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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:12:13 -0500
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Medical question re: transplants
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              Dec 30, 92 6:53 am

I am sending this request only because time is short and because
this is such a geographically wide ranging, diverse and yet uniformly
well-informed group: I wonder if anyone has come across reliable and
up-to-date literature (medical and/or alternate) on bone-marrow
transplants? I need to find better info than I have so far - ASAP -
for family reasons. Alternatively, would you know of other lists where
this request could be posted? Please write privately, I do not want to clutter
up the list. Thanks.
Agnes
kruchio@epas.utoronto.ca
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 10:15:18 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: NO RESPONSE
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>FAST? You think you're going to move this sluggard along? Why, I thought
>the whole point was to make a mockery of TP byu dragging one round out
>over a biennium!
>
>-abh

'Fast' will be if it is completed in a biennium.... at the present rate it
would have taken a decade.

Carolyn
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:05:31 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Grandbabies ....bah!
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> OK, I've been reading about this grandbaby stuff ...and let me tell you
> there not so good.  They let this little Joey character on the floor now,
> and he somehow manages to move from one place to another, but.....and this
> what really upsets me ....he, despite having piles of his own gifts, takes
> my nice new, soft, squeaky ham bone ....he has his own stuff and he took
> mine!  Went home with it ...wouldn't give it back!  And I'm told someday
> he may be able to chase me!  horrors!  but I've got hiding places he
> will never be able to get to ....I wonder if he will play with me?
>
Poor Muffy...but maybe these grandbabies will turn out to be not so bad.  I
have been walking carefully around the Patricia one, because she makes funny
noises, and then everybody runs to pick her up, so a cat who isn't careful
could get trampled.  Last night, though, her grandfather decided we should
get acquainted, and he held her and helped her pet me.  This was okay, but
then she decided she wanted to see what black cats taste like, so that
ended the encounter.  I'm willing to give her a few more chances...after
all, it was her mama who rescued me from a pet store.
Toscanini
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In a previous article, Graham Toal () says:

>:I just wanted to know how to get hold of one of these ere t-shirts (
>:the WORDS-L one that I have seen a certainmildly high-profile member
>:of this list wearing).
>
>'high-profile'?  Is that a coment about my stomach, eh fizzy?  Grrrr!
>
That's more like high relief, Graham, in re the shirt's when it's taken
off and allowed to relax!<grin>

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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:45:58 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Barbie dolls
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:36:33 GMT karsten said:
>> Once and future Lego Queen. Barbies were tied to bedposts and tortured.
>
>I knew I sent you the right magazine.
>
   what mag did SHE get????

i may be jealous.....

dan
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:17:45 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:02:25 GMT, "Aaron L Dickey" <kieran@WORLD.STD.COM> wrote:
> The moral here is: Sexual harrassment works both ways, and I'm getting a
> little tired of hearing what assholes we men are when many of us (and many

Aaron, there *could* be a reason you hear this so often.  And I don't
think it generalizes to the rest of the population.

G
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 02:30:33 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Short Note (brag/?)
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        with no bad effects (realize I have not yet read mail, so hoping no bad
        news anywhere).  Bye....really got to get to work.

Shucks, sorry to be the bearer of sad tidings, Don.  You'll be heartbroken
to hear a 14yr old girl was sexually assaulted and murdered here over Christmas.

Don't say I'm not good to you.

G
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:05:42 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Found in a Toystore
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The four models of "Building Blocks Designed Especially for Girls":
1.  Jewellery sets
2.  Ballet School
3.  Kitchen
4.  School Room

The plain vanilla blocks didn't have any designation.

-rashmi
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:43:04 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question About Online Resources
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              3 Jan 1993 16:33:00 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:33:00 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>> Ed Krol's book _The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalogue_ is the
>> best one-volume resource I know of, and he autographed the book for me
>> at the UNIX Expo in NY, so how bad can he be?:-)
>
>But is it available online?  I have to finish this handout by tomorrow.

no, but its the best 24.95 you'll ever spend....especially since you're in
a Unix environment....

dan
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:12:26 EST
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?
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              19 Dec 1992 20:30:11 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

Hey, some of my best friends are vampires!

Evelyn
/\o/\
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 06:10:10 -0500
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Say Something To Jeffrey
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> Somebody say hello to my nephew.  I'm showing him e-mail.

Jeffrey, I hope Natalie reads her mail again on Sunday. Maybe she'll
let you write something.  Remind her that she lets Bernard do it; you
should certainly have the privilege as well, even if you don't have an
account of your own.

Hello from another resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts -- hey,
guys, what are such people called?  Serious replies desired as well as the
usual 'fun' ones.

Joan
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:48:06 -0500
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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Not really in the 'real-life indicator name' thread, but apparently there
really is someone named Gary Indiana -- sorry can't recall source of info.

