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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:22:00 MST
From:         BZ <TSBZALESKI@CC.WEBER.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question About Online Resources
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:33:14 GMT "Ruth M. Hanschka" Said:
 >
>>Athene Magazine on quartz.rutgers.edu (but if they're interested in
>>online zines, my site is a lot better on ftp.eff.org.)

>I used to get that thing!  I also used to get Dargonzine, but I'll be darned
>if I can remember from where.  That was a shared-universe ongoing whoseit,
>along the lines of the Myth books.

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

bz
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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              10 Jan 1993 08:53:57 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>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?

   brad
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:26:45 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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>Huh??  what membership, and how does one lose it?  (oh, do you mean losing
>net access?)
>
>-rashmi

Perhaps the question is to name the worst in all possible worlds. Now
the interesting problem is to find all possible worlds in which words-l
digests and membership of words-l BOTH exist. If there are such worlds
then is it true that in some of them, losing the latter is really worse
than going unmentioned in the former? If so, in how many of this rather
limited number of worlds does a Doris exist? In how many of THOSE is there
a Giggles asking idiotic questions? Probably only a couple or three. In
them, the probablity is quite low that the (existing) Doris feels compelled
to answer aforementioned idiotic questions.

Of course, though low, it certainly doesn't rule out a world like that.
Problem is, such worlds are (obviously) very bizarre. They are in fact so
bizarre that they mostly have very unstable and chaotic electrons, so that
electronic networking as such is not possible. Besides there is the whole
question of the presence of a Rashmi in it, because if not then this argument
(which is a considered response to HER question) becomes rather pointless,
and being pointless, no one advances it. Unless, of course, it is a world
like ours, where everyone always advances pointless arguments.

tushar
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Three-key Sequence Nonsense
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I sent this earlier, but it came back for some strange reason.  Apologies in
advance if the message shows up again later.  -rashmi

>Neal from the city without newspapers:
>>       Alec is the (formerly?) bearded Philadelphian -- he just sent me a
>>       collection of Sunday comics from several weeks' worth of Inquirers, to
>>       prepare me for the impending return of an actual newspaper to this
>>       town.  Rashmi also lives there, but she didn't have a beard last time I
>>       saw her.
>
>No change in beard status to report, Neal.   Speaking of which, what's the
>story on the tail?  I remember folks offering suggestions, but not your final
>decision.
>
>Jenna, as Neal said, Alec and I are the Philly area words-lers.  He lives
>in the suburbs - Rosemont, I think.  Is a List Event in order?
>
>-rashmi
>(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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From:         Anne 'Bandwidth Pig' Harwell <abh@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Another bodily injury and plans for Thai food
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Cambridge. Fell and hurt ankle. Due to some aberrant childhood behavior, I
have been given a set of ankles to walk through life with which are not
quite set on the foot bones at the angle most people's are. Therefore, the
fall, this one the latest in a series of dozens.

But on to the day's visit.

GT exults. I have never seen him happier, more content, more at ease than
on the streets of Cambridge. He must have been happy the years he lived
here.

Chapel at King's College. Late Gothic architecture. My first time inside a
Gothic Church in person. Damp eyes, y'all. Overwhelming experience. As I
write this, GT is suggesting a <worldly> metaphor for my reaction, but
since I was in the House of the Lord, I will decline.

These people know how to build a church. And behind the altar, Rubens'
Adoration of the Magi. This was a perfect moment.

The bookstores (swoon). And the gorgeous young people. How *does* hair
that red actually grow out of a human head, anyway? GT notes that a
miserable side effect of getting older is the surprise one endures when he
realizes that the "pretty little schoolgirl" is really a second-year
university student.

Belgian chocolates, lots of walking, clean(er) air (than London), and the
smells of good food coming from the restaurants. It is a happy little
time. There's a feeling on the street, kind of a current that seems to
flow through everything, a sort of understood cadence which everyone
walks, a commonality in the way hands gesture and syllables are clipped.
It's like swimming.

There was this one wine shop where we stopped that another American came
in, and just as I always used to be in Mexico when a bus of American
missionaries would roll up to a beer joint where I was communing with the
locals, I felt deeply embarrassed and wished he would go away. He did,
thankfully, but I hardly opened my mouth to another Cantabrigian the
remainder of the day.

Before I knew it, I was getting tired and began to hint around about
dinner: what, where, when--mainly when. We turned back towards the train
station, and while I was running my mouth on some self-important piece of
dreck which the world would have been much the better without, I put my
right foot down in a hole and twisted the ankle. The endorphins
immediately fired and after about 5 minutes of pain I got as high as a
kite and stayed that way for half an hour.

