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From: tale@ten.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
Subject: Re: WCXR Phone Number
Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc.
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:43:03 GMT

In <719123317.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Joe.Keenan@p1.f401.n109.z1.fidonet.org
(Joe Keenan) writes:

> Anyone notice that Barsky wasn't on WCXR this morning.  Somebody named Skip
> Herman was in that slot.  And what I heard seemed to imply that it was a
> permanent assignment.  No mention of Barsky at all.

Skip was Barsky's second man and has been in that slot for a while as
such.  It sounds like now Skip is the lead and some new guy (already
forgotten his name) is the second.  A lot less talk in the morning so
far this week.

I have heard no mention of what happened to Barsky, leading me to
believe there is some dirty laundry there rather than just a friendly
move on.  I wonder what it was; whether it was a continuing thing or
the more recent tendencies toward the prurient.  

As Barsky correctly observed recently, the audience is a bit hard to
call.  A bunch of them want more sex talk, and a bunch of them want
none of it.  Who do you please?  I guess the market survey said those
that want none.  Or the FCC did.  Half :-)
From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: "The Colony of Japan"???
Date: 10 Oct 92 10:47:00 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Independence
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <8OCT199206590624@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>, packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes...
>It should be possible to get more information about it by calling
>the company that owns the display space. Don't they usually 


I received the following e-mail about the Japan-bashing sign
from Judith Dillon, who lives on the Eastern Shore...

  "...not far from the sign. I remember when it when up,
  which was early this past summer.  There was an
  article in the local newpaper about it. It was
  erected and paid for by someone who remains
  anonymous.  The sign company refused to release
  any info other than this.   It was meant to bring
  people's attention to the potential of America as
  "The Colony of Japan".  I think the article
  mentioned something about it was paid up to remain
  in place for a lengthy time period.  There hasn't
  been anymore mention of the sign in the local
  paper since then. "
From: M16302@mwvm.mitre.org
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Found beutiful cat in FC - Free to good home
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:17:31 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102

Found beautiful cat - grey with white leggs in Falls Church.  Wife allergic to
cats. Would like to find it a good home.  It is a neutured male about three
years old.  Have taken care of shots, etc.
From: jbasara@ssdc.UUCP (Jim Basara)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: New brew pub in Baltimore???
Date: 15 Oct 92 10:33:38 GMT
Organization: Sterling Software IMD, Vienna, Va.

Someone told me that there was a new brewpub in Baltimore (other than
Sissons and BBC).  Is this true, and if so, where is it???

thanks,

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     uunet!ssdc!jbasara                "All the other nations are drinking
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                                       Barry Manilow." - Dave Barry
From: JSNYDER@auvm.american.edu (Joni Snyder)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: WCXR Phone Number
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:35:23 GMT
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center

In article <719123317.F00001@blkcat.UUCP>,
Joe.Keenan@p1.f401.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Keenan) says:
>
>In a msg on <Oct 13 18:07>, M15841 of 1:109/401 writes:
>
> M> In article <92280.150925JSNYDER@auvm.american.edu>
> M> Joni Snyder <JSNYDER@auvm.american.edu> writes:
> M>
> M> After the way I heard him (Paul Harris) talking with Jim London
> M> and Mary Ball (who left WMZQ under bad circumstances), I doubt
> M> WCXR would take him back!
>
>Anyone notice that Barsky wasn't on WCXR this morning.  Somebody named Skip
>Herman was in that slot.  And what I heard seemed to imply that it was a
>permanent assignment.  No mention of Barsky at all.

I noticed Barfsky wasn't on the air today and I heard Skip say twice,
"The New Format".  It still isn't the same without Paul Harris and Dave
the Predictor.

Joni Snyder
>
>joe
>
Newsgroups: dc.general
From: quadrun@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason G Velasco)
Subject: Re: DJ equipment
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 10:12:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.223612.23180@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs106406@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs106406) writes:
>Record and Tape Traders.  I think there are a few.  The one I go to
>is in Towson on Dulaney Valley Road.
>
>12" Dance Records on Charles at Madison.
>
>Quite a few places for new/used vinyl -- and check the City Paper for
>record shows.


I'll try Record & Tape traders...  12" in Balto is long gone.  The one
on P St. near Dupont Circle is still there though.

