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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1992, Emily Horning wrote:

> Emily (who is trying to drag her friend Ken into the words-l lions' den...but
> when I told him what abh does to <fresh meat>, he got <scared>...8-)  )

You would just not *believe* the ultra nice "newbie, come back!" message I
just sent Charles Cochran. I brought tears to my own eyes.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:19:20 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: what? no report yet?
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On Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:37:41 EST, "blomberg cepeda" <ST402747@brownvm.brown.edu>
 wrote:
> Posted by abh
> >Yeah, but what is Grant like?
> Imagine a Canadian Leo (if that's not an oxymoron).
> b.c.

I can't.  I have no idea whatsoever of the perceived attributes of Leos.

Could you enlighten us please?

G
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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....obnoxious...
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:53:31 EST Evelyn Duncan said:
>Reversi is like Othello.  It's not as addicting as Microsoft Solitaire,

or, more correctly, Reversi IS Othello....

dan the librarian and Othello-semi-god
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:54:02 -0500
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Blast From The Past (Long!)
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              16, 92 9:00 pm

>
> > *400*? Where ever did they get the time?
> > A
>
> I don't know.  Do you think perhaps they use/used a notebook computer
> hooked up to a mobile phone?  Can that be done?

I don't see why not, if faxes can. I'll ask my nearest and dearest
computer genius.

> Doris
>

A.
From: harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell)
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Date: 16 Nov 92 23:27:31 GMT
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU wrote:

> I don't think so; aren't there other lawsuits pending?

Oh please. Besides, the point was to highlight Clinton's waffling behavior
that we have come to know and love. They say a people deserves the leaders
it chooses for itself.

-abh
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> we say "disoriented like a decapitated chicken"? Has anyone SEEN
> a headless chicken?
>
> tushar


Yes!  (Here we go again, Don!)  In fact, I rendered it headless with
a hatchet <my very own self>.  Amazing dance, truly amazing!

Rita L.
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Subject:      Re: 'Wimmin' 'Womyn' - Historical Roots?
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>Peter Renzland <renzland@gov.on.ca> Ontario Ministry of Health +1 416 327-7741
>In real life:  <peter@renzland.org>   "Je danse donc je suis"  +1 416 323-1300

Welcome Peter - it's been ages.  Hope you can stay a while on WORDS-L.

[Peter is one of the least polyglottally challenged people on this earth.
Now if he can figure out what Tony H. at Brown University he knows... :-) ]

Tony H.
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: FYFI
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:>repeat to yourself:
:>     I have a vocabulary of seven words
:>
:>-K
:>
:>-Mka

:Ten to one Graham is typing in a message this very minute saying
:that he did this on words-l three years ago.

Nope.  Actually, when I saw it I wondered why we should repeat to
ourselves that mka has a vocabulary of 7 words, but it was such
a pathetic joke I didn't find it worth posting, thinking also that
tushar would beat me to it.  (Insert one waka-pair in the foregoing
as appropriate to your mood)

G
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:43:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject: Re: FYFI

Giggles protesteth too much:

: The problem is, I'm not *old* enough to remember.

You mean you never saw the one featuring your <extended family>?

Altho       (sic)
we've sold
six million others
we haven't sold
those coughdrop brothers
BURMA SHAVE

I'd think anyone <old> enough to be concerned about <prostate
trouble> would remember.  Burma-Shave signs came down in 1963, the
same year the North Shore Line and the Twin Cities 400 quit running
and Penn Station gave way to Madison Square Garden.

I date the decline of American civilization to 1963.  The Diem coup
and the murder of JFK are exclamation marks in that decline.

--ggs (laughing anyway at sk's funny poem....)

Perhaps I should offer an <appropriate prize> to the first person to
quote the jingle I patterned it on ...

Steve Karlson

My head grows bald but not my chin
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:37:00 JST
From:         Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gleanings (68)

Steve (Marilyn's husband and professor of sociology at California
State University at Dominguez Hills - Marilyn herself is
professor of history at the same university, btw) gave me a
little lecture on <ethnomethodology> when we met last week.  It
sounded fascinating but I wasn't able to understand a thing.
_American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd Ed._ says that it is *the
branch of sociology that deals with the codes and conventions
that underlie everyday social interactions and activities*.  It
sounds like <sociolinguistics> to me.  Or is it any different?
If so, how?  Would anyone care to give me more information or
recommend an introductory book which any idiot can understand?
Thank you.

Now on to Gleanings - Number 68.  Any info will be appreciated.

