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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:55:42 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Internet outage
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> Speaking of weather, today is gorgeous here.  It feels like late October
> instead of mid August.  I think the weather is going crazy this year.

The high at noon today was 76 and the humidity is almost non-existent.
Doris
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:38:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Having survived...
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Having survived a near brush with death from heat exhaustion and
near total dehydration, permanent disfigurement from people-nibbling
fish, lifelong infection with malaria and intestinal parasites,
brutal dismemberment at the hands of an insane tourbus driver,
and a ritualistic sacrificial disembowelment by revenge-seeking
Mayan priestesses, I am -as is evident- returned from seven days
in the wild jaguar and crocodile infested jungles of Quintana
Roo.  Details will follow at the appropriate time.
--ggs
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Subject: fresh persons/ones/men/women
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:24:27 GMT
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              14 Aug 1992 06:19:38 -0500 from <dorisann@TENET.EDU>

On Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:19:38 -0500 Doris Smith said:
>How close you are. I don't teach college frosh, but high school seniors
                                        ^^^^^^^^^

This reminds me of an article from wireservice in today's paper.  Seems
that Nebraska Wesleyan University (in Lincoln) has abolished the
term "freshman" as being sexist.  And from now on, all are sposed to
be called "first year students".

"Hi, Bob, glad to meet you....what year are you in school?"

"I'm a first year student, which is why I have this stupid little green
  beanie."

"Oh, hang in there, someday you'll make it to be a sophomore."


Hmmmmm...somehow it just doesn't scan....to say nothing of that
Marlon Brando movie....."The First Year Student"...

dan
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:16:14 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Men and Feminism
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> What you really mean is that you want deference.  It's the same old

Nope.

> We must find a way to build groupings which
> include all -- not US and THEM.

I don't disagree...but I don't think it should be feminism.

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:46:43 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      RE: the state of slowness
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1992, Entropy Warrior wrote:

> I do believe Le Pig is blotto

 We have not so much a blotto bandwidth pig as a 2 X 4 bandwidth pig.
Doris
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: ABD 
Distribution: world
Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:20:46 +0000


In article <WORDS-L%92081907004910@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
>Hey--we ought to do a survey of the list--how many ABD's v. Docs.

Someone will have to tell me what ABD means first.  From context it sounds
like an abbreviation of 'Abandoned'...

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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 09:49:59 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Important anniversary
              12 Aug 1992 07:46:03 EDT from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:46:03 EDT <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU> said:
>Today is the 44th birthday of Brother Paul of Syracuse.  Pass it on!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:12:58 EDT
From:         Frank <ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Tim Johnson
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>From:         jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
>
>>From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET>
>>
>>I know him; he's on belief-l and politics (two of the lists I'm on).
>>Let me see, how should I put this:  he likes to have the reputation
>>of being mean.  I've learned the best way to deal with him is to act
>>just as nastily back to him.
>>
>>Evelyn
>
>Actually, i know a few other ways to get back at him, but
>i won't live through the weekend if i say any of them.
>
>(tim is buds with most of the brown words-lers)
Um, not this one, Jenna.  Who is the guy?  And what makes so
many of our friends here in Words-Land at Brownvm so chummy with him?
Most importantly, how do you suggest getting even with him?
You can tell *me*, honest.  <endearing, innocent grin>  <big eyes>

Frank
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:51:58 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
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              92 7:25 am

> You wouldn't happen to be assuming that all computer geeks are
> of one sex, would you?  Or are "guy" and "his", as used above,
> inclusive terms?

	I simply want to state here and now, before this gets any
further, that I am a computer geek.  I am also female (or at least
was the last time anybody checked).  Therefore (syllogism alert! I
once knew someone who named his floppies after all the valid syllogisms
-- barbara, celarant, whatever) Geeks can be female.

Ha!

Rita
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:35:16 EDT
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              <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Bimbo

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Shame on me!  Just re-read my note and quite obvious I used interpretation
# 3.  Must be more careful with my assumptions.

                            Peace,
----------------------------------Don
I hope illiterative was deliberate.

JAG
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:29:15 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: List wars
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>
>Who is Tim Johnson?  Do we know him?  How does he know us?  He is no
>doubt a substantial person.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

some of us know him, indeed have not only set eyes upon him, but
have shared dog-sitting responsibilities with him.  In fact, he and
I seem to cause particularly enthusiastic reactions in that dog
(although I'm sure it's for very different reasons!).

Elaine
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:50:50 EDT
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From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      RE: the state of slowness

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Awww, Dan. Maybe he thought it bored repeating.
Doris
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BINGO
JAG
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:18:28 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: The Evidence
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>To quote Graham--where were you brought up.  My mother taught me
>it was rude to flame on typos.

