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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 11:46:03 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Getting Stranger

>Now I am getting copies of WORDS-L rejections of mail not being able to
>reach a particular address (WILLIAMS/MC).  This is strange!   Where is

Me too.  Is everyone?

-Mka
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:14:29 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      I'm home
Comments: To: EJS <MICROSOFT!EVANS@UUNET.UU.NET>, Ken <KTW@HLWPK.ATT.COM>,
              "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu>,
              Graham Toal <gtoal@GEM.STACK.URC.TUE.NL>,
              "Robert Matthiesen" <SL500000@BROWNVM.brown.edu>,
              WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU,
              Andy vD <AVD%BROWNCS.BITNET@BROWNVM.brown.edu>

It's 4am in my mind and body, and I'm still trying
to type on thqt crqzy keyboard in France...

All the unbelievable coincidences tomorrow....

love, judith
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: writing
Summary: writing
Keywords: writing
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 20:34:49 GMT

Some food for thought/rumination -- I've been told that I speak well when I
"lecture" or describe some tasty research findings, etc, and some people
wonder why my <writing> doesn't have the same flavor.  A recent reader
noticed for example, that I'd come out with the phrase "future forever
foregone, if..." and commented that so many f's just made the thing hard to
read seriously.  

A <non-native speaker> once told me that he enjoyed *seeing* well-written
English, even when he didn't know how it was supposed to be pronounced: I
wonder if my problem is some sort of mental disjunction between writing to
look well (all those nice f's lined up so pretty) and writing with the
sounds in one's ears as one goes along?  

Has anyone else had problems with knowing that one <speaks> in a manner
that holds listener's interest, yet <writes> fit to put all the world to
sleep?  I know there are some people who can do lively scholarly writing;
why then, oh why, can't I?

--bayla
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:50:58 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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> And just in case you want to know in more detail, yes, I practically
> expired with mirth. I was saved because I am very reserved.

7Tushar!! Your're back. Not only that, but you reacted the way I did. And
I, too, am *quite* reserved.
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:03:29 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ribbit...ribbit...ribbit...

>Gawd, I couldn't even start a fight with Marty, and that's
>usually about as hard as pissing Tushar off...

I resent this stupid goddamned remark immensely! Shut the infernal bloody
stinking hell up and apologise fucking promptly!

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:01:50 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Neal
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I'm glad Neal is back.  I missed him!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:27:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)

> 2) Bella Abzug/Barney Frank/Madeline Murray/Maria Shriver (Paul B.)

BA: New Yorker, former congress type, known for wearing outrageous
hats, which she started early in her political career as a way to
to defuse sexist stereotyping in dress. Very outspoken.

BF: Openly gay congress type, liberal democrat, who gives
rightwing/family values types fits.  Survived a potential scandal
involving an ex-lover involved in some legal trouble.

MM: Professional atheist who's been around since (it seems) the
turn of the century, but probably closer to only 35 years.
One of her sons was at one time a right-wing type.

MS: Best not to say anything, or Arnold Schwarzenegger might show up
(Reasonably talented "face/talent" who could have made it on her
own without the famous "shriver" name and political connections)

> 4) "Hockey-puck!" (Ken W.)

The hard little black thing that hockey player slap up and down
the ice with sticks when they're not slapping each other with
sticks, that's supposed to go into a net for a score. When hit
well, they travel in excess of 100 mph. As an ex-goalie, I stopped
a few like that, and they're a drag. Don Rickles used to call
people hockey pucks as an endearing insult. There's also a
phrase "make like a hockey stick and get the puck out of here"
(for those who don't like to tell somebody to "get the fuck out of
here").

> 6) Axl and Slash (Jim T.)

Axl Rose (lead singer for Guns and Roses rock group) and Slash
(lead guitar player, heavy-metal style, some quick riffs, not
fast enough to be speed-metal, but could be). One of the better
groups around, first big hit "welcome to the jungle" but they've
been around for nearly a decade. Helped popularize style of
"accoustic rock" to counter-balance their heavy style. Stuff in
recent years has mellowed and they progress.

