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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:35:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Lob's Profuse Apology (was WWHWIGTV ?)

>> Apolgy not intended.  This is words-l, where the apologetic, as well as the
>> apocalyptic, are killed and eaten and those accepting either are to be treate
   d
>> with pity or disdain.
>>
>> Chris ;->
>
>WRONG.  That was an apology if I ever saw one, a Chris-tian one, STS,
>sort of like I won't say I'm sorry but I'll be a good guy again.  So,
>apology *accepted* whether you like it or not, and I think you are
>--ggs (who *never* holds a grudge....)

Hah!  Shows what you know.  It was an "I forgive you for your stupid game and
for introducing a vehicle (not your Miata) to the list by which some people's
feeling would be hurt but I understand you probably just didn't think of it
that way and you'll *never* do it or anything like it again so I accept the
apology you offered to the list a couple of days ago" message.

Get your apologies <straight>.

Chris
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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Date: 15 Oct 92 03:33:00 GMT
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> 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?

The United States adopted the metric system as its official system of
measurements sometime in the 1860s.  Just another law that's honored
more in the breach than in the observance.

Steve Karlson

Well, it's five of one and half a decade of the other ...
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From:         IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
Subject: to; KAREN
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We love you Karen.  You just need a hug!

             Love,
               VMI assholes
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (63)
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TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Akio Tanaka) writes:
> 34) Maltron keyboard (Karsten)

A curved keyboard that is supposed to be more ergonomic.

There is a version for people with use of both hands along with
special versions for people who have the use of only one hand.

--karsten

(ggs could use the right-hand-only keyboard right now)
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:33:10 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (63)

22) "Sto lat!"

    Polish for "100 years."  Fuller form: "Niech zyje sto lat" = May
    <he,she,it> live 100 years.  All-purpose wish, cheer; I think
    there's even a tune equivalent to "Happy Birthday to you" that
    uses the phrase.

    brad
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Scary but True [tm] 10/13/92

> What a laughably self-indulgent and unnecessary waste of money.

By what standard is un-circumcision more self-indulgent or more
unnecessary than a summer trip to a clambake?

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone.
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Date: 16 Oct 92 18:28:12 GMT
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Posted on 16 Oct 1992 at 14:15:55 by tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
>if bullying is related to bulls from the pulpit?

This was my assumption...what does a Hindu know about papal bulls, anyhow?!

Karen
who went to Catholic school for ten years, and was voted Most Likely To Be
A Nun in her high school class.
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Greetings,

I haven't been in any adult bookstore/toyshops lately, but I was under
the distinct impression the penis *is* readily replaceable.

As for this gratuitous slap at Robert Bly, it reflects a certain willful
ignorance of what he represents and advocates.

Marty
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 11:31:24 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: gas tax
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Folks,

Tell me it's not true! You don't really only pay $1.25 per gallon, do you?
Unless my metric to imperial conversion has got really rusty, that means that
we, poor overtaxed Aussies are paying more than 2 +1/2 times as much as you.
79.2 cents @ litre really sucks.... especially when I know that most of it
comes from our own oilfields and not from overseas as our government would love
us to believe.

No wonder my car is rusting away in the garage. :-(

Carolyn
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:30:39 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: "But You Don't Have a Southern Accent"
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> > Possibly the person who said Natalie doesn't have a southern accent hails
> > from someplace like Belize.
> Or deep in the heart of Georgia.

She's originally from Pennsylvania but is married to a Mississippian and
has lived here for 40 years.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: LEAH@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (leah)
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Date: 13 Oct 92 20:02:17 GMT
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Hi Nancy. I've done it, and I highly recommend all of it, even the occasional
late train. In 1985 I crossed and crisscrossed the country for about twenty-
two days, and I'd do it again in a minute, although i would do it for shorter
 periods of time, and I would take some long-distance trains that I haven't yet
 been on.
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: 99 and 44/100 percent pure
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>> Re Rigoletto:  amazingly wonderful production of this opera last
>> year on PBS, done by what's-his-name in London who does the updated
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> opera stuff....  A really remarkable production, with everything

>Responding to my own post in my best metatextual fashion, I will
>guess:  Jonthan Miller   (??????)  Anybody know for sure?
>--ggs

	Peter Sellars?

	I can't take opera...updated, outdated, weardated, freshnessdated.

[someone else's answer will appear on the net *long* before this escapes from
the black hole of the Pitt system...]
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 06:53:17 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: gas tax
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> Am I ever envious - around here $1.25/gallon for regular gas is considered
> cheap.  For those who are easily shocked, I will add some blank spaces

I'll check our prices sometime and report.  I think they're a good bit
higher than this.  Because I always buy cars that don't use much gas, I
tend not to notice gas prices (I go weeks between needing to buy gas), but
I do know that Mississippi's gas prices are close to, if not the, highest
in the country.  That's one reason I usually stop and look for Time
magazines on dirty restroom floor in Sulligent, AL, when I'm coming back
from Alabama.  Everybody here knows that it's insane not to buy gas shortly
before crossing the Mississippi line from any direction.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Posted on 9 Oct 1992 at 02:12:03 by LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
>I assume that there used to be such a service, but the same thing happened to
>your town as happened over here to many of our more remote outback towns.....
>some economists decided that since the trains weren't being fully patronised,
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Did you know Steve is an economist, Carolyn?!:)  Yes, *twist* that knife!

