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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:55:40 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Croning

>>Hmmm, what's the masculine of crone?
>
>Old Fart
>
>
>dan

I had predicted this exact response, "Old Fart",
really, I swear it.

What's more, I agree with the suggestion.

tushar
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Date: 19 Nov 92 10:50:41 GMT
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Coupons from a local pet store:

   Free Goldfish (one per visit, With This Coupon)
   Hamster 88 <cents> ( "    "    ")
   Damsel 99 <cents> (   "   "   "  )

Anyone want to stock a harem?

--bayla
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1992, Charles Cochran wrote:

> So, though I like it here, I find it necessary to unsubscribe. Adieu. I
> have enjoyed my brief exchanges with one or two of you. Anybody who

Thing is, you don't have to read EVERY post to stay on the list. Shoot,
many's the time when I've killed 300 postings at a shot when I've fallen
too far behind.

-abh
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Peekaboo (Wackawacka)
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>
>                  '''
>                 (o o)
> ------------oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------------------------
>
>
*PreCISEly* how I feel.
doris
(looks sort of like me at the moment, too)
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:25:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Top Ten.

Subj:   Bushes top 10 tips for President-Elect Clinton
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Here, uncensored, are the top 10 tips President Bush gave to President
-Elect Bill Clinton yesterday at the White House (minus one, which I
can't remember), as relayed by David Letterman:

10.  Great prank to play on Al Gore - fake a heart attack.
 9.  Mitterand hates to be called Frankie.
 8.  Channel 61 is just a camera aimed at Noriega rotting in his cell.
 7.  If you're going to bomb the crap out of a small country, do it just
    before the election.
 6.  Sushi - bad.
 5.  Clap once for ON, twice for OFF.
 4.  Give Yeltsin a few cocktails and he'll sign anything.
 3.  (forgot)
 2.  If you lend Clarence Thomas a tape, you can kiss it goodbye.

   and the #1 tip that George Bush gave Bill Clinton, yesterday,















1.  Chicks dig Air Force 1.
From: R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn Duncan)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 21:30:12 GMT
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              17 Nov 1992 16:12:00 EST from <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>

Yeah, we had a Republican governor, Jim "Let's build a road across Lake
Erie" Rhodes.  He was followed by Richard "No more business as usual, but
my friends need jobs" Celeste; he was followed by George "Cut the money
to the state universities" Voinovich.  Voinovich was mayor of Cleveland,
and the way he (Prince George) and George Forbes (King George) ran that
city makes me glad I live in the Akron area.

Evelyn Duncan
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Teachers and students

RE student evaluations:

   Be prepared for anything, Emily.  In the same set, everything from
   "greatest teacher since Socrates" to "should never be allowed behind
   a lectern again."  The most useful ones will be earnest, a little
   too long, and give you some new insight into yourself or your subject.

   My favorite one (I've been a part-timer in the library school here
   for more than a few years) said something like, "Mr. Grissom is
   flawed enough to someday be a good teacher."

   brad
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From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Another Contest
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1992, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> >>>Gilbert Gabriel, I agree with Bayla...absolutely not.
> >> [a new twist to "NOT!"]
> >
> >First time I've heard it, really.  What a waste of language. ...
>
> Well, Nancy, you are the coiner of a brand new tag!

There's a problem with this whole line of thought -- to say that she (I
can't say Nancy and I won't say Mom) meant "absolutely not" in the context
of Wayne and Garth's "NOT!" is the same as saying that she *doesn't* agree
with Bayla, i.e. "I agree with Bayla... NOT!"  Of course, she is obviously
saying "I agree with Bayla; absolutely not." meaning No New Contests (read
my lips).  However, when a year or two ago, she could have separated these
two clauses with an ellipsis and not a semi-colon and not been taken for a
devotee of "Wayne's World," now the semi-colon is imperative in order to
avoid such a supposition.

Besides, my mother never watches Saturday Night Live and has not seen
_Wayne's World_, so the likelihood of her talking this way is pretty close
to non-existent.

We should put this one on the literacy test.  :)

> tushar

-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------------
"Queens never make bargains."  -- The Red Queen, _Through the Looking Glass_
-----amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu--------------The University of Texas @Austin---
From: dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith)
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Date: 19 Nov 92 00:53:24 GMT
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> >Yes, many times.  Headless roosters also.
>
> That's OK, but were they running around?

