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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 22:02:19 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Take me out to the Phonolog
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> But you're such a sweet and patient person...er..uh...beagle.  Besides,
> you may have noticed that the people from the University of Texas are NOT
> aspiring military officers...a definite plus.

You're right.  Bounce messages beat VMI kiddies any day.

>
>     o/.\____/ >          -- Bernard      \______|
> >                          / \  / \
>

But what I really want to know is why you did this weird thing to my
body??
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 21:38:41 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      re: Bodeans gleans
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> Gosh, Marty, would you have known this message came from VMI even without
> seeing the header?  (Darn, I'll never make nicest to newbies!)

Yep, the kiddies are back.  Aren't they cute.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:19:17 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mensa test
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              5 Oct 1992 10:33:30 EDT from <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:33:30 EDT Evelyn said:
>0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 1
>
>Can anyone solve it, besides me?

0+1+2-3+4-5-6+7-8+9 = 1

That is NOT a unique solution, but A solution.

(e.g. switch the signs on 1, 2, 3)

dan
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 09:27:47 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: The New Yorker

The NEW Yorker stinks.  Literally.  I thought a skunk had nested in
my mailbox.

-K
-Mka
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From: maya@carina.unm.edu ()
Subject: Re: Mama Judith
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 19:14:59 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <WORDS-L%92100112495726@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:

>>Does anyone know when Mama Primate will be back?  I miss her.
>>rashmi
>We can all beg her to come back.  I miss her, too.
>Evelyn

	Moi aussi.

-maya

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Date:         Sun, 27 Sep 1992 16:26:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: READ THIS OR DIE LAUGHING
Comments: To: "(Ruth M. Hanschka)" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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> In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:
>
> >DEADLINE ALERT!!!!
> >.
> >Tonight's the night.
> >.
> Ruth
> <tossing strangely shaped foam objects at Giggles, just for the practice>
>
> --
Sorry, you missed.  I was in NJ, having adventures that I may *not*
report.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 06:57:36 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Respite from the Kiddies
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> They should have been safely tucked up in their beds for quite a while now...
> what times reveille? Can Natalie save us from another onslaught in time?

I sent a note last night to the person listed as "administrative and technical
contact" for VMI, suggesting that perhaps a netiquette document should be
posted on their system since a few juveniles there were spreading a bad
image of VMI on the nets in their attempt to be cute.  I included one sample
posting from "Country" to illustrate the level of their discourse.  This
morning I went on and sent 'quiet deletes' for the three VMI subscribers.
I suspected that we were in for fun when the three of them subscribed at
the same time late yesterday.  Even though Niteman was silent last night,
I went on and zapped him also.  That way it will take them longer to figure
out that they've been zapped.  They'll probably think for a while that
there's a system problem of some kind, especially given the flaky nature
of the VMI system.  The person I wrote last night is not, btw, the person
who called me from VMI a few weeks ago about problems on their system.  I
decided not to write him since he sounded not much older than the kiddies
and not all that knowledgeable about net life.

> Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 07:01:18 -0400
> From: Revised List Processor (1.7d) <LISTSERV@uga.cc.uga.edu>
> Subject:      Output of your job "maynor"
> To: "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
>
> > quiet delete words-l ibaileytw%1994b%vmi@ist.vmi.edu
> IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU has been removed from list WORDS-L.
> Notification has NOT been sent to IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
>
> > quiet delete words-l idisavinoh%1994b%vmi@ist.vmi.edu
> IDISAVINOH%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU has been removed from list WORDS-L.
> Notification has NOT been sent to IDISAVINOH%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
>
> > quiet delete words-l help%help%vmi@ist.vmi.edu
> HELP%Help%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU has been removed from list WORDS-L.
> Notification has NOT been sent to HELP%Help%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
>

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:41:20 EDT
From:         Jim Bradley <FNA104@URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ggs provides the opening...

