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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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>Of course, Wombat was saving face--it WAS an e-oops!
>
>-abh

What face? You can't be really sure if I have one or not yet. ;-)

Carolyn
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (73)
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>  Adrian Paul plays Duncan McCloud, the title character on the Highlander.

        Point of information -- isn't the name 'MacLeod,' pronounced as Evelyn
        spelled it?  And in the first movie, his first name was Connor.

>This is based on the 2 Highlander movies (which are about immortals who
>can only be killed by decapitation by another immortal).  Adrian Paul is
>a HUNK; he and Geraint Wyn Davies (of Forever Knight) are the top two
>hunks on TV today (IMO).

        You mean they found someone whose acting ability is greater than
        Christopher Lambert's?  ;^)

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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Job Corps

Seems very quiet, but guess the in thing to do is give def of Job Corps.
So here is another (from Random House Unabridged):

U. S. Government organization within the Department of Labor that
operates rural conservation camps and urban training centers for
poor youths.

This isin't helping me a bit trying to get Crosstalk to understand my
definition of a PF key (how do you define the seq ESC ESC 5?  I know a
few ways that don't work :-( ).

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>  >Might we be talking here about what is some times called a line of
>
>  In the case of a term such as "debit insurance", it is useless to suggest
>what it might mean. Obviously it might mean a lot of things. (Not a "line
>of credit", though, since that's hardly something people sell for aliving.)
>
Wanna bet?  They do it here all the time.  You can purchase overdraft
insurance through a bank with no problems.  It also comes with credit cards,
and those are telemarketed all the time.  
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In a previous article, PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU ("Judith E. Schrier") says:

>
>See if *you* get invited again...not replying *before* the
>party ended, even!
>
With the way both the listserv and the Usenet gateway are acting, you're lucky
she got one through at all.:-(  
>>
>>Did some folks stay behind to help you clear up after the bash?
>*I* did, at least!

And Bernard, one hopes....

>love, judith, feeling snippy this morning :-)
Quick, Natalie, get out the wrapping paper and goodies before the mood
passes!  Maybe she can do all the presents, if you egg her on enough.:-)

Ruth
ps- the card got here this afternoon, Mama P - THANKS! [it's a hoot!]

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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: News from a newly non-computer-illiterate
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> I trust that you found bernard3.gif the most beautiful of all.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Well, as I was trying to figure out why CSHOW wouldn't work, I
bought a computer book about graphics that included a copy of
Graphics Workshop, which transforms .gifs into other formats,
and found that bernard looked good in wordperfect, much better
in .bmp and .pcx in windows, but best of all on Cshow.  He is
almost as beautiful as brad's sister.
--ggs
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              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
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:I wouldn't normally do this, but I know you have a lot of things on your mind
:that are obviously distracting you, (and you made me laugh) so I'll give
:you a second chance. THINK! Who in history built a BOAT!

Jason.  next hint, who built an ark?

G
PS  Is this real history or fictitious history?
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Christmas wrapping
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> >which pattern belonged to which person...)  It was also useful in keeping
> >small people from knowing which packages were theirs, because I didn't
> >reveal the code until Christmas.
>
>
>         Nico was horrified at this custom.  He couldn't understand why
> I didn't label any of the gifts.
>
> --
> Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation

My father, who was the ultimate Santa Claus, would wrap  all the gifts
and label them.  Then, after I spent three weeks shaking my presents,
on Christmas eve he would pass them out and announce that they were
all labeled wrong.  I would be devastated, having figured out what
each gift was, to find that it really was for my brother.  My father
thought this was terribly funny, but I think it has <scarred> me for
life.  That's probably why I bought that car.
--ggs
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              2 Jan 1993 20:37:35 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

>Isn't anybody else watching the Peach Bowl?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

   I've got it on, "running in background."  Looks like State will
   have had a successful season despite losing to the Rebels.

   What time does the Date Bowl start?

   brad
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English peas
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> What is DARE?  How does one (ie me, a Teneter) access it?

-Dictionary of American Regional English-, edited by Fred Cassidy.  The
first two volumes are out -- through h.  Work continues (in Madison, Wisc)
on the next volume.