Yes, sir. 'pon my word, sir. They were running around.
doris
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In a previous article, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:

>>Ruth
>>doing her Random Volume-Generating best, Marty
>
>This is the sort of reason why Marty shouldn't start airing
>his brilliant theories, or why abh shouldn't make silly
>comments about list volume decreasing. It just encourages
>people.
>
>tushar
>
And here I thought you were signing off.  Promises promises little brother.:-)
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Why, Why, Why

Is it too soon to join <many others> and ask why?  Why hardly no WORDS-L
mail?...why little mail incoming seems old and/or repeats?...why only
the "R's" seem to be around (Ruth, Rashmi)?...why things are too slow
(maybe it's our new MVS, which is experiencing some pains)?...why, after
I finally find my aircraft GIF address (it's 128.83.138.20) the first GIF
I get (of a 747) is much too large to fit my disk space?.....why the BUCs
don't play better?....why I don't get a modern PC (here and/or at home)?
why WORDS-L get-togethers are never held anywhere I am ...or am going to
be?...why that phone-line cutting backhow don't come to the Pasco Jungles
and do something useful...like digging up kudzy?...why don't someone also
catch the wild boar who is digging up everything ....especially where I
am trying to grow grass (not smokeable kind)?   Is that all that is
bothering me, <some funny name>?  All the answers are in Grandma's lye
soap!

Don, off the deep end ...having recurring nightmares of the days of the
Random Weirdness Generator....

                            Peace,
                                  Don
From: 185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU (Alec D. Plotkin)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 21:12:00 GMT
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>I am bored with being nasty about Republicans.  The election is over.
>I am going to start being sweet to everyone.
>--ggs

DON'T DO IT, GILBERT. Republicans are bad, very bad people.
I guess you are following the old CSN song "If you can't be
with one's you love, love the one's you are with"
My guess is that CSN hates Republicans. Although,
i think one of their best songs comes from a Republican
screw-up. The song is "Ohio" Nixon was Pres. and
I think Ohio had a Repub. Gov.

later

alec
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> > Have you tried Microsoft's version of Mahjongg?  I think it is called
> > tapai, or something very similar.  Now *that* is addicting.  I also like
> > the solitaire game.
> > doris
> Doris is absolutely right!  I have been *this close* (two fingers held
> very closely together) to trouble at work for playing Taipei.  We are
> under a 'no games' policy  but are not actually required to delete them.
> Rita L.

I have a version of Mahjongg on <Windows> that is really neat, and
includes a tilemaker so you can make your on.  Which I did, so now
I have one version with tiles depicting body <parts>, and another
with tiles depicting body <parts at play>....  In color, of course.
And no, I am definitely *not* a very sick person most certainly NOT.
But I appreciate the complimint.
--ggs (the <tongues> and <tatooed tummies> are particularly nice)
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Teachers and students

> I always seems to have one student who doesn't do well and writes very snotty
> comments.

I have one of these in my class - can't wait to see what he writes! NOT. 8-)

> To the place near Karsten's house--IF he ever phones.  Otherwise to the
> place in Santa Monica you mentioned.  He has been quite slack about this,
> and I say we don't let him forget it!  (To be fair, he's been very busy at
> work. But that doesn't stop it from being annoying.)

I just heard from him. See you guys on Tuesday!

> Karen

Emily
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 07:13:18 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Another high-level chalko (was Re: Usenet question)
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> >And not all sites get the "bit" heirarchy of usenet.
>
> This might be another example of a chalko arising from
> a temporary "high-level" confusion - something like a
> confusion with "heir".

Might be.  But it's more likely a simple transposition of letters by
fingers rapidly moving along a keyboard.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: fresh meat!
Date: 16 Nov 92 09:38:08
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In-reply-to: Charles Cochran's message of Sat, 14 Nov 1992 14:35:46 EST

Hello Charles Cochran <CCOCHRAN@uga.cc.uga.edu>:

   Hello! I joined this list about a week ago, and have been having
   a <large> time ever since.

   I am happy to have stumbled across an e-place where the dialog
   is fast, furious, and occasionally fascinating.

I must say, you seem to have <grasped> the ideology (is there one?) quite
well...stick around, make us laugh, cry, <gasp>, wonder, fume and we'll
have an even more <fascinating> time!

peas and carrots,

//anne//
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>Notice to all wordsler men....especially tushar.....this was sent to  me
>by a female friend at U of Chicago....have YOU attended yet tushar?

All of them, except "combatting" and "romanticism".

tushar
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>Ruth
>doing her Random Volume-Generating best, Marty

This is the sort of reason why Marty shouldn't start airing
his brilliant theories, or why abh shouldn't make silly
comments about list volume decreasing. It just encourages
people.

tushar
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>....possible

Hmmm.  One might ask oneself, "Why should today be any <different>?" if one
were so inclined.  Goodness knows I would not be that inclined.

Chris
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> > > And where do you wear your earrings?
> > > doris
> >
> > Why, I thought you'd never ask.  On my <lobes> of course.
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^
> Oh, giggles, you make me blush...Which ones?
> A

All the ones I can reach.... but only in my <lobestraum>, of course.
--ggs (now *I* am blushing like an innocent, virginal noviciout...)
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From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: what? no report yet?
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>Re: what? no report yet?
>
>Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:32:48 -0600
>From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
>
>Yeah, but what is Grant like?
>
>-abh

well, *you're* the one who was going to come visit so you could give
the list an <appropriate> report and then didn't manage to make the
trip ...

we'll be in New York after Christmas for the MLA convention if anybody
wants to catch up with us and meet him in person ....

