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From: tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Subject: Re: Mama Judith
Date: 3 Oct 92 00:48:26 GMT
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>                            I guess if you can't take pride in your own
>accomplishments, it certainly is satisfying to point out others foibles.
>
>Chris

Very very well spoken, Chris. Truly profound. And it sounds so much like
Reader's Digest, too, which is cool.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:47:53 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject: Re: ggs provides the opening...
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              Sep 30, 92 3:24 pm

	I think we should have chosen your method!  Congrats to
both of you!



> P.S.  I really do want to know - when will "my husband" seem like a
>       natural thing to say?


	Let me know when you find out!

Rita R.
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: garbage and bathrobes
Date: 26 Sep 1992 04:50:54 GMT
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In a previous article, ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM () says:

>>I wear shorts and tshirt.   If it is really cold or snowy I put on sneakers,
>>untied.
>Ungawa!  Dan big tough simba!
With thing for pneumonia!
>Shorts and a t-shirt in the middle of an Idaho winter??  You're either
>gonna die at once or live to be 165 like those peasants in the
>Caucasus....
More likely the latter - only the good die young.<grin>  Most of us are going
to live to be 100.....

>I own two bathrobes.  My 14 year old wears one and the other one (the
>robe, not the other kid) just hangs on a hook.  I don't even wear it
>when we have company.  Old jeans...cutaways in the summer so the
>neighbor ladies can admire my legs.:-)  But the big furry slippers
>ruin the effect....

Now I *know* someone's seen Real Genius once too often!  If you tell me 
those are fuzzy bunny slippers......<sigh>
Around here us crazy New Englanders put the garbage out the night before, and
only once a week.  My dad usually gets that duty, but whoever does it is
usually in street clothes.  No underwear sightings here.<grin>  

>
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From: jwagner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Judith O Wagner)
Subject: Re: Women *know* these things ...
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:04:44 GMT

In article <18=p90a@lynx.unm.edu> maya@carina.unm.edu () writes:
>>>Women *know* these things.
>>>
>>>abh
>>
>> would a woman say to another woman, "women *know* these things?"  I
>>think not
>>
>>-Mka
>
>    Not surprising, since if women actually know these things,
>presumably they know that they know them, and therefore they don't
>need to tell one another that fact.  And if you wonder how  a woman might
>know that she knows something by virtue of being a woman (as opposed
>to the knowledge she has to which her femininity is only
><incidental>), I would have to assure you that women *know* these things.
>
>-maya

I knew that.

2Judith who used to bring in the clothes and still fixes dinner
        and puts away the dishes
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:40:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Bush Bashing

>White House Salaries 1991

>Gary Foster, dep. press. sec.  $85,000
>Alixe Glen, dep. press. sec.   $60,000

>Steve Hart, asst. to the Pres. $115,300
>Judy Smith, asst. to the Pres.  $70,000.

Hmmm, there's a way to cut government costs.  Fire all the men and
hire women at the lower salaries.

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:36:02 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Interesting Word
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              30 Sep 1992 12:38:43 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:38:43 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>When I get home tonight, I plan to make Bernard write out the definition
>of "semaphore" twenty times before he gets his Mighty Dog.

Is he rightpawed or leftpawed?  Does he use a flair pen, a ballpoint, a
pencil, or a genuine fountain pen?

curious minds wanna know.....

dan
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Date: 6 Oct 1992 04:29:49 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>just what i was gonna ask....my mind is blank.....WHO did the
>Joshua Judges Ruth album???`
>
Lyle Lovett - it's worth trading for, if you like eclectic records that
get thrown into country bins for lack of  a better pigeon hole.  The same
thing happens to Foster and LLoyd, a technically country duo who know how
to put the hammer down.

Ruth
<bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down......>


>
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Sunrise, sunset...
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The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU> writeth (oops, sorry) writes:

>     Sorry, misjudged the pedantric level requested.  I will try to do
>better next time.

Bob,

Tsk! Tsk! Me, PEDANTIC?...... Never!

Carolyn
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From:         IDISAVINOH%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
Subject: Re: loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Country:

Sounds good to me!  I'm sorry I can't go party with you tomorrow but I have
too much to do.  You know how it is.  Yes you are not an English major thank
God.  Don't forget who gets who through Accounting. Later "G"

              Howie-D
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 07:35:51 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Gleanings (61)

*** Resending note of 09/28/92 07:00

>9) "Your mother wears combat boots"

>   This expression is a mock insult playing on the deeply imbedded
>   folk taboo against insulting someone's <male only?> mother.  The

I recall that saying, from ancient days, like this:

  "Your mother wears combat boots ....and chases after troop trains!"

Don, who hasn't been gleaned in years.......
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 20:38:05 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Mama Judith

Rashmi says:

>Obviously, some people on the list thought it was a joke and others
>didn't.  Why didn't the latter speak up before?

My voting was a way of speaking up that I was indifferent. Why THEY
didn't speak up ... maybe they wanted to be nice.


>Did people read Tushar's long post couple of weeks back where he said he
>didn't mean it when he swore or said "Shut up, bozo"?  About the list being
>an outlet, and very different from everyday interactions.

Wow, me getting a plug and all. Thanks! As you see, I do have a certain
firm set of axioms about how to behave on the list, and anything I do here,
I claim, can be referred back to it. There have been some postings which
have shown remarkable inconsistencies about the poster's perception of the
list and their role in it. All I would like to say is that list is important
enough to think out these things first. Just like "real life".


>Couldn't stay away, Anne!

Staying away isn't necessarily the best thing to do.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:32:44 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Interesting Word

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:30:00 CDT LARA said:
>>Rita
>>Who's been renting Monty Python videos
>
>Hmmmm. Is this a fellow Monty Python fan in the midst of these words-lers?

There's a number of us here.  I'm glad to see another one on the list!
>
>lara
>the newest newbie, who kowtows to no one, thank you

Evelyn
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From: hillnr@hamlet.uncg.edu (Norman Hill)
Subject: Ahhh... the memories!
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 12:49:30 GMT

 tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
|>
|> I remember you perfectly well, Norman. You have been around
|> at least since what I fondly call the Virupaksha days.
|> 
|> tushar

Ahh, I remember those days - that was back when I could still manage to
read every posting and not just follow selected threads.  I know I am missing
some posts now that I would probably enjoy but the volume is just too great.

  *sigh*


   [ Norman drifts off in reveries of long gone days...]


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 are required to set up in the grumbling business."   -Robert West
From: N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith)
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Subject: Ode to Judith
Date: 3 Oct 92 21:43:00 GMT
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We pass the nights and endless days
In hot pursuit of bits of praise,
And fill our cups up to the brim
With sweet retorts and insults grim;
We play our hands
And pig our bands,
But all for naught:
We still are caught
Like actors thrust on stage by chance
Sans lines, sans shoes, sans shirt, sans pants.
We speak of words and langue, parole
But still we find we have no soul.
Amid these semes, these morphs, morphemes
Sans thee we're but displaced orphemes.
................
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:27:00 JST
From:         Akio Tanaka <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gleanings (62)

Torkel wrote (28 Sep 92):

tf]  Anyway, my question is the following. Is it even possible to make the
tf] blunt statement "From now on, I will only write in very peculiar
tf] Japanese, although I won't be writing much, since I have a poor
tf] Japanese vocabulary" in natural Japanese, and if so, how?

tf]   Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.
-------------------------------
Torkel,

But, what you meant was simply: "Excuse my meagre Japanese, but...",
right?  So, it is not blunt at all, even when it is translated in
Japanese.  I thought you were being modest, instead.  Weren't you?
Anyway, that's the impression I got.  As a matter of fact, your
Japanese is not bad at all.

