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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:21:37 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Blast From The Past (Long!)
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Ooops!  In my not-very-wide-awake state while ago, I wrote in error.
It was not Virupaksha's name I researched -- it was the other one --
can't spell it right now.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA (Agnes Kruchio)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 04:35:01 GMT
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              at Nov 16, 92 10:10 pm

>
> I have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on here. I went to
> check my mail, and the list was back. I will attempt to keep up, but my
> subscription is only as consistent as the machine and system that I'm
> on. If there is anything pertaining to the following topics, please feel
> free to send them to me personally.
>
> Sex
> Music (anything but C&W)
> Youth in America
> Leather
> Parties

Are you sure you're not from VMI?
A.
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From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Ha and ha again

>Still no answer from our sniveling little correspondent in the
>frozen Midway. I must truly have <rendered> him speechless.

#1: I am merely leading a life, Harwell. Is it so objectionable just
    to behave unlike you?

#2: I have gently nurtured more newbies than are thought of in your
    philosophy, cf Bayla.

#3: Midway hasn't yet frozen.

Ruminate, pig.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:53:11 -0500
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Re: Croning
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              20, 92 5:17 pm

>
> I have a version of Mahjongg on <Windows> that is really neat, and
> includes a tilemaker so you can make your on.  Which I did, so now
> I have one version with tiles depicting body <parts>, and another
> with tiles depicting body <parts at play>....  In color, of course.
> And no, I am definitely *not* a very sick person most certainly NOT.
> But I appreciate the complimint.
> --ggs (the <tongues> and <tatooed tummies> are particularly nice)
>

Now I KNOW "Dr. Giggles" was patterned after you. Some <part/s> of you.
A
From: ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
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Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:03:48 GMT
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Posted on 16 Nov 1992 at 16:57:13 by Bandwidth Pig
[about Clinton's creation of a task force on gays in the military]
>That's the last we'll ever hear about this issue.

I don't think so; aren't there other lawsuits pending?

Karen
From: boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU (Joan Boorstein)
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As a followup to my own posting,
> > 20) Cal Worthington (Emily)

>He was doing the same bit in 1966  when I moved to southern California. More
>famous at that time was Ralph Williams @ 15800 Ventura Blvd. in Encino  --

My husband reminds me that the ever-present dog accompanying him was named
Storm.

--- Joan Boorstein (boorstein%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:50:23 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Imposter
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On Sun, 22 Nov 1992, gilbertsmith wrote:

> --ggs (wondering why *most* of the canonized Hispanic writers are
>        *men*.....)

Because, as Jane Austen said, the pen has been in their hand. It's hard to
think about The Great Ideas when you're pregnant, overworked, hassled, and
just generally oppressed.

-abh
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Subject:      Re: November 22

> Karen, did YOU get the joke?

This one was so contorted (and yet simple!) that a lot of us,
presumably bright, college-educated types, were clueless about what
Graham was doing.  It was finally explained to me (by someone who also
missed it completely at first) that I handed Mr. G. Toal the perfect
setup line by giving him the answer (a time-based phrase, "29 years")
to a question he then asked, "How long have you been clairvoyant?"  If
I'd been a bit more on my toes, I could have answered "I've never BEEN
Claire Voyant, but I used to sleep with her."  Well, I wasn't the only
one who was had, I'm happy to say.

No kidding: this was one of the better ones, Graham.

Ken
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:51:27 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Church/State re-visited
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              11 Nov 1992 15:41:27 -0700 from
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:41:27 -0700 JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS said:
>wore short-sleeved shirts to school...  Any comments, Dan?   (Other than
>"these people have been marrying cousins for about a century too long"?)
>
  Why ya askin me?  I'm not LDS.
Ya know the former name of Colorado City, AZ?



yup, Short Creek....home of the infamous raids on the polygamous groups
of LDS fundamentalists there in teh 50s.  Up on the good ol arizona strip...

dan  (ex arizonan)
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:24:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: All this croning stuff

> the witches might look askance at me and note me in their records.

Or take away your ruby Birkenstocks.

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:10:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      FYFI
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....everything....
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:46:04 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Tercets For Triplets

>I see that *ts* not only read, but *understood* my clever
>Tercets.  What's more, he *loved* them.  No end.  To my
>amazement, that is.

Nonsense, Smith. You have clearly not read the letter carefully.
Go back to your notebook. Read it slowly, and break it at the
proper places. Deconstruct it. You will see that I fight like
with like. Report your findings to me, Smith.

tushar

(Private note to Natalie: I must demand that letter be available
by ftp. It's fine to say all's fair in war, but cheesy sully-sallies
are a bit too much to stand. -Tushar)
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:17:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      finishing theses

Michael Macmillan, commenting on ethnomethodology, asks,

: What's special about this?  Isn't this the way most of us stumbled
: through our theses and dissertations regardless of the field or
: culture?

