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Newsgroups: alt.parents-teens
Subject: Spanking
From: abel@vax.sonoma.edu (dan abel)
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:21:21 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University

(By the way, Robbie, your apology wasn't necessary.  There are *two* 
of us Dans posting, and although upon re-reading some of the stuff I 
posted, I'm not happy with it, I can't deny that I posted it.)

My middle child (nine YO) is in 3rd grade.  His teacher tried an 
experiment, and merged two classes together.  There are 58 kids in 
the class, with two teachers.  There is one boy who is continually in 
trouble, and another group of boys who often are.  The teacher 
finally "lost" it on Friday.  She called the home of the one boy and 
requested help.  An adult subsequently came to the class.  My wife was helping in the class, and noted that the 
adult appeared to be the grandmother.  This adult did not appear to 
be happy about being called in.  After school, my son requested that 
my wife file charges of child abuse against the grandmother.  At 
lunch time, when the child was acting up in line, the grandmother 
threatened to take down his pants and spank him.  The threat worked 
and the grandmother didn't have to carry out the punishment.  My 
child said that he would rather have a hand cut off than be publicly 
embarrassed, like that.  My wife plans to have a talk with the 
teacher about innappropriate discipline and the effect on sensitive 
children like my son.
Newsgroups: alt.parents-teens
From: szafrans@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Pamela Kay)
Subject: Here I am
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington IN.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:20:14 -0500

to the dad in North Carolina...you posted that you lost
my address.  I sent mail, but I haven't heard from you...
so this is the follow up.

How can I help?

Pam

Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
Subject: Re: Let's talk: RI Best & Worst
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:44:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.184738.1@amherst.edu> smmetzger@amherst.edu writes:

> Let's get some discussion up and running, guys...

> -Favorite night spot? (and gosh, there are just SO many to choose from!)

I kind of like the Jazz room at Chan's restaurant in Woonsocket?

> -Favorite local news station?

Channel 10 beats channel 12.  12 is always doing shock schlock stories
to get your attention.  At least 10 has some fun with their news time.

> -Worst toupee on a local newscaster???

You mean some of them actually wear toupees?!!!
--
franl@centerline.com   || Fran Litterio                               
uunet!centerline!franl || CenterLine Software R&D                     
617-498-3255           || 10 Fawcett St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138-1110
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Subject: Re: WE ARE MARGINALIZED!!!!!!!
Organization: Software Tool & Die
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 17:00:28 GMT


	I once was comming back into the US from Mexico, and showed my
Rhode Island drivers license as ID.  The *US* border guard asked me if
Rhode Island was part of New York!  You'd think there'd be a test or
something for the job.

->Spike
-- 
The Truly K00L don't have signatures.
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: rbutera@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu (Rob Butera)
Subject: Re: RI politics: hell in a handbasket?
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:33:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.123115.1@amherst.edu>, smmetzger@amherst.edu writes:
> I've just discovered this group, so bear with me, (if anyone's out there, that
> is.) I was born and bred in RI but managed to escape to Mass. for college (if
> that's any better.) 
> 
> Would anyone like to venture any guesses/theories as to why RI politics is the
> way it is - why there seems to be an inordinate amount of corruption? Is it a
> reflection of our size, in that the state government is so small that everyone
> knows everyone else and is so buddy-buddy (no pun on the mayor intended) that 
> they feel that they can get away with it? How can it be cleaned up, and why do
> Rhode Islanders keep electing/supporting these out-and-out CROOKS???? Why can't


I used to think this about RI politics.  However, after going to school in
Georgia and now Texas, it seems that every state seems to think that their the
most corrupt.  However, they do have different flavors.  In RI, the connection
(i.e. conventional wisdom) has been it typically involved predominantly
Italians and organized crime.  In Georgia it was casually referred to as
"old money" or the "good ol' boy" network.  I do think (my own empirical
observation) that corruption runs a lot higher when one political party
controls a significant majority of the state offices and legislature (like
RI and Georgia).  Texas is a little different  - both parties trying their 
hardest to dig up dirt on each other ....

My favorite RI scene is still that Providence Journal front-page picture from
many years ago of Justice Bevilaqua (sp?) walking out of that hotel on Douglas
Pike with an unknown female while zipping up his zipper ....

