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From: PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Judith E. Schrier)
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Subject: Re: Deafening Silences (was Re: Amtrak quiz
Date: 11 Oct 92 17:50:01 GMT
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Ok, you're bored? This'll *really* bore you:
I don't think we ever settled the meaning of
"shell", as a jacket.

It goes back to an outer coat or jacket, usually
wind and/or rain resistant, which had a warm
lining, possibly zip-in/out. The lining was the
"lining" and the outside was the "shell".

I think they started selling "shells" as "shells"
sometime in the last 15 years or so, probably when
someone had a shipment of outsides, and the linings
had been lost/stolen/burned/whatever.

Before that, they called them "windbreakers" or
"windcheaters".

love, judith, keeper of the trivia
From: BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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Subject: Re: Let's pretend
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:40:07 GMT
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              16 Oct 1992 11:38:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

>	If you thought 'Quinn the Eskimo' (on the Basement Tapes, right?) was
> loud, wait till I crank up 'Like a Rolling Stone'...

    Actually, Neal, when I want to hear The Mighty Quinn, I go to
    my old scratchy copy of -Self-Portrait- (1970).  A live version
    from the Isle of Man concert, I seem to remember.  You don't
    think the less of me, do you?

    brad
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Subject: The debates
Date: 12 Oct 92 00:46:59 GMT
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In the moments after the debate (What? The A's lost?) our local NPR
commentator is saying that Ross Perot "didn't do himself any harm
tonight." I've never been on the Ross badwagon, but I'm inclined
to agree: I think he gained the most and emerged the "winner,"
(admittedly a silly concept).
    How did it play at your house? Shall we have a tally on who
held up the best in the first debate?

--Rod
Rkessler@rcn.mass.edu

PS: I found the first Words-l weekly summary helpful, Brad. Keep it
up.
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Clinton and, well, you know
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>Is it my imagination or are all the Clinton partisans on this list, er,
>compositionally challenged?

>-abh

        Hardly a partisan of the guy, though I will vote for him.

	I've been silent for the last couple of days because:

	a. Alec Plotkin and some friends came into the 'burgh to watch the
	Pirates lose a lousy game Saturday night.

	b. they stayed well into the day on Sunday, and I was entertaining
	my guests.

	c. today I was doing my 'plumber's helper' act, helping my wife's
	uncle replace our 60-year-old cast iron 'soil stack.'  Lemme tell
	ya, that stuff's *heavy*, and 6 decades-worth of schmutz can occlude
	even a 4-inch pipe.


	Under point b., we thought that no one won -- all three were pretty
	much as expected.  Which means that GHWB lost badly (since we expected
	a bad Dana Carvey imitation), and Clinton won (since by not falling
	on his face he maintains his lead).

	Clinton said something like 'might oughta.'  I was surprised that
	neither Ross nor George took the opportunity to be polite and kind
	and familial, and wish Hillary and Bill a happy anniversary.

	Do you think Phil Hartman is looking forward to the next 4 years,
	since he does Clinton and Carvey does both Bush and Perot?

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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:57:00 CDT
From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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Subject:      My God! I'm (shudder) actually complimenting GT!

G confesses:

    >Well, since you asked - I drove a light air-portable landrover on
    >two wheels after being expressly asked not to.  The other
    >passangers weren't as amused as I was.

Graham's stock just quantum-jumped. That's one of the few
posts that actually made me laugh out loud just picturing the
image of it all.

Jim (always willing to acknowledge good initiative) Thomas


      (Still rotffl).........
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:50:28 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Webster's online
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> There's no quit command so you have to kill the connection in
> some machine-dependent way, as far as I can see.

Oops.  Guess I should have read Graham's whole note before jumping
into moose.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:01:34 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      gas tax
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As I understand it, one of Perot's plans if he were to be president
would be to increase gasoline tax by 50 cents a gallon, which for sake
of argument I'll consider a 40% increase in cost to consumer (price
going from 1.25 to 1.75, to make math simple and fairly realistic).

Anyhow, it seems that this would hurt the 'little people' of the
middle and lower middle class the most.  The VERY poor don't have
cars anyway, so maybe no effect.  The rest of us do have cars.  To the
VERY rich, the extra few bucks would be trivial compared to changing
rates of taxation on stocks, bonds, etc.  But to the many in the middle
and lowermiddle, the hit would be pretty bad, especially for the many
that do NOT have public transportation options.  (also unclear as to
whether it would also hit gas for planes, buses, etc, but would hurt
public transportation too if it did).  The folks who farm in rural
areas, those who work in resorts like Aspen and Sun Valley but have to
live 25-50 miles away, with no public transport, because they can't
afford to live where they work, etc.   Am I missing something, all you
Perotvians and economists?

dan
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:51:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      RE: Presidential politics

: I know little about economics or about large amounts of money and thus
: have no answer to the question of the alleged discrepancies.  But I keep
: wondering why he's saying these things if they are so obviously wrong that
: ordinary people (e.g., people on WORDS-L) see through them.  Even if Clinton
: is stupid, surely he must have some economic advisors somewhere who understand
: how things work.

