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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 16:51:06 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Printing from the OED2nd on CD
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:14:00 BST Graham Toal said:
>> OED2 is $895.....and is supposed to be the same price in Mac format
>
>Hmmm... the first CD I've noticed where it's actually cost-effective to
>bootleg it (costs about $50 to do a write-once CD if you have the right
>equipment).  Wonder if any of that is going on?
>
   Well, what about all the index CDs we have in libraries, which have
a subscription cost (licensing, not ownership) of anywhere from hundreds
to 6,000 bucks a year.   Some are more....we just don't have any of them.

dan
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 12:37:18 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
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>But it was our building, we were proud of it, and we took care of it.
>People who moved into the vacant apartments generally moved there and
>stayed did so because they figured out that life was kind of
>disorderly, but could be fun.

I get it!! This is a list!!

>On Saturdays in the summer, we'd pool our money, get a keg of beer and
>some bottles of Four Roses.  Someone would set up a phonograph
>outside.  The adults would get plastered and dance all night.  The
>kids would hang out.  We might fight among ourselves, but the parties
>could be fun.

Actually the stats are lowest on Saturday evenings!

>Then one day a truck showed up with some new people.  They didn't fit
>but they didn't leave, either.  They had live animals they brought
>with them.  A sow bit a kid.  A dog killed another dog while its
>owner, one of the new people, stood by and watched.  The new people
>insulted the old people and each other, and it got pretty nasty...but
>they always shrugged and said "Hey, I di'n' mean nothin' by it, you
>just took it the wrong way."

Got it! People with pets are the bad guys on words-l!

>Life in the neighborhood deteriorated.  Then one day, we moved.  No
>building could be like that old one was.  But then...the old building
>wasn't like itself anymore, either.

Are you unsubscribing or something? Don't.

tushar
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Hi

*** Resending note of 09/29/92 02:38

>hi there.... new faces too.... just trying very hard to my new course
>- bitnet course.... just learning.... ah.. nonsense

Hi aizan...good luck in whatever you are trying to do..

Don, heartbroken in that he didn't score higher in "nicest to newbies"
and may unsub in protest!  Of course, I probably lost points in some of
my responses to that MC newbie!  Ah, guess I'll stay ...can't be a JM
forever ;-)
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:14:15 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Santa

>Oh, f***, that was my first e-oops. Was supposed to go to Chris. I suppose
>my underwear is hanging all around my ankles by now. Maybe I ought to unsub
>from the list in protest or something.

The topic of Santa is hereby declared closed.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:01:00 EDT
From:         "Ruby G." <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Puppy love
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>
> Hello Muffy *and* Bernard.  Thought you would be interested in knowing that
> "we" got a new puppy today.  She is part labrador and part cocker spaniel
> and is about four months old.  I want to call her "Suede" and my husband
> wants to call her "Sugar" and despite the fact that she is a gift to him
> from our daughter, I do think she loves me best.  :-)
> doris

Hi puppy puppy gootchie goo meow meow.  I think you should be
"Sugarsuede" so everyone will be happy.  I'm sure you love your
mommie most because she is a <sweet pea>....  I'm tiny for my age,
a lovely bleu-grey (a bit more grey than bleu), nice topaz eyes,
and I *love* puppies, particularly when they are <inexperienced>.
My daddy says this makes me your first cousin, but I'm not sure
about that.  Meow meow.
--Ruby
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Final updage on imprisoned students

What a tragic story.......my heart and prayers go out to that young lady's
family and friends.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 17:51:20 -0600
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ@ZENO.MSCD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Mama Judith
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From: "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>

> > Mama J is <worn out>

> How true.  Now, have you written to her yet to ask her to come back?

     I have written her, but not made that request.  While I beleive
her return will improve the list, I want her to return because the
list will improve her.  For her to return for any other reason would
be improper.

Bob
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:52:54 -0500
Reply-To:     Doris Smith <dorisann@tenet.edu>
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Gleanings
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42 Skaggs - as used in the "To All Those Born Before 1940," it refers to a
store of some sort, probably a discount drug store.  I've never been in one.
doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:05:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Deconstructing the Feud
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Oh my god.  That was a real ooops, and I have no idea how that
happened.  Seriously folks.  Because I have made a resolution
not to make any trouble.  Seriously.  How did *that* happen?
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 07:33:23 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: WFF poll : a curious observation

Don says:

>I do? Why?

Oldest, youngest, furthest away etc are objective facts. Most unpleasant,
most irritating etc are not. This makes the subjective perceptions of who
is oldest etc extremely uninteresting.

Categories which screen out a portion of wordslers are uninteresting. Thus,
talking about interesting cars is dull. I must admit that best poster boy,
most interesting pet etc are also dull for that reason. However, I was
mentioned in them.

