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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:06:47 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
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Posted on 7 Jan 1993 at 15:56:43 by Natalie Maynor

>Jimmy Carter said "nucular."

And he was a nucular engineer, so he musta known.

Tony H.
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WWTBLOOW-LWD: A Solicitation
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1993, gilbertsmith wrote:

>    WWTBLOOW-LWD?

Running out of Pirecetam the weekend before HackerCon.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:57:19 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The burning fiery furnace
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:15:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
>
>        Nope, it *is* a down-in-the-cellar one.  Forced hot-air, using
>        ductwork.  The place probably also has central air-conditioning.
>
   Well, maybe....but in Missoula I'd still bet its tucked away in a
closet instead of down in any cellar.....the cute little house isn't
likely to have a cellar....

cyclops
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:53:23 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      World-Wide BWPdom
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I just looked at news.lists and was interested to see that 20% of the
world's top 25 BWPs rank WORDS-L as their number-one trough.  Interesting.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:14:04 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: The burning fiery furnace
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> > Way down here in Texas we don't have cellars, so if the furnace is not in
> > a small closet kind of space it is in the attic, as ours is.  The vents
> What do you do in the event of a tornado?

I don't know about Texas, but here the thing most people do if a tornado
is clearly visible and headed their way is get in the bathtub covered by a
blanket.  This situation rarely occurs, of course.  The frequent tornado
warnings are ignored since they're frequent (relative to other places, that
is).  If things seem extremely tornadoish, I make sure that a window is open
near the southwest corner of my house.  That's about it.  (And I'm not sure
why I do that s.w. window thing except that it's something I've heard all
my life.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Eileen Margerum <EMARGERUM@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Oh yeah Glasgow
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> Bagpipe music is never appropriate, and is acceptable only if being played
> at the far end of a long glen.

        THE ONLY TUNE THAT YOU SHOULD PLAY
        IS OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY

        I am rather fond of pipe music myself, but there is some truth in
the observation that it should be remembered that the people who brought you

the concept of the bagpipe as music also brought the world the concept fo
of golf as a sport.
        ED MARGERUM IN THE WITCH CITY
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:57:47 -0600
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1993, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> Susan: Will you consider being crone-mistress?

Sure, provided I can actually make it to this gathering (strong hint for
it to be somehwere like New Orleans or somewhere else in the general South).

> I'm going to try to find Susan's croning bibliography that I saved
> somewhere on Ra and see whether our library has any of the books
> (doubtful).  This croning is striking me more and more as A Real
> Event.

I could have told you not to bother with the library -- the UT Austin
library is incredibly huge and progressive and they don't have them.  I
could give you information so you could get them, or maybe a Xerox machine
and I can commit an act of copyright infringement with the pertinent parts
of the book. :)

Whether I can actually show up or not, I definitely think you should have
one (although I still think you're too young for one... )  :)

> Is it polite to invite people to your own croning?

You were expecting a surprise croning?  Of course it's all right.

> Are cronings always in the woods?

In fact, many times they are not at all.  It depends on the weather.
There's nothing says that this has to be silly...

> What does one wear to a croning?

Whatever one damn well pleases, especially if one is the crone in question.

> Are dogs allowed?

I could go into this whole exegesis about the role of dogs in goddess
worship and all that, but it's just simpler to say that it is most
appropriate for Bernard to be there.

Send me mail if you're interested in getting stuff from those books...

-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------------
"Queens never make bargains."  -- The Red Queen, _Through the Looking Glass_
-----amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu--------------The University of Texas @Austin---
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 12:52:06 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: London Bridge
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> Nancy, a friend asked me back before Christmas about the words to the
> childhood song "Goober Peas", which I had never heard of.  He claimed there

I don't remember that song from my childhood but remember it from sometime
later.  Didn't somebody like The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band sing it?

> was something in them about a Confederate general being reassured because
> his troopers were eating goober peas.  I told him that this question was

If my turntable worked, I would look through old albums on the chance I
might find the goober pea song.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:48:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Baseball
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        Torkel quotes from Burke:

>>> "Sometimes self-respect requires that you float one down the middle,
>>>letter high, big as a balloon, and let the batter have his way."

        Brad interprets:

>>"Why am I trying to engage this turkey in an epic duel?  Here's a
>>fat pitch.  See what you can do with it."

        Torkel wonders:

>  What's a "fat" pitch? As described in the passage, he seems to be
>talking about an easy pitch. So why should self-respect require that
>he sometimes throw an easy pitch? It's not as though he were saying
>"hit me with your best shot", since there isn't anything for the
>pitcher to do, surely, after the batter has hit the ball? Also, in the
>context of the book, he is in fact giving the bad guy an opportunity
>to swing at him.

