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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:35:32 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!

This is my first homework assignment in Computer Science. It gave
me great pleasure to do it on a subject relevant to WORDS-L!


HISTORICAL NOTE: The use of wakae in text, for variety a of  pur-
poses,  not  all of them clearly known but including at least (1)
emphasizing a text (2) the so called "subbing out" of a text i.e.
creating  a  subtext  and (3) plain grouping for the parsing con-
venience of the slow reader, has a history going  back  into  the
mists  of  the unknown past. Even on words-l, a subscriber as old
as Charles Michel Boucher sprinkled wakae  liberally  around  all
his atrocious puns for fear for their being lost on his audience.
The usage is obviously older  than  that.  It  also  seems  quite
widespread.

The assignment consisted of building a machine  which  would  aid
all obssessive wakators by automatically wakating their texts.


ABSTRACT: Despite the long history of wakation per se,  the  most
illustrious  wordsler  to  ever  wakate off in his own inimitable
style is undoubtedly GILBERT SMITH. My method of building an  au-
tomatic  wakator  was  to observe Smith closely.  I have tried to
mimic Smith as far as possible in writing  this  program,  and  I
daresay  I  have succeeded so well that the program itself can be
called Smith without undue loss of generality.

True, it still fails at times when the most  subtle  wakation  is
required,  and  it  certainly  doesn't  drive  a Miata, but it is
elegant, paunchless, and with a charm of its own. Most important-
ly, it wakates by EXACTLY THE SAME method as has been employed so
brilliantly by Smith. For this reason, this program is  DEDICATED
TO SMITH. (Smith, your attention here, please.)

One need only compile it by some incantation  resembling  "cc  -o
wakate"  and  then  pipe one's favourite plain text files through
wakate, to get a richly wakated and wonderfully suggestive  text.
Cut here, make some minor changes if needed, and enjoy!

tushar

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/*          SMITH - A program to wakate texts. FREE!!          */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#define WORD  word=!(word)
#define WAKA {putchar('<');waka=!waka;}
#define AKAW {putchar('>');waka=!waka;}
#define toss !(rand()&3)
#define stop (c=='.'||c==','||c==';'||c=='?'||c=='!'||c==':')
#define whit (c==' '||c=='\t'||c=='\n')

int waka, word, c;

main() {
  srand(getpid());
  if (toss) WAKA
  while((c=getchar())!=EOF) {
    if (word && whit) {
      WORD; if (waka && toss) AKAW}
    if (!word && !whit) {
      WORD; if (!waka && toss) WAKA}
    if (stop && waka) {
      AKAW}
    putchar(c);
  }
  if (waka) AKAW
}
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FYFI
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> It didn't take a <rocket scientist> to understand.
>
> JAG

You mean everyone *knew* what I was doing?  Well, that just
<floors> me.   Is there no mystery left in the world?
--ggs
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Gentle tushar,
On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:39:37 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>It's very nice to hear this old thread resurrected. Elwood, that was
    There is a saying in the Southwest, "Cosa mala nunca muere",
    which roughly translates as "Words-L threads last forever".

>a good one, but I think "putrefied" is the correct spelling. By the
      You are, as usual, correct.  That is the prefurred spelling.
      Where was my <mind>? (reply *not* requested)

>way, I recieved the "shaman stuart" anagram. Thanks.
      You're welcome
Peace,
Elwood P.
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:40:48 CST
From:         Kip Shaw <KIS100F%SMSVMA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      First Green Message

I have signed on to this discussion group just a while ago and so I am
a newcomer to this friendly group.
(the welcome message said this group was friendly)
Hello to everyone.

My pseudonym name is Kip Shaw.
Some call me: Kish (to rhyme with Quiche).


Please feel free to directly send messages to my work email address:
KIS100F@SMSVMA

Thanks, Kish.
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Cars vs. Pub. Transport
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Posted on 15 Nov 1992 at 07:44:20 by Natalie Maynor
>And how am I going to take taxis in a town that
>doesn't have taxis?

