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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 10:41:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Yay! (Was profuse apology)

> love, judith, who doesn't, either

Yay!  Mama P is back!

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Respite from the Kiddies
Date: 8 Oct 1992 04:19:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU () says:

>HEY!  The "VMIers"  aren't "unsubbed"  just quiet.  We'll keep it that way
>unless someone out there has something that they want to discuss with us.
>Feel free no matter how much you hate us.
>
We don't hate you, cher Country; undergrads aren't worth the effort.
A lot of us just think the VMIers are a group of overgrown 12 year-olds, or
at least that's how you were acting.  Grow up a bit and we might even notice
that you're human.

Ruth
[howwzat, BWP?]
finally getting in on this

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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with the Post Office
Date: 8 Oct 1992 04:12:07 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("") says:

>I haven't been following the p.o. discussion, but I'll jump in to say that
>I choose p.o. over UPS any time I'm given a choice.  Among other reasons,
>I'm not crazy about finding things like a new computer tossed in my carport
>inviting thieves.

So would I, which is not to say that the SNail doesn't screw up royally
sometimes.  We have a rather large mailbox, so most boxes fit inside.  The 
hours at the local office are rather forgiving too, and some of the staff
know me by name.  It's also one of the cheaper ways to send relatively small
packages.  You can get anything up to 2lbs sent in two days for $2.90 anywhere
in all 50 states.  I don't know about dependencies and APO/FPO.   The
rates for up to four or five pounds are still reasonable, and it's faster 
than UPS ever gets.  Way cheaper than FedEx too, and you can do it from any
town in the US.  
That's not to say I don't think the [relatively] new rates are idiotic, but
they still beat the alternatives.

>
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 13:39:00 EDT
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Clinton's letter and stuff
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> On Sat, 10 Oct 1992, gilbertsmith wrote:
>
> > I really liked "brass plated butt plug".... that's very inventive.
> > Nice metaphor.  :-)
>
> Metaphor, my foot! What, don't you have one too?
>
> -abh

*Some* questions are just too  intimate, too personal, too....
Well, I *never*....!
--ggs
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Subject: Re: Clinton and, well, you know
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:52:05 GMT
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----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Those rumors are about as true as Elvis being a vampire. :)
Evelyn
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Shucks, I thought that was why all the sightings happened at night!

JAG
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 12:50:00 EDT
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMINJ 5
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> Say, you couldn't rpost 1-4 now I'm no longer deleting you unread,
> could you?
>
Why, I am *so* flattered.... so overwhelmed....  I just respond so
well to fan mail...  I will just be *happy* to do so, right away.
.
> G
> PS On second thoughts, don't bother - if they're all as <gripping> as
> this one I probably don't care...

Uhhhh.... spoke too soon.  Just take it as my desperate attempt to
live up to my reputation as teller of dullest stories.  There *is*
an occasional redeeming feature.....  maybe.  It *does* get better
.... maybe....  One takes one's chances.
--ggs (deserving this negative criticism, having told the truth,
       for once....)
From: CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Subject: Re: Getting Gore Right.....
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:42:00 GMT
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Greetings, Jim,

"Careful readers"!!!!  Surely you jest.  This is word-l.  Besides, as
someone is sure to point out, this election is all about character.
Just because Gore didn't write explicitly that the US should shoulder the
burden doesn't mean that's not his secret intent.  Gore and Clinton
have "a problem telling the truth."  Thus, even though Gore didn't write
what Quayle claimed, Quayle had every right to accuse of it, because Gore
and Clinton are liars.

Marty
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:16:24 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Aha!
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I bet this file I just discovered (named Makefile) is related to the
problem:

:-) more Makefile
#
# Makefile for webster program
#
# David A. Curry
# Purdue University
# davy@ee.purdue.edu
# April, 1986
#

CFLAGS= -O -I../h $(DBX)
DESTDIR=

webster: webster.c ../h/webster.h
        $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o webster webster.c

install: webster
        install -c -s webster $(DESTDIR)/usr/local/bin

clean:
        rm -f webster core *.o
:-)
 SNAPSHOT      3 VT102    3 FDX 3 19200 N81 3 LOG CLOSED 3 PRINT OFF 3 ON-LINE
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From: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Scary but True [tm] 10/13/92
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:13:24 GMT

In article <199210131437.AA06589@eff.org> Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG> writes:
:Heard this morning on the radio:
:
:	Doctors have perfected a technique that will allow them to
:suck fat from the buttocks or thighs of a man and inject it into
:the penis, to make the organ larger.  Said one doctor critical of
:the procedure, "If something goes wrong, it isn't like the penis
:is readily replaceable!"

