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From: DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078)
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Subject: Re: Speeding
Date: 28 Sep 92 07:25:47 GMT
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*** Resending note of 09/27/92 19:02


>I never said that! I stopped riding motorcycles three years ago, but I
>didn't purchase that Trapshooter this afternoon just because they look
>cool.

>-abh

Well, I'll certainly move over and let you zoom by!  Er, ah, does Texas
still have those signs "Drive Friendly"?

Don, in the slow-poke lane.....
From: gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: still a loser
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:05:06 GMT
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:17:27 EDT, IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU wrote:
>    to about $75,000, I don't think I will be an enlisted puke like you
>    obviously were.  Not only will I get "enlisted" in the military but
>    as an officer so shut your mouth NUT!!!

Actually I was a signals officer in the Royal Artillery and went to
Sandhurst.  By the way, do you guys realise all your postings here
are enshrined for all time on CD rom.  It'll be a nice testament to
the education at VMI for centuries to come.

G
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:40:22 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      A valuable message for Anne Harwell

Anne's spelling has been flamed by agency of a stupid joke. Now I would
also like to point out the meanings of two words which I suspect she
doesn't quite know.

1) Inchoate, which as I know it, means "unformed" or "less formed".
2) Callow, which as I know it, means "inexperienced" or "immature".

In particular, (1) has nothing to do with chaotic, and (2) has nothing
to do with callous.

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:47:50 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: I *KNOW* WHO YOU ARE

>Well, now, all the <survey-ballots> have been in for a
>while, and the *real* votes are flooding my mailbox.  This
>is *so* exciting.

Ah, good. I thought that somehow the contest had been forgotten.
I have a whole lot of rhetoric to unload about the Voice Of The
People, and having the opportunity suddenly snatched from my hands
would have been very very sad.

>   1) Who the *winners* are in each contest.

No fujjing when reporting things!

>   2) What everybody thinks about everybody else.

Wish I had thought of this genius idea.

>   3) Which categories should have been included and
>      weren't  (such as:  Who posts the most gruesome posts?)

TUSHAR SAMANT. (Ha, now it is 14:3!)

>   4) that Monday night, midnight, the GAME SHOW HOST will
>      post the winners of each contest, in the form of posts
>      entitled ATEP (And The Envelope Please)...  You can all
>      find out how <popular> you are...

I just want the names of the bozos who have given me an unfavourable
vote. They are going to be very sorry about this. A secondary concern
is knowing who have chosen to vote on the "nasty" questions. A tertiary
concern is to know who voted at all.

>   5) there is still time for a second round ballot, and a
>      chance at that <prize to end all prizes>....

I am counting the microseconds.

>   6) as the rules have indicated, if you don't post a srb,
>      your first one will count also as the srb.... like it or
>      not...

Count MY ballot as the "srb". Did you get it?

tushar
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Subject:      Re: "But You Don't Have a Southern Accent"

Greetings,

Possibly the person who said Natalie doesn't have a southern accent hails
from someplace like Belize.

Marty
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Mensa test

>>	Pair (8) with (3,5), (6) with (2,4), giving each half of each pair

>Gauss is alive and well in Pittsburgh?

: Thanks for the compliment, Steve.  I did think in such terms when
conceptualizing my approach, but it certainly lacks the <elegance> of
: Gauss's apochryphal(?) summation of the integers from 1 to 100.

Neal, it's the same problem, as Torkel, Graham, and Tushar's posts
also indicate.  That's how I solved it too, simply pair up items until I had
one, (or "unity", in Economic Pompous) left.

Count among the "apochrypha" pages 236-37 of Dunham, _Journey Through
Genius_.  Gauss supposedly paired up numbers summing to 100 and had
50 left over.  The formula sum(n) = n(n+1)/2 came later.  Proving it
is a useful, simple way of learning mathematical induction.