It might be pointed out that most questions anyway screen out those wordslers
who don't post. However, we must draw the line at a reasonable place for a
words-l family feud.

tushar

PS: Family feud ... the words nag me somehow ...
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:31:00 EDT
From:         FRANZ&GEORGE <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Today's Golden Words
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Our Golden Words For Today:
.
"I felt like a man who had been out in the desert for about
three weeks, attacked by wolves and beaten up by bandits and
kept crawling and crawling and came upon a not too attractive
woman in the desert.  She might be ugly, but she's beautiful
at that moment."
         ---Barry Wilson, football coach at
         Duke University, after the team broke its
         seven-game losing streak on September 19
....
brought to you by FRANZ&GEORGE, Accountants At Large
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:51:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: General Ronin alert! (was Re: Forwarded mail

Greetings,

Alert-alert-alert alert.

Marty
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:03:30 EDT
From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      In Medias Res <N567126@NCSUDAM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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Steve:
>> It takes an extraordinarily talented person to simultaneously make
>> judith/p, G, the Lob, and I irritated.  Such a person has recently
                           ^^^^^^
And then In Medias Res:
>*(SIC)*

My God, he's mutating into a new net.persona. Let's hope
this one doesn't drive away the rest of the list.
Bill
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:27:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: Federal debt

Greetings,

Sorry, the actual change in outlays from 1982 to 1983 was an increase from
745.7 billion to 808.3 billion.  Pardon my typing.

Marty
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: From the clinton list.
Date: 26 Sep 92 11:58:38 GMT


   Ollie, rather than being a patriot, soiled the uniform
>he wore and his oath to 'preserve, protect and defend the Constitution
>of the United States from all enemies foreign and domestic'.
>
>JAG

Pure-dee truth!  the man *and* his supervisors (I can't bring myself to 
call them 'superiors') should have been court-martialed.  Then shot.  Or
at least staked out in Saharan anthills.

--bayla
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:48:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Anne on faked addresses

>He's in church, on his <knees>, praying for forgiveness for having
>been nasty to somebody sweet.
>--ggs

That's not exactly what I was praying for.

Chris
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:54:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: More Past Blast

Greetings,

Al Essa's is a voice of reason clearly missed.  If some intrepid soul
undertook now the herculean task of shoveling the shit out of this Augean
list-stable, he or she would reduce the volume considerably.  Offhand, I
would guess the traffic would dwindle to roughly 15-20 messages a day--
most of them signed by ggs, Tushar, and me.

Marty
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From:         harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Santa
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You wouldn't believe the volume of private mail this Santa thing is
generating for me! And after so many questions from others, I have to ask
you in all candor, even though nothing points to you being the anonymous
Santa person, and everything points to Tushar, it really wasn't you, was
it?

-abh
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Rested Now
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>
> > Poor baby...I didn't say I wasn't glad you're back.
> > ndh
>
> Now I know why you didn't win Miss Perceptive 92....  I didn't
> say you didn't say you were glad I was back...  I *said*....
> Oh never mind.  I am *so* hurt....  I may just go back <in there>.
> --ggs

Hon, if I were a smart person, or even particularly perceptive, I wouldn't
be teaching in high school.  If you go back in that nasty closet you'll
just get all bent out of shape and cross...just sit down and behave
yourself, or I'll have to send you to the principal's office with a
discipline form.  And that would be a shame, because I really am glad
you're back.
ndh
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: ATEP (11 - 15)
Date: 29 Sep 1992 21:30:22 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>On Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:20:00 EST, CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET wrote:
>> Greetings,
>> Need I ask Who voted for gt as "nicest to newbies?"
>> Marty
>
>I'd like to know what moron thought I drove the nicest car...
>
And who thought I don't drive a car.  Of course, Putt could be considered
more of a Fred Flintstonemobile than anything else, but technically it's
still driving.  Besides, they don't put trunk releases on bicycles or public
transportation.:-)

>
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:53:52 CDT
From:         "(Frank Peters)" <fwp@CC.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 747
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In article <9210050424.AA01338@Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU> "(Rashmi)"
 <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU> says:
: > Ah.  That's what I've been waiting for.  Within about a day you can expect
: > the US to find 'conclusive proof' it was the Libyans who brought it down,
: > then it's off for a little pre-election bombing raid...
: >
: > G
:
: Ah, Graham... reasoned, informed and rational as ever.

I think he's been reading alt.conspiracy too much.  That sort of thing
can become addictive.  :-)
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From: ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Emily Horning)
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Subject: Please ignore those last few messages from me!
Date: 3 Oct 92 21:46:00 GMT
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My reply key got stuck!

Hate when that happens.