They showed it on TV here a month or two ago - it is literally just
squicking fat under the skin - make it thicker but not longer, and
apparently it feels pretty gross to anyone holding one - the fat
just squidges around.  I think I'll pass :-)

G
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 08:56:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Bits.

>   Even more so, would be the DEC decision (presumably his, ultimately)
>to market the Rainbow....I know, as I used to have one....paying 9 kilobucks
>in 1984 for one with a TEN mb hard disk, 640k, etc.....but they ran
>both MSDOS and CPM....Dec was unwilling to gamble on which way the market
>was going in the 1982-84, and there were a number of CPM machines around
>then....but they were wrong, and it had a DEC price, not a consumer price....
>so it never made it.  I bought mine cuz it was the campus standard, etc....
>A month after I bought they discontinued it...oh, well.....win a few, lose
>a bunch.....
>
>dan

I feel constrained to say a kind word about one of my best friends,
the DEC Rainbow.  Mine sits on the desk still plugging along a
little more than nine years after I bought it.  Still gets used
regularly, though it is no longer my main machine.  I can't believe
you paid 9K for it; I paid about $3500.  It had a number of
technically attractive features.  What it didn't have was IBM
compatibility, and that was where the market was going.  It had the
kind of modular construction that became common only years later.
It gave you 896K of usable RAM, not just 640K.  Its video display
was clearly superior to that of the IBM.  Keyboards are a matter of
taste, but I find the LK-201 on the Rainbow and other machines much
more desirable than the IBM keyboard.

On the other hand, I won't defend Ken Olsen.  He built a very
successful company, but he obviously was behind the curve when it
came to seeing where the small-computer market would go.  DEC never
had any commitment to the home market, and with the Rainbow
it didn't do a very good job of marketing what it had in any
channel.  Even now, when they have reentered the microcomputer
market in a big way, I don't believe home users are their first
priority.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:26:21 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Depression
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Yesterday was National Depression Screening Day.

Karen
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:32:00 JST
From:         Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gleanings (63)

(I)  I would appreciate it very much if anyone could answer the
following questions.

I'm using the video titled _Ordinary People_ (1980) in one of my
classes this semester.  The following is the excerpt from the
script which I transcribed.  CONRAD is talking to DR. BERGER, the
psychiatrist in his office.

The questions are:
1) What kind of TV program was _The Waltons_?
2) Who is "John-boy"?
3) What is the significance of "John-boy" in the script?
========================================================
......
DR. BERGER:  What now?
CONRAD:  "John-boy."
DR. BERGER:  Who?
CONRAD:  Do you know in _The Waltons_..."John-boy"?
DR. BERGER:  Yeah.  What about him?
CONRAD:  My father came into my room and he didn't know what do say.
This is...this is right after Buck died.  And he came over and he
sat on the bed right next to me, put his arm around my shoulder.
We just sat there.  I remember I was watching his shoe, and thinking
...and his shoe's turned over on its side now.  I was thinking he's
so uptight.  He's going to crack off.  I knew I should have felt
something.  I don't know what to feel.  I kept thinking what they
say on TV, you know.  Stuff like "Oh, no.  Oh, my god."  I didn't
say then, because I didn't feel sad.  So much as...
DR. BERGER:  So much as what?
CONRAD:  I don't know.  I kept thinking that "John-boy" would have
said something about the way he felt, you know.  Something.
DR. BERGER:  What would "John-boy" would have said?
CONRAD:  I don't know.
DR. BERGER:  Come on.  Come on.
CONRAD:  Come on what?
DR. BERGER:  Don't hold back.
=============================

(II)  Gleanings (63).  :-)

