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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Superman
Date: 4 Sep 1992 19:49:32 GMT
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In a previous article, R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn) says:

>I read this morning that DC Comics is planning to kill off Superman.
>I feel as if part of my childhood just died.
>
I saw the article too - Associated Press, I think. [not that we should
trust that outfit too much, just take a look at the AP Style Manual some time.
It's more of a Manual of <donkey pucks> if you ask me.]

>
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:35:07 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      QOTD
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"If life were fair, the acquisition of a large bosom or a massive
inheritance would have no bearing on your ability to attract the opposite
sex, and Dan Quayle would be making a living asking runny-nosed children,
`Do you want fries with that?'"

 -- John Cleese, "Corporate Computing" magazine
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Posted on 1 Sep 1992 at 00:27:36 by tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas
>Jim (Who's about to start Dworkin's novel) Thomas

What novel?
Karen
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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*** Resending note of 08/26/92 23:02

>What is this all about?  I missed the original remark about "Japs" or

I cannot speak for Akio, but as one who lived thru WW11 wnen "jap" was
about as insulting a term one could use (usually proceeded by "dirty"),
I found the use of that word, if not at least in bad taste, unsettling -
just as I do for any word that denotes any group or nationality, in a
derogative manner.  Oh, I don't mind being called a "Florida Cracker"
or a Yankee, or a nerd or a geek ..I guess the worse I could be called
is a "redneck" ..and that's not accurate.  But you know the other words..
so I feel "jap" was a very poor choice of words.  When I was a child,
"jap" was the enemy ..to be loathed and hated.  As an adult the word no
longer exists for me ...Akio, and all other natives of Japan, are Japanese -
not a derogative term, but simply designating their nationality.

Guess I am not in a great mood today.

Peace.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:22:50 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Diana Dreams
              1 Sep 1992 00:06:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

Gilbert, I hope your dreams were better than mine; I dreamt about Laura
Palmer.

Evelyn (can't wait to see the Twin Peaks movie)
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:50:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
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>   It made perfect sense, providing one has the vocabulary to understand
> him.....  Of course, from a man who couldn't understand that a <turd> was
> a Donkey Puck...I wish I could say I was surprised.
>
>  	Ruth
> <cheshire grin><dons asbestos Buffalo Plaid pjs>
>

Now just *stop* *it*.... using these words I don't understand just
to confuse me.  What, may I ask, is a Donkey <Puck>???????  I thought
we were talking about <turds> and <biscuits> and <muffins>....
Stop changing the subject ruthie baby.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:41:31 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re : English Aspiration
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>
> Just for information - how do you pronounce "tmesis"? Or, say, the German
> name Knopp (without anglicising it to "Nopp", that is)?

The publishing house, Knopf, is pronounced with a short schwa between k and
n (p silent), no?  maybe one says Knopp the same way.

rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:01:17 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Ubi Sunt?
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              at Sep 3, 92 11:26 pm

> Posted on 3 Sep 1992 at 22:42:21 by richh
> >True story.
> >Rita, incidentally, was the one who...
> >well
> >*you* know.

	Shhh.  Honor among, well, you know.  And all that.


> Nope.  Never heard. Must have been working that day.  SO TELL ALL!!!
> Tell us what the Real Rita is like!!!!!

	Far too scarey.   You met me.  You know.

Rita
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Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:29:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      The great migration
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This should be good.  I have to be off this machine (hlwpk) by 5:00
pm, because sometime tonight it's going to become disappear and
surface again as "mhwpa." The files are supposed to move from the
machine in this building, at Short Hills ("hl" in company
nomenclature), to one in Murray Hill ("mh"), 6 miles away.  This
machine is an AT&T 3B2; the new one is an NCR 7000.  God help us in
our search for device independence....

We've been assured that the forward in the Mail utilities will keep
the traffic uninterrupted, and will direct it to the new machine.  I
will take my chances, and will do the necessary address changes after
I'm sure everything works.

If you have my address stored in some file or other, you might want
to change it assume that we're gonna get this right the first time....

Ken
ktw@hlwpk.att.com -----> ktw@mhwpa.att.com
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:33:58 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Private E-mail (again?)
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>That's what I like about Anne. Always willing to admit her errors and
>move on. Never one to stir things up by picking at scabs and trying to
>incite. Never one to let facts get in the way of a good swipe. She

Well, now that we have that squared away, let's hear what you don't like...I
received private flamemail on this same subject, and not having read this
message yet, apologized for entirely the wrong offense, it appears. So, let's
let the other apology stand, and add one for this <minor> infraction as well.
Twenty lashes, and no fair getting jenna or Rita to help out.

-abh
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From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gifs
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>a very handsome half-beagle) and Rabbit the Tabby.  What type of tabby
>is Rabbit, and what color?  Rabbit's cute.

Rabbit is by no definition "cute." She is a handsome cat with nice eyes and a
 shiny
coat, but she is not cute. There are no endearing characteristics to her
 personality.
I am not allowed to pet her or even to approach her. Her only demands are to be
provided daily doses of fresh food and water, and to be left alone. In winter
 she
liked to sleep on my bed, but since she passed a typhus-bearing flea to me a
 couple
years ago, I don't let her do that anymore.

