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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 14:46:59 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      tmesis 2
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(part 2 of 2 parts)
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tmesis n. (pl. ~es) (Gram.) Separation of parts of compound word by
intervening word(s). (e.g. what things soever)
[from Gk tmesis, cutting (temno, cut)]

It's not surprising that I gave a silly dream so much credence - its
very weirdness deserved some amount of following up. So now I am The
Great Tmeter. How abso-boody-lutely thrilling, I thought. Helping the
forces of truth and justice, with the awesome power of tmesis. Were
there situations where tmeting would come in handy?

                             -X-

	"Don't grin like that," snarled Lord Pendlebury.
	Reggie was deeply hurt by this monstrous misunderstanding. It was
true that his facial muscles were working in a not insignificant manner,
but he had definitely intended them for an ingratiating smile. However,
noticing that it had failed to elicit the most unmitigated chumminess from
his employer, he hurriedly wiped it off.
	"Beastly weather we are having," he observed.
	"Never mind the weather. Collect a month's salary and get to blazes
out of here!"
	"Oh I say!" wailed Reggie.

	Patience had never been Lord Pendlebury's strong point. At this
moment, it seemed that the sight most calculated to bring out the beast in
him was that of a sacked junior accountant saying "Oh I say!"
	"GET OUT," he growled.
	"But I say, have a heart, dash it! Here I am with a brilliant
future ahead of me, I mean to say, question of a fellow's career and all
that sort of rot ..."
	"Get OUT," said Lord Pendlebury.
	Reggie drew himself up. "Well, if you insist," he said with
dignity, "right ho."
	"And get out fast," said Lord Pendlebury.
	"Right most indubitably ho," said Reggie quietly.

	These last words had an electrifying effect on Lord Pendlebury.
They suddenly made him see things in a different perspective altogether.
How many young men did one meet nowadays, he reflected, who could say "most
indubitably" while they were saying "right ho?"
	As the answer began to dawn on him, remorse gripped his heart. Why,
he realized in a flash of inspiration, the chap who could manage a full
length phrase when already heart and soul into the process of uttering
another was precisely the chap to keep three simultaneous telephone callers
at bay! And of all things that future captains of industry must do, keeping
simultaneous callers at bay was the most important. Yes, a junior accountant
who could say "right most indubitably ho" with such easy grace was truly a
junior accountant not to be missed.
	Lord Pendlebury shuddered as he thought how near he was to letting
slip out of his hands such a vast treasurehouse of talent.
	"Er, my boy," he addressed Reggie's gloomy receding back ...

                             -X-
___________________________________________________________________________

(That's not all the story, but enough is enough.)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:09:22 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Clambake Pictures, Sad Story
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>
> Uh-oh, I think I've found a lost sib -- my father was *notorious* for
> having <bad luck> with irreplaceable pictures.
... <sad> tale deleted

Your father had it much worse than me, Bayla.  I shouldn't whine so
much -- it was just one film.  :-)

> Rashmi, where & when were you conceived?

When's easy, counting backwards from April '65: Sept/Oct 64 (I was premature
by 4-8 weeks)
Where is harder: Delhi, Bangalore or a tiny podunk place called Jog (I think).
I'll have to ask my folks next time I call.

So, are we long lost sibs, Bayla?  That would be neat, I have no sisters <now>.

rashmi
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:51:15 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92083020341257@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) writes:
 
>> Gilbie, Doris was not a poster during the eighteen months I was (before
>> I got bored and decided to take a vacation) therefore she is a newbie
>> in my recollection.  Come to think of it, you weren't around much then
>> either, perchance as a lurker?
>>
>> Where's all the familiar faces?  Did everyone else get bored too?
>
>I wasn't around either, because I didn't become a wordsler *star*
>until about March of this year.  So *you* are a newbie in my
>recollection, and that's why you have the <air> of one, at least
>AFAIAC.
>--ggs (liking the sound of Gilbie more than a little...)
 
You have a long way to go to achieve *star* status, my friend.
 
And now I know why I took that vacation in March...and here I originally
thought it was my knee surgery.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:18:14 MST
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              <NETTRAIN%UBVM.BITNET@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
Comments:     Resent-From: Dan Lester <ALILESTE@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
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              <halvorse%NES.NERSC.GOV@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Telecomm w/Schools
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this may be of interest to some of the tenet folks....or others....    dan

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Dear NETTRAIN Users,

I am a technology specialist from Minneapolis
Minnesota, and I work for a consortium of 52 area
school districts helping teachers integrate technology
into their  classroom. One of the areas of interest for our
schools is Global  education, and sister school
exchanges with various places around  the world. We
are using telecommunications as the primary means  for
communicating and working on joint curriculum
projects. I am  interested in facilitating further contact
with schools in various places around the world that
potentially could be linked to Minnesota schools via
BITNET or  INTERNET addressing. Currently we
have exchanges occurring in  the USA, Russia,
Colombia, Bolivia and Canada

I am interested in acquiring a list of schools interested in
one-to-one school exchanges via BITNET or
INTERNET addressing.  If you are interested please
respond