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=====================
 1) Eustace Tilley (Evelyn)
 2) Rose Computers (Dan)
 3) Claddagh ring (Anne Hy.)
 4) To be between the tracks (Anne Hy.)
 5) Chiles chipotle (Marty)
 6) TAFE college (Carolyn)
 7) "Sieg Heil, schmuck!" (Ken W.)
 8) Matthew Rothschild/Slick Willie (Steve K.)
 9) RBOCS (Rita)
10) UKTuG (Graham)
11) Al on Quantum Leap (Evelyn)
12) Bum rap/Jimmy Buffet (Anne Hy.)
13) NM/Hangar Eighteen (Dan)
14) Attends/Serenity (Dan)
15) Socialist Labor Party (Evelyn)
16) Obsidian (Bayla)
17) APO/FPO (Ruth H.)
18) Quailman dope (Dan)
19) RB (Michael M.)
20) NSW government/XPT train (Carolyn)
21) Livestock At Large (John Wm.)
22) "Sto lat!" (Brad G.)
23) Dan Rostenkwoski (John Wm.)
24) WSJ (Marty)
25) To kick one in the klarn (John Wm.)
26) National Depression Screening Day (Karen)
27) Prozac Paratrooper (Evelyn)
28) To fire Murphy/Robert H. Treller/Chebyshev Polynomials (Evelyn)
29) John Seymore/Bruce Herschenshon (Emily)
30) IPX Packet Voudou Doll (Anne Hr.)
31) FAA (Karen)
32) Solex (Graham)
33) CFWOWC (Gilbert)
34) Maltron keyboard (Karsten)
From: maya@carina.unm.edu
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Subject: 1085
Date: 12 Oct 92 15:07:37 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Well I'm rather disappointed.  After not reading my mail for five days, to
have only 1085 messages waiting for me...

Let's see ... at one a minute it would only take, umm, ..., about 18 hours.

-maya
From: EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
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Subject: Re: LATER
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:50:30 GMT
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Posted on 16 Oct 1992 at 16:54:45 by Judith E. Schrier
>(Not you, Wild Theresa, mother
>of the walking beauty...)

I love these phrases...I've been trying to think of something to say...
May I simply second these sentiments?  I hope you don't mind, Judith.
A walking beauty, indeed.

Karen
From: gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: I meant to ask this...
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:51:16 GMT
Organization: Current Science Tel: +44 71 323 0323 Fax: +44 71 580 1938
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1992 21:17:51 EST, "Karen Kay" <ll23@nemomus.bitnet> wrote:
> What is a "bully pulpit"?  Perot keeps using this...

Heinlein used it a lot too.  (One of his thirty or forty stock phrases
that turn up regularly, like 'always shoot your own dog, son' etc...)

I inferred from context that it was a metaphor likening someone's
position of authority to that of a hellfire-and-damnation preacher
who bullies his flock into Pure Ways with threats of hell rather
than bribes of heaven.

It's amazing the dreck you can infer from context in Heinlein's novels.
It never turns out to be the case.  (Remember 'gandy dancer', and how I
thought it was a pool hustler?)

G
From: tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Subject: RE: LATER
Date: 15 Oct 92 21:44:42 GMT
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>>No comment about what he said. But why the great urge
>>to refute it?
>
>A.  The wordslers' drive for perfection in all postings to the list.
>B.  We are all used to grading stupid students and can't break the habit.
>C.  We wanna be recognized for all the grey hairs we have....we earned 'em.
>D.  We haven't roasted a dumbass newbie in a while...and this one IS ripe
>       for roasting.
>
>dan

I just thought it was one of those WHO THE (HELL, FUCK, or HECK) CARES things.
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>isn't yet prepared for this kind of volume (and, being the sensitive,
>delicate creature she is, she would certainly be shocked and dismayed
>by the likes of NITEMAN, Country, and Howie-D, so I'm forced to shelter

How typically liberal of you ;-)

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 07:23:27 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Lob's Profuse Apology (was WWHWIGTV ?
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Judith!!!!  How are you?  How are your children?  How's your plumbing?
I'm fine, but either coming down with a cold or having the
usual autumn allergies.

Kids are fine. Marya is now assistant manager of a Crown (or is
it Royal?) Discount Bookstore in Vernon, CT. Grand Opening of the
store is next weekend. Evan took a class in whitewater rescue.

My plumbing is working fine, thank you. So is the plumbing in
my house.

>Karen
love, judith
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Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:39:00 CDT
From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      CCC---Cuayle's Caffeine Coniptions

Karen, advocating hard drugs, observes:

   >>Jim (Whatever Quayle was on, I want some) Thomas

   >I think 15 cups of coffee would do it.

Jeez, K, the thought of that kinda megadose is scary. It would turn
him into a quivering caffeine membrane--hmmmmmm.....now that you
mention it....member the days (of college) when taking mega-quantities
of no-doze was thought to be a "high?" ---

Jim (Just say "no" to the sugar) Thomas
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:59:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Amtrak quiz (was AUStrak)

    OK, now that we've got the Capitol Limited and the Cardinal straight,
    here come the tough questions:

    By what names was the Cardinal known before it became the
    Cardinal?  Why was it named the Cardinal?  What dubious distinction
    does it share with the Chicago-Louisville service?