-- 
Rob Butera - ECE grad student   Rice University, Houston, TX   rbutera@rice.edu

"This attractive lady, whom I had only recently been introduced to, dropped
 into my lap.  I chose not to dump her off." - Gary Hart
From: labraham@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Lisbi Abraham)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: WE ARE MARGINALIZED!!!!!!!
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:23:47 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Apr15.123921.1@amherst.edu> smmetzger@amherst.edu writes:
>If anyone out there is like me, a removed Rhode Islander, do you get ribbings
>for being from our little gem of a state? .....
>
>station, we told the attendant where we were from, and he replied, "Oh yeah,
>that's that island off the coast of Carolina right? Yah, I've been there!"
>				

I've never heard that one, but yes in my travels around the US and Canada, I've
heard people ask me if Rhode Island was somewhere near NYC, or isn't that the
place near Boston.  It's kind of strange having your state referenced to by a
city.  But on the positive side ( sort of ) for those people who know RI as
that place somewhere between Connecticut and Massachusetts on I-95, they were
very favorably impressed by our little state.  And consider it the perfect
place to visit to get away from it all.  Exactly what they are getting away
from I'm not sure.

As for getting ribbings about RI, well back in last October or was it November,
when that Prime Time Live episode first aired about RI being one of the most
corrupt states in the country, I got a lot of ribbing.  People kept asking me
how Rhode Islanders felt about it.  I told them that heck we were proud, and 
that we'd do anything it took to get our state mentioned in the national news.

But there are pluses to being a Rhode Islander.  I'm always amazed how many of
us are floating around in different parts of the country.  When I moved into
my new apartment here in Pennsylvania, the lady who ran the credit check on me
lived most of her life in a house about two miles away from mine.  So I guess
it's true the world really is a small place, which of course makes RI even 
smaller.  :)






*******************************************************************************
*"To let friendship die away by          |"Excuse me I seem to have lost what *
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: jlevitt@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Mortiana)
Subject: Re: Let's talk: RI Best & Worst
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 09:13:59 GMT

smmetzger@amherst.edu writes:

>Let's get some discussion up and running, guys...

>-What's the best place for clamcakes and chowder in RI?

rock point of course! *grin*

>-Favorite night spot? (and gosh, there are just SO many to choose from!)

the beach, around midnight, with that special someone and a bottle of red wine.
*sigh*

>-Favorite place to shop?
>	sub-question: The infamous "Rhode Island vs. Warwick Mall" controversy

NOT thayer street in providence! *grin*
actually, my favorite spot to shop is at the emerald square mall...

>-Best Rhode Island jeer/joke you've heard?

i had a coworker ask me if rhode island was a part of new england. i said yes 
and he made some sort of comment about new england containing the original
13 states! he would not believe me! i had to show him the dictionary's def.
which shows the only 6 states in new england! i was laughing so hard, i almost
peed my pants!

>-Favorite local news station?

none!

>-Worst toupee on a local newscaster???
> 
Dan Rather!!! *giggles*

>===============================================================================
>Susan "Meg" Metzger    | "Speak a little softer/ Work a little louder/ Shoot
>		       |  less with more care/ Sing a little sweeter/ Love a 
>Amherst College        |  little longer/ And soon you will be there..."
>smmetzger@amherst.edu  |					-Jane Siberry
>==============================================================================

Mortiana
a.k.a. Julie Levitt
a.k.a. Opal
jlevitt@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
From: roberts@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bo Jackson)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Best/Worst
Date: 17 Apr 92 07:27:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Article: 906 of alt.rhode_island
From: smmetzger@amherst.edu
Subject: Let's talk: RI Best & Worst
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst, MA.

>Let's get some discussion up and running, guys...
>
>-What's the best place for clamcakes and chowder in RI?
>

 I'm from Warwick Rhode Island and live about two minutes away from
Rocky Point Amusement Park and they have awesome chowder and cham clakes!
Another favorite of mine is Seven Sea Shellfish on Palmer Avenue on the
way to Rocky Point!

>-Favorite night spot? (and gosh, there are just SO many to choose from!)

My high school friends and I bought beer from New York Liquors on Elmwood
Avenue in Providence and drank anywhere and everywhere!

