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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:13:19 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: fire and ice
              28 Aug 1992 13:15:50 MED from <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>

On Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:15:50 MED Graham Toal said:
> Care to explain the physics behind this little UL, Graham ?   And how
> the rubber gloves would help, while you're at it ?
>
>Fuck the UL - I've been blasted my my own monitor (turned off).  It's
>now the standard office prank to get new people to clean their
>monitors when they first arrive.  Spray-on computer-cleaning foam.
>Get's em every time.

Well I just cleaned every screen in the office (much to the delight
of their owners).  These vary from 12 inch monochrome through 14 and
17 inch medium res colour to high res 20 inch, and a 20 inch TV set
for good measure.  All were powered on, all were cleaned with something
similar to Windex in a spray bottle, and not one of them had enough
electric charge to do more than slightly raise the hairs on the
back of my hand.  I tried various combinations of touching grounded
objects while putting my hand on the damp screen - not a snap, crackle,
or pop.

So might I ask other WORD-Lers to take the huge risk and let me know
whether I've just been lucky over the past 20 years or whether perhaps
something in Graham's environment is a bit strange ?

Tony H.
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:44:44 GMT


In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") says:

>> >If I make them Natalie, rest assured they won't be purple.
>>
>> Well, then propose a better color.
>
>yellow
>navy
>turquoise
>red
>green
>orange
>beige
>brown
>black

kahki?
olive drab? [w/black lettering?]
jungle camoflage?
raspberry?

whatever....

>
-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:08:23 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Public vs. Private Schools
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1992, Rashmi Murthy wrote:
> I would rather scout around and move into an area with good public schools,
> and pay higher mortgage/property taxes/whatever, than send my <hypothetical>
> children to private schools.  And good public school is not an oxymoron, they
> exist (at least in the enlightened NorthEast).

Good public schools *do* exist in communities where education is deemed a
priority.  They even exist *outside* the "enlightened Northeast."
ndh (who knows all too well that public schools are far from perfect, but
cares enough to keep trying)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:46:40 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: FTP???
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> as my WP?  I'm on a hardware line hookup, not a modem, with Alt-Esc
> moving me from the e-mail hookup to the pc stuff.  I may just have

What kind of software is it?  What do you do to connect?  What other
files are in the directory with the command you use to connect?

> to call my machine people, but it's so much more fun hearing from
> all of you on this.

I agree that doing it this way is more fun.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:00:31 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: I am not afraid of words-l!
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              92 12:39 am

> >Does this mean you're an a.s.b lurker, hmmm?  How many does that make now,
> >I wonder...?
>
> So *this* is where you all hang out.
> Boy, what *was* I doing in rec.autos.vw?
> And comp.protocols.tcp-ip??

	As the Wife of Giggles will tell you, words-l is a some sort
of electronic <dating> service.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:22:37 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Our favorite colors
              1 Sep 1992 08:24:41 CDT from <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>

On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:24:41 CDT Bandwidth Pig said:
>> Royal blue is better than light blue.  Lavender sux.
>>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>No it doesn't. Lavender's c00l.

Anne and I actually agree on something.
>
>-abh

Evelyn
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:14:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <LMMCIDL%LIB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Assault Force

Rashmi, full of mirth, says:
>I don't know what John " " W means by tube (finger?), but she sneaks past my
>filter file as well.
No, no, no, "tube" is just a verb of my own (?) creation!  [as far as I know.]
Mea culpa, mea culpa...
It reminds me that last week I was going to ask the wordslers help in fingering
a grad student at Berkely, but at the last moment came to my senses... 8-)
I'd probably just as soon not tube someone as...oh, never mind.  I'm going
back to educational teevee...
        ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^      OXYMORON ALERT!!!!!!

John "If I knew what I was doing I probably wouldn't be doing it" W.
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:22:38 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: One Student's Opinion
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>
> > Au contraire, mon frere...I am still laughing out loud from Doris' t-shirt
> > story.
>
> Just an added note: *all* t-shirts were size XL. I managed to palm mine
> off on my son, who said he'd wear it when he did his yard work.
> Doris

I cannot believe that you would want to get rid of such a delightful piece
of wearing apparel.  Mine is hanging in my closet right now, a treasured
piece of my wardrobe that I plan to wear on every possible occasion. NOT!
ndh (who really does like t-shirts, but likes to choose them herself,
turns mustard color in yellow, and really prefers something like
bluebonnets for a design)
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:40:28 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Nimrod
              25 Aug 1992 19:37:07 CDT from <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>

Tushar, did Adam leave you his mailer?  I just received this letter a
few minutes ago.

Evelyn
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 19:33:44 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Private e-mail
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> > sufficient grounds to believe the poster had permission to post
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > publicly. Even so, the public poster was soundly attacked in public
>
> Bullshit.  Only if the reader doesn't know English very well, which
> was NOT the case. Sheer carelessness.

