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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (59)
Date: 15 Sep 1992 04:16:46 GMT
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In a previous article, "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS" () says:

>
>
>
>
>waitta minnit - this is spazzing again!  Yesterday my printer turned itself on!
>Ruth!  RUTH!  I've gotta dirty line!!  Help!
>(Oh, "Pleh!", if you're dyslexic...)
Just do what I do - ignore it!  At the moment it isn't the line that's 
spazzing, it's the computer!  MSGBhost Not Found, or some such message.  It
doesn't like me tonight.  Log off John, take two PanGalactic GargleBlasters
and dial in in the morning.

>
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:26:00 PDT
From:         Emily Horning <IZZYOL9%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Draft Dodgers

>  Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had an interesting article (p. A16) about
>  Republican's who also managed to avoid the draft.  It's full of lots of
>  excuses and shows that Clinton did what everyone else did then--

Seeing Cheney's name on that list surprises me. I recognize all the names ex-
cept one - who's Charles Black?

By the way, I'm back. How is everybody?

Emily @ UCLA
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Date: 10 Sep 92 00:49:34 GMT
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> > Bernard's is April 15.
> Duly noted.  When is Natalie's?

She's giving up birthdays because the next one has a bad ring to it.
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From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Teaching....

    >  Teaching required subjects before an audience of essentially
    >uninterested students is not work fit for a human being.

Ah, but turning disinterested students into interested ones is
entirely fitting (and challenging) for a human being. It's one of the
greatest pleasures of teaching, even if we only turn on 10 pct (and
avoid turning off the rest). We won't reach them all, but turning
dullards into curious kidlings is one of the greatest rewards of
teaching. Like Che said: "Take the revolution to where it ain't!" (uh,
well, I *did* take some liberties in paraphrasing him).
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: A strange find
Date: 14 Sep 1992 03:28:30 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>  >that one.  Is it similar to _I Will Fear No Evil_?[Heinlein]
>
>  I haven't actually read Heinlein's later books, but I'm nevertheless
I think this came out within five years of _Stranger_; it's not really a
"later" book in that sense, although it does resemble the Lazarus Long
stories.  I liked _Starship Troopers_ better myself.:-)

>mentioned "To Live Forever" is that in that book, people who attain to
>"Amaranth" status and become (sort of) immortal style themselves "the"
>this or that.  So, seeing "the Ruth Hanschka" I always automatically
I don't usually call myself "the" Ruth; some silly mailer program does that
without me having much of a say in the matter.  I do occasionally style
myself Ruth H., the Nethead, on some local boards, but that's about it.

>assume that you are in fact an Amaranth, and that you have copies of
>yourself carefully stashed away in secret places, prepared to take over
>in case you should meet with an unfortunate accident. A disadvantage
>of being an Amaranth is that you have an obsession with preserving
>empathy with your dormant copies, and so can never travel very far.
This sounds *very* very familiar; other authors have used the replicate/clone
immortality premise too.  Vance probably did it better.:-)  It also sounds
a bit like some recent Vampire novels - the bit about not being able to
travel far, that is.

Ruth, the Nethead
aka Nethead the Ruth

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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 04:42:29 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Return of Rod
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> --ggs (with no hope of *ever* having a paper accepted by Professor
> Maynor...)

Hmmmmm.  I just thought of a possibility...  Wanna have a paper accepted
by Professor Maynor?  I still haven't written the paper I have to read at
this year's SAMLA.  How bout I send you the abstract, you write the paper,
I "accept" your paper, and I read it in Knoxville, saying something like
"I wish to thank Professor Giggles for his comments on an earlier draft of
this paper."   The earlier draft would, of course, be blank pages (or the
abstract maybe), but we wouldn't have to mention that mere technicality.
You can even use the word "text."  I'll simply skip over it in reading.
Or I'll substitute something more meaningful for "text" every time I get
to it -- maybe something like "cohesive sememes realized as graphic
substances."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 23:57:22 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Hopefully
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Ah, nice to see you back Bob.
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:14:24 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: SEX ID
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              at Sep 14, 92 3:12 pm

	Quick!  All you single words-lers of the appropriate sex!
Don't let this hot fish get a way..
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:15:05 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Klennex
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> > Klennex?  Ah - Kleenex.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > --
>
> my dictionary to be sure I dont missspelll any more words we all
> know that a missspellled word is the sign of an uneducated person.
> doris, make this lady *stop* what she is doing!
> --gggs

Now, now, --ggs, calm down.  Ruth is just trying to see if she can get
your *goat,* I don't think she's trying to produce static in your lines.

Ruth, be a good girl and 'pologize to --ggs, OK?
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:17:28 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: A taxonomy of humor
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>      You must have a hell of a time with Chaucer, Natalie.

