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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Thermodynamics
Date: 10 Oct 1992 05:38:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU () says:

>>--the way I heard, the first law is "you can't win," the second law is
>>"you always lose," and the third is "you can't leave the game, either."
>
>But what does this have to do w/ time? :)
The highest Universal law of all - Entropy always wins.  

>>>who wishes she were in sunny Spain w/ Torkel, drinking white sangria.
>>--bayla, who wishes... well, never mind what she wishes.
Bayla, are you having un-grannylike thoughts again?  Or are they biker
granny thoughts?

>Well, *I* wish you have a good weekend.  Is it that everyone is cranky
>today or that everyone is cranky at me?  Everyone at school is snapping
>at each other (and me!) and it's only the end of week 6!

Rain, rain, GO AWAY!  It's been grey and raining off and on all day.  Now
not only is it raining, it's blowing.:-)  No line noise yet, which is weird,
but who's complaining?
-- 
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Subject:      I did not know this happened?

SEND COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS INFORMATION TO THE
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 For Immediate Release:
 October 09, 1992

 Statement by Governor Bill Clinton
 On the Death of Willy Brandt

      All Americans are deeply saddened by the death of former German
 Chancellor Willy Brandt.  Champion of Berlin's freedom, champion of
 peace, and champion of strong ties between our two peoples, Willy
 Brandt served not only the people of Germany but also the cause of
 humankind.

      He stood beside President Kennedy when he proclaimed that we
 were all Berliners.  None of us will ever forget the extraordinary
 evening in November 1989 when the Berlin Wall finally crumbled.  And
 none of us will ever forget the accomplishments of this extraordinary
 man who helped make that day possible.  He will long be remembered as
 a leader who changed the course of history.

                            -30-30-30-
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From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WWHOMYTV
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> Well, if you don't mind going about 1500 miles out of your way (each way),
> come on down here and I'll take you to the dog track.

If you dip down into Texas, Mississippi will be on your route.  Excellent
idea!  Dog track nothing.  I can show you better than that -- up close and
personal with The Dog Himself.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Judith E. Schrier)
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Subject: Re: LATER
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:03:28 GMT
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>Posted on 16 Oct 1992 at 12:20:17 by mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
>>abh: Why are you so fixated on "my mother" the lama-ess.  I have
>>already made several comments that led others to understand fully
>>what I meant and intended by mention of my sainted mother.

>>From my previous postings I believe you have enough information
>>to glean "my mother"
>
>Well, duhhh... I must be stupid too, because I am as cluefree as in the
>beginning.
>
>Karen

She means her Mother is Theresa? (Not you, Wild Theresa, mother
of the walking beauty...)

judith
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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              16 Oct 1992 13:05:57 CDT from <tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:05:57 CDT <tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>Refuting a passing newbie who doesn't care is a very alien method of
>having a bit of fun.

Alien to whom or to what?

dan
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Subject:      Clinton and, well, you know

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Is it my imagination or are all the Clinton partisans on this list, er,
compositionally challenged?
-abh
------------------------------------------------------------------------
nah, you're hallucinating.  I'm a Clinton supporter and quite well
<duh> composed.

JAG
From: mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
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Date: 16 Oct 92 15:53:10 GMT
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>I am Marilyn's mother

This is a great beginning...

Marilyn, a woman of many mothers
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: What's wrong with the Post Office
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:06:09 GMT

I regularly make mail-order purchases.  I usually indicate to
the seller that I prefer UPS as the shipper but sometimes my
order is sent by the US Postal Service anyway.

I'm at work during the day, so I get a little yellow slip
directing me to pick up my package at an inconvenient post
office.  Of course this post office is only open Monday through
Friday, and only during "business hours", so I end up taking
time off from work.  (I live in LA, not Moosespit, Alaska, so
there is plenty of demand for longer hours)

All three times I visited the appropriate post office
(at 10:30am, 1:30pm and 3:00pm) I found the line wait to be in
excess of 45 minutes.  The third time I decided to fill out
one of those "Customer Service Cards" so thoughtfully provided.

I received the following in return:

> Dear Mr. Karsten:
>
> This letter is in response to your Consumer Service Card
> addressing the inconvenience you experience on your visits
> to our post office.
>
> The Postal Service shares the problem of occasional long lines
> with banks, supermarkets and other retail outlets.  The problem
> is that the number of customers passing through any retail
> facility fluctuates during the business day.
>
> May I recommend the following regarding convenient customer
> pickup service presently available.
>
> 1.  Authorize another party to pickup mail by entering their
>     name on the top line in the backside of notice (Form 3849)
>     and signing authorization.  Party must have picture ID
>     during pickup.
>
> 2.  Forwarding the package to a convenient pickup address
>     where a representative is permitted to receive your
>     article.  Such service is available at some private mail
>     centers.  Forwarding process is the same as (1)
>     authorization signature, above.
>
> 3.  Reserve a "Caller Service" at the Redondo Beach Main
>     Post Office from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at $202.50
>     semi-annually.
>
> Thank you for giving us the opportunity to explain one of our
> operational functions in the Postal Service.
>
> Very truly yours,
> [lame bureaucrat] 
> Superintendent, Window Services
> Redondo Beach, CA  90277-9998

In other words, if I happen to be gainfully employed perhaps
I can con a relative or friend to spend his/her afternoon
waiting in a ridiculous Post Office line.

