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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:24:29 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Sport/Leisure Question
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"What golfer is the favorite son of Santander, Spain?"

Yes, well, it's been fun...I have absolutely no idea.
ndh
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:36:39 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
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Posted on 11 Jan 1993 at 12:24:44 by Rita Marie Rouvalis
>>tie the knot!  Why does Rita detest new poster Gerard van der Leun so?
>        He ees my boss, man.

Rita!  What are you doing at work?  Where is WHTMAMW????

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:02:50 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Recipes, part I
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Are we ever gonna get Part II of the recipes??
  -- Natalie (maynor@CS.msstate.edu)
     borrowing Bernard's account until Ra is up again
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:35:55 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Three-key Sequence Nonsense
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Posted on 4 Jan 1993 at 19:56:44 by Natalie Maynor

>I've heard people talk about PF keys but have never really understood what
>they are.  How are they different from F keys?

Terminology only.  Historically, the IBM 3270 terminal had 'fixed function'
keys (e.g. letters & numbers, Enter, Tab, etc.) and Program Function Keys
(originally 12 of them - later 24).  A fixed function key (never called
this - the idea was too obvious) always does the same thing - it is
not up to the application program to determine that hitting A makes
an A appear on the screen.  What A *means* to the application is up to
it, of course.  A PFK (opinion is about split on whether to pronounce
it as the three letters or as P F Key) simply tells the program that
it was pressed.  No other fixed action is taken.  The program can do
anything it likes as a result.

This distinction is largely irrelevant on non block mode terminals
(e.g. dumb ASCII devices) and on single user computers.  Since the
program can see every keystroke as it is typed (at great overhead
of course - one reason why IBM mainframes are faster for a given
speed than say DEC mainframes), any key - letters, numbers, etc. can
be used as the program sees fit.  Nonetheless, special keys labeled
as such are convenient to avoid overloading the (uses of the) others.

So there.

Tony H.
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In a previous article, "Don Moore  974-4078 S/C 574-4078" (813) says:

>See Ruth what happens when I hit ESC ESC (whatever).  Sends out stuff
>before i want it to.  Of course, maybe I tyhped the rong seqience.
>Nah, I neber make tpeo.   Give me back my PF keys!  If this goes out it

I can't do that, HAL.....

>is because I did remember the correct three sequence to transmit.
>
Looks like you did.:-)  Which one was it?  ^x^c^h? [emacs for save&exit +
help!]

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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 06:05:11 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Dual Croning on 19 March
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From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

> at the globe to double-check my sense of miles.  (He used to be scared of
> the globe, but I think he has finally outgrown that fear.)

Don't let him see May.
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 19:27:41 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Texas Question
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What's between Edinburg and San Antonio? Only a lot of <unprintable>
memories ;-). Also the King Ranch, which accounts for some of the white
space. The fact is, there has NEVER been anything much between the river
and SA. Even the Indians didn't have much use for it.

Trinity is a much smaller and less-well-known school than SMU, but it has
recently been recognized in a number of publications calling it the best
private education buy in America. But if you're after the big reputation,
stick with SMU. Actually, I gratuated from Trinity, and spent some of the
happiest years of my life there. In the past 10 years they have undergone
a major building improvement drive, and it is now one of the prettiest
campuses in Texas, as well as being a good school with one of the highest
avgerage SAT scores among entering freshmen in the country.

Or at least that's what the P.R. department says. ;-)

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:03:53 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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              3 Jan 1993 23:09:00 EST from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

>I guess 43, only because I am assuming that she is a lot older than
>she looks, or you wouldn't be asking the question.
>--ggs (gimmee my prize.... a date with your *seester*....)

  She will be 50 in two months.  (She'll never know I'm telling here!)
  I will send you a consolation prize, Gilbert.

  Speaking of birthdays, didn't Tushar turn 24 on 12/25?  Or was that
  one of his jokes?

  brad
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Date: 6 Jan 93 07:27:43 GMT
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Some high-tack from Rush Limgaugh. Monday he yowled about how Carol
Mosely Braun (new Illinois senator) was the first welfare queen elected
to the senate (ain't sublte racism grand?). Today, he was yowling some
more behind the theme song to The Jefferson's ("Movin' up").
 
Mencken was right--nobody ever went broke underestimating the
intelligence of the U.S. public.....(his book is still on the NYT best
seller list....maybe 'cause he thinks environmentalism is "just a
bunch of crap"---it's folly, he says (and sacreligious?) to think
that "man" can fuck up "god's work."

Jim (in despair) Thomas
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 12:54:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Famous Horses
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> >Then of course there are Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. But
> >they didn't quite it to the old west, did they?
>
> Now I what was the name of that horse? Damn, the only horse name
> I am even remotely interested in, and I have forgotten it. A-some-
> thing, I think.
>
> tushar

DQ's horse was Rocinante.  SP had a mule, can't remember the name
right, if it had one.  I once had a license plate that bore the
enigmatic letters DQSP.
--ggs (and that is pronounced Row-See-Nahn-Tay.  Please try to
get it right....)
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:58:24 EST
From:         blomberg cepeda <ST402747@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nuclear
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Posted on 11 Jan 1993 at 12:50:23 by Evelyn Duncan

>My favorite example of the "intrusive r" occurs in the commercial for
>Wausau Insurance:  the clerk says something like "Oh, Warsaur Insurance."
>The insurance man corrects her by saying "Wausau."  She comes back with
>"W-A-U-S-A-U; Warsaur."

