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From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Ode to Judith
Date: 4 Oct 92 09:50:15 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


If the purpose is to impress judith, you'd better send it to judith.
She doesn't live here anymore.

--bayla (who's still forwarding snail mail to the previous owners of her
new abode)
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Shell Suits

> Shell suits are) not sold specifically for sports,
> just general wear. I've noticed a distinct social-class bias
> towards C2, D and E in possession of these things

Prole drift will hit Ireland as the more general population takes
up wearing them, just as one-size-fits-all baseball caps have become
more common in the USA, and the cultural decay will follow ;-)

Steve Karlson
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: I *KNOW* WHO YOU ARE

> Another invention
>      of his from today -- "lysteria" (var. listeria), for alarums
>      and eruptions on electronic lists -- is less pleasing to the
>      eye, ear, and brain, but may catch on anyway.  I will use it
>      in moderation, when the context is crystal clear.
>
Brad

That's lysterical, Brad.

-Mka
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:29:39 -0400
Reply-To:     "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
From:         "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject:      as long as I'm in the mailer
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Let's get rid of the gleanings.  Akio, you got me seven times this go-round,
and here I was not even trying.:-)

37)Wheaties 1.0 - a joke about the local mailer.  Wheaties are a brand of
cold cereal, which consists of flakes made from whole wheat.  The mailer is
version 1.0 because the formula for Wheaties the cereal has never been
changed since the cereal was first made.  I think it's about 80 years old
now.  It's famous for having various sports figures on the front of its
familiar orange box.

38)Val Kilmer - a motion picture actor, a star of Real Genius.  He also
played Jim Morrison in The Doors.

39)Ordinance Corps - The part of the US Army that handles explosives and
other munitions [guns, ammo, bazookas, et al].  They learn how to defuse
bombs, missles and similar objects.  It's considered hazardous duty, and
for good reason.

40)To Vote NOTA - In reference to the November 6 elections.  NOTA is an
acronym for None of the Above.  Meaning I don't want *any* of the current
candidates [and Ross Perot if he ever makes up his mind] to be elected
President.

41)Putt - Sir Puttman de Puddlehopper, aka my car.  It's a four cylinder
1982 Chevrolet Cavalier, and has all the pep and pickup of a tired plow horse.

42)Skaggs (Doris) - [as long as I'm here anyway]  Ricky Scaggs - a country
music singer.  Doris likes him, I can take or leave him.

43)Starfleet Command - Akio, we have to get you some Star Trek videos!
This entity controls starships, star bases, and other assorted space whosits
for the United Federation of Planets.  As in USS Enterprise.:-)

44)Turbinado sugar - I had a hunch this would get gleaned.  It's a type of
semi-refined sugar.  Blonde sugar is what the manufacturer calls it.  Not
all the molasses is removed from it during the refining process, giving it
a distinctive taste, color and texture.  It's granular, like "white" sugar,
but the grains are much larger.  I like it in coffee, when I use a sweetener,
but it's also good in certain herb teas, and of course, on candied ginger.:-)

Funny how things on this list keep coming back to food lately.

Ruth

--
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 08:17:49 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: tushie baby.....
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              29 Sep 1992 22:52:44 EDT from <mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU>

On Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:52:44 EDT <mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU> said:
>I know this is the tedious request from a tedious tyro, but do tell
>for the benefit of latecomers, the highly curious, and the yentes who
>want totell others, who is valentine smith (real or not) and what is
>val-l (real or not) and did he really get run off hist. and polisci.

  Val Smith is real....i think the list is at ucf1vm, but send the sub
to ANY listserv and it'll send it to the right one.

   Well, run off is open to debate.....sorta like did xxxx quit first or
get fired.....I don't know details or care....but val is a definite
net-character....

>And who is mamaprimate that so many miss, and is she the smae
>
>as judith who escaped from listtorture and listtyranny.

   Yes.

dan
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Original-From: mhwpa!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:14:00 EDT
From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject: Re: Mama Judith
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>Just read this to Mr. -ggs and from the depths of the closet came
>a voice saying:
>  1)  Jeeees, lighten up, Ken baby.