Yeah, Chaucer is tough. And I really freak when I have to get into
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.  I mainly avoid anything pre-1985 or so.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:10:11 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Downer

Here is a cruddy quote to get day off to a bad start:


"Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest."
    Helen Rowland


I don't even like that quote .....but it's a gloomy day.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:08:57 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      The Return of the Lifted Tack
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The list is looking up again!  Welcome back, Steve!!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:42:24 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: wordsler birthdays
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> Bernard's is April 15.

Duly noted.  When is Natalie's?
Doris
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From: mccoyje@wkuvx1.bitnet
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Subject: Re: Bulwer-Lytton Entry #4
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:40:40 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <dytn38-.richh@netcom.com>, richh@netcom.com (richh) writes:
> 
>      From: Mountain Gals
>  
>      To Sally Jesse Raphael, for she alone believed
>  
>      "No, no, no, Jockamo.  You kinna staple your ear to soil!"
>  
> RICHH
> 
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 09:39:26 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Majority and "norm"

>> what Natalie was really interested in.  But who am I to interpret
>> for List Goddess?
>
>Becoming??
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

See what I mean--no business interpreting for List Goddesses.--
You said, I seem to recall, that if a majority uses a word a
certain way, that *becomes* the norm, not that it is.  Oui?

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 09:55:58 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (58)
              9 Sep 1992 07:30:50 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

Akio,
  The "Queen's Grandson Theory" has to do with Jack the Ripper.
Supposedly, one of Queen Victoria's grandsons was the infamous Whitechapel
slayer.  Another theory concerns a surgeon who was a friend of the royal
family.

Evelyn Duncan
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:51:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      A joke from another list.

  Woman goes into a hardware store and asks the clerk for 2 AA batteries.
 The clerk gestures with his fingers and says, "Come this way," and heads
 towards the back of the store.  "If I could come that way," she tells the re-
 treating clerk, "I wouldn't need the batteries."



later

alec
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:11:53 EDT
From:         mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      Re: Geophagy
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Geophagy happens not only in the south    but in the Southwest,
e.g. certain churches in NewMexico are said to have earth which
has curative powers. I saw people consuming, and I too tasted.
Tasted like dirt to me, but who knows what I may have cured.
Marilyn
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 05:00:07 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Zen
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> E-zine. Better to buy it, 'cause the author (Brendan Kehoe) is just
> a poor computer d00dling who wrote it as a labor of love. There's
> stuff in the paperback that's not in the e-version.

I found out that the e-version is a revision of the 1st edition (revised
February '92), not the 2nd edition, which is apparently available only
in book form.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:44:35 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Zen
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1992, Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366 wrote:

> Having trouble with humor today?
>
> later
>
> alec

A condition I'd think you would have no trouble identifying, or at least,
empathizing with.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:14:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: wordsler birthdays
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>Jill, this is too weird!  You share a birthday with your Uncle Joe...my
>husband and Susan's father!  Bet I won't forget it! :-)
>ndh (whose birthday is January 27, one day after judith's)

You know, I think Uncle Joe is one of my favorite relatives, or
at least tied.  If he was born on March 7th, he must be terrific!
I'm beginning to think I may have to see how I can get a business
trip to Texas...let's see, you are there, right? and so is Auntie
Doris, and Cousin Susan, and bwp, hmmmmm....I'm going to have to
take a look at the conference list, and see if there are any
library/online industry ones in Texas next year.

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 15:32:23 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Hopefully
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> Yesterday my sister asked me why people get so upset by others'
> use of the word "hopefully."  Who better to ask than you folks?

Because they don't understand sentence modifiers.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S.  You share your birthday with my father, 2Judith.
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Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 05:10:20 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Bounced Mail
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****************************************************************
 REMINDER:  WHEN INCLUDING A PREVIOUS LIST POSTING IN SOMETHING
 YOU'RE SENDING TO THE LIST, BE SURE TO EDIT OUT ALL REFERENCES
 TO WORDS-L IN THE HEADERS.       o/.\___/
                                   \_____|   Dr. Perro
                                   / \ / \
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> Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 23:56:41 -0400
> From: Revised List Processor (1.7c) <LISTSERV@uga.cc.uga.edu>
> Subject:      Delivery error notice sent to list WORDS-L
>
>The enclosed mail file, found in the WORDS-L reader and shown under the spoolid
>6555  in the  console log,  has been  identified as  a possible  delivery error
>notice  for  the following  reason:  "Sender:",  "From:" or  "Reply-To:"  field
>pointing to the list has been found in mail body.
>
> ------------------------- Message in error (27 lines)
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> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:54:54 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Nancy Harwood <harwood@tenet.edu>
> Subject: Re: Zen
>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:51:40 CDT
> > From:tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Zen
> >
> > >Ouch! I knew you'd catch this.  But, Tushar, do you practice Zen?
>
> Excuse me?
> ndh
>
>
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:58:07 -0400
From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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              05 Sep 92 05:45:58 CDT." <9209050646.aa08965@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>:

>
>When moving from the stop to the interdental fricative, does your tongue
>slide neatly forward, or does it sort of skitter?  I'm practicing it again

I think it sort of skitters.

