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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: buffalo did it
Date: 4 Jan 1993 01:30:51 GMT
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In a previous article, rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU (Rashmi) says:

>Ken asks:
>> So who will Buffalo--the Minnesota Vikings of the Nineties--lose to in
>> the Superbowl THIS year?
>
>Dallas.  The Eagles finally got their act together against the Saints, but
>I doubt they can do the same against the Cowboys.
>
I'll keep hoping the Eagles will kick the Cowboys home on the range.  A
local friend is a diehard Dallas fan, so I root the other way just to 
annoy him.

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?
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Torkel skriva:
>  Pretty good! I see that I may as well post in Swedish from now on. Words-l
>can handle words of all kinds.

Pa svenska?!?! Looking up all those words gave mir eine grosse
huvudvark, by Thor! Also, it was reminiscent of Dr. Seuss's
_On Beyond Zebra_ because the the Swedes do their alphabet
*wrong* ;-) All those vowels with the circles and the umlauts
appear *after* z, something I didn't catch on to until I had spent
several minutes with the word 'ratta,' which, depending on how
the initial 'a' is draped, can mean "mice" or "wheels." For a
while I had thought Torkel was taking a stand in the Mac/PC
wars.

Bill
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:08:51 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Car talk 'tween the girlz
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> > But aren't phallic cars more appropriate for men to drive?
>
> You really *haven't* been following the Paglia thread ;-)

No, I really haven't.

> Besides, men already drive their cars like their, erm, Sinclairs, and.
> oh, well, I digress terribly...

I tend to see phallic cars as suggestive of the need for a phallus substitute,
though.  When I see a man driving a Corvette, for example, I think "How sad.
He has to use a fake one.  He must not have a real one."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:00:36 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: More songs about buildings and food
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:Could be.  But I wonder why people in New England don't call them English.
:What do you know about the background of English peas, Graham?  Explain to
:him what they are, abh.  They don't strike me as Grahamesque food.  (I
:realize that Graham isn't English.  I just thought he might know something
:about them since he lives there now and grew up in the general neck of the
:woods.)

I've never heard of 'English Peas' in all my life.  Sorry.  Must be
an American thang.

G
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Barbie dolls
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1993, karsten wrote:

> I knew I sent you the right magazine.

Ahh, yes, indeed, and the trucker who found it on the floor of the Big Y
Truck Stop washroom undoubtedly agrees...hey, maybe he'll post to Words-L!
That seems to be the thing people on this list do a lot of - frequent
roadside restrooms...oh, btw, I tore *my* address off, but couldn't bear
to part the mag from the neat little "This complimentary issure courtesy
of your friend Karsten (smack)" card...

-abh
pissed off but not so much as to quit fighting back
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 09:40:37 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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>   Luck has nothing to do with it. It's simply a fact that Twelfth Night
> is the proper time for the tree to come down.

Proper?  <sigh>  It's difficult convincing tree prescriptivists of the
narrow-mindedness of their views.

>   Do you have the tradition of "Christmas tree plunder parties"?

Not that I know of.  Balling parties are fairly common around here but
not plunder parties.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Curses Soiled Again (was Re: Deep beliefs)
              22 Dec 1992 10:41:20 -0600 from <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>

>I rather think that all of a sudden, the oath "Jesus Christ!" out of
>someone's mouth might not sound so bad.
>
Jesus and his mother, Mary, were sitting in there home when Jesus
jumped up, ran outside and asked his father, "Dad, did you
call me?"  Joseph replied, "No, son, I just hit my thumb with the
hammer."

* Alt-Brad *
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Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs

Greetings,

I find a deeply held belief in "racial purity" no more difficult to stomach
than a deeply held belief in a "personal savior," in "original sin," in
"Jesus, son of god," in "the divine right of kings," in "free-market
economics," or in a host of other things in which lots of people at one time
or another have held dear.

I belittle and mock such beliefs as I have the wit and opportunity to do so.
I dispute the argument that mocking and belittling beliefs "does no one any
good."  In point of fact, satire and mockery are highly effective tools of
discourse.  I much prefer them to bombs and punji sticks, myself.

