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Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 11:12:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Fun for all

> I wonder whether these computers could not have been donated to
> all-too needy third world universities, hospitals and businesses.
> Typical.

Agnes, how will those third world countries ever develop first-world
universities, hospitals, businesses if we keep dumping our obsolete
products and surplus food production on them and calling it
"humanitarian assistance?"  Typical.

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the lifted tack.
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Catching up I: slide rules
Date: 9 Nov 92 11:50:47 GMT
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Dietzgen and <K&E> make really -outstanding- graph paper of many useful
designs.  I dimly recall their doing so even before the demise of the
slide rule.  And in case nobody else has noticed, fancy-ruled paper 
goods (including accounting sheets) has goteen *very* expensive!

Is this maybe because the market has shrunk, what with so many folk
using computer graphics?

--bayla
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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> I suppose I should introduce myself. I am James Richard Llewellyn,
> descendant of the first prince of Wales, and consequently, possessor of
> a tremendous ego problem.

Hello, James.  Or shall we address you as Prince James the Newbie
until we get to know you better?

> 1: This board has absolutely no continuity. Brav(o,a)!! I do feel that
> it is to everyone's interest that Re:s stick to a specific topic.

Maybe H.R.H. the Newbie is descended from King Canute.

> 4: I still can't figure out the fuss over "fuck."

Neither could I.  That's what the delete command is for.

> 5: I only hope that I can somehow penetrate the obvious familiarity
> between subscribers and become a vocal, if not necessary, part of the
> experience.

The welcome message explains what's going on here.  Sometimes we scrap,
sometimes we're just silly; sometimes we're posting before watching
rented movies; sometimes we're listening to "Haakon Jarl" by Bedrich
Smetana while posting.

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the lifted tack.
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:40:30 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Colorado
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> > What is the other list, Natalie? Just curious.
>
> SMOKE-FREE
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Nandayo! Go for it!

-abh
From: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Date: 12 Nov 92 01:35:36 GMT
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>These books fall under the category of women's spirituality in the average
>bookstore listing, and are part of the feminist aspect of neo-pagan
>Witchcraft.  It's pretty widespread, and about as coherent as one might
>expect a reconstructionist religion to be.

I had guessed already that they are "part of the feminist aspect of neo-
pagan Witchcraft". What I wanted to know was what this neo-pagan business
itself is.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:03:37 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Bill Clinton is now our Pres.

>Bill Clinton is now the president of the United States.
>
>later
>
>alec

Awesome, man.

-K

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 15:27:41 CST
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <BERNARD@ENGLISH.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Suggestion for the archive
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> Bernard has done a superb job, within the limits of ftp. But gopher

I feel better now!  But I think I'm gonna pretend to feel morose when
Natalie gets home so maybe she'll give me all of the cornbread
tonight and get some more for me tomorrow.  She usually divides it
over two days.


             o/.\_____/   (bernard@english.msstate.edu)
              \ ______|
               /\   /\
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") says:

>> Count your blessings, Natalie - at least it isn't throwing headless
>> chickens, egg trays de fridge, or peanuts at us!
>
>But for every short blurb it tosses to the list, it's tossing about five
>long delivery-error notices to me.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
But you have a lot of disc space, right?  I hope?  Unlike some others in 
here, eh Don?
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
From: LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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Date: 12 Nov 92 01:18:44 GMT
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>On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:36:42 +1100, LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU wrote:
>> It was considered quite a feat to be able to use it appropriately in a
>> conversation and was a means of gaining instant adulation. :-)
>
>Well, non-antidisestablishmentarianistically speaking, my dear, I really
                                       ** (I made the correction for you)
>think it's time Britain followed the US lead and separated Church from
>State.  We still have to swear alliegance to God first and the Queen
>second when we enlist in our Army.  It wasn't easy not to choke :-(
>
>G

Congratulations, you have just been voted 'King of the Fourth Grade". :-)

Carolyn
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:18:52 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Stuffed Bunny in Wreck
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> These things just happen. They are only being reported. There is no "main
> point" to it. If you were poking around in a wreck and saw such a thing
> you'd want to tell it to someone. You'd think it's pretty silly if someone
> asked what your main point was.

