HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:36:54 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Goofing off Saturday
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> >going on.  This year I was in a toy store that had all sorts of dollhouses
> >and toys that will come somewhere on down the line...I can hardly wait!
> >ndh                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Me neither!!!!!!  Of course, it won't be dollhouses ...more like 4-wheel
> drive monster trucks ....all kinds of neat little boy stuff!!
>
Two of the toys that survived my children's childhood intact were a Tonka
dump truck and a Tonka Volkswagen.  Those Tonka products are great!  The
other indestructible plaything was a Tupperware "Shape-o" ball...well
worth the money.  I still have one of *my* childhood toys...a
Czechoslovakian grandmother doll...the kind with the little dolls inside.
ndh (who would go back to the toy store today if she weren't so exhausted
from shopping yesterday)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:47:00 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: News from a newly non-computer-illiterate
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Thanks, natalie.  The DELETE worked.  I had tried it before, but

But I didn't say "the" delete -- I said "a" delete command of some kind.
Don't know nothing bout CMS or whatever it was you said you were on.

> impressed when I told her about it.  Who is the woman with
> Torkel?  I remember a discussion about it, but forget who it is.
> Blond bombshell, no doubt about it.

Brad's sister.  She also talks right.

I trust that you found bernard3.gif the most beautiful of all.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:59:49 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: What's in a name?
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              27 Dec 1992 22:41:00 EST from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Sun, 27 Dec 1992 22:41:00 EST gilbertsmith said:
>I'm late on this one, is this thread still going on?  There is a
>company in Raleigh named Fails Investment Service, which is very
>successful.  There is a counseling psychologist in Chapel Hill named
>Dr. Reckless.  I once knew a dentist named Dr. Hole.

more than one thread has been resurrected in the past...and its not
even Easter season.....

personally, i still think it will be hard to top Dr. Giggles....and
yesterday I saw the soundtrack from it....i can understand the interest
in buying soundtrack of Sound of Music, or even Dirty Dancing, or maybe
even Dances with Wolves....but Dr. Giggles????

probably great tunes for using the chainsaw......hope it wasn't the
music they used while operating on me....guess not, i'm still here....
more or less....


o-)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:05:11 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's History Question
              24 Dec 1992 11:10:18 +1000 from <LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU>

>Hang on a minute! You've already had a turn.... you'll have to wait until
>all the available new players have had a turn, then if Geography is one of
>the options available on your dice roll, you can have it.... otherwise
>you may have to select another one. :-)

Wrong brad, sorry.
>
>>Laird is Lord; Bairn is baby; what is Baird?)
>How about 'Baby of a Laird'? :-)  Actually, I believe it means "Killer of the
>Boar" - rather appropriate, don't you think? :-)
>Carolyn

That's wonderful!  Much more exciting than "baker in the meadow."

* Alt-Brad *
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 01:35:07 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Nerve of steel
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

I'm amazed abh hasn't broken down again this weekend and started mailing
everyone in sight because words-l seems to be dead.  Most uncharacteristic
of her, I thought.  At least the replies have stopped now...

G
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:20:34 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Young pen-pal sought
              27 Dec 1992 19:44:53 -0600 from <harwell@TENET.EDU>

Anne, do you know this guy?  There have been reports of men getting
young girls to communicate with them by means such as this one.

Evelyn
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:49:01 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Car talk 'tween the girlz
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

        > But aren't phallic cars more appropriate for men to drive?

        You really *haven't* been following the Paglia thread ;-)
        Besides, men already drive their cars like their, erm, Sinclairs, and.
        oh, well, I digress terribly...

Erm... I just hire one when I need one.  What's the Freudian significance
you ascribe to that?

G
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:20:05 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (73
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

         of Clive (now Sir Clive) Sinclair who,
        as well as being the unwitting foundation for the <Sinclair> references
        imagined by GGS

Ahem.  I object.  I was there.  (I thought I'd told you guys the story?)

