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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:45:01 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Grammatical question...
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On Fri, 11 Dec 1992 05:52:09 GMT, "Ruth M. Hanschka"
 <ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu> wrote:
> I was going to keep my mouth shut on this one, but I keep getting the
> feeling that that quote's from Romeo and Juliet.  There's no copy here

Ah, the <innocence> of youth...

G
From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
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amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik) writes:
> I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out that nobody ever
> called Mozart Wolfie, nor did he ever call his wife Stanzi.  It was
> Wolferl and Stanzerl.  Shaffer had it right in the play but changed it for
> the movie (presumably to be more accessible to American audiences).

I don't know whether or not Mozart was ever called Wolfie but my
cousin Wolfgang is.

--karsten
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:40:59 GMT

In article <BzL55B.Dur@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
:Gee, I'm already assumption-challenged, and now this.  In any event, I DO
:like calzones, and my main pizza hates are:
:
:1) Too *much* grease

Don't go to Edinburgh then: Greasy Rizi does a wonderful deep-fried-in-lard
pizza that's *soaked* in the stuff.  Cooked just like you'd cook french
fries.

G

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Subject:      Re: Saitami University
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Posted on 15 Dec 1992 at 10:16:07 by CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET
>it falls to me to entertain President Horikawa from Saitami University this

It's probably 'Saitama'...

>It seems they're signing an exchange agreement with us.

So how much did the university go for? ;)

Karen
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From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: hi
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              "BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU" at Dec 19, 92 12:21 pm

>
> Hi, Dan, good to hear from you in person (though the reports from your
> "secretary" were much appreciated).

Same here -- hiya, how you doing, Dan? Can't stay away any more, can you...
Glad to "see " you back, 'tater-man...(that's more of a wish - with all
those eyes, a 'tater can maybe spare a few???)
Agnes
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In a previous article, "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 " (815) says:

>> There is a precedent for this sort of separation.  George III's oldest son
>> [I forget what name he was crowned under] and his wife cordially hated
>> each other.
>
>George IV.  The House of Hanover was as imaginative as it was adept
>(although it was on George III's watch that the Brits tried to remodel
>the White House and the Capitol)
>
That's the dude!  Ol' King old, fat and ugly himself....:-)  Forunately
there were only two Hanover monarchs after him - his brother and Victoria.
For a family of 13 kids, George III sure didn't get many grandchildren.
<thank goodness>

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*** Resending note of 12/18/92 11:00

>OK, who else guessed who it was from before they read the .sig?

>G

And who else guessed what Mr. G's response would be?

How easily he grabs the bait.
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Agnes, maybe you would have to see the brochure on the software .... I
didn't do it justice.  I can't image making paper designs like you could
make with the PC - writing, mirror images, all converted to instructions
that the sewing machine used to control stitching, materal movement, etc.
Knowing little about sewing, I thought it was great, as did Joyce.  Joyce
sews a great deal, is quite proficient, but I could just see her drooling
over what she could do with the PC capabilities.....  The brochure shows
some of the intricate decorative ideas that are possible...  If you're
really interested, contact your friendly Pfaff dealer for a demo.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Words-L Trivial Pursuit
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> Trivial pursuit participants:
> > blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
> > Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
> > "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
> > Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
> > Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
> > Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
> > Carolyn Baird <lncjb@wombat.newcastle.edu.au>
> >Carolyn
> Please add my name to your list of participants.
> Betty Zaleski  tsbzaleski@cc.weber.edu

Me too, I want to play, if I can stay awake.....  Do the rules
include that it's no fair looking up the answers to questions?
And everyone is on an honor system?  There are a lot of cheaters
on this list.  I know that from pure-dee experience with this
bunch of less-than-absolutely-attractive <individuals> that we
are forced to deal with day-in day-out.  All these if-I-could-just-
break-a-bit-of-wind-my-ego-wouldnt-be-so-<inflated> persons.
I never.
What the hell.  Put me on the list.  I know all the answers.
--ggs  <n567126@ncsuadm.bitnet>
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:13:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Identification etc
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>             Digression:  Two young women are standing in front of a male nude
>             marble statue.  One says to the other, "But it doesn't look real.
>             Real ones are much bigger, and they stick straight out."
>
> All right, trivia buffs: what's the name for the convention that
> the old Greeks and Romans had that statues shoul always have
> abnormally small <Sinclair>s?  I heard it once and was surprised
> that it was deliberate art - I thought those old guys were built
> like that!
>
> G

I am *shocked* that G and I have responded in like manner to this
joke.  What can that *mean*?   *And* that he has appropriated my
vocabulary.  BTW, maybe I could get one of those awards for signi-
ficant contributions to the art of communication.  Every time you
turkeys use that <> and words like <sinclair> and <never in my life>
it is *me*.....  *Me*.....  I may be napping but my presence is
<felt>..... world without end.
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:35:46 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: ULTIMATE NON-MATHEMATICAL QUOTE FROM DONNE

>I don't know where you heard that..... such a place would be my definition
>of Hell. :-)
>
>Carolyn

Does the 60s mentality make one scribble .sigs all over one's emails?

tushar
From: ll23%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu (Karen Kay)
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Posted on 20 Dec 1992 at 23:12:26 by Jim Thomas
>If you're saying you agree with her, does that also mean you agree that
>domestic violence is an overblown and silly issue?

