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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:25:35 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Rested Now
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 >
> > Hon, if I were a smart person, or even particularly perceptive, I wouldn't
> > be teaching in high school.
>
> Excuse me?  Is this the prevailing attitude?  If so, no wonder we have to
> put up with the attitudes we do.  Are we starting another flame war?  And
> I just offered to help you with your grades!  I *never.*
> Doris

Oops, sorry...clarification needed here.  Smart and/or perceptive about
making career decisions, not smart and/or perceptive period.  I know many
smart *and* perceptive high school teachers, one of whom just wrote a
beautiful description of this list and its workings.
ndh (and thank you for offering to help with my grades)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: t-shirts?
Date: 28 Sep 1992 04:19:41 GMT
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In a previous article, pwiebe@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU (s mandell) says:

>I have been off in space for a while.  What ever happened with the t-shirts?
>SZZ[?1;0
>
They were destroyed in a transporter accident - All-Amazon atoms are scattered
bewteen here and Alpha Centuri.:)
Or is that what you were asking?  Your signal had some crud in it that our
communications officer was unable to filter off....

Ruth
Starfleet Command and jam factory
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Subject: Re: Carpe diem (WORDS-L Cookbook
Date: 28 Sep 1992 04:13:49 GMT
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In a previous article, EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU () says:

>Posted on 27 Sep 1992 at 00:05:48 by Entropy Warrior
>>Cover carp with shit
>....
>>Throw away because you can't eat carp.
>
>Not covered w/ shit, no, but I've eaten it in Japan. It's good.
>Are you one of those people who think catfish are inedible, too?
>
He probably is - some people just don't know how to eat!  Of course, this
should be taken with a grain of turbinado, as the writer [me] likes to eat
crystalized ginger right out of the bag....  The best of it is covered in
turbinado sugar instead regular granular.  
<yum yum yum>

>
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 06:06:07 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Blinking Lights
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The Natchez Trace has always been the best place for the blinking-light
warnings.  Everybody warns everybody else, always.  Maybe that's because
the "enemies" on the Natchez Trace are often Yankees -- Park Rangers
rather than ordinary Highway Patrolers.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         IDISAVINOH%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
Subject: Re: loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Country;

You are so funny!!!  Now I know why I hang out with you so much.

                 Howie-D
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Strange mokados

*** Resending note of 09/29/92 13:35


>"General Schwartzkopf reads from his fascinating, inspiring and often

And Dawn was a little upset with me because I would not take her to stand
in line for 3 to 4 hours to have the General personally sign a copy of
his book, right here in Tampa, last Saturday.  Oh, well, he seems to be
OK guy, but I spent the four hours (and more) mowing...Dawn didn't help,
and I have enough riding mowers for each family member.  Bah!

Don, who needs to get some four-legged mowers
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From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      It's only bloody that thing again!

> So is Words-L a wonderful thing. ...

Look here, we aren't going to start that particular thread
again, are we?

tushar
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: Privatizing Marty

Sailing: It's a luff a minute.

Yep, I've had a few races like that :-(

Steve Karlson
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	A child can realize that all these noble things require doing work and
	paying money. I don't pay for my emailing.

True.  Th American taxpayer pays it for you.

G
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From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Scanners
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> there's a new upper-middle range that wasn't there before.  We've
> just bought a 30 bit colour 800dpi for something ridiculously cheap
> like 2 or 3K.  (ridiculously cheap compared to 10 - 20K a year
> or two ago...)

Eeek.  I was thinking along lines a bit lower than that ridiculously
cheap price...  I'm not even bothering to ask whether you're talking
dollars or pounds since either would be way beyond my limits.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:48:00 EST
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Subject:      Re: stupidity

Greetings,

GGS, pay no attention to these hysterical accusations.  If folks don't
want to call their friends "dull" or "uninteresting" they can always
abstain--or choose these labels for someone with whom they don't claim
friendship.  I think these outbreaks of lysteria are somehow linked to
the lunar cycle (they are certainly inevitable and repetitive).

Doubtless some of this posing is just a last-minute attempt to garner
votes.

Marty
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 12:19:16 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Mama Judith

>Spot the difference!
>
>>Standard unsubstantiated and false accusation, Harwell! Please,

The cry goes round the clubs -- G Toal has twigged!

Please share and enrich his childlike glee.

tushar
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: George on taxes

Thanks, Alec, for posting 170 plus reasons why the economy is sputtering.
I got depressed just reading it, and most of those things don't apply to me
except in some second-order way.  But a lot of them will make lots of work
for tax consultants.

Steve Karlson

Lift the tax on sailboats!
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:17:17 BST
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Speeding
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On Sun, 27 Sep 1992 10:14:43 -0500, "Anne Burton Harwell" <harwell@TENET.EDU>
 wrote:
> permanent subcutaneous scar on my left ankle, I hung it all up. However, I
> would not take a million dollars for those memories, because they were
> some of the most intensely fun experiences I will ever have.