I didn't say that I thought that the newspaper had a "main point."  What I
was trying to figure out was what the main point for me should be.  Should
I refuse to let stuffed rabbits ride in my car, or should I just make sure
they're wearing seatbelts?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 09:00:31 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Guess who I bumped into today
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1992, Nancy Harwood wrote:

> Dukakis, and now you, Rashmi.  These things go in threes...wonder who will
> be the next to meet someone famous.

I saw Elvis at the donut shop this morning.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:08:40 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: One simple (?!) question
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Posted by Agnes Kruchio
>
>> >Some questions about names:
>> >
>> >>Zsuzsanna Budapest
>> >
>> >Is this a real name? Especially "Zsuzsanna" - is there a language where
>> >the name is really spelt that way?
>>
>> This is indeed good Hungarian (if that isn't an oxymoron).
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^
>
>                                                Ah..._excuse_ me?
>                                                Do you really
>     I know how to  pronounce Hungarian         expect to get laughs
>      and you call me IGNORANT?                 from this rather
>                                                cheap and ignorant
>     Sheesh, don't they teach irony in          throwaway remark?
>     the schools anymore? My undergraduate      Shame on you.
      advisor, an very ccourtly Hungarian
      himself, had no illusions about the Hungarian language, discouraged
      from learning it even those whom he would gladly impale on Russian.
      My dear Agnes, I come to suspect that you are not so much pragmatic
      as an unbearably humorless prig  8-/

>
>"Zs" is pronounced
>> like "s" in "pleasure". Budapest (pronounced -pesht) is, I would imagine,
>> a nom de seance.
>        ???

      Since I have never seen a Hungarian surname which merely reflected a
place name, and certainly one that was the same as the capital, I assumed that
this was the name of someone who had changed it upon emigrating to the West
for her customers' ease, while preserving a moniker clearly designating her
land of birth, and preserving a more exotic air than "Anderson". Maybe I was
conflating the New Age-y feel of the original list of books with the
stereotype of the Hungarian Gypsy reading palms, but "spiritualist-for-hire"
was the image that came to my sleep-deprived, keyboard-drunk mind.

>Agnes
>A good Hungarian

blomberg cepeda: the product of 350 years of Swamp Yankees  and 350 years of
                 Newfoundlanders
From: dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith)
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Subject: Re: A Thousand words? Heck, no!
Date: 6 Nov 92 00:57:48 GMT
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> OK, let's settle this once and for all.

Thanks to Natalie, this [word picture of NYC] is now settled in ftp space
under Words-L/Misc.

> A quick calculation shows that a word is far less than a millipicture.
> Suppose the average size of a gif is 200000. A 1000 word file is of
> size 6000 on the outside. A gif is thus MORE than 30 thousand words.

MORE is not necessarily better.

> Reflect on the sheer enormity of a gif, Doris.

Oh, I AM, tushar, I AM.
>
> Doris, one wishes La Harwell well,

Of COURSE we do.

 but she will simply have to type
> MUCH MUCH MORE to even start competing with a gif.

But she isn't competing with a gif, she's writing with a gift.

doris
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 13:22:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Danger

On Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:57:32 -0600 Anne Burton Harwell said:
>
>Evidently you've already forgotten the Aaronology postings. ;-) Don't
>sweat the details; we're all still here.

How could I not forget them; there's been too much to remember since then.