What, we can't like part of what she says w/out buying the whole pkg.????

I sure do like what she says about deconstruction....

Karen
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From: BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: UKy / U of L
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:15:34 GMT

Did I say it was a tight game?  Seven and a half minutes to go
and UKy leads 78-54.
 
brad
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:48:51 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      alt.swedish.chef.blender.dork.dork.dork
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Torkel's Universal Translator writes:

: It is quite simply that whoever wants to can write to words-l in any language
: As long as the person who writes and the person who reads have the correct
: installation, the written and the read material will appear as english or
: swhaili or any language which all the various people will understand.
:
: That you've have had no problems with reading my postings - which are of
: course written completely in swedish - I ascribe to the simple fact that you
: are the List Goddess and understand everything.

Very funny.  Your postings have always been in English.  You're not trying
to tell me the above was generated by this new BABEL attachment for MIME
you sent me last week surely?  I thought that was just a joke...

G
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:29:35 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Return of the Miata
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On Sat, 19 Dec 1992, gilbertsmith wrote:

> toys until four a.m. Christmas morning.  I *am*, though, thinking
> seriously of driving the infamous Miata to Portland, via San Antonio
> if the timing is right to do both in one trip.

Want a companion? Easily done...

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:31:44 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: 'spot on'
              18 Dec 1992 11:16:59 EST from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

>Does 'spot on' mean something like 'right on target'?  Is it too
>slangy to use in a formal letter?
>
>brad

I confess I do not know the answer.  I used the expression because
it popped into my head at the time and seemed appropriate.  I was
sort of waiting for someone to attack my use of it, so you can
imagine my surprise at being mistaken for an authority.  Sorry.

* Alt-Brad *
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Subject:      Indian press and the economic summit

Greetings,

Today's Wall Street Journal has a meaty page one story about India's
ethnic strife and its effect on the business climate.  Clinton's ecnomic
summit is relegated to a brief story on page 3.

Tom Brokaw (I seldom see him) interviewed the CEO of Apple tonight.  This
interview was fraught with possiblities.  Brokaw asked Sculley a couple of
questions about IBM's downsizing announcement.  I was hoping to hear Sculley
start laughing like a maniac and start jumping up and down--no such luck.

I was interested to hear Sculley talk about the need for the US to restructure.
This verb usually implies layoffs and divestiture of unproductive divisions.

Sounds like a good idea, eh?  Why not sell a few selected states (I suggest
starting with Mississippi, Idaho, Rhode Island, and Oregon (:-)).

Marty
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John,

One word for you: Netcom. Freedom of speech has its price, payable monthly
by Visa or Mastercard.

-abh
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> >                                         All these if-I-could-just-
> >break-a-bit-of-wind-my-ego-wouldnt-be-so-<inflated> persons.
> >--ggs  <n567126@ncsuadm.bitnet>
>
>      Damn!  So *that's* my problem.
>
> * Alt-Brad *

Get that boy some Di-Gell.
And somebody strike a match, please.
--ggs
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:32:18 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE kvetches:

>  What a revolting book this is. A lot of pretentious and repetitive
>writing, and a "wise, tough, tender detective". The next few weeks

Burke?  Got a first name on that?

>Chapter 2. How would you explain the meaning or reference of the
>following phrases?

We can but try.  Being handicapped by a Yankee upbringing these may not be
totally accurate....

>  1. The curled pungi-stick scar on my stomach.

A pungi-stick is a rather nasty weapon, more or less a sharpened hunk of
wood.  Good for leaving nasty if interesting scars.

>  2. Dalton Vidrine is a coonass.

rough translation, coward, or someone who's bold, but only if no one bigger
and nastier is watching.

>  3. Harry Mapes is a stump-jumper from East Texas.

translation, a hick from the sticks.  There's not much in East Texas but 
dirt...

>  4. The old church where Evangeline and her lover are buried.

beats me.  the only Evangeline I know if was the one in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
I *think*.:-)

>  5. The four-o'clocks were opening in the shade. [NB: plants]

Try - the flowers were opening, and ask someone else for the Latin name.:)

>  6. "These kinds of guys don't come up the middle."