G
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:09:46 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: new year's eve
Comments: To: All fellow wordslers <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              2 Jan 1993 05:43:42 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:43:42 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>In a previous article, Graham Toal () says:
>
>>        dates are sticky fruit.
>>
>>        jenna
>>
>>Only if you get the right sort of dates...
>>
>Which are the wrong sort?  Or were you attemting some sort of
>blue humor that went [initially] right over my head?  [head....oh good

    well, yes, ruthiebaby....sometimes it IS the head that gets sticky...
particularly with fruits.....of course some of us would rather NOT date
fruits.....
   though i know some women that are pretty fond of bananas.....


      the bananacyclops, who got a VERY tacky card in the mail today from
the land near the Yukon.....
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:36:01 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Words-l Epiphany Bash
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              30 Dec 92 10:23:02 -1100. <9212301526.AA25076@sics.se>

  >Please take this post as an affirmative.  Plus, how are you
  >deciding who should bring what...

  Nobody brings anything. Epiphany is the date for Christmas tree
plunder parties. Whoever has the tree gets stuck with the
responsibility for stuffing the guests with candy and keeping them
entertained, specifically through ferocious dancing around the tree,
which is finally ceremoniously thrown out a window.

  The little frogs, the little frogs, how droll they are to see,
  they have no ears, they have no ears, nor any tails have they,
  Quack quack wack quack wack wack quack wack wack wack wak,
  Quack quack wack quack wack wack quack wack wack wack wak.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Subject: Re: Questions
Date: 29 Dec 1992 22:25:24 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) says:

>In article <9212291326.AA10628@lludd.sics.se> torkel@SICS.SE writes:
>
>>  What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
>
>	Yummy little candybars.
Yup - chocolate on the outside, and carmel with some sort of whipped malt-
flavoured stuff on the inside.  
>
>>  Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
>>  "the Panhandle" refer to?
>	I think the panhandle is in Texas.  One of the tenetters
>should be able to clear this up.  Isn't it particularly desolate?
>
It's certainly out there - like one of the Tenetters said, it's the part
of Texas that kinda sticks up and out, like the handle on a pan.:-)

>>  "Blowing up a VC nurse in a spider hole": what is a spider hole?
>
>	Sounds like Vietnam terminology for a foxhole to me.
More likely a tunnel - the Viet Cong were famous for digging those, all over
the place.  Sounds like the grunt in question was a tunnel rat - and maybe
tossed some gelginite down the hole?  Any Viet Vets out there have the real
answer?
>
>>  "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
>>   people doing what to each other?
>
>	Euphenism for fucking?
The anal kind.:-)
>
>>   "A cop on the pad": a corrupt cop?
>
>	Hmm.  Context would be important here... the only other
>alternative would be that it's similar to the slang "being on the
>rag."  In other words, cranky cuz the cop has his/her period.  (Where
>period is just slang for being in a pissy mood and doesn't have much
>to do with biological functions).
>
In the book, though, I think it means taking bribes, most likely cash.

>>   "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
>>   what are BBs?
>	Tiny round bullets the size of a pea used in toy BB guns.
>They're usually made of steel or copper.  It takes genious to actually
>kill anything with a BB gun, but the the buggers sting and will leave
>a respectable bruise if you are hit by one.  It's a starter gun for
>young boys.
>
The guns are fired with either compressed air or CO2.  
>
>>   Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
>	It's a mentholated rub for relieving stuffiness due to colds.
>It has a petroleum jelly base, so it is kind of slimey and unpleasant
>when you rub it on your chest or under your nose, so it is mostly
>inflicted on kids and adults seldom use it on themselves.  It works
>pretty good.
>
It's kind of a combination of menthol and grease.:-(  I've heard that it also
can substitute for Ben-Gay [a rub for sore muscles] in a pinch.  It would 
have to be a mighty big pinch to get me to use the stuff.:-) 
>
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:55:05 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              1 Jan 1993 12:49:32 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:49:32 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>Bernard just ate cornbread and black-eyed peas.  I hope all of you have done
>likewise.

hope we did it right....we've been eating cornmeal muffins for several days,
with cranberries and applesauce in them....and had some yesterday, the first,
along with fresh grilled salmon and a nice big bowl of blackeyed peas
for supper while watching Bama kick butt!!  Yes!