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Akio Tanaka/16 Nov 92  <p.s. -  Next Gleanings will be posted on
Tuesday, 24 Nov 92, since 23 Nov is a national holiday (Labor
Thanksgiving Day).>
===================
 1) _Mastergate_ (Evelyn)
 2) Kashpirovsky/Luzhin (Frank M.)
 3) Barenaked Ladies (John Wm.)
 4) Sheldrake's theory of Formative Causation (Tony H.)
 5) Clue bus/clue CLRV (Steve K.)
 6) Gloria Rivers (Ruth H.)
 7) Miles O'Toole (Graham)
 8) Kitchen patrol (police?) (Ruth H.)
 9) Naomi Wolf (Tony H.)
10) Toad the Wet Sprocket (Jim T.)
11) Amelia Peabody (Susan H.)
12) Leon Czolgosz (Steve K.)
13) RICO (Anne Hy.)
14) Mea Shearim/Judge Sol Wachtler (Ken W.)
15) RSL (Carolyn)
16) GTE (Emily)
17) Hebraicus Jersaicus (Ken W.)
18) McGonnigal/Rabbie Burns (Graham)
19) "Beethoven's Last Moment" joke (Graham)
20) Cal Worthington (Emily)
21) _Who Killed Roger Rabbit_/'Toons/Red Cars/Yellow Cars (Judith S.)
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> >> How long have you been psychic, Ken?
> >>
> >> G
> >
> >Missing the allusions, today, old man?
>
> Missing the jokes, Ken?
Must be....

> G (Tushar will explain it for you...  Jeez, to think I've been
> waiting *years* for someone to set me up with that line :-(  )

Tushar is gonna explain it for me.

[pause, while Dr. Ken Kontemplates this Kontretemps]

Tushar is gonna explain it for me.....

[long pause]

        [enter, from behind the arras, a Doctor of Physick]

DOCTOR: It is my unfortunate task to report that Dr. Ken has been
taken to hospital or to the hospital, if you prefer, suffering from
hysterical brainrot and a case of Feigenbaum's Palsy, manifested in
the patient Rolling On The Floor, Laughing.

        [exit, pursued by a playwright]

--
Kenneth Wolman                  |       In every cry of every Man,
AT&T Bell Laboratories          |       In every Infant's cry of fear,
(201)564-2866                   |       In every voice, in every ban,
Kenneth.Wolman@att.com          |       The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: One simple (?!) question

>of 40 (or 50!) one lies.

or 60 :-(

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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You, obnoxious?  *Surely* not.
ndhj

-----Nancy Harwood-----------------------------------------------------------
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Subject:      Re: First Green Message

*** Resending note of 11/16/92 06:48

>>I have signed on to this discussion group just a while ago and so I am
>>a newcomer to this friendly group.
>>(the welcome message said this group was friendly)
>>Hello to everyone.

>>My pseudonym name is Kip Shaw.
>>Some call me: Kish (to rhyme with Quiche).

>Hang around here long enough and you'll hear things you won't believe....

Especially that part about this group being friendly!

>It's not that bad, really.
>snort!>

Right!  It's much worse!

>Ken

Welcome Kish!

Peace Don, old meat ...who sometimes teases *alot*
From: PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Judith E. Schrier)
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>She has a three month old kid. Don't ask me how I know - I don't know her,
>it's just some damn thing I somehow know, I'd give anything to know just
>how I know.

ANYthing???

>>>MACGYVER@INDYCMS               254
>>
>>        Before he became MacPhil, he was MacGyver.
>
>I have never figured one thing out - who on earth is/was Phil? Phil Paxton.
>IS it a dangerous question to ask? Does Don know anything about him?

His name is Phil. MacGyver was a pseudonym. When he stopped using
MacGyver and started using Phil, I started calling him MacPhil. Me.
I was responsible. All by myself...

>>>"Virupaksha Mokshagundam"        8
>>        No comment needed.
>Undoubtedly the classiest eight letters written to the list in that period.

Undoubtedly...

>tushar

love, judith
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Subject:      Just wondering..

Where John "What's the M for" Williams is.  He seems to be quiet
lately.  Oh, I wouldn't tell you what his middle name is, but it's not
Matthew, Luke or John.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Thanks Natalie
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> Whatever you did, thanks for giving us back our favorite listserv.
>
> This ends transmissions by the Emergency Listserv.
>
Yes, thanks Natalie *and* Bernardykins.  I have been trying to thank you
but sending to the Emergency Listserv didn't work, all of my messages were
returned.  We had tornadoes here Saturday also, so it wasn't surprising
that the listserv she faw down go boom.
Doris
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              16 Nov 1992 21:18:12 -0600 from <harwell@TENET.EDU>

On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:18:12 -0600 Anne Burton Harwell said:
>Get real! Do we look like your secretaries!
>
   Not like mine.   But that might be because she's 25, married, blonde,
and 7 months pregnant.  And to my best knowledge the bwp is none of these.

dan
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Subject:      FYFI
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....to...
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Freezer on bottom
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>Our current refrigerator (which I still think of as the *new*
>refrigerator) is 16 years old...has 16 egg slots and a top freezer.  We
>have always had refrigerators with the freezer on top...my husband, who is
>6'5", has been saying for years that the next refrigerator we buy will
>have the freezer on the bottom, because he is tired of having to bend over
>to look to see what's in the refrigerator part.
>ndh

I faced a similar problem when I went fridge-shopping 5 years ago. My back
problems ruled out a bottom-freezer and my tall sons couldn't cope with a
top-freezer. I solved this situation (and others) by buying a freezerless,
no-frost fridge and a separate box-freezer.... which is great because I
can't reach the bottom of it to clean it out, so the boys always have to do
it for me. :-)

Carolyn
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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>I think "person" is fine. Is it really true that it hasn't entered
>language?
>tushar

"Person" is not popular in the Aussie dialect, since we have been using other
more prolific suffixes for non-sexual differentiation for as long as I can
remember - i.e., [-ie/-y]; [-er] as in 'postie'; 'chairer'.