> 8) Number Nine (Entropy)

From the Beatles' "Revolution #9"--they kept repeating:
  "number nine, number nine...."

> 9) _Social Text_/Stanley Fish/Catherine MacKinnon/Radix Malorum (Ken W.)

Fish: A deconstructionist. His best works (in my view) are
"Is there a text in this class?" and his earlier collections o
essays.

Catherine MacKinnon--radical feminist legal scholar with qualified
revisionist marxist leanings (despite her criticism of him). She
was a drafter of the proposed Minneapolis anti-porn law arguing
that porn was a violation of women's civil rights and she
advocates censoring certain types of speech that discriminate.
Andrea Dworkin, who sees the sex act itself as violence against
women (metaphor of penetration/stabbling), a shrill homophobic
type who defines nearly all social reality as a plot by men
against women.

>11) Jim Florio/Antonio Gramsci (Ken W.)

Gramsci--Hegelian Marxist; Imprisoned under Mussolini and
wrote essays later published as "Prison Notebooks"; influential
for developing Marx's concepts of ideology

Too long, will quit here......

Jim (Gramsci had it right) Thomas
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:30:12 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: T-shirt colors
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              at Sep 1, 92 4:24 pm

> >Nothing says we shouldn't do teal again.
> >-abh
>
> To anticipate Akio, what is teal?
> -Mka

It's the color of the 1st generation WORDS-L T-shirt which said
"Where words collide". (Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong here.)
Teal's a sort of bluish green mixture, close to aqua, I'd say.  I think
Akio has a t-shirt.

We're trying to design the latest version, and are discussing possible
colors.  Any ideas?

rashmi
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:42:23 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      What does this mean?
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Can someone tell me what "boffo" means?  I usually guess by the context, but
am not sure if it's correct.  The online webster doesn't have it.

Thanks,
rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:48:50 EDT
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Subject:      RE: The tyranny of fatal food

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>pork rinds, which are actually quite tastey?
You heard it here first, folks: Jim and Bush agreeing on something.
-abh
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Since this was a "common touch" ploy, no one knows what Bush thinks.
After all, he will "do whatever is necessary" to be elected; and
doesn't seem to *believe* in anything.  Jim's reputation is safe

JAG
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:53:03 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: details, we want details!
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On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 torkel@SICS.SE wrote:

>   A very nice tale! Highly evocative.

I agree, Carol, it was enjoyable reading.


> miss the civilized amenities, like kitchens and bathrooms and television.
> But perhaps it's time to put this to the test.

Torkel, you would have loved "camping" with my mother.  She would always
take her electric skillet with her and would, of course, always "camp"
near electricity.  We used to tease her unmercifully about her idea of
roughing it, but I'm afraid I inherited her method of camping.
Doris
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:50:14 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TGTABagnes2
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1992, Tushar Samant wrote:
> >Uh, 'scuse me?
>
> Me too!
>
It's far too confusing to explain...let's just say it's a long, long
story...a sad, sad story...a story that would make you cry.
ndh
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:24:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366" <185422285@VILL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Private vs. Public Schools
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>	Giggles, though I agree with your position in theory, you
>betta betcha butt that my theoretical progeny will be in private
>schools.  I want my kids to have an education without worrying about
>their 7th grade classmate who hides a gun in his locker.

I agree with on this point. I went to a private school for that reason.
The public school I would have went to was know for its drug problems and
crime.

>	Parents have real power over private schools because they are
>paying for them directly.  There is no school committee made up of
>political suck-asses to work around.  There is no school board to
>deal with.  That private school depends on your tuition check and
>endowments, and they're gonna listen when you make demands.

I am happy to agree again. The private schools which I have come in
contact with are very user friendly. They want the users to be happy but,
they also keep standards so that education is not cheapened. If extra help
is needed it is given without lines and waiting. I also went to a public
school for two years where I found a very un-user friendly atmosphere.

>	And as a product of public schooling from kindergarten to
>B.A., I want them to have a better education than what got passed
>off on me as such.