Rita,
  CONGRATULATIONS!!! That is BIG news, especially after you set us up
in such an offhand way. Seems like you took the route that Helen and
I have so often, lately, wished we had chosen--just do it, and tell
everyone later.
/Jim (17 days and counting, and calling, and listing, and choosing,
      and reserving, and....)
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 19:28:00 MDT
From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      WORDS-L Cookbook

Ruth,

     You offered your 'zuchinni bread for the thousands' recipe in
exchange for a brownie recipe.  How about the family pecan pie recipe?
Matter of fact, we could probably digest EAT-L if we gave it a go.

The Ronin
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:11:33 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Tushar's Test
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I take back what i said about Santa's spelling.  It's getting worse.
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 20:40:21 -0700
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Joshua (Was "take me out to the Phonolog")

Well, the offending CD has been returned to Hastings, where it was cheerfully
exchanged for "Joshua Judges Ruth".  GOD, is that GOOD!  (Well, with EmmyLou
Harris, Francine Reed, et al sitting in how could it be otherwise?)  Damn
near dampened down the sofa...  8-)  My grudging thanks to, I believe, MARTY (!)
   for recommending it...  I can hardly wait for my next "road trip"...

John "Crank that UP!" W.
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:51:21 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: still a loser
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On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> Let's be very clear on this. "Where the weak are killed and eaten" is
> and has always been Anne B Harwell's personal image of a words-l full
> Anne B Harwells. Not too many people have supported this view. In fact
> (and let's be very clear about this too) we are wimps.

Yeah, yeah, Tushar, and Elvis lives with space aliens. You are not a wimp,
fellow hog. Thou'rt a ravenous collector of bytes thyself. Don't try to
take me out to the woodshed to pay for your sins.

-abh
Reminds me of something my old friend Venkatesh said once: "Don't call me
Tush!"
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:44:10 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: tushie baby.....

>should consider starting his OWN list.....sorta like val-l, the personal
>list of Valentine Smith....who got run offa history and polsci, i believe
>in the days of the Gulf War.....and still, i think, has his own list....
>
>its sorta like val against the world....
>or tushie against the world....

This kind of suggestion has been made in the past -- for instance, starting
virupaksh-l@uchicago.edu was a suggestion made by a lysterical abh in the
throes of hellish fury. The answer to all such suggestions is:

A NEW list for that? And what do you think words-l is, buster?

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:19:26 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: loser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Would someone please let me know how to KILL incoming email from a particular
source. Twice today I've lost my response to Agnes because of the volume of
incoming email screwing with my system.

Carolyn
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:16:30 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: test
              29 Sep 1992 13:51:31 -0400 from <Santa@NORTH.POLE.TOYS>

If I have to guess, I'd say this was abh.  But I could be wrong. :)

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 09:45:33 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Bookstores
              3 Oct 1992 14:09:38 MED from <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>

>> Waterstone's has taken Britain by storm,
>Don't believe all you read in the book press.  They're OK, but nothing
>special.  (Well, not by British standards)
>G

   Assuming this is not your prejudice against Glaswegians showing :-),
   I will take your word for it.

   The independent bookseller who can find a niche can be incredibly
   successful.  Several people have mentioned their favorite bookstores
   of this kind.  Neal and Marty adverted to Hawley-Cooke in Louisville,
   KY, which gives a book-hungry populace the selection and service that
   the chains can't.  A similar story has unfolded here in Lexington, KY.
   A university town of 200,000 (not sure of that number) with a couple
   of chain stores in the malls, two campus bookstores (one private, one
   corporate), and a handful of excellent secondhand dealers.  Ripe for
   a community bookstore of its own, and one has emerged -- Joseph-Beth
   Booksellers.  Heavily dependent on automated buying and inventory
   control from a single book jobber, it feels different somehow, with
   local promotions and marketing.  Already several years old now, it
   is embarking on its third big expansion -- adding a cafe, a travel
   agency, and other amenities.  (A tavern and laundromat next perhaps?)
   I wonder what would happen if one of the big superstores came to town
   and tried to compete....

  brad
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Sunrise, sunset...
Date: 4 Oct 92 10:04:17 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I didn't save a copy, but I do believe that my original posting *did*
specify the equator at the equinox.  *I* know why they printed those 
little figure-eights on my schoolroom globes.

