HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
X-Delivery-Notice:  SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender.
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:48:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      A PERFECT BELL-CURVE FAMILY
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <words-l@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

It is *so* nice to know that we have such a <perfect> family,
with our share or geniuses and of idiots (or, at least one...)
Look at these grades!:
.
Grades:  for the <most perceptive> wordsler:
.
86       A   (2)
82
-----
75
73       B    (5)
71
69
69
------
66
65
64
63
60       C   (11)
60
60
59
58
58
57
---------
53
52
50
48       D    (8)
48
46
46
45
--------
22        F  (1)
.
Well, *somebody* has to be the village idiot, I suppose.  All that
inbreeding and you end up with three <knees> as doris has so aptly
commented.  Lots of mediocrity in there, of course, but roughly the
same number of <quickies> as not, you might say.
.
See the *next* post for the method of determining grades.  Winners
will be announced soon.
--ggs (GSH.....  who is happy to entertain you...)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Original_To:  WORD
Original_cc:  185422285
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:27:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Funny

Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Baseball Statistic

According to the Chicago Tribune, the following statistic was
given in the press notes for the June 7 Chicago-Oakland game:

The Oakland Athletics are 32-0 in games in which they have scored more
runs than their opponents.



Later

alec- The bad speller man.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:49:46 EDT
From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Santa
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Lob writes:
> And the aelfchen letters.  Sheesh, I wasn't trying to emulate anyone except my
> cat Aelfchen.  Least of all Anne or giggles. And as far as the first Santa
> letter this time around, I don't think I was trying to write as anyone but
> myself, considering how I thought most of the "oldbies" knew it was me who
> posted the first one a while back.

You certainly managed to stump abh and Natalie, can't say for sure about
the other oldbies.  And though I remember the Santa letter of long ago, I
don't recall you being identified as the culprit back then.  I assumed
someone was playing a prank, and it was fun trying to figure out who it was.
(Of course, a lot of people might say who cares, they're probably right.)

Also, one of the Aelfchen letters was pure Harwell.  It's deleted now, so I
can't quote it, but it was good.

Belated birthday greetings!

rashmi
who puts away the dishes, fixes dinner (infrequently), and prefers to
eat/order out.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 12:48:12 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      New Yorker
Comments: To: Words-L Distribution <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

Yep, Brad, the New Yorker just arrived in the mail and it smells to high
heaven. Fashion ads! It has Armani, Lauren, Klein and a host of other
Vogue regulars appearing in the ad pages. I didn't even begin to look at
the typography, had to air it out first.

-abh
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Truth squad (was gleanings)
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:09:00 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

JAG did a really inefficient job of responding to one of my earlier
posts.  I'm trying to parse it to make sense of it.  Early on I think
he's asking if I meant "free enterprise" when I wrote "free people."
To a naive view, yes.  But I prefer the construction "free people"
because the "free people" provide the "enterprise."

Further down, he notes,

"private education is not noted by (sic) its efficiency"

Would you elaborate on this, jag?  Last time I checked, Northwestern,
Harvard, and the University of Chicago were private; Catholic high
schools offered education rather than imprisonment to inner city
kids, and a lot of urban politicians and their wealthy allies sent
their kids to private schools.  What am I missing in your response?

> %oil co% agreements and collusion with other 'entrepreneurs'

Any evidence?

Steve Karlson

"The world has suffered more tyranny and poverty than need have been
because it has clutched ... bad economics."
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 08:20:39 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mobile non-Ronin?
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              28 Sep 1992 23:34:43 -0600 from
              <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:34:43 -0600 The Ronin said:
>was closed, so instead I went to the campus 'media center'.  After

  Yup...know it well....done in early industrial, with exposed pipes
and ducts and all that....perfect set for some futuristic movie
after the holocaust....with laser guns and such shooting at each
other amidst piles of debris and waste.....

>wouldn't be so maddening were it not that all *3* copies are
>*non-circulating*.  And even then the 'library' can't keep its hands on
>its materials.  Grrrrrrr.  Tomorrow I go to a *library* (DPL) and try

   Well, not to defend the Auraria library, or DPL, both of which I was
in a couple weeks ago....but.....it is not the LIBRARIANS or other staff
who lose/steal  the damn books....it is the patrons, like all those who
sit next to you in class.   The libraries have  security systems, but
like any security system, they can be beaten.  I had a mother of a HS
kid from a nearby town call me on monday and tell that her son had
two of our books....with underlinings and highlighting, and the spine
and barcode labels peeled off....so we sent him a bill for these reference
books....and he's been turned into his principal and is on probation.
Of course not many mothers whould do that......

