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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:04:54 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Angie!!!!
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              Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>,
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:49:00 CDT <L_SEAGLER%TWU.BITNET@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu> said
>        Thanks, I will!!!  The only thing is, I wish I knew what all of you
>looked like...actually, I have a very vivid picture of each one of you close to
>my heart...sometimes I wonder if each of you look the way I think you

  Our offer continues to be open.  Anyone who wants a picture of Dan and
Gail, just send your snailmail address and one will be on the way.  Taken
in San Francisco, in color, by my daughter, the last week of June 92.

>do...Maybe one day we can all have a reunion!!!  Till then I will keep
>picturing those smiling faces that I know each one of you possess, and I will
>smile, too!!!

   Well, as one who just got back a couple weeks ago from the Words-L
Clambake in Rhode Island, where some 50 people who has only met electronicaly
in the past, but on a list like this one, but even LESS focussed (yes, that
IS possible).  It was magnificent.  It was wonderful.  I would heartily
recommend it for the DIET folks.  Now we just need to figure out  when
and where.  Idaho is a good possibility!

   BTW, many looked just like I figured.  Many looked NOTHING like I
figured.  So far, we have met Bernadette and John when they visited
Boise a couple months ago.  There is always room for visiting email
friends at Chez Lester....as long as you leave your smokes and booze and
sugar outside.

hugs

dan
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Social Security

John,
  According to the great Cecil Adams (may his tribe increase), the SS
cards are not to be used for identification (I guess because they're
made of cheap paper and can be easily duplicated).  There's nothing
that prevents the number from being used for identification.

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:11:53 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ohhhh, gif-less me...
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> Not exactly - it's a little complicated :)  As you said, you can 'get'
> a file to a suitable name (you have to - you've no choice) -- the ones
> I suggested changing were the names *inside* the .uu files - especially
> since the .uu files are really only helpful for people who have trouble
> with networks in between msstate and their DOS PCs.

Oooooops.  That was *STUPID* -- as in BIG-TIME STUPID!  I really did
understand the point being made.  I knew that the problem was with the
beginning part of the files, not with the names of the encoded gifs.
But all I did was change the names.  DUMB!!  I really am worried about
progressive brain rot.  I'll zap the uu versions right now and re-encode
the gifs.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:10:14 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:04:00 EDT, "Gilbert Smith" <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
 wrote:
> --ggs (straight as an arrow if I remember correctly.....)

But then your memory tends to go when you get close to 55...

G
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:59:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: gleanings
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>16) Shawt Hilz (Bayla)
>Ken's coinage: a phonetic rendering of Short Hills (New Jersey). He's
>been complaining about the relative lack of intellectual quality there.
>
>--bayla

Have not! have not!  The intellectual quality at the Short Hills Mall
could not be higher!  They have their very own B. Dalton's, after
all.  And the view of the girls in the summer dresses could not be
more intellectually inspiring....

Ken
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: A different kind of matrix, I suppose

>    Send e-mail notification to everyone you report to every time
>    you scratch your ass.  And if they tell you to do contradictory
>    things, make them fight it out.
>
>    Carol, whose heart goes out to you.

Thanks for the advice, Carol.  Sounds good.  Probably ought to clean
out some file drawers, too, and make room for all the backup copies
of all the memos that will no doubt have to be written to document
everything.  Sigh.

Michael E. Macmillan (macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:58:07 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: hi
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> > hi guys
>
> Hi prudence you sweetie
> --ggs (wondering with whom he is speaking....)

She's probably another relative, giggles.  Hi, Prudence.
ndh
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 08:31:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: New Gif Names
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>:-) mv nico+rita.gif nicorita.gif
>:-) mv nico+rita.uu nicorita.uu
>:-) chmod 644 nicorita*

Isn't Nicorita a nicotine chewing gum for people who wanna
quite smoking?...:-)

Ken
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:56:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Manuals
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When I got my new office computer, the department paying for it gave me
a choice of a modem or the DOS 5.0 manual.  Needless to say, I chose the
modem.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:35:13 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject: Re: Tushie
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              92 12:24 pm

> <students-not-to-be-messed-with@zaphod.uchicago.edu>

Tushar,

	I am highly disapointed in you.  Not only have you plagarized
an original work of mine, but you haven't even done a proper job of it.