My all-time favorite is JFK talking about a boycott of cigahs from Cuber.
However, as someone who has "idears" all the time, I'd just like to point out
that English was spoken in these parts LONG before it was in such places as,
say, Texas or Illinois.

Actually, I'm willing to bet that the part of England where they do this most
is East Anglia, where most of the early New England settlers originated. A lot
of the accent, and much of the dialect ("I guess" for "I think", e.g.) are
straight from the North Sea shore.

b.c.
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:55:03 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Baseball
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              12 Jan 93 13:35:06 -0500. <9301121841.AA19275@sics.se>

  Ken writes:

  [interminable baseball babbling]

  I never should have set you guys off.
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:36:50 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Words-L Weekly Digest
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              Jan 11, 93 5:46 pm

> > This *blows* my *mind*!!!!  What could be worse than being left out
> > of brad's Weekly Digest?????  *What*???  I challenge anyone on this
> > list to name *one* thing that is worse.  Just *one* *thing*!!!!!
> > --ggs
>
> Losing your membership in Words-L.

Huh??  what membership, and how does one lose it?  (oh, do you mean losing
net access?)

-rashmi
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:17:19 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: On Eire and Edinburg(h) (was Re: First ma
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> >It is an international standard that all externally mailed addresses are
> >in English.  Ask your postmaster (snailmail).
> Sounds very far fetched to me.  Do you have a reference ?  I can't imagine
> that countries like France have agreed that mail to (say) Switzerland should
> bear the English name of the country.

It's supposedly true of air traffic, although I sometimes wonder if pilots
cheat when landing in their own countries.  If this really is true for mail,
I know that it's violated.  I regularly get mail from Spain addressed to
me with E.U. as the bottom line -- and no mention of U.S.
  -- Natalie (about to move back to maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S. An obvious difference between air traffic and mail is that pilots'
communication with the tower is important to other pilots in the vicinity
and thus an agreed-upon standard language might be crucial.  I don't think
letters piled up in a bag have the same need to communicate with each other.
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:35:53 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Natalie's been reviewed again...
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In "Studies in Second Language Acquisition"--Bailey, Maynor, and Avila.
"The Emergence of Black English: Text and Commentary."

I just got the t.o.c. today.

Karen
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 13:45:46 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Dual Croning on 19 March
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              09 Jan 93 10:49:02 -0600. <9301091649.AA22859@sics.se>

  >Bernardykins has little travel experience and might get
  >confused about his parts in the ceremony if in a strange and distant
  >place.  He does, however, hope that Torkel will come.

  That's very kind of Bernard, and if I happen to be in the neighborhood -
say within five thousand miles of the place - I will certaintly show up.
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Question About Online Resources
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:15:21 GMT


Under "Literature", Krol's book lists:

Athene Magazine on quartz.rutgers.edu (but if they're interested in
online zines, my site is a lot better on ftp.eff.org.)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review
bcmr@brynmawr.edu

Dante Project
library.dartmouth.edu
type connect dante

There's a poetry server at U.C. Berkeley that includes the usual
suspects as well as Shakespeare.  It only gives the WAIS key of
poetry.src, but I'm sure if you poked around, you'd find the ftp
server address.

Gutenberg, of course, is the best source for online texts.

world.std.com used to mirror the Gutenberg site, but I'm not sure if
they still do.  World is one of those quietly interesting ftp sites
with a lot of great stuff that nobody knows is there.  It's also
lightening fast for me because we're only one hop down the line :).

-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Thank You, Ruth
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ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:
> As I am in my cats' house. [not a cathouse, karsten....]   I am also
> their willing, mostly, slave.  

What's your safeword?

--karsten
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: John's Geography Question

>"What islands got their name from the Spanish 'baja mar', meaning 'shollow
>water'?"

Oh, I gotta go with "Bahama", amidst the torrent of 48 hours worth of msgs
coming in at once!  Gimme a "G"...

John, from Phoenix, where a River Runs Through It, at 102,000 cubic feet
per second...
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Date: 7 Jan 1993 05:51:27 GMT
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In a previous article, AYC3@NCH08A.EM.CDC.GOV () says:

>Carolyn,
>
>I'm no Bible expert, but I have no recollection of a "staff of life" anywhere
>in the "Lord's Prayer."
>
>Darn!  My first question and I have nary a clue.
>
What's the definition of "staff of life"?  It's in there, to quote a
commercial.

"...Give us this day_____"?:-)

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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 11:44:13 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cookies and Kisses
Comments: To: Thomas J Lee <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
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>         You've probably seen, if not made, those little cookies that look and
> taste like sugar cookies with a Hershey's kiss stuck in the middle.  Well, my
> wife and I have a bunch of Hershey's kisses ... how does one go about making
> those?  Can we just make sugar cookies, and then push the kisses into the
> cookies when they come out of the oven, before they cool and harden?  Or is
> there something special involved?