Not the way I got mine done.

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:54:47 EST
From:         Anne Diffily <ADBAM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      No hay mucho tiempo
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Hello, one and all.  I think I've survived the first 3 months in
the life of my *very* fussy, hyper, demanding little boy, Kevin.
I miss y'all but just don't have time to log on more than once a
week or two.  Theresa, thanks for the forwarded digest postings
compiled by Brad.  That does help!

Sorry to Nancy and Doris, whose mail back in August I never
answered.  It was sitting in my reader, and thus was purged by
the Brown system a short while ago, as was mail from Ken -- Ken,
honeybunch, this means I lost your new e-mail address; please
re-send.

My 23-month-old daughter is starting to talk (I mean, short
sentences instead of just individual words)... lots of babble
and also some real stuff.  I'm struck by how sensible one
grammatic convention in Spanish is, as I hear Melinda work her
way in English... She says things like, "Poppy no go work" (don't
go to work, Poppy!), or "Mommy no [is] baby Keh-keh mommy" (Mommy
isn't baby Kevin's mommy -- wishful thinking, Melinda!).  So
sensible and so much like the Spanish way of making a verb
negative simply by prefacing it with "no".  Are there other
languages besides Spanish in which this simple formation of
the negative occurs?

Well, there you are.  An actual WORDS-related posting on
this eclectic bboard.  Hugs to all my old buddies.  I'll try
to drop in at Natalie's Blue Moon again soon.  :-)

    - Muthah Anne
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:18:50 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*

>> This reminds me. Everyone check out this cool question: WHY do
>> we say "disoriented like a decapitated chicken"? Has anyone SEEN
>
>Who says "disoriented like a decapitated chicken"?  Is that anything like
>"running around like a chicken with its head cut off"?

I have right now thought of a much cooler question - everybody check
this out: WHY is it that we say "running around like a chicken with
its head cut off?" Has anyone SEEN a chicken with its head cut off?
Why should anyone use this phrase?

tushar
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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Date: 16 Nov 92 20:57:34 GMT
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>Yup.  Another good place to give them (after inquiring FIRST to see if they
>want them) for many mags is a local school/preschool/daycare place....NOT
>for their library, but for them to use to cut up for art projects,

Or send them to me.  I make my own postcards with them.

-Mka
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 18:35:47 GMT
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              16 Nov 1992 18:56:13 EDT from
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:56:13 EDT Evelyn said:
>One of my bosses is also named Kevin Butler; I just tried to picture him
>as a football player and couldn't:  he looks more like a lay preacher or
>missionary.

So does  THE Kevin Butler.   Most placekickers don't "look like" football
players, at least as they are traditionally thought of.  The placekicker
on the BSU team, who leads the nation in field goals, is 5'2", about
130 pounds.  He actually made a tackle once.   Think it damn near killed him,
but he made it.

dan
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:35:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Words-L Weekly Digest

:  S. H. Karlson's quintains in faithful Burma-Shave style;

Why, thank you, Brad.  Now, everybody change your screens to white
letters on a red background, and witness our list scribe's efforts:

New posters: <on six posts>

      Diki Gust and Beck the Wreck,
      What think they of all this dreck?
      Peter Renz: and Wing-Keong,
      Can they really
      Last that long?
      BURMA SHAVE

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:56:11 EST
From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The truth about wakae must out!
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List Tush    you must learn to grep or quiet your gripe.
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Reification
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:15:59 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.


At risk of simplification:

Symbolization is the act of providing an icon or sign for a "thing"
Reification is the act of transforming the simulacrum into the thing.
Flag burning provides an example of both processes.

Jim (I simulacrate, therefore I am) Thomas
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:56:34 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Another high-level chalko (was Re: Usenet question)

>And not all sites get the "bit" heirarchy of usenet.

This might be another example of a chalko arising from
a temporary "high-level" confusion - something like a
confusion with "heir".

Doris made her typo into an object of embarrassment. But
I WAS talking about infrequent mistakes, particularly
whether confusion of "meaning" (hard to express this)
could be a cause.

tushar
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
Date: 21 Nov 1992 06:23:17 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>On Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:55:49 GMT karsten said:
>>ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:
>>> Then there's those packages of Tortilla chips that contain
>>> 2.33 ounces...  Why 2.33?
>>
>>Two 1.165 ounce servings.
>>
>    No, makes you buy three packages to get your normal quantity
>of 7 ounces of them.

