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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:29:50 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
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        > :ALL RIGHT, who blabbed!
        >
        > :-abh
        >
        > Errr... Anne... 3" means three inches, not three feet...

        The reference was to underwater photography...

Hey - I knew that!  I was talking about focal length.

G
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:15:00 EST
From:         AYC3@NCH08A.EM.CDC.GOV
Subject:      WORDS-L TP: Anjani's Art/Literature Ques
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>>>"Who commanded the 'Jolly Roger' in J.M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan'?"

I'll guess Captain Hook, but I once again have little clue.

>>>Entertainment or Science/Nature next if you're right.

On the off-chance that I'm right, I'll take Entertainment next.


--Anjani
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Clouds over Portland
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Posted on 27 Jan 1993 at 06:10:54 by Natalie Maynor
>words, if we make definite plans for time and place and get our bodies (and
>spirits) to that place at that time, we can make our own event.  We could
>easily take over a NC resort area, a hotel in Toronto, a whatever.  And we
>could probably arrange pretty easily to reserve a room in a good restaurant
>for an "official" event.

So there's no reason *not* to have it in Portland?  W/ the added advantage
of being able to stay in Reed dorms.

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:41:31 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Spring is here
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From: Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>

> And I almost forgot: here's a special message for anyone in the world who
> pisses me off. Eat Me.

Depraved May wants to know if you're serious?

Peter
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:54:05 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: cluedo

>'CLOO doe'..... Tushar was absolutely right when he stated the obvious that
>it is meant to rhyme with  Ludo ('LOO doe').

What is "obvious" depends on the dialect. Give 'em a break, Carolyn.

>Rashmi while 'playdoh' and Cluedo rhyme on the last syllable the initial
>vowel in playdoh is a diphthong in my dialect and therefore is marginally
>longer than the 'oo' of Cluedo.

The whole point was to make statements independent of one's own dialect.

tushar
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Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:00:41 GMT
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In a previous article, R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn) says:

>Who should Clinton pick as the new Attorney General?
>
Robert Bork?  Some conservative Republican Washington insider?  After all,
they're all out looking for work....

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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:49:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Salmonbake Essential
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There is just *one* thing I want to be sure of before I
go to a Salmonbake at an <unknown> place:
   Can we be sure there wont be hordes of gay soldiers
   hanging around?
This is something that we should consider.
--ggs
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N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (gilbertsmith) writes:
> There is just *one* thing I want to be sure of before I
> go to a Salmonbake at an <unknown> place:
>    Can we be sure there wont be hordes of gay soldiers
>    hanging around?

Don't worry gilbertsmith, they won't be expecting much from you.

--karsten
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:26:21 +1100
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's Science/Nature Question
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>"What's the common name of the world's most venomous jellyfish?"
>
>Oh, yuck, Science/Nature!  Not a category in which I do well.  However,
>since it received so much discussion on this list some time ago, I'm going
>to say the Portuguese man-of-war.
>
>Nancy

Sorry, it is the sea wasp.

Carolyn
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 11:27:04 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Asians
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        By way of wiley digression, what is the appropriate name for a
        resident of the western hemisphere (North or South America) ?

American, obviously.

G
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:50:42 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
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        >PS Anyone looking for a toy-boy?  All I need is food, clothes, and a T1
.

                I could say the same, but now I'm married and <respectable>.

:)

        Rita

        PS I know this thread is ancient history, but I'll go pop into the
        Indian market around the corner if you really want to know the price
        of Saffron 'round these parts.  I need some to make paella anyhow.

Please do, but don't buy any! - I'm sure bandwidth has plenty ty spare...
Actually... do: I want to find out of someone's nasty suggestion that it
could be an <inferior brand> is true...  (Looked OK to me - I'm sure this
is an urban rumour put about by the guys who do the 1000% markup...)

G
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:19:14 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (76
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              "samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU" at Jan 27, 93 1:58 am

> >As a words-l icon once said, "women *know* these things".
>
> Bloody stupid goddamned fluke, hell.

Fluke, eh?  That's bloody impossible.

-rashmi
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: cluedo
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>Posted on 22 Jan 1993 at 00:18:09 by LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
>'CLOO doe'..... Tushar was absolutely right when he stated the obvious that
>it is meant to rhyme with  Ludo ('LOO doe').