Therefore, I don't understand why Karen said the following (28 Sep 92):

kk] Hmm...I must be a strict teacher. I would have given him a C+. I thought
kk] his style was close to being offensively direct, and for that I wouldn't
kk] give it above a C. (But I give it an A for Bravery!)

Anyways, let's change the subject. :-)

Natalie wrote (28 Sep 92):

nm] The disk arrived today.  (Actually, it arrived at the p.o. Saturday, but
nm] I didn't check mail until after it closed Saturday and thus didn't get it
nm] until today.)  IT WORKS!  It's perfectly readable.  And I'm delighted to
nm] have the copy of the early list logs.
-----------------------------------------
Maynor-sensei,

Oh, I'm <<<so>>> <glad> to hear it.  Now my life is <complete> and I can die
<content>.  (pressing hands together in prayer in futon . . .)

But, before I do that, Gleanings (62) :-)  Sumimasen. (making a deep bow...)

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From:         "(Peter Flynn)" <pflynn@CURIA.UCC.IE>
Subject:      Re: Shell Suits
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Rita asks:

>> ///Peter
>
>       Are you related to //anne// in any way?
>

Anne between the railroad tracks? Nope, I don't think so :-)

///Peter
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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>They do feel themselves again, thanks - amazing what a few hours of sleep will
>do (with emphasis on "a few")...

Yeah... I guess I'll have to start thinking about getting some of that in a
few hours too.

>too bad they wil be tied up most of
>the day with things others than my own work, until late in the day -
>by which time it may well be the same old story. Harrrrrgh.

I don't suppose it will make you feel any better to know that I will be in
the 'land of nod' while you are busying yourself today, will it?

>Well, I never! For whom did you work (if you haven't been sworn to
>secrecy on that account?)

Unfortunately it wasn't anywhere more exciting than for the New South Wales
Police Force..... as the youngest, most attractive (ahem!) police constable
attached to the Plain Clothes division.... the detectives often requested me
for surveillance jobs.

>What's the name of the Australian secret
>service? (It MUST have one - you know - all those subversive green
>peace types coming on shore..)

ASIO... I never worked for them though.

>And what did you *do* - and where?

Just 'mundane' stuff for the Vice and Drug Squads.... I did get one weekend
away at a beachside resort on the trail of an escapee - that was fun -
especially when they picked him up 100 miles away on the Sunday night. :-)
Well... I just went where they told me to, it wasn't my fault that their
information was wrong.... I came back to work with a lovely tan, so I felt
it was worth it..... getting paid to enjoy yourself was not bad either.

>(Who has to take her synapses off to work and other trying places now, but
>she'll be back and hopes to hear/find tales of intrigue and myyyyysterrrrryy.)

Sorry to disappoint you.... not much intriguing or mysterious happened to me
.... I did have a lot of funny experiences though.... like getting locked in
a gaol cell with all the other 'girls' when the police sergeant refused to
believe that I was the 'arresting officer'.

Carolyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 26 Sep 1992 05:17:17 GMT
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In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>> That chocolate wouldn't live long enough to get from Texas to CT.:-)  Heck,
>> it would never leave the post office; the employees have a fudge detector
>> set up, and they confiscate all things of a chocolate nature......
>>
>But the fudge Graham swears by is not chocolate, nor is it like *our* fudge.

This I have got to eat!  

Ruth
who just thought of poor Sir Don of the Barf Bars, and pitied him.;-}

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*** Resending note of 10/02/92 13:00

>the problem back to when it was decided how "nice" we all were -- what
>an icky word!).

>Rita

I was also disappointed!  I thought sure I would be voted top "ick"!

Don, ickiest JM on WORDS-L! :-)  :-)   :-)
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:40:43 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Blinking Lights

On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:35:00 PDT Emily Horning said:
>
>Yes - on 60 Minutes, wasn't it? I haven't heard of any states moving to get rid
>of these radar units, or even to investigate the issue more. I suppose that
>shouldn't surprise me, though...
>
>Emily <ecz5ejh@oac.mvs.ucla.edu>

60 Minutes:  that was it!

I haven't heard of states getting rid of their radar units, but I have
heard of various communities that were.