Alec

>Rita
>Who has learned more about literature in the year since I graduated than
>in all my years in college combined.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 06:23:53 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Evidence
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>In <920824100725.34c@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU> MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU writes:
>
>>someone wrote this list is the kind of communication my mother warned me
>>about.
>> My mother knows lots more words and weird thoughts than anyone on this
>> list has yet come up with.
>
>-- does this kid think he's mine?
>
>--bayla
Certainly not *my* kid's address...

judith, HOME!!!
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:41:46 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Funny
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Did any of you ever subscribe to PROCOM-L?  I'm not sure whether it still
exists.  About once every four or five months, somebody would post a
question on it -- same question every time:  does this list exist?  The
last flurry of activity I remember on it was when the listowner apparently
had vanished without telling anybody and no longer had an e-mail account.
Or something like that.  Anyway, what strikes me as funny is that we've
had at least as much interesting Procomm discussion on WORDS-L tonight
as poor, ole PROCOM-L had during its entire existence.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 08:22:50 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gleanings (57)
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>I don't exactly know why, BTW, but I tend to associate Jodie Foster with
>Anne Burton Harwell.. .  .   .    .     .       .        .         .

Jodie Foster has always been one of my favorite actresses, but she's much
 better-
looking than I am, and I doubt that my saying the name of anything could make
 you want
to buy it, Tanaka-san. But thanks for the compliment, I'm vain enough to hope I
 emit a
Fostorian ambiance...:-)

10) FQDN (Anne Hr.)

Fully Qualified Domain Name. Whereas 129.113.1.2 is an IP address,
 panam1.panam.edu is
that address's FQDN.

>30) Holland Tunnel (Anne Hr.)

As several were eager to point out, I've never actually *seen* the Holland
 Tunnel, but
I understand it's BIG, way big. In NYC. And no, the Goodyear Blimp couldn't
 really fit
into it. It was a dream, OK?

>31) To make the big eyes at (Anne Hr.)

Frank McLellan of Brown has big blue eyes, and he mentioned making "big eyes" at
Elaine to get something from her. I picked up on it and have been ragging him
 about it
some. The joke probably ought to be retired due to over-use.

Akio, why do you glean Ruth more than anyone else? Are you saying we're not as
interesting as she is? :-)

-abh
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Amazon Colors
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 05:06:43 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:
> I didn't know electrons came in colors.

They don't.  But if they did it would be appropriate if the
T-shirts were the same color.

--karsten

(Camouflage for Amazon battles on the net).
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 09:06:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366" <185422285@VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: bumper sticker
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> >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."
>
> The first sticker is not very funny. The second one is. What does this
> have to do with education?
>
> tushar

> Tushar the *intent* of the first sticker is not to elicit humor, but to
>show pride in a child's accomplisments.  The *intent* of the second
>sticker is probably to elicit humor, but what is does instead - in my
>opinion - is make me think that (1) the child of the person putting the
>sticker on his/her truck is not doing well in school and (2) the parent has
>neither any respect for education nor has he/she instilled any in the child.
>Doris

The other possibility is the driver has honor student as a child, and
feels advertising it is stupid.

When jokes are interpreted, in my belief they fall apart. Enjoy the joke or
delete.

later

alec
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:10:27 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Fun with Gifs
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> He now lies contentedly on his pillow under the plane, as abh rests
> her hand on the plane's beak.

Hmmm.  I'll have to discuss this with Bernard.  I'm not sure I approve of
his sleeping around.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Visiting LA and Chicago
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 00:15:34 GMT
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM (WERTSJ) writes:
> I'm trying to get caught up on the weekend mail (I was in Los Angeles
> for a wedding - and it was wonderful - the wedding, not Los
> Angeles!).

Hmpf.  You didn't stop by to visit.  My fish were so disappointed.

Are any of you (besides Tushar) in the Chicago area?  I'll be
visiting family and friends there this Labor Day weekend.