>-Favorite place to shop?
>	sub-question: The infamous "Rhode Island vs. Warwick Mall" controversy

New York Liquors mentioned above followed by the RI Mall which was
"much cooler" than the Warwick Mall....

>-Best Rhode Island jeer/joke you've heard?

By far the best was posted to this newsgroup at the beginning of January:

Article: 747 of alt.rhode_island
From: plw@sgfb.ssd.ray.com (Paul L. White)
Subject: Joke
Date: 2 Jan 92 16:59:05 GMT
Here's a joke reprinted without permission from Rhode Island Monthly Jan 1992:

                           The Rhode Island
                           Joke Of The Year

Four workers with different jobs were discussing how smart their dogs were.
The first was a Poloroid employee who said his dog could do mathematical 
calculations. His dog was named T-Square and he told the dog to go to the 
blackboard to draw a square, a triangle, and a circle, which he did with
no sweat. 

A Honeywell employee said he thought his dog was better.  His dog was named
Slide Rule and he told the dog to fetch a dozen cookies and bring them back,
divide them into four piles of three, which Slide Rule did. . .no problem.

A Digital employee said that was good, but he thought his dog was better. His
dog, Measure, was told to get a quart of milk and pour seven ounces into a
ten-ounce glass.  The dog did this with no problem.

Then they turned to a Rhode Island state employee and said "What can your dog
do?"  The employee called his dog, Coffee Break, and he said, "Come here, 
Coffee Break, and show the fellows what you can do."  Coffee Break went over
and ate the cookies, drank the milk, screwed the other three dogs, claimed
he injured his back, filed for workers' compensation, and went home on
sick leave.


Take it easy all --Shawn

--
Shawn A. Roberts (roberts@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) | "If I could wave my   
University of Pennsylvania  CSE '93             |  magic wand, I'd make 
Social/Sports Chair of the Dining Philosophers  |  everything all right..."
ACACIA International Fraternity Brother         |               -- RUSH
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 13:42:33 EDT
From: <NRM105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: re:metal in RI

I dont  know much about the metal scene, but dirtbike riding is fairly big. It
may be tough to find a decent place to ride in or around Newport, though.  One
of the best places to ride is called the RI desert.  Take route 95 to exit 6 (W
est Greenwich)  and follow the signs to the dunes.  It is about 10-20 acres of
huge rolling sand dunes.  It was closed for a while but I  think they (DEM) hav
e opened it up again.
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: smmetzger@amherst.edu
Subject: Let's talk: RI Best & Worst
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:47:38 GMT

Let's get some discussion up and running, guys...

-What's the best place for clamcakes and chowder in RI?

-Favorite night spot? (and gosh, there are just SO many to choose from!)

-Favorite place to shop?
	sub-question: The infamous "Rhode Island vs. Warwick Mall" controversy

-Best Rhode Island jeer/joke you've heard?

-Favorite local news station?

-Worst toupee on a local newscaster???
 
===============================================================================
Susan "Meg" Metzger    | "Speak a little softer/ Work a little louder/ Shoot
		       |  less with more care/ Sing a little sweeter/ Love a 
Amherst College        |  little longer/ And soon you will be there..."
smmetzger@amherst.edu  |					-Jane Siberry
==============================================================================
From: rbutera@barred.owlnet.rice.edu (Rob Butera)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: WE ARE MARGINALIZED!!!!!!!
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:49:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Rice University

In article <sk966INN95p@seven-up.East.Sun.COM>, clare@alldunn.East.Sun.COM (Clare Dunn - Sun ECOPS Supplier Engineering) writes:
> 
> When I first moved to a VERY small town in Texas (Lefors, by name), I spent
> a good deal of my time explaining that Rhode Island is NOT a city in the 
> State of New England...                       
> 

Ditto.  When in school in Atlanta, my girlfriend (born and raised in Atlanta)
whom I had been dating for about a year casually mentioned the state of
New England.  She thought that's where I was from, since I often tell people
New England instead of Rhode Island (they seem to understand it better - why
I don't know).  Oh well - when I still see her very now and then, she
can never forget it ....

-- 
Rob Butera - ECE grad student   Rice University, Houston, TX   rbutera@rice.edu

"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what
 they already believe." - Andy Rooney
From: reynhout@cs.uri.edu
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Here's news...  Joe Mollicone FOUND!
Date: 12 Apr 92 16:09:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr12.160944.10367
Organization: University of Rhode Island, Computer Science Dept.