But the huskers blew it again....figures....sniff....

dan (and gail)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:44:16 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Peeing and Walls (was Re: Inexcusable favouritism by Carolyn)
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

> Me, I had this *huge* question mark hanging over my head for the rest of
> the day, trying to figure out how he did that (visualizing someone with
> the equipment I had attempting this maneuver) and failing miserably.  So,
> of course, the minute I had the chance, I asked my mom.  It seems the best
> questions are asked in an automobile, in 5 o'clock traffic.  :)

Yes, there's *nothing* a mom likes better than answering questions like
that while simultaneously fighting the 5 o'clock traffic.  I don't
remember how I answered that one, either, but I remember the one I really
messed up on...the one about whether there really is a Santa Claus.
Thinking Susan was ready to give up believing in Santa Claus, I sailed into
one of those sweet little speeches about Santa Claus being the spirit of love,
etc., etc., only to be greeted by wails of anguish from the back seat
...what she wanted was reassurance, not confirmation.  That day lives in
infamy in our family as the "day Mom ruined Christmas."
ndh
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Delivery-Notice:  SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender.
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:53:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Orleans
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> When are we gonna decide on a date for a N.O. meeting?  I mentioned the
> second week in March because that's our spring break and because the
> weather would probably be pretty good then.  But Karen said that the
> whole month of March is bad for her.  Any other suggestions?  I could
> get there just about any weekend.  It's about a five-hour drive from here.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I'm going to be there the weekend of February 26-27, at the Monteleone
talking about Galdos and related matters.  Sounds like a good time to
me.
--ggs (looking for a ride in a green Del Sol)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:15:39 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: More songs about buildings and food
Comments: To: English Language Discussion List <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

Posted on 1 Jan 1993 at 13:00:14 by Anne Burton Harwell

>Brought over a new handy-dandy voltage converter, plugged in hair dryer,
>and got precisely 30 secs of warm air out of it before the converter
>exploded in a ball of flame and a loud pop. Bad smell followed.

I have a Gahan Wilson cartoon from about 15 years ago called 'The Paranoid
Abroad'.  One of the panels is captioned 'The Paranoid will buy the
wrong kind of voltage convertor and his razor will be destroyed'.

Hmmm... perhaps I should post the appropriate panels as Anne encounters them.

Tony H.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Delivery-Notice:  SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender.
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:55:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: New Orleans
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

> >> Appropos of nothing much:
> >> Sitting on the counter in my dressing room is an old fashioned footed
> >> bathtub with gold lettering that says "Hotel Monteleone  100th Anniversary
> >> 1886-1986."
> >> doris
> >
> >I probably took a bath in that tub.  Did I leave a ring?
> >--ggs
>
> You can get extra points for knowing how to pronounce Hotel Monteleone.
>
> JAG

I think I remember from my years of living in N.O. that they pronounce
it "Mahnt-Lee-Ahn"....  Some of the French names are pronounced in a
really funny way, considering the fact that it is a French city.
Carondolet Street is CarondoLET...  a student of mine at Tulane,
named Lebourgeois, prounounced his name LubbaGEEzez..
--ggs (extra points in *what*....  ???)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:17:35 EST
From:         "Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Cheerful news
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

Just adding to the plethora of cheery reports of kidnappings, killings
and abandonments ...

This New Year in New York is marred by the kidnapping of a young girl.
Soon after she was last seen, her grandmother got a call from her,
saying something like, "He's got a knife ... he's coming."  The police
have found the payphone the call was made from, but that's about all
they've got.

However, this is New York, where such events seem concentrated.  Happy
New Year to you all; we're watching the Rose Bowl parade.

Tom Lee
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:09:48 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: An observation
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              26 Dec 92 22:14:48 +0000. <9212262225.AA20942@sics.se>

  Bayla suggests:

  >Torkel, you may be more familiar with zweibach as a form of mandelbrot,
  >a hard cake for children who are teething.  it usually looks like a
  >cross-section of an airplane wing: flat at the bottom, rounded at the
  >top.  I think the british rusks are related, too.

