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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 08:13:45 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Note to Bernard
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Hey, Bernard, I was just leafing through my new Plow and Hearth
catalog and noticed they sell a flea trap--it has a 4-watt bulb that
warms this sticky stuff that releases a flea-attracting scent. Effective
w/in a 15-foot radius. They also sell pet wipes call Flee Away.
Just thought I would keep you up-to-date.

Karen
who had fleas once
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 06:58:21 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Lint-free cloths
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

What, exactly, is a lint-free cloth?  Can I fashion one from common
household items?  Once I've used it (with Windex applied to the cloth,
of course, and not directly to the screen) to clean off dust and smoke
and gunk, do I toss it or wash and reuse?

brad
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:49:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Life's seamy side

    >Jim, in much the same way as people felt they had to point out an
    >apparent preoccupation of Don's, might I say that your fascination
    >with the seamier side of life is slightly worrying.

Yeh. Unfortunately, when you hang out in prisons, these are the types
of guys we come across. It's becoming increasingly more difficult to
maintain "detachment" from some of the acts they've done, and although
I haven't shaken my commitment to opposing the death penalty, it's
these extreme cases that, I concede, make me hard pressed to defend it
or to come up with any workable alternatives. Brisbon and Gacy (who
murderded 30+ young males) are two of the most notorious types. The
bulk of the maximum security prison population is comprised of
ultra-violent offenders. Unlike some other countries, the U.S. just
keeps chucking people in prisons (about 2.5 percent of the adult
population is under some form of correctional supervison, and we have
about 1.3 million currently in prison or jail).  Cynics are made, not
born.  But, I wouldn't call it a "fascination"--it's just part of the
real world that I deal with routinely.

Jim (It does get depressing) Thomas
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From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
Subject: I am not afraid of words-l!
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 01:14:14 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


Chyeah, right.

Rita!

RICHH
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:20:36 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bumper Stickers

>The proud bumper stickers I've seen were all referring to students at
>*public* schools.  I saw them as counters to the emphasis on atheletcs, too
>-- never ocurred to me that anyone would think of them as snobbish.
>
>--bayla

I agree.  Of course we both risk the wrath of the new-age
sensitive guys out there who have nothing better to do than frott
their moral organs even while suffering from elephantiasis.

-Mka
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Where is Ruth Who is She?
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:55:59 GMT


In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>Ruth, I understood your explanation about the no longer used/in existence
>mail server (yes, I *know* --ggs, it was *your* question), but what
>puzzles me is that all of the -by now close to 100 I'm sure - messages
>that have been burped back to me were messages posted to Words-L, not to
>you personally.  That being the case, I *still* don't understand what is
>happening.
<*burp*>  That mailer had lots of gas?  Drank too much co-cola?  
Your guess is as good as mine; I never subbed to anything at all from
down there.  How that address got on anything attached to Words-l is beyond
me.  Bernard, have you been playing with Natalie's address book again?

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:27:25 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
Comments: To: Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> has little in common with the US system; however here I can assure you
> that you get a much better education in state schools, at least in
> Scotland.  (The English are a bit funny about their education system,
> but we don't talk about them...)

Graham,
  A few days ago I mentioned that one of my students is from Scotland. She
is from (I'm not sure of the spelling) Pittenwean, and before that from
Dunfermline.  At my request she has brought me some of the material that
she used for her Scottish Certificate of Education Examination Papers and
I am very much impressed with the material and the manner of presentation.
Much of it is similar to what I use with my Advanced Placement students.
Seeing this material, however, has still not clarified in my mind how the
school system works in Scotland. As you have stated, it appears to have
very little in common with the US system.  Someday when you have free time
on your hands and nothing better to do, would you try to explain to me
what it is like to go to school in Scotland?  (You can do it off list.)

 As time passes I'll become better acquainted with the girl and will have
more opportunities to visit with her one on one. I *love* listening to her
speak. She is quite pretty and dainty, and a good representation of
Scotland.

Doris
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:28:52 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bumper Stickers

>what I'm concerned about, and I believe that education is more than
>what goes on in the teacher-student interaction....  they belong in the
>*real* world.  Second, it has nothing to do with PC....  it is a
>question of what is best for the kids...  everybody's kids, no matter
>what their social situation.
>--ggs (forgiving -abh for her insensitivity only because of her
><ontological condition> of being Republican....)

Private education is the real world too.  What you're saying is
that you want to change the real world--which is fine too.  But
if there is a problem with private education, it is *not* that
the products of it are somehow out of touch with the 'real'
world.

BTW--I didn't mean to suggest that *you* are a new-age sensitive
guy, Giggles.  Have to get me a narrower brush.

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:17:38 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I am not afraid of words-l!
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Hmm.  If Richh decides he likes words-l we're in for
>some interesting times.

