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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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>Carolyn, 'up the duff' == up the plum duff == in the pudding club.
>
>(plum duff is a heavy pudding like Christmas Pud)
>
>G

Thanks Graham..... I've never liked that expression, but now I realise the
appropriateness of it, I may have to change my attitude ..... two of my
pregnancies rendered me a 'Christmas Pud'.

Carolyn
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Is it just me
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1993, Ruth M. Hanschka wrote:

> Traffic was nonexistant.  Then, all of a sudden. *BOOM*!!!  There were over
> 100 messages waiting for me tonight....

Simple. I'm back.

-abh
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 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!"

        He might if he were a francophone.  But I've always heard Daniel Erap
        Moi pronounced as 'Moy' rather than 'M-wah'.

        He may not say it that way, but as with so many tinhorn dictators, it's
        true.

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Subject:      WORDS-L TP: Anjani's Entertainment Quest
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In response to:  "Who was the first voice of Mickey Mouse?"

This is getting depressing ... always being clueless.  I'll just guess Mel
Blanc since he's the only cartoon voice I know.

--Anjani
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Organization: nope

Ruth, dear, I live on this side of the Pond (any Pond) too, and duodecimal
is the way I learned it.  Base 12 is duodecimal and 16 is hexadecimal.

Old computer joke, once the gimmick for an Asimov mystery: Why do computer
freaks/hackers/<choose your pejorative term> get Xmas and Halloween mixed
up?  

Answer: because 31 oct = 25 dec  [translation: 31 in base 8 = 25 in base 10]

--bayla
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1993, Fizzy the Fribble wrote:

> Adrian
>
> (Another searching question --- why four?)

Yet another: why the e-oops, Mr. Fribble?

-abh
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In a previous article, DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu () says:

>*** Resending note of 01/04/93 16:55
>
>>ell, you could always hit ESC ESC W, and forget about the PF keys.:-)
>
Don, I think your new system is screwing up again.:-)  You just resent
that entire post back to the list, unedited......

Whoops?:-)
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From:         jc-s <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
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>Posted on 5 Jan 1993 at 09:21:37 by Natalie Maynor
>
>Re:  Three-key Sequence Nonsense
>
>From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
>
>> Aren't these keys common IBM PCs and their clones?
>
>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.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

My IBM RT has pf keys.

and speaking of pf keys, Natalie, I saw a great sweatshirt in the
Signal's Catalog.

It says, (in french, unfortunately) "i kiss my dog (or cat) on the lips"

I thought of you immediately and the "teaching him bad habits" tee shirt.
The marine says that Heather McAdam (is that her name) is a native of
this area and is surprised that her stuff made it all the way down
there.

I told him " we're talking computer networks, boy,  they are bigger
than you ever imagined.  And closer too".

he concurred.

In other news, i'm finishing up a few incompletes this coming
semester, so i may actually be close to graduating. can you believe
it?  Just in time to transfer out to Oregon and get a degree in Landscape
Architecture. maybe i could do a double major of Landscape Literature
and Design.

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.

stay tuned for more details.

Jenna
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      All Is Well On Disk In Spain
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In case you want to know what happened with my uncle's computer problem in
Spain, here's what the FAX I just got from him said:

"Thanks for your fax.  After calling I found my PC Tools 6 book; I had
thought it was in NY.  [He lives half the year in NY, half in Spain.]
As it told me, and as you did, I went to DOS and wrote DISKFIX.  It worked.

"As for the troublesome file, it was listed in the directory; I tried to
retrieve it by pressing '1' and nothing happened.  The message was: BAD
MEMORY IMAGE OF FAT READING DRIVE C.

"After running 'diskfix' following the DOS Drive C command [hmmm -- this
reminds me of my dept head, who swears that he has a directory named cd-
backslash], I was able to retrieve this file, BUT could only view the top
of the first page; I could not scan down to read the other pages.  It would
do funny things and stay at the beginning of the file.  I should have tried
to copy it, but didn't.  I had a copy so didn't need to.  Finally I deleted
the file.

"Then with PC Tools I compressed the hard disk and it tells me now that all
is well."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: On Eire and Edinburg(h) (was Re: First major problem in
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              at Jan 7, 93 1:42 pm

> Doesn't it make more sense to put the name of the other country in English
> and the rest of the address in the language of the other country, since it
> is in this country that that bottom line is read and sent to?

This appears to be the practice of foreigners living here.  My Chinese
and Korean friends write the entire address in Chinese/Korean except
for the name of the country, which is always in English.