I went to the vinyl event in Silver Spring but wasn't impressed by the
selection.
-- 
Jason Velasco                                      quadrun@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: dc.general
From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)
Subject: Re: I need motorcycle lessons!
Organization: UDSI
Distribution: dc
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:31:46 GMT

In article <26436@oasys.dt.navy.mil> mcostell@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Malcolm G. Costello) writes:
>In dc.general, MLACROS@auvm.american.edu (Martha LaCrosse) writes:
>xI will pay for motorcyle lessons in the DC area.  I don't have my own motorcyle
>x or helmet, but need lessons before I can buy them this winter.  Please respond
>x, name your price, etc to MLACROS@auvm.american.edu  Thanks!
>

the motorcycle safety foundation of md runs courses.  they have an 800
number.  also virginia DOT sponsors a beginning riders course......  call vdot...

bye
From: m1nss01@fed.frb.gov (Neil S. Seftor)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: A better view on Statehood.
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:11:17 GMT
Reply-To: m1nss01@fed.frb.gov (Neil S. Seftor)
Distribution: dc
Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC

I agree completely.  DC was born from the donation of land from both
Virginia and Maryland.  Luckily, Virginia was smart enough to take its
land back at the time of the Civil War.  The District of Columbia was 
supposed to be federal land where the government would be, and I really
doubt that it was intended as a place of residence.  We can't force
everyone who lives in DC to move away, and they *do* need representation,
and the Congress is definitely not capable of being in charge.

So, DC should be incorporated into Maryland.  I don't think there's a 
need for it to become a state.  Let Maryland take DC, revenues, problems,
and all, and finally designate a *federal* district that contains no
residences.  I would suppose that DC could become its own county in 
Maryland, but it would seem more logical to add NW into Montgomery county,
and the rest into PG, or something of the sort.  Whatever is decided, DC's
incorporation seems to be the best solution.

	- Neil
Newsgroups: dc.general
From: jamie@access.digex.com (James Treworgy)
Subject: Re: Those darn squirrels
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Distribution: dc
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:38:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.011259.15783@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> amcmicha@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Andrew McMichael) writes:
>Why does everyone seem to think that it is a bad thing that squirrels
>are being smushed on the streets?  What other predator do they have
>to keep their population down?  There are no big cats here that would
>normally take care of them.   I'm sure that the attrition rate is
>not all that much different now than it was 300-400 years ago.
>So what's the problem?  If they don't get run over, they'll overrun
>your backyard.

You could say the same thing about cats, llamas and republicans.

-- Jamie

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jamie@access.digex.com
From: luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: Local businessman harassed
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:35:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: US Naval Research Laboratory, Acoustics Division

In article <26072@oasys.dt.navy.mil> mulvihil@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Mulvihill) writes:
>
>The name of the guy was written/broadcast as Ben Ali.  What are
>the chances that someone hearing that name would assume his
>ancestors came from London ;).  Oh, I'd say about as high
>as the number of people who would make the assumption that
>someone with the name of David Steinberg is of Ethiopian
>extraction.  You see, that is the point.  You don't hear about
>pickets in front of movie theaters showing _The Terminator_ driving
>the movie to be pulled.  Why?  Because the star is a big
>white guy.  Never mind that his movies show graphic depictions
>of killing without remorse.  They don't show the dead persons
>family in grief, destitute.  Those films make killing look like
>a simple, clean, effective way of solving a problem.
>One can't say that those t-shirts have such a strong message.
>

We've also got to count on people's ability to separate fiction from
reality. Apparently, that's still a problem... 

And just be aware - if people continue to play the racism card 
every time something doesn't go right for a member of a minority,
it cheapens the issue for the people to whom it is a real problem.
No one said, "Get out of town." No one yelled, "Drum him out of 
business." They said, "Stop selling the shirts." That's not racism - 
that's concern for their children. So Mayor Kelly is a racist?
Isaac Fulwood is a racist? Yeah, sure.

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Newsgroups: dc.general
From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
Subject: Re: Exporting Jobs to other countries.
Originator: kevin@dubhe
Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
Organization: "CAD Language Systems Inc."
Distribution: dc
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 13:21:22 GMT


In article <26028@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, dlee@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Lee) writes:
> 
> If we buy only American regardless of quality/price, then we must have
> a completely closed system where we as producers consume and spend all
> our assets internally.. We as a nation cannot survive that way.
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You could easily survive that way (I don't include myself 'cause I'm British),
the USA has the mineral wealth and natural resources to do so. The USA has
chosen to buy cheap from abroad instead of developing its own commercial
manufacturing base. Japan on the other hand is probably unable to operate as
a closed system (like it used to) as it now has a much larger population and
little mineral wealth.

Kev.

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From: derich@netcom.com (Scott A. Steinbrink)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: What about the blimp look alike?
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:48:04 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


  At Gallaudet University, Friday night, around 7 59 pm, I was looking at
 this strange bblimp, looks like an UFO, when a friend alerted me to the
 beautiful green meteor... then after it was done, I looked back, and it
 was still an UFO look alike, then it became something like a blimp, but
 it wasn't fat or wide enough -- it was hovering close to RFK stadium or
 DC. Armory -- what is it?

