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From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley))
Subject: Re: If you are alone.
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:46:07 GMT

In <1992Dec15.035018.11921@Virginia.EDU> iew5c@Virginia.EDU ("Ian Watts") writes:

>okay then what does that line really say...
>it's a good song.

I agree. I still reckon it's '... and the pretty birds have flown'...
Or perhaps it could be 'all' instead of 'and'....
Well, there's only one way to find out - dig out an Abba songbook
and look it up...

Anyone?

Daniel.
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From: jpw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Jason P. Wright)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Nothing to do on Christmas Break
Date: 20 Dec 1992 03:39:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: jpw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Jason P. Wright)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Hello,
     All my friends went home for break, and I have to stay here to
work.  Looking for people in similar situations to talk with.

jp

Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Michael C. KWAN)
Subject: How to say 'Good Bye' in your language 
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 23:28:50 GMT

Hi,

	I am leaving the networks soon, I would like to know 'Good bye' in
you language.  Please e-mail them to my account.

	mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au

	Thanks in advance !

							Michael
From: jcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JASON GIRARD)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: calculus...
Date: 17 Dec 92 01:37:30 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

Hi everyone!
    Another one getting ready for my calculus final tomorrow morning at 8:00.
Right now I'm busy getting WIRED.  I just bought two 24-ounce "mugs" of coffee
(not decaffinated, of course!) and made my coffee extra sweet with 12
teaspoons of sugar in each cup.  Oh, I also got a box of Tastykake[tm] banana
creme pies to dunk!  I think it's safe to assume that I won't be getting any
sleep tonight :)  So...if anyone wants to write me anytime tonight, go right
ahead!  It'll keep me awake!  Until then, I leave you with this thought:

   lim                       (           2
coffee intake --> infinity    ) (energy)^ coffee intake [d(coffee intake)] =DNE.

the limit of energy as coffee intake approaches infinity does not exist

-Jason

ps. good luck to all of you on your exams...
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Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: Sam Neal <sjn1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Request: surprise for a friend
X-Xxdate: Sun, 13 Dec 92 19: 41:57 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: sjn1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:38:25 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.081721.1053@mail.cornell.edu> Sam Neal, sjn1@cornell.edu
writes:
>     My special person's name is Beaker. Her email account is
>alp3@cornell.edu. It'd be great if folks from around the world could
>drop her a note and say hi, wish her a good day, make her feel
>special. Thanks!!!!!!!  :-)


Thanks for all the responses. It's great that all of you took the time to
reply. My friend was really wowed. Havanice1!

------------------------------
Sam Neal <sjn1@cornell.edu>
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
From: mmaiseh@cs.arizona.edu (MaZri BiN MaiSeh)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: 100 ways to say "Merry Christmas and Ha
Date: 14 Dec 92 20:56:02 GMT

In article <Bz9Fv0.Cwr@ecf.toronto.edu>, torenvl@ecf.toronto.edu (TORENVLIET GERARD LAWRENS) writes:
> We need 100 ways to say Merry Christmas, and the three obvious ones have been
> forgotten:
> 
> ENGLISH:  Merry Christmas
> GERMAN:   Prettige Kerstfeest (sp?)
> FRENCH:   Joyeux Noel

Malay --> Selamat hari Christmas dan Selamat Tahun Baru

-m



z
From: whelan@coral.bucknell.edu (Christopher Whelan)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: I hate Calculus
Date: 15 Dec 1992 23:21:03 -0500
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: coral.bucknell.edu

Hi,

	My name is Christopher Whelan, and I just thought I'd tell the
networld how much I hate Calculus II!!!  I just recently got out of a
final, and it was hard.  Any ideas on how to relieve stress for my next
two finals?
Thanx in advance,

Christopher Whelan
whelan@bucknell.edu

Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: xanadu@t-bone.cs.unlv.edu (Thomas Wilson)
Subject: Re: I hate Calculus
Organization: UNLV
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 21:57:50 GMT