Oh, so you're *not* coming over for a visit in the new year then?

G
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Date: 30 Sep 1992 20:57:50 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>want totell others, who is valentine smith (real or not) and what is
>>val-l (real or not) and did he really get run off hist. and polisci.
>
>  Val Smith is real....i think the list is at ucf1vm, but send the sub
>to ANY listserv and it'll send it to the right one.
Confirmed - I used to get the list, and I know Val.[not his real name,
obviously]  He's a very real guy, who has a few more problems of all types
than he needs....
>   Well, run off is open to debate.....sorta like did xxxx quit first or
>get fired.....I don't know details or care....but val is a definite
>net-character....
Yep - I think he got run off by flame wars.  Talk.politics.soviet had and
has the same problem.  The last time I looked, it was 10% messages and 90%
crap.  As he's on a site sans Usenet, he got the gatewayed version, and 
got the crap right in his mailbox.  Not cool.

>>And who is mamaprimate that so many miss, and is she the smae
>>as judith who escaped from listtorture and listtyranny.
>   Yes.
I wish she'd come back....we need a few sane people in here.

>
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From: kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA ((Agnes Kruchio))
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Subject: Re: Ode to Judith
Date: 3 Oct 92 22:28:18 GMT
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              Oct 3, 92 5:43 pm

>
> We pass the nights and endless days
> In hot pursuit of bits of praise,
> And fill our cups up to the brim
> With sweet retorts and insults grim;
> We play our hands
> And pig our bands,
> But all for naught:
> We still are caught
> Like actors thrust on stage by chance
> Sans lines, sans shoes, sans shirt, sans pants.
> We speak of words and langue, parole
> But still we find we have no soul.
> Amid these semes, these morphs, morphemes
> Sans thee we're but displaced orphemes.
> ................
> --ggs
>

That is really lovely, ggs - very good indeed. I don't know Judith,
but she must be something special.
(what are orphemes?)

Agnes
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Original-From: mhwpa!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Subject:      Re: Mama Judith
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>	How can anybody take something like this seriously?
But they can.  And that's the troof....

>	BTW, I voted for you as list dad.
I know.

Ken
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:53:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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: That is precisely what I've been saying all along.  Was my explanation
: abnormally incoherent or what?  Has anyone else here actually been to
: the far north and far south and has a clue what it is I'm talking about?
That's what I thought you had been posting, but when Bayla asked her
question about if the sun was at her right hand she would not be
facing north, and your answer to her question appeared to be that
she would not be facing north, which is when I jumped in.  You were
doing fine until then.

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:36:00 EDT
From:         In Medias Res <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Diego Angel
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Forwarded from the <closet>:
-------------------------------
Diego mijito:
Quiubole, amigo.  El problema es que no puedes comprender lo que
esta pasando aqui sin quedarte algunos dias.  La mayoria de la
gente esta sospechando que no existes.  Dime algo en el idioma
de Colombia para asegurarnos de que eres quien dices.
Gracias,
--ggs
-------------------
--*imr*
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:49:00 EST
From:         "(Alec D. Plotkin)" <185422285@WILD.UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question about MS-Word in PC and MAC
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>I think he was looking for WORD-PC@HVRFORD.BITNET or WORD-MAC@HVRFORD.BITNET.
>(They're 'mailserv' rather than 'listserv' lists.)  WORDS-L is still the best
>list for *all* questions tho.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
This list is at Haverford College, a school near me. It does not have
bitnet anymore, so I am what happened to this list.

later

alec
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Subject:      Re: Cable Bill

Greetings,

What precisely is wrong with the Post Office?  I consider its services
to be comparatively inexpensive, efficient, and reliable.

Marty
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: stupidity
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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:47:47 GMT

Marty, don't you start in with that 'lunar-cycle' code baloney.  I've met
enough people who actually *believe* it -- and are somehow surprised to
find out that all women aren't menstruating at the same time!  (And these
were postgraduates in fields allegedly requiring analytical thining!)

--bayla

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Subject:      Re: t-shirts?
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Posted on 27 Sep 1992 at 14:04:53 by s mandell
>I have been off in space for a while.  What ever happened with the t-shirts?

Want to field this one, Ms. Harwell, o Amazon of Amazons??

