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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 12:58:35 +0000
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From:         the Freshman Scott Huddle <huddle%VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: flipping channels
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>Soundeth Off  Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
>
>> Re: channel flipping "may" be a predominantly male behavior pattern

I've heard it described as "testosterone poisoning."

nha
-scott (huddle@vttcf.cc.vt.edu)
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tarmac rugrats
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              6 Apr 1992 19:40:39 EDT from
              <QXN148%URIACC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:40:39 EDT <QXN148%URIACC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> said:
>                                 demented and sad,but social
>                                            Lisa
>P.S. I have no idea if demented is spelled wright (sic) :)

NO...."demented" is spelled "demented"....and "right" is spelled "right"
not "left"....but Stephen does spell his name "Wright"....because his
father was a wheelwright?

dan
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: For Sports Fans of Feminine Gender (Hi Emily

Lisa from Rhode Island notes, "There have also been attempts to
create a professional womens (sic) b-ball team and all have failed."

True in the United States.  The current womens' coach at DePaul,
Doug Bruno, coached in one such pro league.  There are professional
teams in Italy, Japan, and Switzerland.  There may be professional
teams in other countries but I'm aware of these because kids who
played on Northern's team are playing in those countries now.

I missed Stanford's win over Western Kentucky on Sunday.  My
excuse is that Buddy Melges was driving AMERICA**3 out in San
Diego, and ESPN covered that.

Steve Karlson (BBA, MA, PhD, LGYC)
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Income tax:form 8829
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              11 Apr 1992 10:51:52 EDT from <CGOODSON@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Sat, 11 Apr 1992 10:51:52 EDT Carol Goodson said:
>If it's convenient for you, try your local library....Instead of just
>printing up masses of forms which, if not used, have to be trashed, the
>IRS now supplies a master notebook of ALL the forms which can be put
>into a copy machine...I'm not sure, but I think this started last year....
>It's the first time I've ever been impressed by anything the IRS did...

They have done this for at least seven years....and most libraries avail
themselves of the opportunity for this service.  At the library conference
I just attended the IRS was there, as usual, promoting this service.
they also push buttons for librarians to wear (though have to admit I've
never seen a librarian wear one....maybe they do in public libraries)
saying various things, such as "information, not advice" and others to
remind the folks that we librarians don't practice medicine, law, accounting,
etc.

dan
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From:         Judith Schrier <PRIMATE%BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TV
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>>> And I don't buy it for the soaps.  I buy it for the program
>>> descriptions.  Sometimes I even do the crossword in pen.
>>
>>> --Adam
>>Adam, you're a wimp. Real Illuminati do them in their heads.
>>love, judith
>
>But Judith, he does the puzzle with a $300 Mont Blanc
>fountain pen....  That offsets not doing it in his head.
Oh, Ken. I'm *so* disappointed. I never would have expected
to hear something like that from *you*!

Sorrowfully, *but* still with love,
judith
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From:         Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Conversation Stoppers
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>Do you have to be a computer person to get a job at EFF?  Do they need
>any English geeks there?  It sounds fun!

        Are you kidding?  Not a single person in this office -- including
our sys admins -- has a degree in computer science.  English degrees are
the most popular (3), with business degrees being second in line (2).  We
also
have a librarian, and our new office manager has her degreein Art History.

Czarina
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Subject:      Re: Goodnight Yawn

*** Resending note of 04/17/92 06:12


>Muffy is pregnant???

Gee, that would be interesting ...Bernard and Muffy have never met...and
Muffy is a male.
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Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 16:34:12 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: nashunl akadamee, 'gin
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> Off the subject for a moment, there were also useless letters like
> thorn/theta and -ng (an elegant diamond suspended between earth and sky,

I don't see how you can call these letters useless.  Or are you talking
about the redundancy of letters like thorn and ethe since they
represented the same sounds (the same allophones of what are now our
"th" phonemes)?  Why is resorting to a digraph like th more "useful"
than using a single character?