Your mother was obviously not an English Teacher, nor your father an English
Professor. I was brought up to believe that flaming on typos is a favor you
do for the poor benighted souls who make them.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:13:23 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The D-words
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> all my phd friends on here can hopefully understand....I am NOT flaming
> any or all phds.....they have my respect for doing something I did not do...
> as do those who bungee jump, parachute jump, serve twenty years in the
> Army, etc, etc, etc.....

I don't think finishing a PhD is deserving of any kind of respect.  I was
just curious about why somebody would spend the time/money/effort to finish
the hard part and then quit when only the easy part is left.  I'm enjoying
reading answers to that question.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:27:00 EST
From:         Judith_Eannarino@OCCSHOST.NLM.NIH.GOV
Subject:      Today's Trivia
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>quite stable in turns.  So here is the trivia question ...I arrived at
>work before anyone called in with answer so don't know the answer myself,
>although do know selections....what is the meaning of the initials MG?

>                            Peace,
>                                  Don


     I vote for "Morris Garage."

      Judith E.
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 15:51:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: RE: Gender
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> >1) Well I *never*! I may identify myself as a feminist but I am
> >beginning to think that I am a <masculinist>.
>
>
> giggles, you know I love you, but you can no more be a feminist than I can be
> President of the United States. Neither one of us has the right set of glands
> for it.
>
> -abh

I love you too -abh and I want you to be Presidentess.
--ggs (who does *not* agree with the distorted logic of -abh as
  to glands determining who is feminist and who is masculinist)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:36:56 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Good evening to you all
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> Posted on 14 Aug 1992 at 20:08:14 by Doris Smith
> (1) At 12:00 noon one ceases saying "Good morning" and begins saying "Good
>     afternoon." When does one cease saying "Good afternoon" and begin saying
>    "Good evening"?

6PM.  This is another thing my mom taught me (like wearing white).

> (2) Do any of you ever use "Good night" as a greeting instead of a farewell?

Not in English.

Karen
From: DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078)
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*** Resending note of 08/20/92 20:42

>>There was, of course, that comment about a Texas town...
>>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

>which remained unnamed to protect the guilty--and it *was* Texas
>and not Mississippi.

>-Mka

That wouldn't be anywhere near Lackland AFB would it? .....no, I must
be thinking of Kelly.
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:51:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Bimbo

On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:51:48 GMT Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>
>Don, triple disaster....geek, nerd, and now bimbo

Don, you're none of those.

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:29:09 EDT
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Comments:     Originally-From: Melicent Tlucek Bryarly <melicent@TENET.EDU>
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: Regional usages

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
We lived in south Louisiana for eight years and found many interesting
phrases. One in particular was that a woman was "pregnant for" a child
instead of "pregnant with" a child.
Melicent, who still misses the good Cajun cooking
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a new one ot me.  Who lived there his first 24 years and 10 or
so additional.

JAG (who is both a Creole and a creole cook)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:25:02 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: ADBAM and Baby Diffily
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> You all will be pleased to note that as soon as i heard the
> announcement, i marched my butt up to the record store and
> special ordered the Mitch Ryder's greatest Hits cd for
> anne.

Great idea!!! I wish I'd thought of it first....but I didn't.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:22:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Alarming

"'When the Basic Time corresponds to the pre-set Alarm Time, the
alarm is generated.  The Alarm tune will automatically cease
after 1 minute working.  If you have a depress on "SNOOZE" while
it is alarmed, the loud will stop immediately and loud for
another 8 minutes after having this "SNOOZE" 8 minutes and so on
. . .  However, alarm will not effect if it has lasted for fully
8 minutes unless the second correspondence that is to say after
24 hours.'  --Instructions for a travel alarm clock made in
China.

     Thanks, but we'd rather go on sleeping."

From a (relatively) recent New Yorker.

--EW
(Mka)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:04:32 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gender
              17 Aug 1992 15:14:56 GMT from <maya@CARINA.UNM.EDU>

On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:14:56 GMT <maya@CARINA.UNM.EDU> said:
>>>-maya (whose idea of a positive male role model includes Nick Charles,
>>
>>Who's this? The CNN sportscaster?
>
>	The genteel, witty drunk-of-a-detective from the Thin Man movies.

Don't forget his rich wife, Nora, or their terrier, Asta.
>
>>-abh
>
>- maya

Evelyn

Nora:  You got shot 6 times in the tabloids.
Nick:  Nonsense, they never got near my tabloids.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:51:19 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      RE: Aren't we discussing politics?
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
              Aug 21, 92 9:48 am

>
> By the way, if any of you have odd, interesting questions, I am
> offering my research services.  Law students here have free
> access to LEXIS/ NEXIS--the *only* reason to go to law school,
> but also a sufficient one.  It is absolutely *amazing* what is on
> the sucker.  I think the last dispute I resolved concerned heat
> lightning.  Turns out there's no such thing.  It's just a name
> folks give to lightning that strikes over the horizon.  There
> *are* two kinds of lightning--sheet and forked.  (No explanation
> of the difference--LEXIS has its limitations.)