    Steve Karlson

    Pardon me, boy, is that the Pennsylvania Station?
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Date:         Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:28:32 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (62)
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1992 15:57:54 BST Graham Toal said:
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:27:00 JST, "Akio Tanaka" <TANAKA@JPNSUT20.BITNET> wrote:
>> 16) Brett Coleman Kimberlin (Brad G.)
>
>I don't think this was answered?  Brett Kimberlin was a guy who had
>the <straight dope> on the US Veep.  He was locked up on some minor

   Yup...had live interview with him on Today Show this AM.
Said he sold the Quailman dope 18 times back in college days...
he IS a convicted perjurer, it was pointed out....but does sound like
he got screwed over....

   dan
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: This is for the rowdies out there . . .
Date: 7 Oct 92 11:13:09
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In-reply-to: Entropy Warrior's message of Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:14:28 EST

MKA shares:

			   New of the Weird
			Funny Times: Oct. 1992

   In Noblesville, Ind., Judge William Hughes agreed to move his
   courtroom one night in Jun to a van outside the Deer Creek Music
   Center so the expected rowdy fans arriving for a Grateful Dead
   concert could be processed immediately upon their arrest for drugs
   possession and other crimes, rather than having to wait overnight.
   "It's almost a courtesy to them," said the judge.

   Editors note:  I've heard of "Meals on Wheels" but
		  "Judge in a Box"????


   -Entropy Publishing

I've seen as many drugs at a Rolling Stone or Who concert (and fewer people
who know what their limits are) than I have at a Dead show, and drunker
idiots.  It will be a cold day in hell when they publish news of "Deadheads
Destroy Coliseum: Jerry Refused to Sing"--I challenge anybody to give me
proof that deadheads are worse than metalheads when it comes to destroying
property, drug possession (alcohol _is_ a drug), disorderly conduct.

We get a bum rap I tell you, a bum rap.

//anne, drugs?  can you say jimmy buffet concert?//
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Presidential politics
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:54:43 GMT
Organization: IWWW


Bush's foreign living wasn't "on his own" in the same sense or degree
as Clinton's -a student, even a Rhodes scholar, doesn't havve the same 
support system surrounding him as does a govt appointee/official.

--bayla
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 12:29:56 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WWHOMWTV - The follow up
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              11 Oct 1992 18:40:33 EDT from <EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Sun, 11 Oct 1992 18:40:33 EDT <EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU> said:
>>plan is to drive through to St. Louis on the first day so that I can
>                             ^^^^^^^^^
>Hey, I'm *only* 3 and 1/2 hours north!

And isn't even less of a detour if he heads north from somewhere further
west as he heads across i-70?  Like up 35 to six and then over, then
six back down towards Hannibal and StLouis?   Of course he IS talking
about hauling ass to StLouis....and six is hardly the road for that....

dan
From: gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Quayle vs. Clinton
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:18:02 GMT
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              "CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET" at Oct 15, 92 3:02 pm

> I agree with those who note Quayle's (the moron) mannerisms.  I must say,
> though, I got equally tired of Gore's incessant interjections ("I want to
> respond to this," over and over while Quayle was speaking).

That may not have been unconnected with Quayle's tactic of ignoring
Gore's last question and firing back a large number of unrelated
accusations of lying which Gore _could_ have dealt with one by one
but wouldn't have had time to make his own points if he did.  Quayle's
behaviour was downright boorish.

G
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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Subject: RE: The South
Date: 14 Oct 92 21:07:12 GMT
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T'is so
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:54:44 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: still a loser
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> I think, because, in the early days of my wordsler residence, it
> was always natalie who gave the final word on whatever question was
> under consideration, no one ever seemed to contradict her, and then

HUH???

> she jumped on me in a very authoritative way (but low-key) when I
> got out of line about aaron and then about doris' <wet> wit.

I don't remember that!  What did I say re Aaron and about Doris's <wet>
wit??

> How times have changed, and in such a short period of time.

What??  Don't I always give the final word??
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:27:23 EDT
From:         "(Rashmi)" <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mensa test
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>
> >Count among the "apochrypha" pages 236-37 of Dunham, _Journey Through
> >Genius_.  Gauss supposedly paired up numbers summing to 100 and had
> >50 left over.
>
> How can anyone pair up a hundred numbers and have anything left over?
>
> tushar

He started from 0 pairing (0, 100) (1, 99) ... (49, 51) and was left with 50,
leading to a sum of 50*(100+1), from there to sum(n) = n(n+1)/2.  (Apocryphal)

rashmi
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