Yeah, that "top" and "bottom" stuff don't play here, richh.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:47:48 MST
Comments:     Resent-From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Rhubarb Pie
Comments: To: All fellow wordslers <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:36:19 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>btw- how many licks does it get to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie
>Pop?

Or a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Mom?

In either case it depends on the angle, moistness, and firmness of the
tongue doing the licking.....

dan the tongue
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:50:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)

Rashmi offers:

    >Jim, Andrea Dworkin seems to be the perfect example of a
    >"misandrist" : a woman who hates all men.

Thanks for providing the correct term. I used to think her
hyperbole was for dramatic communicative effect. But the
consistancy of her polemics suggests that writing, for her, is as
much catharsis as communication.
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:33:48 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Aspiration

>>>Ditto. I've no idea what 'eighth' is relevant to either, but it's a
>>>good work to drop in morphological conversations.
>>>G
>>
>> Why, what is it an example of?
>> tushar
>
>Same thing 'dogs' is an example of.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

My guess is it has got something to do with spelling, i.e. TEXTUAL
representation of a word. So it is of no interest to me. (Right now,
that is.)

Now, "dogs" is not the kind of example I wanted. There must be several
words like that. Since what I want is a morpheme split into syllables,
monosyllabic words just don't come in the picture.

A word can be partitioned in two ways: into morphemes and into syllables.
If the former is finer than the latter, it's not interesting. If it's
coarser or not comparable at all, then it's interesting.

If anyone says that "harping" is split into syllables as [har|ping] then
that's interesting. If "ping" is also accented, then it is even more
interesting.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:30:00 EST
From:         "Adam H. @ Drew" <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Worse Verse (probably been discussed to death already)
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Bayla, what a great poem.  Ay Bee Aitch recommended it to me, and I'm
happy she did.   Sorry I have nothing more to say---don't have time
to keep up with the list, but as I type I'm looking at the first
group picture from the 'Bake, so I'm still sort of in contact, I
guess...<reaches wildly for coherency and misses..>

--Adam
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:27:42 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Is the list dead or am I dead.
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Subj:	Is the list dead or am I dead.

Brain dead maybe...

-abh
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: system crash fix
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 04:43:35 GMT


In a previous article, karsten@netcom.com (karsten) says:

>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.)
You mean it's humanly possible to improve a Mac?  By other means than
defenstration?  That lockup sounds like an Apple product - simple to use until
something screws up.  Then it requires an expert....  

Ruth
who can feel the old Mac/PC argument coming back to life....horray!  Everyone
get your books of insults and vulgar language out of storage...if they've been
in storage, that is.<heh heh heh>

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:16:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: TGTAagnes
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> I read it!  I did!  I did!  I loved it.  I love you.  Pleeeze dont die. < I
> believe in words-l.>

bayla you doll, I have recovered, cured of my recent malaise d'esprit
by my good friends the wordslers and not even the slightest bit affected
by the tasteless remarks of some (-abh for example, *really*!)....
In fact, my research shows that there just may be more to the story
that was originally <thought>.... hmmmmm  let's see....
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:06:16 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Hello
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
              215-645-4366" at Aug 27, 92 6:31 pm

>
> I am back in the USA.
Welcome back!
>                       I found France to be:
> Expensive

Ah, the falling dollar.  Some of my friends leave for Europe this
weekend and have been watching the decline of the dollar with dismay.
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:50:37 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TshirtII, Cubbies zero

My filthy mind just keeps pondering about the asymmetric tensions produced
on an Amazon T-shirt front, and whether we should take that into account
while manufacturing the T-shirts.

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:57:56 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Two Tushars
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> >What I want to know, TS, is how in blazes you managed to disguise
> >yourself as a blonde, southeastern American woman.  No dark com-
> >plexion.  No retroflex stops.  Aspiration in all the *right* places,
> >seemingly effortlessly.
>
> It's just a knack.

And you notice he didn't have Bernard with him.  Bernard would have known
the difference and given away the hoax.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:30:32 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: fire and ice
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>whether I've just been lucky over the past 20 years or whether perhaps
>something in Graham's environment is a bit strange ?


ROFL, Tony.

-abh
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Kulchur, NY
Date: 4 Sep 1992 19:22:20 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:

>>Uh-oh! Were you mugged in NYC, Tushar? Is that why you were incommunicado?
>
>No. I will never describe a mugging in this stupid fashion. I was talking
>of welcoming.

So what did the denizens of the Wormy Apple do to you?  

>
-- 
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	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: info, please
Summary: Challenger
Date: 29 Aug 92 02:22:23 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Hi, Gang,

I need someinfo help.  I'm neck-deep in a proposal, and can't think
clearly anymore.  It *was* the -Challenger- that went down with the
schoolteacher aboard, wasn't it?  I have to get this thing in the mail by
tomorrow morning, and there's nary a liberry open around here at this hour!

(Somehow I doubt that the libraries are open in Miami, either :-( they
still have no potable water and food is getting scarce...)

