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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:12:15 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tshirt colors
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              Perro" at Jan 24, 93 9:08 pm

> I vote for ash gray.  And I hereby place my order for one doggy-size shirt.
> Do you want my measurement from collar to tail, or would my circumference
> be better?  I want minimal covering on the under side.  Shirts that cover
> too much of that area interfere with some of my natural activities.
>                         o/.\____/
>          -- Bernard      \______|
>                          / \  / \


Dear Bernard,  I don't want to sound specist, but why does a dog need
a shirt, or any piece of clothing?   Aren't they a human abomination?
I'm sure you'd look far more handsome in your natural coat than in ash
gray or some such color.  If Natalie's talking you into getting a shirt,
convince her that it's not necessary.  I'm sure you can do it.

-rashmi
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Don't laugh, but
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harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) writes:
> You know, if there's ONE thing that men do which really <pisses me off>,
> (and there's not just one, there's thousands), it's buying a woman an
> ostensible present which is costly and extravagant, which is really for
> themselves. I've seen men give women power tools, special furniture,
> computers, even morotcycles.

As if no women would appreciate power tools, special furniture,
computers or motorcycles.

I know at least two women who would like all four.

BTW, many women have their own versions of this behavior.

The first is buying stuff for men that the men don't want but the women
wish the men wanted.  I never wear sweaters but I've received a dozen of
them over the last ten years from women who hoped I'd start wearing them.

The second is buying the same stuff for men that they otherwise would
have but this time calling it a present.  My dad gets new socks or
underwear from my mom every Christmas and has to act like they are
different from the socks and underwear she buys the rest of the year.

--karsten

("Oh look - Fruit of the Loom briefs - thank you, honey!"  Blech.)
From: IZZYOL9@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Emily Horning)
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> "Who's the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes?"

Sheesh. I get the weird ones. Science, probably, 'cause I can't think of anyone
who would have won it twice in Literature or Peace (unless it was Mother Teresa
? Nah) Errr, ummmm, uhhhh, think, think....

Wait a minute. How about Marie Curie? The more I think about it, the more I
like it. Yes, that's my guess. Marie Curie.

Emily (If I'm right, I'll try A/L again - I'm a glutton for punishment! :) )
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Don't laugh, but
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Yeah, but what is an <ampallang>? Hurry up, I gotta know quick!

-abh

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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:55:46 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Asians
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>         To me, the appropriate name is American.  I don't know why Europeans
>         (and some Canadians) insist on using that term in a narrower sense.
> We don't; if you read a wider range of Usenet groups you'd realise that
> it's regularly USA people who talk about Americans in contexts that exclude
> Canada and South American countries, and it's the Europeans and Canadians
> who take them to task over it.  (We're also the ones who have to remind

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.  The
teacher would not let me say "Je suis des Etats-Unis," which is my usual
response to the question "What is your nationality?"  She said I wasn't
answering the question.  I realize that my usual answer is not a literal
one, of course.  She forced me to say "Je suis americaine."  After class
I discussed it with two Colombians, a Peruvian, and a Mexican, all of
whom said adamantly, "Tu es americaine.  Nous sommes Colombian [etc]."

That's just one example.  I could relate many similar experiences, but
I've gotta go to class now.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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>This one went through very quickly.  ("This one" = the one I sent about
>ten minutes ago.  I'm slow in writing this note because I've been talking
>to somebody on the phone.)

Even though it worked that time, I doubt it will be working now.... the
problem came back before I received your followup messages. When I didn't
receive any mail for an hour I checked by ftp... and sure enough, there were
missing messages this morning. :-( I've just finished writing to my system
manager to see if he can tell me what's wrong..... so now I'll just have to
wait until I hear back from him .... or CC is back up after they've upgraded
the library cataloging program.

Carolyn
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:09:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      au revoir
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Gotta go...

Working can be hell every once in awhile.  This week and next are one of
those times.  I've tried to work *and* play wordsler this week, and it's
been awful.  I must give up something, and to my regret it's WORDS-L.
See ya 'round.

Oh, I'll be back.  A week, 10 days, maybe even two weeks from now I'll be
bright and chipper again.  In the meantime, don't be a stranger -- I'll
certainly read my private mail.  If there's some issue I should be aware of
(color selections for the t-shirt -- bold oak green block letters on jock
gray), keep me apprised.  If there's an interesting bit of trivia, let me
know.

There are 74 messages in my mailbox now, most of which I'll save up to read
some other time.  So if I pipe in with some odd out-of-context replies to
dead threads, just think of it as a distant echo from my frenzied 'two
grant-renewal-writing' desk.  Once that ordeal is over, I'll take a long
weekend of R&R visiting a couple of sisters-in-law in CO and my wife's
grandmother, aunt, and cousin near Albuquerque (small chance of a FTF with
Maya??).  So maybe my grand re-emergence will be WHTMICO&NM...

