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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:52:58 -0500
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From:         Steve Portigal <stevep%SNOWHITE.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ben 'n Jerry's
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I've been on that tour, it's really neat.  I get a little sick of their
self-promotion, their Caring Capitalism and how they make a big deal of it.
I think what they do is important, I"m not totally comfortable hearing about it.
We had a great taste of Heath Bar Crunch, right off of the line.  Outside
(it was really really really hot that day) they were hand cranking ice
cream as well (free!).

Anyone on EAT-L will know about the Donvier ice cream maker and recipe
thread (brief but yummy).  I tried the Ben and Jerry's sweet cream recipe
with a crispy crunch bar tossed in and it was totally amazing.  My arteries
are still clogged...

Dr. Portigalicious
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Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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From:         ktw%HLWPK.ATT.COM@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: My story (and a sad one it is)
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>Since I was so much more intelligent than my classmates, who were
>content to accept whatever their teachers told them (while I put
>probing questions that occurred to me in the light of my quick and
>critical intellect), and furthermore was much more sensitive to the
>higher things in life, I was of course mercilessly ragged and
>persecuted. I consoled myself with the thought that I would, in later
>life, be in a position not only to despise them (which I already did),
>but to order them about, sneer at their wives and jobs, gloat and
>snigger, and generally have a good time....

Reminds me of the opening sequences of _Broadcast News_, the sections
dealing with the childhood incarnation of the character played by
Albert Brooks.  Recognizable, certainly.  School nerd, dumbass toughguy
kids all over him.  And his final insult to them all on graduation day
after they administer a farewell beating: "NONE OF YOU WILL EVER EARN
MORE THAN $15,000 A YEAR!"

Ken
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From:         QXN148%URIACC.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: flipping channels

>Posted on 16 Apr 1992 at 11:18:54 by Uriacc Mailer (002033)
>
>Re: flipping channels
>
>Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 11:10:03 EST
>Reply-To:     English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.BITNET>
>From:         Evelyn <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET>
>
>This whole business about men taking control of remotes sounds as if it
>would be on "Home Improvement." :-)
>
>Evelyn
If it were on Home Improvement the remote would be turbo charged and able to
change the channels of every t.v. within a five mile radius. Did you catch this
weeks show,with the harely lawnmower.   I think the guy is a Turbo-charged
Fruitloop!!
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: That "Come Hither" Blank Stare
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              6 Apr 1992 13:13:38 EDT from <CGOODSON@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:13:38 EDT Carol Goodson said:
>      Hope the fact that there are so many librarians on the list doesn't mean
>that we need to "get a life".... or worse, have the least work to do

No....it means that many librarians are techies and have the stuff both
at home and at work....and that many of us take work home....I often
find it hard to get "serious" work done at work due to zillions of
interruptions, phone calls, etc.....but can fill in some email....
of course lots of the email is done at home, too...

dan  (who has more than enough work to do)
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From:         Adam M Hartfield <AHARTFIE%DREW.DREW.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Jones
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> Quick, what are the heredities of the rest of the BWP's.  Is BWP'ing
> an 'ethnic' thing?


Dunno.  I'm half German-Austrian, and the rest of me is English,
French, and Irish.

This is assuming that my parents told the truth.

--Adam, of the Hirschfeld clan
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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              9 Apr 1992 14:24:00 EDT from
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:24:00 EDT Joan Boorstein said:
>Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU> said:
>
>    Dan's comment made me realize that for me geeks or nerds are only
>male ... why? because that would mean that I couldn't be one???

I understand that....and in the computer sense of the word, would agree...

However, my daughter, Cinda, when in choir in high school last year....
often referred to herself and her male and female friends in Jazz Choir
(a selective/performance-oriented group that toured quite a bit) as
"choir geeks".  It was one of those terms that they used among themselves
and that I was allowed to use....but if any other HS kids used it.....
there was hell to pay....

She still uses it for her current choir at college, but don't know if that
is just her continuation with me, or if they use it at U of Idaho too.

dan
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal%CURSCI.UUCP@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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From: WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (The Ronin)

:     I was under the impression that part of how Enigma was cracked
:was that a British agent in Poland stole one around 1939 and sumggled
:it back to the isles.  I will have to recheck my references on this
:one.

The Poles will tell you that it was Polish mathematicians who were
responsible for cracking the code, not the aquisition of the stolen
machine.  Or at least that's what they told sci.crypt.

But yes, a machine was stolen.  Not exactly sure by whom though, or
whether it was in fact as pivotal as has often been claimed.  In
espionage, you can never be sure you've heard the final version of
the story...