Anyway, yell in class at the dumb assholes who assault our libraries....

dan
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:45:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Induction (was Mensa)

Torkel, prior to receiving his flying orders, opines,

: In my opinion, a much better introduction to mathematical induction would
: be a proof that every natural number is a product of primes. And, for the
: interested students, a proof that every natural number is a product of primes
: in essentially only one way.

That's cute ... it combines induction with contradiction. If n is a natural
number, it is either prime or not prime.  If it is prime, it is the product of
itself and 1.  If it is not prime, it is the product of two natural numbers
k1 x k2.  Each ki is either prime or not prime ...
Therefore there is no natural number that cannot be expressed as a product of
primes.

But still there's a formula in there: the induction step is "if a number is
not prime, it is the product of two numbers."

Steve Karlson

Luff 'em and leave 'em
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:23:55 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Josiah
              28 Sep 1992 12:50:05 EDT from <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 12:50:05 EDT Bill Merrill said:
>>> . . .   the Brown online catalog and learned that it is
>>>named "after Josiah S. Carberry, a mythical professor  . . .

>One thing to add to Elaine's comments. Several of Professor Carberry's
>works are listed in the online catalog. Just do an author search for
>Carberry. Bill

I just consulted Josiah and was alerted to the existence of the massive
(1313 p.) -Sex and the College Student- (1969); the dramatic skit -A
Journey to the East- (1980); and the connection of Josiah Stinkney
Carberry (b. 1929) to the serial publication -Lectures on Psychoceramics-
(formed by the union of -Psychoceramics Today- and -Psychot"opferwaren-).
Thanks, Bill, for the tip.

This is the first time I've internetted to another library's catalog;
just never had a reason to before.  A most pleasureable experience,
except: I had a devil of a time getting out of there.  At the "VM
Pass-through Facility" screen, I didn't understand the options, none
of them worked anyway, and I couldn't interpret "PA1 = Exit".  What is
the PA1 key?  (I finally got out passively: the system timed me out.)

brad
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:55:55 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Speeding

> Using fuzzbusters *should* be illegal because it encourages deliberate
> pre-meditated reckless driving.
>
> G

Can you find the oxymoron?  (I'm sure *you're* up to it, Tushar).

:-}

-Mka
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: I *KNOW* WHO YOU ARE
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:20:57 GMT

I've emailed this to ggs, but it seems to me I should say it out loud:  it's
not 'offense' that's the issue here, but hurt.  We can face witty attackers
onlist, having fun slinging some mud if we choose, taking it whence it
comes and so forth.  But to be faced with nasty ad hominem votes, anonymous
nominations to untenable positions, is *not* fun.  I do *not* like it.  I
will *not* participate.  I -am- serious.

I don't know if mamaprimate will come back: I'm not threatening to leave.
There has been a large amount of assorted crap on this list, but I keep
digging through looking for ponies.  You'd think a woman of my age would
have lost her starry-eyed optimism by this time, and maybe someday you'll
all manage to kill it, but so far I'm only -near- the edge, not over it.

I apologize for all the cliches: I don't have time to write a more original
letter.  :-)

--bayla

Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: words-l@uga.BITNET
X-VMS-To: IN%"words-l@uga"
X-VMS-Cc: CROSEN
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:40:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      borders

Greetings,

Bookstore buffs will be interested in today's Wall Street Journal which informs
us that K-Mart, owner of the Waldenbooks chain, is in negotiations to purchase
the Borders chain.

Marty
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:22:20 -0400
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Survey
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
              Sep 29, 92 9:39 am

>
> It was extremely interesting, and I'll have to look it over after my
> test today and after I finish reading the convention stories on the
> Vampyres list.
>
> Evelyn Duncan
>
> P.S.  I don't drive a car; I use public transportation.
>

Now, Evelyn, is that anything a good Wiccan would publicize? I mean,
there must be an easier and handier way for a good Wiccan to get
around that does not pollute and is superior to any other mode
of ordinary transport!