How about "ball lightning?" I once did an article on a series of
lightning studies and there is definitiely such a beast, yet your Lexis
doesn's seem to mention it. How foolproof is your Lexis and -
how serious is your offer? I may just take you up on it - I have
a couple of tough research problems crowding me. (I, too , am having a
heavy dose of entropy wars around here.)

Agnes
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 07:28:39 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
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> Uh, not to sound *prescriptivist* or anything Natalie, but every time
> I read one of your computer postings I see "8 milligram RAM" and "200
> milligram disk".  I suggest that mg is a very rare abbreviation for
> megabyte.  Meg, MB, and M are common.

That's not being prescriptivist -- it's being descriptivist!  You're
describing what is usually done.  That's good, IMHO.  If I were using
mg for meg, MB, or M because I thought it was in some way better and
wanted to push my better way onto people, I would be the prescriptivist
here.  The fact is, however, that I almost never have any occasion to
talk about mgs, megs, mb's, m's.  I also know almost nothing about that
strange, foreign system that produces such terms, even though I firmly
believe that the U.S. should adopt it in everything.

>  (Then there is the argument
> about whether a Meg is 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes.)

What is it that's really 1024 instead of something else?  Something I
discovered on my computer a long time ago.  Now I've forgotten.

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     a non-techy English teacher who don't know nothing 'bout no
     number stuff
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 07:54:31 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIQR11
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But what about los perros, Giggles??  You've said nothing about perros!
Natalie told me that the one time she was in that part of Mexico she saw
lots of dogs that looked like me -- except that they seemed less healthy
than I am, they had shorter tails, and they sat lethargically in the middle
of roads, scratching -- especially the road between Cancun and Chicken Pizza.
So did you see any perros??
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:54:22 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Silence is revealing

On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:58:00 EST Entropy Warrior said:
>The whole time Ronnie was on, all wordslers fell dumb.  I can
>only conclude that most of you all out there in Words-L Land are
>secret Ronnie worshippers.

Yes, he certainly does give an excellent speech!
>
>-Mka

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 11:54:54 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TshirtII, Cubbies, zero
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>	How about:  "Words-l:  Stop me before I post again."


Ripping off EFF:...

Words-L : Make It So

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:58:20 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Thank Goodness for Torkel
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              13 Aug 92 07:48:59 -0500. <9208131251.AA06327@sics.se>

  >I wish I were in Torkel's office right now.  I bet
  >August in Sweden is much nicer than August in Mississippi.

  Yep, I'm here, working hard as always. The window is open and there's
a cool quiet rain falling. The coffee break is coming up, so if you were
here I could treat you to a cup of (Gevalia) coffee and a biscuit.
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:43:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Sexist Doll Joke
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 Chinese man on trip to New York is told that the <city>
has the best prostitutes in the world, so he asks his American
businessmen colleagues to take him to a whore house.  They pay
off the madam to send the man to a room with a huge inflatable
buxom blond bimbodoll and tell him that she is "Really Good!"
After ten minutes,  Chinese man comes running out of room in his
undies complaining:  "You tell me she good, sh*t, first time I
bite her on left titty she fart big and fly out window."
............
-ggs (who cannot *believe* he has told this joke on *this* list
to *these* sensitive female persons.....)
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:11:30 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Free Press strikes again...
              12 Aug 1992 10:52:00 EST from <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>

On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 10:52:00 EST Adam Hartfield said:

>Yes!  The Economist is wonderful.  That, The New Yorker, and Mad I
>buy regularly at the drew bookstore.  The cashiers always give me
>funny looks;  I wonder why.

Probably because they can't imagine a student spending US$3.50 on
a thin little newsmagazine.  Worth every penny though, and half
that price by subscription.

So hang in there, Adam.  We'll miss you greatly.  Hope you manage
to stay connected.

Tony H.
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:55:00 EDT
From:         "PLOTKIN, ALEC DAVID" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Dying Vax 6350
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Our dying Vax might of munged my mail. I also sent some things
twice thinking the first never made it out of Villanova.
Sorry if you get some of my comments duplicated. The doors and
Adam comments might be doubled or tripled. Our new Vaxes
will be on line next week so, I should be free from problems.



later

alec
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 14:30:13 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: re: chicken shit
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>  Judith E.  *rotflmao*

Yo, Judith! Beltway bruiser! How's trix?

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:04:35 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM !
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> > talk about mgs, megs, mb's, m's.  I also know almost nothing about that
> > strange, foreign system that produces such terms, even though I firmly
> > believe that the U.S. should adopt it in everything.
>
> Did you mean the metric system?  I hate to break it to you, Natalie,
> but mg is a common abbreviation in this country.  (Look at anything
> w/ food breakdowns on it--with the new labeling laws, that means
> almost everything!!!)

Note that I said the "foreign system that produces such terms."  I didn't
say that the terms were not used here.  Even Bernard's Filarobits have
something about mg on the jar.  I don't know what it means, though.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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