- Scott

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Newsgroups: dc.general,dc.forsale,um.general
From: ucjiun@socrates.umd.edu (Jiun Lai)
Subject: Car for sale
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Distribution: dc
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:19:21 GMT

1988 Hyundai Excel 
51 k miles
2-door H-back
power sunroof
am/fm cassette player
5 speed
very good condition

$2100
call: (301) 942-5371
or send e-mail
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College Park           | ucjiun@umuc.umd.edu    |
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From: crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: A better view on Statehood.
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:20:56 GMT
Distribution: dc
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA

In article <92285.004455WCBANTA@auvm.american.edu> William C. Banta <WCBANTA@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>All these notices seem to forget the rights of the people of the
>District.  An equal vote is not something that has to be somehow
>earned.  It is the right of every American.  Americans believe
>that everyone is created with equal rights.  Taxation without
>representation is tyranny.  We fought a war over that principle,
>remember?  The District is not a state because a conservative white
>Congress does not want black, liberal congressmen.  The rest is
>smokescreen.

Congress cares not one whit for the color of DC's potential senators.
I think the issue for those who do not support statehood is fourfold:

1)  DC residents have chosen to live in the city for nearly 200 years with 
    their present constitutionally determined form of representation.  Why is 
    it so important in 1992 to change?

2)  DC has 500,000 residents.  No other body of only 500,000 people in the US
    has TWO senators.  Why does DC deserve them, and not, say, the Apache or
    Navajo peoples?

3)  DC statehood will make it much more difficult for congress to interject 
    themselves into the affairs of the DC government's home rule.

4)  It will significantly shift the balance of power in congress.  DC's
    senators will be forever Democrats.  The senate will more likely remain
    Democratically controlled for years to come.

Obviously, reasons 1, 2, and 3 pale when compared with 4.

Randy
crawford@mitre.org

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From: luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: Local businessman harassed
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:45:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: US Naval Research Laboratory, Acoustics Division

In article <26102@oasys.dt.navy.mil> mulvihil@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Mulvihill) writes:
>In dc.general, luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther) writes:
>>
>>And just be aware - if people continue to play the racism card
>>every time something doesn't go right for a member of a minority,
>>it cheapens the issue for the people to whom it is a real problem.
>
>Does that mean when racism is used in a "minor" way we should
>not say anything?  As far as I'm concerned, you can be as racist
>as you want, but I will point it out.
>

Of course not. On the other hand, should we cry "racism" just because
the person or activities being talked about in a negative light belong
to a minority? Does saying "He's doing a bad thing" become racism by
default just because the "he" in question is in a minority? 

Mind you, I also don't agree that all this heat should have been dumped
on Ben Ali. After all, he was right in saying that he wasn't in business
for moral reasons, he was in business to make money. I just don't see
this as racism in action. While I would lose all respect for vendors
who sold the shirts and kids who wore them, I think they have as much
right to wear them as I do to wear my t-shirt with Bart Simpson 
sticking up his middle finger.

It wasn't just rich white folks who spoke out. It was people of all
shapes, sizes, colors, and blood types. If no one had said anything
at all, you'd have one group of people saying, "See? There's racism
for you. No one cares." If it had been a white guy making these shirts,
you would have had another group crying, "See? Look at the white guy
exploiting the problems of black youth for his own gain. That's 
racism!" Is Ben Ali racist for this reason? Of course not.

>
>The racism is evident in the inconsistancy.  Let us ask "why?".
>Why is a *local* t-shirt printer the subject of a *national*
>attack, when a movie with *national* distribution, in which
>an entire police station is blown away, is not protested?
>

First of all, the media are going to pounce on a potential 
controversy and milk it for all it's worth in the name of
sensationalism. There's no such thing as objective news reporting
anymore. I'm not sure if there ever was. Second, most people
can go see a movie and treat it as cheap entertainment and not
a treatise on the state of society and how to deal with your
problems. Saying "Bad society! Bad!" because no one protests
Arnold Schwartzenneger (sp?) movies is like saying, "Bad society!
Bad!" for not protesting Murphy Brown's flautning of "good family 
values". They're two completely different realms.

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From: quadrun@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Jason G Velasco)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: "The Colony of Japan"???
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:00:36 GMT
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <4019@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> masuda@fcs280b.ncifcrf.gov (Michiaki Masuda) writes:

>"Americhuko - The Colony of Japan". It didn't have a phone number, address
>or direction. I've been wondering what it is. Is there any place in the
>Chesapeake Bay area where Japanese started investment? Or did someone
>build it just to make another target for Japan bashing?