I agree that the person who forwarded personal mail to the other list
probably did so out of carelessness or ignorance.  But what does that
have to do with anything?  Somebody does something tacky and unethical
on another list.  Somebody yesterday did something tacky and unethical
on this list.  It has probably happened at one time or another on most
lists.  Should people be required to pass tests in net ethics and
etiquette before being allowed to subscribe to a list?  That is perhaps
not a bad idea.  But just think how it might interfere with opportunities
for newbie-roasting.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:22:21 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: The Evidence

On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 08:40:35 EDT Karen Kay said:

>Does *anyone* have pleasant dealings w/ the FBI?  I've had my share of
>contact w/ them, and was not thrilled.  The closest I came to having a
>good time w/ the FBI was taking my cousin Mary Terese to lunch in a dive
>in Chinatown.  She and her husband both work for the FBI.

Hmmm... is it legal to say that ?  I've never (knowingly) met anyone
from the FBI, but I know a number of CIA employees from a
computer conference I attend.  When the conference was held in Toronto
a few years ago, the CIA people all showed up with fake ID identifying
themselves as being with some mythical agency of the US Defense Department.
They had evidently been briefed before the trip to the dangerous, pinko
land of Canada, and told that they must not carry any personal ID that
could link them to the Agency (e.g. CIA Credit Union chequebook).

Apparently someone was stationed at the phone number on their ID to claim
that they did indeed work for the nonexistent department.

Of course they were not allowed to tell me any of this while in Canada,
but it seemed to be quite alright to tell the story at the next conference
back in the USA.  Strange spook stuff...

Tony H.
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 22:57:29 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: NIMROD
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              23 Aug 92 13:51:00 -0700. <9208232052.AA23735@sics.se>

  John says:

  >Well, that's a new one on me, c.  Last I heard, Noah's
  >great-grandson was still a synonym for a hunter, or by extrapolation
  >any "outdooorsman"...  In what context was it used?

  I also wondered about the origin of "Nimrod". I think it's quite recent.
I've only come across it in Calvin & Hobbes ("a grade A Nimrod"), and it's
not in my dictionaries.
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Just stuff
Date: 3 Sep 1992 19:38:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, "Don Moore  974-4078 S/C 574-4078" (813) says:

>Hi Ruth,
Hi Don, Muffy, I guess you ran into this thing's mailer?  Like so many
others before you....<sigh>  This thing has *got* to go......
>Too cumbersome to quote you, but Muffy is glad cats don't like dog meat,
>but after viewing two dogs and one cat he would like to see at least one
>animal smaller than him!
Go find a chihuaua [sp] and hang out with it for a while; I've seen kittens
bigger than a full-grown one of those.:-)
>Speaking of eating, I live in no cable, have no dish, so Joyce and Dawn
>rent movies.  In last week or so I have seen:
Us neither - there's never anything on no matter how many channels you get.:-)

>    Prince of Tides  .... man enjoying great meal
>    Green Fried Tomatoes ....sheriff really enjoying barbecue, especially
>                             the secret sauce
>    Things Under the Stairs (or similar title)....that movie is sick, but
>                             the dog did spit out the ring.
>
The last sounds like my kind of movie.  Ever see F/X?  It flopped in the
theater, but made $$s on video - scary, but fun.  Not to many tapes go 
through here, or at least not recently.  THere's always too much other stuff
going one to bother with the TV.:-)

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 20:19:39 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English aspiration

>> That's what one means by asp/unasp. There can't be anything which can be
>> called "unaspirated". As you aspirate less and less you voice more and
>> more.

Natalie:

>I'm getting confused.  Are you saying that sounds like [p] in "spin"
>are voiced??
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Karen:

>Patently untrue; where did you get this idea from?


If I don't aspirate where I should, it is generally heard as voiced.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:17:13 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: First the phone booths, (was Re: Superman

On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:11:00 EST <CROSEN@BGSUOPIE> said:
>Greetings,
>
>I agree with Elwood P. that Dagwood quitting his job and starting afresh
>in a new one right away is totally inappropriate as a reflection on the
>times.  More likely, Dag would be declared "redundant," outplaced, and
>unemployed, and would wind up languishing around the house wondering why
>he can't find a job and wondering what he'll do when his health insurance
>runs out.

Well, he'll be working for Blondie, and no one knows food as well as he.
He'll probably get a computer one of these days, get an address at an
Internet site, and sign onto words-l.  :)
>
>Marty

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:30:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings Ooops
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Sent that off before I was done with my joke....

> <mule muffin> is named Tonkawa, and is the place where, incidentally,
> -ggs pretended to be a Native American when he was the lodge chief
> of the Order of the Arrow.  Full head-dress and loin cloth and
> no underwear.  Honest.  Doing a fire-hoop dance also.  -ggs has a
> varied history, which included almost losing a <sinclari> to the
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
READ:    which included almost losing a <sinclair> to the
kerosine.
--ggs
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:45:15 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: One Student's Opinion

>> Yes, the snow *can* get pretty deep in south Texas. So can the fertilizer.
>> Doris
>
>sis dear, you are getting *so* good at clever retorts.  This one is
>truly a <diamond in the rough>....
>--ggs

OK Doris, since you wanted to know, this above is an example of taking
cheap shots at easy targets. Flame this guy mercilessly. Now.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 04:48:34 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: I love the wording....
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>Fairly often there's a donation-collecting table set up outside of a
>grocery store here with people sitting there asking passersby if they
>want to "contribute to child abuse."
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
Reminds me of one of my Papa's favorites:
"Help stamp out mental health!"
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:57:13 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Library Trends 40(4)
Comments: To: All fellow wordslers <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>,
              Pacs-l Mailing List <PACS-L@UHUPVM1.BITNET>,
              Gutenberg List <gutnberg@uiucvmd.BITNET>,
              Humanist Editors <humanist@brownvm.BITNET>

Many of you may not regularly see _Library_Trends_, but may wish to examine
the issue cited above, received this week.  Each issue of LT is devoted to
a single topic, and this issue of over 200 pages is dedicated to
"Electronic Information for the Humanities", edited by Mark Stover.

