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Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 15:43:49 EST
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From: CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Subject: Re: The Democrats and Me
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:08:00 GMT
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Greetings,

I believe the electors' actions are governed by state laws.  In all states
except two (one of them being Maine), they are required to cast their ballots
for the winner of the state's popular vote.  This little fact was repeated
far-too-many times during the election night coverage, owing to the
possibility that H. Ross might have picked up a vote in Maine's
northern regions.

Since state laws vary, I assume the actions of the electors could vary from
state to state in the event Clinton were to expire before they cast their
votes.

Marty
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 10:06:09 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Grungy city

*** Resending note of 11/05/92 08:06


>-bayla (it's too damn hot, here!)

Bayla, it will be interesting to hear your viewpoint in mid February when
it's *freezing* up North!  Florida weather is just fine with me...although
absolutely hate this new time!  ...it's too dark too soon.

Don, who never wants to spend a winter up North again!
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:56:38 EST
From:         "Tony @ Brownvm" <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: long weekend (1) -- the trip east
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Posted on 5 Nov 1992 at 00:09:22 by Blue eyes cryin' in the rain

>As we head back to the car after a midtrip rest stop, a woman approaches us.
>She's 50ish and looks a bit bohemian.  "Have you been having any troubles on
>the road?" she asks.  We start to say something about the gray, foggy, rainy
>weather, but she continues, "I heard noises while coming over the mountains.
>There was laughter in the back of my car, and whispering behind me."  We
>quickly find a reason to pull ourselves away from this apparition; while
>walking to the car we look back to see her talking earnestly with several
>other kind but soon bewildered souls.

On the plane from Toronto to Vancouver.  Barbara and I are sitting
together - next to me in the 3-section on the 767 is a woman with
a heavy Irish accent.  We chat; she has just arrived from Dublin
and has changed planes in Toronto and is going on to visit her
nephew in Vancouver.  We talk on and off for an hour or so, then:

Are they a big problem in Toronto ?

Excuse me ?

Do you have a lot of mosquitoes where you live ?

Uh, no - well not in the city certainly.  Of course if you go
out camping in the woods you'll find them, but - well it's not
something we think about a lot.

Yes - I thought so.  I can see them.

Sorry ?

They're in the air.  I can see them now.  They get in through the
air vents.

Mosquitoes ?  In the plane ?

Yes.  Many people can't see them, but I always can.  Even with my
eyes closed I can see them.  They're quite thick today.  You don't
see them ?

Uh, no.

They've been with me all the way from Dublin.  They're always with me.

 . . .

The plane is full.  We go back to chatting about her nephew.

Tony H.
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 19:48:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Grungy city
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> >I just got my country back from the <grungy> Republicans.
>
> Reminds me of the amazing statement that Chicago was not <grungy>
> enough. I thought and thought about it till I realized that Chicago
> was being equated to a bunch of blocks downtown and perhaps some
> more near the UChicago campus.
>
> In reality, Chicago also has a Southside.
> tushar

I know, I got lost on the L and ended up on the Southside once, but
I lived.  I was talking in this context about the *skyline*....
Nothing can equal driving into Philadelphia on I-95 from the south
and careening through all those tangles of old ironwork bridges,
speeding along on the worst interstate highway in the world.  It is
an exhilirating experience, seeing the skyline looming up on the left
while trying to avoid the potholes and enjoy the patterns of rusty
iron lace hovering overhead.  I consider it a <peak> moment in <one>'s
existence as a 20th century nomad.
Anyway, I am a skyline junkie.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:36:25 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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              9 Nov 1992 00:56:54 EST from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

On Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:56:54 EST <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU> said:
>All those beseeching "Where is my Words-L" messages some of us disconnected
>people sent yesterday and today:  are they truly gone, or will they come
>back to haunt us?
>
>brad

    Boo, Brad !
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Subject: Re: A Small Town Tale
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:10:49 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

In article <WORDS-L%92110415242854@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) writes:
>
>So, what's new in DeKalb Jim?  When I was there in 64-67, it was just
>the same.  Lived at corner of Lucinda and Normal in a house.  Of course
>the U now owns that and has some classroom building on it (NE corner).
<stuff deleted> 
>
>had a view of a cornfield to the west, about 30 feet away...with some
>concrete and dying sod in between.....
>

Yeh, DeKalb has changed. Peanut Barrel that was next to the tracks moved
and then closed, downtown has been upgraded, and it's growing as
folks from the suburbs find it's cheaper to live out here and commute and
as new firms come in. It's still "small," fairly friendly, and relatively
inexpensive (compared to the burbs), but "progress" is coming.
But, public transportation is good, the streets are plowed after a snow,
twice-a-week garbage pickup, stuff is fairly well maintained, the Pumpkin
Fest draws over 100,000 people in Oct and the Corn Fest is high-camp fun.
In all, a decent place to live, 'cause it's near a central transportation
hub and O'Hare/Midway are quick and easy. Steve and I both live in what I'd
call the best area of DeKalb w/in a few blocks of each other (he on prospect
and I closer to the heart of the "mixed" neighborhoods near Del Monte where
we have a range of drug dealers/low-lifed, professionals, and retirees--a
neat mix). Train still comes through the center of town and wipes out a few
people each year (one about two weeks ago on the most fatal corner--4th
and lincoln). If you get back this way, let us know and we'll give you the
grand tour. 
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:20:28 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Colorado
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> What is the other list, Natalie? Just curious.