Marty
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From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject:      Wonder of wonders....
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To my shock on New Year's Eve, AT&T has given me a present (besides
letting me keep my job for another year):

The Postmaster, a true Internet subversive, has installed a "proxy"
version of IRC on the newsreaders, connecting automatically to
fairhope.andrew.cmu.edu.  Which means if anyone plans to be over there
to make a fool of him/her/itself, I can participate without going
through telnet.

Bandwidth/Harwell, where are you??:-)

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:08:32 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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:>: I'm pleased to see that you, too, have the true Christmas spirit finally.
:>
:>*Finally*???!?!  You must be new here! :-)
:>
:>G

:Well, it is only my second Christmas on the list.... but I thought you
:started 'bah humbugging' a lot earlier last year. :-)

That's what I meant - that was starting early for *this* year :)

G
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 14:02:17 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      buffalo did it
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well, amazing things DO happen....they won in OT....of course Houston
fans can take Natalie-like consolation....in the one touchdown that shouldn't
have counted since the guy was out before he caught the ball...

cyclops
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Questions
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>>   What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
>.
>Milky Ways are candy bars -- have sort of gooey centers covered in
>chocolate (the center is nougat, I think)

The centre is nougat in the Aus version.

>>    "You never could resist mashing on a guy's oysters": what, if anything,
>>    does this idiom convey to you?
>>
>The oysters must be the testicles.... "to mash" often refers to
>making sexual advances.  A "masher" is a guy who comes on real strong
>to an unwilling partner.

That's what I thought it meant.

Carolyn
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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Brief Follow-Up
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> From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

> Probably for the same reason people sometimes spell "finding" "fidning." :-)
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)


Arrghhhh!!!!! That's embracing, er embarrassing. I guess it doesn't pay
to do brandy and words-l at the same time! None-the-less the "women/woman"
error happens with much greater frequency, and not as the result of a
drunken inversion of characters.

Pm
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 12:18:10 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
              <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: This ere t-shirt
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              Jan 2, 93 12:19 am

From Graham Toal...
>
> 'high-profile'?  Is that a coment about my stomach, eh fizzy?  Grrrr!
>

Only when you are lying down Graham.

Fiz.
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:34:13 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: An observation
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              26 Dec 92 09:28:27 -0600. <9212261529.AA13083@sics.se>

  >Some people believe that it's bad luck to take the tree down before
  >NY's Day.  Others (like me) believe that it's bad luck for it to stay up
  >past Dec. 31.

  Luck has nothing to do with it. It's simply a fact that Twelfth Night
is the proper time for the tree to come down.

  Do you have the tradition of "Christmas tree plunder parties"?
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Pizza Toppings
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        >        Sorry to be a nitpicker (not really), but "Gyro" is pronounced
        >more like "GYee-Ro".  It is hard to really explain the way the Greek
        >Gamma is pronounced without actually letting someone here it.  It is
        >somewhat guttural.  They "Y" is most definately NOT an "ou" sound.  It
        >is a long "e" -- like most Greek vowels.
        >
        >Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Founda
tion

        I think I've mostly heard it as "Hero" with a guttural "H".

I think I suggested a couple of years back that Hero was the New
Amsterdammer pronunciation of Gyro, but everyone disagreed, telling me
that Hero sandwiches were nothing like Gyro sandwiches.

I dunno nuffink no more.  Me, ahm just a po' boy (from a po' fambly)

G
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 11:16:42 +0000
From:         rmcdonell@UCSD.EDU
Subject: Re: anniversaries (2
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>> >> On Sat, 5 Dec 1992, karsten wrote:
>> >> > BTW, the pinch technique might help you overcome this problem.
>> >> You hit that one out of the park, kartsten!
>> >> -abh
>> >
>> >Don't think it will work for robot, or rather, he won't be able to
>> >manage it after reading -abh's post on Madonna, because he will
>> >find that his <thumb> is stiff.
>> >--ggs
>>
>> you like me! you really do!  Did you miss me?  I think so.  Just (by) a
>> little bit.
>> rmcdonell@ucsd.edu
>
>Dear robot:
>  1) We like you!
>  2) We really do!
>  3) We missed you!
>  4) You think so!
>  5) Just (by) a little bit, yes!
>Don't ever go away again.
>--ggs (how's your <thumb>?)

