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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 06:17:35 GMT


In a previous article, ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Elaine M Brennan) says:

>>Well, good.  Everyone else has gone to bed and it's only
>>11 pm EDT.  Now for some action.
Sorry, Giggles, but my <lights> are all but out of action, and the cameras
are out in the car....  Besides, it's after 2am, and brain shutdown has
occurred.
>
>sorry giggles, but some of us have *not* gone to bed, and are
>probably not going to make it to bed at all, which will make us
Tell me about it - I've gotten about 3 hours sleep in the last 24.<yawn>
>incredibly surly later on in the morning .... grr .... I hate
You mean you wait until morning?  My kid sister never wanted to wait - so she
got surly the night before.  It seems to be catching....

>packing, I hate moving ... if I click my heels together three
>times and say 'there's no place like home' will it all be
>accomplished in a flash?  never mind, I don't *really* want to
>go to Kansas ...
Nope - even Providence beats Kansas, but only on the AAA level...
At least your HSH, new or otherwise, didn't get broken into 48 hours ago.
Mine did - idiot burglar didn't even break a lock, just pushed open a door
that was supposed to be locked.  What did he take?  A pellet <squirrel
annoyance device> pistol, a bullet mold for a .70 caliber rifle [but not the
rifle - muzzle loader circa 1863], and a pair of handguns my great-granddaddy
took to Colorado and back.  AKA - the most totally unfencable stuff in the
house.<grin>  Mind, one of those guns takes percussion caps, and the other
would be more likely to kill the user than the "victim" - if the perp could 
find ammo to fit.<evil grin> [which he won't]   The only thing I'm mad about
is the bullet mold.:-)

Chances are they'll catch the thief for something else - he's pretty stupid.
A house full of electronics [computer, stereo, VCR...] and he takes some
glorified cap guns that won't fire caps!  Giggles, is this guy related to
you - he liked <expensive> <useless> <toys>?

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:30:12 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: List Wars II

>Nahh. it wasn't about THIS list - if the shoe doesn't fit, why insist
>on wearing it?

Yeah, it was.  The post was addressed to What's-his-name.  It was
a *direct* reference to THIS list.

-Mka
From: rowhite@wrdis01.af.mil (Ronald D. White)
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	 6:00 pm
Date: 18 Aug 92 17:44:59 GMT
Organization: 1926CCSG Robins AFB

In article <HAYCOCK.92Aug18084836@marley.think.com>, haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock) writes:
> Doris asks:
> 
>    (1) At 12:00 noon one ceases saying "Good morning" and begins saying "Good
>        afternoon." When does one cease saying "Good afternoon" and begin saying
>       "Good evening"?
	
	Usually around 6 pm, I would say.  At least that's the distinction
made by the venerable publication TV Guide. :-)i> 
>    (2) Do any of you ever use "Good night" as a greeting instead of a farewell?

	Nnnno, unless I was trying to get rid of somebody. :-)


		Guten Tag,
			Ron
From: WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM (WERTSJ)
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Subject: Akio's return?
Date: 20 Aug 92 01:31:00 GMT
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By the way, when is Akio coming back?  I miss the Gleanings...seems
like they've been gone forever.

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:15:42 PDT
From:         s mandell <pwiebe@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU>
Subject:      Not being taken for an American
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Karen asked:
 Has any American ever been taken for an American abroad?

Torkel replied:
  Ahem. They are usually not all that difficult to identify.

Thank you Torkel for not elaborating, as it gives me the chance
(and I can be as nasty as I want, because I am one).

Some identifying traits of Americans visiting in Amsterdam:

They speak too loud.
Something about their luggage draws attention to it.
They flash lots of money when getting it exchanged.
They fidgit more than anyone else while waiting in line.
They try and speak bad German, when English would work much better.
They can't believe how well the Dutch can speak English.
Many of the Americans I've overheard have been complaining.
If they've got kids with them, they're constantly attempting to modify
the kids' behavior.
In restaurants they manage to cause scenes of undue proportions.

If you get into a conversation with one, they will tell you:
how small the cars are
how funny all the toilets are

S
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Dying Vax 6350

*** Resending note of 08/13/92 09:48
To:           DON MOORE <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>


>WELCOME BACK, DON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Evelyn

Thank you very kindly Evelyn!
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 06:53:06 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: when did in become on
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> I think that's what I would say, too.  I might also say I did something
> "over the weekend," as in "I cleaned all the closets over the weekend."

But "over the weekend" implies to me a duration not present in the example
of "mail waiting at the weekend."  I might clean closets or read a book
over the weekend, but I wouldn't find mail waiting over the weekend -- unless
I was lumping that with other things -- e.g., "Lots of exciting things
happened over the weekend."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 04:49:41 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject: Re: Today's Trivia
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	Where is G, that loveable little squeeze????

I'm here.  Sorry I'm late.  It's been a hard night.

G
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:55:39 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Doublings
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:32:35 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> > *O*.2????  Where were you brought up?
>
> What's wrong with 0.2%?  Doesn't it mean 1/5 of 1%?