Oh, ye of too much faith!

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone.
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Marked One
Date: 12 Oct 1992 03:42:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS" () says:

>Not only is _Zulu_ one of *my* favorite movies, can you believe that it
>was Michael Caine's FIRST???  _Zulu Dawn_ is an [inferior] companion, but
When did it come out?  I've never seen it, but there are copies of both
Sleuth and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels laying around.  It's hard to believe that
he wasn't working back during the Silent Era.:-)
>
>ps - dorisann and anyone else who might be able to help:  Whenever I try to
>post privately to EDU, Bitnet, etc., I get one of three messages -
>"No such node defined"
>"error activating transport"
>"error activating image"
Looks like you're trying to send without telling your machine to use SMTP%"
or whatever your machine needs.  Stuff from the Freenet doesn't need that
header, but other places do.  Try asking HELP to see what you're machine
wants to see.  Some Bitnet stuff has to be gatewayed through an Internet
node.  If all else fails, ask a sysop.:-)

			Ruth

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From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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Subject: Mason-Dixon Line
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:43:33 GMT
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>>        Well, Washington certainly isn't a Yankee town.
>
>Just checked my map. Washington is north of the Mason-Dixon Line. That
>makes 'em yankee.
>
>Just who do you think waged war on the South, anyway?
>
>-abh

Washington is not north of the Mason-Dixon line--that is the boundary between
Maryland and Pennsylvania.  Must be a pretty odd map you've got. D8=

-Mka

-K
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:19:00 EDT
From:         gilbert smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: still a loser
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> > > >> But sometimes the E-MAIL viewpoint is deceiving ... I felt Natalie was
> > > >> somewhat strict person and even intimidating...until I met her.
> >           1)  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   .....
> >   1)  I had the same impression.... maybe that's one reason (plus
>
> Why??
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I think, because, in the early days of my wordsler residence, it
was always natalie who gave the final word on whatever question was
under consideration, no one ever seemed to contradict her, and then
she jumped on me in a very authoritative way (but low-key) when I
got out of line about aaron and then about doris' <wet> wit.
How times have changed, and in such a short period of time.
--ggs
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From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Reality vs. Rhetoric

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Is Words-L now a forum for pro-Clinton/Gore rhetoric?
jonathan
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As I recall, this thread was provoked by an inquiry by list conservative
-abh whether all list Clinton/Gore supporters were compositionally
challenged.

Feel free to refute anything you disagree with.

JAG
From: BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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Subject: Re: "Grow" the economy?
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:37:43 GMT
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              16 Oct 1992 12:32:04 CDT from <tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU>

>Is it true that Clinton talked about "transmuting good values" when
>talking about The Family (in the first debate)? Is it just me who heard
>it like that, or is this old hat by now?

    I heard it too, Tushar, and meant to mention it here.  It
    was a slip of the tongue, I'm sure.  Made you sit up in your
    seat, though, didn't it?

    brad
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:21:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      RE: Model Railroad
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: 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


OK.  I did.

Chris
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:00:43 BST
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Ross
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:04:00 EST, CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET wrote:
> First, the US doesn't "defend the world."  It defends its own perceived
> interests in the world.  Those interests increasingly differ from the

True.  The korrekt phrase is "Amerika *polices* the world".

G
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: There *is* a god . . .
Date: 8 Oct 92 03:11:43 GMT
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I am not accustomed to misunderstanding others, nor to being misunder-
stood.

I presumed --ggs was expressing grateful belief in the miraculous,
attributing whatsisname's decision <not to attend ggs's institution>
to Divine intervention.  

My post implied that his gratitude, and therefore the renewed faith
derived therefrom, was due to a failure of his (ggs's) imagination.

Has Master wordSmith become so <entangled> with Derrida that he can
no longer read linear-b (b for bayla, that is)?

--Herself (harrumphing)
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From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: cracking wise about inhaling
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:49:09 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92101406551254@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
: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.

Actually I consider 'true belief' a sufficient sign of mental incompetance
of its own.  I'd feel distinctly worried if I knew that my pilot was
a sky pilot too...

G
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: SUnrise, sunset....
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>     No, esoteric, cultural puns.  Levelor (level of lore) is a major
>manufacturer of window blinds.

Not a very nice thing to do talking to someone from another culture! Almost
deserves a slap on the butt. ;-)

Carolyn
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Date: 17 Oct 92 02:10:46 GMT
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As much as I hate to admit this, my very own and only brother is an avid
Republican.  Bush has even been in his house.  And my sister-in-law was
once in Reagan's hotel room -- with chaperones.  I do *not* discuss politics
with my brother and sister-in-law.  (But I made sure my Clinton-Gore yard
sign was prominently displayed when my brother visited here last weekend.)
What's-His-Name-The-Newbie would approve of my brother, btw.  They share
the same values.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:56:00 CDT
From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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Subject:      First debate transcripts available electronically

The transcripts of the first debate and of both the Dem and Rep party
platorms are available electronically. If there's any interest, I can
send them to Natalie, and perhaps she can put them up on the ftp cite.
The debate is about 85 K.
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Date: 14 Oct 1992 20:24:09 GMT
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In a previous article, JOEP%EPCC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu () says:

>
>     Joe P. (from the boondocks of the southwest.)
Hello Joe, whaddya know?:-) [sorry, couldn't resist]  Greetings from the
northeast.  Ignore the address and the man behind the curtain.
>     P. S. Having listened to Gore for the first time last evening,
>           I'm wondering -- would anybody buy a used car from this guy?
Not on a bet - I wouldn't trust him to sell me a newspaper.  Was it my
imagination or did he sound like pure Canned Politician last night?