Specifically:

--

From: hrose (Helen Trillian Rose)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:31:05 -0400
To: women-not-to-be-messed-with@eff.org
Subject: our cousin list


unfortunately, after sniffing at that mail address
(students-not-to-be-messed-with@zaphod.uchicago.edu) it looks to be a fake.

--

	I, and my fellow women-not-to-be-messed-with, are all enraged
at this egregious breech of our reputation, and you shall hear of it,
mark my words; you shall hear of it.

Czarina
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:44:11 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gifs Available Soon
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> On Mon, 20 Jul 1992 13:15:03 CST Bernard Chien Perro said:
> >             o/.\_____/   (bernard@english.msstate.edu)
> >              \ ______|
> >               /\   /\
> Bernard, ole buddy,
>    This is grrreat!  This is the first time that I've noticed that
> you have YOUR OWN ACCOUNT.  Sure is a bunch better than having to
> wait til the human is out of the room, ain't it?  Good going, kiddo!
> The Plan proceeds apace.  This is Pure-B fantastic.

You are not very observant, ChesterBear!  I have more than one account
of my very own.  The one I'm using right now is one of them.  (I sometimes
use the last name Maynor instead of Perro.)  I use this one more often
than the @english one because I can access this one from anywhere --
the @english account is a silly Pegasus Mail account that can't be
reached via modem.  (But I have mail to that account forwarded so that
I don't have to go to campus to read it.)

     -- Bernard Chien Perro
        aka Bernard Maynor   o/.\____/     maynor@cs.msstate.edu
        aka Bernardykins      \______|     bernard@english.msstate.edu
        aka Wonder Dog        / \  / \     (and various other addresses)

                         VETERAN NET CRAWLER
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:37:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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> Easy one: buy the Honda Del Sol when it comes out. Or a Miata now. Either way,
> your life will instantly become more <interesting>.
>
> -abh

-abh, what was that convertible you were driving at the bake?
A more sedate, 4 seater, I think....  What I really want is one
of those Saab convertibles,  beayooootiful car, but $35000 is a
little beyond my modest means. Or, in Hoboken, saw a yuppie in
a new Alfa Romeo with top down.  I seriously considered shooting
him because he was so <out of step> with the neighborhood.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:58:34 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: potato news
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> MS (well, he will go thru MS, but will he get to MS State?) to see Natalie
> and Bernardykins.

Did he say when it might be?  Bernardykins and I are both very much here.
He's at home right now and I'm at the office, so both fronts are covered.
Where was Don going to be coming from when he goes through MS?  Starkville
isn't on many main routes.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:26:17 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Trivia, BP, etc

Neal wonders about groups sampled in blood pressure comparisons.  I wondered
about the BP of the persons conducting the survey :-).  Another worthless
trivia (yesterday's).  How much money did the author of "Oh Susanah"
receive?           a - $500,000
                   b - $5000
                   c - $500
                   d - $50

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:17:34 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      RE: A Query
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>>Any more information about them?
>
>I was just in a New Age bookstore in Austin, Texas, which had the Urantia volu
>and a bunch of accompanying critiques and such.
Ok, so I should look in our local New Age bookstore.
Thanks very much!

judith
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:37:09 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: birth order
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>> I am 20th among 23 grandchildren. Can anyone tell me what the book says
>> about me? I am very curious.
>>
>> tushar
>
>Please don't *anybody* respond to this person, who obviously is
>being his own real smart*ss self this evening.  This is just
                             (1.1)~~~~~~~~~~~~
>pure-d <dumb>....  No humoring tonight, please, I beg you all.
>--ggs


(1.1) Explain this with copious reference to header dates. I can't believe
      that that car goes round and round at the speed of light.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:20:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: Apophasis
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>Could this be the same Sister Miriam Joseph (C.S.C) who taught at
>St. Mary's College, Notre Dame IN and wrote The Trivium--a required  urseco
>for all St. Mary's girls!