Thai food, which had been intermittently discussed, was tabled as a
non-doable item, as well as the visit to (or by) Ann Witbrock.  (Ann is
the current keeper of the 'real' pizzabox - the planned visit was because
she'd been saying she wanted to try a decent Eiswein and that's what
caught my eye in the vintners - but we're going to be selfish and have it
ourselves as soon as its cool enough - G)

Perhaps tomorrow.

-abh
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Message For Karen
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> I thought her address was LL23 (no E) - at least that's the address I've been
> sending mail to; it's worked so far. But they don't seem to be reading much

You're right.  I don't know now whether that "E" I typed in the list posting
was a typo or whether I screwed up in the note to her.  But the first reply
I tried to send her was sent with the reply command.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who has GOT to get offline and get some work done soon!
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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I threw a rare Royal Tantrum when AARP sent me a membership application,
shortly after my 29th birthday ...

--bayla
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:50:00 EST
From:         In Medias Res <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Words Of Wisdom For Today
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*This*, heard on the TV this morning, justifies the
reappearance of the Golden Words:
.
"Bombing goes better with pizza."
-----A manager of a D.C. area Domino's Pizza, while explaining
that he knew nothing was happening last night in Iraq because
there were no excessive late-night deliveries of pizza to the
Pentagon, as there were just before the start of Desert Storm.
.
--ggs
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Subject: Re: The burning fiery furnace
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              5 Jan 1993 18:52:00 EST from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

Uh, Gilbert, Jeffrey Dahmer started out that way.

Evelyn
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From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Barbie dolls
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        >(it's a hard one to come by)

        And the groans could be heard for thousands of miles in all directions.

This would have been a suitable point to say 'fnarr fnarr' by the way...

G
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From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Famous horses
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>I don't remember Will Rogers or Audie Murphy having particular
>horses...wasn't Hopalong Cassidy's horse Topper?  Gene Autry's was
>Champion, and Tom Mix's was Tony.  Dale Evans had a horse named Buttermilk.
>ndh (who used to spend every Saturday morning at the Ritz Theater watching
>cowboy movies AND the weekly installment of the serial)

Wow, Nancy! I used to spend every Saturday *afternoon* at the
Hitching Post theatre in Hollywood (just one block east of Vine),
a theatre that showed *only* cowboy movies (and serials, of course)
and had a *great* popcorn machine that would dispense 3 or 4
containers of popcorn for your dime (but you had to be prepared and
have 3 or 4 containers ready to *catch* it in!), but I don't
remember the names of anybody's horse (except, of course Trigger
and Silver...and Scout).

What I *do* remember is having my first intimation of what Life was
about when the bad guys took Buster Crabbe's shirt off and tied him
to a chair...

love, judith
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Request for Info

>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

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
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, karsten@netcom.com (karsten) says:

>ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM writes:
>> Ooooooooooo! I LIKE it!  Is this the wrong time to talk about my
>> black leather belt with the nails?...:-)
>
>Point ends inward?
>
Only when you wear it, Karsten....
>
>(If I had a hammer...)
>
If I were a carpenter, and you wore a nail belt....
[different song, same nailholes]
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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>  An easy one. It was PAWNAHAWALAKATAPAWA.

  Sorry, Torkel, that's a place name from Oahu.

  Speaking of gratuitous information, why did the French cede
  St. Barthelemy to Sweden?  And why did Sweden give it back?

  brad
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:50:46 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
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Subject:      Anonymity and all that guff
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              at Jan 11, 93 8:37 pm

From the screen of 'Ruth M. Hanschka'...
>
> In a previous article, Fizzy the Fribble () says:
> >
> >Hey - arent I allowed *some* anonymity.
> That must have been a rhetorical question, because you already know the
> answer.  No.

I know.....Anyway, anyone who is seriously on the Uk-net knows me as
Fizzy, so Fizzy I might remain.

> >Ok --- since I am gonna be leaving this illustrious list for some six
> >weeks (I bet you are all real glad to hear that), I will start signing
> >my *REAL* name when I get back.
> >
> Alas, Fiz, there's an extremely good chance that my account will have been
> pushing up daisies for five weeks before you log in again.:-(
>
C'est la vie....I wonder for how long you will be off tho.

