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From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Subject: Re: Schmaltz
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:22:50 GMT
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              14 Nov 1992 14:47:48 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Sat, 14 Nov 1992 14:47:48 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>tushar
>(lone brave voice of sanity!)

Oh, sure....uh huh....right.....yeah....sheeeeeit....

dan
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Now, listen up everyone.  *This* is the way it is <done>:
.

> To <be>, or not  to<be>:that is the <question>:
> Whether  'tis <nobler> in the mind to suffer
>  The slings and arrows  of outrageous <fortune>,
>  Or to take arms  against a sea  of troubles ,
> And by opposing <end> them? To  die: to sleep ;
> No  more ; and by a  sleep to say we <end>
> The heart-ache  and the thousand natural  shocks
> That <flesh> is heir to, 'tis  a consummation
> Devoutly to  be wish'd. To  die , to sleep;
> To  sleep: perchance to dream:  ay, there's the <rub>;
> For in that  sleep of death what  dreams may come
>  When we have shuffled  off this <mortal> coil,
> Must give us  pause: there's the respect
> That makes calamity  of so <long> life;
>  For who would bear  the whips and  scorns of time ,
> The  oppressor's wrong, the <proud> man's contumely ,
> The pangs  of despised love , the  law's delay ,
> The insolence  of office and the  spurns
> That patient <merit> of the unworthy takes,
> When he <himself> might his quietus make
> With a  bare bodkin ? who would  fardels bear ,
> To grunt  and sweat under a  weary life,
> But  that the dread of <something> after death,
>  The undiscover'd country from  whose bourn
> No  traveller returns , puzzles the  will
> And makes us  rather bear those  ills  we have
> Than fly to others  that we know not  of?
> Thus <conscience> does make cowards of us all;
.
Now, is that *clear*?
No more throwing these things around as if they were not
<meaningful>, as if they were full of sound and fury,
<signifying> *nothing*.
--ggs
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Scotland's greatest poet
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Oh please. Such doggerel.

-abh
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: 486 for thanksgiving dinner
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:The thing I like best about DV is being able to multi-task -- e.g.,
:working on something in Wordperfect while downloading a large file with
:Procomm.  You can do all that with OS/2, of course, but you have to wade
:through screens full of stupid-looking clutter and mess around with a
:mouse.  DV is clean and neat and easy.
:   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Say Natalie - has Frank fixed you up with "gnu screen" yet? - the mechanisms
are different but the effect is giving you multiple sessions on Unix in
a way very like desqvie.  (Instead of tap-tap-alt you do ^A^A to flip)

It's a really neat program - best I've found this year.  My own hack of
it has my spelling checker built in, so I can spell check anything
straight off the screen from whatever editor I'm in, for example.

G
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From:         Rebecca S Altes <rsast11+@PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Prescribing a prescriptivist alert

      "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant,
       and an elephant's faithful 100 percent."

                                    "Horton Hatches the Egg"
                                             by the great Dr. Seuss


      In other children's news, I've heard that Sesame Street has
      killed off Ernie.  PLEASE, SOMEBODY, tell me it isn't true.

                                      bekka(young enough to have watched
                                            Sesame Street and old enough
                                            to remember when Maria and
                                            Luis were still brother and
                                            sister, rather than being
                                            married and having a kid.)
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Clear the air

>you old waterwitching dowser, you.....

I believe the term is hoser.  No need for euphemisms among <friends>.

-K

-Mka
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:

>>What's the deal with this list lately? Volume is way off.
>>
Replies RH
>Too true, sister Pig.  What say we generate a bit?  Maybe give these
>suddenly close-mouthed Wordslers a virtual enema?

I see you found the right metaphor.

JAG
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      The Sounds of Silence

: Which is more impressive?  400 passing yards or 300 rushing yards?

Two straight wins by the Green Bay Packers.

Steve Karlson
From: dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith)
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Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:21:34 GMT
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 ...  and *doris*... Really!  *She*
>        should know better by now...  -abh just cant <help> herself.)

Yep, giggles, we'll be hearing quite a bit of cant in the next four years.
doris (your very favorite sis :-))
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:39:50 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: This should make you laughable
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> And, to raise an old issue, are any of them "real" instead of made up?

I would guess that most of them are real.  I've seen comparable ones in
"real" places.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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Subject: Re: Second Greenish Message (to: Ken, Don, Anne, Evelyn,
              wordsmiths..)
Date: 16 Nov 92 22:15:12 GMT
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>>Discrete feral pink piggy!  Delightful.
>
>Well, she might be discrete, but, in this case, she's discreet.
>>
>>-Mka
>
>Evelyn Duncan

Funny, I had expected the List Hoser. . . er, um ..Dowser to go for the bate.