        A 'fat' pitch is indeed an easy (to hit) pitch.  The implication *is*
        very much the same as 'hit me with your best shot.'  While there's
        little for the pitcher to do after the ball is hit, unless it's hit
        back at him, he's still 'responsible' for that hit.  So it's the
        pitcher's <ego> or <self-respect> that's being belted.

        To go back to the original phrase, 'float one down the middle' means
        'throw an easy-to-hit pitch, right across home plate.'  'letter high'
        is above the waist, where the letters identifying the batter's team
        appear on his shirt.  'big as a balloon' is how such a pitch might
        appear to the (salivating) batter; contrast that with 'throwing aspirin
        tablets' or 'throwing BBs' when the pitcher is so fast that he's
        unhittable.

        Ann Mandi has the 'Dickson Baseball Dictionary,' which might give
        additional details if needed.

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From: harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell)
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Natalie,

I respectfully submit that you change the Travelogues section to "What
Happened to Me." This will allow a wider variety of postings, such as
Giggles in the Library to be included. Also, the WHTM-type post has become
a Words-L tradition and deserves to have a category of its own.

Any *real* wordsler will instantly recognize it for what it is ;-)

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:25:43 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject: Re: {Operative Human Biological Interchange
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From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

> >      intransitive (Mary doesn't really give a Fuck); or as an adverb (Mary
>
> I'm a bit baffled by the example of intransitive verb.  Why not something
> like "John fucks well"?

Good point. Perhaps it was a Freudian slip. Too bad I can't ask Sue.

Sic transit gloria.
P
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Date: 4 Jan 93 16:26:43 GMT
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        I was thinking later about the fact that I've never been intimate with a
n
        IBM (actual brand) keyboard.

Never mind, your moment will come...

G
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>   Ken writes:
>
>   [interminable baseball babbling]
>
>   I never should have set you guys off.

SUFFER, baby!  HAHAHAHA!

Ken
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:44:33 GMT
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In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:

>> >and the truth will, as always, <out>, I was surprised that you
>>
>> No thanks - I don't like organ meats, any of them.
>
>Aha! Another case of the truth <coming out>?
>
Or staying out, in this case.  It never gets <in> in the first place, so
how could it <<ahem>> come <out>?  
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:36:00 PST
From:         Emily Horning <IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Carolyn's Science/Nature Question

> >I've been asked to give Carolyn her question (since Jenna has been busy at
> >work), and she has chosen Science and Nature.
> >
> >Here 'tis:
> >
> >What does a chairbound basophobic fear?
>
> I really have no idea... but I'll say he fears displaying his backside...IOW
> 'others seeing his bum'. :-)

Can we give points for creativity? :) Actually, the card says a basophobic
fears "walking or standing erect".

> It took some doing but I finally worked out that the first roll must have been
> a 5. Geography next, if by some weird chance my intuition works better
> than my memory.

Oops - I forgot to mention the number of your first roll. I'm new at this,
remember...

Next player?

> Carolyn

Emily (guess I won't make it as a game show host)
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:03:44 EST
From:         Anne Diffily <ADBAM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Greetings from Rho Disland
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Happy New Year, everyone.  Sorry to be irrelevant to current
discussion, whatever it may be, but I just had a few minutes
on-line and thought I'd say hello to the old crowd.  "Hello, Old
Crowd."  :-)

We're all fine.  Kevin will be 5 months old next Wednesday, and
I return to work next month.  Time flies when you're listening
to a colicky baby holler.  (Hair turns grey faster, too, I noticed
upon a close inspection in the bathroom mirror yesterday... sheesh.
Who sez kids keep you young???)

Hugs and smooches for all who want them.  Akio, Dan (can you
read the lists again?), and Ruth:  thanks awfully for the holiday
cards; they meant a lot to one in parental exile from the nets.

- La mama
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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: uh-huh
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Posted on 4 Jan 1993 at 19:05:45 by Anne 'Bandwidth Pig' Harwell

>Tate Gallery. GT remains behind to do <taxes>. I stay 4 hours. Can't
>believe these Brits own all these really important works.

Harder to believe some wacko place in Malibu, Calif. owns a bunch of
them too.

>Haven't yet figured out currency. I hand the clerk a gob of bills and coins
>and ask if that is enough. Almost got ripped off by scurrilous pizza boy
>last night as a result.

Shoulda been there before 1970.

>Snot has turned black. Thank you, Steph.

Diesel snot.  Carcinogenic, too.

Tony H.
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:21:56 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Oh yeah Glasgow
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: Elvis sightings in Edinburgh?  That reminds me, is bagpipe music appropriate
: at a croning?  If the croning is in Starkville, live bagpiping can easily be
: arranged.

Bagpipe music is never appropriate, and is acceptable only if being played
at the far end of a long glen.

