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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:21:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Model Railroad

: You don't know how tempted I was to respond to this from Steve's address. Only
: courtesy to Steve stayed my hand.

Thanks, Chris.  But you could have tried it!  You didn't get the N-M
catalog, did you?  I haven't seen it yet.  Heck, for $100 K you could
probably buy enough full-sized equipment to build a short railroad!

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone
From: EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
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Subject: Re: Bully pulpit
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:55:12 GMT
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Posted on 16 Oct 1992 at 01:12:48 by Emily Horning
>An advantageous position, as for making one's views known or rallying support:

Thanks, Emily!

Karen
who is stuck at home, in her bed, all alone, and is BORED silly but at least
has the net to entertain her.
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From: hillnr@hamlet.uncg.edu (Norman Hill)
Subject: Re: There *is* a god . . .
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:32:39 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92100814274546@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>,         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU> writes:
|> > BTW, is what a Wake Forest grad told me true: If you can't go to
|> > college, you can always go to State?
|> >
|> > Steve Karlson
|> 
|> We are a <populist> university.... we let them in whether they
|> are stupid or bright. It's all the same.

Yeah, but some of State's best programs are very difficult to get
admitted to (e.g. some of the engineering and textile programs are
top notch).

|> I once taught at Wake Forest....  I know what it is like, too.
|> Very good, in fact.

Except for turning out graduates such as myself (*grin*).  It is a
good school.  I didn't take advantage of the opportunity for scholarship
at the time though.  Oh, well...

|> --ggs (champion of <public> education...)

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"Nothing is easier than fault-finding.  No talent, no self-denial, no brains
 are required to set up in the grumbling business."   -Robert West
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:40:52 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ross
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              <CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:04:00 EST <CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> said:
>In another instance, Ross showed a graph that showed how much the US
>spends "defending the world" as opposed to the small amounts spent by
>Germany and Japan, and commented that "they should pay their share."

   As you sorta point out below in the original, Germany and Japan
also signed treaties after WWTwo limiting their defense organizations.

>First, the US doesn't "defend the world."  It defends its own perceived
>interests in the world.  Those interests increasingly differ from the

   True....but Ross don't know that....

>interests of our major trading partners.  I happen to agree that the
>industrialized nations should enter into a real mutual defense pact
>(come to think of it, all the nations, industrialized or not), and

   Well, if ALL the nations enter it, what the hell do we need defense
from?  All them damn space aliens that keep crashing in NM and having
their dead bodies locked up in Hangar Eighteen?

>Moreover, we ought to look at the Japanese and German experience in terms of
>what it demonstrates about the American myth that prosperity is only
>possible in a war-driven economy.
`
   Indeed....

dan
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Mooses on line

>> >Rutgers have the OED; the websters is on moose.cs.indiana.edu
>>
>>      2) the addresss is almost certainly moose.ucs.indiana.edu
>
>
>The address Graham gave worked fine.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)


Yeah, I goofed.  But you gotta admit that from *my* (benighted) perspective,
the dropping of the u from ucs looked like a typo.

There is something very weird in this town about mooses.  The old Moose Lodge
is now a night club called Bullwinkle's.  And now Webster's in on a node called
moose.  A good friend of mine's E-mail existence is Moose, I have a picture
with a moose drenched in chocolate--chocolate moose, of course.  Just a moosey
place, BloomingGulch, I guess.

-K

-Mka
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 15:50:33 -0400
Reply-To:     "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu>
From:         "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: 99 and 44/100 percent pure
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>> Tell me why I'm not <surprised> it's Lusianne.  I *am* surprised that it's
>> instant; real computer junkies drink it straight from the percolator or the
>> drip pot.  What do you think of Lusianne Tea?   Or will you condescend to
>> drink <tea>?  Or will you drink it only if you can reuse the bag?[sunburn
>> soother?]
>.
>I started on Lusianne while living in New Orleans just after getting
>out of college.... it was cheaper because the chicory added made it
>possible to make twice as much coffee from the same amount of grind.
It's up north too, probably because of all the transplanted southerners.:-)
I've had it already, but never really liked it - not enough caffeine.