G
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 10:58:36 EDT
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal%CURSCI.UUCP@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      10 days's worth of words-l...
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What happens if you don't read words-l for a few days...  1781 articles
stacked up since 30th March - precisely 10 days worth, or an average
of 178 per day.

====
gem 4% rn
Unread news in stack.games                                  1 article
Unread news in stack.flame                                  7 articles
Unread news in stack.announce                               8 articles
Unread news in stack.test                                   3 articles
Unread news in soc.culture.netherlands                    623 articles
etc.

********   1 unread article in stack.games--read now? [ynq]
********   7 unread articles in stack.flame--read now? [ynq]
********   8 unread articles in stack.announce--read now? [ynq]
********   3 unread articles in stack.test--read now? [ynq]
******** 623 unread articles in soc.culture.netherlands--read now? [ynq]
******** 1781 unread articles in bit.listserv.words-l--read now? [ynq]

Article 15962 (1780 more) in bit.listserv.words-l:
From: DBFABAK%CFRVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C
 574-4078)
Subject: Cadillac Clutter
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--MORE--(40%)

(Mail) End of article 15962 (of 17742)--what next? [npq]
Do you really want to mark everything as read? [yn]


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********  11 unread articles in tue.misc--read now? [ynq]
gem 5%
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From:         Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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>        You guys hiring?

        Yes, as a matter of fact.  We're looking for a Membership Director.
Know any?

Czarina
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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Reporteth     Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>

> Not all of them have...dress code is alive and well (and bitterly
> complained about) in our high school!

     It wouldn't be if the students weren't willing to put up with it.
I remember being in schools that had dress codes, but if the dress
code violated my standard of dress, I violated the dress code.  Quiet,
wide-spread defiance is a very effective weapon.

The Ronin
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From:         Tony Harminc <TONY%VM1.MCGILL.CA@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fitting in
              8 Apr 1992 22:44:13 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

On Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:44:13 MST Dan Lester said:
>well, I have edited some professional newsletters over the years.  And was
>Assistant Editor of 73 Magazine in the early 60's.   Now lets see who knows
>what 73 Mag is.....

Well let's just say it's not kosher...

Tony H.
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>
>     I took a few black-and-white photos, so we'll have a record  of the
>event.
>
>
  And will this be scanned and posted to the archives for all to peruse?

Steve
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: in-jokes and such
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:06:09 -0400 Czarina Rita said:
>        I dunno.  I'm an associate editor, so I don't fit in at all.
>Or maybe I fit in with the English geeks.  Does Natalie head up that
>category?
>
   I have NEVER thought of either the Czarina or the List Goddess as geeks!
Now some of the GUYS, that's a bit different....

dan
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Natalie--

Well, it's catching up a bit now.  Your reply took "only" 25 minutes to
get here.

--Aaron
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood%TENET.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)

That is an interesting point...although my father continued to read to me
for several years after I learned to read, I was already so hooked that
I read constantly on my own.  The reading he did was part of our special
time together in the evening, and it didn't discourage me from reading on
my own the rest of the time (my mother used to say frequently that she'd
like to see me just once without a book in my hand).  My younger
daughter read at 4, and I continued reading to her until she was 7 or 8,
but she, too, was already an addict and couldn't limit her reading to
just the time we spent reading together.
ndh
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From:         Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@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

The Ronin shoots back:

>     And here I thought it was just that women couldn't handle two
>trains of thought at one time.  Are you sure of your theory?  I want
>to see some data to back this hackneyed hypothesis up.

        Actually, Doris' theory rings pretty true for my family.  My Dad
and Brother actually *fight* over the goddamned thing.  Mom and I don't
really watch TV (we'll sit and do cross-stitch or something in front of
the TV with the family, but we rarely watch it).  Baby sis watches her
own TV.
        In my home, neither Nico or I are channel flippers -- we only watch
one or two programs a week, anyways.  Don't know what the cats do when
we're
at work all day...

Rita
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Roundabouts and such
              7 Apr 1992 16:09:48 EDT from <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:09:48 EDT Don Thornton said:
>The soon to be fufilled feelings of revenge in
>`My Boyfriend `s Back'
>always pleased me.

What about Leslie Gore's song, "It's Judy's Turn to Cry"?
>
>Don

Evelyn
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Date: 12 Apr 92 23:40:27 GMT
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In article <199204122244.AA10047@eff.org> rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
>	Not!  When this was discussed on rec.arts.books, someone came
>up with a few lines from Shakespeare that had the construction.  I'm
>willing to accept that the Bill Murray skit is the first popular
>contemporary usage.  Good skit.