;-}

-Mka
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Date: 17 Nov 92 19:25:00 GMT
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Greetings,

Is it even necessary to observe that "courage of conviction" is also
often found in close proximity to gargantuan stupidity?  Always keep that
in mind, Tushar.

Marty
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:44:00 PST
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Headless Chickens ...Everywhere

> there is no telling what key I'll hit; my fingers are quicker than the eye
> and brain.                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 ^^^^^^^^^^^
You must be one *incredible* typist! 8-)

> doris

Emily (anyone remember the sketch on Letterman a few years ago - the fastest
typists in the world? :)  )
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: what? no report yet?
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:ggs claims:

:>  I am a
:>fucking mentor, that's what I am.  And so <proud>.
: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
:--is that analogous to being a <language teacher>?

:--bayla (do we need such mentors?)

Horizontal language teachers are the best kind, no matter what the US
army linguistic schools teaches.  You *do* pick up a most strange
active vocabulary though...

G (glad that *someone* understood his more appropriate use of wakawakas)
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Subject:      Re: Blast From The Past (Long!)

>: >Espen Ore                       19           0           0      322,261
>                        Norwegian, right?  He just disappeared one day.
>        She, no?
>
>Oh wait - am I thinking of someone with a similar surname called Elspeth?

I had always thought Espen was a man. But then I suddenly realized I didn't
really have reason to suppose so. And looking at a gif of a person dressed
in bulky warm clothes, wearing dark glasses (?), shot at a distance, doesn't
tell you much.

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:53:53 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Clear the air
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              12 Nov 1992 04:50:33 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Thu, 12 Nov 1992 04:50:33 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>>   bfd.
>
>I swear I had predicted all of Dan's reply. Down to the last letter,
>complete with "bfd", I swear it.
>
   Well, Tushiebaby....next time you predict one of my replies, send your
prediction to Neal or Ruth or Natalie....and then when you say "toldy you
so"....they can post the prediction....and we'll SEE just how smart your
brains REALLY are, you old waterwitching dowser, you.....

dan
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update
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>>If I'm not mistaken, this is the exception to Judith's rule of cooking:
>>
>>     there is no dish than cannot be improved by either chocolate or
>>     garlic, but not both.

>And what does it mean?

>tushar

The rule states:

        Adding chocolate to SOME dishes will improve them.
        Adding garlic to ALL OTHER dishes will improve them.
        Adding BOTH chocolate AND garlic will not improve any dish.

Mole poblano disproves the third proposition, but does not invalidate either of
the others.

So what's Graham's joke about Ken's psychic powers?  I don't get it either.

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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Blast From The Past (Long!)
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: >Espen Ore                       19           0           0      322,261
                        Norwegian, right?  He just disappeared one day.
        She, no?

Oh wait - am I thinking of someone with a similar surname called Elspeth?

G
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 06:07:38 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Quiet Night?
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992, Entropy Warrior wrote:

> Me too.  Always nice to have a little piggy to roast in a <pinch>.

Cut it out! You're making me <blush>.

-abh
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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Eggspots in the fridge
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Posted on 20 Nov 1992 at 15:41:10 by karsten

>(newer fridges also have larger freezers)

My shiny new fridge has no freezer at all.

Tony H.
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Well, probably won't get to peek at letters much today as they have removed
out multi-session software, due to IBM tired iron getting overworked.  Our
3090 is so bogged down can hardly read letters, let alone do programming.
Next month 3090 will be upgraded from "biggie" to "super biggie" plus
installing new version of MVS/ESA operating system.  To their credit (or
painful experience), system people are *NOT* saying that installation of
the new system will be *transparent*.  If fact, they warn that some things
might not work the same!  There is hope for those guys ....they do learn!
Is this still Friday?

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: A Words Question
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> Natalie, Mississippi has an excellent example of "low or sunken wall"
> serving as a defensive wall!  Have you not been to Vicksburg?
>
> But of course, if you didn't recall a cemetary just a block and a half
> away........ ;-)

Ah yes.  July 4, 1863, is a well-known date in Mississippi.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date: 19 Nov 92 00:36:58 GMT
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> Tushar asks:  Have you ever SEEN a headless chicken?  Cute.  He knows of
> the great LIVE headless chicken survey I conducted a year ago, just as
> he knows millions of people daily see dead headless chickens.
>
Since I wasn't around Words-L a year ago, I went ahead and answered this.
I can remember when I would watch my day put the chicken's head on an old
tree stump and chop the head off with a small hatchet. The chicken's body
would continue to run around for a short period of time.  He sometimes
varied his method, and rang their necks instead.  The most recent time
that I witnessed this was perhaps ten years ago when he decapitated two
roosters that had been gifts to my husband by our daughter.  Those
roosters had been cute, cuddly baby chicks. Upon reaching their adulthood
their colorful array of feathers was lovely to gaze upon, but their
strident crowing annoyed the neighbors as well as us.  My dad, at my
husband's request, killed the roosters and I was to...(uh hum) asked to
make chicken and dumplings.  I did.  My dad and my husband ate some.  The
rest of us ate pizza.  Roosters are tough old birds.