>
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From: N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbert smith)
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Subject: Re: still a loser
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:27:00 GMT
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> > speaking in response to this *unsigned* post, did these grade
> > school years include any episodes of <show-bottom>?
>
> Ooohhh .... sorry about being unsigned ...keep forgetting resend function
> does not automatically add my signature.  And the answer to your question
> is no.
>
>                  Peace,
>                        Don

Apology accepted, and I had just forgotten who that address belonged
to.  I am sorry to hear that you had a <disadvantaged> childhood.
--ggs
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Date: 16 Oct 92 16:49:33 GMT
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Posted on 16 Oct 1992 at 00:10:56 by CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET
>I think in this instance, and in a
>couple of other instances, he slipped into his "press conference" style,
>forgetting that he was dealing with real citizens as opposed to Sam
>Donaldson.

That's a good explanation, Marty.  I thought he was a total idiot on this
matter, and fairly insulting to the woman.   But explaining it as a press
conference works.

Karen
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Marked One

Not only is _Zulu_ one of *my* favorite movies, can you believe that it
was Michael Caine's FIRST???  _Zulu Dawn_ is an [inferior] companion, but
well worth viewing/watching, IMO.  Mine came as a boxed set.  You can't
really appreciate Rourke's Drift until you know about Isandawana...

                "If it's a miracle, Colour Sargeant, it's a
                 short-chamber Boxer-Henry point four five
                 calibre miracle!"

308 Williams

ps - dorisann and anyone else who might be able to help:  Whenever I try to
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(Hey, waidda minnit!  That's about what happened when I tried to tube NZ!
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From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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Subject:      Re: Reality v. Rhetoric

JMW writes:

  >>AAHEM.  Such extrapoltion is an unfair characterization.
  >Why?  What's unfair about it?
  >>                                                       Does Gore
  >>say that the USA will pick up the tab alone?
  >No, he says we SHOULD, but whether out of the goodness
  >of our hearts or Liberal
  >Guilt he _doesn't_ say.  He *does* say that we [taxpayers] are "unwilling"...
  >He's got that right.

Could you give us a pointer where he says this John? I didn't
read it in his book, and a previous post indicated that Quayle
grossly distorted his citation. Or are you using Quayle as
a short-hand Cliff Notes?

Jim (When some lack facts, they just make some up) Thomas
From: harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood)
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Date: 11 Oct 92 22:32:38 GMT
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> From: JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS <WILLIAMS@mc.bitnet>
>
> I'm with Ruth.  "The Holy Grail" is on A&E tonight, providentially opposite
> the Presidential Deflates...  Of course, those of us who own our own copies
> needn't worry about that...

Speaking of the debates...did anyone else see the Kennedy-Nixon debate on
CNN today? I remember thinking at the time of the original debate that
Kennedy came out way ahead...I still thought so, but wonder now if it was
simply hindsight that made Nixon look so shifty to me when I saw it today.
ndh (who cast her first Presidential vote for Kennedy)
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From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      After reading this, Perot scares me!

Stockdale and the Rockford Institute

by Chip Berlet

Perot's choice for running mate, James Bond Stockdale, has a
history of afilliations that raise questions concerning his
sensitivity to issues of racial justice and sexism.

Stockdale served as the president of the Citadel, a southern
military academy that gained noteriety for allowing racially-
based harassment of African-American cadets and for its policies
discriminating against women.

More troubling is Stockdale's current service on the Board of the
Rockford Institute, a leading right-wing think that helped
formulate the battle plan for the "Culture War" discussed at the
Republican convention. The Rockford Institute has drifted so far
to the right in recent years that even elements of the so-called
"New Right" have raised questions concerning examples of anti-
Semitism and racism creeping into the Institute's publications.
When an employee of Rockford suggested the Institute was allowing
anti-Jewish themes to emerge, he was summarily fired, locked out
of his office, and his possessions stacked in the street.

Margaret Quigley of Political Research Associates has studied the
Rockford Institute and concludes that it now has adopted many
core themes of the European neo-fascist movements, including the
aristocratic fascism of Le Pen and Benoist, and the more earthy
"Third Position," which is a re-packaged ideology based on
national socialism, the early political basis of Hitler's Nazi
movement.

Rockford promotes a Euro-centric brand of white supremacy,
considers Jews to have brought an "alien" culture to the U.S.,
and is anti-immigrant. Stockdale's position on the board of the
Rockford Institute is certain to raise questions about his own
political beliefs in these matters, and at the very least shows
an alarming lack of sensitivity to racial issues.