But Carolyn, this only makes sense if you know what Ludo is!  And I've
heard of it, but don't remember.

I'd forget my name if it weren't tattooed on my chest!

Karen
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tshirt colors
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> > *this* one would freeze to death without a shirt, as the physical plant
> > people here in the library haven't yet mastered radiator technology.
> > Tom Lee
> > brrr
>
> The physical plant people in my building haven't mastered it either, so I
> keep the following items in my classroom closet: 1 box fan, 1 electric
> heater, 2 shawls, and 1 queen-sized sheet.
> doris

But they're not IN our building, are they?  I thought the heating/cooling
dial-turners were still in Atlanta (a budget move on the part of our
thrifty powers-that-be several years ago).  BTW, the cold-weather cache
Doris keeps in her room saved me from freezing to death during a meeting
last week...you could hang meat in those English classrooms.
ndh
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:49:15 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Spring is here
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        And, as I said before, somewhere there is a .gif of Peter's May and
        May's Peter.  Check it out.
        --ggs

I thought May was female?

G
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Date:         Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:17:48 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: natalie@pizzabox
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Never mind!  I had one letter in lower case that should've been upper.
I just got on.  But then I got bumped before I could send any mail.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:35:14 EST
From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Asians
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I have always had similar problems and not just in France or in Quebec
(but always there). Using `American' to mean from the United States
is as obnoxious as ... as ...
as calling some North American games the World Series.

Don
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:04:32 GMT
From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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        time soon when there isn't a job offer at the end of it....  Now if only
        we could move it somewhere like Philadelphia or its suburbs.  Lots to do
,
        and lots of things like trains and planes go right ot it...?

You *don't* know what you're asking, girl...

G
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:15:29 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.bitnet@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Maya's poem

> "Arizona Repulsive" and the AP version IT had didn't mention Eskimeaux.
                                                               ^^^^^^^^^is
Esquimeaux, if you are going to use that romanization.

> Innuit, and all later "official" versions were so edited.  (Hey, if the
> Congressional Record can do it...8-(    )

I thought Karsten said he *heard* it...do you think his memory got
edited?

Karen
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Date: 27 Jan 1993 05:04:14 GMT
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In a previous article, g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (G) says:

>        time soon when there isn't a job offer at the end of it....  Now if only
>        we could move it somewhere like Philadelphia or its suburbs.  Lots to do
>,
>        and lots of things like trains and planes go right ot it...?
>
>You *don't* know what you're asking, girl...
>
So clue me in.<innocent look>  You could always fly into Newark, if all
else failed.  Not that anyone would *want* to fly into Newark, but it is
a major airport, and it might beat Philly.  Lower crime rate.:-)
-- 
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:25:59 CST
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>   "Another important division is that between Sutra and Shastra. A sutra
>is a text which claims to have been spoken by the Buddha himself. It always
>begins with the words, Thus have I heard at one Time. The Lord dwelt at...

Then I take back what I said about the khuddaka-nikaya. Even the Jaataka
tales start with "evam me sutam" ("Thus I have heard ..."). Heard from
Buddha, of course.

>  Elsewhere, Conze states that we have no way of knowing which sutras
>(whether preserved in Pali or in Sanskrit) were spoken by the historical
>Buddha himself.

Some of the tales certainly aren't. They are just older folk tales modified
to make the central figure a previous birth of Buddha.

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:28:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: signoff
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> On Mon, 25 Jan 1993, gilbertsmith wrote:
>
> > Kiss me now, soon I'll be gone.
>
> *s-m-a-a-c-k*

Thanks, and goodbye.  I'm *leaving*.  Somebody write me a
poem, quick.  I'll be back in a couple of hours.
--ggs
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:14:51 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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> > I'm about to add up the rankings received today and need some clarification.
> > Am I correct in assuming that NC = No?
> No Comment.

Oh dear.  I'm going to have to refigure last night's calculations.  But
that's ok.  Since more votes are coming in, I'll have to refigure
everything anyway.  It occurred to me later that blanks should equal
no's since I think I mentioned in the original instructions that they
were synonymous.  And my points system should perhaps be changed also.
If a 1=8 and a 2=7, probably a "no" should take off more than 5 points.
Maybe even 10 since a no indicates that the person would not come at all
to that destination.  Those of us who would go anywhere at all for the
gathering, even if we hated the site, ranked the undesirable places with
7's and 8's (=2 and 1 respectively), not with "no."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S. Two people yesterday sent notes saying things like "I vote for
Portland."  I counted those as #1's (=8) for Portland.  SHould I assume
that all other sites on the list were voted "no" by those people?
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Message from Down Under (the House)
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Being #5 is a slip for somebody who has risen as high as #3, with #1 and 2
being machines.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: Asians

>So where are you say you are from?