--bayla
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Mama Judith
Date: 3 Oct 1992 05:12:00 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:

>>Yeah, well the *next* contest is going to be a Sword Drill, and
>>then we'll see if *ts* is a <Sunday School Teacher>.
>>...(Uncle Harry's Not A Missionary Now...)
>>--ggs (quoting Noel C.)
>
>This is what I call clueless newbieness. Although to be fair, it might
>just be a lapse of memory.
>
Either that or senility; it's hard to tell at his <age>, and state of
relative <newbieness>.  Then again, he's been out of <circulation> for
a while, and this his <circulation> has been cut off.  This has been known
to do strange things to an older gentleman's <mind>.  Perhaps that's it.

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (62)
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:37:49 GMT

TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU (Blue eyes cryin' in the rain) writes:
> So here's tonight's trivia question...
> What does [Ivory soap's] 99 and 44 one-hundredths *really* signify?
> Clue:  it has nothing to do with purity.

Hmm.  Might you be mistaking the fact that Ivory has air whipped
into it with the 99.44% pure claim?

As I remember it the 99.44% purity claim was to indicate
that the soap was relatively free of lye (and insufficiently
reacted fats).

Ivory's ability to float came about when somebody in the Ivory
production line left a batch of soap ingredients in a mixing
machine too long.  After it was discovered that this batch
floated they realized the benefits of their lucky accident and
made whipping air into the soap standard.

--karsten

(Ivory is undoubtedly more than 99.44% pure these days)
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:15:18 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: whoa
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:On Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:00:06 -0500 Anne Burton Harwell said:
:>> (Anyone else here except me ever been court-martialled?)
:>YOU WHAT!!?!?!?!?!?!?

:   diddling the COs wife?  diddling the COs son?   diddling the CO?
:telling the CO to fuck off?   something else even more exotic?
:dan, as always, curious but not yellow, and not blue today

Well, since you asked - I drove a light air-portable landrover on
two wheels after being expressly asked not to.  The other passangers
weren't as amused as I was.

G
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:22:00 EDT
From:         In Medias Res <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Tushar's Test
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                                                          It's all exciting,
> fun-filled, sometimes sweaty, sometimes sweet but never solemn. Corresponding
> should never be solemn or serious.  It's a way for two people to express their
> feelings for each other.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^!!!!
> Chris

Mr. C.
Giggles, in his absence, has asked me to thank you for these sweet
words but to remind you that you should *not* kiss and tell.  I
think you have, with this, really hurt his <feelings>.
--imr
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 22:53:23 -0500
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (61)
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Oh boy; I've never been gleaned before.  This is exciting... :)

On Mon, 28 Sep 1992, Akio Tanaka wrote:

> 12) "A blessed Mabon to all" (Evelyn)

Mabon is the name given by Wiccans to the holiday celebrated on the autumn
equinox.  The standard explanation for the name is that it is from the
Welsh for "son." (Any Welsh-speakers who can confirm that?)

> 13) Merry part (Susan H.)

Standard Craft recitation for the end of a ritual:

The circle is open, but unbroken.
May the peace [or love] of the Goddess be ever in your heart.
Merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again.

Pagans tend to greet one another with "Merry meet!" and take leave of one
another with "Merry part."  SInce it's familiar to most pagans, it makes
for a good code word when you're not sure someone is, shall we say, of a
like mind.

> 14) Wiccan (Anne Hr.)

Synonym for Witch.  In this context, it refers to someone who 1)worships
pre-Christian deities of European or Greek origin, 2) has an affinity or
attunement with nature and observes holidays based on the harvest
festivals of Celtic and Germanic Europe, 3) practices occult arts such as
astrology, divination, or magic.  It does *not* refer to someone who
believes in or worships Satan.

Any more than this could get awfully complicated...

> 38) Val Kilmer (Ruth H.)

The actor who impersonated James Douglas Morrison in that movie called
_The Doors_.

