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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:09:29 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Blomberg's History Question
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Posted on 11 Jan 1993 at 19:16:23 by LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU

>"What city did Adolf Hitler plan to rename Germania?"

I should know this. It must be one he never got to, probably either Moscow or
London. I will say London. No, strike that, Moscow. He had respect for other
Germanic peoples, but not Slavs at all, and would probably have wanted to
obliterate such slavicisms and reinforce the the demise of those nasty little
eastern people (although, of course, with a latin word).

With trepidation.

And a sinking feeling in my gut.

>Choose between G, E, A or N if you can answer correctly.

Geography, if I should be so lucky.

b.c.
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:32:13 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning Plans
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>   Sure you can. Just use wildcards in the ordinary way. To grep for
> "blaha" in the files in directory Zonk, use "grep
> blaha Zonk/*".

Thanks!  That does make sense.  I probably would have tried it before asking
about it if I hadn't suddenly thought of it while I was in mail -- not that
that's a limitation really since I could've used ctrl-z and tried it and then
gone back to what I was doing in mail.  I love Unix.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Is it just me
Date: 10 Jan 1993 04:09:06 GMT
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or are we all cut off tonight?  Nothing's come into the Freenet from
Words since 7:40pm or thereabouts.  Either the Freenet's newsreader is
glitching again, as more or less usual, or else something else is screwed up.

Where are y'all, anyway?
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Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Carolyn's Science/Nature Question
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:07:07
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Carolyn wonders where I am:

   - George Sand was French. /anne/ seems to have a lot of trouble finding my
   posts on netnews, so if I haven't seen a response from her by the morning, I
   will forward a copy of her latest question to her directly - that was the
   way I got her to respond last time. There are two other questions outstanding


Rats & Phooey...I know I responded to the S & L thing...I said I hadn't the
Remotest Idea who cycled through Europe before becoming some pooh-bah
Minister in Aussieland.  Since then I've seen nary a word relating to me.  

	//anne//
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:15:10 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU (Bernard Chien Perro) says:

>Thanks for the present, Ruth!  It makes me happy to know that you were
>thinking of me.  However, that is the *UGLIEST* dog I've ever seen in
>my life!

It got there on time, then:-)  I thought it might look like one of your
friends - wasn't that thing a Chihuaua or some other teeny-tiny breed?
It looked like it belonged down in Starkville....

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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: And then the naked ladies came
Date: 8 Jan 1993 05:02:15 GMT
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In a previous article, Graham Toal () says:

>:Maybe not sexist, but about everything else -ist, yes.:-)  Besides, who
>:said anything about sexist remarks, eh?  Does *somebody* have a guilty
>:conscience?
>
>If you hadn't deleted the 4 lines above the ones you quoted you'd know
>the answer to that question.  I know this group has the collective

To my recollection, that means "yes" to the guilt.....

>memory of a small gnat, but even a gnat can remember longer than 5 seconds.
>
Not unless it keeps running over the data in its mind...and gnats don't
have minds, per se.  We do not have the memory of a small gnat - we have
the memory of a large archive.  Our brains are all downloaded to tape!

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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:34:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dual Croning on 19 March
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> GGS: Is this person <available>???????
>
>   The croning will help her see what <availability> means for her, I
>   guess.  She is married, the mother of two (the elder almost or at 30),
>   about to celebrate a milestone birth anniversary.
>
>   brad

I trust that you have, or are planning to, reveal to your *seester*
that, though unattainable, she is <worshipped from afar> by a person
of good taste.
--ggs
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In a previous article, gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>        >Watch it, Ruth, you're walking on <holy ground>....
>        >
>        Whose religion, and which one?  I can't commit a really good act of
>        cultural insensitivity until I know who or what I'm trying to insult....
>
>Well, put it like this: the expression "There *is* a God" was heard for the
>first time ever in the Toal household this year ;-)
>
What happened, did that milk you swill actually turn into Lone Star beer?:-)
Shall I attempt to name the <God> of which you speak?  Or shall he go
<nameless>?  Well, how about this....there is no god but Seymour Cray, and
the Pentagon is his Prophet?

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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:28:32 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: second call for words-l cookbook
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>Jenna, I hope you're going to include a chapter on the
>fine art of making chili. There must be as many recipes
>for it as there are words-l readers.
>
>Bill

Chapter? That's the next *book*. The WORDS_L Chili Cookbook.