I'm glad this list can bounce back better than most lists.
>
>-abh

Evelyn
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Subject: Re: To Neal and To Brownies
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:43:53 GMT
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Speaking of Providence eateries, I was talking to one of our graduate
students not long ago about list life and about last summer's clambake
and he asked me whether I had eaten at Geoff's in Providence.  Does
anybody know whether I have?  It sounded like maybe the place Judith,
Don T, and I ate the first day I was there.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:14:02 EST
From:         PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Presidents' ages

It occurs to me that the question of who is the youngest president
has more than one answer. Washington, VanBuren, Tyler, Polk, Pierce,
Grant, and T. Roosevelt were each, at the time of their innauguration,
the youngest to have become president. Yes, I know this is the smartass
answer.
                                                            Br Paul
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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:58:46 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Peeking out from under the manhole cover

>: Sadly, I cannot recall a thing you have said recently that I disagree with.
>
>This is getting *very* depressing.  First Jim, now you.  How about I'm
>simply abusive for a bit till we get back into our old ways, shithead?
>
>G

Fine with me, Fuckface. ;-'

-K

-Mka
From: dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith)
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> I once shook LBJ's hand (before I knew better) and still can't get
> hand clean :-)

 :-)  Don, that reminds me of my dad's taking the long way to work when
his normal route to work was renamed LBJ Drive.  He refused to soil his
tires on that road.
Doris
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:38:02 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: When gods die
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:most of them were just going for the novelty or the free Bibles.

I know - the queues for toilet paper get ridiculous :-)  [Many's the time
I've been on army maneuvers that I've given <heartfelt> thanks to the
Gideon society...]

:      But, as Graham inferred, the real obvious revivial is in such things as
:astrology. Astrology is everywhere, including five minutes every night after

Nice to know I'm always right :-)

Thanks for an interesting posting.  I enjoyed it.  btw, are you from that
part of the world yourself?

G
From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
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Date: 6 Nov 92 00:41:30 GMT
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ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Emily Horning) writes:
>>> Pray tell, what are betties?   I thought it meant more than one of me.
>> The good-looking girls who hang around surfers.  I'm not sure of
>> the derivation - perhaps Betty from the Archie comics.
> Actually, it comes from Betty of Flintstones fame.

That's what I thought.

Karen was convinced this use predates the Flintstones, and since I can't
remember that far back...

--karsten

(What about Barney vs. Fred?)
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From:         "Tony @ Brownvm" <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wayward Pulpit
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Posted on 12 Nov 1992 at 10:41:46 by Blue eyes cryin' in the rain

>        Let's open it for debate -- comments one way or t'other gladly
>        accepted, though those from wordslers who've actually *seen* it will
>        carry a bit more weight.

Official weighty opinion: keep it.

Tony H.
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Subject:      Re: Carolyn confuses the issue! (was Re: Twit word
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Posted on 12 Nov 1992 at 21:18:32 by samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU

>But supracalifragilistic is extremely weak-minded! It's not a question
>of objecting to it - it's just an objective fact!

This has been allowed to get out of hand: supERcalifragilistic, surely.

Tony H.
From: boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU ((Joan Boorstein))
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Subject: Re: Adventures in Democracy
Date: 5 Nov 92 04:30:28 GMT
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To the following question(s)
> >So what's the story ?  Do paper ballots still exist ?  What is the
> >perceived advantage of machine voting ?  Surely not time and effort ?

Czarina responded:
>	Every district I've ever voted in has had these paper
>ballots that you stick in this little machine and then use
>a poker thingy to punch out your vote.  They look a lot like the
>old computer punch cards.  I've never pulled a voting lever in my
>entire life.

It is interesting that Rita has only used paper ballots, but I
(currently another Massachusetts voter) have always pulled a lever
when I've voted -- unless I was voting absentee. I'll have to admit
when I first lived in Cambridge as a Harvard grad student, I was
still registered in California, so I have no idea what went on in
Cambridge in the middle 60's.

--- Joan (boorstein%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu)
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Thanks to Rita -abh pltkn and America
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1992, (Rashmi) wrote:

> And I am pleased that you saw some of Newark - a truly horrifying sight, one
> that should be witnessed by a large number of people, so they are not lulled
> into believing that the entire country is like their backyard.

One of my dinner companions Saturday night remarked, "If you think Newark
is bad, you should see Elizabeth, NJ." I had; he was right. But for the
sake of narrative, I stuck with Newark as the symbol of urban blight. And
I never even bothered describing the view we had off the Elevated into the
projects and ghettoes that line the water on the west side of Manhattan.
Frankly, I was shocked and ashamed that we've allowed our cities to sink
so deep. Not until that day had I ever thought of Edinburg, Texas as an
"idyll."

