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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
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              "BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU" at Jan 25, 93 2:07 pm

Are you guys talking about January 26?  If so, that is
Republic Day in India - the day the constitution was
adopted (Is that the appropriate verb?).

-rashmi
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:35:01 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
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On Sat, 23 Jan 1993, Karen Kay wrote:

> Oh, but Karsten, I think everyone on the list would agree that you
> should buy me one!

ONLY if you get to keep it at your place.

-abh
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 15:55:04 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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>
> Who is Depraved May? Somebody's girlfriend?
>
> -abh

You've been hitting the delete key again, abh.
doris
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An offer you can't refuse
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I would go to Vegas *any* day.  This is an exciting idea.
I vote for this.
--ggs (Circus Circus has dancing monkeys....)
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:24:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Political Correctness Bullshot
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>         Hurray!  ggs just expressed the same feeling I've had ever since I
> came back here, and he expressed it better than I could have.
>
> Tom Lee
> who doesn't want people to think the way he does; nay, he wouldn't wish that
> on his worst enemy

I'm so happy when I find an ally....  it happens so seldom around here.
And particularly delightful after all the nasty things <ts> has been
saying about my enlightened point of view.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:35:51 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1993, Ruth M. Hanschka wrote:

> >make idle threats.  Anyway, I've *no idea* where fizzy could get a gif
> >of a 3" John Thomas to post...
> >
> Maybe he's got a waterproof instamatic?  If not, he has/had full Usenet
> access, didn't he?

ALL RIGHT, who blabbed!

-abh
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From:         Miss Jackson if Youre Nasty <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: More Votes
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1993, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> More votes are coming in.  I'll send a new tally sometime tomorrow.
> Just got one that ranked Edinburg, TX, as #3.

Oh my God. What, prithee tell, were 1 and 2?

Someone call a doctor, I think one of us had had a <nervous breakdown>.

-abh
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:58:27 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Asians

>That's the problem with Asia:  it stretches from Mediterranean shores
>to the Bering Strait.  Not a proper continent at all!

Yes, rather arbitrary, geographically speaking. It ought to be much larger.
Spekaing about culture, I'd say people's perceptions are approximately
right. There is a great difference between, say, China and India. One CAN
see some kind of Indian "influence" into Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, but
certainly not in China. Similarly there is no Chinese influence to speak of
in India.

tushar
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ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
> The American Heritage dictionary says that Innuit means 'people'
> in the Eskimo lg.

It's all a ruse.  It's really a word for a type of snow but they are
already sensitive about having so many that we let this one slide.

--karsten
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:18:43 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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Posted on 26 Jan 1993 at 21:13:13 by G
>*was* Houston SG was spending the summer in, wasn't it bwp?)

SG?  What?  What kind of offer??

Karen
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:33:13 EST
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
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              22 Jan 1993 17:51:49 +1100 from <LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU>

I think it was Hungary, but I can't be sure.  The Soviet Union was busy
invading all sorts of countries at that time.

Sports or Geography, huh?  Sort of like the rock and the hard place.
I'll take Sports.

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:55:12 EST
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
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Posted on 25 Jan 1993 at 12:06:44 by Don Thornton
>Oh Karen ... pasta with eggplant!  that sounds great, is it complicated?

No, just roast red peppers and eggplant w/ fettucine--lots of olive oil
and basil.  Oh, and olives.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 20 Jan 1993 09:52:49 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
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Go ahead punk.  Make my day.

Bwahahahahaha!

G
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:11:20 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Internet-Bitnet
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> do ls -l /etc/sendmail.cf  and see when it was lasted edited.  I think someone
> has been upgrading your mailer...

I found out the answer.  FWP was playing with it.  There are, of course,
some definite advantages to not being able to send any mail with bitnet
address as return address, but it does screw up the people who are on
lists from their bitnet addresses now.  (Why anybody here would subscribe
to a list via bitnet I don't know.  Or rather I do know -- they're newbies
who don't realize what they're doing.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 09:32:37 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:05:31 GMT Rita Marie Rouvalis said:
>        Now WAIT just a gosh-darned minute here.  The blizzard of '78
>was in February.

It started here on Jan. 26, 1978 at 4:30 A.M.  The barometer in Cleveland
read 28.28, the lowest it has ever been here.  Last night, all of the TV
stations here showed film and/or videotape of the storm and its effects.

>--
>Net.Personality for hire.                       Will Post for Food.