It's good to be back.  My thumb salutes you all--analogically of course.  I
was actually having a double hernia operation, if any of the adjacent
aforefingered above is a monitor of whereaboutses.  My Kaiser surgeon,
while examining  my protuberances, gazed up at me, popped his gloves and
coughed, <Fool! Words-L--weren't you warned?  These hernias bear all their
earmarks.>  Needless to say I was even more shocked coming to consciousness
to discover incision scars looking like this-((abh)- or some such although
I see them upside down.

I liked my kaiser surgeon though i was concerned that he didn't know that
Timothy Leary germinated some seeds of psychedelia while under the same
employer's corporate stare.  <Tim for Transportation Secretary!> sayeth a
bumpersticker.

Say, my friends, how's about a bit of advice.  I'm in the process of
plunging into to the purchase of a MAC IIsi.  Their appears to me (ergo,
the question) to be a good deal.  $1725 for 5/80 drive, ext KB, 14"Color
RGB monitor.  Sound good?  This will be for my home, and I'll be needing to
get a modem.  I'm looking at pp 52-53 of current MACWherehouse
catalogue--PowerUser 9600, ProModem Ultima, SupraFaxModem, Practical
SmartPack 9600 Modem.  All of them go for about $360.  Which (if any) would
you suggest?

Oops!  Time for my roxiprin.

robt
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Nerve of steel
              29 Dec 1992 02:35:44 GMT from
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>

No, Graham, it's not a punchline for a dirty joke.  Your little story
reminded me of a routine that Stan Freberg did to show the advantage of
radio over television (with radio, one can use one's imagination (if one
has imagination)).

Evelyn
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From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: date
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:   well....i used to get them in Arizona....and of course if you got to
:Palm Springs you can get one of the world's great delicacies....a date shake..
:which may have something to do with making it sticky....

You've been practicing ASL again, haven't you?

G
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
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> Torkel,
>   My choice for favorite candy in boxes is chocolate-covered cherries.
> Evelyn

When I was a little girl (yes, Tushar, that was a *long* time ago),
chocolate-covered cherries were *the* gift to give for birthdays or
Christmas.  If you got a box of chocolate-covered cherries at the
classroom Christmas tree, you knew one of the *rich* kids had drawn your
name...I think they used to cost all of 50 cents a box, which was big
money in those days.
ndh
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
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              29 Dec 92 09:31:03 -0600. <9212291533.AA15634@sics.se>

  >We find my favorite candy.  Normally they're not in boxes -- they're sold
  >individually in wrappers.

  I'll have to pick something similar for the translation, then. Dixie Lee
leaves a whole box of the things because he has a guilty conscience.

  >It seems odd to me to go through the Texas Panhandle between Louisiana
  >and N.M.  I guess if you were going to northern N.M. you might go through
  >part of the Panhandle.

  Yes, they pass through Raton, which as we all know is way up north in
New Mexico.

  >I guess it means that the heels are worn down -- probably unevenly -- i.e.,
  >part of the heel is thicker than another part.

  But if so, is this somehow significant?


  >Irritable?  (I've never heard the expression -- the ? indicates that's a
  >guess.)

  "Irritable" doesn't fit. There are two passages:

   a) "he wouldn't piss on a cop on the pad if he was on fire",
   b) "When you were a cop...how many guys were on a pad?"

Hence my guess.

    >They're a little smaller than whole pepper corns.

  They're the same size here. But what is the derivation of "BB"?
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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>My colleague Mark Ingram (known to lurk occasionally on Words-L) gave me
>my Christmas present yesterday -- a Claudia Schiffer calendar, shot on
>the island of St. Barth's!  (I will consult my atlas later.)  I think
>I have a spot right here -- yes! -- above my pc.  Perfect.
>
>For some reason, this calendar includes all the holidays of Australia
>and New Zealand, so I may be doing some multiculturally diverse celebrating
>next year.  I will surely need Carolyn's help with some of these occasions.

