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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:07:24 -0600
From:         harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Re: Travel to Las Vegas
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>     them.  Where are you? Geographically, I mean -- have to watch
>     what you say around here.  If you need some info, just send me
>     your -- what do they say(?) snail-mail address & I'll forward
>     a showtime schedule, etc. to you.

No biggie, Joe, I'm in Texas, and I was asking, not to find out when
Siefried and Roy play, but to find out if any Wordslers would come meet me
there so we could <party> together.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 09:50:47 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nice job!
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              26 Sep 1992 01:15:00 CDT from <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Sat, 26 Sep 1992 01:15:00 CDT Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet) said:
>Dan--that was a very nice review of Whole Internet.
>Good work!

   Thanks.

>Jim (never underestimate cooks or librarians) Thomas

   Especially librarians....

             dan

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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:31:04 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      RE: The New Yorker
              5 Oct 1992 13:24:51 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

I think what I miss most about the old New Yorker was that sense of
belonging to a group where good taste and being informed mattered
(sort of the way the world seemed to have been in the 1930's and 1940's).
The new New Yorker doesn't have that.  My subscription doesn't elapse
until next spring; I don't know if I will renew, but I'll give it a
chance.

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 18:58:13 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Blinking Lights
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              28 Sep 1992 16:31:30 -0500 from <harwell@TENET.EDU>

On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:31:30 -0500 Anne Burton Harwell said:
>Well, I made it to Austin safe and sound, but that damn detector I bought
>yesterday did nothing but notify me of every trucker who was broadcasting
>on the CB. I saw one cop, a state trooper in the Pursuit Z-20 Camaro, and
>he was packing radar and laser weaponry. The damn detector didn't register

Not to say whether the detector is crap, and if it picks up C B it is.;...
but hte seeing a cop with no alert is no surprise.....any cop in that
hot and new of a pursuit rig will have an instant on radar, which is the
most deadly of all....(and maybe to his balls, for all i know)....but
they are the ones that catch you when you are in NOWHERE and don't get
any alerts....becuase there isn't anyone in the three or four miles ahead
that my Passport will pick up....but if I get an alert on my Passport
especially if K band, I damn well slow down....becuase I may get only ONE
beep from instant on as he blasts a car a couple miles ahead....and if not
any other cars around or between us, or if they are slow, the next beep
will be full blast on my fried ass.....

anyway, good luck....and keep up the reports....

dan
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:14:23 -0400
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Superlurker
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              "LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU" at Oct 6, 92 9:51 pm

>
> Agnes,
>
> I hope your synapses are in better shape now. :-)

They do feel themselves again, thanks - amazing what a few hours of sleep will
do (with emphasis on "a few")...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.
>
> >> Make that past tense and leave off the last three.... and BINGO!
> >
> >?????????
> >Wha?
> >
> >Do you *really* mean you were an undercover cop
>
> Yes!
>
Well, I never! For whom did you work (if you haven't been sworn to
secrecy on that account?) What's the name of the Australian secret
service? (It MUST have one - you know - all those subversive green
peace types coming on shore..) And what did you *do* - and where?

> >*while* lurking on words-l?
>
> No! There weren't even PC's back in those days and all the paperwork had to
> be done on manual typewriters. Dan was right, however, that's where I learnt
> to hang about inconspicuously... otherwise known as 'lurking'. :-)
>
> Carolyn
>

Do let's have those juicy details, Carolyn!

Agnes
(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.)
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:32:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: I *KNOW* WHO YOU ARE
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> :I still don't really understand the game.  Would you mind explaining it
> :again?  (I've never watched the tv show that it's based on.)  I thought
> :the point was to see how much we think alike -- or rather that the winner
> :would be whoever thinks the most like the other participants.  Is that
> :not how it works?
>
> Good grief no.  The exercise is to insult and humiliate everyone except
> the Game Show Host.  Giggles is doing a fine job.  By the way, Giggles,
> remember to send mama/p mail when it's over (and preferably when you've
> either fucked off or stopped shit-stirring) to let her know it's safe
> to come home.
>
> G

right, natalie.  Now that we have collected the audience participation
data, to see who gets named most often "most sarcastic" (gt, of course)
then we try to guess who gets named that most often.  See?  It's not
who (whom) you think is most sarcastic, it's who (whom) you think
everybody will think is most sarcastic.  Now, is that clear or is
that *not* clear (he asks in a non-insulting, non-humiliating way)
....  thus, the two different votes, one for audience participation,
the other as a contestant.  And mama/p need not worry, she has done
<well>....
--ggs
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 12:26:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: spouse titles

Dan,

I think it's the "my" thing that some people object to. And that may be
understandable. Possessive, ownership, whatever.  But if I were to introduce
one of my brothers to someone, I'd certainly say "This is my brother, Jay." No
possessiveness involved there.  Just the plain and simple fact that Jay happens
to be my brother.