Elaine, still to busy to be reading the list.
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject: Re: Eggspots in the fridge

My (Sears) refrigerator has 20 eggslots.  They generally hold those
plastic lemons, not many eggs.

Steve Karlson
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Klennex
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992, Rebecca S Altes wrote:

> upon entering a room, immediately slit everyone's throats and staunch
> the bleeding with gauze.  including on one occasion, the throat of the
> very person we were supposed to rescue and take back with us....
> my reason for this anecdote was that our dog also played the game with us,
> under the alias of jack the sewer rat. we still call him that, and when
> he can hear us, he answers to it, too....

I was getting ready to post a question to the list regarding how long it
had been since everyone got in touch with your inner woman, but after this
message, I can see that it's totally unnecessary.

-abh
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> >in some way memorable, either positively or negatively, and I remember those
> >who have stayed in touch.
>
> Would you write recommendations for them?

Of course.  I do it frequently.  Doesn't everybody?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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In a previous article, CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu () says:

>Greetings,
>
>I read Tushar's message and as suddenly as a window shatters my mind was as
>still as a mouse in a trap.
>
>Marty
>
But, like any true wordsler, you did not let your fingers stop flying for
a single split second.  Welcome to the world of so-called context-free
posts, Marty!  

Ruth
who's emptied a few mousetraps
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: First Green Message
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> Ken,
> I gotta ask: you have a program that types like that, right?

It's the banner program.  I think it's available on any Unix system,
isn't it?  Thanks to Tushar, I discovered that you can also change the
default #'s to other characters.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:
> Then there's those packages of Tortilla chips that contain
> 2.33 ounces...  Why 2.33?

Two 1.165 ounce servings.

--karsten

("over 16% more than our regular 2 oz package!")
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids
              19 Nov 1992 13:45:00 EST from <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>

On Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:45:00 EST Alec D. Plotkin said:
>
>Wimps delete, women and men read all messages.
>
>adp

Or download them to read later.

Evelyn
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Thanksgiving
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:27:01 GMT
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Reprinted without permission, in acknowledgement of my confusing Aztec
w/Maya...  bayla
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Article: 769 of rec.food.historic
Subject: Re: Aztec Thanksgiving meal
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:46:53 GMT
Reply-To: dadams@cray.com

|>>My wife and I are starting to plan an Aztec Thanksgiving meal.
|>>We would like some help.  We have some ideas, but in order to
|> 
|> 
|>I would suggest first capturing several members of a neighboring tribe
|>to sacrifice - much nicer than eating your friends.  Sacrificing them
|>will both provide you with a nice dinner and keep the sun in the
|>universe, an important consideration when planning any dinner.  I've
|>heard that giblet gravy is especially appropriate with an Aztec
|>thanksgiving dinner.
|>-- 
|>--------------------
|>=
|
|Other notes as once pointed out by my ex who is of said culture.
|
|Be sure that your knives are sharpened (preferably made from 
|obsidian).  And the human heart is best served while still beating, so 
|make sure that you know exactly what time your guest will be coming 
|and pray for no late arrivals.  Also,  as suggested go for a 
|neighboring tribe, selecting the younger members for your meal.  The 
|meat is not as tough and lower in colesterol.
|
|Bon appetite.

Isn't there a lot of sensationalism in all of this?  (I won't dispute
that they had human sacrifices, but did they dine on them?)

Followups to rec.food.historic.

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--David C. Adams  Statistician  Cray Research Inc.  dadams@cray.com
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:13:31 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: This should make you laughable
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              19 Nov 1992 19:19:16 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:19:16 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>those funny translations (plus others) have been in list ftp space since
>the very beginning of list ftp space.  They're in docs/words-l/Funnies.

Where do you think he got them?

And, to raise an old issue, are any of them "real" instead of made up?

dan
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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The main thing I remember learning from the WORDS-L egg-slot debate a
couple of years ago is that you shouldn't put your eggs in the slots
anyway.  You should leave them in the cartons.  I don't remember why
now but have followed the list wisdom on that ever since.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:53:10 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Imposter

To me, Superman died with DC's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" series:
Superman wasn't the same after that; Wonder Woman, Flash, and Supergirl
were killed; Dick Grayson wasn't Robin anymore; the only one who survived
relatively intact was Batman.  Ever since then, I've stuck with Marvel
Comics.

Evelyn
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Subject: LSU
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:06:00 GMT
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Greetings,

Could someone with curren information (like a handy newspaper) post a
summary of the current situation at LSU?  I've heard some inklings of
catastrophic financial news on NPR, but I'd be interested in hearing some
details, and for the last couple of weeks I've been mostly sequestered
in my ivory/fiberoptic tower.

Thanks,

Marty