>2Judith who was there before "girls" was a bad word

Were you from the area, 2Judith, or just there for school?  I grew up
in South Bend (didn't go to Notre Dame or St. Mary's because I needed
to get *away* from home).

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:54:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Quayle and abortion
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>    But he's not saying that anymore.  Now Marilyn says they would
>    make their 13-year-old daughter (who must be mortified at all
>    this public discussion of her probably theoretical sex life)
>    carry the baby to term.

In all fairness, I think that the difference in their responses can
be explained by the way the questions were posed to them.  Dan's was
posed (as I recall) with the daughter as an adult; Marilyn's was
posed as happening now.  I still don't agree with Marilyn's flat
response - I would think they'd have to talk to their daughter and
get her opinion, as well as take her mental and physical state into
account.  Carrying a baby is not a risk-free activity, particularly
for a 13-year-old.

>    It's a measure of the debasement of the debate about abortion
>    that Quayle caught a ration of crap for saying "I would support
>    my daughter no matter what she decided," when those are easily
>    the most sane and loving words I've ever heard from DQ's lips.
>    What does Operation Rescue expect him to say -- "I would throw
>    the little trollop out in the snow"?

I agree with you, Carol, I was impressed by his response (and I don't
think I've ever before been impressed by him...amazed, yes, but
not impressed!).

The best response in all this, though, came from Clinton.  When asked
what he would do in the same situation, if it were his daughter
pregnant, he replied, "I wouldn't discuss it with the press."
(paraphrase)

>    Carol, mud-wrestling with her values

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
From: venkates@frankel.hep.upenn.edu
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Subject: Re: BOMBAY
Date: 30 Jul 92 18:08:56 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Physics Department

In article <30JUL92.13305033.0140.MUSIC@NEMOMUS>, LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Karen Kay) writes:
|> > Whenever this happens, my mind goes back willy nilly to the happy days I spent
|> > in the rain-drenched city of Bombay                                   oods
|> 
|> This reminds me, my friend Betsy is back from 6 months in Calcutta,
|> w/ only a few parasites to show for it.  (She sure is *thin*--maybe
      ------------------------------------
|> that's where I need to go. :)  )She said they'll be gone in two
|> weeks, and then she will have her memories.
|> 
|> Karen
|> who wishes someone else would write her dissertation for her.

-- 

What the HELL do you mean by parasites ?
    ___  __  
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  /__/ /__/   \	  
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:40:44 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      catching up s'more
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I just read the logs from June 29-30 and have some questions and comments.
Logs for July 1-12 are only triple the size of those two days, so hope to
finish them soon.

Thanks to all who reported ont he San Fran dinner.  Seems no one told about
the rude waitress, but it musta been discussed enoug in Bristol.

Jenna, and bwp.....did you REALLY get your tattoos?  If so, why did I not
SEE them at the slam?

ALSO....it seems that NO ONE ever sang the Messiah there.  And where were
the purported scores?

Did ANYONE ever get any White Chocolate there?  I never saw or heard of it,
either.

JENNA.....whats the story on the RI College disdain for the most charming
redhead at the bake?

dan
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:49:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Birth Order

Guilty as charged.
(Or does being an "only" count?)  8-)

John M. "Or does being adapted throw the curve off as well?" W.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:32:03 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Five Reasons (was tushar, boy..)

>Tushar,
>
>Your verbosity is matched only by your pomposity.
>
>//anne, necessarily but not sufficiently impressed//

You keep out of this, boof, unless you have valuable comments
to make. I have remarked once before on the difficulty of
dealing with Anne H's. I have no wish to expend effort on this
kind of cowardly accusation yet again.

