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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:49:34 MST
Comments:     Resent-From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Monterey Bay Aquarium
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On Sun, 30 Aug 1992 04:40:46 GMT karsten said:
>On my way back from my visit to the SF Bay area I stopped at
>the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  I'd read that it is a "must see"
>if one is in the area, but I didn't really know a lot about it.

Yes, an absolute must-see.  Most of the money for its development came
from a grant of some 30 million from Hewlett Packard and the Packard Fdn.
In fact, Dave Packard's daughter is the director of it, but not just
because of the source of the money.  She is a PhD in Marine Biology.

>Monterey Bay area.  The centerpiece is a 1/3 million gallon kelp
>forest tank that is about 30 feet high.  In addition to the

Did you see them feed the fish in there?  Several times a day volunteer
divers go in and feed the fish.  They are connected by intercom to the
narrator outside the tank where the audience sits on the floor at the
same level as the bottom of the 30 foot deep pool.
He feeds different, appropriate kinds of stuff to the different fish in there,
including some fairly large and aggressive sharks.

>20 or so birds from several different species go about "normal"
>lives at their preferred distance from the water's edge.  The
>birds ignored the people completely; it was quite odd to be

And amazingly their lives really are close to normal in there.  I also
loved it and got some great pictures of them.

>exhibit.  A dozen or so species of live jellyfish are kept there,
>including at least one which they are able to breed.  I believe
>this is the only aquarium in the world currently able to do this.

   The jelly fish exhibit is a "temporary" one...their current feature.
I know it will be there for some months to come, but it will eventually
be replaced, for the most part, by some other special exhibit.  Believe
the last special one was sharks.   They change them sorta like art or
history museumes change their special ones from time to time.

>I recommend it to anybody who has the opportunity.

Agree completely.  My folks are members (live in Prunedale, about 15
miles away), so when we visit them, as we did in July, after the clamslam,
we can go to the aquarium free with them, and avoid the lines waiting for
tickets.

dan
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:54:16 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Dancing Wordslers
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>dance together a lot.  And all these women I had never met before kept
>coming up and asking me to dance with them.  Some of them were quite

Oh, thuper. I guess you made the <big eyes> at them, too, then?

-abh
the only woman in North America not to get the <big eyes>
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:24:43 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Unix lessons

The best way to transfer them would be via ftp.  But that means that you
would either have to have access to anonymous ftp space to leave them in
or give the recipient your password to ftp from your own directory.
I don't think there's any kind of length limit.  (I know there isn't for
ftp -- I mean I don't think there is for anything else.)  I don't know
anything at all about uucp.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:44:52 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Frotteurism
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              1 Sep 1992 06:08:39 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:08:39 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>pay since he suffers from frotteurism, a sexual illness which compels
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
           new to me as the name of a syndrome/disease....

>males to touch the private parts of females, and thus can't continue
>working.  (His license was revoked when he was found fondling a female
>adolescent patient.)  I thought some of you might like learning the new

    but the word for him, frotteur, is an old one to me....but somehow
that figures, i know....but I think of it as the guy who rubs against
you while you're hanging on the strap in the subway....or who masturbates
by rubbing up against something or someone else in general....

Random House says it is someone who rubs against something, esp. another
person.....for sexual stimulation or satisfaction.

Also talks about frottage as a "rubbing" (common french root for frotteur,
frottage) technique in art....

and a frotteur is "one who practices frottage" thus presumably including
both the artistic and sexual practices.

dan
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 1 Sep 92 10:16:31
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Ruth proposes:

   kahki?
   olive drab? [w/black lettering?]
   jungle camoflage?
   raspberry?

I agree w/Ruth.  I'd go the olive drab w/black lettering (or raspberry
w/navy? lettering; or white w/black).  I have this image of the front
having a picture of susie from calvin&hobbs lobbing water balloons at
calvin...with an expression of spiteful glee on her face...'course, that
would be copyright infringement...

just thinking out loud,

//anne//
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:50:50 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      RE: PCPLUS
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> Very interesting, Natalie.  I must have an older version of
> PCPLUS.  My entry list does not include PORT or PASSWORD.  Else
> it's the same.

I upgraded it sometime last spring, I think.  I've considered going back
to the previous version, though, since this latest one (I can't remember
the number) sometimes bleeds through when it's running in the background
in Desqview and I'm doing something somewhere else.

> I *am* amused that we both sent our SideKicked menus to the list
> almost simultaneously.  See why I'd miss you by noon?

What's SideKick?  I've heard of it, but I don't have it.  I used sdump.

> Karen should take a peek at the entry list and see if there is a
> script file, no?  And if so, what it says, like:

But surely there wouldn't be a script file unless she wrote it.

> The "IF NOT LINKED" statement could gum up a lot of works if the
> entry is, say, 4, and there is nothing under 4.

You're right.

> When do we write the PCPLUS tutorial?

