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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 14:10:20 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cars vs. Pub. Transport
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> Natalie, I hardly live in a metropolitan area, but we have two cab
> companies.  They charge $2.50 for anywhere in town, $6 to the airport, or
> the train station.  (The airport is about 10 miles away, the train station
> $15.)  I couldn't get a flight back from Kansas City after Thanksgiving,

We have an airport limousine service, but appointments have to be made
well in advance -- it's one person, one car, and it doesn't just sit at
the airport waiting for business -- it shows up by appointment only.  It
costs something like $30.  (The airport is 15+ miles away.)  If we did
have taxis, it would be interesting to see how much it would cost to go
to the nearest train station -- over 60 miles from here.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Tercets For Triplets
Date: 23 Nov 92 03:55:45 GMT
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tushar fulminates:

>>mud-slinging sleazy slander-spree! This tiresome cervical pain has now

and rita gasps:

>	Cervical?  Anne!  Rashmi!  You never told us about *this* side
>of Tushar...

--come on, rita, it's just <heavy necking>!

--bayla



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From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      an inquiry
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Being just a newbie, I have no way of knowing whether I am the first to notice
the frightening resemblance between tushar and Marvin, the macromelancholic and
dauntingly dyspeptic robot from the "Hitchhiker's Guide" series.

Am I?

     blomberg cepeda   st402747@brownvm

     Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once
working out so much according to plan. Only twenty minutes ago he had decided
he would go mad, and now here he was already chasing a Chesterfield sofa across
the fields of prehistoric Earth.
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:07:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      RICO

In a previous article, haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock) says:

>   13) RICO (Anne Hy.)
>
>Can't remember, so can't answer.
>
Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.  No, I don't know
what it's supposed to do.

Steve Karlson

Luff 'em and leave 'em
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Jeeves Unmasked. Finally. Maybe.
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:04:57 GMT
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There -is- one story in which jeeves mentions a Book, in the gentleman's-
gentleman club, in which the members write anecdotes concerning their 
employers.  this is for the guidance of the members in taking new
employment, we are told.

Jeeves does regard his employment as comfortable and remunerative: see
the lengths to which he 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).  Jeeves is quite explicit about his 
own motive.

--bayla

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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 12:20:10 CST
From:         Frank Peters <fwp@CC.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: help with address in England
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In article <Pine.3.03.9211150942.D16462-a100000@abernathy.tenet.edu> Nancy
 Harwood <harwood@tenet.edu> says:
: Someone just asked me how to find out an e-mail address in England.  The
: person he wants to write to is SFF1000@(whatever).  He is at Cambridge
: University.  The address my friend has is cam.phx, but he says a Unix
: finger command shows that is not correct.  He tried cam.phx.uk, but that
: was unsuccessful, also.

Short answer:  SFF1000@phx.cam.ac.uk.

Some random comments

o       The UK tends to put host names in the opposite order.  The clue
        to that above is that the machine is at Cambridge yet the cam
        comes first in the name given.  That is a clue that from the
        rest of the internet the name would be phx.cam.something.

o       For most sites in the UK the address is something.ac.uk.  That
        along with the address above suggests that phx.cam.ac.ug would
        be a likely choice.

o       Finger (and ping) are poor choices of tools to check the
        validity of an email address.  The internet (without getting
        into too much technical detail) allows for the existence of
        mail only names.  For instance, you can send mail to a
        compuserve user as user.number@compuserve.com but you cannot
        finger (or ping or telnet) compuserve.com.  So don't let a
        failed finger or ping convince you that an address is invalid.

o       The only really reliable way to determine whether a given host
        name is valid for email is to query the domain name system
        directly for any entries related to that host name.  If you
        have the "dig" or "host" programs available this is dead easy
        (I used dig...probably the most versatile of the tools).  If
        you have nslookup (a fairly common program on most UNIX
        systems) it is more complicated but doable.  There are probably
        other similar tools for non-UNIX systems.  If you don't have
        any utility for querying the DNS directly then you are reduced
        to trying to send mail to the target address and seeing if it
        bounces.

--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update
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>return call, but the message was that the one and only term in the new
>dictionary that qualifies as Cincinnati dialect is --

>-- the envelope, please --

><5-way chili>.

>My copy is at home so I won't be able to check particulars until
>tonight.  Someone (was it Neal?) suggested Skyline chili (a brand
>name) when I posed this question originally, so he was on the right
>track.

