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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:32:49 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Modems excite me...

>I'm trying to remember now which things have to be changed with alt-P
>and which change automatically when you choose a number from the dial
>directory.  I guess I could experiment, but I would have to unplug VDM

You can reset everything from alt-p.  But I just thought that if
dialing were the problem, there's a prefix wrong or a script file
in the ointment.  If dialing is the problem, you gotta start, it
seems to me, with the ports--make sure that com1 or 2 is set with
F1 or F2 from the menu.  Here it is, actually:

:            CURRENT SETTINGS:  2400,N,8,1,COM4           :
:                                                         :
: BAUD RATE   PARITY     DATA BITS   STOP BITS   PORT     :
:                                                         :
: 1)    300   N) NONE    Alt-7) 7    Alt-1) 1    F1) COM1 :
: 2)   1200   E) EVEN    Alt-8) 8    Alt-2) 2    F2) COM2 :
: 3)   2400   O) ODD                             F3) COM3 :
: 4)   4800   M) MARK                            F4) COM4 :
: 5)   9600   S) SPACE                           F5) COM5 :
: 6)  19200                                      F6) COM6 :
: 7)  38400                                      F7) COM7 :
: 8)  57600   Alt-N) N/8/1                       F8) COM8 :
: 9) 115200   Alt-E) E/7/1                                :
:                                                         :
: Esc) Exit   Alt-S) Save and Exit  YOUR CHOICE:          :

(Ain't SideKick a kick?)

>with PCPLUS set to 19200 in alt-P, wouldn't it change automatically to
>2400 when I dialed a 2400 entry from the dial directory?  I know it
>changes back and forth between 1200 and 2400 automatically -- like if
>I couldn't get a line at 2400 and then hit my Ra 1200 entry, PCPLUS would
>automatically change to 1200.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Sure, if the auto-baud-detect is set-- or if the entry is set for
2400.  But if the problem is getting a line in the first place,
then it ain't the bauds, stop bits, or parity, I think.  It's
almost *got* to be a stinky little script file if you can get out
manually but not from the directory.

-Mka
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Ubi Sunt? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 14:38:37 +0000


In article <WORDS-L%92082823343747@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU writes:
>O.K., but what is a <turd>?  Would I like it?  Everyone warned

You're not serious are you?  Is this another UK/US difference I wasn't
aware of?
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:33:25 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      brushes
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              2 Sep 1992 17:23:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:23:00 EDT Gilbert Smith said:
>--ggs (wondering what a narrower brush feels like.....)

   hmmmmmm....there are those who have used their bikini line trimmers.....
you could check with them or their intimate friends.....
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:15:39 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Geneticists, Language

Stop sanskrit-bashing.
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Subject: Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:45:31 GMT
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              29 Aug 1992 21:46:15 CDT from <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>

On Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:46:15 CDT Bandwidth Pig said:
>Seriously, we haven't discussed color, but I think purple with yellow yettering
>is good.

ok by me...

>And the slogan is
>
>Member Words-L All-Amazon Assault Force
>words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

   great....

>We need logo ideas, or EPS files, or something...stop me before I put that damn
>map on another shirt!

well, you could do a map of brazil....emphasizing its major river, of
course....and depending on the locations, the river could meander through
interesting territory, up and down hills, etc....
.
dan
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (57)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:18:05 GMT

Giggles brings up the notion:
>>
>Isn't the fact that sexual intercourse involves the man penetrating
>the woman the source of much of the perception of pornography
>as necessarily demeaning to women?  And of the pervasive imagery of
>sex-as-violence in everyday vulgar speech?  How can you ever get
>away from the implication that sexual intercourse *is* characterized
>by male aggressiveness, whether one likes the implications or not?
>the Enquirer wants to know.
>.
>--ggs (about to be flamed mercilessly on that one, I'm sure...)


Somehow relevant, though I'm not sure just how, is the concept of the
succubus (I think I've got it properly distinguished from the incubus): the
female witch-form that drains a man's essences through the sex act.  I came
across some really drooling-idiot-class anti-woman pornography that
featured this horror.  *Somewhere* out there are men scared to death of
women!  And who think that sex is characterised by *female* agression.

--bayla


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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: details, we want details!
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>Thoroughly enjoyable account, Carol! .....oh to be young again (sigh)...

>                            Peace,
>                                  Don

	Youth has nothing to do with it, Don.  In Grand Canyon several years
	ago, I saw rafters in their 70s.  In fact, at least one man in his 60s
	*leads* Grand Canyon trips -- rowing *dories* (much tougher than
	rafts).

	Come on up to western PA for a half-day taste of the joys of rafting!
	Or for a bit more adventure, NC and WV offer 1-2 day rivers with plenty
	of big water.  Even in the west, there are 1-3 day trips, e.g. the
	Arkansas, Roaring Fork, or Colorado in CO, or Westwater on the Colorado
	in UT.  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!!