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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:19:14 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: list of public access sites
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> Try usenet group alt.internet.services, and look for the file PDIAl
> (which I think i gave to Natalie once to put in the archives)

That rings no bells with me.  If it's in the archives, it's probably
in the Net-Stuff/ subdirectory.  If it's not there, I'll try to find
it somewhere like alt.internet.services tomorrow and put it in the
archives.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:

>"Who starred in the movie 'The War of the Worlds'?"
>
>I had to look this one up, Ruth.  Gene Barry starred in the 1953 George
>Pal version.  I don't think I've ever seen it, but the Leonard Maltin
>TV-movie guide gets quite excited about it.  Won the Oscar for best special
>effects.  Sounds worth tracking down.
>
Maybe, but who watches movies?:-)  I catch one about once every three months,
and that includes the ones on videotape....  Maybe, eh?  It does ring a few
bells....

>Now, who was Gene Barry?  My generation remembers him as "Bat Masterson";
>how about yours?
>
I remember him not at all.:-(  The name means absolutely nothing.  I barely
know what a Bat Masterson was, and have to guess at that....  It was some kind
of western whosit, wasn't it?  Gunsmoke, maybe?  I'm absolutely clueless 
about pre-1965 TV.

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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:36:53 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.bitnet@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: cluedo

> >I'd forget my name if it weren't tattooed on my chest!
> Do you remember it now?

Only when I look down.:)

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:20:30 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: VERSES FOR SMITH

>I cannot say how *dumb* I think these verses are.

Giggles ah most mercifully can you look beyond mere fucking appearances?
For when we are concerned with honest emotion why shouldst thou care
                                                    about fancy nuances?

I did (by the gods I swear I honestly did) attempt to apply my best poetic
powers
And thoughts should matter more than words, Oh! just like goddamned thorns
less than a rose plant's delicate newly-opened flowers!

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:12:28 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Civics Question

>If Bush had suddenly died after Gore had been sworn in as VP but before
>Clinton had been as P, would Gore have become President?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

No.

-K

-Mka

Thank <god>.
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In a previous article, ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM () says:

>> > > I'm orf. See you Thurs. eve.
>> > >
>> >Just don't go into haydn.
>> >
>> Don't worry.  He'll be bach.
>
>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.
>
Good advice - stay out of the land Verdi Bombers no longer play....
Where seldom is hoid, a discouragin' woid....
>
>        <looking for puns around Palestrina, Stravinsky, Mahler, and
>        Penderecki>

Just be thankful you're avoiding Shostakovich.  

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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:11:42 CST
From:         Gerald Walton <VCGW%UMSVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Acceptable Use Policy for NSFNET Backbone Internet

The current issue of _The Chronicle of Higher Education_ carries an
interesting article about acceptable use of Internet, especially when
the NSFNET backbone (I gather there is really no way of knowing) is
used. Unacceptable is "Extensive use for private or personal business"!
But the director of the division "acknowledges that the NSF is not likely
to start shutting off access to the Internet if it finds that someone has
been using it to send a love note in the form of electronic mail." He says,
"By and large I'm a pretty liberal guy, because I think that people should
use computers in ways that make them comfortable with computers." Comforting!
GWW
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Thanks for the words
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>In case we have any lurkers or newbies looking for discussion of words,
>here's one.  It's well known that Brits and (apparently) Aussies think
>that jumpers are sweaters, whereas we in the U.S. know that jumpers are
>dresses worn over jerseys or blouses.

Pinafore dresses are jumpers in the US? A jumper is not the same thing as a
sweater here..... jumpers are made out of wool or wool blends. Sweaters are
made out of cotton or polyester materials.

>(I'm not sure about Canadian use
>of the term.  Tony?  Peter?)  My question is this.  I understand how the
>Anglos who came to this country confused things by using existing words
>like "corn" and "robin" for slightly different flora and fauna, but how
>did "jumper" get changed?  Is it because both are sort of outer-type
>garments?  That seems a tenuous connection.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Would it help to know that the nickname for sheep is 'woolly jumpers' here?

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

>Well, that test was certainly a failure..... the message turned up on both
>accounts plus one from Ruth. So far I seem to get some of Graham's, Peter's,
>Tony's, Ruth's and a few of Rashmi's but no-one elses... anyone have any
>idea what the problem might be? Only 3 of the messages I've sent out in the
>last 48 hours have been reproed as well.
>
I think the people you're seeing are the Usenet contingent, maybe?  
If mine go through, and most of those [call it 85%] are Usenet....
Maybe it's not Wombat itself, but Wombat's listserv receiving capability?