  Zwieback, however spelled, is unknown here. But then, I bet you're
unfamiliar with semlor, also known as fettisdagsbullar!
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:25:03 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: News from a newly non-computer-illiterate
              3 Jan 1993 21:20:00 EST from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

>Your *seester*????!!!! Ohmygod, what happened to you?  She is a
>very respectable looking woman, to say the least.
>--ggs (a good judge of respectability)

  It's the booze what altered me, doncha know.  Can you guess her
  age?  If you're within a year either way, I'll send you a prize.

  brad
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:19:14 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      NY's Food Origins
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

I hope the listserv hasn't died again.  The response I just sent to Joan's
question hasn't made it back here yet.  I think I answered her question
improperly with a flat "no" to "does anybody know the origins...?"  I meant
that *I* don't know them.  Somebody else might.  Now I'm mainly babbling
along on the computer to avoid getting ready to go out into the cold morning
to play tennis since I don't want to go.  I don't even like tennis very
much.  Since it's now 8:20, however, and since I'm supposed to be at the
tennis courts at 8:30 and am not even dressed yet, perhaps I should bite
the bullet and log off.  Yuck.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: abh has perfect moment
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:55:22 GMT

In article <Pine.3.03.9301021543.C13291-a100000@abernathy.tenet.edu> Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU> writes:

>Almost passed out this time. Yes, The Scream was there. Rita, more painter
>in this guy's little finger than in Magritte's whole body.

	Heh.  Well, I'm now psyching myself up for a fucking orgy of
El Greco.  Twelve days, baby.  Museo de Prado, here I come.




-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:01:44 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Football
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>   No, I wasn't paying attention in the first half.  But I'm getting
>   interested now that UNC is coming back....

The first half was much more fun.  I don't like the second half.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-VMS-To: IN%"WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu"
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:47:26 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Scapular chain
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Subj: RE: Scapular chain

> My school was run by Dominicans, and we all wore scapulars.
>
> Karen

Fair enough. I was only throwing my two bits ($US.18) in. A
further vague recollection is that the Redemptorists went off
to Japan to do some converting. They had vowed to always wear
their garments (scapulars), but doing so in Japan would cause
instant death. The compromise was to wear the garment in a
modified form underneath.

Thomas Aquinas is one of my great heros. Far be it from me to
take anything away from the Dominicans.

Peter
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:38:43 CST
From:         Bud <VB7R0046%SMUVM1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Questions
              29 Dec 1992 10:30:37 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On the pad = on the take, taking bribes etc.  Like in the gangster movies
             the bad guys had a list of officials who were in their pockets,
             hence "pad" or list of.  My grandfather was a Chicago cop and
             used this expression when speaking of his experiences during
             the prohibition era.
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:19:04 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Two final questions on Chapter 5
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

  1) What is a "double fold", as in "No, Robicheaux, I wouldn't take you
for a double fold even if you paid me more than you could afford"?

  2) What does "Please don't stash your buns in my pocket" convey to you?
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:04:13 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Debit insurance
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              30 Dec 92 12:36:55 +1000. <9212300138.AA03899@sics.se>

 >I've forgotten the context, but could it mean "insuring one's self against
 >incurring a loss"?

  Certainly it could. But the question is, what *does* it mean?
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
X-Envelope-to: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
X-VMS-To: IN%"WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu"
X-VMS-Cc: TSBZALESKI
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:30:00 MST
From:         BZ <TSBZALESKI@CC.WEBER.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Betty's Art/Literature Question
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Betty got her Geography question correct, so here is one on Art/Literature.

>"What Arthur Miller play has the 1692 Salem witch trials as its setting?"

>You can move 3 spaces if correct and choose Entertainment or Roll Again.

The only Arthur Miller play I know is -Death of a Salesman-, so in a jesting
spirit my answer is -Death of a Witch-  :).  I don't have the foggiest
notion what it might be.

bz
Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU