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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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>                                 ... Apparently in the US it is known
>as 'tigger' (as in the Lone Ranger's horse); over here it was called 'nigger'.

>       Hi-ho Tigger, away!  Bounce bounce bounce bounce

Hey, I thought that was 'Silver'.  Where did that other horse come from?
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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              4 Jan 1993 06:28:53 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>Brad:  Is her birthday in March?  That's a very good month for cronings.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

March 23.  Will you help with her ritual if I can talk her into one?

brad
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:34:25 EST
From:         jc-s <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Star Trek
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>Posted on 8 Jan 1993 at 14:31:05 by Evelyn Duncan
>
>New Star Trek
>
>From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
>
>BTW, would it help if I mentioned the fact that the new commander is a
>HUNK!
>
>Evelyn

I thought the show was ok, but i don't find the new commander all
that hunky.  his body has no definition.  course, it goes without
saying that i like my men like i like my dictionaries...well defined.

wink wink nudge nudge, know what i mean?

jenna
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From:         Bob Howren <HOWREN%UNC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: guff

Scandinavian, maybe?  Cf. Norw. .gufs. "a puff of wind,"
.guffa. "to blow softly."
--bob
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:36:30 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
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Subject:      Re: Nuclear
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        Same for intrusive r's like "warsh."  I have no idear why people do that
.

Ah, the famous Natalie tin ear again.  You wouldn't get a linking r between
idea and why.

G
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I'll take Entertainment again, and I *don't* want another Aussie
question.  The only things I know about A. are Patrick White, On The
Beach, kuola bears and kangaroos.
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 10:57:09 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: London Bridge
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> Oh dear.  I'm now depressed thinking about that old dead gray goose...
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

But when my grandmother sang about it, it never occurred to me that it was
sad or depressing.  What *did* depress me was "The Missouri Waltz," which
my mother used to sing to me...I *always* cried at that one, goodness
knows why.
ndh (who taught her children *important* songs like "Goober Peas" when
they were three and four)
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Famous horses
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>I went through Grace Livingston Hill, Kathleen Norris, Elizabeth Seifert, and
>Frances Parkinson Keyes...there was always this letdown after I'd read

I consumed so many of those kinds of books in my early teens, at such a
frantic pace that it left little time to memorize any of the authors' names.
My next literary phase led me to Mysteries and Science Fiction.

>everything the library had by an author.  I've been a mystery fan since
>junior high...read everything by the Lockridges and all the Perry
>Masons...didn't discover my real favorite, the Lord Peter Wimsey books,
>until college.
>ndh

Our library's stocks were limited so I mainly stuck with Agatha Christie and
only read other authors (whose names I don't recall) on a one-of basis.
Before the age of 17, I'd left home and only had time to read short
stories until Chris was born .... I just can't stop reading once I start....
have to read any book from cover to cover in one sitting.... I've always
wished I could change that habit - that's the reason I've never been tempted
to read any of Tolstoy's works.

Carolyn
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Subject: Re: Rush Limbaugh's e-mail address
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:21:08 GMT
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> >I read your message before looking at the subject header and first thought
> >this was referring to Elvis.  What a disappointment.
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>    Hasn't The King's e-mail address been distributed through the
>    kind folks on alt.elvis.sightings?

No, it's on alt.elvis.barnum.one.born.every.minute.

Ken
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:10:09 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: News from a newly non-computer-illiterate
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> It is shareware, so I can send you a copy by snail if you want.  Would
> ftp it to you but I'm not sure I know how.  Tell me and I'll do it.

What's the name of the program?  If it's shareware, I bet it's ftpable from
places like wuarchive.  I think I had a little program a long time ago named
[something]towp.exe.  The [something] was just a few characters.  If I
remember correctly, it didn't work very well.  I don't think it involved
gifs, however, since I'm pretty sure that was before I even knew about gifs.
It was right after I got my first computer (five years ago).

Another option:  do you have uudecode?  You could e-mail it to me uudecoded.

> Otherwise, on a disk.

It is, of course, exciting to find interesting snail-mail amidst the stacks
of boring snail-mail...   Box 31, Miss. State, MS 39762.

> p.s.  It doesn't always work....  but sometimes it does.

My favorite thing about playing cards is the first glance at a new hand.
This sounds similar.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     but is the Miata gonna like me if I don't buy a Civic del Sol?
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:33:43 EST
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Request for Info

*** Resending note of 01/05/93 15:01


>I didn't pay much attention to this at first.  Is the problem one of
>programming the function keys in Crosstalk or is it one of getting the
>escape character into the Crosstalk key assignment?  Not that I know
>the answer to either one--just curious and perhaps can find the
>answer. mem

Problem is getting the escape character into the Crosstalk Key assignment.
I can't figure out what to code for a particular function.  Obviously
I could not code, for example, the Crosstalk function key 10 has the
value ESC ESC 0 -  that's exactly what it would transmit-esc esc 0.  I want
it to transmit whatever ESC key generates (2 times) followed by a zero.
Maybe I'm too close to the problem to see the answer, so any ideas are
welcome ....well most ....don't tell me to read the manual(s).  I already
have and am confused enough.:-(   Thanks MEM for your interest and if I
ever figure it out, with whoever's help, will share with the group.  I
<know> at least one other person who would like a solution also.