Why, when it comes to spousal units, things are different is some sort of
social question which I will not undertake to answer because I don't know.

Chris
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:16:59 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Thanks to giggles
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For an outstanding job on the WFF. And thanks to all my friends, who
unlike Marty, know an honest to gopod net.giantess when they see one.

Good night, y'all.
-abh
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:53:43 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: still a loser
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> As for me, I don't hold much with deleting the little pissants, but I
> shall continue to ignore them.

They're still on the list.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:42:14 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Interesting Word
              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.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Uh, Natalie,
  He just might leave over that. :)

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:28:22 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Test your newbieness!!

Chris actively pursues a thread which has attracted only passing attention
from others:

>Brilliant, tushar. Just brilliant. Now, maybe you can tell me how someone at
>an bitnet-only site can create an internet address from which to mail santa
>messages. I, for one, would be interested in knowing how to send these neat
>trifles that you're so adept at sending.  Maybe I can be Dayman to your
>Niteman.
>
>Whadda ya say?
>
>Chris

Bitnet-only site, internet addresses, these are things I don't understand.
Faking mail requires dirtying of hands. My method was different in the
Virupaksha days. Ask me not terrible technicalities; they only scare me.
Look for clues inherent only in the text.

tushar

And it's always good to decide first on a coherent tone to take. The
slightest hint of bragging and the game is given away.
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:16:55 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      re: Tushar's Test

>Actually, no - the one *below* is the posting that prompted that remark - I
>wanted to see if tushar could resist crowing about how wrong I was.  I
>consider his response makes it about 90% likely that Santa Claus is Tushar...

Ho ho ho! (Oop, maybe that "ho ho" will be taken as a clue.)

Wanted to see whether I could resist crowing - my dear man, do you still
think I might be able to resist?

>PS Tushar, I already *knew* Anne knew about faking SMTP mail - we discussed
>it some time ago.  She also mentioned that she'd passed on some hints to you
>about how to fake internet mail from Steph...

Steph? What's Steph?

Well, Graham is as clueless as before (or actually 90% so) but I really do
think that abh is the most confused of the lot. When I picture her writing
solemnly to Chris ... Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha!

tushar
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Travel to Las Vegas

> 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

Not sure if I'm near the top of your list or not, but maybe...when is this con-
ference?

Emily
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:21:33 BST
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: The current campaign season
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On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:36:42 -0500, "Anne Burton Harwell" <harwell@TENET.EDU>
 wrote:
> ROFL!!!!!
> -abh

Thought you'd like that one, considering last night's conversation :-)
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Me and Dan and a dog named ...Stan?

>No, the dog is named Bernard.  I'm here now.
>                        o/.\____/
>         -- Bernard      \______|
>                         / \  / \

Hah!  It doesn't rhyme.

Chris
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:32:08 -0400
From:         "(Joan Boorstein)" <boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The New Yorker
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Bayla writes:

>The perfume was so heavy I couldn't read the articles -- couldn't keep
>the thing near me long enough.  I did writee them a letterabout it: if
>they really need the revenue that much, they'll have to do without my
>subscription.

I also was unable to read the magazine with the perfume ad in place. I
tore out the page, put the magazine outside on the porch -- hung it on
the clothesline (should that be one word or two?) with offending page held
open for several hours and then could stand to look through it.  I do
like the revised Table of Contents with all the writes noted.  I was not
immediately taken with all the font changes.

Several Sundays ago the NYT Magazine had a perfume ad which I found much more
offensive that the New Yorker one -- couldn't read that one until about
Wednesday, even with tearing the page out.   In that case I called the Times
and registered my complaint -- somehow I doubt that their policy will change.

-Joan (boorstein%umbsky.dnet@ns.umb.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:29:20 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Pet Peeves

Sorry for this, but I need to vent a little here.

Recently, on a number of lists, I've seen messages that say, in essence,
"I don't care for what goes on on this list, so I need to be unsubbed."
Now, these people have posted nary a squeak on these lists, and they're
complaining about the list content!  I say, if you don't like what's
going on, post!

Thanks,
Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 15:58:33 -0400
From:         "(Agnes Kruchio)" <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Reverse E-Opps
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              92 3:40 pm

Question for you well-seasoned netters on words-l:
what is the general policy on cross-posting on the nets?

I am in an er...discussion, let's say, on on another list, where
someone who *regularly* cross-posts articles on this list from another
list we to which both belong, without apparently asking the
permission of those so cross-posted. I say this wholesale x-poster (a
professor of journalism, no less) should ask the permission of those
he x-posts, and it is my understanding that this is basic
netiquette, even if not part of the hard rules of net life. This is a form
of publishing, however novel, and some pple have strong feelings about
being reprinted without permission. (I am not speaking about some items
that has already appeared in print somewhere, but people's personal opinions.)


