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From: N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith)
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Date: 11 Jan 93 22:59:00 GMT
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> >        Post something interesting, and maybe you'll merit mention in the
> >        W-LWD...
> >
> >        Sorry, I just wanted to be the <first> to say it.
> >
> Neal, that was rude, cruel and uncalled-for.  Wish I'd beaten you to it.
> --
>                 ###     Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###

Yeah, just beat me into the ground.  I love it.  The truth is,
and the truth will, as always, <out>, I was surprised that you
get there first, ruthie babeeee....  Eat your heart out.
--ggs (developing a tough skin these days.....  wondering if *this*
post is a case of sexual harrassment...?)
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 11:34:54 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: London Bridge
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> Nancy, a friend asked me back before Christmas about the words to the
> childhood song "Goober Peas", which I had never heard of.  He claimed there
> was something in them about a Confederate general being reassured because
> his troopers were eating goober peas.  I told him that this question was
> too insignificant to bother Words-L about!  But, now that you've brought
> it up....
> brad

Yes, well, Brad, that's me all over...insignificant as all getout!  I
can't remember the name of the general, but I think your friend is
right...I know there is something about the Georgia militia, but I've
gotten fuzzy on the words.  Susan may
remember.  I taught them this at the same time I taught them "Bonnie Blue
Flag"...I was in a back-to-my-Alabama-roots stage at the time.
ndh
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Posted on 28 Dec 1992 at 23:32:38 by Natalie Maynor
>Easter weekend will be a long weekend for some people.  That might be a
>good time.

What weekend is this?

Karen
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      A couple of easy ones?
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  I've been struggling for some time now with a *really* difficult problem,
namely how to translate "you should get away from him". However, you
can't help me there, so here are a couple of questions.

  What is First Cav?
  What is a "Moe Howard account"?
  What is a Copenhagen can?
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Date: 11 Jan 93 19:57:27 GMT
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For complicated reasons, I need ta good solid mainstream evenhanded social
history of blacks in America.  I'm working as curator on an exhibit about
Lewis Latimer, a black inventor, andthe  'Advisory Committee'  (-I- didn't
pick em) has been a tad less than helpful.  There'a quite a bit of time 
pressure, so I'd rather not sift through the thousands of titles I get
when I do a subject-search in the Fla State Libraries system!

The time period covered by the exhibit is 1840-193: Lewwis's parets
were a cause celebre when they escaped from slavery to Boston.  

Thanx,

--bayla   bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Brad's Entertainment Question
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Everyone else's questions are too easy.
No FAIR.
Brad's question is a real marshmallow.
--ggs
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From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Boston
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Says ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Elaine M Brennan):
>Rita and Joan, respectively, commented:
>>>
>>> (having lustful thoughts about Don and Paul's Victorian...)
>>
>>Yes, there may be a site for a words-l gathering -- Don Roby and friend Paul
>>are considering buying a 25-room Victorian (which they haven't yet seen I
>>found out as they left my house) and turning it into a bed & breakfast.
>>
>Yeah, and remember, not just *any* sort of bed & breakfast ... we're
>talking his own internet site for Don and connections in every room
>(and could you make it a full usenet feed while you're at itn, Don?)
>

        But of course!  Though I may have trouble affording the system
with the mortgage we're likely to be paying...

        Bernard will of course have to attend that gathering, to take
care of the system while I'm busy partying.

- RobyMeister
From: hamel@uakari.primate.wisc.edu (Ray Hamel)
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Subject: RE: Famous horses
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> >Cisco Kid                       DIABLO
> >Pancho (Cisco Kid's sidekick)   LOBO
> 
> Ray, are you *sure*? I always though I heard Pancho's horse
> called *Loco*.
> 
> judith
> 

Oops, Judith, you're right.  Pancho's horse was named LOCO.
I hate those synapse short circuits.

Ray Hamel
University of Wisconsin
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:24:17 -0700
From:         JOEP@LAGUNA.EPCC.EDU
Subject:      Re: Guy stuff

   Karen,

   RE:  "Coach -- the TV Show"

   My spousal-unit just *loves* this show -- she thinks Coach is just
   "the cutest thing".  On the other hand, I rarely watch it. With the
   exception of Christine, it is pretty boring.

   Joe P.(who generally prefers watching something with a ball in it.)
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Blinded by Geography
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>O.K...... Where were all you people that did Geography at high school when
>I needed you? I got had by Mka on "What is the deepest land gorge in the
>world?" The answer to that question is 'The Grand Canyon' as was stated on
>the card according to my youngest son who has just completed 3 Unit Geography
>in his HSC. All the others that Mka cited were in fact 'mountain gorges' and
>therefore not proper answers to the question. A 'land gorge' is a gorge
>surrounded by plateaux.

        Hell's Canyon isn't a 'mountain gorge' but it *is* deeper than Grand
        Canyon.

        Not that I'd accept MKA's pleadings -- in TP, the card knows all (even
        when it's clearly incorrect).

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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 09:30:46 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Rita plunges the take
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Best wishes on your nuptials, snooks. And if he ever does you wrong, I'll
rip his lungs out.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:10:00 EST
From:         AYC3@NCH08A.EM.CDC.GOV
Subject:      WORDS-L TP: Anjani's Art/Literature Ques
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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.