I got distracted by Walmart.  What I meant to say is that this is a
matter of chance, whether there are taxis or not.  Too bad the FAA
doesn't subsidize taxi companies as well as airlines!

Karen
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>To quote Isaac Bonewits, a prominent Neo-pagan author:

I wonder ... if it is allowed to assume a different name, why does
he keep his own?

>Basically we're a bunch of superstitious, non-conformist, liberal hippie
>tree-huggers who believe in faeries and magic and worship a goddess who we
>believe is living in all things.

I said once that I wanted more objective information - not random
subjective assessments. Thanks for all the info, Susan.

tushar
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Subject:      GI Bill: Sexist social engineering

Greetings,

So there I was at the international coffee hour, chatting with a
Bulgarian student about the demographics of US faculties.  We were talking
about Sputnik and the sixties and the notion that lots of faculty
members may be retiring in the next decade (to be replaced?  who knows),
when suddenly it occurred to me that the expansion of universities in the
60s must have been facilitated by the availability of trained faculty.
Where did they come from, I wondered, and why are there so many white
males of a certain age in academia?  Suddenly it occurred to me that many
of the academics of say, George Bush's generation (lots of whom have
retired during the last 5 years or so) very likely got their first degrees
courtesy of the GI Bill.  Suddenly, I realized that this bill quite
well-intentioned (as were many other veterans programs, of course), had as
its principal beneficiaries *veterans.*  And who were these vets, I
wondered?  Weren't they predominantly males?  And weren't they predominantly
white males, to boot (both in WWII and Korea)?  And aren't there some folks
in this group who now resent similar programs that attempt to offer
educational opportunities to folks of different genders and different
races but who haven't had the dubious pleasure of serving in some war or
other?

How many people in the middle and upper middle class owe their family's
relative prosperity and social success to this welfare program?

Marty
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: what? no report yet?
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:12:31 EST, "Elaine Brennan" <elaine@brownvm.brown.edu>
 wrote:
> 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 ...

See Giggles! Even strange newbies know how to use wackawackas <appropriately>.

G
(Hmmm... Brennan.  Brennan.... sounds vaguely <familiar> actually.  It'll <come>
back to me...)
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Why, Why, Why
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> why WORDS-L get-togethers are never held anywhere I am ...or am going to
> be?...

Is this an offer to host the next WORDS-L biggy in the Pasco Jungles?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Subject: Re: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:29:00 GMT
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To say that I am <honored> is analogous to saying that I have a
<casual> interest in almost new Japanese sports cars or saying that
I have a <mild> dislike of Republican ideology or saying that I have
a <moderate> curiosity about Clinton's Sinclair or saying that I
have a <vague> desire to be the center of attention.
.
To be the <substance> of a homework assignment is a trophy  that
I never thought I could possess, a mountain that I never expected
to scale, a.....   I am just absolutely at a loss for words....
I ....  I just *never* in my life!
.
*ts*, you are <forgiven> for all sins past and future, <absolved>,
<justified>, <cleansed>, made <clean as a whistle>....  From this
moment on, you can do no <wrong>.....
.
--ggs (just *so* proud....)
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:51:30 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!

>> Oh tushar!  You didn't give up your day job for this did you?!
>
>Day job??
>
>Steve Karlson

That, coincidentally, is the question that formed in my mind too.

tushar
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Jeeves -- the answer
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I suppose I've left the few who seem to care about it hanging long enough...

Recall that this is from an Op-Ed essay in Saturday's New York Times by Charles
Rembar, titled 'Jeeves Unmasked.  Finally.  Maybe.'

I quote (needless to say, completely without permission from anyone):

        "We hear a great deal of Bertie's relatives but nothing of his parents.
        Is he an orphan?  Hardly.  Orphanage is too important in character
        formation for a novelist to ignore.  The reason no mention is made of
        Bertie's parents is that Bertie is a bastard.  One parent must be upper
        class.  Bertie's special character cannot come from training alone; it
        requires genes.  That parent must have been his mother.  Bertie is the
        product of a dalliance between a high-born lady and a man not of her
        station.  The man is Jeeves.  Jeeves is Bertie Wooster's father.

