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Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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Subject:      Re: Silence...

> >Ken <watching the latest ice storm prepare to screw up Monday
> >    drivetime>
> >
> Uhmmmm - it must have hit CT early then.  We got throroughly slicked up
> by 17:00; the local TV stations [CT and western Massachussetts] were running
> weather advisories across the football game.  I went to the supermarket, and
> more or less skated home.  The ice trucks were around by 19:00, so it should
> be OK in the morning. Should - but who knows, in New England?:-/  If it's
> as bad tomorrow morning as it was here tonight, Ken, don't go in.  I'm
> serious - I have  a car that basically glues itself to the road, and I was
> sliding around a bit.  There were pileups all over the place a bit later on.

Nothing happened here.  It's overcast and it rained during the night,
but it must be in the upper forties already, and it's supposed to go
to about 55 today.  Is this the False Spring I've heard about?:-)

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 09:50:44 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Three-key Sequence Nonsense
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> > I've used many, many, many different keyboards on IBM PCs and their clones
> > during the past five years and have never seen a key that said PF.
> But I thought there were function keys somewhere on the keyboard either
> near the keypad or above the number keys (have used such a beast only a
> few times so am speaking from distant memory).  If so, how are they labeled?

Every keyboard I've used has had function keys.  They are labeled with F,
which I've assumed means function.  No PF.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:05:17 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
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Carolyn, if I am in the centre I can choose anything, right?  Then I guess
I'll take entertainment.
ndh
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Famous horses
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> >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

What a predictable child you are, Tushar!
ndh
From: IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Emily Horning)
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> > Emily (we may be making phone calls Thursday :)  )
>
> Fortunately we'll be at your place so you get the monster
> phone bill.

In that case, maybe not...... :)

> --karsten

Emily
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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>
> The way my mother used to tell it over 30 years ago: 'new shoes on a table'
> mean bad luck (as does opening an umbrella inside the house or putting a hat
> on a bed) and 'spilt sugar' brings unhappiness to the household....

What about not cutting your nails on Sunday?
Have you heard the one about its being bad luck, on a first visit to a
home, to leave by a different door from the one by which you entered?
That one came from my mother-in-law, so is probably Irish.
ndh
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
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:I don't understand - will Mr. Fizzy be in Philly?  If so, will he get here
:in time for Jenna's visit?

Looks like it! I can't remember his exact travel plans, but I know he's
got his ticket already.

G
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (74)
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            Both Nureyev and Baryshkinov have estates there, I discovered.

Nureyev doesn't.

G
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        Jenna asks:

        > Do we have any words-lers in Philly? Neal maybe? i forget.
        > marty? one of those bearded fellas i think. Anyway, i'm going
        > to be out at the end of the month for the weekend.

        Neal is in Pittsburgh, but Rashmi is at Drexel which is in Philly.
        Alec Plotkin works in the metro Philly area I believe.

And Jenna will be there soon, and possibly our new friend Frizzy the Fribble,
not to mention our passing visitor ri<chough,splutter>chh.  Say, richh hasn't
dumped any of his second-hand stories on us lately - is he still around?

G
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:07:37 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: First major problem in London
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> Well, GT hit me in the face and broke my glasses. But we're still

The lenses or the frames?  Can you get them fixed?  How are you going to
see on the rest of the trip?  How will you read airport signs when on your
way home?  How will you find Edinburg?  (There's not an h at the end of
Edinburg, TX, is there?  I know it's pronounced 'burg', but I can't remember
the spelling.)

> I've passed the peculiar point which happens in every vacation where you
> sort of forget about how it was to live where your home is and wonder if
> you really are supposed to live where you are vacationing.

You have a gift of saying things I've thought, abh.  Hmmm.  Now that I look
at my wording of that, I'm not sure it comes across as a gift to be proud
of...  I meant it as a compliment of your way with words.

> Other than that: Frank, we had dinner at a Russian restaurant and toasted you.
>
> The other night we ate at an Indian restaurant and toasted Tushar, for no

So when are you gonna eat catfish?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:31:06 +0000
From:         Anne 'Bandwidth Pig' Harwell <abh@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Merry Christmas, Frank
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Merry Christmas to Frank McLellan, who celebrates it on its Russian day of
observance. Hope your stocking got stuffed, honey!

-abh
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Original-From: Ken Wolman <mhwpa!ktw>
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:35:06 EST
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Subject:      Re: Baseball

> >Think of the feeling of superiority the pitcher of the easy pitch would
> >have if the batter misses or flys out.
>
> It also shows the contempt the pitcher has for the batter, giving him
> such an easy pitch to hit.

