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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:18:48 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (58)
Comments: To: Doretta Hanschka <ak743@cleveland.freenet.edu>
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>
> In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:
>
> >> 6) Queens-Grandson-Theory (Dan)
> >     got me....I said that?  hmmmmm
> 	It's one of the theories about the real identity of Jack the Ripper.
> Prince Bertie [Prince of Wales] had two sons, the oldest of which, whose name
> eludes me, is thought by some to have been Red Jack.  I wouldn't put money
> on this one myself, as said Prince didn't have the brains for it.  From what
> I remember, he made Bertie Wooster look like a Rhodes Scholar.
>
Albert Victor (Eddie)
mdh
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 17:00:08 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Hopefully
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> :And it's not an adverb in the example above?  If not, what is it?
> :   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
> A sentence modifier, it would appear.

And isn't a sentence modifier usually tossed into the adverb category?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 08:58:30 EDT
From:         mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      Re: Network mail addressing problem
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I would like the list of bitnet nodes...Marilyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Rhubarb Pie
Date: 5 Sep 1992 04:07:28 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>In other words, Bernard would get to the center more quickly than, say,
>>a dried-up old librarian? <crunch>  Thought so.:)
>   yeah.....but I don't KNOW any dried up old libarians....
	
	Just baked to a crisp [apple?] librarians?

>>well, it sure gets plenty of exercise [care to comment, Gail?]
>   damn betcha....
	I wasn't asking you......
>the potatoman
definitely baked, fer sure, dudes

-- 
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:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:52:51 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Reminder
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If your list mail suddenly ceases and you have reason to believe the
listserv is not sick, send this command to it (to the listserv, that is):
query words-l

When bounced mail starts pouring in for somebody's address, Jeff or Natalie
or I set that address to 'nomail'.  That will show up as MAIL=NO when you
send the query command.  By that time, your address problem is presumably
solved and you can send the mail command.  I always send a note of explanation
when setting nomail for an address, but naturally that note usually bounces
also.
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 09:47:29 EDT
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Subject: Re: Tongues, Jasmine, and Football (was Re: T
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Posted on 6 Sep 1992 at 23:16:33 by tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
>The thing about my "th" (both as in think and there) is that it is a
>consonant (i.e. a stop). The tip of the tongue is at the root of the
>teeth.
>Enough people have made fun of this. I have come to the conclusion that
>it is a standard Marathi tendency to change fricatives to aspirations.

This is confusing.  First of all, consonant or not has nonothing to do w/   <{
sound.  Secondly, what are you saying??Do you say [t'ink]] rather
than [think]?  In which case you have no [th], so there is no problem
about where to pronounce it!  Also, I think it's *really hard* to aspirate
w/ your tongue pushed up against your teeth--does your tongue push there,
or against the top of your mouth?

Karen
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 09:25:51 -0400
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Network mail addressing problem
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>> like using the 'node' command though.  This command in my .cshrc enables
>> me to identify bitnet nodes by entering 'node [node]':
>>
>> alias node 'egrep -i \!* /docs/bitnet/bitnet-nodes'

good suggestion -- I already had such a beast, but I had it aliased to bitnet.

--- Joan (jboor@cs.umb.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 13:15:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Father's Day, Anne, Father's Day
Comments: To: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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> You *are* a dickens; we can't say a little dickens with the big double nickel
> speeding down the autobahn and gaining on that Miata....  But anyway, you get
> your wish.
>
It just caught up with me.... *zaaaapppppppp*..... ahrrrggggg!
Where am I what is my name and why am I driving this... uh....
....uh..... whatchamacallit?
.
> BBBBBBBBBB		DDDDDDDDDD	A	 A	    Y
>
> Ruth
>
>
And, thanks, ruthie, for what that is.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:34:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      the world's oldest profession
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>You know, why is Prostitution the world's oldest profession? I would
>assert that farming, or hunting is older.

     If your definition of prositution requires the exchange of money
     for sexual services, then many human occupations predate it.  But
     if you include the transaction by which a woman exchanges sex for
     protection and food for herself and her children, then
     prostitution is as old as the human race.

     Carol
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:36:32 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Who's there?
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Posted on 10 Sep 1992 at 00:33:56 by Entropy Warrior
>Anyone got a good popular etymology for Hoosier?  C'mon Tushar,
We beat this to death before you were born, sonny.

Karen
who is finally leaving her office for the day, only to return at 8AM.:(
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From: jwagner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Judith O Wagner)
Subject: Re: Amazon T-shirt News
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:47:38 GMT

In article <9209100026.AA00506@Ra.MsState.Edu> "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
>Of the colors described, here's my ranking:
>
>1. Columbia blue
>2. raspberry
>3. good purple
>4. green green
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I like the same colors, but I would rank raspberry and purple above
the blue.

2Judith who looks *wonderful* in raspberry


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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:50:35 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: wordsler birthdays
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> >Hmmmmm.  You are making assumptions....  How do you know I wasn't talking
> >about reaching 30?
> >   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
> Hmmmmmm indeed!  Natalie, do you mean on your next birthday I will be
> TWICE as old as you???