-rashmi
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From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Boston
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Says rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis):
>In article <9301062320.AA12643@Walt.CS.MsState.Edu> Natalie Maynor <maynor@CS.
>MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
>>Are the people at the Boston gathering gonna send us a live report??
>
>       I think I'm the first back online....  Food was nummy.  I
>nominate Mama P.'s salmoncakes for best eatin's, but I didn't get any
>of //anne//'s spaghetti sauce.  Pictures were taking for giffing
>purposes.
>

        I had salmoncakes and spaghetti, and both were wonderful.  So
was the company.  I've missed y'all.

        I came back home and hopped on-line to say hi, but got
involved reading lots of stuff that came through while I wasn't
watching, so it took awhile.  I've read everything that's there and
I'm going to bed now.

- RobyMeister
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:        Im not a linguist but I think that burg is the morpheme, not burgh,
:since burg is the smaller meaningful unit.  I suggest that phoneme was meant
:but I dont know what that is either.

No, as I've explained again and again, burgh is *FOUR* phonemes, got that?
b+u+r+u and it is not and has not for over 1000 years had any connection
with burg.  The word Burgh has existed as a Scots word in its own right for
more than three or four times the age of your whole damn country.

It's either a morpheme or a compound grapheme, depending on how you look at it..

G
PS I wouldn't have offered the hug if I'd realised you were a woman :-(
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              5 Jan 1993 13:19:46 -0500 from <jboor@FLARE.CS.UMB.EDU>

On Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:19:46 -0500 Joan Boorstein said:
>Both Susan and Graham have mentioned the 'Xtians' -- some sort of religious
>group.  More info please.

It's the shortened form of "Christian."  It probably comes from the Greek
letter chi (X) which was used as an abbreviation for Christ by first
century Christians (just as Xmas stands for Christmas).
>
>Joan

Evelyn
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dinner at Grand Nepalese
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> Natalie will be happy to know that for no discernible reason we toasted
> her. Never say I didn't think of you, Nat.

Thank you, thank you!  In case it helps make the toasting scene more
appropriate, I'll mention that Bernard's picture has been shown to various
people in a pharmaceutical lab in Katmandu.
  -- Natalie (maynor@CS.msstate.edu)
     borrowing Bernard's account until Ra is up again
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
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>
> Maybe Midnight was The Black Durango's  or Lash Larue's.  I spent
> every Saturday afternoon at the Lyric Theater in Anson, TX, which
> still stands, 45 years later, but contains nothing but about 35
> years of pigeon droppings.

I'm pretty sure the Durango Kid rode a white horse.  For one of his first
jobs, my husband, after years of Saturday mornings watching the
shoot-'em-ups, was a projectionist at the theater which showed them.  He
votes for Midnight as Rocky Lane's horse, too, although he confesses that
the hundreds of these films he saw over and over just *might* have blurred
together.
ndh (whose first job was as a "popcorn girl" in the same theater)
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Posted on 3 Jan 1993 at 09:19:24 by torkel@SICS.SE
>  Do you mean that you're from the early sixties? The first "copacetic"
>reference in W&F dates from 1926.

Yes, it's a Jazz Age word.  The Yiddish surprises me, though.

Karen
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> > Hello Doris.  I thought premature senility was the province of us younger
> > types.  Guess not.:-)
> > --
> I think I've got a corner on this particular market - haven't noticed
> anyone else exhibiting signs of senility.  Even brother giggles is only
> forgetful in a convenient way.
> doris

I wouldn't feel too confident that you have an exclusive on it. :-)  It's
bad enough right now to be hobbling around with a cane because of an
arthritic ankle, but what's really maddening is that I can't remember to
keep the thing with me!  I use it to get from Point A to Point B, then am
usually on to Point C or even D before I realize I left it somewhere.
ndh (but yes, Susan, I *am* using it!)
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Subject:      Re: We who are about to die . . .
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>It's been a harrowing day, friends, out there in the dog eat dog world of
>copyediting-l:  flamed by people who don't know and <love> me; scorched and
>singed by the lingweenies.  I have crawled back here to die by friendly fire.
>
>Please--save me from the new-age sensitive copy editors.  Finish me off.  I am
>yours.
>
>-K
>
>-Mka

Hush Michael... you can't die here... all that can happen to you is that you
will be enveloped by the flames of love and transcend to the words-l plane
beyond the grasp of human experience, reason, description or belief. To
non-believers this may resemble brain-death, but to the converted this is the
after-life. :-)

Carolyn
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On Tue, 5 Jan 1993, Ruth M. Hanschka wrote:

> Yecch - and inefficient as all get-out, no doubt.  Around here, most houses
> have basements.  The ones that do, keep their furnaces down there.  The

Yeah and around there, most people are Yankees. Dorisann neglected to say
that if her house had a basement, it would float off on the groundwater,
becuse anywhere along theTexas coast it is within a few feet of the
surface--between 6 and 9 feet.