In article <kramerro.105.0@columbia.dsu.edu> kramerro@columbia.dsu.edu  
(ROGER A. KRAMER) writes:
> In article <1992Dec16.192002.1508@samba.oit.unc.edu>  
michael@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Michael George Williams) writes:
> >From: michael@gibbs.oit.unc.edu (Michael George Williams)
> >Subject: Re: I hate Calculus
> >Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:20:02 GMT
> >In article <1gmarfINNbtm@coral.bucknell.edu> whelan@coral.bucknell.edu  
(Christopher Whelan) writes:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>	My name is Christopher Whelan, and I just thought I'd tell the
> >>networld how much I hate Calculus II!!!  I just recently got out of a
> >>final, and it was hard. [more stuff deleted] 
> >>
> >>Christopher Whelan
> >>whelan@bucknell.edu
> >>
> >
> >I don't have any advice for releaving stress before your other two, but  
I
> >just want to let the world know that I HATE CALUCUS II, TOO!  I took my
> >exam yesterday, and it was the A-1, sure fire, absolute, grand marshall
> >hardest math test I have ever taken in all my life.  I could die.   
There,
> >I expressed my sentiment for all the world to see.  I feel better now  
(and
> >Heaven knows I ought to since it cost the net hundreds, if not  
thousands
> >of dollars for me to do so).  Thank y'all so very much.
> >
> >Michael
> >-- 
>  
>------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
-----
> >"Shoot low, boys, they're riding Shetland Ponies." --- Lewis Grizzard
>  
>------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
-----
> 
> I just want to say that I love Calculus.  Especially Calc 3 which I am  
now 
> taking.  I just took my final and it was the most pleasant test I have  
ever 
> taken!!!!!!  
> 						Just my 2 cents,
> 
Boys, you get the rope, I'll get the tree.
(/:)
tw.
						
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: iew5c@Virginia.EDU ("Ian Watts")
Subject: Re: If you are alone.
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:50:18 GMT

okay then what does that line really say...
it's a good song.

--ian
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars Peter Fischer)
Subject: Re: 100 ways to say "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University
Date: 12 Dec 92 23:46:58


>>>>> "Nick" == Nick  (nich@wam.umd.edu)

Nick> 	I am interested in knowing how to say "Merry Christmas and
Nick> Happy New Year" in every human languages. Could someone out
Nick> there add your lanauge to the following list.

Since this comes up every year there *must* be someone with a huge
list somewhere. Now, I u *post* the final list I might save it for
next year :-)

anyway, in Danish: "Good Jul og godt nytr"

(and if you don't see a strange "a"-with-a-circle-above up there you
know that somewhere between here and there someone did not like 8-bit
news :-)

/Lars
--
Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | It takes an uncommon mind to think of
CS Dept., Aalborg Univ., DENMARK. | these things.  -- Calvin
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: jirasak@ai15.elcom.nitech.ac.jp (Jirasak Tanpreeyachaya)
Subject: Re: How to say 'Good Bye' in your language
Organization: Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan
	<Bz97C1.Fxu@mach1.wlu.ca> <1992Dec14.155735.8089@ugle.unit.no>
	<Bz9Dys.4uu@dei.unipd.it> <1992Dec15.205934.16735@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:37:08 GMT


>>|> :
>>|> :  I am leaving the networks soon, I would like to know 'Good bye' in
>>|> : you language.  Please e-mail them to my account.
>>|> :
>>|> :  mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au
>>|> :
>>|> :  Thanks in advance !
>>|> :
>>|> :                                                  Michael
>>|> "Good bye"  (english!)
>>|>
>>|> "Au revoir"  (francais)
>>|>
>>|> "Auf Wiedersehen"  (Deutsch)
>>|>
>>|> "Sayanara" (sp?) (Japanese I think)

Actually,I think the correct one is "Sayounara"

>>|>
>>|> Norwegian: "Ha det bra" or "Adjoe"
>>|> "Addio" (Italian)

We thai people use "laa kon krab".
From: usscriv@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: 100 ways...
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:39:00 GMT
Organization: Memphis State University



In article <92351.003448D1BQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <D1BQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
> Seasonal greetings.  I like the idea.  A correction:
> For spanish, the quoted statement "Feliz Navidad y prospero ano."
> means, in english, "Happy (or merry) Christmas and prosperous anus."
> The statement corresponding to "Merry Christmas and happy new year"
> is approximately, in spanish, "Feliz Navidad y prospero a#o nuevo"
> where "Feliz" is still "Happy" or "Merry", and the term "a#o nuevo"
> means "new year". The letter symbolized by my use of the "#" is a
> spanish letter which does no exist in the english alphabet nor in the 1st
> 128 ASCII characters. It is pronounced like the 1st consonant in the english
> word "onion", and is not the letter "n".


