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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:41:12 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Very confused former subscriber
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> Who has TIME? it is only what you make of it.....I'm supposed to be

I agree.  We find time for the things that are important to us.  This
list is important to me.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
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and says Adam the LH:

>>	only use Windows to play solitaire, so what the hey.
		 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Hah!  That's the only thing we use Windows for, too.  In fact, I just


I hear that OS/2 has solitaire as well, but with a <cheat> command.  And some
other games (chess?) as well.  I hope it doesn't have Reversi -- I can't come
close to winning at that one.

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          "If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it"  --  Dick Allen
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:58:03 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: I feel so CHEAP
              24 Jul 1992 06:02:22 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 06:02:22 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>> Is there no reasonably foolproof way of determining the address of an IRC
>> participant ?
>
>Isn't the /who command fairly reliable?

I TELNETted from McGill to bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu.  /WHO showed that
I was at bradenville followed by (VM1.McGill.ca) like that in parens.
But it did not list my original userid at McGill.  This is information
it could find out, but evidently chose not to.

Tony H.
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:02:28 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cure For High Blood Pressure?
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Surely nobody prefers clothes to nakedness except when going outside in
cold weather or crawling through briars or other such unpleasantries.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:02:57 CDT
From:         "Paging Dr. Freud..." <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: ..my pillow was gone...
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>   And when you woke up......?  Eagerly awaiting punchline.

...I was an EFF employee.

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:59:28 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Sea World (was re: Gleanings (54)
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>Nancy, *no-one* knows what any of these things mean.  You just make them
>up as you go along - the fun is in guessing them...
>
>WSMSWABW...
>G
I have a gut feeling that these were first made up to look
like (but not quite like) assembler codes. (Rotate One (F)lace
Right)

Seems we usta make up obscene spellings-out for the real codes,
When We Were Very Young...

love, judith, (Now We Are Six(ty-ish))
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:17:38 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: No Picture of Giggles (was Re: Eating Whales)
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              22 Jul 1992 07:42:16 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 07:42:16 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>> I'll show you mine if you show me yours.....
>
>That's a deal.  But I need to get more copies made.  I had doubles made
>of both rolls of film but ended up sending copies of all the ones of
>clambake day itself to Giggles, whose plea for pictures sounded so sincere.

understand.  we also had doubles of all made.  and will get more made of
many, depending on the interest from all on the list.

dan
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:31:41 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Speaking of catering to the lowest common denominator
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>And speaking of catering to the lowest common denominator,.....
> ...
>
>jcs

Why "lowest common denominator"? Where did the phrase come from?
What is the exact meaning of the phrase and how did this phrase
come to mean that?

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:23:42 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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I see nothing to be debated.  Buy a Honda Civic.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:38:28 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Five Reasons (was tushar, boy..)
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>     Gee, thanks, Price.
>
>     I don't think I've "met" you.  Come here often?

Just don't turn your back on him! ;-)

-abh
one who *knows*
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:27:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: How's Adbam doing?
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> We should be inviting Anne for Thanksgiving dinner.  Babies are a problem
> until they're out of the house and off on their own (about 18).
>
> Evelyn (who found out this weekend that her nephew wants to live forever
> by the means of a robot body)

HAH!!  I say HAH!  I have four out of the house and off on their own,
23-27-29-31  and stilllllllll a pr*blem.  It never ends.  Never!
The only solution is to declare oneself incompetent and make them
put you in the rest home (or the little apartment attached to their
house in the suburbs)....
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:31:43 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Last night
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:47:57 EDT, "Karen Kay" <ll23@nemomus.bitnet> wrote:
> better, because you can 'whisper' private messages.  It took me
> a long time to figure out that a * meant a private msg.  But

Apparently I missed a couple of e-oopses from Karen early on.  Anyone
care to repeat them? :-)

G
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:16:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: quick answer needed...help
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     The closest I can come is "aporia," which is when you talk about
     your inability to express something: "I just can't tell you how
     happy I am."

     I have the perfect reference book at home for this question.
     It's called _Figures of Speech_, and it explains all of those
     Greek terms for rhetorical devices.  I'll check it tonight if you
     can wait that long, Dan.

     Carol
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:44:19 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Post Clambake IRC
              21 Jul 1992 16:38:00 EST from <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>

I wish I could make it, but my sister's birthday is Thursday, and we'll
be giving her her presents that evening.

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:46:53 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Eating whales
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              22 Jul 1992 10:49:00 LCL from <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM>

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:49:00 LCL <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM> said:
>     So I went to CA (Cetaceaphages Anonymous), and it saved my life.

Congratulations!  And stupid little me thought that CA only meant
Chemical Abstracts or Cocaine Anonymous.

How stupid we are here in Idaho, where YOUR type of CA isn't much needed,
due the drought causing a REAL shortage of whales in the Snake River.
There is even a continuing shortage of salmon and sturgeon on it, too,
and the last time a twenty foot sturgeon was caught was over 40 years ago.

dan
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:27:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      So long....with the Weavers??