If not I can either pay a private company to handle this for me
or for $405 a year I can become good buddies with my post office
and they'll let me pick up packages first thing in the morning
without a line.

All things considered I'd rather use UPS.  It's a private company,
the counter people aren't surly, the rates are roughly the same,
the lines are shorter and the hours are longer.

--karsten

(I prefer the "old Elvis" stamp.  It depicts him in his bloated
 and narcotized state, just like our Post Office)
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Deafening Silences

Rashmi, buttsore and all, postscripts:
>PS JMW, don't give up!
Oh, I WON'T, dear!  Neither the ship, nor anything else!
Uh, but to what do you refer?

John "Real men don't set for 'stun'" W.
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From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject: Re: My debate analysis
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Posted on 12 Oct 1992 at 14:42:02 by Dan Lester
>great wisdom and knowledge of world events with _White Men Can't Jump_.

How did you like this?  I thought it was too, too mediocre.

Karen
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Subject:      Let's pretend
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Could you folks pretend that today's my birthday?  I am hugely in need of
cheery words and positive vibes.


way down in the dumps, and it has nothing to do with Wednesday's 9th inning,

neal
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From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Thermodynamics
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              9, 92 3:03 pm

>
> What is the second law of thermodynamics?

Heat flows from a high temperature to a low temperature in the absence of
other effects.
I'm trying to remember what the perpetual-motion machine of the second kind
is, but am blanking.  It has something to do with the second law.

> Oh yes, and while you are at it, I would appreciate a quick explanation
> of the difference between classical mechanics and thermodynamics!

I'll give it a shot - Thermodynamics is the study of energy and its
transformations (mainly, heat).
From the AHD: The physics of the relationships between heat and other forms of
energy.

Classical Mechanics (I think) involves the notions of force, mass, distance,
and time.  More to do with the application of Newton's laws of motion.

Does this help, O Karen?

> I knew I should have bought a pet physicist....
>
> Karen
> who wishes she were in sunny Spain w/ Torkel, drinking white sangria.

Me too, it's been raining all day.

rashmi
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From:         "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Deafening Silences (was Re: Amtrak quiz)
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>
>> You should have been there, instead of getting frustrated by some
 recalcitrant
>> wooden parts....
>
>The wooden parts always submit to my advances :-)  Too bad the UH is
>only about 1000 miles from here.  Good piano playing is worth
>watching.
It sure was, only the piano was at my church instead of at Hart; they don't
keep "real" instruments over there.:-)  Wooden or otherwise.
>
>Lions, and tigers, and bears?  On my circus train!
Did you get them painted yet?  Black, brown, or multicolored bears?
Or are they Grateful Dead bears?  Circuses usually do teach some bears to
dance....
>

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From: harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood)
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Subject: Re: Time Change?
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:43:53 GMT
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>
> Does the time change (in most of the U.S., that is) this weekend?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I thought it was around the 25th this year.
ndh
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Clinton's letter and stuff
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ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:
> I know I'm going to regret this, but what does one use a brass-plated butt
> plug *for*?  Or is the answer somewhere in the same ballpark as Ben-wa balls
> and prince alberts?

Although I wouldn't be surprised that some Ben-wa balls and Prince Alberts
were in attendance I don't remember any displays of them the last time I
was at Wrigley Field.

--karsten

(Or have the pennant races switched to a new seventh-inning stretch?)
From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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> You mean lifting the tax on spirits saves you enough to buy a sailboat?

Well, I suppose all the drinking I didn't do while I was tied to the
tenure track got me a good start on saving up to buy *Heritage*!

Steve Karlson

I-13 HERITAGE/Lake Geneva Yacht Club
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Subject:      Gas prices in the oil kingdom
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>In North Carolina, it's more like $1.09 for regular no-lead.  In Texas
>it's even less, at least last time I was there.

$1.25 last weekend for regular unleaded.

-abh
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Amvets
Date: 11 Oct 1992 04:08:29 GMT
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In a previous article, EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU () says:

>
>No, Ruth.  It's simply an abbreviation for American Veterans.  Most of
>the members were active in World War II.  My dad used to be quite active
Whups - I goofed!  It's just that we get mail from about three different
veterans groups, and they all tend to run together after a while.:-)
My father's a Korea-era vet, who got out of the reserves a hop, skip and
a jump ahead of the guys picking "advisors" to send to places far east
of here.:)

>who remembers Sunday afternoons at the Amvets post, dancing to the juke
>box and hanging out
I don't think they have one here - just a big thrift store.  It's a good place
to find prehistoric vinyl.

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From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: LATER
Date: 16 Oct 92 02:22:28 GMT
Organization: JADE

(quoted stuff at the bottom, for those who came in late)

I seem to have made my point.  The thread started when -abh commented
along the lines of <nice and polite>=<sour and cynical>, and I took
exception, claiming I'd been insulted without provocation.  -abh 
further commented that such insults were the spirit of words-l, a 
statement with which I take even stronger exception.  In a <motherly>
fashion, I escalated my rhetoric in order to emphasize my seriousness 
and to demonstrate that my restraint is not due to an <inability to 
play the game>.  