>Then, I got hooked on instant because it was so easy.  I have always
>gotten great pleasure from economizing, buying the best deal on
Instant isn't economizing, but on some things we must splurge.  Have you ever
had "dorm room instant"?  Take two spoonsful of instant coffee, add to half
a cup of milk pilfered from the cafeteria.  Stir well.  Tastes horrible, works
well enough.
>whatever.  Tea I can't stand.  I always think I'm drinking weak
>coffee.  My tc/sw, however, who does not tend to economize on
>anything, saves her teabags and uses them three or four times.
>She is an <enigma> sometimes.
Yeah - my mother and Mama P drink the stuff voluntarily, something I find
difficult to understand.  I only drink regular tea when I have a bad cold
and can't taste the stuff anyway.:-{

>WRONG, in a big way.  It is much more interesting than that.
>You'll find out eventually, when everyone has gotten their
>prizes.  They are wrapped in something you all know something
>about already.  Another <enigma>.
How could anything be more interesting than The Far Side, or to some more
enigmatic?  I just mailed an 8lb package to Hungary, to a friend who's
teaching high school English over there.  The insides of that were wrapped in
many layers of plastic, the outermost being pine-scented.  Is that closer?:-)
It's better-known as gorilla-proofing, as many similar packages have gone to
places where they might use genuine gorillas in the post office....

>That *is* why opera grabs me.  It is soooooo dramatic, so
>incredibly <wrenching>.... so....  Oh, well....
It ought to be, the way they <monkey> with the plot lines.

>

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From: 185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Alec D. Plotkin)
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Subject: Justice topic- old mail which Marty sent
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:00:00 GMT
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>Date:         Wed, 24 Jun 1992 00:19:00 EST
>From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu

Greetings,

From the Wall Street Journal: "The justices ruled unanimously that the St. Paul
ordinance violated the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech by defining
as a crime crossburning and other acts that can arouse "anger, alarm or
resentment" on the basis of race, religion or gender.

"Justice Scalia, writing the court's main opinion, said the law wrongly
singled out for censorship the expression of particular ideas.  However
objectionable those ideas might be, Scalia said, "The First Amendment does
not permit St. Paul to impose special prohibitions on those speakers who
express views on disfavored subjects."...Scalia, while condemning cross-
burning, stressed that such conduct "could have been punished under any number
of" Minnesota laws that don't raise free speech problems, such as those
dealing with "terroristic threats," arson, and property damage.

In fact, Scalia said, the prosecutors actually confirmed the
unconstitutionality of the ordinance when they told a lower court that it was
the "message" expressed by the cross burning that they intended to punish."

Marty
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Subject: Re: Metric system?
Date: 15 Oct 92 06:15:30 GMT
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:15:01 EST Karen Kay said:
>On the news tonight I heard that the US is supposed to be switching over
>to metric by 1996!  Congress evidently passed legislation to this effect
>sometime in the 1980's.  Does this sound remotely like anything anyone
>else has heard?  This was something about Iowa getting a grant to redo

   yes               Sounds like they're trying to get in ahead of the crowd.

>highway signs.  It's not clear to me whether this metric conver-sion is
>only for distances or whether it is supposed to apply to every- thing.

Yes, official date to begin is 10/1/96, I believe, and ther first phase
to begin 10/1/92.  We've already done it on auto parts and all sorts of
other stuff that gets sold internationally, and will certainly happen
on road signs and such before too long.

dan
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Clinton's letter and stuff
Date: 13 Oct 1992 03:01:09 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>I know I'm going to regret this, but what does one use a brass-plated butt
>>plug *for*?  Or is the answer somewhere in the same ballpark as Ben-wa balls
>  ^^^^^^^^ (Gee, how bout plugging your butt?)
>
Like I said, I knew I'd regret this.:-)  Is the plug to prevent the intrusion
of methane-like waste production byproduct upon what one might call an
<intimate moment>?  

>   and I spose you could put benwaballs and buttplugs in the same place,
>but most would use them in adjacent orifices....
You mean someone's mouth?<ducking and running>
Dan, you really ought *not* to tell us how you know all this.....
This, of course does not mean that we will stop you if you attempt to do so...