-abh
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From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: the truth about judith (try no. 2
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Posted by Rashmi
>
>> Okay, Judith, it's that or sainthood--take your pick.
>>
>> blomberg cepeda         [THE ABOVE IS A JOKE]
>
>Hey, Blomberg, no need to spoil a perfectly good story with a lame disclaimer.
>We're aware of our Leather Mama's wild side, in any case.

I know, I know, I didn't want to put it in, but I must admit to becoming very
wary of the irony-impaired among us.
From: AMM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (ann mandi)
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Date: 6 Nov 92 23:40:37 GMT
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> Out of curiosity, what was everyone else doing on that day?

I was in school, first grade, 6 years old.  They announced it over the
intercom.  The teacher cried.  I was shocked, I'd never seen an adult
outside my family cry.  Teachers weren't like real people.  I don't
remember getting home that day, but when I got there, the shades were
drawn halfway down, and stayed that way for days.  And the biggest
shock of all: the TV was on.  In the daytime!  We NEVER were allowed to
turn on the TV until after dinner.  And it stayed on, day after day.
All the adults were acting so weird.  I didn't understand what was going
on.  I remember sitting on the living room floor, actually, on a
scratchy green rug, and a very ugly dull green it was too, watching the
people file through the rotunda, for hours.  And the heavy, sad, slow
music, it was oppressive.  And news, hours on end of news broadcasts.

Last year I was in Dallas for a conference, with some people from work.
We got there a day early, and one of them suggested going to the
museum in the School Book Depository.  I had nothing better to do, so
I went along.  They were filming JFK then, not that day, we were there
on a weekend.  But there were all these cars and buses used in the
movie parked next to the building.  The museum was fascinating.  The
grassy knoll, the whole area, somehow I expected a wide expanse.  But
it was all on such a small scale.  I was startled.  And a bit
disappointed.  I wonder why.

ann mandi
owner, STATLG-L@BROWNVM  Baseball (and Lesser Sports) Discussion List
bitnet:  AMM@BROWNVM     internet:  AMM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU

'No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.'
-- Connie Mack
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:08:17 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Professional Activities on Electronic Networks
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> Do these count at all at your institution?

No.

>  Can I put Words-L on my
> vita?  (And if I did, would it matter?)

It depends on who's gonna be reading your vita.  I wouldn't dare put it
on a vita I was sending out somewhere because there might be somebody
out there who knew what it really meant.  OTOH, I can think of people
around here who would not know what it meant and might think it was
something good.  I'd say leaving if off is safer than putting it on,
though.  If anybody did know what it meant, your credibility about other
things you listed might be risked.

> I know a lot about the net now...I know more about where things are and
> how to get them than most people on my campus, thanks to Words-L.  But I

I do have on my vita things like e-mail workshops I've conducted for MSU
faculty.  And I think I've listed something like "e-mail consultant for
colleagues."  That's because I do spend a good bit of time helping people
use computers and think it's a legitimate service to list.

> am trying to figure out how to put this on my c.v.  without sounding
> like a flake, or an (unsocialized) geek.  Any suggestions?

My worry wouldn't be with the flake or unsocialized geek image as much
as with the image (an accurate one for me, I fear) of somebody who spends
time playing with the computer instead of working.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Judith E. Schrier)
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Date: 6 Nov 92 04:01:39 GMT
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>Out of curiosity, what was everyone else doing on that day?
>
>Carolyn
I think we did this last year...but I was pushing my nearly
1-year-old daughter, Marya, around in a little stroller. I
was a couple of weeks pregnant with Evan, but I don't think
I knew it yet. My friend was pushing her little girl around
in a stroller, too, and we got the news from a storekeeper
we passed. I think we also heard that Johnson had been shot,
or maybe we heard that later. We each went home and, like
everyone else, spent the next 3 days watching TV.

judith
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