Joan
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Date:         Fri, 25 Dec 1992 12:21:25 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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              25 Dec 92 00:50:25 -0800. <9212250852.AA05179@sics.se>

  >I think that is a pity, but if behaviour is determined somewhat
  >on the Lord of the Flies model, then my objections are futile.

  But surely you had read the notices stating that this model *is* the
official protocol? "The weak are killed and eaten"?

    >If they're relevant, why not support the idea of respecting things
    >of important value to people?

  To say that your comments about "mocking humanness" are relevant to the
question whether we should avoid offending anybody's sensibilities is not
to say that they have any validity. In my opinion, as I thought I had made
clear, those comments have no validity at all.

  >Suffice it to say, that the kind of person with deeply held beliefs that
  >I have in mind would be a Gandhi, a Mother Theresa, a Martin Luther King,
  >an Albert Schweitzer, maybe even a Gorbachev whom I find a most remark-
  >able person.

  Of course this is what you had in mind. Which is why I was careful, in
my very first comment, to state my assumption that we both agree that there
are also deeply held beliefs that are Bad. And indeed, in spite of your
present waffling, you finally stated clearly enough that deeply held beliefs
deserve respect precisely because they are deep, whatever their contents -
the beliefs of Hitler as much as those of Gandhi.This was the view I
supposed lay behind your original complaint, and this is the view I
reject. Mere depth of belief deserves neither respect, nor admiration.

  >..., could it be that you are saying you sometimes disrespect beliefs for
  >which you have great respect? If the latter, I should be quite grateful
  >for an example.

  Why, since making fun of things means disrespecting them, in your
terminology, I can answer quite broadly: whatever belief I share or
respect I may also make fun of.
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:27:38 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Curses Soiled Again (was Re: Deep beliefs)
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              Dec 23, 92 1:19 am

> I've heard 'The Bhagwan' (some loony sect leader over here) referred to
> as 'The Bagwash'.  Does that count?
> G

As blasphemy, you mean?  Dunno, for sure.  But I'd have no hesitation in
dubbing any self-styled 'Bhagwan' Bagwash.

-rashmi
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:59:11 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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        >I thought the rumbling noise I heard from him was his stomach anticipat
ing
        >the festive season. :-)

        Nope - just complaining that he'd missed a milk hit!  He's an addict....

One of life's unsolved mysteries.  Where do cows go over Christmas?  I mean,
according to the dates on the cartons, they produce extra in the days before
the holidays, right?  And the milk after the holidays takes over at the
expected date, so inbetween they must all have a holiday and stop producing
milk, no?

And no relation to the above, but why does the milk in the week before and
the week after Christmas taste like it's a week old?

Bah, humbug.

G
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Subject:      Re: Car talk 'tween the girlz

Ain't one of the girlz, but you set yourself up or this one....

> But this cuteness thing, Natalie, that has to go. That's oldline girl
> cartalk, the type that gets you in trouble. Here are new-world-order
> girltalk reasons for buying an irriational car:
>
> 1). It'll get me laid
> 2). There's <something> about the long, sweeping lines and the protuberant
> hood ornament

Are these related?  "Until an angel comes along, I'll string along
with you"?

Ken
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Subject:      Re: How I love the winter...

> > I work for a coach seat on the plane and a for slight honorarium.  You
> > _do_ have to feed me.  Any other niceness or gratuities are strictly by
> > private arrangement:-).
>
> What services do you render in addition to the window luting?  Or are the
> additional services part of the private arrangements?  How long are your
> performances?  What about encores?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I will play the lute in chambers, for very private gatherings, and by
special and discreet arrangement with the patron.  My performances and
encores can be quite sustained and repeated, often until dawn, if the
audience clearly appreciates them....

Ken <a wand'ring minstrel, I...>
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:59:24 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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> Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation

> (except for Peter's self-righteous post). Certainly made my life

Barf!!!

Pm
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 16:38:38 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: More songs about buildings and food
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> How can I when I don't know what they are either?
> -abh

That strikes me as very strange.  I thought that surely English peas were
called English peas in Texas.  Doris?  Nancy?  Is it true that they're called
something else there, or has abh led a strange life?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S.  Graham and abh:  English peas are relatively small and green.
The best ones are the smallest ones.  Even the smallest ones are a bit
larger than lady peas.  But they're smaller than crowder peas or black-eyed
peas.
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:08:59 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: My Top 10
              20 Dec 1992 04:08:08 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

>>>>setting discriptions.  I would like to know what standard W-L usage
>>>>is I don't look like a stupid newbie. =:-)
>>    ^so
>>>I find that last sentence internally inconsistent.
>I find it inconsistent not because of a missing "so" but because of what
>it seems to mean.
>tushar

You mean that following standard usage implies conformity, not intelligence?