Lighten Up is on the same level as Get A Life.  It has the
intellectual validity and psychological depth of a Ross Perot speech.

>  2)  The vote for Natalie was *either* cast by Bernard or N herself,
>      documents exist to proove it.

So?  Assuming you are telling the truth, that just proves I am
gullible.  But I wonder why the mood around here as been such
lately--since July 6 to be precise--that the comment about Natalie's
supposedly dull life could be believably attributed to any number of
people here.  Again, whoever you are: there is a difference between
saccherine "niceness" (a straw man, by the way, since I've never seen
any List--even Notabene!--or newsgroup where people were gratuitiously
"nice") and the kind of ugliness that has come into this List in the
past few months.

>  3)  If you do not like the game you should not hang around it.

Maybe you're right.  Judith may have started a trend.

>--*imr*

Who are you behind the logname and cute *signature* by the way?

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:38:35 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      re: Tushar's Test

>Tush, babes, come here for a minute.  You seem to be getting a little uptight
>about this. Chill, baby, chill. Catch the cold bus and take it easy. Periods
>between paragraphs?  Aping ain't easy? You slay me, bigboy, you really do.  And
>you're not even close. You're driftin' like a log on a lake.  Well slap me with
>butter and call me slippery.
>
>I remain not-so-faithfully yours,

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

tushar

PS "Chill, baby." Adding another "chill" ruins it.
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:32:47 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: VAL-L

*** Resending note of 09/30/92 12:27


>similar, is all.  It's just that funky physicality vs. virtuality thing.

hmmmmm ....maybe that wasn't a compliment after all :-)

Don, no known diseases, in excellent health, but questionable mental condition.
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:35:40 -0600
From:         harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU
Subject: Re: Golden Words For Today
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>Take it easy on giggles' FAG alter ego, tushar.  Something went wrong

Whoa, Steve! You may not like ggs, but is there any reason to call names?

-abh
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Perotian quote
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>This one had me laughing so hard I'm not sure if I can work
>for the rest of the day.  In yesterday's new conference (such
>as it was!), Perot said,

>     "We will create a new political climate where the
>      system does not attract ego-driven, power hungry
>      people."

>I couldn't decide whether to throw up or laugh, but, given a
>choice, I generally choose laughter.

	Good choice, Jill.  It's a whole lot less of a mess that way.

	Does anyone (other than his 'volunteers') really think Ross is gonna
	go anywhere in the election?  Well, perhaps GHWB does -- his reentry,
	drawing away some of Clinton's 'I'd vote for *anyone* who isn't Bush'
	support, looks like about the only chance George has to win it.  Please
	note that this is not a suggestion that there's any collusion between
	the Heffalumps and HRP.  No conspiracy theorist I.

	Oh, on an old thread -- Clinton's background is lower-middle class.  It
	is a certainty that he must have had some sort of before- or
	after-school job in high school or earlier.  Whether he had a paper
	route or restocked shelves at the grocery store in Hope, he must have
	had some such job.  So what?  What's the point?

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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Anne on faked addrs (and some words-l history)

I thought the Lobstrosity was something from a Steven King novel/story,
wasn't it?  One of the "Gunslinger" ones?  I could be wrong...
In a related vein, does anyone know what happened to the posthumous John D.
MacDonald novel?  I recall reading in a bio of his that he had written "A
Black Shroud For McGee" as the final "color" but he wasn't going to publish
it while he was alive...
(And that really isn't Wally Cox in that V-8 commercial, is it?  8-)    )

John, full of questions as a five-year-old today...

ps - Don, we HAVE to stay in the shade!  1, it's a survival tactic, and, 2,
it's the only way to escape from the damn whiteflies!  It's supposed to cool
off (i.e., highs below the century mark) in about 10 days, according to the
Farmer's Almanac...  <groan>
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Shell Suits
Date: 5 Oct 92 16:40:56
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In-reply-to: "'s message of Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:09:56 GMT

Peter responds:
   Rita asks:

   >> ///Peter
   >
   >       Are you related to //anne// in any way?
   >

   Anne between the railroad tracks? Nope, I don't think so :-)

Which I find pretty funny seeing as how I was saying to friends only today
that my mum came from the "right" side of the tracks and my father came
from the "wrong" side of the tracks (grandmotherly terminology &
meaning)...so it makes perfect sense that I'm between the tracks.  