>right now -- not because I have any desire to change my pronunciation --
>just out of curiosity over how it works.  I just thought of something.
>I bet that people who have both [t] and [0] (<--- that's supposed to
>be a theta, not a zero) in "eighth" also have both the [f] and the [0]
>in "fifth" -- something else that I don't have.  I lose the [f].
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I pronounce the [f].  I also pronounce the [t] in _often_, which I've
noticed many (most?) people don't.
From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
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In a previous article, "Don Moore  974-4078 S/C 574-4078" (813) says:

>
>>please emit a loud screeching *breeeeeep* to signify its reception.
>
>Thanks!  I didn't make any noise, but PC beeped ....just in time to
>wake me for lunch!
>
To quote La Pig, welll slep me nekkid and hide my clothes!  It got out!
I thought those posts had vanished into the vasty deeps of Internet Limbo.
There are times when I think the Cleveland Freenet is based out of the 
Bermuda Triangle!

<sigh of relief>
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Subject: Re: Tongues, Jasmine, and Football (was Re: T
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Posted on 8 Sep 1992 at 07:22:01 by Natalie Maynor
>I'm not sure why, since we can obviously move from [r]
>to [a].

My [r] isn't retroflex; instead I kind of tense it in the back.
This is common among English speakers.  If I were to say 'Tushra',
it would be retroflex, however.

Karen
coarticulation is my life!
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:57:51 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
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>   If we
> ask 'what does disinterested mean?' they won't think too hard and the meaning
> which will pop to mind is the meaning of the similar word un-, because
> that word is more common.

The meaning that will pop to mind is the one that seems more natural to
them.

>  However if you remind them that there are
> two similar words and ask what the distinction is, I suggest they will
> actually know the distinction.

I find this hilarious.  Guess I've been doing linguistic fieldwork too
long.  It's sort of like saying to somebody, "Remember that there's
a distinction between 'he' and 'him'.  Now, which one would you put
in this blank: 'It is _______'?"   The respondent revs up the ole
textbook-memory gear and dutifully responds with "he."  The next day
you happen to overhear the same person in normal conversation saying
"It's him."  I can cite you some articles on this kind of thing, btw.
But I have a feeling that you'd distrust the author.  You find her a
bit too Spockish and muddled.  ;-)

> 2) accidentally retieve the meaning of un- for people who do know the
> difference but haven't been primed to consider it.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ROTFL!  This really is hilarious.

> the needs of the users then it is acceptable.  What I'm saying is do
> you care that people are being *taught* grunting instead of English
> and being dragged down rather than finding their own level?  Do you
> give a damn about the standard of language teaching or not?

Are you saying that "un" is gruntier than "dis"?  I'm a bit confused here.
I kind of like "un."  My very first publication was entitled "The Morpheme
Un."  Really.  Oh -- and I do care about the standard of language teaching.
I'm a firm believer that language teachers should have a basic understanding
of how language works.  That's why I'm glad that I teach linguistics to
future English teachers in many cases.  And why I'm glad that you're
working with computers rather than teaching...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:57:43 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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> can only guess this was typo on GT's part and he really meant a.e.u, or
> alt.english.usage.

I would have guessed a.e.u. if there hadn't been two typos.  But two
seemed kind of extreme.  I think Graham and I first met when discussing
huckles and things on a.e.u. a couple of years ago.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:03:51 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: List Angel Attributes
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Posted on 8 Sep 1992 at 16:49:35 by The Ronin
>Angeleth LL23@NEMOUS:
>     Karen has said that that she doesn't do anything that ends "-les",
>which implies she doesn't cuddle.  Another belief about the List Angel
>shot to hell.  Sigh.

I do when I can, as some List Members have reason to know.  But it's
been a *loooooong* time.  I was being very self-pitying in that statement,
but I won't wallow further.  Thank you for your support.

List Angel
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From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Good grief, it's today!
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>I have received no <hard> b-day greetings yet...  I hope this is not
>a cruel joke, getting my hopes <up> just to <deflate> my ego.

I've been staring at this message on the screen for dang nigh a half hour now,
saying, "I will NOT reply to this obviously planted message...<grrrr> I will
NOT reply..." But I can't help myself any more: Giggles, what do you want, a
birthday card or a date!?!?

-abh
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: clambake pics
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 20:51:56 GMT
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ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka) writes:
> I used to know someone who grew it in her dorm room.  If it grew there, it
> would grow anywhere.

The (US) Feds have been going after companies that sell high-
intensity sunlight-equivalent lighting fixtures in the hopes of
stopping people like this.  After harassing the campanies they take
the customer lists for more fun and games.

One of the interesting results of this is that plenty of reef
aquarium keepers have been receiving unpleasant visits from
the War on Drugs troops.  These several-hundred-dollar lighting
fixtures are essential for keeping corals alive indoors.

--karsten

("If you don't tell us where *it* is we'll tear apart your aquarium.
  We know the stuff is in there somewhere!")
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