>The five "ways" (i.e., ingredients): spaghetti, meat sauce, beans,
>shredded cheese, and chopped onions, if memory serves.  3-way and
>4-way are also possible combinations.

        T'weren't me, Brad.  Besides, I always think of that stuff as 'chili
        n-ways' rather than 'n-way chili'.  I think you have the ingredients
        right, though I suppose that if there were something like 1-way chili
        it would be sauce without spaghetti rather than spaghetti without
        sauce.  The cheese is yellow American, the onions raw.  I don't recall
        the type of bean used.  The sauce is a thin brownish Greek-style pasta
        sauce, too sweet and cinnamon-y (I put a dash of cinnamon and sugar in
        my spaghetti sauce, too, but I also use tomatoes, basil, oregano, and
        garlic).

        No matter what 'n' is, chili it ain't.

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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:23:47 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (68)
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> 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?

It's part of sociolinguistics.  Unless somebody else responds to your
questions more thoroughly, I will later today or tonight.  I'm racing
through mail right now, not allowing myself to pause long enough to
write more than a few lines in reply to anything.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:47:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: BWP Stats
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>it just goes on and on and on....

>>Alec D. Plotkin                  33
185422285@wild.ucis.vill.edu

>>Alec Plotkin-Vax Acct.           32
185422285@ucis.vill.edu

>>Alec Plotkin                     30
185422285@VUVAXCOM


>now, what I want to know alec (or Alec), is, do you plan it this way? quotas?
>are there <reasons> you can't use one machine too much?


>the virtuously virtual blomberg cepeda   st402747@brownvm

Same account ,but my mail address changed.

later

alec
From: R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn Duncan)
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Subject: Re: charity
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:24:02 GMT
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              16 Nov 1992 15:57:34 EST from <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:57:34 EST Entropy Warrior said:
>>Yup.  Another good place to give them (after inquiring FIRST to see if they
>>want them) for many mags is a local school/preschool/daycare place....NOT
>>for their library, but for them to use to cut up for art projects,
>
>Or send them to me.  I make my own postcards with them.

Or you could use the pictures for decoupage.  Anyone remember decoupage?
>
>-Mka

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:53:19 -0500
From:         Rebecca S Altes <rsast11+@PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids

   I don't know about the other people whom you mentioned
   (Lucinda Williams and Lisa? Ument?) but I have heard Uncle
   Bonsai.  Pardon me for intruding so rudely into your world,
   I came across this bboard quite by accident one day, and
   have been quite happy just reading the backlog.  Every once in
   a while, I just have to put my two cents in, no doubt annoying
   you all no end, and confusing you with references to messages
   long since forgotten, but I simply can't help it.  Please feel
   free to leave my messages unread, they have no real importance,
   just random thought patterns late at night.  If I annoy you too
   much, feel free to tell me to go play in traffic, I'll venture
   out into the wide world of bboards and find someone else to babble
   to.

   By the way, about Uncle Bonsai, I heard them when Dick Cerri (D.C.
   folk community radio personage, since they took Lee Michael Dempsey
   off the air) was going through his extremely nouveau stage, they were
   too strange for me,give me Tom Paxton, Kate Wolf, or Buskin & Batteau
   instead and I'll subside.

                                      bekka <rsast11+@pitt.edu>
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:48:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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> Why be nice to everyone.  Clinton hasn't even been inaugurated and he's
> starting to play patty-cake with right wingers like Sam Nunn.  After saying
> throughout the campaign he was against the ban on gays in the military,
> now he must "look at the mechanics" of changing the policy.  Isn't this
> guy commander in chief?  What mechanics?
>
> Marty

I think he is going all to hell because he is upset over the rumours
that Ms. Flowers is spreading about him and the fact that his
<equipment> has become the subject of casual conversation on the
net.   And don't think he doesn't know.
--ggs
From: dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 02:45:12 GMT
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Natalie,
 Now I know why I still feel like a newbie.  What ever happened to those
folks who were posting in the neighborhood of 400 messages?  And abh had
under 10??? :-)

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 13:05:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FYFI
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> On Sat, 21 Nov 1992, Rita Marie Rouvalis wrote:
> > We've all noticed your pith and <length>, giggles.
> Mark that, GT and -ggs.
> -abh

I am *in* shock.  My momma told me wymmyn don't talk this way.
--ggs
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From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning
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>Profuse apologies from Alec, who now admits it was all a ruse and
>never thought anybody would really vote for Clinton?