-hanx

[I had written "can't think straight" but changed it so's not to upset
Graham.]

--bayla
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: system crash fix
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:59:18 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig) writes:
> NCSA Telnet, while a worthy product that has made telnet access available to
> thousands, is worth exactly what you pay for it compared to some of the
> commercial products out there. TCPack from Advanced Software Concepts is a
> slick implementation, works great.

Undoubtedly there are better implementations.  Unfortunately I'd be retired
by the time I parted the red tape necessary to order anything other than
$50K Sun CAD software or $500 Mac presentation software.

The original point was that it doesn't really matter whether the systems
produce cryptic messages, clever icons or simply lock up - both Mac and
PC environments let their users be screwed by faulty software.

--karsten

(Some AT&T computers drew little mushroom clouds!)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:13:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Pet names

Rita nominalizes:

   >I don't know what possessed me, but there seemed to
   >be no other name for my new fishie.  Thanks, Jim.

Names come from odd places. Thanks to Liz on a hot tin roof, my
cat's a "Maggie."

Jim (but she has far more personality) Thomas
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:20:23 CDT
From:         Listserv Software <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ain't Technology Grand?
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

> I just really *love* this message.  After Natalie's explanation in
> the previous note, it strikes me that <mem> is referring to our own
> dear Natalie Maynor as the <listserv software>....  I like it.  I
> really *like* it.  Miss Software 92.   It fits.  It really fits.

Me too.
  -- LS
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:18:11 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: natalie's mail
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Mail did get here ... I want to know how you know mail is not going out.
> Neither of the mailers here (Unix of VMS) give the user any clue that mail is
> going nowhere.

Yep.  Mail is moving out again.  I found out from He Who Knows All that
this morning's problem was weather related.  It seems to be solved now,
though.  We've also been having some problems related to overload of
Ra and Isis.  I've promised that the first chunk of money when I win
PCH Sweepstakes is going to the MSU CC for upgrades -- even though I'll
be buying my own SPARCserver to use in my new home in Villefranche.

I know what's happening to my mail because I keep 'verbose' set on all
the time.  Most people don't.  I realize that I'm weird, but I love
watching the machines talking to each other.  Nobody was answering Ra
earlier this morning, though, because something was screwed up.  So
I got "deferred mail" messages instead of the usual conversations.
If I want to see whether deferred mail has gone out later (when the
connections are up again and the sweeper starts sweeping out the
deferred mail), I use the 'mailq' command.  I can see the deferred mail
sitting there if it hasn't left yet, although I can't do anything with
it.  Once it's there, it's out of my reach.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:12:19 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      graham's environment
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              28 Aug 1992 17:13:19 EDT from <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>

On Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:13:19 EDT Tony Harminc said:
>
>So might I ask other WORD-Lers to take the huge risk and let me know
>whether I've just been lucky over the past 20 years or whether perhaps
>something in Graham's environment is a bit strange ?
>
   Hell, we KNOW that Graham's environment is strange....

or maybe its just Graham that's strange?

dan
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:48:48 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I solved my problem!!!!
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Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

     Hurray for Karen!!!
   Doris
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From: maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject:  Listserv Madness 
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:05:03 GMT

Those of you who read the list on usenet are probably wondering about
this morning's silence.  Here's why it's silent:  (I don't know why why --
i.e., I don't know why the listserv has clogged and closed.)  

From LISTSERV at UGA: * 5.6 (SLU  208 -  370 mode).  There are  665 files
still to be processed....
From LISTSERV at UGA: * there  are too  many files  in the  UGA spool;  no
From LISTSERV at UGA: * reader file or  traffic-generating command will be
From LISTSERV at UGA: * processed.
--
   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 04:15:36 GMT


In a previous article, harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood) says:

>> > > > And just in case you want to know in more detail, yes, I practically
>> > > > expired with mirth. I was saved because I am very reserved.
>> > >
>> > > 7Tushar!! Your're back. Not only that, but you reacted the way I did. And
>> > > I, too, am *quite* reserved.
  I did giggle a bit, but only a bit.  Your giggles, Giggles, were pre-empted
by two or three soap operas and Barbara Cartland if I recall correctly.  She
certainly would have appropriated the story line if she'd heard of it, and
you might say she would have made a proper balls-up of it...

>Let's just say some of us are *very* confused...perhaps I should send *my*
>head off to Ruth for repairs.
Umhhh - by the time you notice anything wrong, it's usually too late for
repairs.  You might as well scrap the thing, Nancy, and trade it in on a
newer model.  

>
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It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:15:51 -0500
Reply-To:     Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@tenet.edu>
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: worse verse
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Wed, 2 Sep 1992, Bayla Singer wrote:

>       Speak harshly to your Ay Bee Aitch,
>        And Flame her when she teases,
>       She only does it to Annoy,
>        Because she needs the Attention.

<grrrrrr>

if it's poetry, why doesn't it rhyme?

-abh
<without words>
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