Evelyn Duncan
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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>> "What film introduced the song 'New York, New York'?"
>
>I told you this was my worst category. :(  No 'gold ring' for me. The only
>Sinatra movies I can think of are From Here to Eternity and the Manchurian
>Candidate, and I'm pretty sure it's not one of those. <sigh>
>
>Emily

Aaaargh! I can't believe that you didn't even make a guess................
the film was called 'New York, New York' as well. Promise me that until you
get your next Entertainment question that you will keep repeating "I *can*
answer entertainment questions" so that you don't psyched yourself out
again.:-(

Carolyn
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 02:11:08 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
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              "samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU" at Jan 22, 93 11:33 pm

> >Oh, it does... but I had to sort through 14 cards before I found one just
> >for you. "Who captained the England team in the 1977 Centenary Cricket Test
> >in Australia?"
>
> It's far less fair than asking motor-racing questions, actually. Anyway,
> I can't think of an answer. My guess is Mike Brearly.

A vague voice from the deep recesses of my subconscious says it's a Tony
Somebody - Lewis, perhaps?

This is really weird - the name just popped into my head out of nowhere.

-rashmi
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:22:49 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Spring is here
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No typo, the buds are coming out on the trees, the wildflowers are
sprouting, the temperature is about 75, there's a cool breeze blowing,
and a young girl's thoughts turn to <high performance, small-displacement
engines>. Someone talk me down, quick, I almost went shopping for a bike
again today.

And I almost forgot: here's a special message for anyone in the world who
pisses me off. Eat Me.

-abh
Hi, richh!
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 09:57:54 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Ben doesn't know I'm doing this....
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Posted on 28 Jan 1993 at 09:03:16 by BrownVM Mailer (108969)
>he became attracted to folders.  He had sex with them all the
>time.

Has the kid been using a Mac?;)

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:28:13 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
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From: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

> Tell me Peter, have you ever known a Brit to make sense, spellingwise?:-)
> Me neither....

In fact I deeply regret the British preoccupation with standardised
spelling. Personally I think it has robbed English of an important
dimension of its potential growth. Elizabethan English was far
richer and more vytal.


>
> >Speaking of Greeks: What did Zeus say to Narcissus?
> >
> Is this another Flowers joke?

No, it's genuinely mythological.

Peter
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rita@WORLD.STD.COM (Rita Rouvalis) writes:
> My grandmother may not have any idea what a modem is, but she just bought
> us a 14.4 bps :).

Reading words-l is going to be frustrating at roughly 1.5 characters per
second.

--karsten
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:53:58 EST
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              26 Jan 1993 16:50:16 EST from <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>

On Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:50:16 EST Evelyn said:
>One of the things I found interesting about her is that she would NOT
>write speeches for Nancy Reagan and got away with it.  I wonder if she
>would be do that with the Clintons?

would be able to do that with the Clintons?
>
>Evelyn

Sorry about that...It's been a looong day.
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:23:22 -0600
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1993, G wrote:

> How <deeply>???

Only her <hairdresser> knows for sure.

I gotta get a job where they pay for one-liners.

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:10:24 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Salmonbake Uprising
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No, no, Doris and Giggles.  We're not going to think of individuals.
We're going to think of the whole group as a huge intertwined circle.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1993, gilbertsmith wrote:

> There is just *one* thing I want to be sure of before I
> go to a Salmonbake at an <unknown> place:
>    Can we be sure there wont be hordes of gay soldiers
>    hanging around?
> This is something that we should consider.

If you wanna get any kind of turn-out from this crowd, you better be sure
there are plenty.

-abh
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Date: 28 Jan 93 09:58:47 GMT
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Wimps whine

>>clambake, think about how absolutely perfect it would have been if it had
>>been warm enough to swim.
>
>This is the ATLANTIC OCEAN, Natalie--I'm not sure it's ever warm enough
>to swim.


There must be something in the air down here - I'm still sweating in Florida, 
though almost everyone I see is wearing a sweater against the 'cold' 65
degree weather.  When I was growing up in NYC, we swam in the Atlantic
Ocean (or at least played therein til our lips turned blue) from 
Memorial Day thru Labor Day.  Except, of course, for August, which was
polio season, and we were forbidden to put our faces near the water.

Speaking of polio: I wonder sometimes whether the fear of AIDS is 
related to the fact that we have so few other contagious killers
nowadays.  We don't -expect- to 'catch' fatal diseases.  Can any
of you imagine being a parent in pre-antibiotic days?  