Bill, showing his true colors, temporarily departs with with the
refrain from that left-wing group, The Weavers wafting behind
him...always knew that a pinko heart of gold beat beneath that crusty
reagonite exterior.  And he'll come marching back in to the strains of
the International.....
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:03:00 EDT
From:         Lenny <LABBEY%GTRI01.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Vainity
              27 Jul 1992 20:28:23 GMT from <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>

>*** Resending note of 07/27/92 20:22
>
>
>>And trembling silence suddenly overtakes the list...
>--
>>   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>
>Arrrrffffffff!!!!!   Whatever ever happened to that ridiculous qunicy?
>
>
>        /\_____/\
>       -/ ''''' \-
>        {''o o''}   Muffy, who never beat up a cat he didn't like!
>        {  \^/  }
>       ////'''\\\\


Quincy has changed his name to Ozzie Mandius.


           Ozzie

           -, /|
            O.O
          =(___)=
             U

          Mandius
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:12:00 EDT
From:         "Jaiske Jydits Yeitsu Miata" <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Almsay irtythay ivefay eventeensay
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Ordlay, owhay onglay iltsay owthey ooklay onay? Escueray
aimay olesay omfray erethey estructionsday, aimay arlingday omfray
eethey aiahnslay.     Almsay irtythay ivefay eventeensay.
--eegee-essgay   (.....argechay!)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:00:47 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      email texts (was One Reason (was Five Reasons (was tushar (was
              JPS
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>Gentlefolk;
>   One Reason that I am happy to be reading my mail on this cluncky old
>VM mainframe system is that I have been able to develop a simple macro,
>using existing VM/CMS utilities that *PURGES ALL OF THE BLESSED QUOTED
>TEXTS WITHIN QUOTED TEXTS WITHIN QUOTED TEXTS* that have been running
>rampant as of late.  I now can run the macro against my mail before
>wading through it.

This goes much towards explaining what I meant when I said the email
texts are different from printed texts. As long as you have a decent
pager, there is no trouble in reading a message.

I'll say how I read posts with large number of quoted lines. I have a
pager called "less" (but even "more" will do) and it can search for so
called regular expressions in a text. Well, all I have to do is search
for ^[^>] (which matches a line not beginning with a > ).

By the way, I did this on an old tvi950 terminal with a 1200 modem. So
I don't have any jazzy contraptions available, but only a few tools.

So, a post with masses of quoted lines can be read in only a little more
time than a five-line post, and one also gets to know that masses of lines
HAVE been quoted, which possibly adds to the message of the email.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:01:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Apophasis
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> >*WHO* is this "Lenny Abbey"?????  Months ago, I was compared to him
> >in my writing style by someone..... was it G?  Or -abh?  Now I am
> >beginning to suspect that I should have been insulted.  Oh, yeah,
> >it was BGRISSOM, that's who it was.   Well just <take *that*> !!!
> >I *know* when I am being ridiculed. <*That* *really* *pisses* *me*
> >*off*!>
> >--ggs (having just dispaired/despaired and *skipped* the posts from
> >       July 26.....  to read and react later....  hold y'all's breath)
>
>     'Tweren't me, Gib.
>
>    --bgrissom

WELL, if it wasn't you, it should have been.
--ggs (thinking it was probably -abh)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:07:11 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Delayed reaction: hot water cornbread
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:45:00 EDT, "Gilbert Smith" <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
 wrote:
> > Enjoy <Slow-Poke> Doris
> Yummie Yummie. :-)
> --ggs (gobble gobble I can't wait...)

"Aw, gobble gobble gobble.  Don't nobody fuck round here no more?"

G
PS It's the punchline to the "Little Red Riding Hood" joke if you didn't
realise...
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:59:23 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Quote of the day.
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Well, at the risk of sounding like -abh, it seems clear to me that
Alec was Tushar.  This quote is too timely otherwise.

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:23:25 GMT
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From:         DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject: Re: Sea World (was re: Gleanings (54))

*** Resending note of 07/28/92 01:19
To:           DON MOORE <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>


>BTW, do *you* know what CO is?

Clothing Optional.
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:09:00 EST
From:         RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU
Subject:      Most nostalgic ballpark
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Around Boston we have a radio advertisement for the home team which
dubs Fenway as the _Most nostalgic ballpark_ in baseball. We might
feel nostalgic when we're looking out at the Green Monster, but
I doubt that the place itself is nostalgic. I suppose it's good,
crisp ad copy--I'm not sure how they'd phrase the thought
correctly.
    Meanwhile, would anyone like to see my nostalgic photographs
or hear some nostaligic records?
   --Rod
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:35:00 EST
From:         Adam Hartfield <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>
Subject:      Re: RTFM---NOT!!!!!
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>Everyone scorns manuals.  That's what support numbers are for.
>
>Karen

Pshaw.