> Despite the generally descriptivist bent of the list, I gather from this
> and a few other responses that othographically speaking, you're strongly
> *Prescriptivist* =:-O

Ah, ambiguous yankee usage...  Is that "you're" singular or plural?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:07:38 -0400
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From:         droby%NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: flaming fye
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              06 Apr 92 09:12:44 EST." <9204061327.aa22160@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU:
>You guys must be trying really hard to get gleaned.  How much of this
>is real and how much fiction?

	God help me, I forgot, I might have to actually EXPLAIN the
MotherFunctor.  Oh dear!  It's kind of a "Mother of All Functors" and I'm not
even going to try to do better than that.  Now I suppose I do have to at least
explain what a Functor is, but that will be covered in another lecture.

	Those were all real mathematical terms.  More in upcoming segments.
Mathematicians are strange.  Of course "strange" is a technical term in
Physics...

- Don R
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: propositions and prepositions
Date: 11 Apr 92 18:24:47 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <20073@castle.ed.ac.uk> gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
]In article <WORDS-L%92041112361683@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Evelyn) writes:
]:But, Graham, if he was gay, why would he hit on a woman (disguised
]:policewoman or not)?  Unless she was in male drag?
]:
]:Evelyn
]
]
]I'll have to look at what I said more carefully.  There's obviously
]a joke in here that I missed.

Oh - I get it; I just remembered - I said "lifer".  Obligatory *GrOaN*.

]Actually, as the Keywords field said - it was a bit of blatant
]plagiarism; that line was used about a famous killer who died
]in prison for precisely that reason.  There was a movie about
]it too.  There were two guys involved; both very upper-crust (if
]such a thing is possible in classless America ;-) )
]
]Actually I have a book somewhere of US scandals - maybe I'll
]find the names in there.  Back in a mo', maybe.

Leopold & Loeb.  To quote the article, "Loeb became an agressive
homosexual and was slashed to death in 1936 in a shower-room brawl.

I can't remember who came out with the classic line that I pinched.

Graham
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From:         QXN148%URIACC.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Tarmac rugrats

>Posted on 7 Apr 1992 at 07:42:43 by Uriacc Mailer (002033)
>
>Re: Tarmac rugrats
>
>Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 07:33:00 EDT
>Reply-To:     English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.BITNET>
>From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
>
>>I think you should try to get that poem published in _Screw_, so that all of
>>your old "friends" will be able to enjoy it too. :-)
>
>Who said they could read???
>
>Ken

I worked with a couple of my dreaded enemies at a wharehouse in Ct. Most of
them could barely read and hated the fact that even though they had senority
I was their boss because I had better organizational skills.  I took great
pleasure in telling them what to do and explaining why it had to be done my way
usually using a few words that they did not understand and adding to their
embarassment.
I still want them to feel the pain they inflicted.  Me being their boss in a
wharehouse doesn't put a dent in the hate I have for them.
Les, I read your posting and I agree that the reasons given are half baked.
There is always a title assigned.  You try to tell your ten year old that she
is a victim of hazing and is low in the pecking order.  They don't mean
anything to me now nor would they have ten years ago.  Just because there is a
title it doesn't mean it was the solution.
Lisa
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ODDS 'N' ENDS

> I don't see what knowledge is embodied in the statement "there is nothing
> wrong with changes in language", as you have explicated it.

I'm not sure now how I have explicated it.  (I should have been keeping
a record of the exchange.)  I've been told that air pressure in car
tires changes with rises and falls in the temperature of the air and
that there's nothing wrong with the changes.  That seems ok to me.
What knowledge is embodied in it?  (I'm not crazy about that analogy.
Maybe I can think of a better one later.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: tarmac rugrats
              7 Apr 1992 19:11:50 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Younger brothers do just as well in my experience, Natalie... we hated each
other thoroughly until I was 18 and he 17... my freshman year of college
--all of a sudden it was US (he and I) against THEM (our parents)--and we
have loved each other ever since.... I was always been grateful (I'm
perfectly serious) that we had no guns in our house.... I truly wanted to
kill him at times, and would have, had I had the means at hand..../cfg
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:41:35 CDT
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Voices on the list
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>challenger appears to be flat out on his face from a wicked right cross from
>the Pugilating Punster, the local favorite, Ms. Harwell.