My favorite thing Rabbit does is occasionally she goes across the street and
 kicks
Muffy's ass.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:25:13 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ill-mannered people
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On Mon, 24 Aug 1992 08:31:00 EDT <ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM> said:
>Ken, dismounting high horse

And that double back with a twist was one HELL of a dismount, too.

dan
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Thoroughly enjoyable account, Carol! .....oh to be young again (sigh)...

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:20:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: bumper sticker
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> Good grief, Gilbert, schools out in the shinnery must have been a lot more
> emancipated than those in East Texas....we had separate playgrounds for
> boys and girls, with eagle-eyed teachers patrolling to make sure nobody
> mingled.
> ndh (who is thankful that at least she doesn't have to do playground duty)

I think that I single-handedly changed a whole set of rules, I was so
*precocious*....  I remember being terribly embarrassed when the
teacher announced (in the 3rd grade) that during recess, the girls
would play with the girls and the boys would play with the boys.
I thought it was to point out to every what a sissy I was, but in
retrospect, I realize it was probably because they all *knew* that
I couldn't look and not touch....   since my parents were so
<prominent> (this in a town of 2600 upstanding citizens) -- my
father the local lawyer and my mother president of the Women's Club
and the Tuesday Study Club and Sunday School Teacher -- they
couldn't just say "Gilbert is a child molester and a potential
rapist and is corrupting the morals of every honor student in this
school..."  so they just said, "Gilbert has to be one of the boys.".
Which is what my mother wanted all along of course, thus the summers
at Boy Scout Camp where I was forced to eat donkey biscuits on a
regular basis.  I *really* thought it was a punishment from god for
the show-bottom.  Really.
--ggs (who *still* thinks that things like that are divine revenge...
like, why I get the students that I do....  ZAAAP!  That's for
playing gynecologist with Diana McCaleb!....  What a memory the
great One has....)
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:38:00 CDT
From:         TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Backon Bacon Rinds

Went to our local friendly butcher today, who just happened to have a
fresh slab of bacon with the rind on it. Cut it up for frying, but I
stuck it in the micro-wave instead.  Doesn't seem to work. Some things
just don't cater to hi-tek and have to be fried the ol' fashioned way.

Jim (Ted Bundy said so) Thomas
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:49:45 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Node contest III
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Here are some of my leftovers from when I named pizzabox in the demon.co.uk
hierarchy.  They may not be very appropriate but I can't be bothered thinking
while I'm asleep right now.

maxwells balzak muffin biscuit horny hugs scrabble homebox esp smug smiling
cookie sleeping pigsty sleepy sleeping hacking nutella quetzal styx

(PS Balzac isn't a composer.  Just sounds like one.  It's actually  Dutch
for scrotum.  I just wondered if I'd get away with it...)

G
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:25:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366"
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Subject:      Is the list dead or am I dead.

hello

later

alec
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: re: signs of the times
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:37:55 GMT


In a previous article, ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM () says:

>>My favorite company name, which I ran across while I lived in Denver,
>>was:  Ridge Erection Co.
>
>There was one in New Brunswick, NJ a few years ago, during the
>rebuilding project on the downtown area: a construction company
>that announced itself as doing "STEEL ERECTIONS."  Lot of really
>excited construction workers, I guess....
<chortle>
Ken, I would never have guessed it.  In addition to being a loudmouthed
New Jersey Liberal, you have a dirty mind to boot. [maybe that's why they call
it a *hard* drive?]  I would never have believed you were such a multitalented
individual if I hadn't seen it for myself. 

BTW - did the hard copy get there yet?
 
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Brother Barbara

>         I wonder if there are now co-ed former sororities that
>refer to their male members as "sister"?

>                                             Br Paul

I thought we'd agreed to call our male members "Sinclair"?

John "Andre Marrou in '92" W.
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 1 Sep 92 09:46:26
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In-reply-to: Tushar Samant's message of Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:46:37 CDT

Tush, in typical fashion, asks:

   >Which I know from camp as:
   >
   >Flea.
   >Flea fly.
   >Flea fly flew.
   >Mosquito!
   >cumalada cumalada cumalada vista.
   >Oh no-no, no not the vista.
   >Eeny meeny jipsaleeny oo-walla walla meeny.
   >Itchy itchy scratchy scratchy--oo I got one on my back-y
   >Kill the big bad bug with the big bad spray...
   >PSSHHT!

  >But does this nonsense mean anything? What the hell is it?

To which I reply, "Exactly what it is."  I must say, I really do hope you
are not as anally logical and condescendingly questioning as you post.
Life must be a terrible bore for you.

Take a walk through the Looking Glass...

//anne//

Life is absurd and unknown.  To insist it is otherwise is to ensure
disappointment.  --agh
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ribbit...ribbit...ribbit...
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> John "POETS day is tomorrow, and not a day too soon" W.