>7 days @ week, these towns didn't need any form of public transport... the
>fact that this rail link was the only way people had of getting to or from
>these locations didn't seem to enter into the decision to close them down.

Yes. Well, I have to say (after spending *hours* last night trying to arrange
Thanksgiving air travel, that I live in a rural area that has an FAA-supported
airline.) The FAA subsidizes air travel in rural population centers.  While
my town only has 16000 people, it is the county seat and the largest town in
northeast Missouri, and our link to Kansas City is the only efficient way to
get out of here. There is a train that goes to Chicago once/day, but it is
twelve miles away, because the people of Kirsville didn't want the dirt and
traffic a train would bring.

Karen
who is grateful to the FAA
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Typos
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Who made the 'homeophobia' typo earlier? I thought that was great...

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:15:50 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Webster's online
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> 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.

I'm having a wonderful time spewing Webster stuff around my Ra account.
But I'm using trial-and-error, as usual, and am meeting mainly errors.
Ok, I edited webster.h and put in moose.cs.indiana.edu for the host
server (I think that's what it was called).  Before that, I uncompressed
webster-client.shar.Z, of course, and then ... hmmmm... I've forgotten
what I did then.  It was something that the beginning of the webster-
client.shar file told me to do -- I think it was something like 'sh filename'.
That's when it spit out files like webster.1, webster.c, webster.h, etc.
At some point I tried 'shar webster-client.shar' to see what that would do.
It spit some more stuff out and told me it was not going to clobber webster.h
etc.  (I have 'noclobber' set on.)  As I said, I'm having lots of fun
flopping these files around on Ra, but I don't think I'm any closer to
looking up words in a dictionary.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S.  I just remembered the point of this note.  Re "it just compiles
trivially on unix":  how?
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:08:56 BST
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Webster's online
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:25:41 EST, "Entropy Warrior" <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
 wrote:
>      1) G is clearly English--that odd usage of the plural with organizations;
I'm sure you're not trying to be deliberately irritating.
European, British, or Scots, but not English, please.

>      2) the addresss is almost certainly moose.ucs.indiana.edu
>                                                ^^^
OK, you use your address & I'll use mine.

G
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: German/American Day at LoL

Don, I know I'm too late for Dawn's class (Her high school is named after
butter?) but I'd just like to share my favorite quote:

        "Beim Schliessen der Kabine
         auf vordertiel
         Gummirahmen achten..."         - Freidrich Hegel, 1770-1831

JMW
"...na vieder stumm...Der Kommissar gekomm..."
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:48:00 CDT
From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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Subject:      Re: LATER

Tushar suggests:

  >Refuting a passing newbie who doesn't care is a very alien method of
  >having a bit of fun.

But we can conjecture that refutations of a puerile newbie
hastens the passing.
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Lysteria

>For this disease, I'd use Listerene. (TM)
>
>--bayla

And for a very nasty job, the list's own Lester Oil

-K

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:26:12 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Giving Up For Now
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Gotta log off.  Will continue my pursuit of Webster's at another time.
Maybe I'll even get my -Teach Yourself C- book off the shelf.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Karen Kay)
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Date: 15 Oct 92 19:09:36 GMT
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I said:                                                                  sex liv
> > I told you I can't do anything more than speculate on other people's
> > today
>
>         Let me know what you come up with for mine :)
> Rita

Dearest Rita, I suspect that your sex life is fine!:) I'm too sick to be
really inventive today, anyway...you already have a swing in your
bedroom, right?

Karen
I've been up for 3 hours, it's time for a nap...  When I list advantages
of a laptop, I'll have to list the fact that one can sit or lie in bed
and read words-l without missing a beat...
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Gifs of next president.
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185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu ("Alec D. Plotkin") writes:
> Clinton Gore images are now available on anonymous ftp at
> pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (128.104.200.15) in /pub/politics/clinton/images.
> They are mostly GIFS.

Just what thousands of horny freshmen are looking for:

GIFs of Tipper holding a Pat Boone album.

--karsten

("In college I once played a Hendrix record but I didn't listen")
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:37:40 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SUnrise, sunset....
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>>(How good are you with knots?)
>
>Not much practice there I'm afraid, but I used to be a whizz with handcuffs.
>Would you like me to see if my black leather gear still fits?
>
>Carolyn (extremely disappointed because her sons didn't want motorcycles for
>their 18th birthdays).
Hey, Carolyn! Welcome to the WORDS-L Black Leather Grannies
Group! (My kids aren't cooperating, either, but I like the
name...)

love, judith, Black Leather Granny-in-Chief
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Subject:      Re: There *is* a god . . .