Agnes
who is fumbling around in her broom-closet trying to hotwire one of the
old beaten-up synthetic mops, but has a feeling it's just not the same
in plastic. Anyone have the secret incantation?
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:03:26 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      re: Tushar's Test
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> This is the posting which made Graham wonder whether abh had learned about
> "mconnect". Gentlefolk, behold the unimaginative newbie, G Toal.

At risk of adding to my standing as asker of dumb questions, I'll ask
anyway:  What's "mconnect"?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S. Speaking of Graham, if I had had any idea that giggles was going to
publish the results of the questionnaire, I wouldn't have been as incensed
at G's sending his answers to the list.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:52:06 EDT
From:         Theresa Wild <TWILD@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      clothes

Now that we know how everyone puts/takes garbage,

Do you    1. Bring in the clothes
          2. Go pick the clothes

This for those who resort to fresh air drying opposed
to the tumble machine.

Theresa
twild@uriacc.uri.edu
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:59:25 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      RE: borders
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

What is Borders?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:47:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: whoa

>  diddling the COs wife?  diddling the COs son?   diddling the CO?
> telling the CO to fuck off?   something else even more exotic?

Sandhurst men don't put destroyers on sandbars.

Steve Karlson
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: WORDS-L@UGA.BITNET
X-VMS-To: IN%"WORDS-L@UGA.BITNET"
X-VMS-Cc: CROSEN
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:27:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject: Re: loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Greetings, COuntry,

Yeah!  That's telling ndh, man.  There are too many of these bleeding
hearts around who don't realize what an important bulwark against the
red/yellow/brown--oh, what the heck, rainbow--menace you VMI guys
supply.  I sleep a lot better knowing you guys are down there in
Virginia.  It's a sure thing I wouldn't be able to stand being around you
folks and doing the stuff you do.

Marty
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: still a loser
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:14:58 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              5 Oct 1992 21:56:38 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:56:38 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>Ok, what do y'all think?  I can easily zap the kiddies from the list, but
>they could resubscribe.  I think there may be a way to keep people from
>a certain place (VMI) from being able to subscribe, but I'm not positive.

   it is SERVE OFF.....but not sure where it goes....and my docs are at work..
and it may be a system command, not a listserv command....

>On the other hand, children seeking attention often give up when they're
>ignored long enough.  Wanna just ignore them?  They probably think they're
>somehow shocking us.  Guess what, kiddies.  Middle-aged (and older) people
>also know about phallic symbols and other cutsey things.  We can even
>say FUCK.  My, my.  Isn't that exciting??

   Well, yes....that's the consensus.....I guess....sorta like I thought
in last couple posts.   I hereby solemnly swear that I will make absolutely
NO response to VMI assholes....under any conditions.....either on or off
list.....and I mean it.

fuckem....

dan
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:48:29 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Survey

>Evelyn Duncan
>
>P.S.  I don't drive a car; I use public transportation.

Evelyn, I voted for you in that category.  Thank you for being, in part,
who I thought you were.

-Mka

d
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:02:22 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Shell Suits
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

>Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:07:50 BST
>From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
>
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:02:25 GMT, "(Bayla Singer)" <bsinger@ENIAC.SEAS.UPENN.EDU
> wrote:
>>  pflynn@CURIA.UCC.IE ((Peter Flynn)) writes (thinking he's adressing a
>> real words-discussion group like alt.usage.english):
>
>Don't you believe it - I can't believe Elaine hasn't warned him about
>us <in depth>...
>
Yeah, but I'm also too busy to talk to him ....... you guys will just have to
amuse each other ....

Elaine
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:02:30 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Mama Judith
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Posted on 2 Oct 1992 at 21:19:54 by tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
>Irritating and wasn't the least bit offended.

How nice for you.

Karen
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Return-Path: <bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu>
Posted-Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 6:14:18 EDT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 06:14:18 EDT
From:         "(Bayla Singer)" <bsinger@ENIAC.SEAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      re: Bodeans gleans
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

Gosh, Natalie said us older folk can actually say <that word > in public,
so it must be so.  I've always wanrtedto, so here goes.