Although I've never heard of her, my guess is that she anticipated that this
area of the world would provide the largest tourist destination of European's
next year.

>Just to take an example at random -- The Queen's Birthday:
>
>   7 June  -  New Zealand
>  14 June  -  Australia -- all states except Western Australia

I think her actual birthday lies between these dates. Mondays are the most
popular days for public holidays.... everyone gets a long weekend.

>  27 Sept. -  Western Australia

The 7th June in WA is Foundation Day.... which would mean two long weekends in
a row, so they chose a date which is a public holiday elsewhere in Australia
to celebrate her birthday.... my calendar shows it as the 4th October which is
Labour Day in NSW, SA and the ACT.... so I guess she got that one wrong.

>I count at least five different Labour Days, two Australia Days, two
>ANZAC days....

Each state is responsible for determining when they will celebrate the
particular public holidays.

Labour Day in NSW is always held on the Monday after the first weekend in
October. It is the 1st March in WA; 8th March in Victoria; 3rd May in
Queensland; 4th October in NSW, SA and the ACT and it appears that neither
Tasmania or the NT are having one this year.

Australia Day is one of the few public holidays that is celebrated on the
day on which it falls in most states..... that's the 26th January... the
day in 1788 that Captain Arthur Phillip landed in Botany Bay. The remaining
states are celebrating it the following Monday so as not to disrupt the
working week.

ANZAC Day is the 25th April which is a Sunday this year and it is always
celebrated on that day.... the day in 1915(?) that Australian Troops landed
at Gallipoli. However some states have decided to give there inhabitants an
extra holiday on the Monday in lieu of that day falling during a weekend...
the others are not as generous.

Carolyn
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:03:39 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:27:49 GMT, "Ruth M. Hanschka"
 <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU> wrote:
> countries.  It used to be celebrated in England too, I think - hence the
> name.  What about Scotland, Graham?

I honestly have no idea.  We only really bother with Hogmanay in Scotland.
Christmas is a recent fad.

G
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>         I'll have to read the Atlantic article, but Generation X'ers
> are those who were born in the 1960's.  So Jenna, //anne//, Alec, and
> Rashmi are all X'ers.  Aaron, Lisa, and the VMI'ers, on the other hand,
> were all probably born in the 1970's (assuming they are average aged
> college students).  They are not X'ers.  Perhaps they are the
> Thirteeners the article was talking about?

I've also heard the term "Baby Busters", which I've never liked very much.

> Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation

Emily, also born in the 60s
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From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (73
              23 Dec 1992 00:47:44 EST from <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

>The ZX81 plugs into a TV set, has built in BASIC, one (1) kb of
>memory, no disk (floppy or hard), and a little membrane keyboard
>on which a top speed of about ten words/minute is possible after
>a lot of practice.
>
>Tony H.

     I once read an article about how a Sinclair computer user managed
to get his little box to print.  He put a light sensor in a clear suction
cup and stuck it to the lower right corner of the TV screen.  He then
turned on and off the pixel under the sensor, causing the sensor to
transmit the proper codes to the printer.  I found this story wonderfully
entertaining.

* Alt-Brad *
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From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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              22 Dec 1992 11:17:12 -0600 from <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>

>and his father said, "Dammit, will you get in here!!"
>
>To which Bill replied, "No, Dad, I'm Jesus Christ!"  :)
>
>-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------

A British comedian, whose name escapes me, said he had always thought
that God lived in the bathroom.  Every morning his father would bang
on the bathroom door and yell, "God, are you still in there?"

* Alt-Brad *
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:26:12 GMT

ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM writes:

>Oh, it's fraTERnity humor we want!

>There's the Tappa Kegga Bru frat, presided over by Buster Hyman.  It's
>right down the street from Ei Phelta Thi, and across the street from
>the all-Jewish fraternity, Zayda Layda Shiksa.

>Ken

No, the all-Jewish frat is ZBT, aka Zionist Bank & Trust.

--Aaron

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