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From: ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 04:23:08 GMT
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>
>
>when i was younger, our family used to play a role playing game with
>some close family friends, who we saw every week.  the game was called
>top secret, in it you had to go on a spy mission and bring back a
>certain hidden person.  we were never serious about it, my dad's alias
>was snidely whiplash, and the m.o. of our friend kelly and i was to,
>upon entering a room, immediately slit everyone's throats and staunch
>the bleeding with gauze.  including on one occasion, the throat of the
>very person we were supposed to rescue and take back with us....
>my reason for this anecdote was that our dog also played the game with us,
>under the alias of jack the sewer rat. we still call him that, and when
>he can hear us, he answers to it, too....
>
>                                     bekka <rsast11+@pitt.edu>
>
And Tushie thought I was good at this......  Or was there method in your
madness?  You have discovered my sister's old Freenet account, I see.
Any particular reason for sending mail there?  The forwarding command is
set to flip all incomming messages to this account anyway.....

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Greetings, Tushar,

Please take Ruth with you, and close the door very tightly behind you.

Thanks, and so long,

Marty
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Teachers and students
Date: 20 Nov 92 07:11:22 GMT

I'm terrible remembering names -and- faces, especially out of their familiar
context.  So, when I was accosted in my local supermarket by a young woman
gushing about how I was responsible for her marriage, and how grateful she
was, I played along until I could figure things out: she even showed me 
pictures, and I seemed to recognize the groom, but couldn't place the 
memory.  

They'd both been in a class I'd taught at Phila's College of Performing 
Arts; he was one of the two males, she one of the 25 females enrolled.
She'd volunteered to type his term paper, as a way of gettin to know him;
the big problem was that she didn't know how to type, and was sufficiently
late with the paper that he almost failed the course!  I still don't 
understand why he married her, after all that...

--bayla

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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Southern Culture on the Skids
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> ggs, choose your weapon, you eater of broken meats!
>
> Tushar, hold that door, I follow anon.
>
> Each of us has his limits.
>
> Marty

Oh, shit.  Now I have to write *two* poems.
--ggs (wondering what an "eater of broken meats" is?  Should I
       be <proud> or <pissed>?)
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:46:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: No hay mucho tiempo
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> >So sensible and so much like the Spanish way of making a verb
> >negative simply by prefacing it with "no".  Are there other
> >languages besides Spanish in which this simple formation of
> >the negative occurs?
>
> Is every possible conjugation of a verb negated just by tacking
> on a no?
>
> tushar

Yes, except for informal commands, which change the verb form
when made negative with the _no_ before the verb.
    Habla ma's.  (Talk more)
    No hables ma's. (Don't talk any more)
--ggs
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: natalie's sparc
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:Well, my 486-66 may be blown out of the water right after it shows up
:next week.  Latest (dec) Byte says on p.30: "Coming Soon: Sparc Workstations
:at PC Prices"   Shows a new TI MicroSparc, developed along with Sun and
:Mentor.  Compatible with Sparc software, etc.
:Hyundai says they will have one out in early 93, under 5000 bucks....hell,
:Natalie can buy a couple of them...one for her, one for Bernardykins....
:all with her raise this year.....

Sparcs are already that price - how much do you think I paid for mine?
(Clue: *way* less than $5K - though admittedly it's 2nd hand)

They're not significantly faster than a 486/66.  The big difference
is that they're Unix.  A good unix, that it's no problem to port
anything to.  However you'd get all the same advantages by putting
Unix on your PC - either a paid-for&supported BSDI or a fun-but-do-all-
the-work-yourself 386BSD.

Then again, probably most of the software you want to run is only on
DOS, so why change.

But don't rush out to buy a sparc because it's the latest cool toy;
you're *much* better off with 386 Unix - if only because of all
the hardware created for DOS boxes, which is *always* cheaper than
sparc-compatible addons.  Sparc memory costs a bundle too.

G
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Date: 18 Nov 92 22:49:02 GMT
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> But Natalie you have to play to win and you surely wouldn't play a game
> where the total return to players is about fifty per cent, maybe you
> would. Wouldn't roulette be a better bet? At least that pays about
> 94 per cent back to the players. Of course if you're going for that
> big win. Good Luck!

Of course I'm going for the big win!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:32:38 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Shameless (not butt) plug
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hose of you who were looking for modems and thinking about the Prodigy-badged
Digicom model - it's called an 'Eagle', and will be sold at 199 only to
members.  However the guy I know on the net who I bought a Digicom Scout+
from has dropped his price to $199 too.  Wolfgang Hencke <wolfgang@rahul.net>
Good fast service and email support.  I can recommend him.