//anne//

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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:56:21 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Tushar's Test

Aelfchen@North.Pole says:

>Tushar!  You little guru, you.  Yes, by all means use your wit, your wisdom,
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>your great analytical skills in decipering, in discovering, in uncovering the
>real Santa.  You tickle, me, you do.  Regale use with your guesses, your shots,
              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>your stabs.  Play Lord Peter, play Hercule, use your little grey cells and tell
>us, please tell us, who the real Santa is.           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>We know.  Oh, yes, we doooo.
                       ~~~~~
>But we aren't going to tell The little guru!


If I may say so, aping well is not all THAT easy, friend. A little bit too
blatant, and where are we? Now, if there were a period between the paragraphs,
...

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:23:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WFF: An astounding finding!
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> As noted earlier, most of those who voted, voted for "complimentary" and
> "offensive" categories about equally often. WFF's it seems, bring out the
> beast in you. Vote in a WFF today!
>
> This penetrating insight comes to you from the desk of Tushar Samant.
>
> tushar

nice job, *ts*, but it won't make up for the fact that you scored
*22* on the <penetrating insight> test out of a possible 128.
These statistics, however, are fairly accurate, though thrown off
a little by what I did not explain before:  that some wordslers
named more than one person in some categories and all named were
recorded (that is, if gt and -abh were both named by a wordsler
as <most childish>, then they each got a vote for that category)...
But, then, there were quite a few wslrs who omitted categories or
put question marks.  It is true that only 4 or 5 refused to vote
for moral or ethical reasons in the nasty races.  An overwhelming
number of wslrs voted for *themselves* for both nice and nasty
races.
After this experience, I have to conclude that *I* (-ggs) have
by far the smallest <ego> of the bunch.
The prizes are in the works, and you *losers* are really
going to be sorry.
--ggs (fondly and devotedly yours and wondering why not a *single*
person has wondered who got the prize for <dumbest questions>...?)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:03:37 -0400
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Interesting Word
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              Sep 30, 92 11:32 am

>
> On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:30:00 CDT LARA said:
> >>Rita
> >>Who's been renting Monty Python videos
> >
> >Hmmmm. Is this a fellow Monty Python fan in the midst of these words-lers?
>
> There's a number of us here.  I'm glad to see another one on the list!

Count me in, too.
Agnes

> >
> >lara
> >the newest newbie, who kowtows to no one, thank you

Good.
>
> Evelyn
>
From: N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (In Medias Res)
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Date: 2 Oct 92 15:55:00 GMT
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> And then In Medias Res:
> >*(SIC)*
>
> My God, he's mutating into a new net.persona. Let's hope
> this one doesn't drive away the rest of the list.
> Bill

Not much chance of that, since this list is, as far as +one+ can
see, is all ready dessumated.
--*imr*
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:31:59 -0400
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Storytellers
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              "PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu" at Sep 30, 92 8:24 am

>
>  I am off tomorrow for the National Storytelling Festival in
> Jonesborough, Tenn. . Are any other wordslers planning to be
> there ?
>                                                   Br Paul
>
Can we get a report?
Agnes
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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Subject: Re: Mama Judith
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:48:00 GMT
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> when it was decided how "nice" we all were -- what an icky word!

Yes, and it's changed meaning over the years, too, if memory serves.

Steve Karlson
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Date: 6 Oct 92 05:09:39 GMT
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This is a test of the Cleveland mail sending system.  This is only a
test.  In the event of an actual message, the tone <beeeeeep> would be
followed by strange words both wise and humorous, and of course the
accompanying groans which are almost obligatory.

This concludes the test of the Wheaties 1.0 mailer system.  If anyone
sees or hears this post, please reply to the mailbox in the reply-to line,
as poor Words-l does not deserve to be deluged.  The reply, please portion
of the message applies mainly to those who are crazy , stupid, or blackmailed
by a boss into being awake before 9am. [even this mailbox has its limits :)]

		Ruth H.