Yes, we live in the country - couldn't take the big city.  We had chickens
and used to have enough fresh eggs that some of my friends bought them
from us on a regular basis.

My mother made the mistake of mentioning in front of my husband that no
one had ever been named after her.  He named our first hen Maxine.  She
can no longer say she never had a namesake.

Some day (maybe) I'll tell you about the time I managed to get over a
nine-foot high fence (built to keep the deer out) to stomp out a forest fire.

doris
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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Natalie wonders:
>Why does everybody seem to be against taxes?

My local taxes pay for police and fire protection, public
schools and library, decent roads, a hockey rink, a public
beach and garbage pickup on Fridays. I would say in this
case that I am getting my money's worth. The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts on the other hand collects more money from me
than Uncle Sam, and what really pisses me off is that it
goes straight into the pockets of a bunch of crooked
pols, along with their families and friends. Then you've
got the federal government already throwing 1.3 trillion dollars
a year at the world's problems, but I seriously doubt that
even with a new administration things are really going to get
better by raising taxes and spending more.

>  I'm perfectly willing
>to pay higher taxes *if* my millionnaire brother (the Republican who does
>not like Canada's idea of health care) also pays higher taxes.

He will be, and so will we all, you can count on that.

Tirade over, back to philology. Bill
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*** Resending note of 11/19/92 23:00

>Ohmygod I cannot *stand* it....  This new revelation may inspire me
>to contribute yet another <specimen> story, this one of the memorable
><point in time> at which I was encouraged by my doctor to contribute
>a specimen of another <sort>......
>--ggs (... genieologist)

Please.....spare us the <crappy> details
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:36:56 CST
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In article <9211222128.AA25749@tartarus.uchicago.edu> samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
 says:
: >>>>Twenty-nine years.
: >>>
: >>> How long have you been psychic, Ken?
: >>>
: >>> G
: >>
: >>Missing the allusions, today, old man?
: >
: >Missing the jokes, Ken?
: >
: >G (Tushar will explain it for you...
:
: I am touched by this faith in me, but sorry to say I don't find
: anything remotely funny in all this. Out with it, bounder.

Whether you find it funny or not is basically irrelevant.  Do you understand
it??  I don't (Graham's part I mean...)

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              18 Nov 1992 09:03:56 -0600 from <harwell@TENET.EDU>

On Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:03:56 -0600 Anne Burton Harwell said:
>>    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.
>
   Well, I have postcards signed MacPhil from a Phil Paxton in Fishers, IN
46038, and the only MacPhil I've ever heard of is the one who used to be
on here.  I had not heard the relationship to the MacGyver pseudonym before,
but that coulda been before I got on here a coupla years ago.

I have his street address and nine digit zip too, but won't post em here.

dan
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 486 for thanksgiving dinner
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I found 8 meg RAM enough for OS/2 during my very brief play with OS/2.
I hated OS/2 not because of sluggishness but because of appearance and
mousiness.  It's still sitting in a box on my shelf.  Thank goodness for
DESQview.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:58:53 CST
From:         Kip Shaw <KIS100F%SMSVMA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      The Kamikaze Night

Anne: Bottlebaby? Yes. You?
      Clever ploy at self-revelation? No (last minute hurried typework)!
      Take care, Spiderwoman.

Graham: Hello! Hello!

Doris: Will-power? the computer made me do it!

The Kamikaze Night:  60 minutes to midnight, and still some work to do:
                     To unsubscribe from dear word groups,
                     to talk of many things,
                     Of shoes and ships and sealing wax,
                     of cabbages and kings. (Oh Alice)
                     To guzzle more coffee, to type some more,
                     to shut up, lock up, and go go go.

Aste-ki-vista (or something like that). Na! This won't work.


A Kamikaze Goodbye, thanks: Kish.
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: "Wimmin" "Womyn" - Historical Roots?

>I've seen these forms used by radical separatist lesbians, by male
>homosexuals, and by a few other people who think that they should.
>"Womyn" is singular; "wimmin" plural. . . .
>
>As I said, I've only seen them in these contexts and I believe they
>were coined within the last 20-30 years.  But I could be wrong.

The relatively new (1991) Random House Webster's College Dictionary
defines womyn as a plural noun meaning women, "used as an alternative
spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence
m-e-n."  It dates the word to 1975-80.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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