Karen
who is also awaiting the publication of Anne Burton Harwell's collected
motorcycle stories.
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Subject:      Golden Words For Tomorrow
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Golden Words For Tomorrow
-----------------------------------
.
_I've been adapted dozens of times._
.
----abh, in the post "Re: Ovinglay Is-hay Eeahtamay"
July 31, 1992 in the days when the truth was told.
.
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Brought to you by Golden Words Inc, a division of Readers Digest
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Take me out to the Phonolog
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> What do you think of this?  I'm not sure I want to post it.
>
> > >
> > >     o/.\____/ >          -- Bernard      \______|
> > > >                          / \  / \
> > >
> >
> > But what I really want to know is why you did this weird thing to my
> > body??
> >                         o/.\____/
> >          -- Bernard      \______|
> >                          / \  / \
>
 Do you think she might be giving the children an indication of what could
 happen to them if they hang around the grown-ups long enough?  BTW I'm
 beginning to suspect that the children have learned to fake addresses, for
 they sound an awful lot like some of the high schoolers I see every day.
doris
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 12:57:00 CDT
From:         "(Frank Peters)" <fwp@CC.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Deconstructing the Feud
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In article <Pine.3.03.9210031241.A9445-8100000@Joyce-Perkins.tenet.edu> Anne
 Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU> says:
: On Sat, 3 Oct 1992, (Graham Toal) wrote:
:
: > Well, Bayla, it depends on what you mean by 'direction'...  in
: > the southern hemisphere the sun apparently traverses the sky right to left
:
: You mean it rises in the west?

This confused me as well since "right to left" and "left to right" are
functions of whether you face north or south regardless of which
hemisphere you are in. The only thing I can guess is that he was
referring to "facing the equator" since this would be different in the
different hemispheres.

Now, what I find disorienting is to go from summer in the US to winter
in South America.  This is especially confusing when you are young and
fixed on the notion that "the south is hotter."  If its hotter then why
is it so cold in the summer?  It took my mother some time to clear up
the confusion.
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mama Judith
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Sayeth "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> >BTW I voted for you [not Don] as list dad

> What??????????????    I am heartbroken and speechless!!!!!!!!!

     Sorry, Don.  I also did not vote for you for List Dad.  The
feelings I have for you have never been consistent with you being my
parent.

> Don, saddened beyond words..........

     As long as you are not saddened beyond words-l ...

The Ronin
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Take me out to the Phonolog

...too bad that Lyle Lovett photographs badly.  I haven't seen anyone look
that bad since they propped some of the Daltons up on boards after they rode
into Northfield, Minnesota!  Good thing we "Liberans" don't 'judge a book by
it's cover...'  8-)

JMW
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:00:06 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      whoa
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1992, Graham Toal wrote:

> G
> (Anyone else here except me ever been court-martialled?)

YOU WHAT!!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:47:53 -0400
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Sunrise, sunset...
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              "LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU" at Oct 5, 92 11:45 am

>
> Agnes,
>
> Sorry to disappoint you, but I am not a Kiwi. I guess I misled you by
> referring to my fellow countrymen as 'obnoxious away from their homeland'.
> Telling things the way they are and 'taking the Mickey out of' ourselves
> is an inherent part of the old Australian culture.

I guess I thought you were one of the many NZlanders in Australia.. no
prob, though, there are lots of things I don't know about Autralia and
am delighted to have a source so close at hand (literally, I guess!!)
For example, off the top of my head: do Australians *really* say
"D'day!", "Mayte", "sheila" [the latter to refer to women,
pejoratively, I believe]...Is Autralian culture as anti-female as my
ex-office mate suggested (who, though considered very, very bright, even among
theoretical physicists, might have encountered extra heavy doses of
this anti-female attitude, being in a mostly male field)...
Do ordinary normal Australian MALES really go "rooing" - going out in
jeeps in the middle of the night with headlights to shoot kangaroos, taking
their tails as trophies - as casually as other men might go fishing or to the
corner store ?

so many questions...
>
> Your welcome is appreciated..... I hope you still mean it now that you know
> I'm an Aussie.

Sure... :-)
Canadians have a special place for Australia [I think sort of
a soft spot]- regarding them as sort of cousins in the British
colonial family, evolving under similar circumstances: a vast, at
times/places geographically/humanly challenging country with a
sparse population...there are frequent comparisons/contrasts
in the political science lit between the two political systems.

>
> Carolyn
>

Agnes
who, though a Canadian, NEVER says "eh?"
Got that - eh? <grin>
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 5 Oct 1992 19:27:59 GMT
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In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:

>On Mon, 5 Oct 1992, (Ruth M. Hanschka) wrote:
>
>> Seconded - that's a show I'd love to watch, preferably from a wingside seat.
>> The Israelis usually do a nice job at this sort of thing, unlike the usual
>> American balls-up.:)
>
>Er, Ruth, not tryong to be <prescriptivist> or anything, but balls-up is
>*good*. Tits-up is bad.
Oh?  I always thought they were both negative.<grin>  Although I can imagine
why balls being up might be considered good.....

>OOf! I just uncovered more sexist language
>Think I'll get a <love note> from Phyllis Schlafly?
She probably thinks computers and listservers are tools of Satan, so I
doubt it.

Ruth
ps - even El Al is saying that this wasn't a bomb, so the wingside seat
probably will never exist. [too bad, really]
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