G
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 12:45:37 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dual Croning on 19 March
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> My husband, who had agreed tentatively to the Starkville trip, is also
> enthusiastic about New Orleans.  I am *always* enthusiastic about New Orleans!

If it ends up being here, keep in mind that N.O. is sort of on the way from
Houston.  And speaking of N.O., I just thought of another reason Torkel
should come:  A good translator needs to experience at least some of the
settings of the work he's translating.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:33:15 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
              <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Gilbert's Entertainment Question
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              at Jan 8, 93 4:33 am

From the screen of 'Ruth M. Hanschka'...
> you were up to while Anne and Adrian the Frizzy Fubble were chowing down on

Excuse me --- just what is a Frizzy Fubble????

Fizzy the Fribble.
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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Three-key Sequence Nonsense
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Posted on 6 Jan 1993 at 06:09:56 by Natalie Maynor

>I still wonder why keyboard-makers moved the F keys from the left to the
>top.

I once had the chance to ask the director of IBM's human factors lab.
He replied pretty vaguely that there was a feeling that if the keys
were along the top, then the program could label them on the screen.

I pointed out that this may make things easier for new users, but it
makes life much harder for 'power users'.  He admitted it.

It's also worth wondering why the PC got 10 keys in two columns to
the left of the keyboard, while the long established IBM layout
had 12 keys in a 3 x 4 array to the right.  Almost certainly
just because the PC was developed by a group that had no cultural
ties to the rest of IBM.

>                    Placement of F keys at the top will never make any
>sense to me.  And yes, I had all 12 F keys on the left on my old keyboard.
>Everything about the left placement made more sense to me.

I agree (except that I know that God meant them to be on the right in
a 3 x 4 array).

Tony H.
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From:         Emily Horning <IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Carolyn's Science/Nature Question

> You can make up for it by rolling the dice again for me for the second round
> ... please!
>
> Carolyn

You rolled a two. That would give you Science and Nature (again) or Entertain-
ment.

Emily
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:14:11 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%93010820442166@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:

>It seems like a total loser to me!  I used to think I could watch
>Avery Brooks in anything--now I know my limits.  The effects are
>great, but they need to have a PLOT!

	There's hope for it then.  The first episode of TNG sucked big
time, too.  I haven't watched DS9 yet -- we have it on tape.  



-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> On Mon, 11 Jan 1993, gilbertsmith wrote:
>
> > p.s.: As if I were not a contributing <member> of this group.
>
> I thought the problem was you were always being accused of acting like a
> <member> in this group.
>
> -abh

At least I haven't been and <inactive> member.  That's for sure.
I wanted to know, by the way, if you saw the Queen?
--ggs (and did you curtsy?)
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:53:08 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: We who are about to die . . .
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Come on, List Parrot, eat a few crackers, read a few Words-L archive
files, and breathe easy.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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From:         jc-s <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      second call for words-l cookbook
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any takers? so far, only Natalie has openly expressed
an interest, although on other channels i have heard that
Mrs. Czarina will be contributing her chocolate chip cookie
recipe and perhaps a cheesecake from chocolate hell or something
of that nature.

all you have to do is send me the recipes. i'll typeset them
and put them into a book thang and then figure out who
wants them. once i get it together, i'll weigh it, and let
you know what postage will cost. then you can just send me
a stamped self addressed envelope and we'll be in bidness.

Jenna
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From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (74
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>[ 2 ]  _My Mother at New Year's_   By Erika Tachihara*
>     *an author of children's books.  The following was written in 1980.

Very nice, Takio.

Makes me wonder what my children will remember about me...

>Akio Tanaka/11 Jan 93 (Oh, before I forget, Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu,
>or Happy New Year)

And thank you very much for the lovely card!

>10) "No atheists in foxholes" truism (Judith S.)

There is a belief that people who are in great danger or trouble
will turn to God, no matter what they think they believe. This
is often stated as "There are no atheists in foxholes."

Peter Montgomery does not feel that childbirth is a time of
danger or fear. However he did, later, post a quote from his
favorite source about a woman crying, in pain, giving birth.

>38) Buster Crabbe (Judith S.)

Buster Crabbe was an Olympic champion swimmer who became a
movie star in the 1930's and 40's (not a movie *actor*, you
understand). He played Tarzan, and he did cowboy movies. He
looked perfectly *wonderful* with very few clothes on. He
lived a long and healthy life, and died some years ago, still
looking terrific, but a little leathery and grey haired.

love to all, judith
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:29:50 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: We who are about to die . . .

>Hush Michael... you can't die here... all that can happen to you is that you
>will be enveloped by the flames of love and transcend to the words-l plane
>beyond the grasp of human experience, reason, description or belief.

I happen to know that this is a completely untrue description and that
actually words-l is far better than a repository of flames-of-love and
other diverse BS. I want to mention this just so's newbies don't get
scared away.

tushar
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