Any opinions? Natalie? (I really don't think you have a boring life,
BTW...and if you do, so do we all -- what are we doing sitting
here writing notes to people we have never or just barely met,
when we could be out doing something useful...stopping wars, hunger,
inventing cures for dreadful diseases, or at least serve on our local
ratepayers association or, at the very least, use the time to call our
mothers/fathers/brothers/sisters more often...)


Agnes
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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject: Re: Mama Judith
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> Mama J is <worn out>

How true.  Now, have you written to her yet to ask her to come back?

G
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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 13:08:25 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: t-shirts?
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On Sun, 27 Sep 1992, s mandell wrote:

> I have been off in space for a while.  What ever happened with the t-shirts?

They've been the victim of procrastination and over-work. Soon, real soon
now...

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 11:10:00 PDT
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: test

> So long until Christmas!!!
>
> Santa

Is macphil back?

Emily
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From:         In Medias Res <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Shooting Off At VMI
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In Medias Res would like to know:
  1) Why is everyone shooting off at VMI?
  2) What does defending the country have to do with <dicks>?
  3) How many <figments> does it take to screw a lightbulb?
--*imr
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 21:13:22 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: George on taxes
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On Sun, 4 Oct 1992, Alec D. Plotkin wrote:

>         The truth is that by George Bush's own standard, he raised taxes
> and fees 178 times in only three and a half years.  That means by George
> Bush's own standard, he raised taxes and fees 51 times a year -- almost
> five times more per year than what he claims Bill Clinton did.
>         Yet, George Bush says he raised taxes and fees only once and opponent
> raised them 128 times.  Maybe that's not a lie.  Maybe it's just one of
> 178 variations between a lie and a gross distortion.

In other words, we're gonna get screwed by either one of these guys, it's
just a matter of how high and how hard. And whether we get a <kiss and
flowers> afterwards.

I *love* 31). He taxed ozone-depleting chemicals. Please, tell me that if
a democrat did that he wouldn't be hailed as an environmental reformer!

-abh
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: More Past Blast

*** Resending note of 09/28/92 20:51

>Greetings, Don,

>The desire to watch John Ritter is one of the seven warning signs of cranial
>atrophy.  Small wonder you must leave the ripostes to abh.  Northern
>Exposure airs at ten, though, so tv may be worth watching tonight.

Hi Marty.  I like John Ritter ...and I like his new show, silly as it is.
But hardly ever stay up late as 10, unless it's much later to watch my
favorite - Married with Children ....that is really bad.

Don, ancient father-figure who never watches shows requiring mental ability
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Date: 6 Oct 1992 20:49:56 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>  Henceforth I will only be able to write brief little notes, for the
>reason that I don't have my on-line webster any more. This is due to
>the pestiferous, pestilential, and completely prawnlike practice known
>as "upgrading operating systems". The webster demon on the Next can't
>live with the upgraded operating system.
<ouch!>  System upgrades are always a pain, and especially painful when 
they kill your favorite feature.  Of course, I'm not incredibly sympathetic
to the loss of your online Webster. We peons in Connecticut have had to make
shift with paper since the stone ages.  All is not lost - maybe your systems
people will wise up and get hold of OED on CD-ROM for you.  It may not be
a very pretty system, but it beats nothing at all.:-)  For what they're
charging, it had better.

>check my writing carefully, since as an arch pedant I cannot stand
>making mistakes. My face turns blue and my nose grows an inch whenever
>it happens.) A couple of the words don't look quite right. But I can't
>look them up.
Poor thing - what happens when your nose touches the computer screen?  Does
the screen turn blue too?:-) [or is that a case of : you wish!  ?]  Fear not,
we'll take you with mistakes or without.  If that GIF is everything people
say, you don't have much to worry about.......

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Take me out to the Phonolog...

>> --Tracy LaQuey Parker
>>   tracy@utexas.edu

>Yay, Tracy...glad to see you on Words-L at last!
>ndh

Just out of curiosity, is this a celebrity?  Is this the T LaQ of
network directory fame?  Or just coincidence?

Michael E. Macmillan (macmillm@ewc)
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In a previous article, mmac@PEGASUS.COM ("") says:

>The esteemed Ruth wrote:
>
>>Sounds like a SEAL to me; I used to know one or two. Specialists in dirty
>>tricks, like some Ordinance Corps graduates.
>
>I always wondered where all those municipal politicians learned to do
>their evil deeds.  I guess this is the answer.
>
>Michael E. Macmillan

Uhmmm, I doubt it; Ordinance tricks are more likely to be things like 
booby-trapped latrines and combat helmets. <evil grin>  You ought to see
what can be done on a training exercise with some smoke grenades and a reel
of trip wire....  And what you can pull with some waste oil and ordinance
that has to be disposed of.[can you say fake nuclear explosion?  My father
helped pull this one back in the mid-50s....] [worked well, too]

Politicians can't handle that kind of sophisticated thinking.....  THey're
more likely to be ex-military intelligence.:-)

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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