This is now a FAQ on a.u.e, although I'm not sure what the
definitive answer was (as the new FAQ file hasn't been published
yet) - but we also found a similar quotation from F Scott Fitzgerald.

Beware of constructs like "I think not!" though - this is quite
different from "I think. Not!"  (the latter being much more likely
in the mouths of Wayne and Garth)

Graham
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              8 Apr 1992 00:25:27 EDT from <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:25:27 EDT Don Thornton said:
>Evelyn
>
>Leslie Gore's song didn't give me that same feeling of
>vindication.

I guess because you've never been a girl.

>
>Don

Evelyn
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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I got that offer in the mail.  The only problem with the whole thing was that
you were limited to 60 e-mail messages per month.  Not quite up to Words-L
volume.

Chris
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Subject:      Re: calling all student of russia

From:   NAME: Les Buhite
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        TEL: (716) 665-5220                   <BUHITE, LES AT A1 AT JCCV03>
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CHRIS: No, it is one rule that makes up the system of English.  However, for
<a child
<for form plurals, in one way or another, the child must have some sort of rule
<for doing so.  And yet, what if this rule is incorrect (not just incorrectly
<applied)?  "Sheepses" is incorrect.  It is redundant, for example.  One of the
<things languages (and humans in general) strive for is economy.  *Sheepses* is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
<not economy.
<^^^^^^^^^^^

This strikes me as nonsense.  We have double plurals such as "Children" and
"kindred" and no burning desire to change them.  Language is full of
redundancies, such as agreement of case.  It becomes a form of error checking
at best and a pain in the butt of second-language students at worst. Then there
are the numerous words which are the same in singular and plural, such as
"sheep"... Why not ditch all plural forms if we don't need them for all nouns?

A few weeks back on "As it Happens" a fellow was propounding a new language
which he said had no grammar.  Closer listening indicated that it did indeed
have grammar, just total freedom of word order and some odd words to indicate
tense.  Like Esperanto, it was based on Indo-European roots.  With the total
lack of recall which endears me so to friends and family, I forgot the name
of the language or the name of the "founder".

(hope)Les
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: food (was re: Jones)
              9 Apr 1992 02:07:00 GMT from <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>

For some reason, Jill, the librarians I know are usually more involved with
drinking than eating.... I knew I was in the right profession the first time
I went to a conference....  hope I haven't scandalized the other librarians
on the list!
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>Now, "Japanologist," "Computer Science Professor," and even my lowly
>explanation, "I work with computers" is outside the general body of knowledge.
>But it's not totally unheard-of, like "Epididymologist" might be. So it's
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Now, Anne, I *know* you weren't making fun of *my* profession.  One of the more
irreverent epidemiology journals once sold bumper stickers saying:

	No, I'm not a skin doctor

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PS.  Just learned that my abstract was accepted as a poster for the SER meeting
June 10-12 in Minneapolis.  Are there any wordslers among those 10,000 lakes?
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From:         "Lisa J. Gilmore" <TSLGILMORE%CC.WEBER.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tarmac rugrats
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I was tormented quite a bit as a child.  However, I have recently discovered
that one of the reasons that I was tormented was because I believed that
what the children were saying to me was right...long before I even got
into school.  A part of me feels like if I'm not perfect, then I am not
worth living.         Any suggestions for books pertaining to acceptance
of mediocrity?             LJG
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: Reflections on the matter of language change

When I receive a referee's report that uses the term "bad" to
describe some aspect of the paper, I do not treat the report and the
accompanying letter as an invitation to revise and resubmit.

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the lifted tack.
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Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:25:51 MST
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE%IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      strange headline
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Finally reading Wednesday's _Idaho Statesman_ and ran across this
headline:

Pulitzer prizes honor Smiley

and I thought WOW!   the little guy 8-) has MADE it at last.

I knew he/she was prolific and widely published and disseminated on the
nets...and had even been gleaned by Newsweek and others....

But a PULITZER for our little old Smiley???



Turns out the Pulitzer folks were referring to _Jane_ Smiley, the
author of _A Thousand Acres_, which won the prize for fiction.


for Judith....Mama Primate....the Pulitzer for best reporting went to
Deborah Blum of the _Sacramento Bee_ for "The Monkey Wars", a "series
exploring the complex ethical and moral questions surrounding primate
research."

dan
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