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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:24:11 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: How's Adbam doing/ EAT-L
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> > I'm *almost* afraid to ask. What is a CO experience?  If it's going to
> > make me blush, ignore the question, giggles.
> > Doris
>
> Oh, Doris Doris Doris!!!  I just thought as I wrote that (er... *said*
> that)....  I wonder who will be the first to ask, and if nobody asks
> then I will *know* that I am being habitually *ignored*, which I really
> cannot tolerate not even one little <teensy> bit.  But, it never
> occurred to me that my very own *sister* would not know what a CO
> experience is.  I just *cant* make myself say it.  Somebody else
> will have to.  -abh knows what it is, I'll bet.
> --ggs

That just shows what a good sister Doris is...she knows how sensitive you
are, and didn't want you to imagine that people were ignoring you.
ndh
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From: jwagner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Judith O Wagner)
Subject: Re: Amateurs????
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:07:15 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92072714384938@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA> writes:
>>2Judith who watched most of it yesterday and *loved* the arrow
>>        shot--even if anyone within 10 feet of it could have
>>        lit it with a Bic
>
>I missed it.  Did they keep the doves out of the way this time ?
>In Korea they incinerated several who had decided to perch on the
>bowl after being released.
>
>Tony H.


The doves were among the early attractions--the arrow closed the show!

2Judith
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:30:07 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Death and the drowned kittens
              22 Jul 1992 21:19:58 CDT from <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:19:58 CDT Tushar Samant said:
>>On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:19:47 CDT Tushar Samant said:
>>
>>>That's what Death said when he found a sack of drowned kittens.
>

Tushar didn't say that; I did!

>
>Why me? I am not the default poster to this list. So the following
>rule is not valid:
>
>Always attribute every posting to Tushar Samant except when the
>poster is Torkel, in which case attribute it to "whoever that was".

You tell them, Tushar!
>
>tushar

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:35:52 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: WH e Re: TMIT a Re: you?
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How odd life is.  The rains in Chicago make Tushar long for the rain-drenched
city of Bombay, while his description of the rainy Windy City makes me want
to go back to that day in 1980 when I walked along flooded 59th St in Chicago
with Charles and Richie.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:34:15 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Kosher
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:14:18 CDT, "Tushar Samant" <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
 wrote, on the subject of religion:
> Microcosm, hell. It's plain bloody nuttiness. Gentle fun? Nonsense.
> Laugh at them like a hyena, nothing less.

Probably the first thing tushar has said that gets my 100% support.

G
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 08:56:19 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Birth Order
              31 Jul 1992 00:04:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:04:00 EDT Ovinglay Is-hay Eeahtamay said:
>> >John M. "Or does being adapted throw the curve off as well?" W.
>>
>> I've been adapted dozens of times...
>>
>> -abh
>
>Another <pregnant> post....
>Send that girl some Magnums!

Just one will do, thank you:  one by the name of Thomas.  You remember
him:  a private investigator located in Hawaii.  If you can't send him,
send Higgins (but tell him to leave his dogs at home).

>--ggs

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:37:46 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (54)
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              92 3:21 pm

>  5) To suck eggs (Rita)

	Slang for being really awful.

Czarina
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 06:40:42 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: Re: Birth Order
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>Another <pregnant> post....
>Send that girl some Magnums!

If you don't quit calling me pregnant, I'll...well...I just never in all my
life!

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:14:02 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Sword Drill
              30 Jul 1992 23:07:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

Bayla challenges:

>> "The ignorant man does not know, nor does the fool understand this."  --
>> one of the psalms: I'm still lazy.  ggs, Sword Drill Time!

   While Gilbert is out tooling around in his new Mazda Motorola,
   I thought I would sneak in here and win one of these drills.
   Psalms 92:6  (in the New RSV: "The dullard cannot know, the
   stupid cannot understand this")

   brad
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 08:05:16 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Home...
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> really cared for Muffy.... and we won't talk about the display Bernard put
> on as we left ....right Natalie?  Got to clear a bunch of mail.  More later,

That was a display of regret at your departure!  But he did look a wee
bit wimpy, didn't he.

> probably much later as have driven many miles today with little sleep.

Are you gonna tell them where you ended up camping Friday night as a result
of the detour through Starkville?  You should have stayed here!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:44:00 CDT
From:         Bill Sjostrom <TA0WXS1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Here we go again (was re: CNN)

>>I wonder how many Iraqi 14 year olds will get the chance to go
>>to McGill.  Of course there are rather fewer of them than there were
>>a couple of years ago, so competition may not be quite so fierce.
>>Tony H.
>
>Careful, Tony, or you too might be viewed as a discredited RadicLib
>locked in a time-warp...and a furriner at that!
>Ken
><member, Eastern Liberal Elitists>

Ken should read more carefully.  I suggested he was living in a time
warp because he was all hot and bothered over whether his 14 year old
kid would have to fight, not because he wasn't happy over policy
toward Iraq.  As to the number of Iraqi soldiers, I was not aware
that the Iraqi army was dominated by 14 year olds.
                               Bill Sjostrom
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:09:33 CST
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <BERNARD@ENGLISH.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      re: IRC
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> Bernard who?