I don't know the answer to the question of black-eyed vs purple-hull.  But
I sure wish I could find some good lady peas like the ones in my childhood --
the ones people walked through residential areas selling early on summer
mornings, hollering "fresh lady peas."  Those sounds came not long after
the clinky sounds as the milkman delivered the milk and took away the old
bottles.  Wouldn't it be fun to be able to live just one or two of those
old days again and then come back to the present?  Let's make it a June day
in the early '50s.  I'd wake up to the sound of clinking milk bottles and
vegetable sellers.  After breakfast I'd run outside and see who else was
up and out.  After milling around the neighborhood for a while, we'd
probably go swimming at Riverside Park.  Then lunch.  Then I'd probably
ride my bicycle to Brent's Drugstore for a Cherry Phosphate or a Cherry
Pepsi.  Maybe a friend from another neighborhood would come over and join
our neighborhood gang.  We might go swimming again.  Or maybe we'd play in
"the woods" -- an undeveloped area between our street and a parallel street.
When in the woods, we'd be properly respectful in the dog cemetery.  We
might even stop to check the markers.  Then some of the rowdier neighborhood
boys might convince us to ring doorbells or shoot pea-shooters at passing
cars.  Or maybe we'd play baseball or "Coming up the Hill."  On a really good
day we'd hear the sound of the popsycle man growing closer and closer.  Or
even better, the DDT truck.  Chasing the DDT truck was some of the best
summer fun of all.  If it started raining, we'd have to go inside, where
the girls would play dolls or paperdolls and the boys little soldiers.  Or
maybe we'd all "play doctor" in somebody's attic.  How annoying it was when
we had to stop playing and go home to eat.  Soon we'd be back outside, though.
The first person out would give the neighborhood Tarzan yell, answered by
the rest of us as soon as we could escape from boring things like meals.
We'd probably either ring doorbells or play Tiger.  If we were in quiet
moods, we might tell ghost stories or look at constellations.

Good grief.  Why am I writing all this stuff???
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:51:05 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Vance Cunningham
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Jim, what's the word on the streets about the new US practice of locking
up free citizens (in prison - not detained under the mental health act)
*in case* they committed some crime in the future?  Isn't anyone over
there worried by this?  Has it been reported even?

G
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Subject:      Re: this winter solstice moment

>Posted on 21 Dec 1992 at 10:33:05 by Uriacc Mailer (002033)
>
>Best to all....happy holidays....happy vacation....happy end of finals, etc....
Thank you, same to you and everyone else on the list. Now that's the best part
of this week. I took my last one yesterday. I should be pulling a B average
semester.
For those of you who were wonering. I got a B on the paper that I was doing
when I appealed to the list for help.
I will talk to you all, when I return to start my final semester as an under-
grad. Hey Marty- did you think that I could actually get this far?
Once again, Have a Merry one or a Happy one or some of each - PEACE!

>dan in potatoland
Lisa
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In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>I love feta cheese, Ruth, but have never tried it on pizza.  It is
>delicious in/on salads.
>
I like it that way too, or just plain on a cracker.  I can't get the rest
of my family to touch the stuff, though, in any form.  

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In a previous article, LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU () says:

>>This sounds true.:-)  I did hear the joke using koalas, though; no one said
>>jokes had to be accurate....
>...... but those that get their facts straight are usually funnier.
>
This was on rec.humor - accuracy isn't a strict requirement, and neither is
"funny".
>
>Nothing wrong with that! There's nothing nicer IMO than a glass of cold, fresh
>cow's milk on a hot summer's day or warm milk on a cold, winter's evening.
>Does that make me an addict too?
>
Nope - he drinks it year-round, any temperature, all the time.  I only do that
with caffeine.:-)

>>He reminds me more of my younger sister sometimes; she growls when she's tired.
>>And when she's tired and cranky, heaven help whoever's in her way.  Sound
>>familiar?:-)
>That reminds me of everyone I know! :-)
>
Ow gawwwwwwd - you mean there are more of her?  Australia has me deepest
sympathies!

>resemblance himself.... he kept the moustache for 10 years - maintaining a
>striking resemblance to Terry Thomas, but was clean-shaven the last time I
>saw him (about 6 months ago). I was very surprised to receive a phone call from
>him on Christmas Day to wish me a 'Merry Christmas'... so surprised that I
>didn't recognise his voice and he had to identify himself, if you can call
>"It's me!" identifying one's self..... no wonder we always had 'communication'
>problems. :-)
>
Well, over the phone...but still.  You remind me of me.:-)  Of course, if he
really was a true jerk, forgetting his voice might have been deliberate.:-)

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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:41:16 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: An observation
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              26 Dec 92 09:43:53 -0500. <9212261448.AA12361@sics.se>

  Judith "explains":

  >As best I can tell, melba toast is just thin Zweibach.

  I like this! I think it's called, in Latin, defining the obscure by the
more obscure. However, I was a bit hasty with this query, because even the
rotten Canadian webster I'm now reduced to invoking had the answer:


lludd> webster 'melba toast'
mel.ba toast \.mel-b*-\ n [Nellie Melba -1931 Austral soprano] : very thin
   bread toasted till crisp

lludd> webster zweibach
No definition  for 'zweibach'.
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      What I Got For Christmas
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Since you have all been wondering what -ggs' significant
others give him on that day-of-days, here is a list:
 1) An empty cigar box to keep his <stuff> in
 2) A first printing of the latest novel by Clyde Edgerton,
    signed by the author
 3) A hand made book mark with Christmas bells on it
 4) An empty cigar box to keep his <stuff> in, with a note
 5) A black trench-coat with zip out wool lining
 6) An original painting by his middle son
 7) An empty cigar box to keep his <stuff> in, with another note
    indicating that it is not the last one
 8) A copy of Quicken for Windows from his oldest son
 9) An empty cigar box to keep his <stuff> in, with another note
    indicating that it is not the last one
 10) A pair of silk boxer shorts to keep his <stuff> in
     from his son-in-law
 11) An empty cigar box to keep his <stuff> in, with a note
     saying that he will become, once again, a grandfather in
     July, thanks to the efforts of his son-in-law
 12) a package of chicken soup with teddy-bear shaped noodles
     and a package of microwave popcorn from Santa Claus
 13) a picture of Nicholas Adrian Smith-Valdes from same,
     grinning at his grandfather
 .
 It was, all in all, a successful happy day.
 --ggs
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:59:06 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Football
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>    I've got it on, "running in background."  Looks like State will

