HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 22:29:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force

Okay.  Da Dreaded Ruth, who knows what "tube"  means, opines;
>                       My messages are alway quite clean - I keep my dust
>bunnies away from the terminal, and always wash my hands before typing....:-)
        Gee.  I always feel compelled to wash my hands *after* typing, and
on occasion go in and brush my teeth as well.  Sometimes I clean my mind.
That does it.  I'm going to get a boring .sig file like the rest of the grups.

John "What are you looking here for?  The joke's in your hand" W.
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From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
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Subject:      Snuff Films

   >What snuff films?, he asks innocently...

Like, ya take a can of snuff, see? And open it, rub it with
lotsa vasoline, and practice safe sex. There's a tiny succubus
hiding in the bottom.....

Jim (I have wet dreams when I camp out in the rain) Thomas
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Modems excite me...

>Or the com port.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Yeah, or the com port--except I thought Karen said that she did,
in fact, get dialed out in some screwy, ineffective way.  She
heard the tones, at least--isn't that what she said?  If it were
the com port, no way it would get out at all ever.

You can set your com port in the entry, I can't.  I'm very
jealous.

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:16:55 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: fire and ice
              26 Aug 1992 21:26:02 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:26:02 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>What's the best way to clean a computer screen?

Windex.  Spray it on the cloth - not on the screen, so that it
gets no chance to run down into the works and corrode things.
No it doesn't hurt (it or you) to do it while it's turned on.

Tony H.
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      HMIM

I seem to be out of business, or at least was yesterday :-(

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:03:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366" <185422285@VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Private vs. Public Schools
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I think for this discussion to continue we must differntiate
the types of schools. The types would be:

Religious or parochial - I don't consider these the same as a private
school. These schools have a special set of ideas which they
to foster which is religion based. They tend not to be open to
new ideas or controversial ideas.

Private or prep - These schools run by money from students and alumni.
no money from churches or religious organizations. Open because they
answer just to parents,alumni and boards of trustees.

Public- State,local or federally funded.

i went to all three types of schools and found real private schools to more open
then religious private schools. There are really three catagories. With this in
mind, i think the discussion might change.


later

alec
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 17:40:45 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Tshirts
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Posted on 29 Aug 1992 at 13:12:54 by Doris Smith
> Are they yellow?
> Doris

No.
Karen
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:37:07 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nimrod

>If you think nimrod sounds less like nerd than cotrapunctum
>sounds like female genitalia you either need more sleep or a new
>ear.  Jumpin' jehosaphat.  Go try on a merkin.

It takes a finely honed ear to distinguish. People who come up with
these words have it. We are talking about spoken language here, you
see.

>>>Or possibly antisemitic, it occurs to me.
>
>>That's extremely far-fetched.
>
>Depends on where you start with the bucket.  I don't see *you*
>coming up with any ideas.  (On this subject anyway.)  It didn't
>just spring out of Zeus' contrapunctum.  (La Zeus.)

The importance of onomatopoeia cannot be overestimated. In discussing
the origin of a word, however cluelessly, the aim is - or normally
should - not be to come up with bizarre ideas. Rather, it is to come up
with plausible ideas.

To make this clear with an example, in case the point is insufficiently
grasped: An idiot is a harmless creature and only a latent pest. Transform
"latent pest" into "dormant vermin", which transforms very naturally by
portmantic rules to "dormin", which when reversed gives "nimrod". Ergo,
"nimrod" is now the word for "idiot". I have come up with a novel idea,
which is just dazzles with its sheer brilliance. Does it seem a bit far-
fetched?

On the other hand I could imagine myself hearing "Nimrod" mentioned
somewhere (in its original sense) and thinking that it meant "idiot".
Again, a finely honed ear - that's required. But assuming that, I might
actually start using "Nimrod" to mean "idiot".

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:49:16 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Aspiration

Natalie says:

>I'm getting lost.  What are we talking about?  I thought we had moved
>from talking about consonant clusters to taking about syllable breaks.

I haven't. It is just an interesting side question. (Whether morphemes
influence the partition into syllables, and eventually aspiration.) It
is more fanciful than serious.


>So why are we talking about a one-syllable word with two phonemes?

Why indeed? :-)


>                                                                     Or
>are you saying you pronounce it with three phonemes?

He is probably saying you need three "things" to pronounce it. I don't
know what these things are called.

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:15:30 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tushar
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On Sat, 22 Aug 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:
> Has anybody heard from Tushar yet?  I just fingered his account and saw
> that his last login is still Wednesday, August 12.  My theories are
> these, in order of likelihood:  (1) he's having a great time, whether
> with bimbo on Park Avenue or not, and has decided to delay his return to
> Chicago; (2) he's visiting his friend at Penn and put the friend up to
> sending that note as some sort of a prank (not funny); (3) there really
> is some kind of problem.

I like (1). I hate to think Tushar would take part in a prank like
(2)--because some of us are WORRIED about him...but I'd prefer either of
those solutions to (3).
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:56:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      This land is their land

Greetings,

This is from The Bosses' Songbook: Songs to Stifle the Flames of
Discontent, 2nd edition:

This land is their land. It is not our land.
From their plush apartments to their Cadillac car land,
From their Wall Street office to their Hollywood starland,
This land is not for you and me.