Thanks.
P.S.  Long time friend (professor) I just passed in hallway about an hour
      ago told me about PC programs he has available ...800 meg worth on
      a CD - he runs a PC users group...need to find time after work to
      drop in ....with a bunch of blank disks & moderate $15 contribution.
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:55:07 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: {Operative Human Biological Interchange

>Recnetly someone asked about a distinction in the use of
>the good old fashioned Anglo-Saxon word for intercourse.

I was asking for a specific distinction. A rather brilliant
analysis was done here some time ago. Unfortunately every
user of the phrases that I asked has been unable to corroborate
any of it. In fact I am curious how many on the list use "fuck
you" and "go fuck yourself" regularly, and with how many people.
I am pretty sure by now that both numbers are going to be
embarrassingly low.

I don't want to see that article. It might be very cheerfully
humorous and all that, but it is too moronic to provide an
answer to my question.

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 12:07:21 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: London Bridge

Nancy, a friend asked me back before Christmas about the words to the
childhood song "Goober Peas", which I had never heard of.  He claimed there
was something in them about a Confederate general being reassured because
his troopers were eating goober peas.  I told him that this question was
too insignificant to bother Words-L about!  But, now that you've brought
it up....

brad
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:07:00 PST
From:         CHRIS SCHMIDT <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: bandwidth back to the trough...

>When I was a small child I thought that people might be born with a fixed
>number of words to speak, and that once they had reached their limits
>they would become mute.  Sometime during grade school I rejected this
>notion.  Now I find that I may have been wasting precious words and
>might end up as poor Graham, unable to communicate after unexpectedly
>reaching this limit at an early age.

>--karsten

You're saying this as if you're under the impression you haven't reached your
limit yet.

Chris
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:22:58 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Texas Question
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I was just looking at a map of Texas and started wondering about something.
Why is there so much blank space between Edinburg and San Antonio?  What's
there?

And that has suddenly reminded me of another Texas question I was going to
ask a while back:  What are the best schools in Texas in the opinions of
you Texans?  Remember Young Jeffrey of the e-mail greetings Christmas?
At some point that night we started talking about where Jeffrey might end
up going to college, and my sister-in-law said that she would like for
him to go somewhere in Texas.  (She spent part of her childhood in Texas.
I can't remember the name of the town.  She didn't go to college in Texas,
though.)  She was thinking SMU might be a good place for him to go.  This
all assumes, of course, that he wants to go wherever it is.  They're not
going to ignore his wishes.  They're leaning against UTexas because they
think it's too big.  I told them that I would choose some place like Trinity
in San Antonio over SMU.  Any suggestions?  There's no big rush, btw --
Jeffrey is in the 7th grade now.  He also doesn't know yet what field he's
going to end up in, of course.  His latest thought on that is architecture,
but that will probably change many times during the next five years.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:12:37 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: First major problem in London
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Posted on 5 Jan 1993 at 19:08:27 by Natalie Maynor
>How will you find Edinburg?  (There's not an h at the end of
>Edinburg, TX, is there?

No, and there isn't one in Edinburg, MO, either. I wonder why....

Karen
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From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:01:49 GMT

Evelyn writes:

E>Has anyone else seen ST:DS9?  It seems like a winner to me.

	Saw it, tried to get dishes done beforehand, failed, ran in and out of
kitchen during commercials until they were finally done, an hour and fifteen
minutes into the show.  I like most forms of SF, especially ST, so of course I
liked DS9's premiere.

Tom Lee
Relying on context
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Three-key Sequence Nonsense

See Ruth what happens when I hit ESC ESC (whatever).  Sends out stuff
before i want it to.  Of course, maybe I tyhped the rong seqience.
Nah, I neber make tpeo.   Give me back my PF keys!  If this goes out it
is because I did remember the correct three sequence to transmit.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: And then the naked ladies came
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Posted on 6 Jan 1993 at 09:32:04 by Anne Burton Harwell
>GT bought tabloids "so you can get a balanced view of the news." These
>things are just filled with naked models. I found myself mouthing the name
>"Karsten" again and again...

Shit! I forgot that someone might see those naked pictures of Karsten
I sent off to the British tabloids to finance my trip!

>GT has taken a cold, and as my mother says, if a man and a woman come down
>with the same disease at the same time, the woman will end up caring for
>the man because men always get *sicker* than women.

Karsten has been very sweetly nurturing, mostly.  Except he won't let me
eat the blueberries and cream oatmeal.