SMOKE-FREE
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:04:25 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Clear the air
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Posted on 12 Nov 1992 at 23:29:36 by gilbertsmith
>Think how long it has been since we have talked about the family.
>All the things that have happened, and we forget the most important
>thing -- the *family*.....

Gilbert Graves!  Please!!  You are beginning to sound like GHW Bush.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 07:15:31 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Stuffed Bunny in Wreck
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Part of the caption under a picture of a car wreck in today's Starkville
paper says, "A large stuffed bunny was discovered in one of the vehicles --
safely strapped in by a seatbelt."  What I'm trying to figure out is whether
the main point is that people who have stuffed bunnies as passengers are
likely to have wrecks or stuffed bunnies who wear seatbelts don't get hurt
in wrecks.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Tony @ Brownvm)
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Date: 12 Nov 92 02:27:44 GMT
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Posted on 11 Nov 1992 at 17:19:08 by Graham Toal

>> 3) Date-rape is a product
>> of feminist propaganda, and
>
>She was saying the separate concept date-rape was redundant.  Either
>it's a rape or it isn't.  If it's a rape, even if it was on a date, then
>it's a rape full-stop.  From what I understood her to be saying, some
>people call it date-rape when a woman willingly has sex but in the
>morning decides she only did it because she was put under social
>pressure, and retroactively cries rape.  If I've misunderstood her,
>please correct me, but if that's what she was saying then I tend to agree.

Tee Hee (as G. himself might say).  This is a very nice summary of the
article that Bill Sjostrom posted about a year and a half ago.

Tony H.
(Who agrees with both)
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Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:35:49 EST
From:         Frank <ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wayward Pulpit
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>From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
>
[stuff about presence and absence of beards deleted]

>      Something about hitting 30, Frank?
>
Precisely.  Maybe I'm just precocious and decided to have my midlife
crisis ten years early or so.  Although the beard was gone before the
memorable birthday...

>                          the ever-scratchy b.c.

Frank, who is only scratchy in the mornings now.
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 23:59:15 CST
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Keeping you guessing ...

You DO turn up in the most unexpected places, don't you?
At least, the two most mysterious characters on the list
have met.

tushar
From: DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078)
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Subject: Re: 486dx time
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:02:13 GMT
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*** Resending note of 11/12/92 13:46

>includes fax capabilities and data compression.... The cheapest
>9,600 bps modems currently cost about $230 and 14,400 bps modems are
>$295 and up."

Gateway 2000 will sell you an internal 14.4 modem, with fax, and Winfax
software, for $195 ....when you buy one of their systems.
From: BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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Subject: Re: Mount Rainier
Date: 6 Nov 92 03:33:46 GMT
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              5 Nov 1992 21:30:14 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:30:14 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>And wasn't that the night you missed the return ferry because we stayed
>too long at the Blue Moon?

     Genau.  And I had a very long wait for the next ferry, but found
     a hospitable spot called The Owl and the Thistle.  The bartender
     looked exactly like Genevieve Bujold.  She had Rainier on tap,
     and another local brew.  When I made my way to the dock in the
     wee hours, I was fearless.... And the Lord spared me.

--brad
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Help on a word?
Date: 12 Nov 92 11:20:43 GMT
Organization: nope


"self-hating jew" is also applied to those jews who join anti-jewish 
organizations, etc -- such as that half-jew who rose so high in the
KKK a while ago, and committed suicide when found out.

--bayla
From: LEONARD%BCVMCMS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Rita Leonard 552-3403 (617))
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Subject: Re: HELLO!
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:18:00 GMT
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------------------------------TEXT-OF-YOUR-MAIL--------------------------------

Personal mail to Karen Kay.  Everybody else will be happier to delete now.

Karen,

Did you receive two private mailings from me?  I got no transmission
acknowledgements when I sent them so don't have any idea where they
might (not) have gone.  The reason I am concerned is that your note
to me arrived on a machine where I never get any mail.

Rita (call me *very* confused) L.
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:52:18 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Trailer Parks
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You knew someone had to make this posting, didn't you?

In south Texas, the trailer parks are vacation havens for "Winter Texans,"
the above-average-income, but middle-to-lower-class retirees from the
midwestern United States who return here each year as soon as it gets cold
up north. Trailer parks often feature luxury mobile homes that are much
nicer than the hovels that populate the "colonias" around here. We have
some white trash parks, too--everyone does. But some of our parks are in
the <nice> part of town, and have pretty lawns, immaculately kept mobile
homes, and the most anal-retentive people you'd ever want to meet.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:23:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Old grunts

Ausbrook, fresh from a stint under the manhole cover, brings in an
old fish.