Definitely sounds like Japan bashing to me.  I noticed the sign in the 
early summer when I was headed towards Ocean City.  I'm surprised we haven't
heard more about this sign ...

Jason
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Jason Velasco                                      quadrun@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
From: luther@i5160e.nrl.navy.mil (Luther)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: What Has Happened on WJFK-FM (106.7)??
Date: 9 Oct 92 11:28:49 GMT
Organization: US Naval Research Laboratory, Acoustics Division

In article <1992Oct09.004222.17306@eng.umd.edu> russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
>
>I just want to know why Stern doesn't like to talk about Washington,
>D.C....
>

You can probably get a better answer from the Howard Stern newsgroup
alt.fan.howard-stern, but I think it has something to do with the
fact that he used to work in D.C., got fired, and left on not all
that friendly terms.

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" I am the Master. You will obey me. "
                - "Doctor Who"
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NRL, Code 5162         | Washington, DC. 20375 | (202)767-3149
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From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Chimney Sweep recommendation wanted
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:32:19 GMT
Reply-To: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
Distribution: dc
Organization: Century Computing, Inc.


Our new house has a chimney which hasn't been swept in (what the home
inspector said) quite some time.  Before we build our first fire, we
want to get it swept out.  Can anybody recommend a reliable sweep?  We
live in the Silver Spring (4 Corners) area.  Thanks!

-Barry
From: eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: What about the blimp look alike?
Summary: blimps and other astronomical events
Date: 14 Oct 92 15:25:20 GMT
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

In article <1992Oct12.114804.25891@netcom.com>, derich@netcom.com (Scott A. Steinbrink) writes:
> 
>   At Gallaudet University, Friday night, around 7 59 pm, I was looking at
>  this strange bblimp, looks like an UFO
[...]
>  it was hovering close to RFK stadium or DC. Armory -- what is it?

It was indeed a blimp. Don't ask me why it was here.

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              "Busy?! I've just spent four hours burying the cat."              
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From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: A better view on Statehood.
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:30:40 GMT
	<92285.004455WCBANTA@auvm.american.edu> <4923@prcrs.prc.com>
	<Bw4Ity.69M@access.digex.com> <6578@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV>
	<6582@arccs1.fed.FRB.GOV>
Reply-To: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
Distribution: dc
Organization: Century Computing, Inc.


>>>>> "Neil" == Neil S. Seftor <m1nss01@fed.frb.gov> writes:
    Neil> So, DC should be incorporated into Maryland.

I'm not so sure either Maryland *or* DC would go for this, and
obviously there'd have to be all sorts of votes before this ever
happened. Personally, I don't think this will ever happen.

I don't buy the argument that DC somehow doesn't deserve statehood
because of the "quality" of their self-rule, or the policies they
adopt.  State goverments can be (and have been) just as "corrupt" and
a state's residents have every right to decide what laws they will
live under (given the established constraints).

Maybe there is no current model on which to base DC's representation
in the federal goverment, but clearly DC needs representation.
From: mcostell@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Malcolm G. Costello)
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: I need motorcycle lessons!
Date: 15 Oct 92 18:22:23 GMT
Reply-To: mcostell@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Malcolm G. Costello)
Distribution: dc
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In dc.general, MLACROS@auvm.american.edu (Martha LaCrosse) writes:
xI will pay for motorcyle lessons in the DC area.  I don't have my own motorcyle
x or helmet, but need lessons before I can buy them this winter.  Please respond
x, name your price, etc to MLACROS@auvm.american.edu  Thanks!

There used to be a school that taught motorcycle riding called "The
Right Track". There's an outfit in Rockville by that name in the
phone book. Phone number (301) 251-0763. Tried to confirm but the
lines busy.

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David Taylor Model Basin, Carderock Division Hq. NSWC    ___/-\____
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From: M15841@mwvm.mitre.org
Newsgroups: dc.general
Subject: Re: WCXR Phone Number
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:07:13 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102

In article <92280.150925JSNYDER@auvm.american.edu>
Joni Snyder <JSNYDER@auvm.american.edu> writes:
 
>I'd like to second that idea of trying to get rid on Barfsky opps I
>mean Barsky.  I was hoping when WCXR would try to get Paul Harris back
>after things didn't work out for him at WTEM.
 
After the way I heard him (Paul Harris) talking with Jim London and Mary Ball
(who left WMZQ under bad circumstances), I doubt WCXR would take him back!
 
BTW:  What happened at WTEM anyway?
 
 
Mary Brick
e-mail:  m15841@mitre.org