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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:02:46 EST
From:         Frank <ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Salmonbake bitching
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>From:         Bandwidth Pig <harwell@TENET.EDU>
>
>Besides, I meant Frank McClellan, not Frank Peters. If I were ever going
                        McLellan
>to be Frank, it'd definitely be a redheaded one ;-).
>
>And to totally wear this thread out, if I were Frank, I'd already *be*
>male, right? So you could still go to your faculty senate meetings with
>your dress on right-side-out, everything would be most kewl, and nobody'd
>ever be the wiser, right?

You'd never get away with it.  If you were Frank, your adam's apple would
give you away, so you'd have to go home and put on trousers.
>
>Yoo-hoo, Frank!

Yoo-hoo to you too.
>
In virtual hiding, getting work done (yeah, right), and getting older.

Frank (got the master tape of the album, btw.  Sounds good.)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 25 Jan 1993 04:42:19 GMT
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In a previous article, MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA (Peter Montgomery) says:

>> >> >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....
>
>Q: What did Zeus say to Narcissus?
>A: Watch yourself!
>
<<groan>>  That was truely horrible.  I should have known; I've Hera-d you
tell jokes before.  You have the Psyche of a twelve year-old, and the sense
of humor to match....  

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:49:56 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question for Torkel
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> >P.S. alt.fan.wodehouse arrived here today so be on the lookout all you
> >fans.
> I was waiting for the day - I mean they have alt.fan.jittlov or some-

The first thing I did when alt.fan.wodehouse arrived here was scan the
list of contributors for Tushar.  When I didn't see his name, I decided
it must be a phony group and deleted it.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:49:59 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Evelyn's Sport/Leisure Question

>"Who were the only two Australian boxers to be world champions at
>the same time?"
>
>Sorry, I seem to have run out of cluedo questions. :-(

How is it that an Australian TP doesn't have a single Cricket question?
Shocking!

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:28:47 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY #2
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: --am working on a story for words.  But on the weekends alone, may take a
: --week or so.

What's the matter? - sycophancy level not high enough on alt.butt.harp
at the moment?

G
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:08:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: signoff
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> That doesn't obviate the arguement that the name WORDS-L is misleading.
> A list which really did restrict itself to dealing with words,
> would find a much different kind of participation on my part.
> As long as WORDS-L isn't interested in following civilised rules,
> then it shouldn't expect my participation (or anybody else's for
> that matter) to be anything else than uncivilised.
>
> Peter

I, for one, would *welcome* some uncivilised participation by just
about *anybody* on this list.  Everyone (with a few exceptions,
whomall I won't name) has been so <nice> of late.
What's happened to that good old Words-L Spirit?  Rah Rah.
Kiss me now, soon I'll be gone.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:54:00 PST
From:         "Emily J. Horning" <IBJQEJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      WORDS-L TP: Carolyn's History Question

An easy one.

What Russian cosmonaut was killed in an air crash in 1968 while commanding a
training unit?

If correct, you got a two - that means Art/Literature or Science.

Emily
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:24:32 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (76)
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              25 Jan 1993 16:57:00 JST from
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John Hinckley is a terribly disturbed young man with paranoid
schizophrenia.  He shot President Reagan in order to impress an
actress, Jodie Foster; he got the details from a movie Foster was
in (Taxi Driver).  Hinckley's parents realized he was mentally ill
only after he shot Reagan.

Evelyn Duncan
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:10:00 PST
From:         CHRIS SCHMIDT <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Inauguration

>Staring at the soap on the shower floor and deliberating whether to pick
>it up,
>-abh

Damn, that's a pretty picture!  Thanks, Anne!

Chris "Just let me clean up the drool and I'll be with you in a second" Schmidt
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:03:45 CST
From:         Gerald Walton <VCGW%UMSVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Angelou inaugural poem

Re Angelou poem:  I thought it very good, especially given the circumstance
of its being written for a specific occasion on request. Both when hearing
and reading it, I was  struck by the Whitman "Song of Myself" catalog
listings of just about everything possible. GWW
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Thunderbird
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:38:57 GMT
Organization: oh, noooo


We'd better, because the next one is:
I've heard that Stop & Shop will merge with A & P.

--bayla (oldie -are- goodies)
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:27:31 GMT
From:         Bernardykins Maynor <natalie@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Testing...
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Something seems amiss in Netdom today.  Everything appears to be up
and running, but mail is sluggish.  I suspect net golbins -- oops --
that was supposed to say goblins, not golbins.  I wonder if a cross
between a goblin and a galmin is a golbin.  And why can't I make
backspace work on pizzabox, Graham?
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Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 1993 09:39:51 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY #2
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        quote #2:
        "You always punch hardest the boy you like the most."