G
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Subject:      Re: Another Contest

> >Gilbert Gabriel, I agree with Bayla...absolutely not.
>
> A new twist to the plain vanilla "...NOT!"
>
> How many people have heard this?
>
> tushar

First time I've heard it, really.  What a waste of language.  Do
people think they will avoid sounding like Wayne and Garth by saying
"ABSOLUTELY" or "CATEGORICALLY" before "NOT"?  No, they will merely
sound like Wayne and Garth if they'd actually gotten their GED....
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(201)564-2866                   |       In every voice, in every ban,
Kenneth.Wolman@att.com          |       The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:13:51 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: First Green Message

Ken,
  He's been on the Politics list (Hi, Kip!), so he's not exactly Fresh
Meat (Tim Johnson will do that to you). :)

Evelyn Duncan
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
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>>>MACGYVER@INDYCMS               254
>>
>>        Before he became MacPhil, he was MacGyver.

>I have never figured one thing out - who on earth is/was Phil? Phil Paxton.
>IS it a dangerous question to ask? Does Don know anything about him?

        No, Tushar, MacGyver/MacPhil is Phil Kizer.  He still shows up on
        Usenet fairly regularly.

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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Eggspots in the fridge
Date: 20 Nov 1992 21:18:17 GMT
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In a previous article, boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU (Joan Boorstein) says:

>Current refrigerator has a removable tray -- great now that egg consumption
>is way down with kids gone most of the time -- use it when you want -- hard
>to use the space for anything else ---
>
I used to stuff yeast packets/cubes in ours, when we had one.  With it removed,
small jars, the kind that slide out of the door racks, fit up there just fine.
>
>Not so sure they are gone -- when our fridge was acting up recently and I went
>looking for new ones (the act of searching seemed to have 'fixed' the problem)
>saw a few freezer-on-the-bottom models -- still lots of freezer-on-the-top
>and some side-by-side --
>
They're a lot rarer than they used to be, though, and seem to be on the way
out.  Sounds like your fridge got scared and straightened itself up.  But
will it ever fly again?<grin> ["Yes, my son." "Great, it never could before!"]

Ruth
throwing in the odd context-free joke or two for Marty and brother Tushie

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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: On *ts* indecision and on being oxiousobnay
Date: 21 Nov 1992 05:56:36 GMT
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith) says:

>Has anyone noticed perhaps that *ts*, having decided to
>leave and then decided to stay and then said *no* when
>meaning *yes* has now become exceedingly obnoxious and
>insulting toward *almost* everyone and when will it ever
>end world without end?
>--ggs
>
<aamen, aamen> ?

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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:13:29 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Eggspots in the fridge
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Posted by the Dominatrix of STATLG-L

>>My refrigerator has 13 eggslots.
>>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>mine doesn't have any.

Wow, mine doesn't either. Is this a Providence thing? A little Rhody one? Some
Federal Hill scam gone astray? Were they all on deposit in uninsured credit
unions? Go figure.

bemused cepeda          st402747@brownvm
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>:Funny, I had expected the List Hoser. . . er, um ..Dowser to go for the bate.
>
>Was that bait too?  hey - you're the master baiter here...
>
>G

"Was that bait too?" asked the eel on being gaffed.

-Mka
Always like to keep a hand in.
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FYFI
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> The only problem, dear gilbert, is that the messages do not appear in
> order, nor do I think they've all managed to apepar on my screen:
>  this not being Latin, I have no idea what you said!
>
> --bayla

It's the stupid ra that got them mixed up, and even refused to send
two because they had identical headers and contents....  So, one
"to" got lost and one "as".....  They should have read:
.
I....
have....
decided....
to....
do....
everything...
in....
my....
power....
to.....
be....
as.....
obnoxious....
as....
possible....
__Burmashave.
.
Sorry, bayla, you had to be there.  It was terribly *funny* at the
time.  At least I thought so.  Why have only *Wimyn* responded to
my obnoxiousness?
Men do not like me.  They are threatened by my presence.
Bill Clinton hasn't spoken to me in a week.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:03:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject: Re: To <be> or *not* to <be>

> I propose that -ggs submit a response or two of his to the list in
> unwakated form; that he prepare the wakated versions and send them by
> private mail to four or five trustworthy people, who can post the
> correct versions after -ts has run (his word grinder)
> the <word grinder> and obtained the <output>.  That would probably
> check the complaint in -ggs's coda:

: I really like this idea, but I am totally stumped at this point.
: The <problem> is, where on this list can I find four or five
: trustworthy people?  We could have a contest, and everybody
: send me the names (by private mail) of the five most trustworthy
: posters and then I could tabulate the scores and reveal who won
: and who got *no* votes.

That's why I don't discuss game theory with <humanities types>.
It's not necessary that others on the list agree on who the five
most trustworthy people are; it's only necessary that -ggs find four
or five people he can trust, either because they like him or because
they don't like -ts.

Steve Karlson

The perfect Nash equilibrium is a new Volkswagen.
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:26:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: The Sounds of Silence
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>: Which is more impressive?  400 passing yards or 300 rushing yards?