As I was walking that endless breadline,
My landlord gave me a one-week deadline,
And Labor Action ran a better headline,
"This land is not for you and me."

So take your slogan and kindly stow it,
If this is our land you'd never know it.
Let's join together and overthrow it,
This land is not for you and me.


I'm sure many of you will enjoy humming this one tonight.

Marty
From: tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU (Tushar Samant)
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Subject: Re: Aspiration
Date: 26 Aug 92 10:34:32 GMT
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>> I'd like to know exactly when k, t, and p are aspirated by Americans
>> (assuming that a general statement can be made). I used to think that
>> these sounds were aspirated when they were the first consonants in a
>> word, e.g. "call", "part" etc. But now I think it's more complicated.
>
>That's the general rule (except substitute syllable for word).

I didn't understand that. The first consonant in a syllable? The t in
the middle of bottom or total is definitely not aspirated. There must
be an accent on it. Probably you meant "accented syllable".

>Slight aspiration usually occurs in the supposedly unaspirated allophones,
>though -- e.g., noticeable aspiration of /p/ in /pIn/, very slight
>aspiration of /p/ in /spIn/.

I guess I don't have trained ears, because I never heard an aspiration in
spin. In any case do you aspirate either of the two in "impecunious"? Do
you aspirate the /k/ in there? This is the kind of word which baffles me
most.

tushar


PS    It's going to be pretty hard to find morphemes which are not
separated as syllables. People bring the knowledge of morphemes to bear
on the separation into syllables. "Trained ear" and "reindeer" for
instance. I'd expect the syllable boundary to be exactly the same, but
these people insist on shifting the d to the other side (when asked). All
in all this syllable business is pretty mysterious too.
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Quote for Today

  "Snow and adolescense are the only problems that disappear if you
   ignore them long enough."
                               Earl Wilson

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:54:34 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: English Aspiration

>I can understand practising when you're learning a new language, but I
>don't understand how one can consciously modify <aspiration> patterns
>in a language he's been speaking for many years.  It seems very weird.

I never spoke American in my life. I am learning it now.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:46:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ubi Sunt?
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> Not that you asked, giggles <pout ...> but right here, supposedly
> working on an NEH proposal, before getting a bus to Logan Airport
> at 6 am so as to head to San Francisco and the grand adventure of
> driving as quickly as possible cross-country ...
>
> Elaine
>
Elaine my dear, but you are *never* here, so why would it occur to
me to ask.  I can tell I'm in trouble now.  Let me assure you that
you are <always on my mind>.....
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 20:06:15 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Note to Bernard
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Posted on 29 Aug 1992 at 19:53:50 by Bernard Chien Perro
> > It's probably returnable; I'll check when I go home.  It costs about
> > $20, and I do remember the catalog made a point of stressing that only
> > fleas, not humans, could smell it.
>
> Hmmmm.  I'm having trouble with that last part.  Does the "only" go with
> "not humans" as well as with "fleas"?  In other words, only fleas and only
> not humans can smell it?

Uh-oh. I thought the commas made it clear:  "only fleas" (who are partly
defined as non-humans) can smell it.  The catalog text says:  "It uses
a 4-watt bulb to produce the heat that releases the attracting scent
(imperceptible to you) in the replaceable sticky mats."  Nothing about
how your dog feels about it.  Also, I just noticed that the 4watt bulb
thingy *and* the sticky scented thingies (both of which make a set) is
$27.  But if they work as advertised, it's probably still worth it.

> > too.  They are "all natural", and Natalie simply wipes them over your
> > fur.

Now for the wipes--the description is delectable.  "Flee-away wipes are
disposable toweletttes that soothe skin irritated by biting and scratch-
ing.  Rub thoroughly over your pet's coat for instant relief.  Active
ingredients include citronella and mint oil. Lanolin and aloe vera are
balm."  8 towelettes for $6--they come in dog and cat flavors.

The 800 nb is--I know you are all waiting w/ pencil at hand!
800-666-6072.  They also have doggie heating pads.:)

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:20:40 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I'm home
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>
> It's 4am in my mind and body, and I'm still trying
> to type on thqt crqzy keyboard in France...
>
> All the unbelievable coincidences tomorrow....
> love, judith

Glad you're back, judith...Doris and I were just bemoaning the fact that
nothing was going on on the list and we were being forced to think about
school, which we *didn't* want to do.  Hope you had a good time.
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:41:56 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
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>I wonder what color tshirt Andrea Dworkin would wear?

Andrea Dworkin could wear gold lame' and still be fugly in it. ;-)

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:39:02 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      FTP
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When I saw giggles's request for ftp help, I assumed that others had already
answered it.  I was right.  The responses are giving you far more options
than you need, though, giggles.  Here's all you need to do:

ftp isis.msstate.edu (or ra.msstate.edu or ftp.msstate.edu)
login: anonymous
password: anything [as Dan said, your userid@address is "polite"]
cd docs/words-l/Gifs
type binary
get bernard3.gif
bye

Now that bernard3.gif is on your system, you need to download it to your
computer as a binary file.  Contrary to what Czarina said, don't use kermit.
Surely you've got better options like zmodem.  Or if your computer is on a
hardwire connection, you can ftp it to your computer.  Unless you already
have a gif-viewer, you can grab cshow while you're on Ra.

If you'll tell us what software you're using (Procomm?  hardwired connection
with something like NCSA Telnet?), we can answer your Wordperfect question.
But why do you want to get WP involved in any of this??  I can't think of
any time that I've wanted to involve WP in anything I've gotten from
anywhere via ftp.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 05:02:45 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Frotteurism
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Agnes: perps <= perpetrators == suspects.  It's an expression used
to show off that you come from that wonderful city of Kulchur, NY.
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:47:43 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Nimrod
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:47:45 CDT, "Anne BWP Harwell" <aharwell@panam1.panam.edu>
 wrote:
> I can't remember.

Bah!
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:45:48 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Gifs

One of my co-workers has WinGIF on his PS/2 and very generously lets me
view the gifs that I download.  So far, I have gifs of Bernard (who is
a very handsome half-beagle) and Rabbit the Tabby.  What type of tabby
is Rabbit, and what color?  Rabbit's cute.

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:05:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Postcards from the Edge

Proving that Bill the S is a marvelous sense of humor, I received
a terribly funny postcard from him before he left: A
macho-leftist quiz. I still laugh when I think of it. I sent it to
bwp, and maybe she could type in the questions....

Jim (I flunked because I don't whince when eating jalapenos and I
     go to a professional barber once a year whether I need it
     or not) Thomas
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 16:13:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
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Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Faorce

Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, cries amid the alien corn:
> Dunno - what's a 50#, 28" draw Hoyt recorve?  Oh, a bow?
        Yeppers.  Purchased back when I had plans of putting in for the
"pointed stick & rocks" big-game season.
>               What do you plan on doing with it, shoot arrows at node
>administrators who don't like Words-l?
        I'd be better off shooting harsh looks at them.  Or chucking them
at them freehand, like Queequeg!
> Dunno that either - what's a Richard Greene?
Oh, Root, yer yoot is showing.  And you a Pythonophile, too!  Richard Greene
was the star of the '50's TV show "Robin Hood", an English import in which
the dialog could be understood.  The theme song was parodied by Monty Python
in the "Dennis Moore" sketch, and on schoolyards nationwide.
        "Robin Hood, Robin Hood,
         riding through the grass -
         Along came Little John
         and shot him in the ass!"

John "Feared by the bad, loved by the good" W.
(Charter member, Words-l All-Amazon Task Force Auxilliary)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:38:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Fabrications
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> This morning I received a meassage from CAUSERIE that had been sent by
> Dr. Fabrikant.  It was over 3000 lines, so I didn't save it.  Now,
> knowing the circumstances, I wish I had.  In it, he listed all the papers
> and books he had written and complained that the listed co-authors were
> useless scum.
>
> Evelyn

The Raleigh News and Observer reported this morning that a professor
at N.C.State had received the message on his e-mail.  He did not know
Fabrikant, but was familiar with his name because of his reputation in
his field.  Didn't know how F. had gotten his name and address.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:26:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Unix lessons

Oops.  That was an e-oops except that it didn't matter.  I knew I was
getting tired.  That last posting was, I thought, a reply to a direct
note from Michael.  Then I saw it zipping away to the list.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:57:36 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Alphabetic aphorisms

>Alphabetic Aphorisms
>
>Suggestions for replacements for any of the following are welcome.

Since I live only for emailing, these are the only aphorisms I can
think of:

E  -  Every emailing effort engenders ever escalating enmity.

F  -  Flaming for fun fubars fickle friendships.


>L  -  Laziness leaves little latitude.

How about "Lassitude lessens latitude?"

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 05:18:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: mohawk
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> Something similar to this exists in Spanish, the tendency *not* to use
> the possessive for body parts or things very closely associated with
> or touching the body.  The theorists of Spanish generally think of it
> as a sort of "obvious possessive" but I think it is a kind of mindset.

Same for French, of course.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:38:13 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: I am not afraid of words-l!

>> --cryptic?
>> --q=y
>
>	And look, he even throws in a scrap for Tushar.


My name being used for territorial wars. That too on the NET. I feel
so cheap.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:59:07 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ill-mannered people
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              26 Aug 1992 16:09:02 -0700 from <MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU>

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:09:02 -0700 <MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU> said:
>be careful dan

aaahhhhhh....dan is always careful.....after all, when in Provincetown
he got some Safe Sox.....

dan
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:24:31 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Ubi Sunt?
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              92 10:40 pm

> Where is rita?

	Hijacking a channel on IRC.  Was too damn funny.

Czarina
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:08:42 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Amazon Colors

>>(What is the color of an electron?)
>
>Purple.
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>-abh

Long ago I read an article in a science magazine. I remember only the
title: "The electron is blue". They were talking about actual colour,
not a theoretical concept. They did something like knocking electrons
off a chemical with some particularly loose electrons, to get  a sort
of "electronium". I can't vouch for this.

tushar
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