A truer word was never spoken.  I just may wear my POETS button tomorrow.
Doris (and yes, John [and Graham] I *do* know what that means)
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
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	Gilbie, Doris was not a poster during the eighteen months I was (before
	I got bored and decided to take a vacation) therefore she is a newbie

Oh?  I thought it was two years.  Did you get time off for good behaviour?

Gilbert, macphil is a majour words-l figure.

G
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: writing (correction)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 07:59:36 GMT

In <Pine.2.4.59.9208301815.C11069@abernathy.tenet.edu> Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU> writes:

>On Sun, 30 Aug 1992, MAYNOR@msstate.bitnet wrote:
>>
>> But I like "future forever foregone, if..."!

>I liked it, too.  I tried saying it out loud, and I liked the way it sounded.
>ndh

I realized later that I'd already edited that one -- it had originally f'd
on further: "... glittering future forever foregone if funding..." and I
think it was the last two f's together that blew the whole thing up.  

That was just a recent example of a longstanding complaint by many readers,
some of whom are the same ones who compliment my speaking style.  Others
are anonymous, like the journal reviewer who wrote "Yuck" wrt "..to
trace Reddy Kilowatt's family tree" -- a line in a scholarly paper about
exploring the symbolic associations attaching to "electricity" around the
turn of the century.  

When I try to strike a note of "respectable informal" I wind up with
cutesy: "formal" is incredibly dull, dry, awful: a sur cure for insomnia,
and it even puts *me* to sleep as I write it.  

How does one get one's speaking voice onto paper, with all the body
language and none of the grammatical license one can take?  

--bayla

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Posted on 31 Aug 1992 at 09:14:09 by s mandell
>Karen, krijg de klere.  You weren't even on the bloody list in
>the first place, so just what the fuck is your problem?

Great, you can't even remember whose postings would make you puke.
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: HMIM
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:48:23 GMT


In a previous article, "Don Moore  974-4078 S/C 574-4078" (813) says:

>Have mercy, it's Monday!

	We never have mercy, Monday or no Monday!  Besides, it's now
Tuesday.:-)  No one deserves mercy on Tuesdays.
[oh Lawdy, I sound like a Python skit! ]

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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:50:45 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:15:26 EDT, "Rita Marie Rouvalis" <rita@EFF.ORG> wrote:
> 	No, Graham, you misunderstand.  Since I graduated in 1991 with
> my B.A. in English.  I should most definately have at least known about
> many of the authors that I've discovered in the past year or so.  I mean,
> Tolstoy is *not* an obscure author.

Oh right, I was talking about whatever schooling you get up to the
age of 16 or 17.  If you never heard of Tolstoy during a University
English course, there *is* definitely something wrong with the system.

G
From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
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Date: 26 Aug 92 00:00:18 GMT
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aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig) writes:
> I suppose this is one of the hallmarks of a real computer vs. a "toy," like a
> Macintosh. ;-)

The Mac I use at work doesn't bother with warning messages.  It simply
locks up when I use Quickmail while also connected somewhere with
NCSA Telnet.  It really is intuitive - when the machine is unresponsive
I know that I'm in trouble.

--karsten

(I suppose a little icon of a padlock bouncing around the screen is
 a possible future improvement.)
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
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On Thu, 3 Sep 1992, Graham Toal wrote:
>
> Grrrrrrr!  I am *not* 'dainty'. :-|

Good...I feel better.  I was trying to envision Graham as "pretty and
dainty" and it just spoiled my whole image of him.
ndh
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)
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> What's the antonym for "misogynist?"

Feminaphile?  Somehow I don't think you mean that kind of antonym.  I bet
you're asking the word for "hater of men."   Didn't we discuss that at
great length a couple of years ago?  Not that that means we shouldn't do
it again.  Too bad Akio's tape isn't easily searchable.  We could pull up
some of the old discussion.  It has also been discussed at great length
on other lists, including HUMANIST.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Subject:      Re: thanks to all
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>Interesting indeed.....assume Mgarber really LIKES it when he/she drops
>the soap in the shower....

Come on, Dan, you *know* that sometimes the dropped soap is merely a
thinly-veiled ploy....

-abh
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)
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              1 Sep 1992 01:18:05 GMT from <bayla@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU>

On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:18:05 GMT Bayla Singer said:
>succubus (I think I've got it properly distinguished from the incubus): the
>female witch-form that drains a man's essences through the sex act.  I came
>across some really drooling-idiot-class anti-woman pornography that
>featured this horror.  *Somewhere* out there are men scared to death of

   And that was just ONE of the problems of Gen. Jack D. Ripper [as
distinguished from Jack THE Ripper of London] in Dr. Strangelove.
Our "precious bodily fluids" and he didn't wanna lose them to any
women....

>women!  And who think that sex is characterised by *female* agression.

   That, my dear, depends on the woman....and I somehow doubt that
there aren't a NUMBER of women (N>10) women on this list who haven't
at SOME time been the aggressor/initiator in the sexual act.

dan
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