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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:28:13 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gender

>The masculinization of language (using the generic "he") is a
>not-so-subtle way of relegating one group, "shes," to a second class
>status. This thread began, as I recall, with objections to
>genderized language. The social content of genderized language
>doesn't seem to change no matter how hard I fill social meanings
>with those of my own. Sounds like a case of radical solipsism.

You just did it there--*you* say that the "masculinization" of
language does the relegating.  It was, in fact, my point that it
is the people who say this who do the relegating because for me--
an others--the generic he/him does not relegate or discriminate.

As for radical solipsism, a friend of mine once suggested that we
are all windowless monads.

>Jim (a collection of icons that symbolizes who I am) Thomas

The American (and especially Californian) affliction: the
assumption that there is an essential "I" that is beyond the
power of the sum of the icons.  Cf. the usage "He's just not
himself today" with Conrad: "Whoever we are, we can never cease
being ourselves."

And to quote Graham: " . . . icons that symbolizes . . ."  Where
were you brought up?

-Mka
for whom Entropy is a way of life.
]
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 07:05:02 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Acronyms/Gender
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I'm surprised that nobody has replied to Tony's question about pronouncing
acronyms.  I pronounce them as words rather than separate letters if we're
talking about what I consider acronyms.  To me, an acronym is called an
acronym because it's pronounceable as a word -- like NASA or NOW or radar.
I wouldn't call UL an acronym because (1) I wouldn't pronounce it as a
word, and (2) I wouldn't even recognize it outside of the clear context.
Probably I would use "a" rather than "an" with it, although if writing
it, my fingers might produce an "an."

I was also hoping that somebody would reply to Bill's posting on gender --
because I found it interesting and would like to see the discussion
continue.  I guess the reason nobody did was that nobody had anything
to add to the good points Bill made.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:09:29 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: The D-words
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	>> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
		  ^^^^^^^^^^^

	So, the sparc station is up and running, eh?  What happened to <muffin>?

Nope, I'm impersonating my own site with a DOS box running KA9Q (Natalie
- hint - consider it instead of NCSA telnet - as well as letting you
call out *multiple* telnet & fftp sessions, it lets people call *in*
to you with ftp and telnet!  (telnet users get a BBS and can chat or send mail))

I'm hoing up to Edinburgh on Saturday to fix the system disk for the sparc
- probably by replacing it with one of my own which the guy will reformat for
me as a unix disk.  I've been spending the last 3 days getting my 300Mb
of data off it from Archimedes format via NFS to DOS using SOSS.  Very
slow.

Graham, in Natalie mode.
PS I realised I had enough muffins already.  You can *never* have enough
pizzaboxes.  They make marvellous sculptures.  All you can do with muffins
is eat them, then they're gone.
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 13:20:15 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Father of The Bride
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>,
              Don Moore <dbfabak@cfrvm.BITNET>
              12 Aug 1992 06:24:49 GMT from
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1992 06:24:49 GMT Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>(Postmaster - please deliver this to the patrons of the Blue Moon Saloon)

    It made it over here to the non-alcoholic section......

>It was quite sensitive in places - especially where Steve ruminates about

    Agreed.   I saw it with Cinda....18.  Thank God she doesn't want
THAT kinda wedding, if/when she gets married.  (her terms, not mine)

>just a little.  Dawn, with her laughing, loving teasing style chimes in -
>"He'll cry like a baby"  You know, she's probably right.

   Yup.  He will.  So will I.

dan
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From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
Subject: Re: Republican convention
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
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Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:25:08 GMT

Rashmi Murthy (rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU) wrote:
: Can someone tell me why Barbara Bush and M. Quayle are
: addressing the convention?  

It could be a symptom of clutching at straws: *anything* that could
help should be at least tried. 

Of course, in Ms. Quayl(e?)'s case, I don't see how that could
help ... the Democrats probably want her to campaign with Danny.