You know, I always knew I was a pack rat -- instead of being like the
other frosh on my floor who threw them out, I kept my computer and
printer manuals, and even read them.  Granted, I was suffering from
utter boredom when I read them (this was before I found Words-L and
when Drew was still a Bitnet-only school).  I don't scorn manuals--I
have to know them, since I answer the support number.  Knowing that
the person on the other end of the phone has a manual, it is a great
joy to say "Hang on..let me look that up in the manual, oh, yes, here
it is, right on page 26..did you not see it?"

--Adam/LH
8005415096 is programmed into my phone

p.s. 10 points to anyone who can identify that number without looking at
any reference material of any type, virtual or physical.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:53:07 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: hi
              29 Jul 1992 17:16:10 EDT from <tucker@MOENG2.MINC.UMD.EDU>

On Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:16:10 EDT Prudence Tucker said:
>hi guys

Hi, Prudence!  Do you know Jeff Tucker?

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:53:00 EDT
From:         Ovinglay Isay Eeahtamay <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Call for Standards
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> Here are a couple from me to set the ball rolling:
>
> Posts should include some sort of double-entendre
>
> Posts should be, whenever possible, multi-tiered: understood on different
> levels  by different sub-groups
>
> Ever vigilant,
> -abh

So far as I can remember, this is the only <productive> <pregnant>
post that -abh has ever been guilty of <generating> on this list.
She has always been teetering on the fine line that divides AC from
DC, that is to say, the fine line that divides Acceptable Commentary
from Detestible Commentary, and I should like to commend the
*venerable* ex-bwp for her good taste and lucid ratiocentric
though slightly *sophmore* (as ts would say...chortle chortle)
pontificative pronouncement.
--ggs (make that *sophmoric* ts honey bun)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:02:54 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      RE: A Query
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> I was just in a New Age bookstore in Austin, Texas, which had the Urantia
 volume
> and a bunch of accompanying critiques and such. "I was impregnated by Elvis'
> ghost aboard a UFO" or some such titles. Urantia is Loooong, longer than War
> and Peace, and one of the older New Age books around. It has nice cover design
> and typography, but lots of New Age books seem to show a concern for clean
> design. It's like, "we don't have any content, but we *look* great." The same
> for new Age musicians. Isn't Yanni <hot>? Sure, but his music is about as
> substantial as a puffed Chee-to.
>
> Why was I in a New Age bookstore in Austin, Texas, you might be asking by now?
> I dunno.
> -abh

Could this have been New Age Books, with the gorgeous bookends and
paperweights, just down from Whole Foods?
ndh (who wants the blue bookends for Christmas)
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:19:28 -0400
From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: bios
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              18 Jul 92 17:41:31 CDT." <9207181843.aa23543@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>:

>(I shouldn't be sending replies when I'm still about 500 messages behind.)

Now you're making me feel tremendously guilty.  I'm posting from
roughly 1000 messages back.  Of course it's next week here.

- Time-Lord RobyMeister
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 15:02:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: You said a mouthful (of warm spit?)
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My nomination for phrase of the week is:
          recidivous rhetorical metagrobolizing

I plan to use this phrase as often as possible in my day to day
conversation. How about you ?

     I've already used it twice today, once in a staff meeting and
     once in a memo to the president of my company.  Very handy!

     Carol "what's this pink piece of paper in with my paycheck?"
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:24:21 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      re: Wiz of Oz is a SATANIC PLOT!!
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1992, WERTSJ wrote:
> It's a problem because it has a *Good* witch, right?
>
> Ok, let's get rid of all fairy tales (I mean, they have
> *fairies* in them!), science fiction (well, it might,
> and often does, portray a future in which familial
> relationships include much more than the nuclear (nu-cu-lar!)
> family, or in which robots or computers are *alive*,...), and
> anything else which one or more people disagree with.  Now
> that that's taken care of, I'm going to settle down with a
> good book...hey, wait a minute, what happened to all the books?
>
Someone told me recently that the Girl Scouts have changed the name of the
Brownies for just this kind of reason.
ndh (hoping it isn't so, but pretty sure it is)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:23:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366"
 <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Barcelona

I just finished watching the preview show for the olympics. Barcelona amazed
me with her beauty and color. It looks like it will
be an exciting games to watch and read about in the newspapers. 170
nations are being represented.


later


alec
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:45:41 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Varia
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Thanks to all the dweebs at uga who finally brought this listserv back online.

Bayla, come visit me here for a week, and I guarantee you'll be
singing the priases of Florida for the rest of your natural life.

-abh
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Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:33:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: I feel so CHEAP
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

>
>I just found out that the "Tushar" I was flirting with on the chat
>tonight was an IMPOSTER. I need a shower.
>
>-abh

But imagine if you'd been flirting with him in the shower....

Ken
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:20:41 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      credit checks for apartments
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

> >anyone.  Try finding a good place to live with a bad credit report!
> >(I'm not sure how widespread this is across the country)  Often,

I don't know; I first heard of this in Honolulu.  Another
reason to stay out of big cities, btw.

Karen
who doesn't even have a lease
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