                                                                         ~
Actually, an easier way to correct this error is by showing the letter.  N is
how it is written, and it would make a little better sense to show this than to
try to explain keyboard/software problems.

Rebel
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Saturday, 12 Dec 1992 12:57:22 EST
From: MARIUSZ S JURGIELEWICZ <MSJURGIE@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Is there anybody out there?
Distribution: World

No, There si nobody. Only computers! You are the last human creature. You must
be destroyed...

 T2
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: test
From: cschk@lux.latrobe.edu.au (............)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:06:42 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University


Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley))
Subject: Re: How to say 'Good Bye' in your language
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:21:56 GMT

In <1992Dec15.012418.37114@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> sme3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SCOTT MATTHEW ESTRIN) writes:

>In article <Bz97C1.Fxu@mach1.wlu.ca>, sweaver3@mach1.wlu.ca (scott weaver 9209 U
>) writes:
>>Michael C. KWAN (mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au) wrote:
>>: Hi,
>>:
>>:      I am leaving the networks soon, I would like to know 'Good bye' in
>>: you language.  Please e-mail them to my account.
>>:
>>:      mkwan@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au
>>:
>>:      Thanks in advance !
>>:
>>:                                                      Michael
>>"Good bye"  (english!)
>>
>>"Au revoir"  (francais)
>>
>>"Auf Wiedersehen"  (Deutsch)
>>
>>"Sayanara" (sp?) (Japanese I think)
^^^^^^^^^^^

That's 'Sayonara'...


>"Adios" (Spanish)

>"Shalom" (Hebrew)

>"Hasta la vista, baby" (Swartzeneggerian) [sp?]

Slan leat
or
Slan abhaile
or
Slan go foill (Gaelic [Irish])

Daniel.
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|   ===//  ===    ===   |---"In the beginning, the universe was created.---|
| //  // //  // //  //  |-This has made a lot of people angry and has been-|
|  ==//   ==// //  //   |--widely regarded as a bad move.":Douglas Adams.--|
From: spetter@photon.swdc.stratus.com (Scott Spetter)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: SINGLE AND LOOKING FOR A PENPAL
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:40:26 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA


Hmmmm ..... posting to the net all in caps is kind of like 
driving a hundred miles on the freeway with your left signal
light flashing.  You've seen it before ......  you'll see
it again ..... why?
From: spe2mje@thor.cf.ac.uk (Michael Evans)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: HELP!!!
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:35:12 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

In article <1992Dec11.020804.40127@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> klh3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (KATHRYN LEIGH HARRISON) writes:
|I am swamped with exams and can't relax.  If anyone has any good ideas to let
|out some steam, they would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
|
|Katie
|klh3@lehigh.edu


Try this,

	Hold a Chicken in the air,
	Stick a deck chair up your nose,
	Climb inside a dog
	and behead an eskimo,

	Anyone willing to continue?
From: co770@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronald B Harris-White II)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Guy from Hawaii wants to talk to the world!!
Date: 13 Dec 1992 23:29:45 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Hi! I am a 19 year old male who goes to University of Hawaii.  I am interested
in having email pals from around the world.  I like to cook, camp, backpack, 
swim, play football and baseball, dance, and travel! I am originally from New
York City. I also lived in San Francisco. Now live in Hawaii! Listen to anything
but Metal and Reggae. I especially like Techno/House, Dance, Progressive, New
Wave and Alternative.  I love comedies such as the Young Ones, Mr.Bean, Black
Adder, Monty Python, Faulty Towers and other British comedy.  I also like Night
after Night with Allen Havey.  I am a double major in Polical
Science and Speech and Communications. If you have any thing in common, give me
a call!!

white@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.edu

Seeya!! And remember Raving is the next step to recovery!!!!
And my name is Ron!!
##
-- 
"I'm a lunmberjack and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day!!"
From: D1BQC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: 100 ways...
Date: 16 Dec 92 05:34:48 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