<bows> <blushes, grins>

-abh

Your honor, I never knew Mr. Tyson...
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 06:18:16 CDT
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From:         MAYNOR%MSSTATE.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Test Two -- Also Ignore

This is the second (and last -- maybe) test...
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:03:00 CDT
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      list oddities

My bandwidth hogging is all coming through as I post it right now.
How long will that odd situation last?

Steve Karlson (BBA, MA, PhD, LGYC)
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      colorado railroads
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              6 Apr 1992 14:08:00 CDT from <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:08:00 CDT 815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 said:
>I'm going to have to dig out my copy of _Cinders and Smoke_ and
   Don't think it tells.

>see if I can identify all the skinny railroads serving AG 2000,
    the above refers to Silverton olorado.

>turns on used to belong to the Rio Grande Southern (or so I was
>under the impression.  Maybe our courageous MS-walker has other
>information.)  I'll check and be back.
>
   The railroads serving Silverton at the turn of the century were
the Denver & Rio Grande Western, from Durango.  Three roads went to the
North.   The Silverton Gladstone and Northerly went from Silverton to
Gladstone.  Never made it any more "northerly" because it was almost
impossible to do so, considering the mountains.  That was almost due
north.  There is still a mine operating at Gladstone, reached by a gravel
road.

  To the North and East was the Silverton Northern, going to Howardsville,
Eureka (where the big ore mill was) and Animas Forks.  You can still go
to these places, though to get to the last one you almost have to have
4wd.    Animas Forks is at 11,120 feet, and still has houses standing.

   To the North and West went the Silverton Railroad, to Chattanooga,
Ironton (at the top of Red Mountain Pass) and to Albany.  From the end of
the line it was 6 miles to Ouray by road....but 223 miles by railroad.
The Million Dollar Highway goes on through the Uncompahgre Gorge to Ouray,
but the railroad never made it.

   All of these lines were 3-foot narrow gauge.  SR had 18 miles of track.
SGN had 7.5 miles.  SN had 13 miles, the last 4 miles at 6.9 percent
grade.  Could only take one or two cars.

   Anyway, end of the story for now.

dan
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:08:21 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <WORDS-L%92041014151430@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (The Ronin) writes:
:Replieth      Graham Toal <gtoal@CASTLE.ED.AC.UK>
:
:> Probably 'rare' as in the Scots sense of 'fine and wonderful'.
:
:     Almost another redundancy, as all that is Scottish is 'fine and
:wonderful'.
:
:The Ronin


With that rare informative posting you have completely rehabilitated
yourself in my eyes.  I may even eke out a hug voucher in time for
the clambake ;-)

G
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      Re: Hello???

If I recall correctly (and lately I haven't been), rn essentially "runs
itself," whereas nn needs daily or weekly tending-to.  So if you have lazy
sys.nazis, there's not much you can do.

--Aaron
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 00:41:50 EDT
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From:         Tony Harminc <TONY%VM1.MCGILL.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Elvis stamp
              15 Apr 1992 10:03:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Wed, 15 Apr 1992 10:03:00 EST The harder I work, the behinder I get said:
>
>   I'm not voting.  That would acknowledge that the King is dead, and I'm
>   absolutely *certain* I saw him buying Slim-Jims and a 2-liter RC Cola
>   at 7-11 the other day.  Look for my exclusive eyewitness report in next
>   week's Enquirer --

That's the _Skeptical Enquirer_ I trust.