>Two straight wins by the Green Bay Packers.

>Steve Karlson

Boy am depressed. The cheeseheads beat the hapless Eagles.
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In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>Does anyone know why there are no Gleanings today?
>
No.  Maybe Akio's Bitnet site got bit by a backhoe too?  Or a tornado?
*@#*#)@#(#(#*@(*#(!#_#+$@{!}#{{!][#]$] Bitnet machines.....
 
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:16:59 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Frank Mc Exists
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Posted on 19 Nov 1992 at 18:58:24 by Anne Burton Harwell
>Frank,
>You may use me in any way you deem <appropriate>, anytime, anywhere.

Now, *there's* an offer seldom seen...

Karen
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:16:18 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: On *ts* indecision and on being oxiousobnay

>Has anyone noticed perhaps that *ts*, having decided to
>leave and then decided to stay

Look, I never decided to leave. I don't do such things.
Whatever I said was only to humour you - cajole you
into not chaining morphans again.

>and then said *no* when meaning *yes*

A figment of your imagination, Smith.

tushar
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Quiet Night?

Yes Natalie, does seem to be quiet.....

But not in Tampa!  Bucs 20, Bears 17!


Don, who lives no where near any form of public transportation, but has
enough vehicles and gas credit cards to keep the economy healthy ....or to
maintain whatever evil vehicle use and ownership contributes to .....

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update

> FIVE-WAY CHILI (fi'v"wa'") /n,. Cincinnati/. A main dish consisting of layers
> of noodles, chili con carne, kidney beans, chopped onions, and grated cheese.

There is a version of Cincinnati chili that uses chocolate.
Everything rational says it should be atrocious, but it's really quite
good.
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From: PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Judith E. Schrier)
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Subject: Re: Where have all the streetcars gone?
Date: 16 Nov 92 19:38:41 GMT
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>I know I'm way behind, but in case someone hasn't asked:  Graham, please
>defend the proposition that individual ownership of vehicles is not
>socially efficient.
>Marty

Until he starts, I can talk about being a kid in southern California
in the 1940's, when we still had streetcars as well as fairly frequently
running buses. I remember having gone places with my mother, and sitting
on a bench waiting for a bus in the night, bitching and moaning, until
my mother would give in and hitchhike to get me home.

love, judith, who was an obnoxious little kid...which
              might explain some things... :-)
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    Tercets for Triplets
    ============================
    Behold the twain have met their twirp
    First Mart then ruth then out the blue
    The tush proclaims "I wrest, usurp
    .
    The right to pout, to cavil too,
    To stamp my foot and out the door
    Goodbye farewell adios adieu
    .
    Don't call me Sis you *are* a boor
    Tell bro' I'm gone and he's a turd
    I'll choose my sybs myself what's more
    .
    I'm back hey guys 'twas quite absurd
    to think I'd leave such fun ho ho."
    So Marty growls and shoots a bird
    .
    and ruthie <grins> and starts to throw
    some corn and tush returns the fire
    with fennel first then pita dough
    .
    and then his nuts, insults, and ire
    and all is well we'll never roam
    you *shit* you *dick* you *fuckin'* *liar*
    it's heav'n on earth its home sweet home.
    ==========================================
    --ggs
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:50:32 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Monday is one of my favorite days.
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:00:00 EST, "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285@VUVAXCOM.BITNET>
 wrote:
> I may finally have a JOB. I will know later today.
> Please send all good vibes toward me. I need all the help I can get.

I'm not sure we knew you didn't have one to begin with to be honest!
Sorry about that.  Good luck with the interview/whatever.

G
PS Will 'being on the dole' take on a new meaning with the new <incumbents>?
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Subject:      RE: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!

>   Honestly, I am hard pressed for an answer. I think it will be easier to
>   get a job, but that's all I can say about it.
>
>Seriously, I meant it - if that's the standard of your programming, switch
>back to maths before its too late.

I am banking on never having to depend on programming. If I am really
in dire straits I can always say it was a little thing I hacked when
asleep.

tushar
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From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: How to deliver a specimen

>Thank you.  The above is undoubtedly in contrast to tushies "predictions"
>with his dowsing rod or whatever he uses....or is it tarot cards, tush?
>
>dan

The method, because of its tendency of producing a dazzling though possibly
meretricious effect, is often mistaken for a supernatural one. But I abhor
such devices; they are contrary to the logical faculty.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:20:07 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: All this croning stuff
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> You can have a croning whenever you want; I won't send the Witch police
> after you... :)

I know.  But your sources make it sound as if 56 is a more typical croning
time than 50.  I wouldn't want to risk appearing to be 6 years older than
I am by having an early croning.  And even if you didn't send the Witch Police
after me, the witches might look askance at me and note me in their records.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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