-abh
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> "Sometimes self-respect requires that you float one down the middle,
>letter high, big as a balloon, and let the batter have his way."

  I'm mostly baseball-illiterate, but here's what I would make of this:

  "Why am I trying to engage this turkey in an epic duel?  Here's a
   fat pitch.  See what you can do with it."

  brad
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From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> For those (few, probably) of us who are gif-deprived, would you satisfy
> our curiosity about May?  Who/what is MAY?

My fur rises even at the mention of peter2.gif.  Peter would look fine in
the picture were it not for his being so intimate with a large, frightening
beast of vaguely feline characteristics.  I can say no more.  My paws shake.
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
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From: karsten <karsten@NETCOM.COM>

> minutes later and Jay was still studying his options.  He must
> have a *very* picky cat.  Or doesn't normally buy the cat food
> and was overwhelmed by the choices.

Jay should meet May. It might put him into a better humour.

Peter
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1993, jc-s wrote:

> in Chicago.  Tushar just makes me <swoon>.

You should have seen it. That's all I'm gonna say.

-abh
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>17) Pontifical Biblical Commission (Tony H.)

Organisation in the Vatican that controls official Catholic bible studies
and ensures that they are in accordance with church dogma (i.e. no dangerous
independent thought is allowed).

Tony H.
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              10 Jan 1993 09:53:16 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>>    The Natchez Trace Parkway.  One of the best highways in America.
>
>Would you believe I've never even been on the part of the Trace that's
>south of Jackson?  But I know some of its northern segments intimately.
>It looks just like all the other national parkways -- except that it
>lacks the beauty of the mountains found on routes like the Blue Ridge
>Pway.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

   Ordinarily, I don't challenge the List Goddess when she makes a
   pronouncement like this  -- "looks like all the other national
   parkways", "lacks the beauty of the mountains".  Well, maybe I won't
   challenge her now either. But she's wrong, wrong, wrong, God bless
   her soul.

   brad
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*** Resending note of 01/08/93 07:17

>Ra is up again, and Natalie is gonna quit confusing my friends by using
>my account.  I thought I should let you know that the ftp files may not
>be back in place for a while though.  Probably everything will be back in
>order later today.

Natalie & Bernard.  Just did FTP and worked fine.  Guess Frank is smiling
again.
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1993, Tony Harminc wrote:

> year absence).  I suspect he is a pretty good actor, though.
> Glad you liked it.  Is eating with a kukri easier than with chopsticks?  ;-)

I'll thank you to refrain from such questions, suh! [hiding Fizzy's eyes]

-abh
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question About Online Resources
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Thanks for all the suggestions of online resources!  If I can crawl out
of the office clutter I left before the holidays, I may finish the handout.
I may even trudge through the rain to the library to look at the Krol book.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Subject:      Re: Croning Plans
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Posted on 10 Jan 1993 at 10:12:14 by Natalie Maynor
>I still have no croning knowledge other that what has been posted on the
>list and am not sure that I'll be able to find any good books right away.

I keep forgetting to mention--when Karsten and I went to a movie one night
we had an hour to kill, so when we were walking around Westwood and passed
a New Age bookstore, I thought, "Aha!  Croning books!"  The clerk thought
I was an idiot, though thanks to the list I was able to get out my request
without snorting.  (We have talked so much about it, it is a real concept
to me now.)  Anyway, there was nothing on women's rituals.  They had more
stuff on men's stuff than on women's.

That was the only place I've looked for croning stuff.

Karen
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Words-L Weekly Digest
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> Gilbert,
>   You get mentioned in the Digest more than I do.  It doesn't bother me
> that I don't get mentioned; I always figure that things could be worse.
>
> Evelyn

This *blows* my *mind*!!!!  What could be worse than being left out
of brad's Weekly Digest?????  *What*???  I challenge anyone on this
list to name *one* thing that is worse.  Just *one* *thing*!!!!!
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 22:06:22 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Word Question
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>         Thanks, Uncle Brad, for the wifty-scrabble connection!
>            --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
> Oh come on, we're not *all* falling for that one Brad!

You don't have to *believe* everything you enjoy reading.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)