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From: GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (jc-s)
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Subject: Re: What happened at O'Hare
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:23:58 GMT
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>Tushar's opus...
>
>   "EXCELLENT," shouted Anne B Harwell, and disappeared into the plane.
>
>
>Absolutely the best WHTM... I have ever read.  Sorry fellow WHTM'ers, but,
>hands down, this wins.
>
>PARTY ON!
>
>        //anne, awestruck and still chuckling//

I agree. In fact, i may just fly somewhere, just so i can have a layover
in Chicago.  Tushar just makes me <swoon>.

*dreamysigh*

jenna
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:56:30 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Greetings,

>You'll never guess who just reappeared on <another list> after a too-long
>absence.
>
>Consider yourselves warned...

One wonders how the statement "you will never guess" can be made with
any degree of certainty. I am surprised that we are under obligation
to consider ourselves warned.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:32:31 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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              at Jan 5, 93 1:07 pm

Re the proposed site of the croning ceremony:
> Starkville, Mississippi (or half way between Starkville and Amory?) certainly
> qualifies as "the general South."

But, Natalie, you were going to have a mass croning for all eligible words-lers
during the Salmonbake, remember?

> > one (although I still think you're too young for one... )  :)

I agree, Natalie isn't old enough to be a crone, no matter what those books
say!!

-rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:53:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> > Or maybe tail-pipe to tail-pipe is more appropriate.
> > How *long* is this Wagon's pipe?
>
> Something is striking me as backwards in this symbolism...
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Not at all.  I call my Miata "she" and you surely call the Wagon
"he"....  No?  How weird.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 03:14:12 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: The whole nine yards (revisted)
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From: gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@kate.ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham
 Toal)

        >I've doubts about the explanation above, though. Tushar, where did
        >you get your version from?  (Or did you make it up?)

        I made it up. But I was just joking!

Of course he was joking.  *Everybody* knows [1] that the expression
comes from the length of the Great Kilt.

G
1: "Nine times out of ten, 'what everybody knows' ain't so..." - Lazarus Long
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:20:16 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (74)

We need to standardize the spelling of Faulkner's fictional county:

     YOKNAPATAWPHA

Trivia question:  What was the county seat?

--brad
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:16:29 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nuclear
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> should that be 'unculear'?  I would be more interested in knowing if
> other English words have the ee-ahr combination: I think -that's-
> the sticking point.

funnier
happier
zestier
etc.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
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              5 Jan 1993 10:32:09 -0500 from <jboor@FLARE.CS.UMB.EDU>

Oh, Joan, I'd skip Ohio if I were you; what with the work going on on
Interstate 76.  It's down to one lane each way through Akron.

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 08:41:59 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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> me, me ... (especially since I missed the Christmas party ... !

Brad: Check with your sister.  Susan: Will you consider being
crone-mistress?

I'm going to try to find Susan's croning bibliography that I saved
somewhere on Ra and see whether our library has any of the books
(doubtful).  This croning is striking me more and more as A Real
Event.

Is it polite to invite people to your own croning?

Are cronings always in the woods?

What does one wear to a croning?

Are dogs allowed?

Guess I need to do some research soon to seek answers to these
questions.

Mississippi weather is usually pleasant in mid March.  Occasionally,
however, it can suddenly be cold and nasty.  Usually I put away all
winter clothes (that means cotton sweaters and corduroy) during our
Spring Break, the second week in March.  Normally that works out fine,
but the strange weather of the past few years has caught me by surprise
several times and made me have to pull out some of the sweaters in late
March.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:53:55 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Baseball
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              12 Jan 93 08:35:00 -1000. <9301121834.AA18972@sics.se>

  >This superiority he might demonstrate by provoking a
  >violent encounter.

  Quite possibly. It's just - to return to my initial query - that the
baseball analogy makes little sense. A fat pitch means that the batter
gets to hit a home run with a broad smile on his face. Robicheaux's
action is a matter of stepping up to somebody and invite a punch, in
order to get to massacre him. A fat pitch just isn't a provocation in
this way.
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:22:28 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Baseball
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Posted by Torkel

> >"Why am I trying to engage this turkey in an epic duel?  Here's a
> >fat pitch.  See what you can do with it."
>
>  What's a "fat" pitch? As described in the passage, he seems to be
>talking about an easy pitch. So why should self-respect require that
>he sometimes throw an easy pitch? It's not as though he were saying
>"hit me with your best shot", since there isn't anything for the
>pitcher to do, surely, after the batter has hit the ball? Also, in the
>context of the book, he is in fact giving the bad guy an opportunity
>to swing at him.