Eeeeeeeek.  I knew that Natalie did a bad thing last night when she forgot
to change the channel topic from "Bernardykins is here" to "Bernardykins WAS
here" when she made me leave.  Now people will think I don't really exist.
:-(


             o/.\_____/   (bernard@english.msstate.edu)
              \ ______|
               /\   /\
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:38:16 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      One Reason (was Five Reasons (was tushar (was JPS

Gentlefolk;
   One Reason that I am happy to be reading my mail on this cluncky old
VM mainframe system is that I have been able to develop a simple macro,
using existing VM/CMS utilities that *PURGES ALL OF THE BLESSED QUOTED
TEXTS WITHIN QUOTED TEXTS WITHIN QUOTED TEXTS* that have been running
rampant as of late.  I now can run the macro against my mail before
wading through it.  I was going to append this note to the latest nested
200+ line posting, but even *I* wouldn't appreciate the humor in that.
Peace,
Elwood P. (but I'm feeling *much better* now) Dowd
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:13:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: No Picture of Giggles (was Re: Eating Whales)
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> 2   262     186.5  0.0%   sys@mgweed.UUCP  (WA9DNZ)
> 			      100% chi.weather
>
> 3   239     146.8  0.0%   n567126@ncsuadm.ACS.NCSU.EDU  (        Gilbert Smith
> 			      100% bit.listserv.words-l
>
> ************************************
> Not only that, but you were our only representative in the top 25 this time!
> The reason #3 is really #2 is that #1 is apparently a machine.  That's what
> I was told the week I hit the gold (which I thought was silver until learning
> that #2 was really #1).
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Now, if we can just get rid of this <sys@mgweed>, another obvious
machine, I will be <sitting pretty> and the wordslers can be
<so proud> that they *know* me, in the nonbiblical sense.
Surely my son in NJ knows someone who could deal with this
mgweed person.
--ggs  (waiting to hear from -abh, the *ex*-bwp)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:18:24 EDT
From:         Anne Diffily <ADBAM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Which large or unabrdg dictionary ...
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>
>Any binding thoughts appreciated, too.
>Don           (dthorntn@brownvm.brown.edu)

Binding thoughts, eh?  OK:

Rice.  Bananas.   Cheese.    And if all else fails:
Kaopectate.           :-P

     - Anne"sorry, Don, couldn't resist"D
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:45:30 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Five Reasons (was tushar, boy..)
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:44:21 MST, "Dan Lester" <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU> wrote:
> if you think i'm gonna read 200+ lines of this crap,you got another think
> coming....

Aha!  Dan got the joke too.

G
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Date: 28 Jul 92 00:04:04 GMT
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:35:01 EDT, "Tony Harminc" <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:03:55 CDT Fear and Loathing Come to South Texas said:
> >One of those three Sea Worlds is also in San Antonio Texas. Does anyone else
> >feel ashamed to see those magnificent creatures doing absurd backflips and
> >party tricks for a bunch of beltpack-wearing tourists and their snotty kids?
> Yes.
> Tony H.

Me too, though no more so than for people who keep cats and dogs and program
them with similar behaviour.  There's not a great deal of difference except
for shape and size.  The conditioning is identical.  Watch the keeper's
hands during a performance for signals.  Just like a sheepdog trial.

G
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:37:18 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Trivia, BP, etc

On Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:26:17 GMT Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>Neal wonders about groups sampled in blood pressure comparisons.  I wondered
>about the BP of the persons conducting the survey :-).  Another worthless
>trivia (yesterday's).  How much money did the author of "Oh Susanah"
>receive?           a - $500,000
>                   b - $5000
>                   c - $500
>                   d - $50

For the song?  I'd guess about $50.
>
>                            Peace,
>                                  Don

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:32:07 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Reversi (was Re: Gopher)
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> other games (chess?) as well.  I hope it doesn't have Reversi -- I can't come
> close to winning at that one.

Reversi!  That's the name I was trying to remember as I was sitting here
thinking back on the time I played with Windows for a few days a couple of
years ago.  The only thing I liked about it was Reversi.  I didn't like
Reversi enough to be willing to keep Windows, though.  I zapped the borrowed
copy and ordered Desqview, which I love most of the time.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:00:37 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gif Sizes
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:57:22 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> going to put one version only.  Realizing that the jumboes would not be
> of any use to most people, I zapped them and left the regulars.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Have you got the jpeg compression program on your machine?  I tried it
when someone mentioned it the other day, and it seems to work pretty
well.

G
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:30:06 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Idle Thought
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:24:09 GMT Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>Working here with this ancient IBM PC , not AT or XT, but PC (yech), reminded
>me that I made sure Joyce noticed that both Dan and Natalie have modern
>PC's with Towers! ...although one tower was quite taller than the other.  Oh,
>well, maybe someday I'll catch up with the real world.  Meanwhile, Model A's
>are reliable.