Untrustworthy - they don't know how to be direct about anything.  sneaky.
It comes from football - sometimes the quarterback will hand the ball to
a very large guy, who takes it up the middle, and more or less over and 
through any opposition.  THey're the East Texas version of Henry VII - brains
like corkscrews.  It's a negative statement, in case you can't tell.:-)

>  7. Rattlesnake water melons.
>
beats me - only that's watermelons, one word.  

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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Ruth's Turn
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>Careful, Ruth!  That Ozzie TP is a killer!
>

John, I think I will share those sentiments about the American version of the
game if I get a turn at answering a Sport's question.... I don't have much
luck even with the Aussie ones. :-(

Carolyn
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:43:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: GWW's Fountain-Pen Thread

: I just double-checked.  The catalogue says 41 feet.  It could have been
: a printing error, of course.

> 41 feet is a fairly common measure I think.  It makes a nice standard
> figure-eight-on-a-sheet-of-plywood.  I'll bet its correct.

Not to pick nits, but figure 2 diagonals at no more than 8 feet and
4 x 3 = 12 feet adds up to about 28 feet of track for a figure eight
on a 4x8 sheet of plywood ... and what's somebody who shelled out
$100K for a train set doing setting it up on a 4x8 board.  With
a few turnouts I could design you a nifty Z scale layout on a 4x4
board and use up 40' of track, but the other trains would look
pretty pale next to the jeweled special.

> That is a rather large area at scale though.

Indeed

Steve Karlson

(break out the O-27 track! It's Christmas!)
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:12:56 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Neologisms
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My mother, who has just completed grading nearly 100 freshman comp final
exams, reports the following neologisms. Your discriptivists may want to
make notes, this is heady stuff, real bleeding-edge language in the making:

1). infact
2). eventhough
3). allright, alright
4). inbetween
and, of course, our favoite,
5). alot

Respectfully submitted,
-abh
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:05:46 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Identification etc
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On Sat, 12 Dec 1992, gilbertsmith wrote:

> roughly the size of the statue's little pinkie...  Now, that is a wee
> bit undersized, I think.  Maybe Bill Clinton knows the answer to
> this one.  Or -abh?

I have absolutely nothing to say on that subject that I would care to have
pressed into CD-ROM. Besides, I never in all my life.

-abh
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:55:00 PST
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: TP Game

Are we going to use the questions from the original TP? I bet most of us have
played this game enough to know almost all the answers by now...

Or are these going to be brand new questions?

Emily
(Has somebody else brought this up? I haven't been paying attention)
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 11:24:21 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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  Ruth to Graham:

   >Grahamie-pie, this is what got you and me into serious hot water
   >the last time.  I've stayed on the sidelines in this one; it's not
   >worth bothering our pretty little heads about.

  If you bring your pretty little head to bear on what has actually
been said, you will find that these are pleasantly tepid waters.
Nobody's beliefs are being questioned or challenged. Rather, the
question is just what Peter and other people mean when they say that
all deep beliefs should be respected. I'm not surprised that it proved
impossible to get any discussion going, since such questions are alien
to the thinking of many people. I recall something similar in
connection with "thinking machines" about a year ago, when - was it
Ken and Don? - kept repeating that they had their beliefs and I had
mine, as though beliefs (perhaps deep ones?) had something to do with
the questions raised.
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: fun word I'd somehow never seen before (fwd)
              12 Dec 1992 20:52:04 GMT from <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>

>Maybe not in your circles.  *manship words are quite well-known
>in Britain, as any Yeovil graduate will tell you.

   My colleague at the reference desk tells me that "lifemanship"
   has citations going back to 1950.  Jesus Lord !

   Yeovil?

   brad
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:43:48 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: So is this bit.listserv stuff working?
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        Graham, am I correct in guessing that you don't have nn available or
        at least have never used it?

Yes, just trn.  Never occurred to me software could be so brain-damaged.

Still, it'll come back into fashion when we get full-text-indexing of
news articles.

G
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 12:12:14 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs
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>   No, the "stiff twin compasses" are considered too obvious by most
> mathematicians.

How 'bout "And pampered swells with one blood made of two"?  That sounds
kind of mathematical.

>   Of course it is! Haven't you noticed that mathematicians have always been
> strangely fascinated by you, and tend to draw you into quiet corners and
> either talk to you about butterfly lemmas and pullbacks, or else recite
> Donne?

But of course!  The problem is that being round we don't fit the angles of
the corners as well as if we were cubes.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:58:41 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
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              in the rain" at Dec 14, 92 11:56 pm

> This seems to be the rule on the subways I've seen.  Are there others
> that let you see out the front ?

You can do that on two routes around these parts: The PATCO line from Center
City, Phila to Lindenwold, NJ as noted by Steve and Neal.  Also, the SEPTA
line between 69th Street (West Phila) and Norristown has seats up front by the
driver's cabin.  This line usually has only one car, two during rush hours.

-rashmi
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