Tom, that's exactly the way you do it.  I make these with peanut
butter cookies and Hershey's kisses, but it would be the same thing with
sugar cookies...just be sure you have the kisses unwrapped and ready so you
can pop them onto the hot cookies the instant they come out of the oven.
ndh
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:02:41 EST
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Evelyn's Geography Question
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              7 Jan 1993 02:54:35 +1100 from <LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU>

The map in Geography shows it as the Azerbaijan Sea; maybe it's been
renamed since TP came out (everything else in that area has).

My department shares the third floor of this building with the
Geography Department, and the map is on the wall of the corridor
between the two departments.

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 12:56:37 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: London Bridge
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> My daughter always cried when I sang "Leaving On A Jet Plane" and

I used to cry when I heard that song because it reminded me of a guitar
player I fell in love with when I was 22 and later discovered was a
scoundrel.  He didn't leave on a jet plane.  He left in an MG.  But he
often sang that song -- along with one he composed about walking through
the drizzling rain to get on a plane.  (My tenor guitar still has one
very weird string that he gave me to replace one that broke.  We sometimes
sang together -- not in public.)

> she always laughed when the elephant sneezed in "Animal Fair."  My

I remember being embarrassed when crying during a "Dumbo" movie.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:59:18 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: And then the naked ladies came
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1993, karsten wrote:

> I always play doctor.

This is the quintessential Netcom reply to any question.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:02:55 CST
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Thank You, Ruth
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Thanks for the present, Ruth!  It makes me happy to know that you were
thinking of me.  However, that is the *UGLIEST* dog I've ever seen in
my life!
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:12:41 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Another bodily injury and plans for Thai food
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:Has anybody been keeping an orderly file of the abh-in-england collection?
:Obviously it has to go in ftp space.  I'll save this one right now as
:abh.in.cambridge (but not yet in the ftp collection since I can't get

I wouldn't bother, there'll almost certainly be a WHTMIL forthcoming on her
return.  Shame she can't post all the <good bits> though...

G
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 08:23:36 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Boston
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Ruth says:
>>Oh, yeah. Latkes are *perfect* with Sauerbraten, or any other
>>kind of pot roast, including pot-roasted chicken!
>
>Heck, just dump real applesauce on mine - who needs the meat?:-)

Right. They're a good vegetarian (but not vegan...eggs!) main dish.
Plenty of oil to fill you up ;-)

love, judith
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 15:15:46 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning Plans
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>N.O. during which somebody suggested the Natchez Trace since Judith had
>never been on it.  I said, "But there's nothing particularly interesting
>or pretty about the Trace."  The reply was that perhaps I was so used to
>it that I didn't realize that it might be interesting to somebody who had
>never been on it.  (I've been on part of it hundreds of times since it
>used to be the main route between here and Jackson.)  Judith and I did take
>the Trace route to Jackson the next day.  (Hmmm.  When I typed that, all
>I could think of was 'traceroute uga.cc.uga.edu' -- a command I sometimes
>use to check on where the problem is if we're cut off from UGA.)  Did you
>find the Natchez Trace in any way interesting, Judith?  The fog and drizzle
>that day didn't do much to enhance the beauty, of course.

Uh...Sorry, Natalie. Put me into an automobile, start the motor, and
I automagically go to sleep (if I'm not driving, of course).

love, judith
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 09:39:47 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: London Bridge
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Posted on 10 Jan 1993 at 05:46:55 by LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
>Well, thanks to the advent of VCRs, I don't go to see movies in public anymore
>..... but I'm sure I would have a 'good howl' if I did, but that wouldn't put
>me off going. I only ever went out with one fellow who was embarrassed at my
>blubbering in 'West Side Story'..... the rest just used to make sure they
>carried a big box of kleenex with them when they took me to the movies. :-)

I went to see "Beaches" w/ 2 friends who won't go to the movies w/ me again.
I sobbed so loudly they moved away from me in the theater.

Oh, maybe I shouldn't tell this story; I haven't seen any sad movies w/
Karsten yet so he doesn't know what I'm like!

Karen
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:26:44 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: guff
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              11 Jan 93 16:20:08 -0500. <9301112122.AA01313@sics.se>

  >Guff the rubbish was what I had in mind. Never heard of guff as fart.
  >Presumably related (?). Where is it used?

  Guff the fart is recent British nursery slang. From the BDCS:

      Guff vb. n. British

      [to] fart. An old childish vulgarism which has been revived in the
      late 1980s as part of a vogue for pseudo-nursery slang among
      students and others.


  There is no apparent connection with guff the nonsense or garbage.
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:53:52 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Subject:      Latin lists?
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Are there any lists in Latin?  I'd like to learn Latin, and a list might
help.

Evelyn
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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:30:50 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTM
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Thanks,! Sheesh, if I suggest you give me a big fat raise, will it also be
done as quickly?

-abh
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