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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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              at Jan 27, 93 6:01 am

Looks like I'll have to sit this one out. :-(   My parents will be visiting
this summer and it would be awfully tacky of me to take off on a vacation
while they're here, I think.  The only way that I *might* be able to make
it is if it's held in Toronto.  We'll be going there anyway and I might be
able to work in Bake'93 into the schedule.

So, if you're weighting the votes, give mine the lowest possible.

> _NC_ Boone, NC
> _NC_ Elsewhere in NC
> _No_ Edinburg, TX
> _No_ Galway, Ireland
> _No_ Elsewhere in Ireland
> _NC_ Portland
> _No_ Starkville, MS
> _1__ Toronto

> Comments: _______See above_______________________________________

-rashmi
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:41:21 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Maya's poem
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1993, JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS wrote:

> John, who has wasted many hours searching indexes for things that now
> never happened...

I see my prayers have been answered.

-abh
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From:         BiSpecies List <BISPECI-L@HUMCAN.DIWAD.EDU>
Subject:      Yes
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> Is there a BISPECI-L I wonder ?

But of course!  If you know the special pawshake, you too can join us
here on BISPECI-L.
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 06:28:28 -0600
From:         Bandwidth Pig <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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Ha! You *weaklings* have the audacity to suggest that North Carolina is
HUMID or HOT in the summer! Bwa-hahahahahahahah!

Overruled...

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:12:25 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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>I politely, but coldly, remind them that my eyes are <blue>,

Nonsense, they are grey. Who are you trying to con?

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:00:04 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Round 4
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On Sat, 23 Jan 1993, Rashmi wrote:

> can go on forever if you wish.)  It's been an age since I last played TP and
> I've forgotten how it ends.

Murder/suicide, Rashmi. Never fails.

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:12:27 CST
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>yes you are yes you are yes you are yes you are yes you are yes you are
>The above is a *true* statement.

Smith, I am replying to you just once to tell you something fundamental.
It's because of such inane babble that no one follows up to your posts,
and then you begin find everything boring.

tushar
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Subject: Re: My Birthday is in April

> > Most certainly. But tell me, why April 15? I mean, is it as if some
> > advertisement appeared in the papers on April 15? I have often thought
> > about this April 15 business. The other question which has bugged me
>
> I don't understand the question.  Isn't April 15 as good a birthday as
> any other date?  Natalie figured out from all evidence she could piece
> together that I was born mid April 1982.  Since it's awkward to say "My
> birthday is mid April," she declared it April 15.  Part of the reason for
> her choice of that date was that it was the birthday of the late Rusty,
> a dachshund born in the early '50s.

I'd guess Natalie figured your birthday as April 15 because that the
US's supreme anti-holiday, Tax Day.  That way, as she mailed her tax
return, she could give new meanings to her muttered "This whole damned
country's going to the dogs."

Ken
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:11:14 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Political Correctness Bullshot
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Well said, giggles.  We're thinking about ordering "athletic" gray
t-shirts because we happen to like the color, not because they're FC,
right?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:25:13 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Interesting Sociolinguistic Tidbit
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The express in !Kung (of Botswana) that means "big genitals" is used as
an insult.  "If there were a !Kung equivalent of 'wienie' it would be a
compliment, since small-to-moderate penis size is valued (Shostak 1983)."
From Deborah Cameron, "Naming of Parts: Gender, Culture, and Terms for
the Penis Among American College Students," -American Speech- 67.4 [current
issue], 367-382.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:34:00 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: In Ecstacy
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              93 11:29 am

>         >I assume you're speaking figgeratively?
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                                   !!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>         Call yourself a prof...
>
> I think that one was meant facetiously - it was the 'genieuses' three lines
> down that worried *me*...

Montgomery being taken in by an obvious tusharism isn't surprising,
but, Graham falling for it leaves me speechless.  You're losing all
objectivity when it comes to Peter's posts, Graham.

-rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:33:03 +1100
From:         LNCJB%WOMBAT.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: Happy Australia Day!
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>By my reckoning, it is now a bit past midnight in New South Wales.  So
>here's to a rousing holiday for C.J. when she awakes to celebrate the
>landing of Capt. Phillip in Botany Bay!
>
>brad

Thanks for the thought, but I didn't do any celebrating nor was it a holiday
for me..... I still have a 6 year old at home with me and everyone else
left us 'home alone' to go and celebrate in their own way. In fact, I didn't
even realise it was Australia Day until I saw your message. I'm afraid I'm
not 'real big' on national pride. :-)

Carolyn
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question for Torkel
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              22 Jan 1993 13:55:46 EST from <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:55:46 EST Judith E. Schrier said:
>>Einar Haugen is a wonderful linguist!  But I thought he was dead.
>
>If so, that would certainly explain why he didn't answer Trygg's
>letter...