Gee, I thought ALL of me was bigger than Natalie.   OH, well.  (since mine
is a mini-tower, I can only assume that Natalie's is bigger than mine)

And, yes, Don DID make sure Joyce noticed....   8-)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:32:21 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: analog vs. digital
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:40:36 EDT Karen Kay said:
>> Wow.  I'm not the only person who has an easier time with hands on
>> the clock than with digital clocks.
>
>I think most people are this way.
>
   I always KNEW I wasn't like most people.  (yeah, you did too, huh?  8-)   )

Only problem I have with digital clocks, is the same one people have with
digital scales....false accuracy.   Just because a cheap Kmart digital
scale says 133 in big red numbers doesn't make it right and the balance scale
in the doctor's office that say 141 wrong.   8-)

dan (who has a doctor's scale in his garage for exactly that reason....
     if I stand on it and pick up a full can of my obligatory diet coke,
     my weight goes up exactly 3/4 pound...what an idea.....)
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:47:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: <sigh>
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>   >What language are we speaking here, please?  Of *course* Tork my dear,
>   >toys have "utilitarian value" if you mean that they are "useful"
>   >because they give pleasure to people, but that is not the commonly
>   >understood definition of "utilitarian"....  So, I submit that in the
>   >English that *most* people speak, "utilitarian" means something like
>   >"practical" in a sense that does not include "providing enjoyment"...
>
>   Another weird item of usage! What could be more practical than providing
           ^^^^^^^^
> enjoyment? I think you're just trying to confuse me.

ARRFFFHHH.  No, *that* *just* *really* *pisses* *me* *off*!!!
--ggs (grumblegrumblegrumble....)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:35:25 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: email texts (was One Reason [etc.])
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              23 Jul 1992 21:17:11 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:17:11 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>I have a method that takes care of them even faster than that. :-)  If I
>see a full screen of quoted lines, I hit 'd'.

Right on, oh magnificent listowner!

One more thing Natalie and Dan agree on.
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:54:14 EDT
From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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No it was an MGA (that was one of my credentials and the porshes were not
914s but the bathtub like speedster and a C).

just to set you straight
don
      dthorntn@brownvm.brown.edu
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:24:19 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: What's with everyone today?

>	I didn't think quiet equated with depressed!  My Gopod, I'll
>have to start blathering and running on at the mouth now lest someone
>dials the Suicide Hotline on me...

   Rita, please, for the sake of the devout Gopodists among us, do
   not take our Lord's name in vain.

   brad
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:34:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Siegi wants a mouse
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> Gilbert,
>   It's been about 4 years now since Siegi's had a mouse because we never
> get out of the house since we've moved to Akron from Mogadore (sob!)
>   If we could get out of the house, I'd find her one because she can't
> see well enough to find one for herself.
>
> Muffy (full name is Ragamuffin, but Jeannie calls me that only when
> she's mad at me)

Muffy ma chere,
Arf woof noof Siegi arf warf mousiarf arf woof woof.
--ggs
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 12:36:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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> >WORDS.  The Alpine was also a great car, maybe the best of
> >-ggs
> ggs, you didn't by any chance have the Alpine that had the Ford V8 in it?
> Understand it was extremely over-powered and somewhat dangerous to drive.
> Always wanted one!

No, that was the Sunbeam Tiger, which looked almost the same but
without the slight fins that the Alpine had.  The Tiger was the
car that Elizabeth Taylor drove over the cliff in Butterfield 8.
Definitely a dangerous car.  The Alpine was a little tamer, but
a very nice, zippy car.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:43:30 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Last night
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Besides (this is a continuation of the P.S.in my last note, which was
a P.S. to previous note), it's *SILLY* for Isis to say "pleased to
meet you" to Ra when the mail is delivered between them.  After all,
they're sitting there intimately embraced.  I like to watch Ra speaking
to machines it's not so intimately involved with!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:37:09 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: e-mail on today's Talk of the Nation
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              92 2:28 pm

> That reminds me:  the latest issue of Compute has an article on
> E-mail.  Trouble is, the article discusses only such services as
> Prodigy and Compuserve; it doesn't discuss Internet, Bitnet, or
> Usenet.

	More than likely, that is because services such as CI$, etc.
are affordable to the average user, while full-fledged Internet connections
are not.  And although users can get on the Internet through such services
as Tenet, Cleaveland Freenet, The World, etc., such public access UNIX
sites are still regrettably more the exception than the rule.

Czarina
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:44:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Blue Moon Saloon (was Re: Texas Women's University)
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> >I couldn't have said it better.  In fact, I *didn't* say it better,
> >only later.
> >--ggs
>
> I also couldn't have said it better.  But I could have said it *much* later.
> - R.M.

Jeez (I'm learning, except ts does *not* know what he is talking
about, that is *not* what "jeez" means), are you *ever* going to
catch up?  I did it and you can too.  I just *know* you can ....
yessireebob, you can catch up.
--ggs
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:28:28 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      re: What kind of dossier is this stuff going into?
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

Why does it not bother me in the least if strangers wherever have my social
security number?   My password on Ra would be a different matter.  But my
ss#??  I don't care at all.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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