<velvet gloves replaced>

--bayla


In article <199210151650.AA03349@formby.tenet.edu> harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU ((Bandwidth Pig)) writes:
>>--No, abh my friend, that's *your* spirit, and a mean puir thing it is,
>>too.  Next offense gets your <entrails> used for divination: I still have
>
>Hey, Bayla, I get the feeling here you just passed over the line from
>mental horseplay to some sort of veiled warning. What is it, woman? Did I
><piss you off> or something? I don't even remember addressing anything to
>you (or even replying to anything you said!) on the list lately. I sure
>didn't mean to do anything offensive to you. If I laid into something you
>said a little too hard, just let me know and I'll make a mental note to
>tread a wide berth around anything that's <near and dear> to you.
>
>-abh
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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 10:24:47 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Clinton and, well, you know
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              Oct 12, 92 4:00 pm

> Is it my imagination or are all the Clinton partisans on this list, er,
> compositionally challenged?
>
> -abh

	No.

Rita
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From:         gilbert smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WWHOMYTV
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> WWHOMYTV

Why Wait Here One More Year To Vote.
--ggs
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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      re: surplus cadets
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:>competive.  In addition, out of over 400,000 applicants less than 4,000
:                                                         ^^^^
:fewer??
:
:>harder.  Cutbacks are hurting everyone but those of us who were contracted
:>before this year still have jobs, not that we would have trouble finding them
:>in the working world anyway.  That is, those of us who maintain high GPAs.
:

Karen, if you're going to be picky at least do it properly - I think 'off of'
was much more vulgar than less/fewer.  But I didn't think it right to point
it out to someone with such a high GPA - after all, they got their grades
in physical jerks, not English grammar.

G
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: There *is* a god . . .
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> BTW, is what a Wake Forest grad told me true: If you can't go to
> college, you can always go to State?
>
> Steve Karlson

That's the same joke we tell about the ones lower than us on the
<totem> pole.... like East Carolina or South Carolina or Yale.
We are a <populist> university.... we let them in whether they
are stupid or bright. It's all the same.
(Though, seriously, it is a student body of some very good students
and lots of mediocre ones....  and it is difficult to get admitted
now, unless one has "special qualifications" such as....  no, I
wont go into that....)
I once taught at Wake Forest....  I know what it is like, too.
Very good, in fact.
--ggs (champion of <public> education...)
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Date: 13 Oct 92 17:50:00 GMT
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Greetings, Neal,

I'm sure Tipper spends a lot of time reading alt.sex.

Go, Bucs!

Marty
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: a-HEM.
              10 Oct 1992 02:07:44 MED from <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>

On Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:07:44 MED Graham Toal said:
>
>Jenna doesn't live here any more.  She sidled off quietly in a huff.  I think
>it was something someone said on IRC...
>
>G

No, she told me it was too much mail and too little time.  She's been too
busy to talk on those occasions when I've sent her messages.

Evelyn
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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>> Washington certainly is part of the south, however you slice it up.
>
>I didn't say "the south."  I said "The South."  Washington is no more part
>of The South than most of Florida is.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

It is.

-Mka

-K
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Ross

Those thinking a Clinton Administration will initiate a plan for national
health care should be aware of this:  Insurance Industry PACs have
"given" approximately $150,000 EACH to Richard Gephardt and Dan Rostenkowski.
                               ^^^^
Oh, well...perhaps they won't
STAY bought...

John "Make it 10,000 francs.  I'm only a poor corrupt official." W.
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In a previous article, rita@EFF.ORG (Rita Marie Rouvalis) says:

>>  9) RBOCS (Rita)
>
>	Regional Bell Operating Companies.  Ie. our local loop phone
>service providing monopoly.  For example, Bell Atlantic, SouthWestern
>Bell, etc.
>
NYNEX, SNET [aka Snot - they earned it!], and a bunch of other baby bells.
Some of them are reportedly customer-friendly, a thing I find difficult to
believe.  AT&T on the other hand, is quite helpful.  Last year an operator
helped set up a three-way transatlantic conference call, with the third party
over in Abidjan [Ivory Coast].  
The monopolies tend to be more providers of copper than anything else.

Ruth
commenting on this one since my own [only!  I'm slipping!] was answered
twice so far
>
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Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1992 18:45:40 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Thank gopod for typo-detectives
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Posted on 15 Oct 1992 at 18:26:46 by Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)
>Thank gopod for typo-detectives

Jim--I thought this was a typo at first, but since you said the same
thing at least twice, I thought it was a misunderstanding.

>While we're being picky, even I know you "don't
><only> get ABC." You get <only> ABC. R&S is worth the cable sub....

No, Jim, I stand by what I said.  "Only" is a floating quantifier and I
can put it anywhere I want in speech.  I admit that in writing, I would
perhaps say 'get only' instead of 'only get', but this isn't writing.

Karen
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