Bah!

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:34:48 CDT
From:         Price Caldwell <tpc1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIT
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Yes, Tony, the white Taurus at the clambake was mine.   The starter went
out on the way home, but luckily it didn't happen till I got to Nashville,
where I had friends.   I found out the car canNOT be started by towing
it; I tried that, and the transmission wouldn't engage.  Is there some
absurd electrical lockout that's supposed to protect me from the idiocy
of being pulled down a neighborhood street at 35 mph on a 12-foot strap??
And then it didn't even work!

Well, I could at least tow it to a shop and wait for Monday, where for a
mere $140 I got another starter installed. . .     I really need to keep
this car about another five years, but I'm really afraid of what it will
cost.   On the other hand I also have a 69 Chevelle that I think I'll be
willing to keep indefinitely.  Now my daughter is delivering hot food in it
every day!

--PLrice
(I mean, Price)
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 01:13:05 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Okay, what's the opposite?

On Sun, 26 Jul 1992 11:59:26 EDT Karen Kay said:

>Anyway, this question has to do w/ orality--we talk about the 'orality'
>of a written text.  Do we talk about the literality of speech?? Or what?

No - because the word gets used for a different meaning so much that
your meaning is too obscure.

>Help, help, help.  We don't have an interstate, so I don't know if there
>is grass on it or not.

I thought even Hawaii had an interstate.

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:08:28 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Words (was Re: Girl Scouts)
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> --Adam
> Jewish by blood, Episcopalian by upbringing, and semi-agnositic now

I assume that an agnostic might be considered a "semi-atheist," but what
is a "semi-agnostic"?

Back in the old days when I first became listowner, I used to try to steer
discussions back to words -- subtly, not forcefully.  I had almost forgotten
about that. :-)  I do think it's fun to talk about words sometimes, tho.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Home...

Hi gang,

Well we are safely back home from our 7,200 + mile motorhome odyessy.  Had
a great time, no major problems, saw a lot of beautiful country, and met a
few, real live wordslers - and petted Bernard ...but don't think Bernard
really cared for Muffy.... and we won't talk about the display Bernard put
on as we left ....right Natalie?  Got to clear a bunch of mail.  More later,
probably much later as have driven many miles today with little sleep.
Bye till later.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:56:17 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: My Mac can do these...
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              92 2:51 pm

> systems or anything else about computers.  I love Unix because its commands
> and file-structures seem sensible to me and because it will do the things
> I want it to do.

	You have a diseased mind, Natalie.

Czarina
Who shouldn't say anything since I find C incredibly intuitive.
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 12:01:00 CDT
From:         Bill Sjostrom <TA0WXS1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: dreary weekend

>What part of acadamia dominates your life?
>Doris

Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.  Rolling on the
floor laughing near hysteria.  Doris, if you are stuck in the groves
of academe, it is hard to think of a part of academia that doesn't
dominate your life.
                            Bill Sjostrom
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:29:31 -0500
Reply-To:     Melicent Tlucek Bryarly <melicent@tenet.edu>
From:         Melicent Tlucek Bryarly <melicent@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: birth order
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1992, Nancy Harwood wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:14:10 -0500
> From: Nancy Harwood
> Subject: birth order
> To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
>
> I was rereading _The Birth Order Book_ the other day, and just wondered
> how many other wordslers are serious, dependable firstborns?
> ndh (who would have much preferred to be a second child)

What about the wonderful third child....such as myself?
Melicent, whose first-born sister is nothing like the ones listed in the
Birth-Order Book.
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 14:39:31 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Which large or unabrdg dictionary ...
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>The boxed double volume with a rectangular magnifying glass in a little
>drawer would be my first choice. Has anyone seen those lately?

Yes.  I saw one on my office shelf just a couple of hours ago.  (Everybody
I know, including me, joined BOMC back about 15 years ago to get them for
$20, then unjoined.)

LOUD thunder.  Really gotta log off or switch to laptop.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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