        RICHH

Just remember not to draw blood.

G
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:16:13 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: signoff
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From: torkel@SICS.SE
>
>   Peter grumbles:
>
>   >Not always subtle. Try putting out a quote for scripture, or

If that looks like a grumble to you, then you may well be projecting
your own feelings onto it. I was simply indicating that the discussion
of netiquette is not always subtle, as the previous comment had
stated. I'm glad, in fact. It makes the discussion more lively.

Peter
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:53:20 -0500
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@RA.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Evelyn's Sport/Leisure Question
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Graham challenges:
> OK, Smart Aleck - who was the poster from SIVM.BITNET the other day, hmmm???

Sorry to step in first, but I'm guessing blommie -- since he's said he's been
working at the Smithsonian -- when the posting appeared I checked that SIVM
is the Smithsonian Institution.  Correct?

Joan
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:45:00 PST
From:         CHRIS SCHMIDT <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Bye for now

>Tell a woman what you told me.  Or better, telemann.  I hope that
>while he's away, his plans don't un-ravel.  If he travels to the
>Bronx, he might wind up driving on Bruckner Boulevard.
>
>Ken
>
>        <looking for puns around Palestrina, Stravinsky, Mahler, and
>

Ah, what a list. I dare say, itsebastian of intelectual acuity.

Chris
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 13:19:02 +1100
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject: Re: au revoir
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>Although not the answer to Carolyn's question of HOW we can do it, it's
>the answer to WHY -- why some of us don't read all the list mail.  Those
>unable to handle temperance must resort at times to total abstinence --
>a tough price to pay for not being able to delete some list mail unread.
>
>Hurry back, Neal!  I already miss you.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Now I understand.... it's not only wimps that set nomail... the true addicts
have to go 'cold turkey' as well, but then ftp the archives when they return.
The non-addicts are the only ones who can delete it unread. I confess that
I am a 'true addict'.

Carolyn
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:16:32 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Torture, again.
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        g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (G) writes:
        > Read the Stanley Milgram stuff that Karen referred to.  It takes about
        > an hour to turn the average American into a vicious killer.

        Who says American education is deficient?  Why, I have it on good
        authority that it takes a full 67 minutes to turn the average
        Brit into a vicious killer and nearly 72 minutes for the average
        Japanese.

Bullshit - scarcely took me 5 minutes to take the Kings Shilling.

G
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:32:56 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) says:

>> particular, though, of the chances of survival in a shipwreck in various
>> oceans.  The Northern Atlantic is terrible--even in summer, I don't think
>> the survival time is more than a few hours because the water temperature
>> is so cold.
>
>Where is the dividing line between Northern and Southern Atlantic?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I don't know; it probably depends on how tough the skin is on the person
you ask.:-)  It probably terminates at about the same longitude as New York...

<wild guess toggle | set OFF >
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Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:04:20 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Don't laugh, but
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:    -abh said:  "What is an ampallang?  Karsten..."

:    Elaine said:  "It's a piercing....an exotic piercing. If you want
:      more info, you know where to find me."

:    E-layyyiinne, where are you?

:    How about about another hint?

:    Joe P.(not knowing whether to flinch and say <ouch> at this point.)

Flinch.  Say, where are Amy and Jimi when you need them?  They were into
that bondage/piercing stuff in a big way, weren't they?  I'm sure we
covered ampallangs and Carl Gustav's etc at <length> some time back.
Oh wait, Carl Gustav was the NATO bazooka thingy; what was the other
thing called? Prince Albert?

G
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:42:47 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Round 4
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              24 Jan 1993 12:58:29 +1100 from <LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU>

I'll take Geography (ouch!)

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:55:09 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Asians
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>Sutras are generally transliterated into Chinese--at least, that is
>my very imperfect understanding.  But they are in Sanskrit.

Is this something to do with the Penrose thread?

G
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From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Asians
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Posted on 25 Jan 1993 at 10:27:00 by samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
>>My experience has been the contrary.  The only time I've ever referred to
>>my nationality as "American" (as opposed to referring to my larger unit
>>as American) was when I was *forced* to in a French class in France.
>
>Then you are the weirdest - er - American I know. Has anyone else met
>such cases?

Well, the Japanese word for the US *IS* amerika, so I guess I do
tend to identify myself as American.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:34:38 EST
From:         KYL120@URIACC.URI.EDU
Subject: Re: Airport fun...

>Posted on 28 Jan 1993 at 21:10:18 by Uriacc Mailer (002033)
>
>>kept forgetting about.  It's sort of a word question.  When you hear
>>the word "meditation," what do you first think of?