Examine the emphasis.  Another one who was brought up on typewriters...
I guess that dates mka too...

G
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:28:17 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Taking names and kicking butts
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> > So what am I, chopped liver?  It was 2:35 here as well.
>
> I thought you were in California.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

How could she have a 50 min. flight to London if she were in
California?  I want to take *that* plane!

Karen
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Today's quote

Hello all,

We just got our system back ...seems an early morning system update upchucked.
As a result I am way behind in E-Mail and have much work to do...hopefully
can catch up during lunch time, where I will try to answer private mail.

Meanwhile, here is quote:

     "A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it".
                  (Frank A. Clark)

Anne...that was for you...feel your child will always have that need filled.
Sincerely hope all is going well with you and your baby.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Subject: Natalie's organs
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:28:53 GMT
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              19 Aug 1992 05:27:10 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:27:10 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>I have crumbling brain cells.  And to think I'm an organ donor.  What a
>cruelty joke.  I have no organs that anybody would want.

Wrongo!   You have some VERY nice organs, Ms. Natalie!

dan....who notices such things....
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:02:45 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      48 Hours Looks at Elvis
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Did anyone else just see "Crazy about Elvis" on CBS?  Very well done.
Respectful, too, given the opportunities there for ridicule.  Don't
forget, *if* next year's Event is a goat roast in Starkville, the
Tupelo birthplace shrine is only an hour-and-a-half away; Memphis
and Graceland maybe 2 1/2 hrs.  Most of you, probably, would be flying
into Memphis International anyway...

brad
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:07:27 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: i musta been sleeping
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              Unite" at Aug 17, 92 3:08 pm

> >cuz I didn't even know Chris had unsubbed.

Me either.  Welcome back, Lob!

> >what's new up in Eburg WA??
> Funny you should ask. The temperature. Damn Mount Pinatubo
>
We've been having record low temperatures (upper 50s/low 60s the past
two days) in the Northeast.  I'm not complaining, love the mild
summer we've had this year.

rashmi
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:50:17 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: EMERGENCY
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Posted on 20 Aug 1992 at 07:32:40 by Natalie Maynor
> When is Tushar supposed to be back in Chicago for "official" purposes
> (i.e., for things directly related to his program at U of C)?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I thought he finished his coursework?  In any case, UC is on qtrs.,
and they start late--mid to late September. (I have a friend there
in Computer Science.)

Karen
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 18:31:56 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIQR13
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Good try, Giggles, but Natalie said that the dogs in the Yucatan look
more like my feist half than my beagle half.  I don't think you saw them
at all!  I think you were too lost in humanoid fantasies to think about
the beautiful creatures!
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
            annoyed because Natalie was gone all afternoon to a Chigger
            Fest and didn't take me...
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:01:20 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Free Press strikes again...
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Whoever it was I was talking to recently about 'Jennifer'... (was in abh?)
I see it finally hit your press.  (The scandal broke over here *many*
months ago when the story was reported in Private Eye - it's been sat on
and spin-doctored over in the land of the free for months since then.)

How many of you folks actually buy foreign papers, to find out what's
going on in your own country?

G
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:01:19 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Big eyes
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>Awww, gee, yer Ferality, you aughtta told me back when you were in
>Providence.  Lordy, if *that's* all it takes...

Note: I did told him, I really did! And anyone who would stand still for two
minutes got told too. I believe the phrase was "gimme 20 minutes alone with
Frank and I'll give you 5 more to draw a crowd."

>As for you, Elaine, you are within walking distance and can come on
>over and get your dose of <any kind of eyes you want> on virtually

Grrrrrr....grrrrrr....grrrrrrr...oink

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:42:44 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Year-round school
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> Nancy, one of our elementary schools is going to year-round school this
> year. They are all excited about it. Said they have interviewed many
> teachers who started it last year and said that they love it, that the
> kids are better...they all love the 2 weeks off throughout the year.  Our

This was discussed recently on one of the education lists, I think
Edpolyan.  The consensus from everyone who had done it was that
year-round school is great.  The only ones opposed were those that
*had* not done it.  I read this thread only because I was fascinated
by how much people liked it.

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:56:46 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Weird stuff
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  Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@IUBACS.BITNET>  asked:

>L
>>From:   PO1::"LISTSERV@uga.cc.uga.edu" "Revised List Processor (1.7c)"
>>To:     "MICHAEL K. AUSBROOK" <AUSBROOK@ucs.indiana.edu>
>>CC:
>>Subj:   Output of your job "AUSBROOK"
>>
>>> >>The only thing that got my hackles up was the suggestion that the
>>Unknown command - ">>THE". Try HELP.
>>
>>All subsequent commands have been flushed.
>>
>>Summary of resource utilization
>>-------------------------------
>> CPU time:        0.002 sec                Device I/O:     2
>> Overhead CPU:    0.002 sec                Paging I/O:     5
>> CPU model:        9021                    DASD model:  3380
>>
>
>Just got this back from the Listerver--any of you net jockeys--
>including pigs--know what happened?
>
>-Mka

it looks like you sent a mail message to listserv rather than to
words-l; it didn't match any of the commands listserv recognized and
so it sent the beginning of the mesage back to you.