Scott

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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:39:00 EDT
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Eeek! It's fall!!!!
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>Karen
>who hates winter and doesn't have a Grant to keep her warm....

okay! okay!  I'll go quietly ...
Elaine
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:34:15 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Grade Appeals (again)
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> that post them to ALL lists....now I wonder ifany of us will send him
> such policies....either real ones or words-l type of ones....

I was going to, but I couldn't find the official statement of our
policy anywhere.  If I have time today, I'll look for it a little more
thoroughly.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:12:36 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: i musta been sleeping
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              17, 92 3:08 pm

	Wow.  Guess I missed some fireworks while I was nomail..
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 12:07:34 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      RE: The newest Diffily
              14 Aug 1992 10:51:47 CDT from <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>

On Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:51:47 CDT Bandwidth Pig said:
>>is named Kevin Bernard, and weighed in at 7 lbs. 1 oz.
>
>
>Oh, nooo, she DIDN'T name him after a beagle, I hope...

You would maybe have preferred him to be named after Bernie Goetz?
>
>-abh

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:50:45 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: the evidence
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Welcome, mgardner!

Why don't you ask your mother who Tushar is????

Karen, List Angel.
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 07:58:20 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      archivos de whtmiqr*
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I've got a copy of all the whtmiqr* and kinda thought it would be a
worthwhile addition to the list archivos in case it hasn't already been
done by ggs or nm or someone else.   let me know if there is interest
and i can clean up the consolidated version and toss it to natalie or
bernard or some other (gee, is frank lurking?) person of power and
authority.

dan
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:17:00 EST
From:         Judith_Eannarino@OCCSHOST.NLM.NIH.GOV
Subject:      re: chicken shit
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

  I can't believe it.  I've been gone from this list for a year, and
  you're still on headless chickens?




  Judith E.  *rotflmao*
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: signs of the times
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:04:09
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In-reply-to: birchall@pilot.njin.net's message of 11 Aug 92 22:20:10 GMT

Shag posts:

   Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM writes:

   >     In approximately Redwood City, CA, you can see my favorite sign
   >     in the world from Hwy 101:  Peninsula Screw and Bolt Co.

   Hey, what happened to staying around and cuddling afterward?  

   Well... at the very least, leaving a tip?


Well, only if he's leperous.  

//anne//

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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:48:59 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Thank Goodness for Torkel
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I just fingered a bunch of different places since the list seemed so
quiet this morning and found almost nobody (i.e., no WORDS-Lers) online.
Not even abh, not even Rita, not even Adam (but it's still pretty early
for Adam -- Ginny Lunt was online at Drew, though).  Finally I found a
WORDS-Ler online:  Torkel is on host isis, console location "Torkel
Franzen's office."  I wish I were in Torkel's office right now.  I bet
August in Sweden is much nicer than August in Mississippi.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 08:38:24 CDT
From:         Absolut Bandwidth <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: The Evidence
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>>folks--A Bandwidth Pid, a Czarina . . . even an Entropy Warrior.
                     ^^^
PID? Pelvic Inflammatory Disease!?!?! Well I never in all my life.

If I'm a Bandwidth Pid, then you can just be Bandwidth Pud. hahahahahah

>>Once you brave the fire, they *can* be friendly--Le Pig included,
>>when she's not in flamethrower mode--all the way from East
>>Podunk, Texas.  At the moment the hunt is on for a missing

Yo, man, no offense taken here, this place has been called worse. But I really
am beginning to *believe* Mka worships me.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:44:30 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Quiet
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Why is everybody being so quiet tonight??
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:25:09 EDT
From:         Frank <ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: On Gender and Such
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>From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
>
>> in the language") got Michael ka's hackles up, and he and Carol began
>> to have it out, with added commentary from Natalie and Bayla.
>
>I like your summary, but I think that "hackles" and "have it out" may
>be a bit strong to describe the recent discussion.  One thing I've
>especially enjoyed about it has been its friendliness.  Our recent
>member from Uranus is one of my favorite arguers.  He presents interesting
>ideas and insights (even though I disagree with him on most of them) and
>clear (although wrong :-)) explanations, all in a pleasant, sometimes
>humorous tone.
>
Of course you're right, Natalie.  I was using hyperbole, as I sometimes
do.  This discussion has been one of the most civil I've run into.  A
real credit to the discussants (discussors?  I never got used to that word.)