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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:48:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: VERSES FOR SMITH
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I am just speechless.  What can I say?
I particularly like the apartment without furniture metaphor.  It has
a certain Oriental -- excuse me, Eastern --  flavor.
I cannot say how *dumb* I think these verses are.  And I am honored,
excuse me... honoured.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:54:38 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Maya's poem
              25 Jan 1993 20:59:23 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.

  I've got it!  From the soundtrack of -Doctor Dolittle-!

  brad
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Birthday
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              27 Jan 1993 05:27:57 -0600 from <dorisann@TENET.EDU>

On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:27:57 -0600 Doris Smith said:
>H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y   T O   N A N C Y !

Ditto!
>
>doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:10:34 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Don't laugh, but
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              Harwell" at Jan 21, 93 5:36 pm

> Yeah, but what is an <ampallang>? Hurry up, I gotta know quick!

Huh?  Oh, I get it.  You ask someone a question and then delete that person's
reply unread.

-rashmi
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I'm just testing to see if it is just wombat that is sick or the problem
lies further afield. I'm really sick of ftping the archives. :-(

Carolyn
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:57:00 MST
From:         BZ <TSBZALESKI@CC.WEBER.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Betty's Sport/Leisure Question
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"What is the point scored immediately after deuce in tennis?"

Oh, goody.  I know tennis.  That would be advantage, to the person who wins
that next point after deuce.  Unless this is another of those trick questions
and we are using Aussie rules or something.  AAAAAGGHHHH!!!

This is not a game of knowledge as much as it is a game of chance.  If you are
lucky enough to get easy questions, you win. (that's what all of us who are
losing say)

>Art/Literature or Entertainment next.

If I am correct, Entertainment, please.

bz
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Date: 24 Jan 93 20:51:46 GMT
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=>There is this inhuman side of me that I have never dared to mention
=>in public. I do so now. It would help if I knew that there is silent
=>support for me as I go on my brave mission to conquer the beast in
=>
=>tushar

--ANATOMY FLAMEE ALERT!

<guess who>
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:26:05 EST
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Library Automation
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Posted on 24 Jan 1993 at 22:24:47 by Gerald Walton
>companies to use and things to look for or things to avoid. (Natalie

Make sure the package can do search by author, title, and call no.
Ohio State used to have it (this was in the mid-to-late 70s) so that
you could search for call #s both ahead and behind of the one you
were looking for.  It's like stack-browsing on the computer.  We have
NOTIS, and the latest version does call # searches, but I believe
you have to have the exact call #.

Whoops!  I forgot subject and keyword searching.  Most pkgs. already
do that, and it's very useful.  (Subject is usually LC subject, keyword
is what we would think of as more general topic.)  Wildcards everywhere
are nice.

Karen
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Date: 25 Jan 93 11:32:16 GMT
Organization: nope

Bufo marinus is also useful to medical research: it has a bilobed, 
sac-like organ (the urinary bladder) which is an excellent 'model' 
of the mammalian renal (distal) tubule.

And - how shall I say this - before removing the bladder, one must
pith the toad.  They do <not> recover.

--bayla (references on request)
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:06:32 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: Buddhism

>Christia,
>
>Are there any former Buddhist on the list?

I am willing to bet there is none on THIS one. (And I wonder why former
Buddhists are necessary. Won't current Buddhists do as well?)

>I am interested to know what the basic beliefs of the Buddhist are and
>where they stand on Jesus Christ.

I don't know anything about Buddhism. I guess they have no position on
Jesus Christ, but if pressed for an answer, most will probably say that
he was a Buddha.

I am not responding to christia, for obvious reasons.

tushar
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: New Attorney General

>Who should Clinton pick as the new Attorney General?

>Evelyn
        abh.  Anybody But Hillary.  Actually, to stay consistent with his
Kennedy-wannabee image he should appoint his brother.  8-(

JMW

ps - where did Hillary get that hat?  From the estate of Gabby Hayes?
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:13:35 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Asians

>A condensed version of the same is offered by Mascaro in the introduction
>to _The Dhammapada_:
>
>"Besides the scriptures in Pali (the sutta-pitakas), there is a vast Buddhist
>literature written in Sanskrit, and in Chinese and Tibetan tranlations."

What exactly is Buddhist "literature"? For instance, Ashvaghosha's "Buddha-
charit" (Sanskrit) is not overtly scriptural - it's a life of Buddha. It
occupies a distinctive place in Sanskrit literature as the earliest example
of a court epic. Now is this to be called "Buddhist literature"? It most
certainly is, but it is "literature" in the modern sense, and not religious
writing.

I am not saying that there is no Buddhist literature in Sanskrit, obviously.
I just mentioned a possibility.

tushar
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From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tshirt colors
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I vote for ash gray.  And I hereby place my order for one doggy-size shirt.
Do you want my measurement from collar to tail, or would my circumference
be better?  I want minimal covering on the under side.  Shirts that cover
too much of that area interfere with some of my natural activities.
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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