Not necessarily!  L. Ron Hubbard has been dead for years, and new books
by him are STILL coming out. ;)

>
>love, judith

Evelyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Maya's poem
Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:14:41 GMT
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In a previous article, ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) says:

> G> Yes, you've gone way over the usual time limit for this sort of stuff.
> G> There's nothing clever or impressive in knowing something obscure that
> G> you just happen to have to hand.  Time to tell us or forget about it...
>
>They Might Be Giants, "Mammal".  From _Apollo 18_.
>--
Where's the potatoman when we need him?  I recognize the name, but Dan's
the only one who might recognize the lyric....  Unless there's another
alternative rock junkie in here somewhere?
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:40:55 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Maya's poem

Karsten raises a thorny textual issue:  What happened to the Eskimo (or
for that matter, the Arab) in three versions we saw here of "On the Pulse
of the Morning"?

AP and Mike Godwin give the line as

   You, the Turk, the Arab, the Swede, the German, the Eskimo, the Scot ...

while Doris, Entropy, and abh render it identically as

   You, the Turk, the Swede, the German, the Scot ...

What's going on here?

brad
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From: renzland@gov.on.ca (Peter Renzland)
Subject: Re: Where were you 15 years ago today?
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:17:44 GMT


>Does anyone remember the Big Blizzard of 1978?

My friend Jaqueline Damboise had her booklaunching party at Robarts Library.
(My car was encased in a thick mantle of ice after the party.)
At the party I met a carpenter (Steve? Dave?) who was leaving for Zihuatenero,
Mexico the following day, for the remainder of the winter.  I asked him for
his address just in case I might drop in on him.  I had never been to Mexico
but the blizzard made it sound awfully good.  Two weeks later I knocked
on his door ...  

I ended up staying at little cottage in the same garden where he was living.
I really enjoyed getting up in the morning and picking a ripe papaya and a
lime off their trees for breakfast.  And then there were the five beaches.
And Olivia!  

-- 
Peter Renzland <renzland@gov.on.ca> Ontario Ministry of Health +1 416 327-7741
In real life:  <peter@renzland.org>   "Je danse donc je suis"  +1 416 323-1300
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From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: Political Correctness Bullshot
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:34:59 GMT

	Hurray!  ggs just expressed the same feeling I've had ever since I
came back here, and he expressed it better than I could have.

Tom Lee
who doesn't want people to think the way he does; nay, he wouldn't wish that
on his worst enemy
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Inauguration
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Posted on 20 Jan 1993 at 23:00:24 by Anne Burton Harwell
>I am so sick of all the hoo-haw and assorted goings on that I could just
><puke>.

So don't watch it! It's just your sick fascination....

Karen
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:08:42 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Dino doo doo - not to be confused with cloo doo
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From: PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Upon reading "The dinosaur, who left dry tokens" The first word
> that plopped into my head was "coprolites"  They're quite the
> rage at fossil shows.
>                                                 Br Paul
Actually 'dry tokens' reminds me of the fare needed to get on
the Toronto subway.

Peter
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:48:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: INAUGyewRATION
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> I've always said in-aug-yew-ra-shun, and I don't have time to worry about
> whether I'm being PC or not, so I don't know (or care) if this prononciation
> is.
>
> > I know what I say, but I have noticed some <respectable>
> > folks are pronouncing it in a really weird way.
>
> How do you pronounce it, Gilbert?
>
> Emily

I'm with you, Emily.  I am happy to hear that you talk right.
--ggs
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:34:49 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Levitating the Pentagon
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> >Surely a translation table will be posted well in advance.
>         GMT = EST + 5 hours.
>         And don't call me Shirley!

I think Bayla was asking for something more detailed than that -- like
a full chart for times at all locations to correspond with the designated
moment of our global ummmmmmmmm.  Sort of like those watches for the
arithmetically impaired.  After all, Bayla's PhD is in the history of
science and technology.  How can she be expected to know about things
like the science of synchronic time?  ;-)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:47:03 -0500
From:         Enormes Rebajas <rita@WORLD.STD.COM>
Subject:      Hmm.
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Words-l is expensive when you're paying by the hour...

Rita Rouvalis
rita@world.std.com
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In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:

>> Tell me Peter, have you ever known a Brit to make sense, spellingwise?:-)
>> Me neither....
>In fact I deeply regret the British preoccupation with standardised
>spelling. Personally I think it has robbed English of an important
>dimension of its potential growth. Elizabethan English was far
>richer and more vytal.
>
It was certainely different, sir auncient....
>>
>> >Speaking of Greeks: What did Zeus say to Narcissus?
>> Is this another Flowers joke?
>No, it's genuinely mythological.
>
In that case, you have me.  My Greek mythology is a bit rusty....