Greetings,

Count yourself lucky, ggs, to get by with a mere harrumph.  The killer b
is quite capable of more scalding rejoinders.  Ask her to fetch you a
cup of coffee sometime.

Marty
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Date: 15 Oct 92 13:05:52 GMT
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------

There's an aweful lot of cognitive dissonance running around this list.  Must
                         --------------------
                          probably more accurately selective perception
                          You likely mean the indivdual's reaction to
                          a dissonant state, so?

happen every four years.

-K

-Mka
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From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What's wrong with the Post Office
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              "WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu" at Oct 7, 92 9:06 am

>
> I regularly make mail-order purchases.  I usually indicate to
> the seller that I prefer UPS as the shipper but sometimes my
> order is sent by the US Postal Service anyway.

[Karsten's story deleted]

OK, the US Postal Service has one satisfied customer -- me, so I better speak
up for them.  I have no problem picking up packages at the nearby post office,
which conveniently has two or three 24-hour windows (7 days a week).  OTOH, I
have been trying to get this package that was sent thro' UPS for close to
*three* momths without any success.  I kid you not.  I have come this close to
giving up, but, since the person who answers the phone will not tell me (or
maybe doesn't know) the zipcode of origin, I have no idea what's in it.  This
is not the first time I've had trouble collecting packages sent thro' UPS, each
time it's been a real bitch.
I've never lost letters etc sent via snail mail either, one tattered letter
made it even though most of the address was no longer legible.

> > Dear Mr. Karsten:

I thought Karsten was your first name??

rashmi
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: loopmanics, part two
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:40:10 EDT Rita Marie Rouvalis said:
>	Cool.  Wonder which one it is.  Wonder if it's one I've worked on.
>Now THAT would be neat.
>
   Well, maybe i misspoke...it is done as an interview, but you may still
have participated.....

"Civilizing the Electronic Frontier: An Interview with Mitch Kapor of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation"  conducted by Michael Marotta.  "This
interview was conducted via e-mail in the Summer and Fall of 1991.  Supporting
Kapor was EFF legal counsel, Mike Godwin."

Covers five pages.  Mentions cases including Neidorf, Jackson, and Rose.
Gives EFF address in Cambridge, and gives Internet address as:  eff@well.sf.ca.
us.   (does it still forward from there?)

                                         dan
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Banned Computer Material 1992
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On Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:01:20 EDT Rita Marie Rouvalis said:
>	Damn.  I HATE when you resend stuff Dan.  I just fired off

   sorry, beautiful....I use the FORWARD command....and the reply depends
on how the LISTSERV that posted it is set....not by me or my mailer....
If it has REPLY-TO set to the list, that overrides....at least that is MY
understanding....maybe next time I'll log it first, then extract the
text only....though I don't like that, not only cuz more work, but also
cuz it removes all the context stuff.

>some lame-ass reply to whatever list you got it off that was meant
>to be lame-ass on words-l.  Shit shit shit damn.

   Just CWIS-L, nothing too exciting....besides it'll make the lame-ass
at samford all the more SURE of his righteousness, in case he needs it.  8-)

>	The poster did manage to display an amazing lack of understanding
>of the obscenity laws, though.

   no shit.....

maybe thee should set your mailer (if possible) to require TWO sends
before sending....at least with my lameass ricemail, when I do that
it TELLS me where it is sending to BEFORE I get to hit the pf5 again
to really send it....that has saved me from MOST eoops since then...

dan
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From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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Subject:      Re: Reality vs. Rhetoric

JMW fudges:

 >(More like Reality Check...)
 >QUAYLE:  "...your Global Marshall Plan would cost $100 billion dollars!"
 >GORE:    "I never said that!"
 >QUAYLE:  "Yes you did, on page 304 of your book!"
 >A-hem.
 >        "Charles Maier points out that the annual U.S. expenditures for
 >the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 were close to 2 percent of our GNP.
 >A similar percentage today would be almost $100 billion a year."

A blurb in the Chicago Tribune today, hardly a pro-Clinton crowd,
noted the above as an example of Quayle's inaccuracies.  "Quayle
'wrong' on Gore's Number," was the banner. Quayle, like JMW,
falls victim to shoddy logic and distortion. Citing a cost for
clean-up (what's the problem with that?) says nothing about the
distribution of that cost. Says the Trib':

     But Gore does not say the U.S. taxpayer should foot the bill.
     Three paragraphs before the one Quayle cited, Gore writes:
     "Today, of course, the U.S. cannot conceivably be the principal
     financier for a global recovery program....The financial
     resources must now come from Japan and Europe and from wealthy,
     oil-producing states." (Oct 14, I: p. 16).

I doubt that Quayle actually read the book, but it would be nice if
his trainers could set a higher example of reading comprehension for
today's college students. Or a higher standard of ethics.

But, like Danny said, it doesn't matter if you're accurate or honest
as long as you look good.

Jim (So much for literacy programs) Thomas