The problem is that I've forgotten the stuff I used to know about PCPLUS
now that I don't use things like dial directory, scripts, etc.  (because
I don't use things like that with VDM).  When I'm traveling with laptop,
I do make quick entries in dial directory for wherever I'm CISing or
telnetting from, but I do just the essentials since I'm usually moving
on the next day.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:12:22 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I love the wording....
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Fairly often there's a donation-collecting table set up outside of a
grocery store here with people sitting there asking passersby if they
want to "contribute to child abuse."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:24:47 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Clambake Pictures, Sad Story
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> Another clambake. A trip to Alaska. ....

Downpayment on the WORDS-L yacht?  Or here's a better idea:  Go for a
really big settlement and use the money as a fund for us to buy Adam as
permanent List Honey -- buy him an internet connection with unlimited
time and require him to stay online all the time.  I miss him!!!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:52:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Clambake Pictures, Sad Story

>film cost and nothing else, but there have been a number of
>lawsuits won by people whose film was lost. They have to show the
>value to them, e.g. professional, the costs of getting those pictures
>against etc. If you take the case to small claims, they also tend to be

Gee, you suppose Rashmi could sue them for the funds necessary to
stage the next clambake in order to recreate the photos?  Be sure to
include transportation and per diem for all participants.

mem
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Come On Come On
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 03:32:15 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
Summary: Good CD
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What?  There's not enough clogging your emailbox?
I guess I'll have to try a little harder...

I went CD shopping today and picked up "Come On Come On"
by Mary-Chapin Carpenter.

Lots of good music on this one.  "I Feel Lucky" and
"Passionate Kisses" are addictive songs, although I prefer
Lucinda Williams' own version of PK.  Other good songs include
"He Thinks He'll Keep Her" and "Not Too Much To Ask".
"The Bug" and "I Take My Chances" are OK.  Oddly enough I'm
not particularly fond of the title song.

--karsten

"I feel lucky, I feel lucky
 No Professor Doom's gonna stand in my way
 Mmmm I feel lucky today"
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:43:53 EDT
From:         mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject: RE: RevereWare
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Consider other options: gg's mother might call what he calls pseudo-
marriage marriage w/o benefit of clergy.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:41:09 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English Aspiration
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Tushar requests:

> Here are some words to test your aspiration on. This is a test which
> can be carried out very simply, takes very little time, and reveals
> next to nothing about your personal life. On the other hand, its
> results might help a third-worlder inch just that crucial bit closer
> towards effective communication. Thanking you very much.

Am I reading this right?  Based on the results of the survey, are you planning
to modify your speech (aspiration) patterns?  Is it possible?  Well, it's
not THAT strange --  professional actors do this all the time, I s'pose.

I ask this cos the couple of attempts I've made to (deliberately) alter the
way I say certain words have been complete flops. I'd get confused
between the old and new versions (in the middle of a sentence) and almost
never try it any more.  The word that made me give up : "composite".

rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:05:37 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I love the wording....
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              27 Aug 1992 15:51:00 EDT from <ktw@POLARIS.ATT.COM>

On Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:51:00 EDT <ktw@POLARIS.ATT.COM> said:
>>September 15.  (Please remove September 25 from
>>your calendars.)

   You mean that you just tear the page out, program your AT&T Unix
box to skip it, or just take the day off?

>Do I get warned or do I get lessons?

Yes.

dan  (who has taken the classes)
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:47:31 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      T-shirt colors
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              at Aug 31, 92 7:29 pm

> > >If I make them Natalie, rest assured they won't be purple.
> > Well, then propose a better color.

Of the colors Natalie proposed, I like black best.  Black t-shirt, anybody??
Also navy blue and turquoise.  Turquoise may be too close to teal, though.  I
agree with Karen that last year's choice of teal (and the overall t-shirt) was
excellent.  It's gonna be hard to follow that.

rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:48:21 -0400
From:         Shona S Derr <ssderr@MAILBOX.SYR.EDU>
Subject:      Hello
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  Hi out there. I'm new on the group. I just wanted to say hi to all you people
out there in the world who are subscribed on this list. Especially a certain
person by the name of Paul Barfoot other wise known as papa to me or
brother paul to all of you.
well I gotta go because my break is up and my dad will get me when we get
home if I'm not back on time.
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:28:59 GMT

In article <9208312052.AA17046@Ra.MsState.Edu>
"Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
 
>> > And now I know why I took that vacation in March...and here I originally
>> > thought it was my knee surgery.
>>
>> Uh, oh....  I say *UH* *OH*....  this looks like real trouble in River
>> City with a P that rhymes with ......
>
>Don't worry, giggles.  So far, his postings have had a consistent theme:
>he finds the list boring.  Probably he has left again by now.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
 
 
Dear lady, of course not.  I'm back to resume the chase for the crown.
Nimble fingers are able & willing.
 
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 07:43:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Love Potion Number Nine, with PBA sunblock

>       What's the big deal?  He looked it up -- anybody could do *that*.
        Well, yea, Neal, so what?  I dont' recall it being presented as
a contest, fer krissakes.  'Sides, you forget - I "look things up" for a
living!  Neener-neener, neener!!!  (Oh, yea, that reminds me:  As you don't
reside within Maricopa County your in-lieu College District assessment will
be invoiced to you directly.  Thanks for thoughtfully providing your address!)