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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:40:32 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (57
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>> Do you remember which one?  I don't recall the word from Douglas Adams.
>> Molly Ivins is a newspaper columnist from Texas, and lampoons  politicians
>> all stripes.
>> rashmi
>I think she writes for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and she had an
>article in _Time_ (I think) about Ross Perot before he abdicated
>which was absolutely terrific.  Her stuff gets syndicated, sometimes
>shows up in the Raleigh News and Observer.  Very funny, very well
>done.
>--ggs
She has a book out: _Molly Ivers Can't Say That, Can She?_.
Very good book.

love, judith, whose list mail has all gotten *stuck* somewhere
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:58:26 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      RE: Getting Stranger
              25 Aug 1992 11:46:03 EST from <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 11:46:03 EST Entropy Warrior said:
>>Now I am getting copies of WORDS-L rejections of mail not being able to
>>reach a particular address (WILLIAMS/MC).  This is strange!   Where is
>
>Me too.  Is everyone?

No, but then the mail here still may be messed up a little.  I wonder
what's the matter with John's address or mailer?
>
>-Mka

Evelyn
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Name of someone who mispronounces words
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ok, y'all.....have at it.....    Go!   Wordslers Go!!!!     dan

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Greetings, stumpers-l

	I am looking for a word that means:
someone who constantly mispronounces a word no matter how many
times you correct them.
	And I don't mean 'mispronouncer'.  Not having much luck
with the usual sources.

	Please respond directly to: crffrankjk@crf.cuis.edu
	Thanks in advance!
	Julie Blackwell
	Concordia University
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:47:58 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: autism
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	It's a good list to learn how to deal with autism.  But, because of a
	certain controversy on the list, it's not an open-subscription list.
	Still, go ahead and submit your subscription, and I hope to see you
	added.

It's not _that_ private - it's been on bit.listserv.autism for ages.

Here's the first posting in the current local spool area - about
the 'controversy' as it happens.

G
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:44:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: RE: At O'Hare
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> >Well, someone's going down on her knees for mercy, what the hell does a man d
> >I mean? I patted her head and said she need fear me no more. There were tears
>
> Nobody believes this, right?
>
> Thanks, tushar, for leaving the door wide open to this bunch of punsters and
> geeks.
>
> -abh

Well, after I wiped away the tears and got up off the floor and
regained my <composure>, I decided that I believed *every* word.
Am I naive or is -abh trying to remedy her <authentic> performance
with the claim that it did not happen?
--ggs
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Just stuff

Hi Ruth,

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!

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:

    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.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 08:01:28 EDT
From:         jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Snuff Films
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>Posted on 2 Sep 1992 at 00:17:51 by tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas
>
>
>   >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

Oh my.

<blush>
jcs
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:10:35 -0700
From:         MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      RE: t-shirts
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I'd like a Tshirt, but  I won't be available for a year after
end of October. Marilyn Garber
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:24:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: RE: Ubi Sunt?
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> Joan is here -- trying to stay awake long enough to read her mail
> -- coming home after an enjoyable evening of viol consort playing,
> annoyed by the calluses on her left hand peeling off (an intermittent
> hazard of viol playing)

Hi Joan.  Ruby didn't know how to logoff, so I'm still here sniff sniff.
--ggs
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: gee, i can't even find a valid
Reply-To: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 20:36:44 GMT


In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>No, Dan, don't do it!  Don't disturb that dust!  It's ancient, and could
>>provide invaluable clues into the mystery of the nesting patterns of the
>>amorous librarianus!
>   could be....but SOME opf it is gone...though much remains.
	Opf?  SOME of opf?  What's an oph?  Is it worth anything?
>
>dan     who enjoyed the first part of Jack the Ripper on CBS and then
>          Mamets "the water engine" on TBS....both very good.
	I saw JTR too...Michael Caine is a good actor....:-)
>         and is now grooving to one of his honeys....on vh1....yumyumyum....
>         nice legs....great underwear.....if love is blind, why do lingerie
>          shops do so well?
	Which honey?  And what underwear was she in?

  
-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:20:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: Mario Cuomo fans - Read this.

Greetings,

In FDR's defense, the person who originated work relief (via the WPA),
a program that put hundreds of thousands of folks to work developing
infrastructure that still serves the US today, would hardly have said
"Lay down your shovel."

The curious thing to me is that "workfare," a trendy concept sweeping the
country and beloved of conservatives "thinkers" and liberals as well,
is (apart from the punitive neo-Victorian tone in which it's presented)
eerily similar to a program that New Dealers started almost 60
years ago.