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From: MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Michael E. Macmillan)
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Subject: Re: Against the Grain
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:50:00 GMT
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>Michael, Ulrich's says it's published by the Library at the College of
>Charlston, S.C.  $25 a year, and covers library-vendor relations and
>acquisitons.  (Oh, be still my heart!)  8-)
>
>JMW, List Docent

Hmmm.  College of Charleston.  That does go against the grain.
Thanks, John.  I now have the essential clue.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:08:14 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Depression

On Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:26:21 EST Karen Kay said:
>Yesterday was National Depression Screening Day.
>
>Karen

I know; I'm glad that people are finally taking depression seriously.
I know how devastating it can be.

Evelyn (one of the Prozac Paratroopers)
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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Date: 15 Oct 92 13:03:00 GMT
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> Probably about the same number of economists it takes to change a lightbulb?

Interesting.  I thought that number was none.  They wait for the
invisible hand to do it.

> Seconded - my kid sister, also an economics weenie, has been bitching about
> this one for as long as Bush has been ignoring said economists.  Maybe we
> should have sent him my sister.<grin>

Well, don't send her to me unless you want her to be totally
corrupted.

> I take it you've been working with frosh prose - that's worse.

Nope.  Administrators.  Department meetings.  Preparing to cover the
class Bill S. would have taught.  No time for narrow gauge video.

Steve Karlson
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ((Natalie Maynor))
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Subject: Re: Clinton and, well, you know
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:43:27 GMT
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> Once again, the argument "I dislike him less than the others." Anyone
> remember when you voted for a candidate, not against the others? Well,

McGovern.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: New Train possibilities.
Date: 16 Oct 1992 20:56:22 GMT
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In a previous article, 185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu ("Alec D. Plotkin") says:

>        PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- Amtrak plans to introduce within three months a
>high-speed train that could dramatically cut travel time along the
>Northeast corridor.
This means it will take five or six, with luck.  But even so...<rubs hands
in gleeful anticipation>

>        Silien said the X2000 can take the curves considerably faster than
>Amtrak's Metroliners, which go as fast as 125 m.p.h. on straightaways
<heh>  Yeah, right.  *Where*?  Not in the Northeast corridor, for sure.
>but must slow to 10 m.ph. on the most severe curves.
Now that's the Amtruck we all know and love.:-)

>        The first X2000 is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. next week, Silien
>said. It will consist of three passenger cars, a dining car, and a
>locomotive on each end so it won't have to turn around.
Steve, someone is going to have to play hookey and check this thing out!
It could be written off as as expenses on a research grant....if someone
could a)find a grant to research the feasablilty of high speed trains in
highly populated areas, and b)get said grant.....

It is an electric train.:-)

>
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:53:27 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: to: DAN
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              7 Oct 1992 19:45:29 EDT from <IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU>

On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:45:29 EDT <IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU> said:
>We love you Dan.
>
>     VMI assholes

I KNEW I shoulda read all the mail before sending the msg I just sent...
oh, well.....

dan from potatoland
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bits.
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              8 Oct 1992 08:56:00 HST from <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Thu, 8 Oct 1992 08:56:00 HST Michael E. Macmillan said:
>I feel constrained to say a kind word about one of my best friends,
>the DEC Rainbow.  Mine sits on the desk still plugging along a
>little more than nine years after I bought it.  Still gets used

   So is mine....but not at my house...sold it to a colleague for 500 bucks
a couple years ago, complete with WP4.2, Multiplan,e tc.

>regularly, though it is no longer my main machine.  I can't believe
>you paid 9K for it; I paid about $3500.  It had a number of

   Well, that included hard disk (almost 2000 extra then), their best
NLQ printer, etc, etc....and all software, dBaseII, stuff above, and so on.
There WERE deals on campus where you owned half and the college owned
half, and with usual benefit of hindsight, I shoulda done that....oh, well...

>It gave you 896K of usable RAM, not just 640K.  Its video display

   Yup...I added up to 896 later....and added a clock....etc....

>was clearly superior to that of the IBM.  Keyboards are a matter of

   Yes....

>taste, but I find the LK-201 on the Rainbow and other machines much
>more desirable than the IBM keyboard.

   Yes....again, agreed.

>it didn't do a very good job of marketing what it had in any
>channel.  Even now, when they have reentered the microcomputer

   No kidding....