A fat pitch *is* an easy pitch, since the ball seems so big that there is no
way for the bat to avoid hitting it. I think it means what Brad said (though
without more context it is impossible to say), but to rephrase: Why I am
trying to go mano-a-mano to the death with this guy? Is he worth it? Why don't
I just serve him something really easy, and let him embarass himself?"

On the other hand--is the other person involved obviously inferior? It may mean
overcoming the competitive urge to give someone a shot, and not make an ass of
yourself (unlike my dad, you always cheated at Monopoly when we were kids).

scarred for life, b.c.
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From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@RA.CS.UMB.EDU>
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You can order O'Reilly & Associates books by email as well -- directly from
them -- no time to check out address -- assures you get the latest version
as well.  Didn't Dan Lester post this info earlier?

Joan
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:33:01 CST
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Subject:      Re: Famous horses

>Right...and we lived in terrible suspense from Saturday to Saturday, never
>quite sure that the hero/heroine was going to escape from whatever
>disaster had beset them the week before.  Guess we weren't too observant,
>huh, or we'd have realized that they *always did.*

Forgive me for butting in here, and I am the last person to want to see
the 52nd variation on the "Tushar I am not old" theme, but I can't help
mentioning that this kind of terrible suspense is impossible in today's
saner kids.

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 14:52:20 EST
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      What does it mean?
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        So, does it mean I'm not old enough to get married if
the strange man at the liquor store cards me when I'm buying
champagne for the celebration?

Rita
Who washed the kitchen floor and redecorated my bathroom
with the gorgeous new rug and towels given to me by the
very thoughtful people at work.  Really, I'm not freaking
out.
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:41:25 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Ho hum
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              09 Jan 93 08:29:18 -0500. <9301091334.AA18538@sics.se>

  >That is *beautiful*...much nicer than the original.
  >But...is "folll" really spelled with three els? Not "follt" maybe?

  I knew you would appreciate it. But the three-l spelling is perhaps
overdoing it. I'll change it to the more conventional "foll".
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:33:02 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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 >
> Re the proposed site of the croning ceremony:
> > Starkville, Mississippi (or half way between Starkville and Amory?)
 certainly
> > qualifies as "the general South."
>
> But, Natalie, you were going to have a mass croning for all eligible
 words-lers
> during the Salmonbake, remember?
>
But after she's done one in Mississippi she'll know just how to do the one
at the Salmonbake.  :-)
ndh
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From:         Emily Horning <IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Unusual weddings

>>No.  We got married in a bar.  The bartender was a preacher, and the cooks
>>came out of the kitchen to be witnesses.  Nobody else was there.
>
>       Wow.  And I thought my wedding was going to be bizarre.

A friend of mine was married last month on the merry-go-round at the Santa
Monica Pier. The man performing the ceremony said he got dizzy (fortunately,
he didn't get sick!).

>               ###     Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###

Emily
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:14:34 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
              <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Three-key Sequence Nonsense
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              "samant@cs.uchicago.edu" at Jan 5, 93 1:16 am

From the screen of 'samant@cs.uchicago.edu'...
>
> >Natalie, PF key is ancient name used by ancient programmers to describe
> >what are now called F keys.
> And yet there are, on this very keyboard, keys called F1, F2, F3 and F4,
> sitting in perfect harmony with keys labelled PF1, PF2, PF3, and PF4.
> What is the reason for this deep mystery? If I may venture to answer
> Natalie's original question, the PF keys are PF keys and they differ
> from the F keys in that they have a strikingly different emblem painted
> on them. As to what they mean, what indeed do any symbols mean? It's
> we who give them meanings. Just as we map keyboards.

(Striking digression)....

The last place I *worked* at had a terminal with PF keys, and the
distinction between them was that PF was a "Pathetic" function, whilst
F-keys were "Real" functions. (F-keys could be programmed, PF keys
couldnt).

Probably not the real reason for the naming, but I liked it.

Fiz.
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:03:37 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> > Yes.  But the verb is still transitive.
> Then, of course, there is the passive, as in
> _____________ is fucked.