I think I mentioned this on STATLG-L once...

Bill Lee, who used to pitch for the Boston Red Sox, had a blooper
pitch in his repertoire: it looked like a slow-pitch softball pitch
that seemed to float WAY up in the air, then came down very slowly (or
relatively slowly).  Lee would set up the hitter with a fastball, for
instance, then mess the guy's timing up by tossing this "thing" past
him.  He was once asked "How do you cope as a lefthander facing
righthanded hitters with that pitch in Fenway with the short
left-field wall?"  His answer was "I let their egos beat them."  It
often worked: the pitch could humiliate a hitter looking for a normal
curve or fastball, and he might literally fall flat on his face
swinging at it early.  But if it was overused, it could backfire,
especially in Fenway.  I saw Lee strike out Tony Perez with a blooper
pitch in Game 7 of the 1975 World Series: Perez, a great hitter who
coiled his body like a cobra before swinging, dove at the blooper and
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.:-)

Ken
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In a previous article, R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Evelyn) says:

>What's worse?  Having 500 messages disappear all at once.
>
What's worse than that?  Having 500 messages all *appear* at once!
On a VAX - VAXen don't like that.....  But as to the original question
the only thing worse than being left out of the Digest, is being *in* the
Digest.

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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:10:17 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: London Bridge
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> I couldn't remember all of the verses to 'London Bridge' so I looked it up
> in Helen's book of "Mother Goose Nursey Rhymes" - a facsimile of the 1922
> edition - and discovered that we were evidently not taught the original
> version. It was called 'London Bridge is Broken Down' back then and goes
> as follows:

This is so neat, Carolyn...thank you.  You're right...it is very different.
>
> London Bridge is broken down,
> Dance o'er my lady Lee;
> London Bridge is broken down,
> With a gay lady.
>
> How shall we build it up again?
> Dance o'er my lady Lee;
> How shall we build it up again?
> With a gay lady.
>
I thought stone came into it somewhere, but didn't remember what happened
with wood or clay...now I can do it right!  Of course the chorus is very
different...neat!
>
> One of the books the boys had when they were small had the more recent version
> - the one I used to know. There is reference to it in James Blake's song
> 'The Sidewalks of New York'..... "East Side, West Side, all around the town,
> The tots sang 'Ring-a-rosie', 'London Bridge is falling down;'....". It
> seems that there may be dialectal differences in these nursery rhymes since
> Blake's 'Ring-a rosie' was known here as 'Ring-around-a rosie' and the
> 1922 version (from England) is called 'Ring-a-ring-a-roses'.
>
We used to sing it as "Ring around the rosy..."  :-)
ndh
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 16:11:54 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Gilbert's Art/Literature Question
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> Graham Toal writes:
>
>                                  ... 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
>
> Tom Lee

ROFL
doris (thanks, I needed a laugh - any more around?)
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:32:25 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: The burning fiery furnace
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> > 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.

Mine are in the ceiling itself, but I think I've seen them in the wall just
below the ceiling also.  I can't ever remember seeing them any lower than
that -- unless we go back to the old days of floor furnaces, of course.
  -- Natalie (maynor@CS.msstate.edu)
     borrowing Bernard's account until Ra is up again
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:59:15 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Unusual weddings
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Posted on 5 Jan 1993 at 01:27:57 by Emily Horning

>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!).

Did they head off into the sunset (uh, sunrise) on Route 66 ?

Tony H.
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Subject:      Re: And then the naked ladies came
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:Maybe not sexist, but about everything else -ist, yes.:-)  Besides, who
:said anything about sexist remarks, eh?  Does *somebody* have a guilty
:conscience?

If you hadn't deleted the 4 lines above the ones you quoted you'd know
the answer to that question.  I know this group has the collective
memory of a small gnat, but even a gnat can remember longer than 5 seconds.

G
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From:         Graham Toal
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Subject: Re: Good news for the archives!
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        At which point, Graham's standard "look in the archives" reply will
        actually cease to be meaningless.

True, I'll have to think up some other way of <plonking>...  maybe
"but you *must* have read the alt.folklore.urban FAQ at least *once*
in the last three years????"

G
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:40:01 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Famous horses
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              Jan 9, 93 7:11 pm

> Not me...I love happy endings.  One reason I sometimes read Harlequin
> Romances (yes, Susan, I admitted it publicly...try not to be too
> embarrassed)...I want happily ever after.

I head for the whodunits when in need of happy endings - you know that
the villain will be identified by the last page.