>
>Many among the great unwashed masses have been onto a solution for a
>very long time -- using plural pronouns with singular antecedents.
>It's mainly the washed who are resistant to that solution, including
>those among the washed who believe that it's a sensible solution but
>who can't stop the crawling skin.
>
True enough.  I guess one reason Ms. caught on so fast was that it
was similar enough in form to the words it was replacing (Mrs, Miss)
and it didn't violate any internalized norms of grammar (like subject-
verb agreement).

>> Bored you to tears yet?
>
>You never write anything boring!  You are one of the few people on my
>never-delete-unread-or-partially-read list.

Natalie, you are an incorrigible flatterer, and flattery will get you
everywhere!  In any case, I'll talk with you all anon.

Frank
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:10:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      TshirtII, Cubbies, zero

How's about

        I Am The Mighty Words-l!

        Read My Posts, Mortals,

        and DESPAIR!

Kindofa nice ring to it, doncha think?  Of course, much like "The Bobs", we'd
all have to change our names to Shelley...  8-)

John "No Jake brakes inside the City limits" W.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:28:54 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Aren't we discussing politics?
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              Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>,
              Liz Clayton <lclayton@uhuru.uchicago.edu>

On Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:20:00 EDT <ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM> said:
>veto.  I have never seen a more maladroit attempt to get around a
>blatant LIE ("read my lips...") since my younger kid, age 3, blamed
>his 6-year-old brother for making a mess...and said brother was in
>school at the time.

Yup.  Like when my youngest siblings (twins, Gary and Gayle) were being
potty trained at same time as a puppy, named Corky.  My mother found
occasional puddles around the house, and the twins always said "Coky did it"
and not being into sampling in detail, my mother would remind them that
they should be good and go potty, etc.

This worked well until the hall walls were scribbled on with several
colors of crayons.  Corky was a small dog.  The scribbles were about the
height of the hands of a standing two-year-old.  You can guess the
reaction to "Coky did it"......    sure......

                                             dan
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:14:23 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Giggles' News
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Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

Well, Gilbert Graves Giggles Smith, is it a case of no news is good news?
Since your cryptic message last night about having *news* today, you know
everyone has been waiting with bated breath; they have just been polite
by not reminding you how very forgetful you are.
Doris I. Smith
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Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:23:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: Music Junkie
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>>>Come Saturday I'll be going off-net.  I can't afford Drew any longer,
>...
>>	No, no, no!!  Say it ain't so, Adam.  You'll be sorely missed.  Be sure
>
>Let me folks tell you a few things about Adam. In the past 8 months this young
>man, this 20-year-old <kid>, has taught me things about friendship, and
>loyalty, and letting go, and prejudice, and opening up, and taking risks, and
>allowing yourself to be vulnerable, that I hope stay with me the rest of my
>life....

I just returned from having lunch with Adam and Ginny Lunt over at
Drew.  Adam showed me Anne's note before I read it here: he printed it
out and handed it to me, and I read it out loud while walking to the
car.  I don't know if Adam could have read it out loud; I'm surprised
that I managed it.  When I finished I said, "Adam, this is the note
your print out on a laser and have framed."

<KID>?  What kid?  Where???  Adam is about the only 20-year-old I've
met with whom I can have an intelligent conversation because I'm
either younger than 48 or he's a lot older than 20...or both, and we
meet someplace in the middle.  I'd like to think the latter is the
case.

Adam Hartfield, you are a class human being and a good man, and we
are going to miss you here.  But not, I trust, for any longer than
it will take you to get reconnected to us.