Marty
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:00:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      family
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>I*like* being your Auntie Doris,Jill.This climbing the family tree on
>Words-L has rooted out some strange branches, hasn't it?  We are *so*
>fortunate to be located on the strong tree trunk and not on some of  ose
>th weaker limbs with three knobs.
>Auntie Doris

The Words-l branches of my family are no stranger than some of the
(what do you call the biological/non-virtual family?) non-virtual (?)
branches.  I feel that I can never have *too* much family, and I like
the new additions - being darling daughter to Giggles is certainly
different from previous father/daughter interactions I've had!  By
the way, Auntie Doris, with all this *new car* talk flying around the
family (the magnificent Miata, and tc's Jaguar), I've been
thinking...perhaps dear old dad should be sharing with his sisters
and his darling daughter?! (insert endearing smile to melt daddy's
heart here)  He has never yet bought me a car...

Your loving niece,
 Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:38:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366"
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Subject:      Politcal Poll - USA

For all you poll watchers out there, here's the latest from CNN as of
September 1:

ABC/Washington Post: Clinton---56
                     Bush------36

Time/CNN             Clinton 48
                     Bush 40
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: fire and ice
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Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 03:38:22 GMT


In a previous article, aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig) says:

>>Do any of you experienced people know what'll take masking-tape gunk off
>>windows without damaging the glass?  Neither Windexnor alcohol worked...
>
>1). scrape it off with a straight-edge razor
The hard way.....
>2). dissolve it of with acetone or some other noxious low-flash-point solvent

aka nail polish remover, the cheapest brand you can find.  The expensive stuff
is acetone-free half the time, at least up here in the frying North.  Some
methyl-ethyl-keytone would work too, providing you don't have any plastics
or stainable wood within ten feet of the stuff.:-)  It'll eat just about
anything....

>
-- 
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:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:16:52 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Greetings from New Computer, btw
              25 Aug 1992 07:44:56 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 07:44:56 CDT Natalie Maynor said:

>                           That reminds me -- have any of you seen that
>goofy videotape that comes with OS/2?  I don't mean the one they sell --
>I didn't buy that one.  I mean the freebie.  I watched the first few
>minutes of it and couldn't stand any more from the goofy basketball
>charader and the goofy executive.  I hope it is not an indication of
>the quality of OS/2.

I knew there was some reason we don't have a VCR.  Or a TV set, for
that matter.  The quality of OS/2 seems quite high so far.  The
quality of IBM's ads has never been high.

Tony H.
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From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
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>Sorry. I read it. My reaction is: What is the "B" in TGTBAgnes for?

>And just in case you want to know in more detail, yes, I practically
>expired with mirth. I was saved because I am very reserved.

 Thank goodness you were saved!  We'd have had another round of
"...has anyone heard from Tushar?  What would happen if he died, and
no-one notified the list?  Who *would* notify the list?..."  Please,
Tushar, if you are planning on expiring any time soon, leave word
with one of your friends to let us know, and we'll have the wake to
end all wakes! ;-)

Just kidding...actually, you're not allowed to expire, at all.  I
hope you have plans for immortality.

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:32:42 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Entropy Worrier (was Re: Gleanings (56
              27 Aug 1992 09:19:23 EDT from <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:19:23 EDT Bill Merrill said:
>>>   Why do I get the feeling that Entropy Warrior doesn't give a shit....
>>>about Akio or anything else except him/her/itself?
>
>Yes, but that boy's going to make a fine lawyer.
>Bill                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^  *OXYMORON ALERT*!!!!
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Bumper Stickers
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 05:13:54 GMT
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N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) writes:
> I think all this is great, really.  My objection to *private* education
> is that it drains off all the students whose parents are in a position
> of power because they have money...

My father is a high school biology teacher in Chicago.
We lived in the southwest suburbs.

Several placement exams were required for enrollment in the
public high school.  After my scores came back I attempted to
enroll in a biology class my first year.  I wasn't allowed - I
would have to take an "Honors" physical science class in which
I would learn nothing new.

My main academic competitor (and friend) since grammar school,
whose father was a research chemist and whose mother was a
mathematician, also scored off the top of the placement charts
and tried to bypass the intro class.  He, too, was not allowed
to do so.  My father and my competitor's parents all went in,
but they couldn't get the rules changed.

We wasted a year watching "Our Friend the Oil Refinery" films.
We wasted 4 years, actually, after having wasted most of the
previous years, too.  I don't know who had the power in those
schools.  Our parents certainly didn't.

What irritates me to this day is that the same *assholes* who did
everything in their power to stop my friend and me from getting
an education commensurate with our abilities were all smiles
and handshakes for publicity photographs when we started winning
academic competitions.  I never had the guts to tell them I did
my homework on the bus and drew comic books during the day to
keep myself awake.

If my parents had been able to extract my share of the public
school money there is no doubt they would have managed the rest
needed to send me to a better, private, school.  I find the
fact that they could not ethically wrong.

--karsten

(Don't get me started on the elimination of "tracking" in schools.
 I prefer not to use that much foul language in public.)
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