-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------------
"Queens never make bargains."  -- The Red Queen, _Through the Looking Glass_
-----amadeus@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu--------------The University of Texas @Austin---
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:25:16 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject: Re: VAL-L
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              Sep 30, 92 11:20 am

> > sometimes reasonable, sometimes nutty.  He reminds me a little of Don.
> > Valentine writes desperately since he supposedly has a some sort of
> > progressive lung disease that is killing him.  I don't think he's ever
>
> I'm trying to figure out the connection with Don here...
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

	I don't know what the connection is.  My mental pictures of them are
similar, is all.  It's just that funky physicality vs. virtuality thing.

Rita
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:29:58 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      re: Tushar's Test
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              30 Sep 1992 18:00:20 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:00:20 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>As I've said before, I've never seen the tv show.  I wrongly assumed that
>the game was innocent.

   Well, I've only seen it a couple times....and partly because it IS named
Family FEUD...and they do....attack each other on the same team,etc....
and not MY idea of fun....so I stick with stuff like good ol' Alex the
SmartAlex....

>At that time I didn't realize that giggles was later going to announce
>the "winners."

   I guess I mighta been guilty of the same thing....though will admit I
did NOT read the results...I've captured them to a file, but haven't
taken the time to look at it yet...and maybe I won't.
   I do think I didn't answer all...a.nd hopefully my 'mean category'
answers were done in a joking way....but really don't remember...or care
enough to go back to a log copy or the list archives.
   all of which is interesting, as I generally compulsively skim, or read,
EVERYTHING on this list....and that stuff I did NOT look at....

    hmmmmmm....


          dan
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From: hillnr@hamlet.uncg.edu (Norman Hill)
Subject: Re:      Re: still a loser
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:39:17 GMT

In article <9210060256.AA22381@Ra.MsState.Edu>,         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
|> > PS Natalie - I think it's time you became the heavy-handed listowner
|> > again and 'accidentally' filtered out all postings from VMI.  They're
|> > just not worth the effort.
|> 
|> Ok, what do y'all think? ...Wanna just ignore them?  They probably think they're
|> somehow shocking us.  Guess what, kiddies.  Middle-aged (and older) people
|> also know about phallic symbols and other cutsey things.  We can even
|> say FUCK.  My, my.  Isn't that exciting??
|>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Here is my vote for IGNORE!  Not worth any other effort.

-- 
Norman Hill, Systems Programmer        Internet: hillnr@hamlet.uncg.edu
UNCG, Greensboro, North Carolina          Voice: (919) 334-3338

"Nothing is easier than fault-finding.  No talent, no self-denial, no brains
 are required to set up in the grumbling business."   -Robert West
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: He's baaaaack!

> Hmmmm. Is (H. Ross's) race utilizing the lifted tack?

Dunno.  He got knocked pretty bad back in July.

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:29:48 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      re: LOSERS
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Posted on 6 Oct 1992 at 09:18:40 by Anne Burton Harwell
>On Tue, 6 Oct 1992, (Graham Toal) wrote:
>> <fit right in> - just ask your postmaster if he can fix you up
>> with a feed from soc.motss
>I delete a couple hundred posings unread, and come back to *this*? Oh
>please, Graham, nobody's that lame.

Maybe if you hadn't deleted all those postings unread, you'd realize
that they *are* that lame?

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:39:15 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      re: Tushar's Test
              30 Sep 1992 13:02:54 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Natalie,
  Bernard would never leave you.

Evelyn
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: AND THE WINNER IS!!!!

>       So what do third-place winners get?

>Rita

        ...some lovely parting gifts, and a copy of our home game!

JMW
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Subject: Re:      WFF Ballot Posted
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:35:26 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92092621384014@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>,         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:
|> > 16) drives the most interesting car?
|> 
|>       Some giggling rube at NC State.

Oh, I just realized I didn't answer this one... For the record, I
drive a 63 Dodge 440 or a 72 BMW Bavaria.
 
|> > 25) posts the fewest messages?
|> 
|>       The lurkers.  Akio is probably next.

Well, I did nominate myself for this (and I am NOT a total lurker!).
 
|> 
|> > 30) is the virtual father-figure?
|> 
|>       Dan in Potato-land

I think DON deserves a mention here.

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