--karsten

(As long as I'm at it - who's in charge of the words-l white pages?)
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Ausbrook's lawschool 
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:36:50 +0000


In article <WORDS-L%92082702332772@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> "tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu writes:
>a public invitation. Just like to know what I'm talking to, and
>don't trust somebody who won't look ya in the eyes when they talk.

I know that feeling.
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: English Aspiration 
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:36:53 +0000


On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:21:38 EDT Karen Kay said:
>But aspiration is only a distinctive feature for voiceless stops in
>English.

"... in quiet aspiration is the English way ..."

The Pink Floyd.
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 22:29:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      More on Silvia/Celia
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The TGOV, it seems, is based on a story in the pastoral
novel, Diana Enamorada, by the Spaniard Jorge de Montemayor
(1542), in which the character is named not Silvia, but Celia,
which proves beyond a reasonable doubt that Vonnegut knew what
he was talking about, and should put to rest any suggestions that
he should *not* be taken seriously when he asks, by way of
a quotation in _Deadeye Dick_ (or maybe _Cat's Cradle_ ??)
"Who is Celia what is she?"   *So* *there*...
--ggs (asking himself where all this started anyway?  Oh,
yeah, it was the ubisunting that started it.....   BTW,
where is everybody?)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:50:32 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Aspiration

Natalie says:

>What about "hygiene"?  I've forgotten this question also, of course.
>My example is simply a morpheme spread over two syllables -- what it's
>supposed to illustrate is what I've forgotten.

Oh good. Do you aspirate the p in hyper?

Actually this is still not good enough, but I'd like to know anyway.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:25:11 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Schoolyard taunts (Was Love Potion Number Nine)

>Tushar, this is just another of my whimsical posts that you enjoy so much -
>delete unread, SVP.
>
>John "Excuse me, but could you spare some sympathy?  All I have in life is
>this gun..." W.

Actually - and I have even told this to the above ungrateful person - I
spend some more time reading John M Williams' posts, especially wrt sig
lines. It's paid off enough number of times for me to keep it up.

Well.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:36:51 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Lint-free cloths

*** Resending note of 08/28/92 07:08

>What, exactly, is a lint-free cloth?  Can I fashion one from common
>household items?  Once I've used it (with Windex applied to the cloth,
>of course, and not directly to the screen) to clean off dust and smoke
>and gunk, do I toss it or wash and reuse?

>brad

It fascinates me the subjects that are discussed here!  I have a hugh box
of previously lint-free cloths (my son scrounged them for me).  They had
been used (washed and rewashed) by local hospital.  When they become a
little frayed, a local business takes them, boils them to ensure free
from contaminants, and resells them to local K-mart, etc, as shop cloths.
They work great and I have enough to last about 20 years ..maybe I might
risk a few to clean this screen :-)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Rhubarb Pie
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:57:35
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In-reply-to: Rita Marie Rouvalis's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:55:07 EDT

Rita asks:

	   I need a good recipe.  Anyone got one?  Anyone know
   what it tastes like?  Giggles or one of his sistahs must.


Believe it or not, I have found the recipe in the Joy of Cooking to be
excellent.  Given that its primary component besides rhubarb is sugar, I
have to ask...who's this for?

//anne, just plain rhubarb, no strawberries, thankx//
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:21:42 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Brother Barbara
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>
> My sorority was officially named "fraternity."
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

So was mine...Alpha Chi Omega Fraternity.
ndh
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:35:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Swinging in the rain

Graham helpfully submits:

     >>Jim (I have wet dreams when I camp out in the rain) Thomas

    >No need to get wet; there are bars for that sort of thing, Jim :)

Only in the fern bars, G.; other bars bar boring booby boring.
And ya gotta be careful when they water the ferns.

Jim (Soaping in the rain with a shower cap) Thomas
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:10:21 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Zaftig
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>> jenna "college co-ed once again"
>
>*Zaftig* college co-ed surely?  It's traditional...
>
>G (who has only ever seen the word Zaftig before 'co-ed' and a certain
>brand of German cigarettes.)
Our Jenna is definitely NOT zaftig!

You, Graham, are not only pretty, but zaftig :-)

judith
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