* Alt-Brad *
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In a previous article, ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU () says:

>Posted on 23 Dec 1992 at 16:27:19 by Aaron L Dickey
>>I didn't say you should be happy to put up with such crap, just that the
>>downside of attractiveness is, IMHO, a small price to pay for all the
>>doors it opens up in society.
>
>More bullshit.  Aaron, what's unattractive about you is not your looks
>but your personality.
>
I have absolutely no idea what you look like Aaron, but given the way you've
been talking lately, I wouldn't go out wih you either.  Physical attractiveness
is a factor, but I know a lot of people the world wouldn't consider
"attractive" who are a)happily married, b)engaged, or c)have very active
social lives.  As long as a person doesn't have a truely horrible B.O. [IMHO]
a person's looks really have little to do with it.  *Real*, long-term
attractiveness is from the inside.  A woman I've known since childhood is
getting married in February - she's 80, and the groom is older.  Do you think
either of them look like Richard Gere or Cindy Crawford?  Neither ever did
to begin with, but they found something in each other that made both
decide to tie the knot again.  I have news for you, it's not his magnificent
physique she fell for.:-)

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Subject:      Re: English peas
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              2 Jan 1993 14:54:49 -0600 from <dorisann@TENET.EDU>

On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:54:49 -0600 Doris Smith said:
>Do you remember having to be inside during the hottest part of the
>afternoon because the extreme heat might make you more susceptable to polio?

   in those days....forties and early fifties....i was living in phoenix
arizona....where it is hotter, but somewhat dryer, than MS....
all summer (meaning when school was out) we had to 'take a rest' from
1-3 pm, 7 days a week....so did all other kids in neighborhood....
   polio was a part of it, but so was heat exhaustion....or heat prostration..
(i always get those two confused....imagine neal will straighten me out...)
   it also gave the mothers a couple hours of peace....
   we were FORBIDDEN to sleep   o-)    of course sometimes we did....   o-)
a couple days a week we were allowed to have someone rest with us....which
meant a neighbor friend....and we had to be totally quiet and sitting or
reclining....usually playing monopoly (marathon games, with the game slid
under the bed til the next day....or a jigsaw puzzle.....

>that we had what was called a "water cooler," a window-mounted fan with a

   we had one....usually called a swamp cooler....actually, an evaporative
cooler....which wouldn't work well in MS at all...but ok in parts of TX
and NM and AZ, etc.....ours was on top of the house....
   one of the treats on a hot day was to be able to get ona stepladder...
and climb to the top in the doorway and have the cool air blow directly
on you....since the ductwork was in the hall ceiling....only gtot to do that
a couple times a summer.....
                            dan
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
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Posted on 23 Dec 1992 at 22:42:24 by Aaron L Dickey
>Please. You slipped in an ad hominem attack on my within hours of myt
>first post on here last week.  I don't find that a particularly attractive
>personality trait myself.

First of all, I never claimed to be attractive. (I'm the one
w/ her finger in her nose standing behind Elaine in Elaine.gif.)
Second of all, I did *NOT* 'slip in an ad hominem attack', I
asked a question.  You need to distinguish the two.

Karen
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> > and found that bernard looked good in wordperfect, much better
>
> Hmmm.  I think I need that gif-transformer.  I foresee some interesting
> stationery in the making...  And just wait till I get a scanner!  I've
> got lots and lots and lots of good Bernard pictures.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

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.
Otherwise, on a disk.
p.s.  It doesn't always work....  but sometimes it does.
--ggs
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Emily's Geography Question
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> Since Emily was the first to respond to my request, I have advanced her turn.
> Emily's Geography question:-
>
> "What country has 100 lepta to the drachma?"

Aw, that's easy. Greece! (Ah, to be lying on the beach on Ios - heaven!)

> If correct she would like History next and since I rolled a 3 then a 6 for
> her on the next turn she will be where bc is currently.

Fire away. Scoot over, blomberg!

> Carolyn

Emily
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: date
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              2 Jan 1993 00:57:11 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:57:11 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>Thanks to everyone who responded to my query about
>the word "date". Is it middle-eastern?
>
   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....

   a couple of the places have big signs up that advise you to stop to see
a movie...."The Sex Life of the Date"....FREE!!!.....etc....etc....and
it is actually pretty interesting and educational.....

dan, who has made the I-10 trip on many occasions....
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              3 Jan 1993 00:59:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:59:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
>        about because sanitation improved in the West.  As water became
>        cleaner, exposure to the polio virus became less frequent in the very
>        young; those infected as teens or young adults, rather than as

   I believe subsequent studies showed that it was much more common in the
'upper classes' in the US, and much less common in the 'slums' or 'lower
classes', presumably for the very reasons you describe....and here we all
were being reminded to be VERY careful about washing hands and such....

>        it was first introduced onto the island of Mauritius (if memory serves,
   a recent movie about doctors int he jungles of the amazon (sean connery
and some woman) makes one of its points about bringing in western diseases
to these people who have never been exposed and who die from common colds
and such...along with a lot of stuff about rainforests and cancer cures and
so on.  interesting, but not a great flick....

   cyclops