Elaine, who knows more about listserv than she ought ...
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:22:46 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
              14 Aug 1992 16:06:45 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Fri, 14 Aug 1992 16:06:45 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>       We also discussed hard disks.  He has sitting around his house
>right now a 200-mg Macstoke(??) -- I can't remember the exact name, but

Probably Maxtor.

>I remember hearing "Mac" as part of it and being alarmed -- and a 240(?)-mg
>Quantum.  He'll take my current disk (a 100-mg Connor) as a trade-in.

The Maxtor is probably a little bit noisier than the Connor.  Have a
listen before you buy if you think it might bother you.

>                 Meanwhile, my OS/2 is sitting on the dining room table
>looking lonesome.

Put it on the same shelf with Windows, and they can growl at each other.

>P.S. He told me he has a couple of 486's sitting in his house if I'm
>interested, but I told him I wasn't.  Isn't it true that there's not much
>advantage in having a 486 unless you want a math coprocessor?

A 486 running at a given clock speed is faster for most things than a
386 at the same speed.  If you don't need a faster machine then don't
buy one.

Tony H.
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:26:20 +0200
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      RE: The Evidence
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:Despite the very civilized welcome and introduction I am confused. What kind of
: a BB is this

The kind your mother warned you about...

G
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 06:22:44 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Taking names and kicking butts
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> Doris - Amsterdam.

Graham - much obliged. :-)
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:18:00 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The D-words
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              19 Aug 1992 01:40:17 GMT from <karsten@NETCOM.COM>

On Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:40:17 GMT karsten said:
>maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") writes:
>> That last option has always struck me as the strangest of all.  Why
>> would anybody endure the horrors of things like prelims and never
>> finish the degree?
>They might come to the conclusion that they can no longer justify
>wasting effort working toward a degree for which they have no respect
>and decide the only reasonable response is to stop and get on with
>their lives.
>
>(This is probably not a universal explanation...)

Well, it is CLOSE to my opinion and situation.  I am a permanent ABD in
Ed Psych.  Passed comps, had proposal accepted, and know I coulda/shoulda
done it.   but....I just plain didn't give a shit anymore.   i strung it
out for most of the allotted time before making a conscious decision to
no longer enroll for the continuing credit.....and that was that.  I decided
that I was not planning to teach in library school, as I couldn't afford
to do so....since ls profs make MUCH less than administrators.  I AM a good
teacher, and have taught college courses...and done well.  but I'm even
better at what i do...and though the PhD would be the union card if I wanted
to be Univ Librarian at Harvard or Berkeley or whereever, I KNOW that I am
not interested in going back to one of the top hundred universtiy libraries.
IDTA, etc.

so....its just not relevant to me anymore....and my sanity is....

all my phd friends on here can hopefully understand....I am NOT flaming
any or all phds.....they have my respect for doing something I did not do...
as do those who bungee jump, parachute jump, serve twenty years in the
Army, etc, etc, etc.....

dan in baked potatoland
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      "Muddled"

>Was entropy a new word for you today, Michael?
>
>Karen
>mistress of the innocuous e-oops

Wish I had a snappy retort handy.  I guess entropy's winning.

-Mka
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:54:29 EDT
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      RE: Doublings
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:29:00 CDT, "Anne BWP Harwell" <aharwell@panam1.panam.edu>
 wrote:
> >*O*.2????  Where were you brought up?
>
> Right here on Words-L, my friend. You used that same fraction of a percentage
> about two days before.

I was referring to mka's use of 'O' instead of '0'.

G
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From:         Absolut Bandwidth <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      the state of slowness
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yes, it is slow, stultifyingly slow, incredibly so, so mcht that nzxo lk ss
From: AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Entropy Warrior)
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Subject: O.2% Solution
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:35:00 GMT
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>> *O*.2????  Where were you brought up?
>
>What's wrong with 0.2%?  Doesn't it mean 1/5 of 1%?

He was flaming on the O instead of the 0, Natalie.  Picky, picky.

-Mka
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Subject:      Re: Adam, List Honey

I would like to add my best wishes to others.  Adam should do great in life.
By all that I have witnessed, he is a caring, considerate, compassionate
young man.  I predict he will gain many friends and much respect in the
business world.  I wish him nothing but the best.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Why I Couldn't Find the RAM!
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 00:50:45 GMT
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ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) writes:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 07:28:39 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
> >What is it that's really 1024 instead of something else?  Something I
> >discovered on my computer a long time ago.  Now I've forgotten.
> 
> 1K = 1,024(decimal) = 2^10  (two to the tenth power)

This leads to the classic joke about how to tell if somebody is
a computer geek - ask them to count to ten with their fingers and
see if they need more than one hand.

--karsten
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