--bayla



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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: inauguration
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> I just wish it had been Guido Sarducci instead of Billy Graham.

        Not likely.  Fr. Guido's sister-in-law is the outgoing Surgeon-General.

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From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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>>time and date, we could all pause and think intensely about other Wordslers.
>Pick a GMT, Harwell, and lead me down the garden telepath...


Uh oh, I'm in trouble: I never can properly work out the change from
GMT to EST (or to anyhwere else): will there be a <penalty> for 
thinking of wordslers at the <wrong time>?  Besides, I wouldn't want
to miss y'all.

--bayla


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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> Not *light* gray--*athletic* gray. What you see in college bookstores for
> the teams.

Isn't that light gray?  I like the gray that seems to be kind of "in"
right now for t-shirts and sweatshirts:  very light gray with a darker
gray stripe, the stripe being just a tad darker -- close enough to same
color that the stripes aren't really noticeable.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> (I think that's about 50 degrees F.) here on winter nights and it's been
> years since I last wore a jumper during the day - cardigans are handy though

In case we have any lurkers or newbies looking for discussion of words,
here's one.  It's well known that Brits and (apparently) Aussies think
that jumpers are sweaters, whereas we in the U.S. know that jumpers are
dresses worn over jerseys or blouses.  (I'm not sure about Canadian use
of the term.  Tony?  Peter?)  My question is this.  I understand how the
Anglos who came to this country confused things by using existing words
like "corn" and "robin" for slightly different flora and fauna, but how
did "jumper" get changed?  Is it because both are sort of outer-type
garments?  That seems a tenuous connection.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Dave Nasatir <nasatir@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Our Christian nation
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Ruth
        The Amish bashing events I cited did, indeed, take place
more than twenty years ago.  Sorry, as I age twenty years ago
seems like almost yesterday.
                Dave
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g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (G) writes:
>> (Hmm.  I wonder what I'd find if I had the OED on CD-ROM...)
> Dunno.  Want me to look it up on mine?
> (It'll probably say the same as the paper version though...)

I suspect that there won't be a paper version much longer.
A PC with OED on CD-ROM is already cheaper than the full-size
paper version.

--karsten
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Harwell, you were the one, as I recall, who laughed loudest at
Natalie's heroic OS/2 saga. Now where's the mote?

You use "more maya". I with my usual wisdom decided from the
beginning to use "less maya", This, Harwell, is the difference
between you and me.

tushar
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In-reply-to: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:40:00 EST

Neal worries:

	   Teal or cranberry, lettering in white.  Or maybe use different colors
	   for the two lines of text, to augment the contrast between Helv and
	   hand-written.

	   I worry that the gray would be too dark, and the lettering would blend
	   into the background.  And that a few hundred washings would wear it
	   away.

No.  No teal, no cranberry.  Gray.  Athletic gray.  The only part that
would be too dark would be under your arms or neck or small of back when
you sweat.  Never too dark.  Athletic gray.  Yes.

	//anne//
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:48:21 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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> The Northern Atlantic Ocean is always cold.  I guess I was thinking in
> particular, though, of the chances of survival in a shipwreck in various
> oceans.  The Northern Atlantic is terrible--even in summer, I don't think
> the survival time is more than a few hours because the water temperature
> is so cold.

Where is the dividing line between Northern and Southern Atlantic?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Don't laugh, but
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        The first is buying stuff for men that the men don't want but the women
        wish the men wanted.  I never wear sweaters but I've received a dozen of
        them over the last ten years from women who hoped I'd start wearing them
.

        The second is buying the same stuff for men that they otherwise would
        have but this time calling it a present.  My dad gets new socks or
        underwear from my mom every Christmas and has to act like they are
        different from the socks and underwear she buys the rest of the year.

Yep. Absolutely. Even saying they're unwelcome and not showing any
appreciation whatsoever doesn't seem to stop the flood.  This year I'm
trying the experiment of not reciprocating with any Christmas presents (it's
not a festival I go for anyway) so I'll tell you next year if I get yet
another batch of socks and pants again...

G
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From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
Subject: Re: QUOTE OF THE DAY #2
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:32:06 GMT

In article <9301210014.AA21923@pizzabox.demon.co.uk> G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK> writes:
>
>Maybe he wrote for love?

Er, so to speak.

RICHH