Steve Karlson

Luff 'em and leave 'em
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Steve, hopefully I'll get an answer to your question tonight ....and
post it tomorrow.  Of course, I have no idea what you asked :-)

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 05:37:33 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: I was going to wait until Christmas, but . . .
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> Type EXT TT at mail prompt to view this animation. i.e. MAIL>ext tt <CR> .

Ur, uh, don't you think you need to specify which system this works on?
My guess is VAX.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:26:06 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Peace?

I have received very few messages from words-l in the last three days.
They are mostly replies to letters which I haven't seen at all, so it
has posed no problems to my conscience to delete all of them unread.

The reason I am not experiencing a profound peace is this: I went over
to the usenet to read bit.listserv.words-l and found some number of
unread messages. Killing the most inane threads resulted in the junking
of hundreds of messages. Of the remaining, scores were completely in-
coherent and meaningless. None of these letters was mine. I am worried
about how many nonsensical posts will fill my mailbox suddenly in the
near future.

I guess I should refrain from posting since none of my earlier posts
have shown up, but sometimes one has to think about raising the level
of discourse too. I will selflessly continue posting.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:23:15 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      RE: Forwarded mail for LISTS.WORDS_L
              26 Sep 1992 13:00:08 -0500 from <dorisann@TENET.EDU>

The Sunday school class I was in was for single adults.  There were 7 of
us (4 women and 3 men).  All of the women left the church (one to move
west, two to go to the Chapel here at the University, and I became a
Wiccan).

Evelyn
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Lurking
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On Sunday, 04 Oct 1992, Anne Burton Harwell wrote:

>Why, Carolyn, you *did* say you've been lurking Words-L, didn't you? ;-)

Yes, but I have this 'devil' inside of me that is pleading to be released. :-)

>Well, here's a kinder, gentler welcome to a newbie with some <obvious>
>list-miles on her. Work for it, Carolyn! Remember if you don't feel the
>burn, you aren't using calories.

....Or you need a faster bike?

I just might save your post, just in case anyone ever accuses you of not being
nice to newbies again......Nah! I wouldn't want to spoil your reputation. At
my age to be considered 'wicked' is a compliment - there are far too many
'sweet little old grannies' around as it is. ;-)

Carolyn
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 12:11:26 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: The New Yorker

>I think we should write a joint Words-L letter to Tina informing her of
>our displeasure.

   Thing is, I can't find anything yet I really dislike about the
   new New Yorker.  The perfume ad?  No problem.  The day I got it
   (this was Wednesday or Thursday), I took it along to my favorite
   barstool after work and was thumbing through it.  Another regular
   sat down beside me.  First thing she said was, "Ummm, what's that
   you're wearing?"  All I was wearing was my usual smoke-and-sweat
   sachet, of course, but I didn't let on it was the magazine until we
   started analyzing the contents together.

   I have not yet been tempted to "open to experience the luscious
   intensity of Narcisse."  Will I regret it if I pull that strip?

   brad
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:00:31 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Blinking Lights
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On Sat, 26 Sep 1992, Doris Smith wrote:

> of Texas we blink our lights as warning also.  Do you have one of those
> fuzz busters?  My husband and son do, my daughter and I don't.

Of course. In fact tomorrow I'm probably going shopping for one of the new
Ka-sensitive models, but I still don't see how the laser outrigger device
Cobra makes to go with it can possibly detect a pencil-thin beam.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:21:03 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: the company she keeps!
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> >Besides, I've only ever forged email to one person (and that was just to
> >show her how its done).
>
> And by transitivity, forged it a million times on words-l.

Not!  I found out how to do it BEFORE he told me.  All he did was tell me
the one itty bitty secret of how to do it without its causing an identifying
blip to cross his screen every time I did it.  The way I was doing it without
that info worked fine otherwise.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 19:27:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: clothes

And I'd like to know:
Do you	1.  Put up the dishes        (no, I put up hot pepper sauce)
 	2.  Put away the dishes            After I've washed them
Do you  1.  Make dinner             unless the restaurant does
        2.  Fix dinner            (no, I fix model trains)

Steve Karlson

Should we discuss how to pronounce "creek?"
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: clothes
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On Thu, 1 Oct 1992, Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815) wrote:
> And I'd like to know:
> Do you	1.  Put up the dishes        (no, I put up hot pepper sauce)
>  	2.  Put away the dishes            After I've washed them
> Do you  1.  Make dinner             unless the restaurant does
>         2.  Fix dinner            (no, I fix model trains)
> Steve Karlson
> Should we discuss how to pronounce "creek?"