Seasonal greetings.  I like the idea.  A correction:
For spanish, the quoted statement "Feliz Navidad y prospero ano."
means, in english, "Happy (or merry) Christmas and prosperous anus."
The statement corresponding to "Merry Christmas and happy new year"
is approximately, in spanish, "Feliz Navidad y prospero a#o nuevo"
where "Feliz" is still "Happy" or "Merry", and the term "a#o nuevo"
means "new year". The letter symbolized by my use of the "#" is a
spanish letter which does no exist in the english alphabet nor in the 1st
128 ASCII characters. It is pronounced like the 1st consonant in the english
word "onion", and is not the letter "n".
English, spanish and french are my favorite languages, and I like holidays;
that's why I wrote this.  I like the idea of multilingual greetings too.
Be seeing you.
From: pts2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (PAUL THOMAS STROBL)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: Re: 100 ways...
Date: 17 Dec 92 00:25:44 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Dec16.093900.4642@memstvx1.memst.edu>, usscriv@memstvx1.memst.ed
u writes:
>
>
>In article <92351.003448D1BQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <D1BQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>> Seasonal greetings.  I like the idea.  A correction:
>> For spanish, the quoted statement "Feliz Navidad y prospero ano."
>> means, in english, "Happy (or merry) Christmas and prosperous anus."
>> The statement corresponding to "Merry Christmas and happy new year"
>> is approximately, in spanish, "Feliz Navidad y prospero a#o nuevo"
>> where "Feliz" is still "Happy" or "Merry", and the term "a#o nuevo"
>> means "new year". The letter symbolized by my use of the "#" is a
>> spanish letter which does no exist in the english alphabet nor in the 1st
>> 128 ASCII characters. It is pronounced like the 1st consonant in the english
>> word "onion", and is not the letter "n".
>
>
>                                                                         ~
>Actually, an easier way to correct this error is by showing the letter.  N is
>how it is written, and it would make a little better sense to show this than to
>try to explain keyboard/software problems.
>
>Rebel
>
Personally, I like to write it like this: n~ -- anyone who speaks spanish
knows that the ~ really goes above the n, to create the letter after n
in the spanish alphabet pronounced "enyay."  Most spanish speakers do use
the #, but for those who are writing this down on paper, again, the ~ goes
above the n just as "Rebel" has shown.

-- 
                   --Tex

*********************************************
* "Women.  You can't live with 'em . . .    *
*  Pass the beer nuts."                     *
*                  --Norm Peterson (Cheers) *
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Friday, 18 Dec 1992 01:25:29 EST
From: <CMLEE@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: 100 ways to says "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year", Part II
 <domalley.724436379@unix1.tcd.ie> <1992Dec16.194734.7016@gw.wmich.edu>

In portuguese it is: FELIZ NATAL E FELIZ ANO NOVO
and merry christmas to all of you!!

Antonio.
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Seeking New Friendships
From: mcmanus@canth.hacks.arizona.edu (Tim McManus)
Date: 13 DEC 92 10:54:48    
Reply-To: mcmanus@canth.hacks.arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: UofA Hardware And Computing Knowledge Society
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a4  

SWM 27 IS SEEKING NEW FRIENDSHIPS WITH WOMEN (20'S).

SWM 27
Slim, hansome, red-head. 6 ft. tall and 145 lbs...
University of Arizona undergraduate business student.

ACTIVITIES
Computers, karate, and housework.

LIKES
Spicey-foods, science-fiction, and the cenima.

If interested in corresponing, please write;

Tim McManus
mcmanus@hacks.arizona.edu
From: parth2@aol.com
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Pen Pal--Medicine
Date: 12 Dec 1992 11:51:01 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Subj:  Pen Pal--Medicine                     92-12-11 19:15:15 EST
From:  pratman@aol.com

Hello,
   I stumbled upon this message board and am very interested in what I found.
 I would enjoy corresponding with other medical students and young doctors or
anyone else out there in the world.  You can never have enough friends!
    Pratman@aol.com and 71303.1550@compuserve.com

               Thanks and Hope to here from someone,
                                                                Pratik ;)

If you wish to write to this person, please write to the address
"pratman@aol.com".  Please do NOT reply directly to this message or send mail
to me, as I am providing this as a service to an AOL member.

Thanks!