Let me know when to post my recipe...

love, judith
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:08:06 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Rice
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A note from Doris mentioning various Texas schools reminded me that we
did talk about Rice the night we were discussing Jeffrey's future.  All
the people we could think of who had gone to Rice (or are there now) are
majoring in technical fields.  Is stuff like engineering, math, and CS
Rice's biggest thing?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:02:00 PST
From:         CHRIS SCHMIDT <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Words-L Weekly Digest

>This *blows* my *mind*!!!!  What could be worse than being left out
>of brad's Weekly Digest?????  *What*???  I challenge anyone on this
>list to name *one* thing that is worse.  Just *one* *thing*!!!!!
>--ggs

Ah, yes. He makes it so easy. Must (ahem) come with being a member.

Chris
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:28:10 EST
From:         Mary Shepard <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Boston
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Wonderful hospitality from Joan ,- thank you, Joan!, -
and learning about Elaine`s coming anthology of women poets before 1830,
and Rita R's excitement about South American authors
- a delightful evening with charming & literate people!
Wish I'd taken notes on books mentioned.

Mary from Newport
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:24:40 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      WHTM
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WHTM/ now is in place.  It fit conveniently into the alphabetized
directories in the index -- right where Travelogues/ had been.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Sport/Leisure Question
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>"What golfer is the favorite son of Santander, Spain?"
>
>Yes, well, it's been fun...I have absolutely no idea.
>ndh

Severiano Ballasteros....... at least I've heard of him - couldn't have
recalled his name though if it had been my question.

Carolyn
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 08:32:33 GMT

rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU (Rashmi) writes:
> Why is the eligibility age for AARP membership (apprx. 50, I'm assuming)
> lower than real retirement ages in most professions (60-70,??)?

AARP wanted to be the biggest, most powerful lobbying force in
Washington.  It chose a relatively low eligibility age and a low
membership fee to pull in many millions of members.

--karsten
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:15:18 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question About Online Resources
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>     I hope this info is still current.  There is another book like Krol's
> Internet guide: Brendan Kehoe (Widener University) _Zen & Art of the Internet_
> which was first made available on line.  A revised edition has been published

Thanks.  I have the online version of it.  (I think I put it in the list
ftp space also.)  I also have a copy of -The Matrix- but have opened it
only a few times.  Oh to win PCH Sweepstakes, quit working, and spend all
my time playing with books like that...

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who will soon be receiving three new magazines because of three
     PCH finalist letters... and who is looking forward to laughing at
     you skeptics on Jan. 29...  but who is still gonna take you all on
     a cruise to Villefranche after winning...
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:27:43 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Is it just me
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From: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

> Where are y'all, anyway?

I'm here, Ruth ..., if that's any help :).
Traffic HAS been light, though.

Peter
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Subject: Re: Cookies and Kisses
Date: 11 Jan 93 15:04:49
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In-reply-to: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu's message of Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:51:39 GMT

TJLee wonders:

   wife and I have a bunch of Hershey's kisses ... how does one go about making
   those?  Can we just make sugar cookies, and then push the kisses into the
   cookies when they come out of the oven, before they cool and harden?  Or is
   there something special involved?

Well, I haven't a clue if this has been answered since I'm so far behind on
email, but I'll post anyway.  I've never made these but I would bet that a
the Toll House cookie dough would be the perfect cookie;  I'd try a tray
with the Kisses on from the beginning ... if they were too melted, you'd
know to put'em on later ... plus you'd have "samples".

	//anne, who also says you should save a little cookie dough to put
in your ice cream...//
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith) says:

>> > >I second the emotion.
>> > >Pm
>> > If you've got the notion, we could play old Smokey tracks on a boom box
>> > and dance on the grave....  And maybe some Porter, for Giggles?  We could
>> > stomp the dirt down some.
>
>While singing "Down In The Depths On The Ninetieth Floor", o.k.?
>--ggs
Giggles, you read my mind!  That's one of my favourite Cole Porter songs,
especially as a grocery lugging/shower singing song.:-)  How about "Don't
Fence Me In" afterwards? It's only appropriate.

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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:24:28 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      ftp
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I've decided to start a new ftp subdirectory: docs/words-l/Travelogues.
That means that for the next few minutes some of the files in ftp space
may be moving around etc.  Thought I should let you know in case you're
trying to get anything right now.  I'll send a revised index in a little
while.