The first thing that comes to my mind is, stress.
Guess that's because I have six classes, work 17 hours and am trying to get a
job all before May 23!
>
>
>tushar

Lisa (thirteen weeks and counting)
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:10:09 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Ah, the pleasures of Coffee!
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From: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

> Methinks the lad imbibeth too much....  A fourth quart mug of this brew at
> high strength hath been known to turn even the most sanguine, relaxed
> words-ler into a raving bedlamite.  Hast thou consumed thy third, or is
> this last container of battery acid the "Bedlamite Cup"?
>
> This Coffee fiend, if none be available, will attempt to substitute strong
> tea or chocolate in an attempt to placate his craving.  These not being
> present, he will proceed to headaches, ill humor, and posting long
> archaic language messages on Words-l.

This and the piece which inspired it, make all the bullshit and british
puke worth putting up with.

Peter
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 13:35:27 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Maya's poem
              24 Jan 1993 01:20:00 EST from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

>>>Glass of milk,
>>>Stands between extinction in the cold and explosive radiating growth.
>>>And the warm blood flows through the large four-chambered heart,
>>>Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have.

    Emboldened, I will make a large leap and guess Leonard Cohen.

    brad
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:31:29 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: cluedo
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        >Clue-dough.  (Or if you're a hypercorrect oldie, Clyoo-dough)

          Graham, I thought you wanted us to start using IPA ASCII symbols
          for such exchanges.

          brad

Sorry, didn't expect you to have absorbed it that quickly!

G
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:38:53 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
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From: JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> >P.S.  Is the U.S. "Left" going to abandon Clinton because of all the
>        religious bits in the inaug.?
>
>         Don't be ridiculous.  They know he didn't mean a word of it,
> and that it was just to placate the ignorant hicks who still believe in
> such superstitious nonsense.  Those simpletons will believe anything.
>
> JMW

In case you wish to separate your tongue from your cheek,
I know a great surgeon with a cast ironic scalple.

Peter the well washed :}
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Salmonbake Uprising
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> It has occurred to me that a sort of global Words-L gathering might be
> strangely MacLuhan-esque and appropriate to the electronic medium. At a given
> time and date, we could all pause and think intensely about other Wordslers. W
> could call it, if nobody objects, MasterBake. Any takers?
>
> -abh

Can we choose *which* wordslers we think about?  I would like to
be <selective>.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:05:46 -0700
From:         JOEP@LAGUNA.EPCC.EDU
Subject:      Re: Spring is here

      RE:  Spring, etc.

    -abh gushes:  "...a special message for anyone who pisses me off.
       Eat me."

     Oooooo, -abh, I just *love* it when you <talk dirty>....



     Joe P.(just now realizing that Words-L is a list for
             cunning linguists!)
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Subject: Re: Yep

>Guest3 is still listed in Judith's name and still has the same password.
>But it's being used by a beagle now.
>                o/.\____/

You tell Natalie. Is there any way I could have specifically said "guest3"
if you hadn't mailed to the list from that address? It's preposterous - I
just make a reasonable and calm statement with no inherent specism that I
can discern and suddenly there are hundreds of obstinate women contesting
it without anything to back them up. Far be it from me to name all of them,
but really, is this kind of behaviour even remotely civilized?

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 14:32:24 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject: Re: Political Correctness Bullshot
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From: gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

> Why don't you post this document, so we don't have to ftp it.  If
> anyone objects, we can supply instructions on using the delete key.
> --ggs

Fair enough. I will start a new subject, with a warning.
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From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: signoff
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        quibbles of lexicon if not a concern for words? And which "civilised
        rules" do you see as being violated?

        Jim (always curious) Thomas

Oh come on Jim: the one which says 'thou shalt not mock my religion'

G
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:47:35 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: signoff
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From: torkel@SICS.SE


> enforcing "civilized rules" such as you originally envisioned).  I
> think it's a good thing that some of these people should find, with
> shock and disappointment, that it is possible for a list to be named
> "words" and yet let the tone and character of the exchanges be
> determined by the sense and sensibilities of the contributors.

Good for you.

Peter
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From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Shirt.gif
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        On Wed, 20 Jan 1993, G wrote:

        > suspect I just don't want it anyway.

        Suit yourself. I want to know why you picked this of all moments to stop
        looking at gifs.

Because the only machine that can is in pieces in my lobby.  I moved it home
from work, but I'm not building it up till monday when I get paid for it.

G
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:17:30 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Asians
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  >Really? I had no idea. I thought, for no real reason, that there were
  >a lot of Chinese contributions.

  There are, but mostly in the form of translations of and commentaries on
Indian works. But there is of course a lot of Zen (Chan) stuff that originated
in China. One of these books is even known as a "sutra": the sutra of Hui-Neng.
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:38:17 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Where were you 15 years ago today?
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Does anyone remember the Big Blizzard of 1978?

Evelyn
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