Ken
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:56:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Today's Trivia
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> Think he was going thru his second childhood, kind of reminds me of ggs ..
                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> and maybe someone else when I shave...anyway, he delighted in scaring
> riders - only one at a time - no back seat - by approaching intersections
>                             Peace,
>                                   Don

This comment just renders me <speechless>.... <Speechless> I say...
I just.....  *never*....   in my life.
.
This is pure-dee revenge!   And I can't even remember for what.. ?
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:35:15 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: "Muddled"
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>Wish I had a snappy retort handy.  I guess entropy's winning.

Come on over here, I'll grep your entropy so hard it'll make your head spin.

-abh
snappy retorts R us
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 12:49:51 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Election
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Singer-Schrier vs Harwell-Sjostrom

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 14 Aug 92 17:10:07
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Dan avers:

   In Colorado, ALL the public schools and most of higher ed closed for a
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   monday/tuesday in early October for "Hunting Vacation".  Yes, it said
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   that on the official schedules.  Was for the days after deer and elk seasons
   opened on saturday.  Guess they either needed more time to find one,
   or to recover from the hunting camp drinking....


What?  Refresh my memory here...I was in the Cherry Creek school system
from 6th to 11th grade ('74-'80) and at CU-Boulder '81-'86..."Hunting
Vacation"?  We didn't even get snow days unless the Supt.'s 4x4 couldn't
get out of his driveway.  I'm sure our first offical vacation after the
beginning of school was Thanksgiving--I really can't remember any other
(and believe me, any excuse not to go to school was worth remembering!).
At CU we had a short T-Day weekend and I'm think we had a Fall Break in
there somewhere, but I think it was nearer the middle of October, right
after mid-terms (I know for certain Xmas break began immediately after your
last final--which was usually the last day--the 21st or 22nd).

But who knows...those dayz are behind me now...all I care is that it's
5:08pm on a Friday afternoon and it's time to blaze outta here!  

Have a good weekend everyone!  Congrats to our newest Diffily!!

//anne//
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:16:55 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: TshirtII, Cubbies, zero
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              92 7:01 pm

>
> Czarina!
>
> Where have you been hiding all day?  You have been missed.

	Why, thanks, Mka.  I had the day off, so I've been all
over Cambridge running errands.  This is *not* to be confused with
having a life, btw.

Cz.
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:40:25 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Internet
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> Internet to the NE US is majorly fubared, right?

I'm not sure about the whole NE, but Ken's address is majorly fubared.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 11:13:03 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: ADBAM and baby update
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Good news!!  And does he have an e-mail address yet?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 15 Aug 1992 22:36:34 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: latin
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> From:         stephanie mandell <steph@UTOPIA.HACKTIC.NL>
                                                        ^^

Hey, you moved from California to the Netherlands!;)

To utopia, no less!!!  Does this herald any other change in your
life nosy Wordslers would want to know about?!

Karen
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Hicoughing Ruth
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 19:13:10 GMT


In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>On Fri, 21 Aug 1992, Bayla Singer wrote:

>> What gives?
>
>That has been happening to me for about a month now. Had I not begun
>deleting them I would by now have a floppy full of them.  As some on the
>list know, I thought Ruth was playing a devious trick on me for some
>unknown reason.
>
>What *does* give?
	A *very* flaky mailer.  I replied to this once, and even sent Natalie
a test message just to see if they'd unflaked the mailer yet.  Nope, and now
the Usenet feed's flaking out on me!  ACKKKKK!  On top of that, the telnet
connection is moving at the speed of a drunken snail in January. 

Thus batch jobs do make sluggards of us all......


-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Subject:      Re: Free Press strikes again...

Greetings,

Perhaps, Adam, they give you funny looks because they want to get to
know you better.  ABH has probably been telling them all about your
manifold virtues.  That, or maybe your fly is open?

Marty
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