   Straight off the AP newswire to you:  Joe Mollicone has been found and 
has surrendered to State Police.  He's being held under tight security at
the ACI.  That's all that's come across so far.

   Andrew

-- 
   Andrew <reynhout@cs.uri.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: rbutera@barred.owlnet.rice.edu (Rob Butera)
Subject: Re: Let's talk: RI Best & Worst
Organization: Rice University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 15:28:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.184738.1@amherst.edu>, smmetzger@amherst.edu writes:
> Let's get some discussion up and running, guys...
> 
> -What's the best place for clamcakes and chowder in RI?

	Aunt Carries (I think its in Naragansett, but I haven't been there
	in a loooooong time)

> -Favorite night spot? (and gosh, there are just SO many to choose from!)

	Well, the Living Room was neat last time I was there, but I heard it
	doesn't exist anymore.
 
> -Favorite place to shop?
> 	sub-question: The infamous "Rhode Island vs. Warwick Mall" controversy
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	I don't get it.
 
> -Best Rhode Island jeer/joke you've heard?
>
	I don't know.  Most people don't know what to say.  "Gee, down here in
	Georgia we got counties as big as that."  My response - "gee, and that
	county has all of maybe 20000 people living in it ...."
 
> -Favorite local news station?
> 
	WPRI 

-- 
Rob Butera - ECE grad student   Rice University, Houston, TX   rbutera@rice.edu
"The 'wall of separation of church and state' is a metaphor based on bad
 history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging.  It should
 be frankly and explicity abandoned." - Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
Subject: Re: Here's news...  Joe Mollicone FOUND!
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
	<1992Apr13.202124.10894@rice.edu> <skg9qINNskk@stanley.cis.Brown.EDU>
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:41:38 GMT

plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak) writes:

> rbutera@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu (Rob Butera) writes:
>
> >Could someone provide more details [about Mollicone] for those of us who
> > occaisonally receive Rhode Island monthly, but that's about it?
> 
>    The only forthcoming detail is this:  Mollicone isn't saying where he's
> been or what happened to the millions.  He just wants to stay in jail, where
> he's relatively safe (from the public or from his "associates", take your
> pick).

This leads me to wonder just how much of the money that Mollicone
stole or that got trapped in closed credit unions was mob money.  If
the financial crisis hurt the mob, then Mollicone has plenty of reason
to hide in jail.  Frankly, I don't think it will protect him.
Wherever he does time, there'll be someone with the power to inflict
pain whose "family" was hurt by the banking crisis.
--
franl@centerline.com   || Fran Litterio                               
uunet!centerline!franl || CenterLine Software R&D                     
617-498-3255           || 10 Fawcett St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138-1110
From: Sarek@world.std.com (Garrett S Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Let's talk: RI Best & Worst
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:03:33 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

In article <1992Apr16.184738.1@amherst.edu> smmetzger@amherst.edu writes:
>Let's get some discussion up and running, guys...

Okey-dokey....

>-What's the best place for clamcakes and chowder in RI?

Ummmm, I don't know the name, but if you drive down the road from Sand
Hill Cove towards Galilee, when you get to the end of the road, it's
on your right.

>-Favorite night spot? (and gosh, there are just SO many to choose from!)

CAV, on Imperial Place, next to CORO center. They have this absolutely
_lucious_ chocolate cake ("Autumn Flower") :-)

>-Favorite place to shop?
>	sub-question: The infamous "Rhode Island vs. Warwick Mall" controversy

Sorry, Emerald Square. :-)

>-Best Rhode Island jeer/joke you've heard?

"Now entering RI--keep your smart remarks to yourself!"

>-Favorite local news station?

WJAR, of course! :-)

>-Worst toupee on a local newscaster???