Thank You for you time and help,

Sincerely,
Joel Halvorson
TIES School dist #925
2665 Long Lake Road
Roseville, Minnesota 55113
USA

        (612) 638-8794
fax   (612) 638-8798
e-mail:   halvorse@nes.nersc.gov
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:52:17 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Public vs. Private Schools
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>
> No offense meant, Nancy (or Doris).  I was responding to the rash of posts
> stating their intention to enroll their children in private schools.  I gave
> the NE as an example, since that's the region I'm familiar with.
>
None taken. I've taught in a private school as well as public.  And my
daughter (who *was* an honor student and whose mother did not put a
certain kind of bumper sticker on her car) went to a private university.
Doris
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:51:42 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: writing (correction)

>>>I say go for another Alliterative Revival.  Find an f-word for
>>>"glittering" in "glittering future forever foregone if funding...."
>>>I can also think of more f-words for what comes after that part.
>>
>> Don't ever do that.
>
>Don't ever do what?  Start another Alliterative Revival?

I was talking about finding f-words for glittering and thinking of more
f-words for what comes after that part.

tushar
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Ubi Sunt? 
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 19:22:20 GMT


In a previous article, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) says:

>
>In article <WORDS-L%92082823343747@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU writes:
>>O.K., but what is a <turd>?  Would I like it?  Everyone warned
>You're not serious are you?  Is this another UK/US difference I wasn't
>aware of?

Is he ever serious?  It shouldn't be something that a North Carolinian would
have trouble comprehending, unless he's more brain-dead than usual and his
vocabulary server is down.  I know what <turd>s are quite well, but it's 
barely possible that us Nutmeggers retained the usage while those in the 
South dropped it.  Giggles sure tosses enough buffalo chips at the net; he
*ought* to understand a reference to them when they are flipped back at him.
<evil smile>
Ruth
tossing buffalo chip to Gilbert


-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
From: aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig)
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Subject: messages tonight
Date: 4 Sep 92 04:12:33 GMT
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I need WATER.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:01:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ubi Sunt?
Comments: To: Doretta Hanschka <ak743@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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> >Actually, having just begun to read some Kurt Vonnegut, -ggs
> >realizes that the line is NOT Where is Silvia who is she? but
> >Where is CELIA who is she?
> Ruth, who has not read much Vonnegut, has no idea who or where Celia might
> be, and is still uncertain of Sylvia.
> >--Anyone know this source?  I've quoted this several times over
> >the past few months and no response.  You wordslers, well I never.
> That's because no one else here uses strange quotes from Kurt Vonnegut.:-)
> Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message

Time to confess how confused I have been, and I know you will all
be surprised at that (not that I would confess but that I have been
confused)....
.
A source, who wants to remain anonymous, has informed me that it is
Shakespeare, and that the line is actually "Who is Sylvia where is
she?"  a song from some S. play.  I know it as the song, because,
(and here I repeat myself to the anonymous source but not to the
listies) I was in my college days an accompaniest for music
students, and one of them (who, incidentally, was a twin, but he
was 6'2" and his twin sister was 4'8", which means, I suppose, that
they were not <identical> twins) sang this song and got so angry
about not being able to sing the intervals correctly, and my
stopping him with a rather pompous "I'm sorry that's not the
interval...,", that he would throw his music across the room. I
will never, because of this incident, forget Sylvia, just as I
will never forget my buddy (who, incidentally, was named *Buddy*
and subsequently became a Texas Legislator from Breckenridge) who
plopped the <mule muffin> in my open mouff.
--ggs
(p.s.:  I *love* this post... it is my best tonight... I hope you
have all enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it....)
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:39:08 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Rabbit-the-cat

I just saw that cat ....and he (she) did not look too friendly...


        /\_____/\
       -/ ''''' \-
        {''o o''}   Muffy
        {  \^/  }
       ////'''\\\\

Note from Don:  I told Muffy that no mail from here is going anywhere, but
                he called me and asked if OK to get cat picture.  So I said
                OK.  Think the cat frightened him....Muffy's quite docile.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:13:23 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
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> see what they have. I was thinking some sort of blue?  A royal or light blue.
> Or a lavender.:)

Royal blue is better than light blue.  Lavender sux.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:47:23 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Ubi Sunt?
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	Not, one hopes, playing violin - seeing as how you can't tell a bow from
	a handsaw. [or a Hanshaw, if you're up on your Heinlein]

Yes, well Heinlein never did understand half the folksy sayings he used.
It was a 'hawk from a harnsaw' I think - the latter being some obscure
hunting bird, probably a heronshaw.

G
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Obviously,

something is sick somewhere, so won't add to the clutter by asking what's
wrong.   HMIM

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:06:31 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: bumper sticker
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On Sun, 30 Aug 1992, Bayla Singer wrote:
> I see a number of bumper stickers around here proudly claiming "I have an
> honor student at <name of school>" -- yesterday I saw a  bumper sticker on
> a pickup truck that said "My kid beat up your honor student."
>
> And they wonder why American education is declining?!
>
You see a lot of "My child is an honor student..." bumper stickers around
here, too...I've always wondered what happens if the kid's grades
drop...does someone from the school come out and repossess the bumper
sticker?  One bumper sticker I saw reently said, "My kids aren't honor
students, but I love them anyway."
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:51:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Miss Gulch

Another proposition from the same show:

        Computers are bicycles for the mind

Send comments to the editorial board.

