HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,news.misc,rec.humor,alt.internet.access.wanted,misc.misc,news.newusers.questions,talk.bizarre,comp.mail.misc,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: E-mail and news account for lemur needed
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:03:56 GMT
Reply-To: jfurr@vtssi.vt.edu
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1992Dec23.072431.20535@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>I'm looking for anyone who can give out accounts on some machine they run
>or are authorized to give out accounts on who could give a
>telnet-accessible email and newsreading account to a Lemur associate of
>mine, Nigel.  Nigel would like to post to alt.folklore.urban and some
>other newsgroups on various subjects, but would prefer to do so under his
>own name.  If anyone out there could make an account such as
>nlemur@blah.foo.bar.edu for him, Nigel would appreciate it.  Please send
>notification to jfurr@vtssi.vt.edu.

No one's sent me any word yet... this may be a result of the Christmas
holiday dropoff in newsreading.  If you could make the newsreading and
email-accessible account "nlemur" on your machine (with a temp password)
and send word to me at this account, I'd get word to Nigel.

Joel "Really.  It's _not_ for me" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Re: Lemur tricks
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:07:33 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1992Dec28.162635.4768@memstvx1.memst.edu> nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>Last week at the zoo I saw one of the black lemurs doing backflips on a limb. 
>I mean he would do five or six without stopping, then he would look around and
>would do another series of backflips.  It was really something to see - he
>reminded me of those Polish springboard artists in the circus.  They were
>absolutely perfect backflips.  Since we are taught to study animal behaviour
>and because he did such perfect backflips, I watched this lemur for quite a
>while - I was spellbound.  But I could not come up with any reasonable
>explanation for this behaviour.  
>
>Joel - Maybe you could ask Nigel what it means when a lemur does backflips on a
>limb - or even on the ground for that matter.
>
>Nancy (Spellbound lemur watcher!!)

I asked Nigel.  Nigel's response, translated from the Lemur, was: "it
usually means the lemur's either trying to get extra snacks by looking
cute or trying to impress cute she-lemurs by looking studly and
masculine."  Nigel went on to say (translated) that "_SOME_ of us don't
have to DO tricks to impress the chicks."

Joel "The next generation of lemurs has to come from SOMEWHERE" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,sci.space.shuttle,alt.fan.cows,alt.religion.kibology
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: LEMURS IN SPACE (Was: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #3)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:54:52 GMT

In article <mcirvin.725760260@husc.harvard.edu> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Matt McIrvin) writes:
>rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec30.140313.7178@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes...
>>>According to the conspiracy theorists, the Columbia was destroyed after
>>>launch by Russian space war satellites and thus the "Columbia" that landed
>>>was really the Enterprise manned by clones.  I think the lemurs were all
>>>behind it.
>
>>Somebody better tell the lemurs:  Enterprise is sitting parked at Dulles, I've
>>seen it, and it doesn't say "Columbia" anywhere.  Been there for years, too.
>
>No, no, no-- the orbiter parked at Dulles and labeled "Enterprise" is in
>fact a Styrofoam mockup made in the year 259,364 by the lemurs' bipedal,
>large-brained descendants and sent back via anticausal Styrofoam
>Synchronicity Vibrations.  Since Styrofoam is of course conscious,
>I'd say we ought to watch it carefully.

I think you slipped when you assume that the lemurs of today are not
capable of such a deception on their own.  Since the Lemurs have full
access to the Cow Ship (the ship in which the ancestors of all modern cows
landed in millenia ago and quickly lost the key to), they have all the
technology TODAY for a deception such as this.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
From: kamorgan@athena.mit.edu (Keith Morgan)
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Followup-To: rec.arts.books, alt.fan.lemurs
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:50:49 GMT


Lemurs in literature? Egad sir, a central and important contribution
to literature: see, for example:

*The literary outlaw and the lemurs: William S. Burroughs among the
prosimians*  by Tom Patterson

* Adventures of Cuddles and Chuckles* by Elsie Lewis Rawson.

and lemurs wax philosophic in Sartre's *Le mur* 

Keith - who never met a lemur he didn't like
--

Keith Morgan kamorgan@athena.mit.edu
In the end nothing could be said of his work except that it was
preposterous and true and totally unacceptable. Edward Whittemore
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From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:05:36 GMT
Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie

jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) wrote:
> What?  rec.arts.books is devoted to flames about homosexuality?  I would
> have thought that it would have been about books.  Perhaps I should post
> reviews of some books about lemurs.  That is, if I can find any.