-- 
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:13:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Political Correctness Bullshot
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>         fit in with the currently acceptable ideology.  So, what it
>         reveals is the ultra-conservative, reactionary mindset of the
>         pompous ass making the statement.
>
> Oh Giggles, I didn't know you <cared>.
>
> G

This is, definitely, a *paranoid* response.  Who would have ever
thought I was talking about grahamie-pahmie?  It never <entered>
my mind.
--ggs
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From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@FLARE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (76)
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>  5) Knute Rockne/Rocky Bleier/Stone Phillips/Pebbles Rubble/Chris Rock/
>     Rocky the Flying Squirrel/Kenesaw Mountain Landis/Rick Mount/
>     Rocky Nelson/Alex Rocco/Tom Shales/Horst Buchholz/Phil Silvers/
>     Rocky Raccoon (Neal)
        I don't know who all these references -- but since Neal is nomail
for a while, I'll do some of them.  All were mentioned because of references
to rocks (wasn't this the infamous St. Igneous College which came up when
I mentioned that Ignatius had been misspelled.
        Knute Rockne is a legendary football coach -- many years at Notre
Dame (??)
        Stone Phillips -- newscaster
        Pebbles Rubble -- character in Flintstones
        Alex Rocco, Horst Buchholz -- actors
        Phil Silvers -- comedian

>  7) To symlink (Sue V.)
        symbolic as opposed to hard link directories or files (on unix
systems, anyway)

> 10) John Hinckley (Evelyn)
        It was he who shot former U.S. President Ronald Reagan outside
a Washington D.C. hotel.

> 18) Parker Brothers/Clue (Joan)
        Parker Brothers is a U.S. company specializing in games, especially
board games.  Clue is one of their games -- although from recent conversation
we now know that it is not original with them.  They are primarily known
as the publishers of Monopoly.

Joan
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ben doesn't know I'm doing this....
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              "ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM" at Jan 28, 93 8:42 am

Richh had better watch out.  Ben Wolman appears set to challenge his
reputation as the Net's leading spinner of fantastic tales.  Give the
kid four-five years, usenet access - the mind boggles at the possibilities.

-rashmi
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From: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Subject: Re: INAUGyewRATION
Reply-To: tjl9@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Thomas J Lee)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41:23 GMT

gilbertsmith writes:

ggs>How many of you pc'ers say "in-aug-yew-ra-shun" and how many of you say
ggs>"in-aug-uh-ra-shun"?  Can someone tell me which is politically correct?
ggs>I know what I say, but I have noticed some <respectable> folks are
ggs>pronouncing it in a really weird way.

	I don't know politically correct from Graham, but I say
"in-aug-yer-ay-shun."  But then, I'm from the Midwest.  Kind of.

Tom Lee
Born in Iowa, but some say the Midwest ends at the Mississippi River
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From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (76
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>> Are the following sentences exactly the same in meaning?
>> If not, how different are they from each other?
>> 1) How much do you spend a week?
>> 2) How much do you spend per week?
>> 3) How much do you spend in a week?
>> 4) How much a week do you spend?
>> 5) How much do you spend every week?
>> 6) How much do you spend each week?
>
>To me they are all the same.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

To me, they all *mean* the same, but number 4 sounds
awkward, and unlikely to be used by that mythical
"native speaker" (e.g., me).

love, judith
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: Levitating the Pentagon

>Surely a translation table will be posted well in advance.
>  --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

        GMT = EST + 5 hours.
        And don't call me Shirley!

JMW
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:53:46 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Science/Nature Question

>  This reminds me of a gratuitous piece of information I picked up in Darwin.
>There is this sea creature known as...the stone fish? Something having to
>do with stones, anyway, because it looks deceptively like a stone. Only, when
>you step on it, it hurts. In fact to such an extent that the first thing
>to do, according to the horrifying plaque, when somebody has stepped on
>one of these things is to prevent that person from taking his or her life
>(by drowning or otherwise), because that is what people tend to do in order
>to escape the pain. I quickly resolved not to dip as much as a toe into
>the waters of Northern Australia.

   But you're not safe even if you avoid the ocean!  How about those
   nasty cane toads (Bufo marinus) that were imported to control insects
   and are about to take over Queensland and NSW?  Indestructible,
   apparently.  You squash one, and it swallows its own intestines and
   goes on its rapacious way.

   brad
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:22:34 CST
From:         Gerald Walton <VCGW%UMSVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Library Automation

We at the University of Mississippi are probably going to make some
changes in the company which provides library automation hardware and/or
software. I'd appreciate any recommendations you folks have about
companies to use and things to look for or things to avoid. (Natalie
and Frank, I understand that folks at State have added an Innovative
Interface package to the original CSLI items. Are you pleased with
the results?) Many thanks, GWW
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From:         Bandwidth Pig <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tshirt colors
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I said, Beefy-T or equivalent. I never meant to establish an <irrevokable
relationship> with Haynes. Just that level of quality or higher.

-abh

Is this the most <boring> list on the net lately or what?
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Subject: Re: Another Wimpy NoMailer
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:28:16 GMT

"Don Moore974-4078 S/C 574-4078" (813974-4078 S/C 574-4078") writes:
> In an attempt to get wife a little interested in this whiz-bang PC, showed
> her how to play one of those mind games where if you avoid arrows, falling
> rocks, etc., while trying to collect items, you pass on to the next level.
> ...She is now at level 10 .. with 15 more to go!

I guess Don's lucky he has set NOMAIL.  He wouldn't want to find out that
there are at least 60 levels for this game available by FTP.

--karsten
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