   I did dearly love that Rainbow.....even considered buying a bluebox
for it....not the kind for phone phreaking, but the add on that turned
it IBM compatible....but finally decided to dump it and get my 386/20
almost three years ago...of course now i'm ready to give it to daughter
for college and get a 486/33 or 50 or 66....with a decent sized disk....


dan
From: GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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Subject: Re: cracking wise about inhaling
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:51:51 GMT
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
In article <WORDS-L%92101307314949@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
:---------------------------Original message----------------------------
:What makes you think smoking pot is a sin?  Some folk consider it a
:sacrament.
:
:Rogers, ken comments:
:Hopefully one of those folks is piloting the jet your flying on.
:-----------------------------------------------------------------------
:Such an ungenerous remark.  Many religious groups have sacraments
:which would equally disqualify them from immediately piloting jets.
:Including such 'innocuous' practices as extended fasting.  Your
:ethnocentrism is showing.

I dunno - I wouldn't want to be flown by a Catholic who's been at
the altar wine or an Anglican near the end of Lent much either.

G
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I did not say tht they should be allowed to do so.  The simple
fact is that many behaviors considered to be part of 'true belief'
can lean to physical or mental incompetence to fly an aeroplane or
dirve a train or remove an appendix, etc.  However, engaging in the
behavior is not sinful, rather it is piety.

JAG
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Butt Plugs
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:31:21 GMT

harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig) writes:
> I've had a private request for more information about butt plugs. Since
> this list is always my first best source for information, I have no doubt
> that you all can rise to this challenge too. As I told my correspondent,
> all I know about them is what I read in the papers. Who out there has
> <first-hand> knowledge of their workings? What are they really for? How do
> they look?

At least Ruth is willing to ask without inventing a "friend" with the
question.  What happened, you were concerned your JT Toys order
wouldn't come with instructions?

A butt plugs is simply a dildo for your ass.  For reasons of safety
the base is flared to prevent the entire object from going in.

Anal toys may either be inserted and left alone (for the feeling of
being "filled" along with pressure on the sphincter) or moved in and out.

Many butt plugs have a long, rounded diamond shape (excluding the base)
so that the anal sphincter holds it in place.  If you want the motion
you might want one without this feature.

Safety tips:

1.  Do not use the same toys for vaginal and anal play
2.  Use plenty of lube
3.  Relaxation is the key

--karsten

(Surely your GIF collection has a few examples?)
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:54:00 EDT
From:         gilbert smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: gas tax
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> >Tell me it's not true! You don't really only pay $1.25 per gallon, do you?
> >Carolyn
>
> OK, it's not true.  Not for me, in any case.  It's close to $2.00 a
> gallon ($1.9-something) last time I looked.  Probably still cheaper
> than yours though.
>
> Michael E. Macmillan (macmillm@ewc)

In North Carolina, it's more like $1.09 for regular no-lead.  In Texas
it's even less, at least last time I was there.
--ggs
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Subject: Re: Metric system?
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>For many years the highway signs around Raleigh have shown
>kilometers and miles, but now I think they are replacing them

We had them around here for about 20 years, too--not to usher in the New
Age of Metric Supremacy, but to make it easier on drivers from Mexico.
Funny, when all the signs were replaced as part of routine maintenence a
few years ago, the metric stuff disappeared and hasn't shown back up.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:48:28 BST
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Webster's online
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:24:51 -0400, "(Joan Boorstein)" <boorstein@umbsky.dnet>
 wrote:
> Is there a online Webster's available for Internet access with a
> relatively dumb terminal (vt100)?  I have vague memories of such
> at Rutgers, but apparently did not save the posting.

Rutgers have the OED; the websters is on moose.cs.indiana.edu

You should ftp there and fetch the client shar file, which is almost
ready to make (edit webster.h and set the default site name to moose.
cs.indiana.edu) and it just compiles trivially on unix.

If you don't have unix, you can almost use the server directly by
telnetting to moose.cs.indiana.edu on port 2627  (On unix the command
would be: telnet moose.cs.indiana.edu 2627
but since you're doing this coz you're not on unix I've no idea
what you do...)

Anyway, once you connect you type:
DEFINE word
for as many words as you want to check, one line like that per word.

There's no quit command so you have to kill the connection in
some machine-dependent way, as far as I can see.

Graham
PS, yes, it's totally dumb. 100% ascii.
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