>It really was annoying being blind, but the world is so pretty when it is
>nothing but a swimming light and sound show.

Speaking of light and sound, I want more details about exactly HOW these
glasses got broken....

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:02:07 -0500
From:         Matthew Beams <BEAMSMATT@URVAX.URICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: The burning fiery furnace
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From: Emily Horning <IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: RE: Re: The burning fiery furnace

>> I think I missed the beginning of this.  Are we talking about heating vents?
>> What's unusual about their being in the ceiling.  That's where they almost
>> always are, isn't it?

>Mine are on the wall, near the ceiling.

>>   -- Natalie (maynor@CS.msstate.edu)

>Emily

And the ONE in my room is on the floor in the corner.  It is so weak and wimpy
that my room is always freezing.  When my landlord sent the people over to see
why my room was always so cold, they said that the builders should have put two
vents in my room.  Then they left.  Now I sleep in long johns with a sleeping
bag and a comforter.  :-(

Matthew

BTW - Happy New Year and all that.

beamsmatt@urvax.bitnet
beamsmatt@urvax.urich.edu

prescriptivist and proud
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Question About Online Resources
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:47:03 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%93010414533154@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU> writes:

>I think her announcement said you could only ftp the first three
>chapters, didn't it?  I thought the other chapters were coming later....

	You may be right, Dan.  I just vaguely recall Barry saying
something about it on eff.talk...




-- 
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Subject: Re: Baseball
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:22:00 GMT
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        Ken on the 'Leephus pitch,' game 7, 1975:

>fell down.  The next time Perez came up, Lee's ego was the one that
>got in the way.  He threw Perez the same pitch, and Perez hit it over
>the screen.  It was last seen breaking a window in an outlet store in
>Freeport, Maine.:-)

        And hearts all over New England.


        Torkel writes:

>  Ken writes:

>  [interminable baseball babbling]

>  I never should have set you guys off.

        No better way to kill and eat the weak than with Hot Stove League talk.

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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:51:33 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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> AARP wanted to be the biggest, most powerful lobbying force in
> Washington.  It chose a relatively low eligibility age and a low
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Make that a *VERY* low eligibility age...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Carolyn's Science/Nature Question
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>What meter was invented by C.C. Magee in 1935?
>
>If correct, you rolled a four; that means you can move to Geography, Enter-
>tainment, or Art/Literature.
>
>Emily

The only 'meter' that comes to mind is the 'odometer' so that's my answer,
although I would have thought it had been around longer than that.

I'll take Geography next if that's right.

I've only just got the modem back from my son since early this afternoon, so
I don't have time to ask anymore questions at the moment - I do want to get
some sleep tonight - but to put Brad's mind at rest, he was correct. Anjani
unfortunately missed out again - it was Walt Disney. Betty also missed out
- George Sand was French. /anne/ seems to have a lot of trouble finding my
posts on netnews, so if I haven't seen a response from her by the morning, I
will forward a copy of her latest question to her directly - that was the
way I got her to respond last time. There are two other questions outstanding
but I can't remember who they were for and I'm too tired to bother looking
that up... possibly Aaron and Gilbert, but I'm not sure. In answer to Brad's
question about 'sleeping on the answer', I guess that's O.K. provided you
don't read it at 9am and then decide to sleep on it. :-)

'Nite all,

Carolyn
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:21:15 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      more cronings
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              4 Jan 1993 08:11:01 EST from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 08:11:01 EST <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU> said:
>March 23.  Will you help with her ritual if I can talk her into one?
>
   gee, my baby sister has birthday on march 23....so does baby brother...
but they'll only be 40, so guess gayle (the sister) can't get one yet....

cyclops
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:03:19 EST
From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      News from Kenya
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Have you been following the presidential election in Kenya?
Although the results have been disputed, the guy in the lead
appears to be a man named Moi. I hope he is declared the
winner if for no other reason than he'll be able to say
"L'etat c'est Moi!"

Bill
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Question About Online Resources
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:28:11 GMT

maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:

>CBK didn't have it.  Maybe I should try MW and MZ.  I was shocked to see
>that our library does in fact have it, but it's non-circulating.  I hate
>non-circulating books.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

CBK didn't have it?  God, that's like a Zondervan not carrying any Bibles.
 I could have sworn I saw it listed in their latest print catalog...are
they just sold out or was it not listed online at all?  If it just wasn't
listed, I'd call them.

--Aaron

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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The whole nine yards (revisted
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Posted on 4 Jan 1993 at 23:46:19 by Graham Toal

>Tushar's recent answer must undoubtedly be correct; I found this
>posted in another area by a most knowledgable Indian gentleman:
>
>: 5. "Nine yards", I am surmising, more whimsically than with recourse to
>: logic, may refer to the nine yard saree, which is the longest and in some
>: sense the completest garment one wears (if female).

Present Progressive gets 'em every time...

Tony H.
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