There was a problem with the title "Lord Mayor" when the first female was
elected to that post. The "Lady Mayoress" which had previously referred to
the mayor's wife was rejected and instead she elected to be called the
"Lady Mayor" that was her personal preference. There are however other female
mayors who enjoy the title of "Lord Mayor"...none of them are known as
"Lady Mayoress". At government functions they are introduced as "The Honourable
L.M.", but from movies it appears that in the States this has become "His/Her
Honour the Mayor". Is that right?

Carolyn
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Subject:      Re: Wackawacka
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Posted on 19 Nov 1992 at 08:38:36 by Joan Boorstein

>From a signature on another list ---
>
>        < O_O >
>       ==( . )==
>   Prrrouwf, Wackawacka

Possibly [:-)] related also to the B. Kliban book _Cat_ (1975, Workman
Publishing Company, New York, USA, ISBN 0-911104-54-2).

  Cat Words:

  1. NOW ?
  2. WOW
  3. PROWL
  4. WACKAWACKA *
  5. CROWN ?
  6, PERT
  7. PRANG
  8. MARIE ?

                                 * Not widely used


Tony H.
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Date: 18 Nov 92 00:14:21 GMT
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Don,
    Thank you for sharing. That story makes me once again feel like a
member of a decent society. It has renewed hope for the future.


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Peace, Love, and Universal Family,
Jim
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From:         Rebecca S Altes <rsast11+@PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids

marty,

    thanks for the confidence boost.   i guess you're right that i haven't
    heard enough uncle bonsai, the only stuff i heard was about two years
    ago and wasn't funny, just strange. although i actually just realized
    that i had heard "boys want sex in the morning" and loved it, i just
    didn't know who it was by.

    sorry about the confusion around iris dement, i tend to lose memory
    bytes between reading a message and responding to it, and have yet
    to figure out how to look at a message in the middle of writing a
    response without losing my response.  the closest i've gotten is
    using the restore (create a message using this one as a draft) option,
    which is rather annoying and limiting, or writing the message out by
    hand first, at which point i might as well just stick it in an
    envelope and mail the thing.

    it doesn't help to be working with limited equipment.

    waaaaaah!!! mommy, i want to go to cmu and play with the computers.

    if anyone has any suggestions, please clue me in.

               bekka (whose day keeps on getting better and better)
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From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: pets?
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              19, 92 10:50 am

>
> Coupons from a local pet store:
>
>    Free Goldfish (one per visit, With This Coupon)
>    Hamster 88 <cents> ( "    "    ")
>    Damsel 99 <cents> (   "   "   "  )
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Anyone want to stock a harem?
>
> --bayla
>

At these prices, it must be a <distress> sale.
A.
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Another party w/o me (was Re: what? no report yet?)
Date: 23 Nov 92 08:43:47
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In-reply-to: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain's message of Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:39:00 EST

Neal writes:

   So tonight was the 'Welcome blomberg' pot-luck dinner chez Mama Primate, and I
   have yet to see a report on the festivities...

After Thanksgiving I shall expect to be on future invites...I'll have my
car then, and will be able to come and go as I please, able to visit
friends on the slightest whim or for the more important reasons of
Unbirthdays.  

peas,

//alice, through the looking glass//
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning
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> >
> > Reversi is like Othello.  It's not as addicting as Microsoft Solitaire,
> > though, IMHO.
> >
> Have you tried Microsoft's version of Mahjongg?  I think it is called
> tapai, or something very similar.  Now *that* is addicting.  I also like
> the solitaire game.
> doris

My favorite solitaire game is Scorpion, but my *real* favorite computer
game is Lode Runner...I could (and have) play it for *hours*!
ndh
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>                                                       see the lengths
>to which he [Jeeves] goes when Bertie so much as -fantasizes- about
>having a wife and children (in one of the few stories, if not the only
>one, written in Jeeves' first-person).

This reminds me of one of our teachers who told us this story as happening
to him. Most of the class immediately thought he was quite "cool" because
of that.

This blatant plagiarism has always struck me as rather more audacious than
normal. I think our teacher is quite cool.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:42:14 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:55:49 GMT karsten said:
>ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:
>> Then there's those packages of Tortilla chips that contain
>> 2.33 ounces...  Why 2.33?
>
>Two 1.165 ounce servings.
>
    No, makes you buy three packages to get your normal quantity
of 7 ounces of them.

dan