        "That is to say, the man who now calls himself Jeeves.  He was not the
        lady's butler, of course.  Jeeves is not properly a servant; that poses
        the question we started with.  But he was probably not of her class.
        He was, as he is, someone cultured, resourceful, cool and brave -- such
        as a university professor.  A professor of Latin literature, most
        likely, judging by his conversation, a brilliant son of working-class
        parents.  Or a paramour of even more exotic origin.

        "Unfortunately, as the reader is made aware, the infant took after his
        mother's side.  A father's love, however, is not diminished by the
        weakness of his offspring.  Jeeves saw that the lovely, feeble child
        needed the best of care.  His mother, that high-born lady, could not
        supply it.  A bastard, at the time of Bertie's birth -- not now nor
        earlier in British history, but in the middle period -- was an
        embarrassment.  Not to mention the English high-borns' reluctance to
        have a child around the house.

        "Jeeves solved the problem in a typically Jeevesian way.  What sort of
        person could be constantly at Bertie's side without arousing suspicion?
        A gentleman's gentleman.  True on the surface, but I think it's the
        other way around:  Bertie is Jeeves's, not Jeeves Bertie's."

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From: rita@EFF.ORG (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
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Subject: Literacy Quiz
Date: 18 Nov 92 21:42:02 GMT
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        This was forwarded to me by Nico from one of his mailing lists.




Literacy Quiz

The sentences below all have correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling,
and provide a reasonable basis for answering the questions posed.

1) A: The employees of Alphatron who were hired recently have been laid off.
   B: The employees of Omegatron, who were hired recently, have been laid off.

   Which company is more stable, Alphatron or Omegatron?

Good question.  I'd say Alphatron; they just had a LIFO layoff,
whereas all of Omegatron's employees got the boot.

2) Speaker A: Welcome.  My cousin Chris will be here soon.
   Speaker B: Welcome.  My cousin, Jean will be here soon.

   Which speaker's cousin is closer by?

Speaker B, whose cousin is already there and is being told Jean will
be here soon.

3) Speaker A: I fear it's beginning.
   Speaker B: I fear its beginning.

   Which speaker fears the more imminent event?

Speaker A, whose event is underway.  Speaker B's even hasn't yet started.

4) A: Kim was virtually scared shitless by the Republican convention.
   B: Pat was literally scared shitless by the Republican convention.

   Whom would you rather sit next to, Kim or Pat?

Depends.  If, by "shitless," you mean "not producing fecal matter,"
I'd rather sit next to Pat because Kim would likely be hyper.

IF, however, by "shitless," you mean "having endless diarrhea," I'd
rather be sitting next to Kim, thank you.

5) A: Jane drives her mother's car.
   B: Bob drives his mothers' car.

   Whose family would get along better with Dan Quayle, Jane's or Bob's?

Jane's family; Bob has more than one mother.

6) A: I see the English pirates' treasure getting buried.
   B: I see the French pirates treasure getting buried.

   Which pirates are more practical, the English or the French?

If you consider burying treasure practical, the English ones.  There's
no mention of French pirates burying treasure.

7) A: Bill just has no effect.
   B: Mary just has no affect.

   Who feels more frustration, Bill or Mary?

Depends on what frustrates them.  Bill can't show any results, and
Mary can't impress anyone.

8) A: The Boston firefighters' actions effected the house fire.
   B: The Cambridge firefighters' actions affected the house fire.

   Which firefighters performed their expected job better?

The Cambridge firefighters, whose actions presumably put out the house
fire, as opposed to the Boston firefighters, whose actions caused the
house fire to happen in the first place.

9) A: Beth's hat is unique.
   B: Tom's hat is extremely unusual.

   Whose hat is more unusual, Beth's or Tom's?

Beth's, because it's one-of-a-kind.

10) A: Jim's hat complements his shoes.
    B: Ann's hat compliments her shoes.

   Whose hat is more unusual, Jim's or Ann's?

