sol," so no, it's not incorrect to call it
that. Means "of the sun."

But this cuteness thing, Natalie, that has to go. That's oldline girl
cartalk, the type that gets you in trouble. Here are new-world-order
girltalk reasons for buying an irriational car:

1). It'll get me laid
2). There's <something> about the long, sweeping lines and the protuberant
hood ornament
*3). I always wanted a convertible but was never old or stupid enough to
actually go through with it
*4). I feel like a goddess behind the wheel
*5). It's faster than my old car
*6). I can finally afford the insurance on a convertible
*7). It handles like a telepath
*8). Camille Paglia would WANT me to own this car

* actual BWP rationalizations for a del Sol!

> gonna get?  And here's the *big* question:  which one is Miata Sinclair gonna
> rush to first??

Whoever holds the biggest bar of <soap>.

-abh
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 15:10:13 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: flies
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>Question...does anyone know the origin of the expression, "There aren't
>any flies on me"?  It seems to me there was a song that contained the
>lines, "There may be flies on some of you  guys, but there ain't no flies on
>me," but I don't think that's where the expression came from.
>ndh

I don't know the origin, but a fella I went to college with
taught me the following:

There are flies on you, and there are flies on me,
And they're creepy, crawly creatures;
There are flies on you, and there are flies on me,
And there are flies on Baptist preachers.

There are flies on you, and there are flies on me,
And they carry vile diseases;
There are flies on you, and there are flies on me,
But there ain't no flies on Jesus.

He (David Weide, now a professor of geology at U-Nevada-LV)
was a guitar pickin' type, and claimed he'd learned the
song in a serious folkloric setting.

It's *very* hard to get out of your head...

judith
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Pizza Toppings
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:58:26 GMT

In article <9212280134.AA00734@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) writes:

>So whats the difference from a kebab? (Doner kebab perhaps?)

	A Gyro is a sandwich -- the Greek version of a hamburger
sandwich.  A kebab is skewered mean and/or vegetables.




-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Brad's Entertainment Question
              1 Jan 1993 13:08:38 +1000 from <LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU>

"What is Margaret Houlihan's nickname?"

This is luck holding up?  Margaret Houlihan?  Entertainment....  I haven't
the foggiest.  I'll guess Happy Houlihan in desperation.  Give me Geography
next should this somehow hit the target.

brad
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: abh has perfect moment

>         Heh.  Well, I'm now psyching myself up for a fucking orgy of
> El Greco.  Twelve days, baby.  Museo de Prado, here I come.

But don't miss the Goyas and Velasquezes! :)

> Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation

Emily
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:28:27 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: An observation
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> The day after Christmas is one of the nicest of the year. The frenzy is

I agree.  Many people complain about hating the task of undecorating the
Christmas tree, either because they dislike the work itself or because
they're sad that Christmas is over.  I rather enjoy it.  If I were in
Starkville right now, I might well undecorate the house at this very moment.
OTOH, I like the Santa Gator I bought in N.O. and hung on the tree the other
day.  Maybe I won't take it down until the 31st -- the last day to let a
xmas tree stay up without risking bad luck.  Did we discuss this topic last
year?  Some people believe that it's bad luck to take the tree down before
NY's Day.  Others (like me) believe that it's bad luck for it to stay up
past Dec. 31.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:59:28 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Christmas
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King James Version
Isaiah 9: 2,6

2  The people that walked in darkness have seen
   a great light: they that dwell in the land of
   the shadow of death, upon them hath the light
   shined.

                   *****

6  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given:
   and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and
   his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
   The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince
   of Peace.
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