--Anjani
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:52:15 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Words-L Weekly Digest (Holiday edition)
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12/21/92 - 1/3/93

A not unexpected snappishness creeps onto the List over Yuletide, until,
on New Year's Eve, stately poems from the keyboards of Ken, Torkel, and
Natalie set the tone for 1993.  Deep beliefs are explored, in some depth.
Carolyn B. accelerates the pace of the Trivial Pursuit game; Susan K.
sweeps four categories before drawing an Aussie question.  Sticking by his
principles, Torkel turns dirty rice into plain rice for Swedish readers of
James Lee Burke.  Michael M. makes a Mele Kalikimaka gift of the word
'amphiboly'.  A C-SPAN image of Peter M. appears in ftp space at msstate.
On the road:  Steve K. to Cheeseland; Marty R. to the Upper Pen.; Karen K.
(traveling with black-eyed peas) to LA; abh (armed with same) to Graham's
messy London flat, which opens, we learn, with a mortice key; Natalie and
judith to New Orleans, which city is thence proposed as a spring convocation
site; brad to ancestral acres in Tupelo and Amory, MS.  New posters get lost
in the hubbub, but among them are Anjani (Centers for Disease Control?),
Lee "The Whole 9 Yards" Bradley (Valdosta State), and Frizzy the Fribble
(t-shirtless at Rachel, U.K.).

Respectfully submitted,
brad
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:42:46 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Famous horses
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> >wasn't Hopalong Cassidy's horse Topper?  Gene Autry's was
> >Champion, and Tom Mix's was Tony.  Dale Evans had a horse named Buttermilk.
>
> Yes, I remember those.... and Zorro's was Diablo, but whose was Midnight? I'm
> sure there was one called that.

Was Midnight Allan (Rocky) Lane's horse?  There *was* a Midnight...you're
right.
>
> >ndh (who used to spend every Saturday morning at the Ritz Theater watching
> >cowboy movies AND the weekly installment of the serial)
>
> It was Saturday afternoons for me... but I'll bet we saw the same movies and
> serials. One thing I noticed though when they ran some of those serials on
> TV a few years back, when everyone was in a very nostalgic mood following our
> celebrations of 200 years of white settlement, was that, no matter which
 serial
> it was, the plots were all the same and the villian was easily recognizable in
> the first episode.... I never noticed that when I was a kid.
>
Right...and we lived in terrible suspense from Saturday to Saturday, never
quite sure that the hero/heroine was going to escape from whatever
disaster had beset them the week before.  Guess we weren't too observant,
huh, or we'd have realized that they *always did.*
ndh (whose favorite was one called "Black Arrow")
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 6 Jan 1993 04:46:32 GMT
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In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:

>>Can't be too hard.  How many Adrians have accounts on rachel?  And how
>>many of those can stand Graham?:-)  I'd say the resulting set of names
>>would be pretty small....
>
>Watch it, Ruth, you're walking on <holy ground>....
>
Whose religion, and which one?  I can't commit a really good act of
cultural insensitivity until I know who or what I'm trying to insult.....

btw- I know what you mean about watching the screen up close and personal.
With my glasses off I need to be within a foot of it myself.:-)  Even then
it's no picnic...  Ain't life fun? [just don't try to drive in this
condition...or position...]

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Subject:      guff

Can anyone tell me the etymology of this word? Also, though it probably
couldn't be called a dialectal word (and the Dictionary of American
Regional English doesn't list it) is there a geographic distribution to
its *active* use?

Nathan Rose
ndrose@husc.harvard.edu
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:00:31 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
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On Mon, 11 Jan 1993, gilbertsmith wrote:

> I want a postcard from Spain addressed to Dr. Giggles at
> 117 Woodburn Rd, Raleigh NC 27605, so that my tc/sw can say
> "Who is *this*??!!!"  I want it from some out-of-the-way

You better be on the lookout for one from me in London, and see to it that
the tc/sw doesn't get it before you do ;-).

Also, many thanks for Akio, Karen, and Rita for all sending me such neat
holiday cards when I sent nothing!

-abh
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From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
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        will guess that it is===================>

Is that some sort of phallic smiley?

G
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Famous horses
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>I used to spend Saturday afternoons watching Roy Rogers movies and Superman
>serials.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Superman was my all time favourite serial....I would also never miss the
reading of the Sunday comics on the radio on Sunday mornings just to hear
the sound effects of him flying..... I was absolutely devastated when
George Reeves committed suicide.

I wonder if my dislike of Westerns these days relates to the number I saw
as a child. I did see a good one on TV a few nights ago though "Little Moon
and Judd MacGraw" I think it was called.... it wasn't listed in the TV
program - a last minute substitute for "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday"
which I'd already seen. It starred Stephanie Powers and James Caan and the
style of humour in it really appealed to me.