Ann's.  Does it have a string she pulls, or does the hat act under its
own authority? :-)
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Teachers and students
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It's not very surprising that students remember some of their former teachers
and keep in touch.  What really amazes me is when people remember their TAs.
A few weeks back, I ran into this guy who'd been in a class I was the TA for as
a rookie grad student (> 5 years ago).  This was a situation where the students
came to see the TA only when they needed help, so he didn't see me regularly
in class.  He remembered my name, details of the subject, even some of the
things I'd said, ... it was strange.  I remembered these only after he'd
jogged my memory!!

It's happened a few more times, and I was kinda surprised each time, for some
reason.

rashmi
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From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (68)
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Amelia Peabody:  the heroine of a series of tongue-in-cheek mysteries by
Elizabeth Peters (who also writes under the name of Barbara Michaels).
They take place in Victorian England and Egypt, and are written in the
style of a Victorian novel.  Amelia's husband, Dr. Radcliffe Emerson, is
an Egyptologist, and she is a passionate student of the subject (after
all, this is the nineteenth century and she can't actually *be* an
archaeologist -- she just has read and studied enough to know about it).

At any rate, they go on these expeditions and face villains and save
treasures and poke fun at historical figures like Budge and Petrie and
generally make for a fun read.  Plus which, since Peters herself has a
PhD. in Egyptology, you can actually learn something about the subject.

The reason I brought up Amelia Peabody in reference to Anne Rice's _The
Mummy, or Ramses the Damned_ is because Peters "gothic" approach is
definitely of the tongue-in-cheek variety, whereas Rice's in _The Mummy_
is only made humorous by the prodigious *seriousness* with which she takes
it.

It's never good to be funny when you're trying so hard to be serious...

-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------------
"Queens never make bargains."  -- The Red Queen, _Through the Looking Glass_
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Blast From The Past (Long!)
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1992, Dan Lester wrote:

>    don't know about any OTHER MacPhil, but the one who was on HERE
> as MacPhil is Phil Paxton of suburban Indpls.  Would have to check my
> paper address book to tell you the address.

Erp, Dan, I'm *sure* it's Phil Kizer. Unless we're dealing with aliases
here. Ask Karen, she's actually spoken to him.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:48:22 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: what? no report yet?
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1992, Elaine M Brennan wrote:

> 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 ...

Mea maxima culpa. *Idea* Gonna be in SF in March?

-abh
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FYFI
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> >> 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
> >If I were not rolling around on the <carpet> laughing at *this*
> >I would have to ask what *language* are we speaking, please????
> >Or I would ask, *how* inclined are you, Chris baby, and in exactly
> >*what* direction?  Or at *what* angle?  As *ts* would say, please
> >explain yourself.  Immediately.
> >--ggs
>
> Oxford American Dictionary
 1)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> in*cline v. 1 to lean, to slope. 2. to bend (the head or body) forward. 3. (pa
> attention here, ggs. You may learn something) to have or cause a certain
                   2)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> tendency []*be inclined*, to have a certain tendency. _I'm inclined to agree_.
> I was speaking English. Please do let us all know when you're able to start
> reading and speaking it, too.  You actually might start making a little
    3)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> <since>, although I'd <be inclined> to believe otherwise.
  4)^^^^^^
>
> Chris

  1) Ohmygod, not *that* book again!
  2) I can't, I know everything already.
  3) No comprendo ingles.
  4) The word in *English* is "sense".
NOT to mention that there is *still* something wrong with saying:
"if anyone were so inclined. I would not be *that* inclined."
<Sense>, "so inclined" means "inclined in such a way", not "inclined
to that extent", the following statement should read "I would not be
inclined to do that".....   Otherwise, the message makes no <since>.
--ggs
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:48:04 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Dead shall rise again
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1992, Rita Marie Rouvalis wrote:

>        Deadheads Against Discrimination

They oughta get a better name if they want to be taken seriously.

-abh
ooh! that's the same argument that got me in trouble with Louie Crew!
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: All this croning stuff
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> > the witches might look askance at me and note me in their records.
> Or take away your ruby Birkenstocks.

Horror of horrors!  I will definitely not risk croning too soon.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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