F.  Fff.  F.........  Oh bleep, I *still* can't do it.  Not mad enough, I
guess.

--bayla
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:47:54 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: I *KNOW* WHO YOU ARE
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

I still don't really understand the game.  Would you mind explaining it
again?  (I've never watched the tv show that it's based on.)  I thought
the point was to see how much we think alike -- or rather that the winner
would be whoever thinks the most like the other participants.  Is that
not how it works?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Delivery-Notice:  SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender.
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:08:00 EDT
From:         GILBERT SMITH <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      (Copy) Re: Re: Kosher
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <words-l@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> Tushar guffaws:
>
> >Microcosm, hell. It's plain bloody nuttiness. Gentle fun? Nonsense.
> >Laugh at them like a hyena, nothing less.
>
> "The ignorant man does not know, nor does the fool understand this."  --
> one of the psalms: I'm still lazy.  ggs, Sword Drill Time!
>
> --bayla

Well I will just have to consult my _Nave's Topical Bible_ to find
the reference, and you can be *sure* that he who guffawed does not
have the <vaggest idea> what you are talking about.
--ggs (.......Charge!!!!)
.
I may be old and forgetful but my notebook does not lie.
--ggs
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:46:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: abh's oops

> While I was at a mere football game ...

Are Mississippi State for real this year or what?  Did the coach castrate
an alligator this week?

Steve Karlson
From: BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Gleanings (61)
Date: 28 Sep 92 10:45:23 GMT
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU

9) "Your mother wears combat boots"

   This expression is a mock insult playing on the deeply imbedded
   folk taboo against insulting someone's <male only?> mother.  The
   strong form of the oath -- now almost mild -- is, of course,
   "mother-f*cker."

   There are surely monographs on this subject.  I bet someone
   on Words-L can cite the relevant literature.

   brad
From: gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Shell Suits
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:07:50 GMT
Organization: Current Science Tel: +44 71 323 0323 Fax: +44 71 580 1938
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Comments: To: Words-L and the Bandwidth Hogs <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:02:25 GMT, "(Bayla Singer)" <bsinger@ENIAC.SEAS.UPENN.EDU>
 wrote:
>  pflynn@CURIA.UCC.IE ((Peter Flynn)) writes (thinking he's adressing a
> real words-discussion group like alt.usage.english):

Don't you believe it - I can't believe Elaine hasn't warned him about
us <in depth>...

G
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:25:39 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mensa test
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              5 Oct 1992 10:55:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:55:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
>	Pair (8) with (3,5), (6) with (2,4), giving each half of each pair
>	opposite signs.  That leaves 0,1,7,9; clearly (0 + 9 - 1 - 7) = 1.
>
  Or, realize that the sum of all is 45, and thus you must have 23 plus,
22 minus, and pick one of the many combos that will do that.....

dan
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-VMS-To: IN%"WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu"
X-VMS-Cc: WHITERJ
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 12:29:37 -0600
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Perotian quote
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

Sayeth CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu

> One of the many things that bothers me about pereauvian populism is the
> often-expressed notion that there is some kind of problem with our
> political system in the US.  I'm not sure what this means.  When he alleges
> that the "system" has failed us, is he talking about democracy?

     I am not sure what he means, but I agree there is a problem with
the system.  The people have failed it.

The Ronin
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-VMS-To: IN%"words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu"
X-VMS-Cc: WHITERJ
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:31:16 -0600
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Sunrise, sunset ...
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Respondeth LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU

} The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU> writeth (oops, sorry) writes:
}
} >     Sorry, misjudged the pedantric level requested.  I will try to do
} >better next time.
}
} Bob,
}
} Tsk! Tsk! Me, PEDANTIC?...... Never!

     I never said you were, merely that I had misjudged the level of
lore (I tend to be blind in this area) that you sought.

Bob
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:35:00 PDT
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Blinking Lights

> Did anyone see the report on TV about traffic cops getting cancer from
> the radar units (mainly brain or testicular cancer)?
>
> Evelyn Duncan

Yes - on 60 Minutes, wasn't it? I haven't heard of any states moving to get rid
of these radar units, or even to investigate the issue more. I suppose that
shouldn't surprise me, though...

Emily <ecz5ejh@oac.mvs.ucla.edu>
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU