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From: maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:39:38 GMT

bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer) writes:

>Natalie, *save this vital data for your study*:
>I lurk on pacs-l and rec.food.historic because I don't have much to 
>  contribute there, but enjoy learning.
>I speak up vigorously here, because I can both learn and contribute.  
>I contribute more sedately to various professional lists, ditto.

Me too.  Not the same lists but the same principle.
--
   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 13:05:22 -0600
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words-L Trivial Pursuit
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Count me in...

-----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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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Grammatical question...
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>Every since our daughter (now 24) at the age 2 or 3 observed that our cat, the
>social beast that he was, spent many hours sitting on a stool which usually
>lived in a corner next to the kitchen table then asked why he couldn't
>eat there (he ate our food for the most part anyway), cats in this household
>eat at the table with the 'people'.  It sure does make for interesting dinner
>situations -- some guests don't like sitting next to the cats -- for us, it
>is strange when they are not there.
>
>Joan

Hmmmm..... well..... I suppose that's O.K. provided they have nice table
manners. :-)

Carolyn
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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>To repeat, what is a "60's mentality". I would like to know what my
>mentality is.
>
>tushar

Really? :->.... No, I'll resist the temptation and try to answer you seriously.

Each generation seems to have distinctive characteristics in common - no doubt
shaped by the environment in which they spent their formative years. For those
of us who were born late 30's and 40's, our most impressionable years were
spent in the euphoria of a post-war world, when all around us were primarily
concerned with enjoying life to its fullest. In our innocence we were oblivious
to things happening in less fortunate countries, so we had nothing to distract
us from adopting a carefree attitude to life. Having fun was the only way we
knew to relieve boredom. Then world events changed; we started hearing about
the Korean War; the atom bomb; and pain and suffering in the world at large.
All of a sudden we became aware of our own mortality, with the Gulf Crisis
(the Carribean one) bringing the realization that we may not have long to live
so throwing all caution to the wind, we lashed out to enjoy whatever time
there was left. The following generation was into drugs and free-love but
our sense of fun was more innocent than that, although some of us did do
a bit of experimentation in that area, it was not a serious part of the early
60's culture.... that came later. We lost dear friends in the Vietnam War and
fought against conscription, but through it all, we still never lost our
basic attitude to life - life is to be enjoyed so make the most of it while
you can and let nothing get in the way of that...... and that's where you can
find us now - still enjoying life despite our ageing bodies and still having
fun with our playmates on Words-L to relieve the boredom of every day life or
to be able to balance the everyday problems that each of us faces.

Dear Tushar, I don't know what your 'mentality' really is.... you appear to
fluctuate. Sometimes I see you as a child born in the 70's and at others a
50's child..... 70's children are sometimes manipulative and have a too
serious approach to life - their sense of humour is usually biting and
sarcastic; 50's children seem to lack imagination and a sense of humour....
probably from too watching too much TV in their early years. OTOH you could
be mentally ageing and be closer to us than you would care to admit - after all
the environment you grew up in was probably a lot closer to that which we
experienced than it was for others of your generation.

Carolyn
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:03:55 CST
From:         Gerald Walton <VCGW%UMSVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Was Wondering; tense

Re wondering, etc., G, your observation re automatic vs. thinking
may be it. Anyhow, a few hours ago I heard it again in a grocery store.
Clerk: "May I help you find something?" Customer: "I was looking for
the cereal."  GWW
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:41:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Red Line Story

: line between 69th Street (West Phila) and Norristown has seats up front by
: the driver's cabin.  This line usually has only one car, two during rush hours
.

Of course!  The Norristown High-Speed Line is still using Chicago
hand-me-downs.  First the Electroliners, now a few "Spam Cans"
(so-called because their body shape resembles the rounded metal tin
that Spam comes in).  Because the Spam Cans are Chicago cars, they
have railfan seats.

Steve Karlson

38 FAST trains!
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 15:12:26 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs
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:I briefly considered majoring in math because I always thought it was fun.
:It was kind of like playing games for class credit.  But when I decided to
:stick to English (since I found English majors more fun to party with than
:math majors), I never took any more math.  That was my freshman year in

Wise choice.  You can't bullshit in maths with stuff like "but if everybody
uses it, it must be acceptable"...

G
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:05:33 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: End of year Retrospective
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> Yes!  I concur w/ the other items, too, but I miss Adam a whole lot.
> Doesn't the US Constitution guarantee us the right to a List Honey?

It should.  But no substitutions are allowed.  It's gotta be the Real
List Honey.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:05:22 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Foreigners in Japan
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        I don't know what or where this place is.  Time to grab the phone
        book and the Thomas.

Shouldn't be too hard to find, I hear...

G
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UUCP request att!D.att997825a to mhwpa!D.att997825a
failed on system 'mhwpa'.
Reason for failure:
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Indian press and the economic summit
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:37:46 GMT

haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock) writes:
> I have to agree with what my pop says--we should pack up the whole
> kit-n-caboodle that calls itself the Federal Government (in DC) and
> transfer it to the center of the US, where it belongs, namely, Hayes, KS.

What did Hayes, KS ever do to you or your family?  I think they'd
rather have crack houses and nuclear waste processing plants.

How deep is the US?  I figure at least 200 miles, since we get to
claim that far out into the ocean.  It seems to me that we should
bury the Federal Government no less than 100 miles under Hayes, KS.

With no air shafts.

--karsten
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In article <maynor.724332526@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie
 Maynor) says:
: gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
:
: >That's the second reference you've made to newsreaders in the context
: >of speed of receiving news.  Are you perhaps under the misapprehension
: >the it makes a blind bit of difference whether you usr rn, trn, nn,
: >snews, cat or more?  (It doesn't)
:
: It's not a misapprehension.  I know nothing of the technical details of
: why, but I do know for a fact that nn stays behind rn and trn.  If I'm
: impatient, I can go to rn or trn to read usenet articles that are not
: yet available on nn.  That's one of various reasons FWP has told me many

Both trn and nn require a daemon that gathers information about new
news articles as they arrive.

The trn reader will build its own threads database on the fly (at some
cost in speed and CPU) if articles are accessed which the daemon has
not yet processed.  So it works for a few seconds and then displays all
of the available articles.

The nn reader has no such feature.  If the daemon has not yet processed
all of the articles for a given group then those articles just aren't
made available to the user.

Many news readers (rn, gnus and so forth) don't use any externally
generated database.

The result of this to the end user is that articles are made available
by trn and rn (and gnus and so on) before they are made available by
nn.  This is not a misapprehension, it is a fact.

Graham, am I correct in guessing that you don't have nn available or
at least have never used it?
--
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From: maynor@walt.tmc.edu (Bernard Chien Perro)
Subject:  Good Sign! 
Organization:  Association of Network Half-Beagles 
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:42:07 GMT

The message about the listserv's being offline because of too many files
has vanished!  Maybe there's hope...
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 16:33:56 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Was Wondering; tense
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1992 18:44:52 -0800, "Peter Montgomery"
 <MONTGOMERY@camins.camosun.bc.ca> wrote:
> Perhaps it has to do with a sensory mode being so disrupted by the change
> from inner stream of consciousness to external dialogue, that a person
> really has to REMEMBER what they (anyone have a solution to the third
> person singular inclusive problem? Fowler accepts 'they') were thinking
> about. The act of recall forces a perception of the event as having
> been completed.

I know several people with such 'solutions' and I deride them all.
Sie indeed.  If I wanted to speak German I'd learn the verdammte language
properly.

G
['hir' is another one that turns me off any conversation]
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:26:29 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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> the profs.  And I know a lot of teachers/profs here who subscribe to a
> much more liberal dress code than the average student.

I'm confused.  Your tone has been suggesting that we're taking different
sides when in fact we seem to be making the same point.  Here also students
often "dress up" more than their teachers do.  The teachers look more like
'60s students.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 01:38:58 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Grammatical question...
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:> >Every since our daughter (now 24) at the age 2 or 3 observed that our cat,
: the
:> >social beast that he was, spent many hours sitting on a stool which usually
:> >lived in a corner next to the kitchen table then asked why he couldn't
:> >eat there (he ate our food for the most part anyway), cats in this household
:> >eat at the table with the 'people'.

:Do you serve mice, too, to really make them feel part of the crowd?

Obviously - she serves anybody...

G
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts
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              16 Dec 92 22:17:25 +0000. <9212170036.AA24068@sics.se>

  >At least all she's lost so far is money.:-)  I was forced to use a Mac
  >for a while...<shudders>  never again, if I can help it.

  You're just jealous. Another nice thing about the Macintosh is that
you can now easily, using 7.1, switch between character sets with different
input methods. Hence I can now produce written Japanese that looks just like
real written Japanese to somebody who can't read it. And I can do this
without being able to read real written Japanese myself.
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?
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:G> Fuck the pope!

:Vulgarity I'm willing to live with. It simply reveals its user for
:what he/she/it is like. I'm also guilty of using it myself from
:time to time. Vulgarity, however, is NOT profanity.

Aha.  Obviously not a Catholic then, or it would be.  Oh wait, weren't
you the one defending RCA?  Got it - xtian fundy.

:G> [...] Is this guy serious or is he just trying to
:G> start a flame war?

:I'm quite serious, although the criticism is valid. I suppose this
:is a bit like crying wolf. A flame war is NOT what I want. Just a
:little civilised respect for some VERY basic things.

Jesus suck a monkey - he *was* serious!

G
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv

*** Resending note of 12/17/92 15:58

>What's a 60's mentality. I am attracted to the list and I don't know
>what it is.

Is 50's worse?  "In the mood" to "rock around the clock"
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Urbana cuisine
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CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
> I recall my first visit to La Bamba for a burrito as big as my head.
> I had previously been imbibing some fermented or distilled or brewed
> beverage and had a slight buzz, so to speak.  I ordered my burrito
> and sat down with it at a table.  As I was examining this remarkable
> item, I suddenly became slightly paranoid.  I realized the cook had
> taken a calculating look at my cranium prior to filling the burrito.

I wasn't impressed with the taste of La Bamba's burritos.

I wonder if they still offer their bigger burritos - the ones
supposed to be much bigger than "as big as your head".

--karsten

(still mourning the loss of Doc J's)
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From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Assisting the police in their inquiries

>I believe the US rule is more complicated, though I am not certain of
>this.  I believe that letters are the property of the recipient until
>the  recipient's death, upon which they revert to the author.  So
>
>-K
>
>-Mka

If you can find any authority for this, I'd be interested in knowing
what it is.  I have been under the impression that letters remained
the property of the recpient without qualification--the physical
items, that is, not the literary, or intellectual property, rights.
The literary rights, of course, remain with the author.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Subject:      Re: Grammatical question...

>>>  "A number of Words-L people were in Providence."
>>>  "A number of top prospects is what the basketball coach wants."
>
>   ...
>
>   Do you agree that "is" is appropriate in the second example?

You shouldn't ask me, I think. I do use "is" in the second example, but
I use it in all kinds of sentences:

"Six unsolvable assignment problems and ten hours to go before the
 deadline is exactly what I need."

tushar
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: Mice, icons, etc.
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Posted on 17 Dec 1992 at 20:33:11 by Natalie Maynor
>I do all of the above with DESQview -- and I don't have to fool with icons
>or mouse.

My programs are so big, I wonder if DESQview could handle it.  I also have
LAN stuff on my computer that DV couldn't handle.  (So I've been told.)

Karen
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:39:35 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>  ><*gag*>  Yeah, right.  Jealous of what?  Ruthie wanna 486 w/19.2, not some
>  >Cupertino Crapmachine.:-)
>
>  Now I see you're *really* jealous.

Not unless the Mac comes with a Gig drive, I'm not.:-)
[Gig as in Gigabyte]

>  >But why would I want to reproduce written Japanese?:-)
>  Most people in the English-speaking world of course have no need to write in
>either Arabic or Japanese or any other such peculiar language.
>
Yep - and IBM hardware handles Romance and Germanic languages just fine, which
happen to be the ones I read/write.  
 
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (72>
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Roy Hamel writes:
>> 15)  Wolf Blitzer
> 	The CNN correspondent with the best name in
> the news business.  He claims it is his real name.

Perhaps his full first name is Wolfgang and he doesn't care for Wolfie?

--karsten
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:12:52 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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> >Is 50's worse?  "In the mood" to "rock around the clock"
> Oooooh....*serious* dancin' music!  It doesn't get better than them...
> just add "string of pearls"...

And heaaarrrtttts made of stone dodawadodawadado...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Assisting the police in their inquiries
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:27:16 GMT

harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) writes:
> John,
> 
> One word for you: Netcom. Freedom of speech has its price, payable
> monthly by Visa or Mastercard.

$17.50/month.  $19.50 if you don't like auto-billing.

--karsten

(telnet to 192.100.81.100 (as a vt100) and log in as "guest" for info)
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:40:53 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs
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Why is it possible to fit far, far more liters of boxed wine into a
regrigerator than liters in jugs?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Grammatical question...
Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:13:29 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>:Yes, it can be, can't it.  Of course, the two <inocents> in question
>:weren't so <innocent> by the end of the play.  Lying, lusting, sex, murder
>:and mayhem will all tend to do that to a person....:-)  Or were you
>:referring to me?<heh>  <heh heh> <heh heh heh>
>
>Did you ever work out what <the love that dare not speak its name> was
>referring to, by the way?
>
I can guess; it's what made the Oscar Wilde crack so appropriate.:-) Given
the author's sex/gender, I doubt the phrase refers to the female variety....
Why?

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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject: Re: End of year Retrospective
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Posted on 18 Dec 1992 at 13:10:57 by Natalie Maynor
>> Yes!  I concur w/ the other items, too, but I miss Adam a whole lot.
>> Doesn't the US Constitution guarantee us the right to a List Honey?
>It should.  But no substitutions are allowed.  It's gotta be the Real
>List Honey.

I believe this is stated in the original document.:)

Karen
who is, after one day, addicted to switching windows.
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