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:27:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: RE: FTP???

>>precisely my question:  How do you get the thing onto the same drive
>>as my WP?  I'm on a hardware line hookup, not a modem, with Alt-Esc
>       Well why didn't you say so?  That's totally different, and you've
>got me.  I've never worked with a hardware hookup.

Maybe not.  Depends on what he means by a "hardware line hookup."
If it is nothing more than a hardwired serial-port connection, it
probably works essentially the same way.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:22:34 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      disks/modems/novels
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              22 Aug 1992 16:55:27 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:55:27 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>     who was going to write a paper today but spent so much time
>     reorganizing her desk to make it more conducive to serious work
>     that the day went away...

Aaahhhhhh, yessss.....the old writing of the Great American Novel by
forever sharpening the pencils and straightening the stacks of paper .....

or posting to words-l instead of......


oh, hell....you know.....

   dan
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:32:18 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: help

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:24:00 PST Lobstrosities Unite said:
>>Ok you creative wordslers - I have a colleague who is thinking
>>about joining the list but is a little reluctant. I need you
>>to persuade her with some of your weirdest reasons why she
>>should join.Send them to her at LIBDAS@SUVM. Her name is Denise.
>>                                                   Br Paul
>
>Heck, Natalie, just subscribe her and let her fend for herself.

Yeah!  Nobody warned us when we subscribed!
>
>Chris

Evelyn
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Original-From: polaris!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:47:00 EDT
From:         ktw@POLARIS.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: Fabrications
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This is truly horrifying.

Ken
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 10:55:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Pascal

>>Pasacal?  Was he a painter?
>        Try philosopher, French.

Mathematician, actually, as in Pascal's Last Theorem--which is
kind of cute.  He claimed to have the solution--it died with him,
and pocket protector types have been working ever since.

The question is the following--are there whole number solutions
greater than 3, 4, and 5, for
     X to the nth + Y to the nth = Z to the nth

He gave up math in religious madness for medititations,
published under the title of Pensees.

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:03:49 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Law of Supply and Demand
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              92 12:42 pm

> //anne, who *must* be anti-family values cuz she watches _Studs_//

	Oh, God, Anne!!!  I can't *even* sit through 10 minutes of
it.  Hey, isn't there a new sex show that comes on after it --
Bedroom Buddies or something?

Rita
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:18:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      RE: T-shirt colors
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>> >  I *love* teal.
>>
>> Don't get too attached--let's wait and see what they have first.
>
>No problem. I also *love* red, and fuschia, and emerald green, and
                                    ~~~~~~~      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>potatoes, and chocolate, and .....
 ~~~~~~~~      ~~~~~~~~~
  Well, Auntie Doris, all I can say is, it's a good thing we're
already family or I might begin to wonder about all these
similarities (also the middle child thing, etc. that we discovered
when you first subbed, I believe...although at that time we didn't
know that you and Giggles were sister and brother, and that I am the
child he never had...)

>Doris

Ok, I know I'm still a few days behind, but my priorities have been
all screwed up - I haven't been able to take any time during the day
to read my words-l mail - I've been too busy...with (shudder) work.

I vote for teal, fuschia, emerald green, or black.  What about the
new logo on the front, and the map on the back?

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Public vs. Private Schools
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:24:58
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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In-reply-to: Nancy Harwood's message of Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:08:23 -0500

Nancy promises:

   Good public schools *do* exist in communities where education is deemed a
   priority.  They even exist *outside* the "enlightened Northeast."
   ndh (who knows all too well that public schools are far from perfect, but
   cares enough to keep trying)

Yea, Nancy!  I was in public school for all my schooling except for my
senior year--my parents moved overseas and I went to boarding school in
western MA.  I was one of the lucky ones whose parents chose where to live
based on the quality of the school system; my public school education was
excellent.  The year I spent in private school was a wonderful learning
experience--too lengthy to go into how, but suffice it to say, I do feel I
got a better taste of what would be expected of me in college.  Thing about
it was, I do feel I learned more from my public school teachers than my
private school ones.  This would have probably been different had I spent
more than a year and gotten used to the methodology (which is different, I
can't explain how, it just is) of a private school teaching system.

//anne//
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:39:23 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      RE: disks/modems/novels
              25 Aug 1992 16:15:13 EST from <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:15:13 EST Entropy Warrior said:
>                                           As I write, I am
>avoiding the first 75 pp. of Tax.
                       ^^
Hah!  A WORDS question: what is the origin of this doubling of
letters to make the plural ?  It seems to be used for a very few
words only.

Tony H.
(Waiting for a <very obvious> explanation)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (57)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 23:22:33 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka) writes:
> I I also try to wind up in the gleanings sometimes...

(whispering)

Isn't this a violation of some unspoken rule?

--karsten

(I, of course, would never dream of such deviousness...)
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