Alright, the truth is that I am spy for the nation of Outer Bellybutton.
I wanted you to vote for Slicky Willy so we could get our freedom from
bellybutton lint.

>--karsten


Alec
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:42:23 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: November 22
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Posted on 22 Nov 1992 at 18:48:18 by Graham Toal
>I guess you have to be there.

I got it!

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:59:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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>  ...  and *doris*... Really!  *She*
> >        should know better by now...  -abh just cant <help> herself.)
>
> Yep, giggles, we'll be hearing quite a bit of cant in the next four years.
> doris (your very favorite sis :-))

My pet project for the next four years is to turn my favorite sister
into a *Democrat*.   And I'll do it, too.
--ggs (who loves a challenge....)
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:04:57 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
              18 Nov 1992 09:59:25 EST from <GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

On Wed, 18 Nov 1992 09:59:25 EST <GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU> said:
>
>No, but I have seen headless chicken carcasses.
>
>JAG

Anybody remember Don Imus and his "chicken kits"?

Evelyn
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Subject: Re: One simple (?!) question
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:09:00 GMT
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: Stravinsky's punishment in Hell will be to play his bassoon parts, while
: Wagner's will be to listen to the entire Ring cycle without being allowed
: to get up and go to the bathroom... for eternity.  :)

Not Parsifal?  I'm trying to remember who wrote about Parsifal, "You sit down
at 5:30.  Three hours later you look at your watch and it's quarter to six."

Steve Karlson

Heil Siegfried, treues Held!
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:50:49 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Reification

This hurts, Don.  This really, truly hurts.  Daniel Webster is roiling
in his groove.          --brad

>aporia - 1) stroke
>         2) a sudden, usually marked loss of bodily function due to
>            rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel
>         3) a hemorrhage into an organ cavity or tissue
>
>(1350-1400, ME apoplexie from Latin from Greek apoplekt(os))
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:58:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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> >> Maybe Clinton will do what LBJ did when asked about his war wounds.
> >> On Larry King.
> >I thought that was LBJ's gall bladder scar.
> >ndh
>
> You're right, but it comes to the same--just another theater of operations
> sliced up by the Drs knife....

Does that mean that our new pres is <Jewish>, so to speak?  Just where
do you get this information?  From _Playgirl_ or what?  Has Bill done
a centerfold?
--ggs
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
Date: 20 Nov 1992 04:17:29 GMT
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith) says:

>> But there is just so much that one can take. Strange I didn't realize
>> it before. To everyone, thanks for talking to me. Bye,
>>
>> tushar
>
>Does this mean I have to write a <poem>?
>--ggs (list lariat)

Could we rope you into it?  On the subject of the prodigal who only
pretended to leave home?

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Computer games
Date: 20 Nov 92 07:21:06 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Doris admits:
>Actually, my favorite computer game is Words-L.

Mine, too.

--bayla


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Date:         Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:05:07 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Of Food and Judith's and Alec's Religious Experience
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        While congratulating Alec and wishing him every good thing, I remind
        him who is occupying the White House as we speak.  I also suggest he
        compare the difference between his gross pay and his take-home pay
        on his first pay stub, and about 18 months into the Clinton administrati
on.
        Will it all seem as miraculous, I wonder, and will he still feel that
        his prayers have been answered so effectively.  Answer in about July
        of 1994.

All this conservative sour grapes is hilarious.  For what? 10 years? reagan
and bush run your country into the ground, building up a national debt at
a rate that would buy a third-world country out of debt *per day*, and
you'd rather have your pay packets keep their face value than try to
stop the rot and looming inflation.

It'll take more than 18 months to undo the republican rape of the economy.
It would have been an interesting comparison to have seen (fortunately
we can't) what his pay packet would have shown 18 months on if the
Republicans had won.  How many times would you have had to rue the day
George Bush asked you to lipread...

Come back in July 1996 Frank and see if your country has clawed its
way out of its current decline toward banana republicism.  That'll be
a better test.

G
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Subject: Re: Imposter
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 19:31:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov22.162005.10713@eff.org> rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
>But I only read Sandman and Hacker Files anyways.

You know the 4th Sandman collection just came out?  (Though of course
if you read the K0m1X you probably don't care)

G
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Headless Chickens ...Everywhere
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>I think this is known as change ringing.

No, Tony, just pure-D carelessness.
doris
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