Mike
--
Mike Ward - America Online Internet Mail Discussion Board Host
parth2@aol.com / ac702@medina.cwru.edu / Mike_Ward@aldhfn.akron.oh.us
From: bl2m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Benjamin D. Lukoff)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Penpal from Seattle
Date: 14 Dec 92 12:06:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.cf=EK3_00iUz05eFh2
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Hello, I am writing on behalf of Amy Whittlesey, who is a junior at the
Bush School in Seattle, Washington.  We have just got an internet
connection at our school, but cannot access Usenet.  So I am posting
this for her.  Please, if you want to respond, address your replies to:
amy@helen.bush.edu.
If you are interested in corresponding with other people from the Bush
School please mail *me* at bl2m+@andrew.cmu.edu until December 18 and
lukoff@helen.bush.edu thereafter.
Thanks!
Hope to hear from you soon

Benjamin Lukoff
The Bush School
Seattle, Washington
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: mmr@asgserver.canberra.edu.au (Micheal Rainford-Watson)
Subject: Re: 100 ways to say "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 01:29:08 GMT

In article <92347.131846MSJURGIE@MTUS5.BITNET> MARIUSZ S JURGIELEWICZ <MSJURGIE@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:
>Polish:
>Wesolych Swiat i Do Szczesliwego Nowego Roku!!!!
>

'ave a bonza Christy an' a beaut New Year, mate!     - Australian


-- 
Micheal Rainford-Watson        _--_|\   E-Mail: mmr@asgserver.canberra.edu.au
Administrative Systems Group  /      \  Phone : +61 6 201 2397
University of Canberra        \_.--.*/  Mail  : PO Box 1 BELCONNEN ACT 2616
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From: spe2mje@thor.cf.ac.uk (Michael Evans)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: 100 ways to say "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:35:32 GMT
Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

In article <bno.7@stud.hsn.no> bno@stud.hsn.no (BRGE NORDHEI) writes:
|In article <1992Dec12.042834.17002@wam.umd.edu> nich@wam.umd.edu (Nick) writes:
|
|>Hi there,
|
|>       I am interested in knowing how to say "Merry Christmas and Happy
|>New Year" in every human languages. Could someone out there add your lanauge to the following list.
|
|>               Have fun,
|
|>                       Nick Chang
|
|>==========================================================
|>English                Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
|>Mandarin               Shen Dan Kuai Le Xin Nian Yu Kuai
|>Italian                        Buon Natale ??
| Norwegian              God Jul og Godt Nytt r!


Welsh                Nadolig Llawen (Dont know the new year bit)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: sprent@sol.surv.utas.edu.au (Tony Sprent)
Subject: Re: QUESTION?
Organization: University of Tasmania
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 04:09:01 GMT

In article <1gg7vbINN8i1@aludra.usc.edu>, rhogan@aludra.usc.edu (Ron Hogan) writes:
> 
> Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark) writes:
. does anyone on the net know how the tradition got started of the
> >audience coming to their for the entire performance of the Hallelujah Chorus?
> >Is it just an automatic and public show of respect for the piece or WHAT?
> >Can anyone help me?   Thanx
> 
> I beleive the Archduke Ferdinand was at a performance and had an itch on
> his tuchis during the Hallelujah Chorus.  He rose to be in a better position
> .......
> Ron> 


Actually it was George 4th in the early 1800's at a performance in London. He
stood up (presumably to hear better) and everyone else followed suit. It has 
gone on like that ever since. As a member of the bass section of the Tasamnian
Consevatorium Chorale I well remember one performance that I was in here in
Hobart when our conductor suggested that the audience remain seated
during the Hallelujah chorus. There was just about a riot. We've given up
asking since then...

Tony Sprent
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
Date: Saturday, 12 Dec 1992 13:14:11 EST
From: MARIUSZ S JURGIELEWICZ <MSJURGIE@MTUS5.BITNET>
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
Subject: Re: 100 ways to say "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"
Distribution: World

Wesolych Swiat i Do Szczesliwego Nowego Roku!!!!

  for everybody all over the world

Mariusz. (Poland)
Newsgroups: soc.penpals
From: Robyn_Clark@mindlink.bc.ca (Robyn Clark)
Subject: QUESTION?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 20:06:05 GMT

I know this is not the proper group but I dont have a whole lot of time to
fine the right one... my girlfriend and I went to hear Handel"s Messiah last
night performed by the Vancouver Bach Choir and the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra... does anyone on the net know how the tradition got started of the
audience coming to their for the entire performance of the Hallelujah Chorus?
Is it just an automatic and public show of respect for the piece or WHAT?
Can anyone help me?   Thanx


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