Fiz.
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:18:31 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      surfacing
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greetings oh wordslers!

   having been far too long deprived of net access, I am now coming to you live
from the Castle of the Smithsonian. I still don't have my own account here, but
at least they have IBM emulation and I can telnet into Brown. However, as soon
as they let me on, they tell me that they're closing the mainframe down for the
weekend. Sigh.
   Has anything of great note occurred while I was out? I only read the last
hundred messages, and won't have any time till I'm back in la Prov to play
"ftp-ing for digests", so let me know briefly if I have to.
   Catherine--have I missed a turn or not? If so, can I get plugged back in
now?
   I have oodles and oodles of WHTMI... to share, but no time yet to write. Let
it suffice that I HAVE been thinking of you.
   And Natalie--I would NEVER come between you and Bernard!

blomberg cepeda      st402747@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:17:20 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nuclear
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> Ah, the famous Natalie tin ear again.  You wouldn't get a linking r between
> idea and why.

Some people *always* end "idea" with an r.  Others, as you say, throw in
the r's in certain environments only.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (74
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Posted on 12 Jan 1993 at 10:39:34 by Evelyn Duncan
>  What would cause an IBM PS/2 monitor to "drop its red gun" (lose
>practically all red in the display)?  We've had 10 out of 45 develop
>that problem.

Are they model 25's?

Karen
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      WWTBLOOW-LWD: A Solicitation
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This is not exactly a "contest":  Just a solicitation to gather
a sort of list-opinion....  to give the Words-lers an opportunity
to express themselves.
The question is:
   What's Worse Than Being Left Out Of Words-L Weekly Digest?
On answer to a poster, please.
This is serious.  I am not pouting, I am just curious.
So:
   WWTBLOOW-LWD?
--ggs
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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>If I haven't heard from any of the above in the next 15 hours, I will start
>Round 3 off....
Whoa, hey, whoops, I'm here!  (Just not as much...)  Or, rather, getting back
to what passes as "normal" for me, anyway.  As the pom-pon girls said, "Gimme
an A!"

JMW
[How's come I know everyone else's answers but not my own?  Whyzzat, Giggles?]
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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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//



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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
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...If given a choice of whether to give up car a/c or house
> a/c, I'd give up house a/c in a minute.  Remember not many years ago when
> the governor of Vermont recommended banning all car a/c?  I wondered at the
> time how often she had driven in Mississippi summers.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I rather doubt the governor of Vermont has driven in Texas in the summer,
either.  I still remember how the hot wind through the car windows felt on
your face, and how you had to put a towel on the plastic seat covers
before you could sit down.  Besides, since I'm allergic to all sorts of
things, I *never* drive with the car windows down in Houston, so the air
conditioner is a lifesaver.
ndh (who, come to think of it, wouldn't drive with the windows down in
Houston anyway because it isn't safe to drive around with doors or windows
unlocked)
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (74)
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              11 Jan 93 08:20:16 -0500. <9301111324.AA10167@sics.se>

  >Trivia question:  What was the county seat?

  An easy one. It was PAWNAHAWALAKATAPAWA.
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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,
>
>        Post something interesting, and maybe you'll merit mention in the
>        W-LWD...

There is a simple solution. Brad can merely say "Gilbert Smith posts."
I don't see what the fuss is about. Why bring in the subjective notion
of "interesting"?

tushar
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In a previous article, maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) says:

>> you're bouncing him out of his own account!  That's like kicking him out of
>> his own doghouse and moving in yourself.:-) [like who'd want to....]
>
>I'm quite content living in Bernard's house and sleeping in his bed.
>  -- Natalie (about to move back to maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
As I am in my cats' house. [not a cathouse, karsten....]   I am also
their willing, mostly, slave.  
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Baseball
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     >The only self-respect I
     >see here is that R doesn't feel right about hitting the guy without
     >physical* provocation.  So he baits the bad guy until he takes a
     >swing at our hero, whereupon R can beat the shit out of him in
     >self-defense.'

  This doesn't make sense in the context of the book since the alternative
mentioned is "getting out without being seen".

     >Sounds like Robicheaux (or Burke) didn't think through his
     >baseball/self-respect metaphor very carefully.

  This seems to be the case. It's all that creative writing. It's bound to
mess up a novel.
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Metathesis
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> A lot of (Indian) west coast Christians say "aks" instead of "ask",

So did speakers of Old English.  The metathesis occurred as ks>sk first.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Computer Question
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Natalie, I'm looking at the PC Tools manual and the chapter called "Disk
Maintenance, optimization, and Data Recovery," which covers Diskfix.  Do
you want me to send you what it says?

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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