Do I really look any older than 29??  The Southern sun is tough on us,
of course.  Makes the skin wither.  But still...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:48:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Rhubarb Pie: A Plea for Sanity
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     Don't any of you realize that rhubarb is NOT PROPERLY A FOOD for
     human beings?  It contains oxalic acid which is POISONOUS in high
     concentrations and which is responsible for its characteristic
     flavor of sour DIRT!

     In a world that contains raspberries, mangos, and white
     chocolate, why waste your time on rhubarb, which has to be
     thoroughly doused with sugar before it can be forced past one's
     convulsively spasming lips?

     shaking my head sadly,
     Carol

     P.S.  My theory is that people actually taste certain things
     differently.  My mom has been trying for years to get me to try
     brussels sprouts, which she descibes as "sweet and tender."  To
     me, all the brassicas have a rank, bitter taste, which is most
     concentrated in those nasty green nuggets of sweatsock essence
     known as brussels sprouts.
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 19:39:00 GMT
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richh@netcom.com (richh) writes:
>>(Now was that "Richh" richh or "Saltgirl" richh?)
> Richh is richh.  Saltgirl is saltgirl.
> 
> The twain meet on occasion.  

And sometimes as the electrons bounce around the networks
the logins change...

--karsten

(You hear me talking.  Teehee.)
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:36:12 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Hopefully
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> > Because it's used incorrectly so often. Now, people often say "hopefully
> > you will like the explanation." A correct usage of the word would be "she
> > -abh
> What abh said.  <Hopefully> is an adverb and needs to be used as one.
> Doris

And it's not an adverb in the example above?  If not, what is it?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:34:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: Augmentation
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     I tried to send this message earlier but <something strange>
     happened.  Moral compunction requires me to try again.

>I've always understood "argument" to be the content (premises
>and conclusions) and "argumentation" to refer to the style of
>presenting them.

>Jim (But then what's "augument") Thomas

     A disagreement with a person from Brooklyn?

     I would like to grovel publicly for giving Karen a hard time
     about "argumentation."  Now that I know it to be a useful and
     reputable word, I will use it every day, preferably in the
     same sentence as "snaguine."

     Carol
From: gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Father's Day/Cancer
Date: 13 Sep 92 15:18:45 GMT
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	details I could have written both myself........and may have.  I hope
	your stories are as sincere and honest as mine have been.

Well!  Whoever said Don doesn't have a wicked sense of humor?

G
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:11:40 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Bertie Wooster 2

>                                 'Evidently I am witty,' I said to myself,
>and thenceforth faced life with new courage. I became witty and maledictory
>to everyone about everyone else, enjoying myself a great deal more than
>before,

I must read this book. It just appeals to me. Somehow, I think I will
sympathise with this fellow.

tushar
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (58)
Date: 9 Sep 1992 18:55:58 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>> 6) Queens-Grandson-Theory (Dan)
>     got me....I said that?  hmmmmm
	It's one of the theories about the real identity of Jack the Ripper.
Prince Bertie [Prince of Wales] had two sons, the oldest of which, whose name
eludes me, is thought by some to have been Red Jack.  I wouldn't put money
on this one myself, as said Prince didn't have the brains for it.  From what
I remember, he made Bertie Wooster look like a Rhodes Scholar.

>>15) Opf (Dan)
>    hmmmm....????   a type for 'of'???
A typo for 'of', most likely.:)

-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:15:12 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (59
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              "EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU" at Sep 15, 92 11:50 am

>
> Posted on 15 Sep 1992 at 07:08:44 by Agnes Kruchio
> >I wrote mine in a discipline completely different from the one I ended
> >up in! Just goes to show you...
> >Agnes
>
> Shows you what?

>
That they are not really necessary: there was no GRE required in the
(notoriously tough) history department where I went afterwards; but
there WAS a time when you couldn't get anywhere in psychology, my
erstwhile field, without it. I don't know what the situtation
is in psych now: I managed to escape in time.


> I have 3 post-graduate degrees from two different
> institutions, and never took a discipline exam.  They are offered in
> very few disciplines.
>
> Karen

Just curious: were these in different discplines?
Which...and if you don't mind revealing, why?
(Just wondering whether I'm the only one with a meandering academic
"career line", laughingly so called...)

Agnes
(who is convinced it's all nonsense anyways but wouldn't want to do
anything else)
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Date:         Sun, 6 Sep 1992 17:28:20 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Re[2]: Brother Barbara
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:others are strictly heterosexual. What, if anything,
:does this mean about the "naturalness" of bisexuality
:and heterosexuality in humans? What, if anything, does
:it mean that we haven't found any other animal species
:(besides humans)
:that show homosexuality (differentiated from bisexuality)
:in their behavior?

