From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: RE: Forwarded mail for LISTS.WORDS_L (LP version)
Date: 27 Sep 1992 03:42:54 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, WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (The Ronin) says:

>Warmeth ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
That's better, dearie.
>     Since Ruth seems to have taken to stuttering, I have included
Only since you've taken to sending me the messages twice, and the list has
taken to constipation...the first reply looked like it was lost in the
Bitstream.
>exerpts from both of her attempts to reply.  And Ruth, the lines
>preceded by a '1' are from your first reply, the lines preceded by a
>'2' are from your second reply.  (See what living among yankees can
>make a <good> <Southern> <boy> do?)
Yeah - think.

>1 Well, I warmeth the list a bit, but you have never seen me flame, doll.:-)
>1 You don't want to either; it's like being inside a blast furnace, and at that
>1 it's better than being taken to task by my kid sister.  She's the Wicked
>1 *itch of the East Coast to my merely nasty *itch of the Freenet.:-)
>2 Nahhhhh - I have not yet begun to roast relative newbies....  If you think
>2 this is bad, you don't want to be around when the shots fired in anger
>2 start flying.
>     Sorry, I just didn't expect much from one so proud of her
>yankee-hood.  I stand corrected until such time as you flame in
>earnest, at which point I reserve the right to ROTFL.
More like ROFTPOTF [roll on floor to put out the flames].  I rarely lose
my temper, but when I do, you don't want to be around.  Of course, as 
it's difficult to throw phosphorous grenades through the scanner, you're 
probably pretty safe.:-)

>1 Not really.:-)  I'm far too much of a live-and-let-live type to handle the
>1 fire and brimstone some southern preachers require.  Besides, I have no
>1 training as a preacher, and my reputation as you say, would precede me.
>     I suspect that quite a few of those preachers you refer to don't
>have much (if any) more training than you, just more experience.
The ones I really listen to usually have ThDs.:-)  My pastor has his theology
degree, but no ThD yet.  

>2 <We have a lock, ma'am.  >
>[Raise shields if any *real* artillery finds us.]
<Target ranged and locked in, ma'am><Photons armed>
>> >     It would take an act of Congress to make me a gentleman, and
>> >since I never enlisted, they never got the chance.  And I was never
>1 It wouldn't have worked anyway.<smirk>

>     Why do you think I didn't go in?  Actually, it had more to do
>with me wanting to be a combat soldier specializing in highly mobile,
>small group, international range tactics.  I was told (in 1977) that
Sounds like a SEAL to me; I used to know one or two.  Specialists in dirty
tricks, like some Ordinance Corps graduates.
>combat types in general.  And then formed Delta Force about the time I
>graduated.  I sometimes wonder if there aren't a couple of [then]
>Captains wondering what I am up to now.
They're probably just as glad not to have you.:-)  Anyone crazy enough to
want the job is probably not someone they'd want.....

>> >strike a lady.  I have, however, struck a number of beings with two
>> >'X' chromosomes.
>1 Then you probably won't be hitting anyone in here either.  Of course, I
>1 have been accused of being a lady on occasion...
>     Note recently, I hope.
Do, re, mi, fa, so....  Fairly recently, actually; I denied it of course.:-)

>2 Not when they had Bandwidth ICVMs to back them up, you didn't.:-)
>     How little you know of me.  :{) [mustache and grin]
How little you know ICVMs. ;-} [evil grin]
>
>2 Ever hear of New Orleans?  The Irish Channel?  Besides, Brooklyn and the
>2 Bronx are not part of the North really; no one up hear will own up to
>2 having colonized them! [the original of this is better]
>     I am aware of the large variety of incomprehensible accents on
>both sides of the Mason-Dixon.  I note that as you come up possible
>embarassments you immediately divorce them from your 'community' (I
>read your comments about Boston.).  Typical yankee.
>
They're just nasty, not incomprehensible.  And I didn't divorce them; New
York is a country in and of itself.  They consider themselves New Yorkers
first, Americans second, and Northeners not at all.  The same goes for
Bostonians.  Bostonians and other New Englanders identify more with their
region than their side of the Mason-Dixon.

>1 Yeah, the side that lost.<evil grin>
>
>2 Yeah - Wait til next Civil War.  Maybe a Cubs pennant would be better?
>
>     Just remember, the yankees were fighting to help cement the
>Republican party in American politics.  And look where that got you.
>Depending on a Southerner to save you from King George.
>
Hardly - who wants an Arkansan as President?  Or George the Lesser?
I'd rather vote NOTA, thank you.  The yankees can't win anything to save
their contracts anyhow.

>1 <sweet voice>  You'll never know, now will you?  As if I'd let some Johnny Reb
>1 into my closet....
>     Then I will wait for you to come out of the closet and <reveal>
>whatever it is you are hiding in there.
CHristmas presents?  Stocking stuffers, clothes, and dust bunnies?  Is that
what you wanted to see?  OK, so you caught me; I'm a closet chocoholic.:-)

>2 That's for me to know, and you not to bother your little head about.
>2 It would certainly be a very improper Yankee who would let you examine her
>2 underwear, asbestos or not.
>     Yup, they sure were.  Finest kind of yankee there ever was.
>
Shame on them, then.  

Ruth
who is <never> improper
<heh>

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