I'm not going to compile abh.visits.england into a single file yet because
it will be easier to get it in the right order after I have all the pieces.
So far the only ones I have are abh.in.cambridge, abh.at.grand.nepalese,
and abh.comes home.  If any of you have the rest of the abh travel tales
easily accessible, you'd simplify my life by sending me copies.  I can
find them with a bit of effort from usenet or the list logs, of course.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:31:46 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
              <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: First major problem in London
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              Harwell" at Jan 5, 93 4:07 pm

From the screen of 'Anne Burton Harwell'...
>
> Fizzy, never change, boy. Never change.
>

I dont intend to ;)

Fiz.
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:11:24 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Word Question
              9 Jan 1993 15:41:45 -0800 from <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>

Wasn't 'wifty' the word that clinched it for Strzebrzeszynski in the
'78 World Scrabble championship?  She built it on

            JA0Z                  JA0Z
            A  I      to make:    A  I
            W  T                  WIFTY  <-- Triple word space
                                      ^

and her opponent was in no position to challenge.  "Wifty" has since
entered the language in the meaning "bold bluff" or "in your face".

brad
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ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) writes:
> [Gail] just read me the strangest things that have ever happened to people
> with their sexual aids....like two women using pickle, then putting it back
> in jar for uptight roommate to eat....

Isn't this the issue with the article about women-owned sex toy stores?
Good Vibrations, Eve's Garden, etc.?

>>(as was any kid who visited me during the summer)
> hmmmmm.....don't say that too loudly....whats the statute of limitations
> on contributing to the delinquency of another minor???

I guess he contributes to the delinquency of over a hundred ~14 year
olds every year in his high school biology classes when they see the
cutaway models and diagrams.

--karsten

(nobody complained when he did frog and fetal pig dissections for the
 neighborhood kids)
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:13:16 EST
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              8 Jan 1993 10:12:35 EST from <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

Silver was the Lone Ranger's horse; Trigger was Roy Rogers'; Tigger was
the tiger in Winnie the Pooh.

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 15:41:45 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Word Question
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From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

> Do any of you know the word "wifty"?  Anything you can tell me about it
> will be appreciated.  Thanks.

There's a verb, WIFT, which means (a) to turn aside or go astray (obs)
or (b) to move lightly to and fro, or along; to waver; to drift.

Could WIFTY be an adverb?

A cognate is whift:
 a) small signal flag
 b) small puff of wind (cf whiff)

Hope that helps.

Pm
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:03:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: London Bridge
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> >
> >>--ggs (in the still of the night......)
> >>
> >As I gaze from my window, at the moon in its flight, my thoughts all
> >stray to you....
> >
>
> In the still of the night, when the world is in slumber, ah the times
> without number, darling when I call to you - Do you love me as I love
> you?  Are you my life to be, my dream come true?  Or will this dream
> of mine fade out of sight, like the moon going down on the rim of the
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^
> hill, in the chill, still of the night ...
>
> - RobyMeister

Close.  "Growing dim..."  Good example of the internal rime that goes
on in Porter's lyrics.
--ggs (who first became acquainted with CP when he bought an LP of
Porter songs sung by Mabel Mercer in 1954 because the cover was
interesting.  Mabel was the best, so he found out after buying this
record by an "unknown" singer.  Accompanied by duo pianists.)
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:07:38 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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> 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).

Starkville, Mississippi (or half way between Starkville and Amory?) certainly
qualifies as "the general South."

> one (although I still think you're too young for one... )  :)

Thank you.  I'm convinced I'm of the right age.  Brad:  Have you gotten
word from your sister yet on whether she's ready for a croning?

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

I'm interested.  Maybe I should check some online bookstore catalogues.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:34:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Klein's Canis
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The Cologne for dogs is called "Canis" by Calvin Klein, and
the skit was, of course, on SNL, just before the Bearss
skit.  It was beautifully done, and the dog sure could kiss.
Made me wonder if Bernard kisses that way.
--ggs
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Subject: Re: Three-key Sequence Nonsense

*** Resending note of 01/06/93 06:15

>I still wonder why keyboard-makers moved the F keys from the left to the
>top.  When I discovered that no laptops seem to exist with F keys at the
>left, I finally gave up and moved to top F keys for my regular computer
>also, hoping that having F keys at the top on all the keyboards in my life
>would make my fingers less confused when moving from keyboard to keyboard.
>fter a little more than a year now, I still *hate* the top F keys.  They

One of the selling points of my new Gateway, was <two> complete sets of
Function keys ... across the top and on the left side ...and both sets
have keys 1-12, not just 1-10 on the side.  Also has two complete numberic
key pads, boots up in Numeric on (which can be reset) but I leave on as find
is quite convient to NOT have to shift to get the numeric keypad, but still
have all curser movement keys separate - including 4 angle movement keys.
Great keyboard (124 keys)! .... but a little large.
PS to mem.  assigning the number sequence to F keys just resulted in submitting
those numbers, not the ESC ESC * function.  Guess I need to read some more ..
there must be a way to tell Crosstalk that the key assignment is intended to
be a function, not a string of face vaules.
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