Emily
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: ATEP (6 - 10)
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> AND THE ENVELOPE PLEASE... (6 - 10)
> .
> 6)  tells the most interesting stories:
>     WINNER:   -ggs (16)
>     Runner-up: torkel (4)
>     Also-rans:  *ts*/bayla/ljudith/richh/abh/dan/don (1)
> .
> 7)  tells the dullest stories:
>     WINNER:     -ggs (5)
>     Runner-up:  TIE: richh / *ts* (3)
>     Also rans:  gt / dan (2)
>                 steph/natalie/doris/billS/adam/don (1)
> .
> 8)  most distant wordsler:
>     WINNER:    akio (14)
>     Runner-up: torkel (3)
>     Also-rans: bill Louw / fayS (2)
>                mem/billS/natalie/singapore poster (1)
> .
> 9)  oldest in years:
>     WINNER:     don (12)
>     Runner-up:  TIE:  bayla / ljudith  (4)
>     Also-rans:  bernard (2)  Elwood/dan/price
> .
> 10)  youngest in years:
>      WINNER:   adam (11)
>      Runner-up: lisa (9)
>      Also-rans:  dawn (4)  / niteman (3)
>                  gt (in brain years)/alec/sheena (1)
>                  rita
>  ---------------more envelopes to come----------------------
>  -ggs
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*** Resending note of 10/02/92 14:43


>BTW I voted for you as list dad

What??????????????    I am heartbroken and speechless!!!!!!!!!

Don, saddened beyond words..........
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:42:50 CDT
From:         me@MCONNECT.TESTING.IT

Looks just like port 25 to me.  Oops.  I forgot to fake headers etc.
Oh well.
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Josiah
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>> . . .   the Brown online catalog and learned that it is
>>named "after Josiah S. Carberry, a mythical professor
>
>Josiah Carberry is indeed a famous figure on the Brown campus, although
>few can actually claim to have sighted him.  On every Friday the 13th,
>some of his cracked pots are placed around the college green to collect
>donations for the library.

One thing to add to Elaine's comments. Several of Professor Carberry's
works are listed in the online catalog. Just do an author search for
Carberry. Bill
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: stupidity

>This is *exactly* what you said to me about five months ago, and I
>told you then there would be *no* second date.  I still feel that
>way.  Sorry.

I'm sorry. I don't remember there being a first date.  I musta been unconscious
or asleep with boredeom.

>I am not in the running for most popular, you know.  And I am not
>going to put *you* on my dance card.
>--ggs

Oh, the perfidy of it all. How can I go on?

Chris
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:22:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Truth squad (was gleanings)
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> Alec re-posted Slick Willie's bio from that dictionary of politics.
> He was a law professor at some Arkansas law firm and in private
> practice for a while.  That's not quite the same thing as founding an
> oil company, but he hasn't been sucking at the public mammary all his
> adult life.                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Steve Karlson

At the risk of being <tedious> I would like to ask whether this
means that there is something dishonorable about working at a job
in the "public sector", getting one's salary from tax money?  If
this is dishonorable, then I hang my head in shame, since I am
and have been for a long time employed by the <State>.
Uh.... another question for SK....  Is "founding an oil company"
a plus (as seems to be implied here) or a minus?
--ggs
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: stupidity
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:08:19 GMT



>Greetings, Bayla,

>At the expense of being accused of taking cheap typographical shots, I
>have to ask: Is analytical thining some kind of well-thought-out diet?

>Marty

--I wish, oh how I wish...  Meanwhile, I'll have to be content with asking
everyone's indulgence wrt my occasional typo.  I do try to weed them all
out, but that damn clock keeps ticking and sometimes I can't even -tell-
when something's awry, because the display will occasionally eat a
character and then hammer me when I try to correct something that's really
ok, using up still more of those expensive tickticks.  

Anyone need a freelance consultant?  Every once in a while I get <very
guilty> about my extravagance in prime time, and I'd like to point to some
<income> to offset it.  Resume on request (no, I didn't get the NASA
contract I wanted).


--bayla

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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Brownies and Kitchens and Sharing
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Ruth and The Ronin,
 Here is my favorite brownie recipe, and if you could come to Texas I'd
invite you into my kitchen and serve them up.  :-)

1/2 cup margerine			2 eggs
2 sq unsweet chocolate			1 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour				1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp baking powder			3/4 cups chopped nuts

 Lightly grease an 11 x 7 x 1 1/2-inch or 9-inch square pan.  Preheat oven
to 350 degrees.  Put margerine and chocolate in top of double boiler,
place over hot - not boiling - water to melt.  When melted, stir
thoroughly, then cool.  Sift flour, measure, resift 3 times with baking
powder.  With mixer, beat eggs until thick and fluffy, add sugar in 3
portions, beating well after each, then beat in chololate and vanilla.
Remove beater; use wooden spoon.  Stir in flour mixture, then nuts.  Turn
into prepared pan and spread evenly.  Bake 20 minutes.  Do not overbake.
Remove from oven to cake rack, and while hot, mark into squares with tip
of sharp pointed knife to obtain clean-cut edges.  Cool in pan on rack,
then finish cutting squares just before serving.  To store, leave brownies
in pan and wrap in waxed paper to keep moist.  16 squares.

I usually double this recipe.

BTW I don't know if this is the same recipe Nancy is speaking of, as I've
used several over the years.  But these brownies have a slightly different
texture than most.

Enjoy.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)