It means that all homosexuals (and heterosexuals) are
really just normal bisexuals 'in denial'.  (Little soc.bi joke there :-) )

G
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:44:11 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: My trip tp France and Happy Labor Day (USA)
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              04 Sep 92 17:42:00 -0500. <9209042144.AA21938@sics.se>

  Alec says:

  >Our landing was comical. The plane was so heavy that we landed on
  >DeGaulle longest runway and slammed hard. We used most of the runway
  >and screeched to a halt.  The pilot then asked, if all passengers were
  >ok.

  This sounds more scary than comical. Did the passangers really smile
heartily?
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: wordsler birthdays
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>> 	share my birthday (ggs, I recall that yours is next week, as is someone
>> 	else's on the list...).

> Do tell us whose birthdays are coming up.  :-)
>Doris

	to which ggs replies

>Well we know for sure that:
>.... neal's is September 25                    [#42]
>.... -ggs' is September 13                     [#55?]
>.... Colonel Sanders' is September 9           [#102]
>.... -ggs' tc/sw's is June 3                   [#unreported]

	And we also heard about Rod (September 15, #43?), Bernard (April 15, #?
	in dog-years), and Doris's husband (sharing mine, #unreported).

	Is it time to place a birthday list in WORDS-L's FTP area?

	Oh, the mysterious other birthday that helped prompt this thread is
	none other than //anne// (September 16).  The number?  Well, she will
	still be trustworthy for another year or two.

[what was Abbie Hoffman's birthday?]
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:58:32 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Review
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>after passing all of those messages along, the question may be
>whether he'll keep *me* ...
>
>Elaine

Grant:

Keep Elaine. She's a jewel!

judith
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:35:00 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Re[2]: RICHH: PLOOK!
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> No no no no no no no no no no noooooooo

Not to worry, Bayla.  I'll make sure the usenet connection doesn't get
zapped.
                        o/.\____/
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:40:06 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: New
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>>I'm fairly new to this list and would like to know if this is a any topic
>>discussion list?
>
>We never discuss *topic*, but everything else seems to be OK.
>
>Don, trying, probably unsuccessfully, to beat abh to the punch

Success already, Don. I *WAS* going to say, before Don so rudely interrupted me
 :-),
that the topic is whatever we want to discuss. But what that is, is in constant
 flux.
Clear?

-abh
turning up the stove because she smells fresh meat
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:47:25 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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Posted on 4 Sep 1992 at 22:09:43 by Graham Toal
>Exactly.  Actually, I'd rather assumed *everyone* pronounced it that way.
>I should have know better with the range of extreme local accents in
>this group!

Hmmmmmmm...I definitely have the stop in there, though I can make it
without and it still sounds okay.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:36:20 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Family Tree
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> doris, dear, get out your reading glasses.  Natalie is my *aunt*...
> *bayla* is *our* mother... the mother of us all what with the way
> she is always trying to make peace every time you get in a spat
> with someone....   but, it just would not *do* to have an *aunt*
> who is a *sister*, even though, in my <real> reality, as you all
> recall, I *did* have an <Aunt Sister>....
> --ggs

OK, through the tears I looked again, and it *still* looked to me as if
poor ts has *four* wives and somehow the babies got mixed up so they all
claimed us.  But if you say so, I can live with Beneficent Bayla as my
mother and Rita, Natalie, and love judith as my aunts.  I *do* wish I
could find some help for this trick knee, though.
Sis
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:49:14 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Toot Toot Tootsie, Good Guess (Was Re: Rhubarb Pie
              4 Sep 1992 12:47:48 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:47:48 MST Dan Lester said:
>On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 03:36:19 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>>btw- how many licks does it get to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie
>>Pop?
>In either case it depends on the angle, moistness, and firmness of the
>tongue doing the licking.....
>dan the tongue
Gentleones,
   *ROOOOOONG*  Trick question.  Correct answer is "1 to n, *depending on
the starting point*, where n is the maximum number possible to arrive at
the center of a virgin Tootsie Pop".  Confirmation, Tushar?
Peace,
Elwood P. (on a roll today, but not a Tootsie) Dowd
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Date:         Mon, 7 Sep 1992 11:43:05 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Labour Days
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Why are Canadian Labour Day and American Labor Day the same day?
Chance, or Divine Plan?

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:19:23 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: College choice

>> I thought that great class sizes are considered bad.
>
>I'm not sure if this is more of your wonderful subtle humor or not.


Aack, damned and humiliated, finally. Must go to sleep now.

tushar :-)
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:21:05 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      For WHo's Sake?

Good morning!

I expect most of you have heard the expression "For Pete's Sake!"....I was
wondering why Pete?  Why not Frank?  and why let George do it?  Why not
"for Frank's sake, let Bill do it!".  Or, better yet why not Sue?  Yes!
"For Sue's sake!"  Then people using that expression would be known as
"Sues sayers".

Don, who is up much to early and not awake yet

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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> >In the con<text> of this dual analogy, I want to know which one is
> >Dickens and which is Bernard Shaw?  I want to be Dickens...  I *want*
> >to be *Dickens*....
> >--ggs
>
> You will be, Giggles, you will be.
>
> -Mka

Thanking you for that vote of confidence, I can only say that today
is the best of times.... it is the worst of times.
--ggs
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