Did you see the two touchdowns that didn't even count?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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In a previous article, gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>Well, I used to know a girl in Boston who is a bit of a tomboy, and
>is thoroughly revolted by 'girlie' things like dresses and makeup and
>perfume and *PINK*.   And she's one of those people who everyone

She sounds like someone [or is that someones] I know, both on and off the
list.  Me, I always went for *both* Barbie and Lego, and got as much fun out
of building my own doll furniture [wooden] as playing with it.:-)  What does
that make me? [besides weird, we knew that already]

>leg...  Anyway, a year or two back I bought this *PINK* Barbie Doll
>(she prefers Lego btw) with the intention of scanning the pack in
>with a colour scanner, and doing some photo-shop style work on it
>to turn it from a Barbie Doll to a Joy Doll.  Unfortunately the
>high-res colour scanner never turned up at work, but if it ever
>does, the doll is still there...
>
And in the meantime, do you bother putting *clothes* on that Barbie doll?
Or just on her inflatable sister, Bimbo? [Page 3 in 3D!]

<gd&r>

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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:42:10 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: About this trivia game
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1992, Aaron L Dickey wrote:

> >You can take my place until mid January.
>
> >-abh
>
> I wouldn't mind jumping in for someone during winter break...

Be my guest, fight over the honor with cdc.gov, have at it...I never was
any good at this stinking game anyway.

-abh
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Subject:      Re: attractiveness and personality

> so the whole attractiveness stuff having ANYthng to do with sexiness or
> lust or ability to attract the opposite sex is purest BULLshit....and there
> are MANY others who can attest to the same thing.....
>
> dan

Dan, you are a right and smart man.

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:46:18 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Questions
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>   No. "When you were a cop, did you want to know everything that was going on
> in your department? How many guys were on a pad? How many of them copped
> some skag or flake at a bust and sold it off later?"

How many were assigned to a certain house that was being watched for drug
busting purposes??

>   Perh. is mayb.

Perh. you and Evelyn are right.  Sounds plausible to me.  But why is BB
perh. from the letter b?  Wouldn't OO be better?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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>  Anne oinks amiably:
>
>  >The day after Christmas is one of the nicest of the year. The frenzy is
>  >over, we're as far as we can be from the next Christmas, the presents are
>  >opened, the big sales await, and life goes back to a more leisurely pace.
>  >Or so I sincerely hope for all Wordslers.
>
>  Leisurely pace, bah! Tell me, what's a melba toast?

As best I can tell, melba toast is just thin Zweibach.

Sorry I can't help with curls...yes, they are exercises, but
I don't know which ones...

And I sincerely wish you, Anne, and everyone, everything you
really want, and I hope it will be as good as you want it to
be.

love, judith
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Hohoho
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>He also wants Judith to come back and visit.  The last night she was here
>(or rather there since I'm here, not there, right now -- or rather the here
>that I am right now is not the here of the time I'm talking about) -- this
>sentence is getting too long.  The last night Judith was in Starkville,
>Bernard spent the first half of the night in bed with her instead of with
>me, thereby hurting my feelings.  He told me later that he did it to make
>sure she knew that she was a welcome guest -- that he didn't mean to hurt
>my feelings.  And he did, after all, come join me around midnight.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

How disloyal! No wonder he didn't get anything from Santa.

Carolyn
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 10:59:22 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: An observation
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>day.  Maybe I won't take it down until the 31st -- the last day to let a
>xmas tree stay up without risking bad luck.  Did we discuss this topic last
>year?  Some people believe that it's bad luck to take the tree down before
>NY's Day.  Others (like me) believe that it's bad luck for it to stay up
>past Dec. 31.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

But there are people who feel that Epiphany is the right day to
take down the tree (Anne next door, f'rinstance). They don't put
them up until Xmas eve.

judith
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On Sun, 3 Jan 1993 11:23:24 EST Thomas J. Lee said:
>        I remember driving (riding, actually; my parents were driving)
>by Le Sueur (2 u's) and seeing the big Green Giant sign on the hill.  We
>went by it many times; some friends of ours lived in Minneapolis.

yup....twisted fingers and fuzzy eyebals strike again....neither the first,
or probably the last, unfortunately....and yes, think the sign is still there.

cyclops
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