Frans Lanting: "Madagascar".  It's a recently published (and rather
expensive) book of photographs of the Madagascan landscape and wildlife.
Lemurs are only part of it.  That place is *alien*.

-- 
--  Jack Campin    room G092, Computing Science Department, Glasgow University,
17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ, Scotland   TEL: 041 339 8855 x6854 (work)
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:22:57 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <Bzo70E.IEB@ns1.nodak.edu> hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael
J. Hennebry) writes:
>My recollection is that lemurs figured prominately in Alan Dean Foster's
>Spellsinger, the first half of a 2-volume work that ends with The Hour
>of the Gate.

What did said lemurs do?  Were they represented as avatars of a higher
awareness or something?
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:10:31 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <BzoFtC.BHp@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) writes:
>jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) wrote:
>> What?  rec.arts.books is devoted to flames about homosexuality?  I would
>> have thought that it would have been about books.  Perhaps I should post
>> reviews of some books about lemurs.  That is, if I can find any.
>
>Frans Lanting: "Madagascar".  It's a recently published (and rather
>expensive) book of photographs of the Madagascan landscape and wildlife.
>Lemurs are only part of it.  That place is *alien*.
>

But of course, lemurs are an *important* part of it.  Anyway, hmm, you're
in the UK, I wonder if I could get that book through interlibrary loan
here.   Where'd you see it?  
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.config
Subject: Lemurs in show biz?  (Was: Re: alt.fan.multics, any interest in a Multics (OS) newsgroup?)
Keywords: group creation alt
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:29:59 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Dec20.145029.5468@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
>[Note crossposting! The a.f.c crowd may be interested in this...]
>
>In article <bdp21_@rpi.edu> multics@lachesis.acm.rpi.edu (Multics) writes:
>>I'd like to know it there is enough interest out there to warrant the
>>creation of an alt.fan.multics newsgroup where us past and present Multics
>>people can discuss the Multics OS and anything Multics oriented that comes
>>to mind, including the current status of Multics.
>
>The name alt.fan.multics is *bad*, though, because all the other
>alt.fan.* groups are about people in show biz; it would lead the
>newbies to believe that multics was a pop group :-).

I object and disagree, Magnus.  Not *all* alt.fan groups are about
people in show biz.  Note the existence of alt.fan.lemurs.  Lemurs have
a HELL of a time living down rumors that they're just refugee Ewoks and
here you come tarring them with that DAMN show biz slur.  Enough, already!

Joel "Standing tall, protecting my lemurs" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
From: nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Subject: Lemur tricks
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:26:35 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

Last week at the zoo I saw one of the black lemurs doing backflips on a limb. 
I mean he would do five or six without stopping, then he would look around and
would do another series of backflips.  It was really something to see - he
reminded me of those Polish springboard artists in the circus.  They were
absolutely perfect backflips.  Since we are taught to study animal behaviour
and because he did such perfect backflips, I watched this lemur for quite a
while - I was spellbound.  But I could not come up with any reasonable
explanation for this behaviour.  

Joel - Maybe you could ask Nigel what it means when a lemur does backflips on a
limb - or even on the ground for that matter.

Nancy (Spellbound lemur watcher!!)
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books,sci.misc
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:28:09 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <UfBHAiS00VAu4GcUcD@andrew.cmu.edu> gh26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Edward Hans) writes:
>how many authors can you think of who wrote about lemurs.I mean fiction
>authors not nature writers.I read an essay about the significance of
>lemurs in the writing of William S. Burroughs.something to do with
>heroin using homosexuals.That sounds like a lemur to me.I think if
>lemurs were marketed that way then maybe there would be more of a push
>for a National Geographic special about lemurs,maybe staring David Bowie.
>love spaz

Right off hand, I can't think of ANY authors who wrote about lemurs.  In
literature, I mean.  I guess authors have written about lemurs from a
scientific standpoint, but I've never read any serious literature in which
Lemurs appeared as important characters.  Anyone else?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,,rec.arts.books
From: hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu (Michael J. Hennebry)
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:55:26 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


My recollection is that lemurs figured prominately in Alan Dean Foster's
Spellsinger, the first half of a 2-volume work that ends with The Hour
of the Gate.