Evelyn
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From:         "(Joan Boorstein)" <boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question about MS-Word in PC and MAC
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Natalie writes:
>I think he was looking for WORD-PC@HVRFORD.BITNET or WORD-MAC@HVRFORD.BITNET.
>(They're 'mailserv' rather than 'listserv' lists.)  WORDS-L is still the best
>list for *all* questions tho.

I agree that he really wanted a different 'word' group.  But if the poster
from Taiwan is still reading, he should be aware that Haverford
is no longer a bitnet node but only on the internet -- found this out when
mail bounced -- all was well when I replaced 'hvrford.bitnet' with
'acc.haverford.edu'; with thanks to whois.

Joan (boorstein%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu)
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Subject: Re: loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Marty,  I'm sure that you would need a picture book or otherwise you wouldn't
understand anything being said.  I tell you what, if you are ever in the area,
stop in and I will be happy to give you a book right up your ass.

"You may be whatever you resolve to be." (Stonewall Jackson)

Marty, did you actually choose to be a loser?

                             Love, Country
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Subject:      Re: Induction (was Mensa)
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              06 Oct 92 16:09:00 -0400. <9210062014.AA23315@sics.se>

  >Now I will be driving myself crazy all night!  The guy in the movie is
  >Steve McQueen.  It was filmed mostly in Boston.  Fay Dunaway plays an
  >insurance investigator and McQueen is a master thief.  He is planning
  >a big job, she knows it but can't prove it.  He knows she knows, etc.
  >Evelyn, HELP.  I bet you know.  The theme song was sung by Noel Harrison
  >and was called something like 'The Circles in Your Mind'.

 "Noel Harrison"? What I definitely remember is the name of the theme
song: Windmills of Your Mind. Also, I recall the title of the movie in
Swedish: "The Adventurer Thomas Crown". But the English title escapes me.
The movie was a big hit here; I saw it at the time. Ah well.
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From:         Bernard Chien Perro <BERNARD@ENGLISH.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Interesting Word
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I was just roaming around the various Novell settings on lab file-
server (don't tell Natalie that I have supervisor status on it -- I'm
not sure she realizes that) and stumbled upon an interesting word:
semaphores.  Am gonna look it up soon.  I hit <enter> to see what the
semaphores screen said, but it said nothing.  The word sounds kind of
nasty to me.

Thanks for the much-needed reassurance, Clint!  I may be small of
body, but I'm big of mind.  And Natalie buys me the "for large dogs"
kind of dog biscuits.

             o/.\_____/   (bernard@english.msstate.edu)
              \ ______|
               /\   /\
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From:         harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Travel to Las Vegas
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If I were to go to Las Vegas in December, would there be any Wordslers who
might want to join me there? Warning: the answers I receive may influence
whether I attend a major computer con.

-abh
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From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Funny at Princeton

Subj:   Weird News from Princeton U.

46 Years Later, Princeton bites some pride...

                        New of the Weird
                     Funny Times: Oct. 1992

Princeton University finally granted Milton Babbitt's doctoral
degree in mathematics in January -- 46 years after it rejected his
dissertation (on the mathematics of the 12-tone musical system of
modern composers).  The university recently concluded that, at the
time, Babbitt's work was so advanced that no one at Princeton
understood it.  In the ensuing 46 years, Babbitt won a Pulitzer
Prize and Developed the first electronic synthesizer.

Editors Note:  You think after about 400 years, the Catholic Church
              could forgive Galileo for saying the earth was round!
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Subject: Re: Border Grill lowdown
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>declaration of war against mgarber

What's this all about? I didn't just *not* show. I wrote you each a
note explaining what happened..I have not yet taken off...Why are y'all
so unkind and so ready to presume the worst.
Marilyn
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