Gee, I don't know... this one's a toughy.... :-) Actually, I heard
once that he said, "Of course this is my real hair--would a toupee
look this fake?" :-)

>Susan "Meg" Metzger    | "Speak a little softer/ Work a little louder/ Shoot
-----------------
"It says in the Journal from Wall Street/Rhode Island is tiny and
odd./Compared to the rest of the union,/It's a smudge on the road to
Cape Cod!"
-- 
Sarek of Vulcan
a.k.a. Garrett Fitzgerald `:-)
Official Masseur to the _rest_ of the RFA :-)
Sarek@world.std.com
From: smmetzger@amherst.edu
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: RI politics: hell in a handbasket?
Date: 15 Apr 92 16:31:15 GMT
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst, MA.

I've just discovered this group, so bear with me, (if anyone's out there, that
is.) I was born and bred in RI but managed to escape to Mass. for college (if
that's any better.) 

Would anyone like to venture any guesses/theories as to why RI politics is the
way it is - why there seems to be an inordinate amount of corruption? Is it a
reflection of our size, in that the state government is so small that everyone
knows everyone else and is so buddy-buddy (no pun on the mayor intended) that 
they feel that they can get away with it? How can it be cleaned up, and why do
Rhode Islanders keep electing/supporting these out-and-out CROOKS???? Why can't
any governmental ethics legislation get passed in the General Assembly, despite
the extensive efforts of citizen action groups such as Common Cause RI?

In short, WHAT'S THE DEAL?????????????
						-Meg

===============================================================================
Susan "Meg" Metzger    | "Speak a little softer/ Work a little louder/ Shoot
	       	       |  less with more care/ Sing a little sweeter/ Love a 
Amherst College        |  little longer/ And soon you will be there..."
smmetzger@amherst.edu  |					-Jane Siberry
==============================================================================
From: plutchak@pilsner.geo.brown.edu (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Here's news...  Joe Mollicone FOUND!
Date: 16 Apr 1992 18:16:26 GMT
Organization: Brown University Planetary Geology
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: pilsner.geo.brown.edu

In article <1992Apr13.202124.10894@rice.edu> rbutera@sawwhet.owlnet.rice.edu (Rob Butera) writes:
>Could someone provide more details [about Mollicone] for those of us who
> occaisonally receive Rhode Island monthly, but that's about it?

   The only forthcoming detail is this:  Mollicone isn't saying where he's
been or what happened to the millions.  He just wants to stay in jail, where
he's relatively safe (from the public or from his "associates", take your
pick).

   On another, somewhat related front, the latest brouhaha regarding
ethics in government is that current ethical reform discussions are
taking place behind closed doors at the statehouse.  Business as usual
in Li'l Grody.
--
Joel Plutchak, Research Programmer/Analyst
plutchak@porter.geo.brown.edu -or- PGGIPL::PLUTCHAK (VMS: Just say NO!)
Favorite sci.geo.meteorology quote: "Joel dissipated over China on 7 September."
From: cdt@sw.stratus.com (C. D. Tavares)
Newsgroups: alt.rhode_island
Subject: Re: Let's talk: RI Best & Worst
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:39:01 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Apr16.184738.1@amherst.edu>, smmetzger@amherst.edu writes:
> Let's get some discussion up and running, guys...
> -Worst toupee on a local newscaster???

Hey, it is NOT a toupee!

But Doug White's natural hair outgrosses any toupee ever seen on TV.

"He's just a newscaster -- not a customer."
-- 

cdt@pdp.sw.stratus.com      --If you believe that I speak for my company,
OR cdt@vos.stratus.com        write today for my special Investors' Packet...
From: max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray)
Newsgroups: ri.chat,ri.comp.tech,alt.rhode_island
Subject: April Aquidneck Computer User Group Meeting
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 92 14:26:20 EDT
Organization: Underground Computing Foundation

 
           ================================== 
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           |         April Meeting          |
           ==================================
 
                  DEMO OF WINDOWS 3.1
 
 See a demonstration of the latest version of Microsoft
 Windows 3.1, including True Type, Sound support, enhanced
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 When:  Saturday April 11th at 2pm.
 
 Where: Crickets Restaurant & Lounge
        665 West Main Road (Rt 114)
        Middletown, RI
        (If you get lost 846-4480)
 
 Cost:  Free!
 
 There will be a short luncheon prior to the meeting starting
 at 1pm. All are invited to attend, but it is not required
 that you attend the luncheon to go to the demonstration.
 The luncheon is pay your own way kinda deal.
 
 If you have any questions call Chris at 841-5607.
 

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