--
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 02:40:29 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Reverse E-Opps
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:> True.  The American taxpayer pays it for you.
:                      ~~~~~~~~
:
:Of which Tushar is one, right?  Graduate student stipends are taxed at both
:the federal and state levels.

Well, let's say there are 20 million people in the US, then
Tushar contributes 1 twenty-millionth as much to the cost of
his email as everyone else does :-)

G
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:46:42 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Cable Bill
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              Oct 6, 92 4:27 pm

	Although I've long thought of the Cable Industry as EEEEVIL
for a number of reasons, the Cable Bill doesn't bother me too much.
In my opinion, it is just appeasement for Judge Greene's decision to
allow the RBOCS into the information providers market.  While most
of the media has focused attention on how much this is pissing off
the newspapers, it is actually the cable industry that will be hardest
hit, since they had the opportunity to provide what the RBOCS will
be offering during the 80's (from what I understand, there's quite
a bit of bandwidth in them thar cable wires running to the curbs of
something like 80%? (I need to check my sources) of American homes).
The distinction between what comes over your TV and your phone is
going to blur quite a bit in the near future.  Cable had the jump
on AT&T, didn't take advantage, and now the two Monopolistic Slugs
are crying to the government to bail them out of their own lack
of foresight.

Rita
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:50:19 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Final updage on imprisoned students
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You all may remember me on two previous occasions relating the tale of some
students from UT-Austin who came down here 10 months ago for some fun at the
beach and Mexico and wound up in Mexican jail after one of them obtained 280
Valium through a perscription written for her by a Mexican doctor. Apparently,
he "forgot" that it's not legal to have more than 90 Valuim on your person, so
he wrote her this gigantic prescription because she required it for treatment
of her bursitis, and she didn't want to keep returning to Mexico from austin
except every few months. The pharmacist filled her prescription, and as she and
her friends were leaving the pharmacy, the Federales appeared and took them
into custody.

They waited 10 months in Mexican jail to have their case heard before a judge.
In Mexico, you can wait years to be heard, but paying a fat (and I mean
FAT...on the order of $40,000.00) bribe to the judge, or the head of the
Federales, or both, and lots of little droogs along the line, invariably
results in a speedier trial.Sometimes judges draw out the agony, making the
anxious family pay off the bribe in installments.

Anyway, day before yesterday, the girl and her friends were finally heard, and
the judge decided, yes this was a mistaken arrest, you should have not been
arrested, you are free to go. The family was almost hysterical waiting for the
final decision; apparently at the last minute there was another delay which
threw the outcome of the hearing into doubt. But finally the kids were
released. The girl made several very touchiong remarks to the reporter there
about how she had taken her freedom and her family for granted, and about how
all she wanted to do was eat some good food and drive through the countryside
looking at things like trees.

The newly-reunited family and the girl's friends headed north, the father
actually carrying her across his shoulder in pure glee partway across the
bridge. They decided to overnight in Edinburg. About 2am yesterday, her
father's Cadillac was stopped by and Edinburg police officer traveling at high
speed. The father told the policeman that his daughter had stopped breathing.
turns out she had asthma, in addition to the bursitis, and that the Mexicans
had administered her some unnamed injection the day before her release.

Well, the officer did CPR on her, to no avail. She died on the side of the
highway in Edinburg, never even made it to the hospital. At least she got to
step on free soil once more before she passed away, but somehow that doesn't
console. There'a a terrible sense of unfairness and perplexity in the air
today, of the weird fate of a family who came to retrieve their daughter and
who will instead be driving home with her friends.

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:35:36 -0400
From:         "(Joan Boorstein)" <boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Andrew's wake (fwd)
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Another interesting tidbit along the same lines and which does not involve
such high-tech solutions:

I heard a brief part of an interview with the head of Habitat for Humanity
in Miami -- several of their homes were in the area hit by Andrew and all
are standing with only minor damage. Apparently none had their roofs
blown off.

Habitat for Humanity is the organization which builds for the low-income
people where the homeowner must put in a good part of the labor.  Rest is
done by volunteers except for supervisory staff -- they apparently pay
attention to how the house is put together and I doubt they use anything but
standard (& simple) building techniques.

--- Joan Boorstein (boorstein%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu)
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