Not necessarily "of course," since not all transitive verbs can take a
passive.  But this one can.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:07:20 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Rush Limaughisms
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              06 Jan 93 08:52:20 -0500. <9301061355.AA23399@sics.se>

  >tied behind his back, etc.  I am one of those dour, humorless Liberals
  >who doesn't think Rush is kidding or being "an entertainer" when he

  Ahem. "who don't"
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From:         jc-s <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: second call for words-l cookbook
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>Posted on 11 Jan 1993 at 13:11:23 by BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
>
>Re: second call for words-l cookbook
>
>Jenna, could you use my Spam-and-Tater-Tot Casserole recipe if I can
>find it?
>
>Don't forget Torkel's Swedish cake mix.  A commercial preparation, but
>adaptable for this purpose, I should think.
>
>brad

any and all recipes taken. except, of course, for nookie pizza.
i already have that one.

jenna
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:37:24 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: A couple of easy ones?
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> Copenhagen
> > A can which contains, or has contained, a popular brand of snuff.  This is
 the
> > kind of thing that gets confiscated from high school boys in our school
> > all the time.
>
> And which leaves a round imprint on the seat of their pants, which, back
> in the good ole days, they could usually con certain teachers into
> believing that it was their retainer case.  Of course, *I* never fell for
> such a line.
> doris

Somehow, though, when I've seen the coaches with similar imprints, I've
had a *little* trouble believing the retainer story.
ndh
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re:      Re: Question About Online Resources
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:34:26 GMT

In article <9E2B1A5A517FC006B0@cc.weber.edu> BZ <TSBZALESKI@CC.WEBER.EDU> writes:

>The Dargonzine resides in the same place as Athene - ftp.eff.org.
>I thought about Rita when I ftped to that site.

	Warm fuzzies!  It is nice to put a familiar name next to all
those stats I run every month.




-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
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Jenna, I hope you're going to include a chapter on the
fine art of making chili. There must be as many recipes
for it as there are words-l readers.

Bill
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:21:07 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Request for Info
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> I'm sure Graphics Workshop is available on Simtel and its mirror

Good point.  That means that you really don't need to mail me the disk,
Giggles, even though the thought of your disk in my box is pleasing.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:29:39 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Message For Karen
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I've been trying to reply to a note from you, Karen, but something screwy
is going on.  The ELL23 keeps turning into ELL2300, which keeps causing it
to bounce back with the message "This userid is not a valid user on our
system."  No time to explore the mystery right now.  I meant to log off at
least an hour ago.  The note that keeps bouncing isn't crucial.  It's a
comparison of Karsten and Bernard.  :-)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@FLARE.CS.UMB.EDU>
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>         Philly/Pittsburgh -- hey, they're in the same state so they *must* be
>         close together...spoken like a true Row Dielander.  Marty commutes
>         between Bowling Green OH and Louisville.
>
Yeah, real close -- when I have to drive west and must/choose to go thru
Pennsylvania it seems that I will never reach Ohio -- and I-80 doesn't
help with one lane closed down nearly the whole distance -- if going from
Philly using the Pennsy Tpke is not that much fun either with its narrow lanes
(like the parkways in Westchester County in New York).

Joan
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From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Giffaws
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        I have been checking out how everyone looks tonight.  Does
        anyone know why the following Gifs will not permit themselves
        to be ftpeed?
          apocalypso.gif
          steph-gt.gif

My guess - whichever obscure brain-dead operating system you use doesn't
like 1) the length of 'apocalypso' and 2) the '-' in steph-gt  (actually I
thought it was a +, but...)

G
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (74
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>The modems are still a trifle 'off-colour' but I hope my connection will hold
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^
I have this image of Carolyn typing out naughty messages through
her off-color modems. ("Off-color" here means "indecent, risque.")

Bill
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Thanks much MEM for that graphics info.  Will try tomorrow ...or maybe
tonight from home if I can figure out (P)F key sequence :-(

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Re:  Rita:
  Well, you know us E-mail addicts:  we won't let anything, not even a
honeymoon, stand in the way of going through mail! :)

Evelyn
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dinner at Grand Nepalese
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//anne//, are you getting here before Saturday? Please mail me at once if so!

-abh
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From:         Graham Toal
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:>      hate.  In language, 'FUCK' falls into many grammatical categories.
:>      It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John fucked Mary) and
:>      intransitive (Mary doesn't really give a Fuck); or as an adverb (Mary

:I'm a bit baffled by the example of intransitive verb.  Why not something
:like "John fucks well"?

And is 'Peter fucks himself' a reflexive use?

G
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
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        I agree. In fact, i may just fly somewhere, just so i can have a layover
        in Chicago.  Tushar just makes me <swoon>.

Sheesh!  Trying to collect the set? :-)

G
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>I know the /sk/ -> /ks/ change is common (e.g. ask becomes aks) in
>certain black dialects, and presumably /sp/ -> /ps/ would follow,
>but I'd never heard it in a name before.

A lot of (Indian) west coast Christians say "aks" instead of "ask",
and I have once had a long argument with several of them about whether
the name of Vispy Kapadia was Vispy or Vipsy. They really believed it
was Vipsy.

tushar
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