Tony H.
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Goodnight Yawn

Well, I began this day with a smile - now after reading this incredibly
boring LINGUIST threat I am saying goodnight with a yawn ;-)
                ^^^^^^
PS.  Having deposited entire family, including Muffy, in a campground about
     60 miles from here, Muffy will not be able to reply to Bernard, should
     Bernard discover Muffy's little surprise.


^^^hmmm, I meant thread, but maybe the subconscious is more accurate.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 23:42:40 CDT
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Turing things

>                             For casual conversation, perhaps the idea
>of a Turing machine as something that tries to fool humans into thinking
>that it's another human is not much different than calling the vowel
>in "cake" a long a.  Hmmm - I don't think I'm arguing with much conviction.

Neither do I. There isn't very much of a similarity in these two things.
A "long a" still makes some sense, in fact I would guess that it means
the "a" in "cake". Confusing Turing machine with Turing test hasn't any-
thing to do with not knowing technical terms. The only connection between
them is the one through Turing.

tushar
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pencils (was Re: TV)

On Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:48:00 EDT Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore said:
>Actually, I ought to learn Arabic, since it reads right-to-left.

How about Hebrew?

>
>BTW, slow-drying felt-tip pens are even worse than pencils.  It's a
>curse.  No wonder we die earlier.

Eraseble pens are worse than felt-tips pens.

>
>--Aaron

Evelyn
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From:         Tushar Samant <tushar%ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      retroflex stop

>you're quite right.  I meant a voiced alveolar flap.  What confused
>me was that we had a conversation about this some time ago when Tushar
>remarked that it was similar to the Hindi retroflex stop.  I think.
>
>G

I don't KNOW how to flap. I use a retroflex stop and hope that it is a
good enough approximation. All Indian languages have them - Dravidian
languages most of all. They hammer them.

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 12 Apr 1992 18:31:27 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: sad thought
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Does anybody know of any studies showing what happens when parents
continue reading to children after the children know how to read?
I'm wondering if that might in some cases deter the child's reading
on his/her own.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:57:32 EDT
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From:         Alison.Smith%UM.CC.UMICH.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Nothing
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Hey dad those were great-it topped off my evening at the computing center-boy
I hate this place.  You sounded a little down on the phone the other night-
were you in bed or just in a bad mood or didn't you feel like talking to me!
Well I am always excited to talk to you, dad! I just finished another
program and again it didn't work.  I give up.  Well gotta go BYE Al
From: WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (The Ronin)
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Date: 10 Apr 92 18:10:00 GMT
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Stateth       Carol Goodson <CGOODSON@UGA.BITNET>

> Ah, wonderful... another pencil hater....what IS it about writing on nice
> white paper with beautiful black pens... like Faber Castell, my favorite in
> the "right price range" department....

     A UniBall micro, I hope.  My favorite, also, regardless of price
range.  Have tried their Onyx line, but the ink smears too easily.

The Ronin
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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Deserving Flames
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The Ronin sez: that most dreadful of STD's, the *unwanted*
child.

Come on!  A child is never a DISEASE!  I think it would be a very
difficult situation if I fathered a child unintentionally, but I would
never consider that child a disease.  I'm not sure if you're
being facetious here, but I find it offensive that you would talk
about a baby in those terms.

A child who is unwanted may have a difficult, perhaps terrible life, but they
will never be a disease.

I'd really appreciate it if you would clarify your view.

Steve Portigal
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From:         Tony Harminc <TONY%VM1.MCGILL.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Time Magazine

On Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:57:00 CDT 815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 said:
>Have we signed up another _Economist_ subscriber?

Although I do subscribe, and think The Economist is one of the best
newspapers in the world, I have recently been discouraged by their
inability to handle a simple, postdated cheque.  They returned it
with a form letter pointing out that it was postdated.

Other businesses that I deal with every day have no trouble putting
such cheques in a hold file until they come due.

Tony (alright - "check" for the Americans) H.
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