-- 
Mike   hennebry@plains.NoDak.edu
"I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up."
                                                            Terry Pratchett
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From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.pets,sci.bio,sci.misc
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Lemur Tail Tales (was Re: Joey the Lemur...)
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	<BzM2JM.FB@polaris.async.vt.edu>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:00:02 -0400

>
>Well, you also said that ring-tailed lemurs weren't lemurs at all. 
not exactly.  i said "ringtails" weren't lemurs.  there is a raccoonoid
called a "ringtail".  of course, ringtailed lemurs are called "ringtails"
for short, and of course *they* are lemurs.

but this is getting too silly even for me.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,news.misc,rec.humor,alt.internet.access.wanted,misc.misc
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
Subject: E-mail and news account for lemur needed
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 07:24:31 GMT

I'm looking for anyone who can give out accounts on some machine they run
or are authorized to give out accounts on who could give a
telnet-accessible email and newsreading account to a Lemur associate of
mine, Nigel.  Nigel would like to post to alt.folklore.urban and some
other newsgroups on various subjects, but would prefer to do so under his
own name.  If anyone out there could make an account such as
nlemur@blah.foo.bar.edu for him, Nigel would appreciate it.  Please send
notification to jfurr@vtssi.vt.edu.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
From: boulton@netcom.com (David A. Boulton)
Subject: Re: Lemur tricks
Organization: Peregrine Associates - Redwood City, CA
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:41:08 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.162635.4768@memstvx1.memst.edu> nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:
>Last week at the zoo I saw one of the black lemurs doing backflips on a limb. 
>I mean he would do five or six without stopping, then he would look around and
>would do another series of backflips.  It was really something to see - he
>reminded me of those Polish springboard artists in the circus.  They were
>absolutely perfect backflips.  Since we are taught to study animal behaviour
>and because he did such perfect backflips, I watched this lemur for quite a
>while - I was spellbound.  But I could not come up with any reasonable
>explanation for this behaviour.  
>
>Joel - Maybe you could ask Nigel what it means when a lemur
>does backflips on a limb - or even on the ground for that matter.
>
>Nancy (Spellbound lemur watcher!!)

As Joel (err. well actually Nigel..) said, it's possible he was doing
it for treats (I would do backflips for peanuts too, if I had to live
on Purina Monkey Chow).

It seems more likely that it's a case of stereotypical behaviour (also
known as zoo neurosis). He is simply bored out of his little lemur
mind, and it's the best thing he can think to do.

Did he continue to backflip for long periods of time (like an hour or
two at a strech)? Does he repeat the exact same sequence over and
over? If so, the keepers need to find some new ways to keep their
lemurs entertained. A bored lemur is not a healthy lemur.

I'm sure Nigel can suggest some good lemur games that they could play.
Perhaps "frink the National Geographic photographer". Of course that
would probably not be allowed in a public zoo display.

Seriously though this is a big problem with zoo animals, especially
the reasonably intelligent ones.

-- 
-- David A. Boulton                 | knowledge is just a polite
-- boulton@netcom.com               | term for dead, 
-- Peregrine Associates             | but not buried imagination.
-- POB 1385 Redwood City, CA 94064  |           -- e.e. cummings
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From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: 23 Dec 1992 11:34:53 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Then there is one of the grandaddies of psuedo-science...Col.
James Churchward's series on LEMURia..(the lost continent of MU.

A festive saturnalia to all....
-- 
Ted....
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.arts.books
From: kasprj@jec310.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:09:16 GMT

In article <1h9istINNjf3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel) writes:
|> 
|> Then there is one of the grandaddies of psuedo-science...Col.
|> James Churchward's series on LEMURia..(the lost continent of MU.
 
 I discovered a copy of Churchward's _The Lost Continent of Mu_ in a basement
of a bookstore in Long Island a year or two ago. I admire Churchward's ability
to make unabashed intellectual horseshoe turns, saying on one page that his 
theory is correct because geological evidence supports it, and on the next that
the geological evidence is wrong because it doesn't support his theory. I 
wasn't aware that there was a "series"; did Churchward write more than one 
book on the subject?
 
 Unfortunately Churchward's book makes no mention of lemurs. They are given 
a due tip of the hat in _The Lost Continent of Lemuria_, published by the 
Rosicrucians (well, my copy was published by the Rosicrucians in the 1920's,
I have no idea if they still have that volume in print). If I recall correctly,
the Rosicrucians' volume puts forth the theory that California is one of the 
places which inherited the Lemurian culture. Explains a lot, when you think 
about it.
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:36:34 -0500 
From: Pat_Barron@transarc.com
Subject: Re: Net Access For Lemurs (Was: Re: Lemurs (Was: Re: Joey the Lemur (transcript, kinda long)))
	<1992Dec18.222319.16614@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>

jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
> Is there anyone else out there who'd also be willing to provide free net
> access for lemurs, or perhaps net access at a discount rate?