Well, at least it would be a change from pronouncing "survey" and "Santa
Claus."
ndh (who *doesn't* say "crick")
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: geeks
Date: 7 Oct 1992 04:00:33 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:20:25 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>>> They're still on the list.
>>>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>>
>>But now they're not.
>>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>good....I was starting to think that the "there IS a God" thread was
>going to be related to Resurrection of VMI geeks.....
>
They once were lost, but now are found?  And now they're lost again?
At least no one's started singing "Amazing Grace" to the theme from 
Gilligan's Island yet.

Yet - Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come....
Now why does that seem highly appropriate in here?  Especially for former
newbies who have found acceptence?

>
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:38:43 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Today's Golden Words

>> "I felt like a man who had been out in the desert for about
>> three weeks, attacked by wolves and beaten up by bandits and
>> kept crawling and crawling and came upon a not too attractive
>> woman in the desert.  She might be ugly, but she's beautiful
>> at that moment."
>
>Boo.

I somehow get a strange sense of deja vu.

tushar
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From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mama Judith
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> exclusive limitation) a parent who says 'it would be a good idea to
> clean up your room now' before resorting to 'clean up your room or
> you forfeit the car keys, your allowance, and a future draft choice.'
> [And then my son, bless him, says "*I'm* not the one raising my voice."]

Aaargh, the sins of my teens are coming back to haunt me!!  I used those
exact same words (and many variations thereof) on my poor mother.  Bayla,
I can only hope that my mom has a shorter memory than you, and has maybe
forgotten that I uttered those words (very unlikely).

rashmi (somewhat repentant now)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:42:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Truth squad (was gleanings)

> Karlson was using these names to attack -ggs for his political
> stance, which was a little to the left of what SK finds
> appealing.
.
No, he was identifying rich and privileged folk whose views might be
more compatible with those of our increasingly tedious game show
host.  Giggles himself admitted they could stay in the country,
which makes me wonder exactly what rich and privileged people he
wanted to take the country back from.  He never did get around to
answering that, did he?

Steve Karlson

I sail on the lifted tack; I do not make attacks.
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:09:56 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Test your newbieness!!

>OK, I realize that my reputation is at stake here.
>
>Santa is the Lobstrosity.  Right, Tushar?  Lob?
>
>rashmi

Ms Perceptive is awesome.

tushar
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Subject: Re: clothes
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:27:21 GMT
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My mom always had my pulling in the clothes.
And to some up my thoughts on what I have reading over the past week. I would
like Mama Primate to come back, I too will delete any postings pertaining to
WFF and I am embarassed that I even played that game, it was not fun or funny.
Finally, I was upset by the story of the girl who died just over the U.S.
border after ten months in a Mexican prison.
Lisa
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Date: 28 Sep 92 10:08:38 GMT
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> And then, Bernard wrote (22 Sep 92):
>
> bm] Torkel-san to chigatte, watakushi wa nihon-go o takusan shitte imasu.
> bm] Konpyuutaa risuto ni nihon-go o motto takusan tsukai hajime maseu ka.
> bm]                        o/.\____/
> bm]         -- Bernard      \______|
> bm]                         / \  / \
>
> Bernard, you get an A- :-).