Or, you buy one normal-sized bag, which is 6.5 ounces, or 6.25 if it's a
"lite" product.

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Subject:      Re: FYFI

>repeat to yourself:
>     I have a vocabulary of seven words
>
>-K
>
>-Mka

Ten to one Graham is typing in a message this very minute saying
that he did this on words-l three years ago.

tushar
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Subject: Re: Croning
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:34:41 GMT
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              16 Nov 1992 17:25:29 EST from
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:25:29 EST Rashmi said:
>Hmmm, what's the masculine of crone?

Old Fart


dan
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:58:28 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Another Contest
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>We could spend the next few days voting on *which* wordslers would be
>most likely to post a message like this.  Then, I could tabulate the
>votes and tell everybody how everybody voted and then ......

Giggles, you *promised* no more of this shit.  If Mama leaves again
your life isn't going to be worth living.  I mean it.

G
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      On *ts* indecision and on being oxiousobnay
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Has anyone noticed perhaps that *ts*, having decided to
leave and then decided to stay and then said *no* when
meaning *yes* has now become exceedingly obnoxious and
insulting toward *almost* everyone and when will it ever
end world without end?
--ggs
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Date: 17 Nov 1992 22:27:25 GMT
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In a previous article, haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock) says:

>   13) RICO (Anne Hy.)
>
>Can't remember, so can't answer.
>
Add an H, and it's the name of a Japanese camera.  Add "Suave", and you
get a popular rap by a bilingual"artist" named Geraldo.:-)  He looks better
than he sounds....

What "RICO" is an acronym for...who knows?

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Date: 17 Nov 92 01:39:58 GMT
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Just for Brad:-

'Bichabum' is the elided version of a phrase that is an integral part of the
Aussie dialect - "Bite your bum!". It is synonymous with "Bite your
tongue" or "Bite your cheek", but derives from the latter....since in Aussie
English everyone has four cheeks.  It is used among close friends or
relatives to rebuke someone for being too 'cheeky'.

Carolyn
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>If I'm not mistaken, this is the exception to Judith's rule of cooking:
>
>     there is no dish than cannot be improved by either chocolate or
>     garlic, but not both.

And what does it mean?

tushar
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   RE:  The Disoriented(headless or otherwise) Chicken.





   In the words of the immortal Yogi Berra, or some other famous guy....

        "It's Deja Vu all over again!"



   Joe P. (feeling somewhat disoriented himself, since this was well covered
           not long ago -- or else he experienced visions of the future
           via ESP.)
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:01:36 GMT

	You're rehashing your material again, Tushar.


-- 
Rita Marie Rouvalis              rita@eff.org 
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Cambridge, MA 02141 617-864-0665 | lucky?  --Deadsy
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith) says:

>.
>At that infamous Gore rally the day before the election at 8 a.m.
>two Republicans in Uncle Sam hats had a booth set up selling
>Clinton waffles with syrup.  Even though I objected to the stunt
>because of its implications, I thought it was a hilarious

It's definitely worth a <chuckle> or two.  

>idea.  I did *not*, however, dine on waffles, because the Gore
>people were giving away ham biscuits inside the Civic Center.
>Typical....  the Republicans were *selling* their stuff, the
>Democrats, giving them away in the most Populist manner

Yeah - they were giving away free heart attacks - the ones we'll all have
when we see those tax increases.  At least the Republicans were smart enough
to make you pay for your own <damnation>.:-)  The government will soon be
sending people to hell in a bucket - the Republicans just didn't debt-finance
the cost of the buckets....:-)

>--ggs (expecting the Democrats to *give* me lots of stuff
>in the years to come....)

They'll be giving you stuff all right, just like any politician.  What color
it will be, and which end of the donkey it will come out of, on the other
parade diaper......
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Subject:      FYFI
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....power....
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 08:59:28 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: RICO
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1992, Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815) wrote:

> Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.  No, I don't know
> what it's supposed to do.

Down here, it's commonly used to seize the houses, cars, boats, etc. of
drug dealers. If they can prove that anything was bought with the proceeds
of drug trading, away it goes. I think that RICO has also been used to
bust computer hackers, right, Jim? (I'm thinking of a case where a BBS was
seized because it was connected to a stolen modem.)

-abh
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:52:37 MST Dan Lester said:

>>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>>     who was once a sperm courier...
>
>Well, in some sense, many/most women are/were.....but methinks you might
>mean in the sense of doing it as a <profession> or at least <summer job>
>
>Tell us more.....

   Dan, this is a most dignified response.  Some of us have been
   taking bets all day on how you would handle this.  I am happy
   to say that I put my money on your better nature.  Thanks,
                                                        brad
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