> This is just silly.  There may be a more efficient institution to take its
> place.  The existing institution may simply make it "inefficient" for the
> contender to actually do the place-taking.

What, exactly, is just silly?  Please explain how a more efficient
institution cannot make it worth people's while to abandon the
existing institution.  You put "inefficient" in quotes.  What
shade of meaning are you attempting to put on it?  Amplify, please.

Steve Karlson

(who should be working on a bibliography on technical change)
From: TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU (Blue eyes cryin' in the rain)
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Subject: Re: RI teen talk dictionary - Part I
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:11:00 GMT
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>From:   St. Mary's Academy-Bay View, East Providence

>rents                             parents

	Been using that one for decades.  Also 'g-rents' for grandparents.
	Some in my family ascribe it to my college years at Dartmouth, when we
	would eat a 'za with shrooms.'

>hurl                              vomit

	Wayne's World...

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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 03:34:48 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Men can get on the rag too
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	Some of us will <back him up>
	JAG

Good grief, not *another* one!  Is this a takeover bid for this list or what?

G
:-)
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Date:         Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:51:36 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Professional Activities on Electronic Networks
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Do these count at all at your institution?  Can I put Words-L on my
vita?  (And if I did, would it matter?)

I know a lot about the net now...I know more about where things are and
how to get them than most people on my campus, thanks to Words-L.  But I
am trying to figure out how to put this on my c.v.  without sounding
like a flake, or an (unsocialized) geek.  Any suggestions?

Karen The Job Seeker ("And in addition to teaching 3 levels of Japanese,
a film course, and a culture course, I know how to telnet!")
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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:02:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      anyone want to go to this one with me?
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Seen on the local Pitt e-bulletin boards...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
                          DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS

                                  presents

                                WILLIAM LABOV
                         University of Pennsylvania

                   THE TRANSMISSION OF LINGUISTIC CHANGE

                            Wednesday November 18
                                 3:00 p.m.
                          144 Cathedral of Learning
                          (English Nationality Room)


    For several centuries linguists have been concerned with the problem
    of how language is acquired, but the problem of how change in a
    language is transmitted from one generation to another appears to
    have escaped attention.  Most linguistic changes show a continued
    direction over many generations. To maintain such directional change,
    children must learn to talk differently from their parents, and the
    differences must be in a predicted direction. A variety of sites will
    be considered where such directional changes can be transmitted,
    including adult organizations, local networks, and the nuclear family.
    Evidence from changes in progress will be brought forward to show that
    the vectors of change are transmitted in early adolescence, but that
    familial effects which take place at first language learning persist.
    The asymmetry of the sexes in the course of linguistic change appears
    to be the result of the fact that women are universally the main
    caretakers of infants and the first transmitters of language.


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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 19:00:34 CST
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Grungy city

>Nothing can equal driving into Philadelphia on I-95 from the south
>and careening through all those tangles of old ironwork bridges,
>speeding along on the worst interstate highway in the world.

And what is it like driving into Chicago, the pothole capital of the
world, from the south? Jeez.

tushar
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: origin of pidgin
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        Thank you, Joan, for asking the very question I had asked myself this
        morning as I passed that office on my way to the coffeemaker.

>>           WOMAN wey i go
>>           SCHOOL na im go fit
>>           put hand for wetin we
>>           do for awa country

        And Tushar asks:

>Neal, is the message right-justified? This is important since it
>might be useful to know whether the breaks are grammatical or just
>typographical.

        No.  But maybe yes.

        The text is written at an upward angle, perhaps 20 degrees from
        horizontal.  The first line is a bit truncated by the top of the
        poster.

        It <looks> to me as though the breaks are merely typographical.  There
        is no punctuation, and the capitalization has been reproduced
        accurately.

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Date:         Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:17:19 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Question 2
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> every time. My question is: Think it means anything?

The only places I wear hose (that's stockings for you yankees) in the
summer is to weddings and funerals.  That may be related to your question.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Subject: Re: Adventures in Democracy
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:15:33 GMT
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I think I should know this already, but what did you study in
grad school, Joan?

tushar
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Subject: Re: Nov 5
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:49:39 GMT
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>I don't think those of us who *were* old enough to notice will ever
>forget...I know I won't.
>ndh (who cast her first vote for Kennedy)

I don't think we'll ever forget that date or what we were doing at the time
when we first heard about it. I was on a train between Granville and
Strathfield stations - running away from my aunt's place after a very heated
argument - with no idea of where I was going. When I heard that news all my
problems seemed to pale into insignificance.

Out of curiosity, what was everyone else doing on that day?

Carolyn
From: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Subject: Re: out of left field
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:58:53 GMT
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>out in left field/out of left field.  Odd; out of it.  Phrase used
>                                      for that which is a bit off.

Jeez. Till today I thought "out of left field" meant "unexpected".
In fact, I have even said "from left field" to mean unexpected. Must
have been making an ass of myself.

tushar
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