Thank you, Akio!!  When I complained to Natalie that nobody had replied
to my posting, she said that it was probably because I used a style
inappropriate for the list -- that I sounded too stuffy.  I was thinking
about reposting in a more appropriate style, e.g.:

Torkel-san to chigatte, boku wa nihon-go o ippai iru n deso yo.  Nihon-go
o konpyuutaa risuto ni ippai tsukai hajimeyoo yo.
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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From:         harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      re: Tushar's Test
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>May I ask when you mentioned "Steph" while talking to me? This is OUR
>conversaion, so it's OK to talk about it.

Well, I did get it from Steph, though I didn't mention it to you in a
baldfaced attempt to make myself appear more hip than I really am.

-abh
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Blinking Lights

>Wrong.  They do NOT have to be out the window.  Many work thru the
>windshield.  And regularly do.

right.

>Some also ARE wired in and know his moving speed, either thru
>speedo or thru another signal to ground to tell car speed.
>And the unit automatically does the figuring......

Maybe. Those were supposedly of urban legend status. Never seen 'em here.  The
error rate on a non-moving radar is around 5-8%, depending on the unit, the
speed of the car, etc. The error rate of a moving radar trying to calc the
speed of a moving vehicle would seem to be astronomical.

The new "toy" here is to have a stationary and unmanned radar and camera unit.
If you trip the gun by going too fast, the camera takes a picture of your
license plate. Two weeks later you get a ticket in the mail.  Now, how they can
prove that it was you rather than a friend driving the car is beyond me.

Chris
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Speeding

> I never said that! I stopped riding motorcycles three years ago, but I
> didn't purchase that Trapshooter this afternoon just because they look
> cool.
>
> -abh


But mostly, right?

-Mka
From: tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
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>As Marty said, whatever happened to "where the weak are killed and eaten?"

Let's be very clear on this. "Where the weak are killed and eaten" is
and has always been Anne B Harwell's personal image of a words-l full
Anne B Harwells. Not too many people have supported this view. In fact
(and let's be very clear about this too) we are wimps.
__

On a slightly different thread:

>     Welcome to WORDS-L.  If you are new to the world of electronic
>lists or have limited experience with it, you should keep in mind
>that joining a list is like walking into a room where conversations
>are underway.  The normal behavior in such a situation is to listen
>to the conversations in order to determine the subject matter and
>context, join the conversations that interest you, introduce a new
>topic if you find the conversations boring, or leave the room if
>you find the group dull or offensive.
>     The discussions on WORDS-L are wide-ranging.  Although the
>dominant thread of the list is language, you have perhaps joined
>the group in the middle of a digression.  Usually these digressions
>don't last very long.  If a few list subscribers become involved in
>a heated debate on a topic not related to language, they usually
>move their discussion to direct mail rather than continuing it on
>the list.  If you happen to join the list just as somebody sends a
>message that strikes you as rude or offensive, keep in mind that
>you do not yet know the context of the conversation.  WORDS-L is a
>friendly list; subscribers often consider themselves close friends
>after a while.  It is not unusual for close friends to say things
>to each other that might seem rude if taken out of context.

Nothing about killing and eating.

tushar
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From:         harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Re: more Santa explanation
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I am blushing out loud. Sorry, Tushar. I'll never suspect you of anything
devious again. And you, Lobstrosity, I am ashamed, just ashamed!

O woe is me. What's becoming of this world.

-abh
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 12:48:12 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      A curiousity

Well, not all that much of a curiosity, but still fairly interesting.
Quoted below is an entire posting of Ruth Hanschka.

>Either that or senility; it's hard to tell at his <age>, and state of
>relative <newbieness>.  Then again, he's been out of <circulation> for
>a while, and this his <circulation> has been cut off.  This has been known
>to do strange things to an older gentleman's <mind>.  Perhaps that's it.

Absolutely no reference to peanuts.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:31:00 MDT
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      BITNET is acting low (but not quite down)

     This is a test of the Emerging BITNET Syndrome.

     Small mail messages are traversing between here and UGA, but no
     WORDS-L mail has been seen, despite setting MAIL two hours ago.

     ftp'ing to msstate every 15 minutes is not an acceptable method.

     I repeat, this is only a test.

The Ronin
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