Some of the articles include:

User Instruction Issues for Databases in the Humanities

Electronic Journals in the Humanities: A Survey and Critique

Religious Studies and Electronic Information: A Librarian's Perspective

Electronic Texts in English and American Literature

Humanists, Libraries, Electronic Publishing, and the Future.


There are many other articles as well; those mentioned above are just to
give you an indication of the breadth of coverage.

Those who want a personal copy can purchase one for $18.50, postpaid,
from U of Illinois Press, Champaign, IL  61820.

Disclaimer:  I have no connection with the journal, the editor of this
issue, U of I Press, etc.


dan

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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:24:21 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: T-shirt colors

>Nothing says we shouldn't do teal again.
>
>-abh

To anticipate Akio, what is teal?

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:29:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re[2]: details, we want details!
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>But the *real* fun is in the long trips, like Carol's week or
>	so on the Snake, or the Salmon, the Yampa, the Green, the San Juan, and
>	of course the great big Colorado in Grand Canyon -- 18 days on the
>	river!!

     _Minimum_ 18 days -- I hear you can raft the Colorado for as long
     as a month.  For a trip that long I suppose we'd have to pack a
     less gourmet menu -- more Spam and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese,
     less cheese torta and green olive tapenade -- but oh, it would be
     worth it...

     The Middle Fork trip is 97 miles long, with 7 class 4 rapids and
     38 class 3s.  Last time we did it in six grueling days; if we do
     it again, I'd like to take two weeks, and spend several long
     afternoons up to my neck in hot sulphurous water.

     Hey Don, the best, wisest, most experienced river guide I ever
     met was at least 60...

     dreaming river dreams,
     Carol
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Andrew Relief
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:44:34 GMT

Lots of relief efforts going on here in Palm Beach County, too.  My
husband's shop took up a collection and purchased several hundred
gallons of water for the Miami VA Hospital, which had *no* water and was
sending their kidney-dialysis patients up to the clinic in Riviera Beach
for treatment -- the clinic is continuing to collect and ship clothing,
food, and toiletries.  Collection bins have been set up in supermarkets,
too.  (As of today, the Miami VA hospital has canal water for non-sterile
washing uses, but still no potable or otherwise "clean" water.)

--bayla

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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:39:12 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: You are NEVER safe

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:08:00 EDT <ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM> said:

>Soldier of Fortune for starts, I'll warrant, and stuff that makes
>the National Review look like the house organ of the CPUSA :-).

Um, strange thing: I have heard of SofF magazine over the years, and
have seen a copy a couple of times.  Pretty sicko stuff, indeed.

But the thing I've never understood is this.  As some of you know, I
(mis)spent some time in my 20s jumping out of airplanes.  Now skydiving is
not the macho sport that most people probably think it is.  For one
thing, physically small people often have an advantage for various
reasons.  And there are a fair number of women in the sport - indeed
many world records are held by women.  But the typical, nervous,
group standing around waiting to start the first jump course is
largely male - what women there are have often been dragged along
by their boyfriends.  It seems to be a problem of getting the women
interested in the first place; once there, a reasonable number stay.

Well some years ago I read a very fine article on the problems of
attracting women to the sport.  It discussed the various reasons
for the lack of women, made some sensible sounding comments on girls not
being socialized to take risks the way boys are, suggested both
ways by which that socialization could be countered and ways
in which the trappings of the sport could be changed so as to
appear less macho and therefore perhaps more appealing to women.

In short, an article written by - if not a feminist - at least
a feminist sympathizer.

The author's name was Robin Heide, and the summary of his achievements
pointed out that as well as having various skydiving expertise, he was a
former editor of Soldier of Fortune.

I've been looking through my old dusty parachuting magazines for
the article - no luck so far.  Strange world.

Tony H.
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 21:06:03 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Tushar
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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.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:43:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re[2]: Public vs. Private Schools
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>dan, in VERY smoky potatoland

     Yaas -- the stormy night I told you about (Weds. 8/19) touched
     off a swarm of wildfires.  One of them closed the road to Hell's
     Canyon Dam, where we put in.  Another one up on Hat Peak filled
     the canyon with smoke that made the sunlight thin, orange, and
     autumnal.  Odd to be drifting down the river, broiling in my tank
     top and basted with Bullfrog -- but thinking of chilly mornings,
     Shetland sweaters, and piles of burning leaves.

     Carol
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