I have a machine at home (whose name, oddly enough, is "lemur" - I'm
not making this up, mail to "lemur!pat@orac.pgh.pa.us" if you don't
believe me....), and I would be happy to give any lemurs e-mail access
on it.  Of course, it's just an MS-DOS PC, so they would have to come
to my apartment to read their mail.  As long as they don't play with
my appliances, or fill up my hard drive with X-rated lemur GIF files,
I don't mind....

--Pat.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,alt.religion.kibology,sci.space.shuttle
From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: LEMURS IN SPACE (Was: Re: STS-1 Disaster -- follow-up #3)
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:51:59 GMT

In article <30DEC199217190578@author.gsfc.nasa.gov> rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.140313.7178@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes...
>> 
>>According to the conspiracy theorists, the Columbia was destroyed after
>>launch by Russian space war satellites and thus the "Columbia" that landed
>>was really the Enterprise manned by clones.  I think the lemurs were all
>>behind it.
>> 
>
>Somebody better tell the lemurs:  Enterprise is sitting parked at Dulles, I've
>seen it, and it doesn't say "Columbia" anywhere.  Been there for years, too.

The least you could do when mentioning the lemurs in a post is crosspost
it to alt.fan.lemurs.  The Lemurs are Not Amused.
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,rec.pets,sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Lemur Tail Tales (was Re: Joey the Lemur...)
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:23:45 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <H.ea.z9YAeGR1YhY@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
>In <BzG933.Dor@polaris.async.vt.edu>, Joel K. Furr writes:
>>
>>In article <H.ea.PG44wYm6bHY@harvee.billerica.ma.us> scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
>>writes:
>
>>>is it possible lemurs are trying to compete with raccons?
>>
>>Sorry, gator, but ring-tailed lemurs are members of order: Primate, family:
>>Lemuridae, genus: Lemur, species: catta.
>
>i asked if theye were competing, not whether they are close relatives.

Well, you also said that ring-tailed lemurs weren't lemurs at all.  Thus
my response.  Ring-tailed lemurs, native to Madagascar, are not likely to
be "competing" with raccoons since there are no raccoons on the island. 
My father encountered two adolescent raccoons on his front porch the other
day.  They nodded to him and scurried off into the bushes.  I like
raccoons.  Would have been nice if I could have been there.  Be even nicer
if some ring-tailed lemurs came by to visit.
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From: rachel@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us (Rachel M. Kadel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.lemurs,,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: lemurs in literature
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:52:52 EST
Organization: Princeton High School, Princeton, New Jersey

jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:

> In article <UfBHAiS00VAu4GcUcD@andrew.cmu.edu> gh26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory 
> >how many authors can you think of who wrote about lemurs.I mean fiction
> >authors not nature writers.I read an essay about the significance of
> >lemurs in the writing of William S. Burroughs.something to do with
> >heroin using homosexuals.That sounds like a lemur to me.I think if
> >lemurs were marketed that way then maybe there would be more of a push
> >for a National Geographic special about lemurs,maybe staring David Bowie.
> >love spaz
> 
> Right off hand, I can't think of ANY authors who wrote about lemurs.  In
> literature, I mean.  I guess authors have written about lemurs from a
> scientific standpoint, but I've never read any serious literature in which
> Lemurs appeared as important characters.  Anyone else?

The only thing that occurs to me is that in _So Long and Thanks For All 
the Fish_, by Douglas Adams, in chapter 24, when Arthur Dent is 
unexpectedly flying, it says the following:
        He tried not to think about the ground, what
        an extraordinarily big thing it was and how
        much it would hurt him if it decided to stop
        hanging there and suddenly fell on him.  He
        tried to think nice thoughts about lemurs 
        instead, which was exactly the right thing
        to do because he couldn't at that moment 
        remember precisely what a lemur was, if it
        was one of those things that sweep in great
        majestic herds across the plains of wherever
        it was or if that was wildebeests, so it was 
        a tricky kind of thing to think nice thoughts
        about without simply resorting to an icky sort
        of general well-disposedness toward things, 
        and all this kept his mind well occupied while
        his body tried to adjust to the fact that it 
        wasn't touching anything.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled flames about homosexuality, 
unless you're reading this on alt.fan.lemurs, in which case I now return 
you to your regularly scheduled weirdness.  (On second thought, this is 
weirdness, although not regularly scheduled.  Whatever.)

                                  Rachel Meredith Kadel

There's an infinite number of monkeys at the door wanting to show us the 
script to Hamlet they've worked out...The school won't even LISTEN to me 
, much less let me speak for it...rachel@phsbbs.princeton.nj.us
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