-rashmi
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:06:24 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Done!
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That's Done, not Donne.  I just ordered the Krol book via e-mail from
nuts@ora.com.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:54:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Words-L Weekly Digest
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I'm getting *sick* and *tired* of being left out of the Words-L
Weekly Digest, *sick* and *tired* of it.  And I want it to stop,
*now*.
--ggs
p.s.: As if I were not a contributing <member> of this group.
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: What does it mean?
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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:38:35 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%93010916033973@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:

>    What time is the ceremony tomorrow?  Oddsmakers are interested
>    in how many times you will log on before the event.

	The ceremony is at 6pm.  This may very well be my last logon
as a single woman... (unless the person officiating sends me e-mail).


>    Best wishes to you and Nico!

	If we don't kill each other beforehand.  Thanks ;).




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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:46:46 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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              4 Jan 1993 17:24:42 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:24:42 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>> >Is it polite to invite people to your own croning?
>>    you invited them to your wedding, didn't you???
>
>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.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)


ok....i figured you woulda done it differently....   o-)

one COULD claim that I meant an indefinite you (y'all, in MSian), but I won't.

cyclops
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: A semi-literary question
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> >Have any of you seen the Polanski version of _Macbeth_?  If so, do you
> >know who the man on horseback at the end of the movie is supposed to be?
>
> I'm sorry, Doris. I don't remember that bit of the movie. I was
> too traumatized by then. That was the most wonderful and horrible
> Shakespere movie I've ever seen. It struck me as drenched in the
> blood of Sharon Tate...but I may be imagining that...
>
> Don't try to watch it alone, anyone!

I agree that it was both wonderful and horrible.  The slaughter of Macbeth
by Macduff was so traumatizing that it is difficult to focus on the very
last scene, which is probably why no one I have asked remembers the scene.
doris
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From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@RA.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Boston
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> In article <WORDS-L%93010706134810@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
> writes:
> >Re: the gathering at Joan's.  Did y'all watch the movie -Run-?  Pretty
> >bad, huh?  Could you identify the fictional city?
>
>         Well, you see, it's like this, Brad.  We really *meant* to
> watch the movie.  But once the group got yacking...

    But since we didn't watch it, we'll have to have another gathering --
and see your pictures from Spain....

> (having lustful thoughts about Don and Paul's Victorian...)

Yes, there may be a site for a words-l gathering -- Don Roby and friend Paul
are considering buying a 25-room Victorian (which they haven't yet seen I
found out as they left my house) and turning it into a bed & breakfast.

Some thoughts/observations on the gathering -- make of them what you will:

    Only beverage brought was wine -- and all the same general type: blush

    The first to gather were the two Ritas and // anne // -- went into my
kitchen to finish cutting veggies -- the rest of the crew came in there as
well and we never left -- and it's not as if there weren't other rooms to
use as I have a 12-room house.  I've observed many gatherings stay in
or near the kitchen --

Judith, my cats also say yum-yum to your salmoncakes.

I did take a few pictures so there may be some new gifs, but only Don
Thornton's friend Mary will be a new face.

Joan
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From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Famous horses
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>Me too.  (Me too for Saturday afternoons, and me too for betting we saw the
>same movies and serials.)  Judith and I ate lunch Dec. 21 with two charming
>primatologists (or primatology-related anatomists?) about a block from where
>I used to spend Saturday afternoons watching Roy Rogers movies and Superman
>serials.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

They are primatologists and they are anatomists, and they almost
certainly think of themselves as anatomists first. VERY few
primatologists think of that as their (ahem) primary designation.

love, judith, wanting to keep things clear

[Oooh...nobody has a problem with unclear...but all of Natalie's
examples of pronouncing eee ar spell it "ier", not "ear". Looks
like people manage unclear, because it's pronounced un-cleer,
but get messed because they remember that the "clear" in nuclear
is not pronounced "cleer", but forget that it's "clier" and make
it "cular". Natalie, does that make sense?]
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In a previous article, bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer) says:

>>"What's the base number in the duodecimal system?"
>
>--Aw, C'monnn! Is this <serious>?  And what may I ask is the base
>number in the decimal system?  This is worse than the Noah question!
>
Have pity, Bayla; I haven't had *anything* on number bases since I was
about 12!  That's about 15 years ago.  I may still be able to convert between
them, but I have to think about it, and I sure don't know all the names.:-(
The last real math I studied was all statistics....

On the other hand, unless I missed something incredibly stupid, this one
was rather obvious.:-)

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