JMW

Unca Giggles, your kind words are accepted as payment...
From: DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078)
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Subject: Re: One Student's Opinion
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:18:33 GMT
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*** Resending note of 08/28/92 13:03

USF is not as far behind as you may think - we do have on-line telephone
registration, many things are automated ....but....many students procrastinate
and wait until almost the last day ...when certain options are no longer
available, or they need to get ID's, or need parking decals, or they wish to
discuss a situation face-to-face with a real person, and not a computer. It is
the combination of all these factors, plus the loss of first day of classes, th
 contributed to the unusually long lines. . w cuz sw cuz sw cuz s

        w cuz sw cuz s
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:59:34 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Fabrications
              27 Aug 1992 00:41:58 MED from <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>

On Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:41:58 MED Graham Toal said:
>Karen, can you post or mail me the guy's parting comments?  I want
>to include it in the info I'm sending Private Eye (I do a little part-
>time stringing for the local scandal rag...)

Doubtless Private Eye will demonstrate their usual in-depth knowledge
of Canada and all things Canadian...

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:41:58 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Fabrications
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Karen, can you post or mail me the guy's parting comments?  I want
to include it in the info I'm sending Private Eye (I do a little part-
time stringing for the local scandal rag...)

G
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:28:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Quotes to get elected by?
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   My view is that we must cut taxes and cut government spending.  So
   I want to keep it in that perspective and not get all bogged down
   in a lot of detail.

             -  George Bush

           (when asked about the details of his tax cut
            plan...including where the cuts in spending would come
            from)


I'll just bet he doesn't want to get bogged down in a lot of
details...he probably doesn't have any.  He sure seems to enjoy
getting bogged down in the details of foreign policy.

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 01:37:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <LMMCIDL%LIB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)

Ohio, Tanaka-san!  Welcome back!
7) ONI (Johm Wm.)
        The Office of Naval Intelligence.  The USN's own branch of fiddling
around.  ("My, aren't there a lot of them?")  I've had dealings with the
FBI and the CIA, but this guy was the first I've met who had "tombstones
in his eyes..."  Scared the shit out of me.  Turned out to be nothing at all,
butI didn't know that at the time.  It was also a total piece of crap, but
again, I didn't know that at the time...  Thank Christ the Cold War is over.
23) RKBA  (John Wm.)
        A committee dedicated to the Right To Keep And Bear Arms, supporting
the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, and all that.  Purely a lobbying
group for political aims - primarily to keep its' members/suscribers/ad-
herents left alone. At the moment it is failing miserably.  So it goes.
23) Ribbit  (John Wm.)
        The sound a frog makes.  "Ribbit...ribbit...ribbit...."
(Okay, so it ain't "Brek-ek-ek-coax" - SUE me!) Just a little onomonopoia
to show that
1. ain't nobody out here but us frogs, and
2. I don't know how to render the sound of a cricket...
Ooops!  ** 10 minute timeout warning **
I <think> that means I should logout, so I shall.  Eftsoons!

JMW
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 07:21:22 PDT
From:         s mandell <pwiebe@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
Subject:      Ooooooh! Pigs!
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=I know that posting again will probably make Steph puke...but I
=have decided to take my chances.

=Karen

Karen, krijg de klere.  You weren't even on the bloody list in
the first place, so just what the fuck is your problem?

Love, Steph
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Ubi Sunt?
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 04:41:22 GMT


In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Time to confess how confused I have been, and I know you will all
>be surprised at that (not that I would confess but that I have been
>confused)....
	Actually, I was surprised at the first part....  You're always
confused as far as I can tell <recursively>.

>she?"  a song from some S. play.  I know it as the song, because,
>(and here I repeat myself to the anonymous source but not to the
>listies) I was in my college days an accompaniest for music
Not, one hopes, playing violin - seeing as how you can't tell a bow from
a handsaw. [or a Hanshaw, if you're up on your Heinlein]

>students, and one of them (who, incidentally, was a twin, but he
>was 6'2" and his twin sister was 4'8", which means, I suppose, that
>they were not <identical> twins) sang this song and got so angry
    You might <not> say that.....of course, knowing you, she might have
been the one who was 6'2"....
>about not being able to sing the intervals correctly, and my
>stopping him with a rather pompous "I'm sorry that's not the
>interval...,", that he would throw his music across the room. I
	Sounds like someone you'd know, all right.:-)
>will never, because of this incident, forget Sylvia, just as I
>will never forget my buddy (who, incidentally, was named *Buddy*
>and subsequently became a Texas Legislator from Breckenridge) who
>plopped the <mule muffin> in my open mouff.
	Tell me why I'm not surprised - that he's a legislator, that is.

>(p.s.:  I *love* this post... it is my best tonight... I hope you
>have all enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it....)
	Oh yes - I just *love* sitting targets!


-- 
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			Here Be Dragons
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: bumper sticker
Summary: oy vay
Keywords: oy vay
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 20:26:46 GMT

I see a number of bumper stickers around here proudly claiming "I have an
honor student at <name of school>" -- yesterday I saw a  bumper sticker on
a pickup truck that said "My kid beat up your honor student."  

And they wonder why American education is declining?!

--bayla
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