Carolyn
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Blinded by Geography

>This is not intended to be in even the slightest way inflammatory.
>
>I said:
>
>>>        Hell's Canyon isn't a 'mountain gorge' but it *is* deeper than Grand
>>>        Canyon.
>
>>>        Not that I'd accept MKA's pleadings -- in TP, the card knows all
>>>       (even when it's clearly incorrect).
>
>To which MKA replied (in part):
>
>>3.   Neal never has been one to accept truth over authority.
>Excuse me?  What brought this on?  What does it mean?

It was not meant to be inflammatory in the least--TP as far as I know is about
answering questions, not guessing the answer on the card.

>And how dare an aspiring <attorney> take someone to
>task about the relative values of truth and authority?

I'll leave my idiotic, clueless prejudices at home if you will.

>If one accepts the differentiation asserted by Carolyn's son, then surely both
>Hell's and Grand Canyons are 'land' rather than 'mountain'
>defiles/chasms/gashes.  And, as MKA noted in his original answer (and I
>supported), Hell's is deeper than Grand.  I assumed, though, that the original
>question was framed to exclude oceanic trenches and such.

I have not seen Hell's Canyon, so I do not know if it is surrounded by plateaus.
I too assumed the "land" aspect was to steer me away from the Mariana Trench--
14k+ feet deep.

The differentiation asserted by Carolyn's son is simply silly on its face.
Research on the phrase to follow--mountains are land, as far as I know, so
unless it is a geological term of art, it is a) useless and b) has anyone on
this list ever heard the phrase "land gorge" either with the "plateau" meaning
or any other?

And I noted your support, Neal.  Thank you.

A gorge, btw, my dictionary says is 1: a narrow cleft with steep rocky walls,
esp. one through which a stream runs; 2: a small canyon.  Only the part of the
Grand Canyon rising directly above the Colorado river, strictly speaking, is a
gorge.  The rest is canyon--and not a bit small, but rather Grand.

I confess that the usual way I handle TP answers that are clearly wrong is not
to accept the right answer but pull another card and ask a question on the same
topic.

>I think I was commenting more on the errors made by the creators of TP than on
>MKA's answer to the question -- I've been tripped up many times by 'correct'
>answers I *know* are wrong.  I still lose my turn with the die, but I don't get
>bent out of shape about it.
I wasn't bent out of shape in the least.  Usually there is not time to prove the
card's answer wrong.

>And I've never lost a game of (USer) TP.

Me neither.  The beer's cold, the weather nasty.  Drop in and one of us will
have their lives changed.  (That is a serious offer, if you were wondering.)

;-}

-K

-Mka
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        I trust that you have, or are planning to, reveal to your *seester*
        that, though unattainable, she is <worshipped from afar> by a person
        of good taste.

... and no mean persuasion.

G
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Blinded by Geography
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This is not intended to be in even the slightest way inflammatory.

I said:

>>        Hell's Canyon isn't a 'mountain gorge' but it *is* deeper than Grand
>>        Canyon.

>>        Not that I'd accept MKA's pleadings -- in TP, the card knows all (even
>>        when it's clearly incorrect).

To which MKA replied (in part):

>3.   Neal never has been one to accept truth over authority.

Excuse me?  What brought this on?  What does it mean?  What is your evidence?
Please cite precedents.  And how dare an aspiring <attorney> take someone to
task about the relative values of truth and authority?

If one accepts the differentiation asserted by Carolyn's son, then surely both
Hell's and Grand Canyons are 'land' rather than 'mountain'
defiles/chasms/gashes.  And, as MKA noted in his original answer (and I
supported), Hell's is deeper than Grand.  I assumed, though, that the original
question was framed to exclude oceanic trenches and such.

I think I was commenting more on the errors made by the creators of TP than on
MKA's answer to the question -- I've been tripped up many times by 'correct'
answers I *know* are wrong.  I still lose my turn with the die, but I don't get
bent out of shape about it.  And I've never lost a game of (USer) TP.

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Subject:      Re: Elvis laughing

On Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:34:32 +0100 <torkel@SICS.SE> said:
>   >Of course he has.  That's why he still lives!
>
>  I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but he's dead as a doornail.

  Herod all handsaws!  Is this as final as "dead as four-o'clock"?

  brad
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:12:11 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%93011115540463@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU> writes:

>My only question about the weekend was, were you gentle with
>him, huh, rita rita?

	To the best of my <ability>, giggles.

>And did he wear his APO t-shirt?
	
	Hee hee!




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CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Awhile
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:51:02 GMT

I just saw this use of "awhile".  Ms. Colucci's spelling is
otherwise very good (and I didn't notice any typos), so it
seems to be intentional.  Perhaps further observations will
show uses of "alot", too...

> From: nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci)
> Newsgroups: soc.singles
> Subject: Re: Meeting women in clubs
> ...
> Here's a good opening line:  "Hi!  May I join you for awhile?"
>
> Again.  You have to look for the right people in the right places.  It's
> not wise to find the hottest babe in the place and zero in.  Look for people
> who are looking back.

--karsten
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>
>   Joe P.(who generally prefers watching something with a ball in it.)

Well now, Hi Joe! i like to watch something with a ball in it as well,
especially if its well wrapped in latex, or clear plastic wrap, with a
garnish.

jenna
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