>Karen
        "Nairobi, Ma'am...isn't everybody?"

JMW
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:13:00 CST
From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Latest ProjectH shtuff
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Just cause I felt so special reading this...

-abh
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As Sheizaf has indicated, we've had an extraordinary response to the
invitation to join us. The degree of interest is, I believe, as much a
reflection on the substantial progress we've made so far as in the
topic per se.

To date we've had more than 120 people contact us from Australia,
Canada, Denmark Finland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel,
Netherlands, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland,
United Kingdom and the United States (and the deluge continues).
Many have joined us already. Welcome, it's great to have you with us.

The bibliography and members' bios are being updated periodically.
Both are available by anonymous ftp:
       Host:         archsci.arch.su.edu.au (129.78.66.1)
       Directory:    pub
       Files:        projecth.bib.1-93
                     projecth.bios.1-93

The pretest codings continue to flow in. We're holding off on the
reliability measures to give new members a chance to work on the
pretest messages and comment on the codebook. If you've just joined and
missed the repost of the codebook and messages, please contact Sheizaf
or me. We want to be sure you are using the latest version of the
codebook.

I want to thank the people who have commented both privately and
publicly on the codebook. The comments have pinpointed some fuzzy
definitions and will help us to perfect the codebook for actual coding.
For pretesting, though, we will continue to use the less-than-perfect
codebook.

Fay
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Posted on 25 Jan 1993 at 12:12:59 by torkel@SICS.SE
>  Or Rice-land. You can always call yourself a Rice-lander. (Sugoi!)

I think this is the name of a line of instant rice dishes in this country.
I don't think I want to be called that, Torkel.

Karen
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Subject:      Re: Cloudy skies over Portland
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1993, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> Where is the dividing line between Northern and Southern Atlantic?

In the water?
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
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Sorry, Carolyn, but I have no idea.

Evelyn

P.S.  I don't hate you for it.
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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> : it in Ireland?  Then we could all go down to London and stay with Graham.
>
> Two good reasons why not.
>
> 1) I don't live in Eire.
> 2) Bill does.

If you're willing to do that much traveling, you could still have it in
NC, and come down here to Houston and stay with me.  That way I could get
to meet some Words-Lers ftf.
doris
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From:         "Emily J. Horning" <IBJQEJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Emily's Sport/Leisure Question

> "What's the term for a bet before cards are dealt?"

An ante? This is a wild guess. I have no idea.

> Your last category Entertainment is next, if you are right.

Well, if ante was right, I guess I'll have to to take it (it's my worst cate-
gory).

> Carolyn

Emily
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:16:56 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Spring is here

>  Joe P.(just now realizing that Words-L is a list for cunning linguists!)

Nonsense. There is only one cunning linguist here, on whom mostly everyone
has given up.

tushar
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> > I was in favor of the NC idea from the beginning and will happily vote
> > for it.
> Maybe someone oughta ask him?....:-)

He mentioned it during the original deliberations.

> North Carolina is gorgeous.

I love the Smokies.  For some reason I prefer their kind of beauty to
the stark peaks of the Rockies.

> It would even tempt ME to come down for a
> day or two.  (I know: who cares??:-)

I care!  If driving from here to NC, it will be harder to make a detour
through Wayne, NJ, than it was between here and RI.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: In Ecstacy
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        >- it was the 'genieuses' three lines down that worried *me*...
        >
        >G

        Just for my information, why does it worry you? Are you also worried
        by mathematicians who can't balance checkbooks?

I'd be worried by a mathematician who sometimes wrote + for -,
or \Sigma for \Pi; or a high-school *arithmetic*
teacher who couldn't balance chequebooks.  Or a bomb-disposal
expert whose hand shook uncontrollably.  Or a phoneticist with a
tin ear.  Or a computer programmer who doesn't initialise variables.
All these little signs don't inspire confidence.

G
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:07:07 -0700
From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject: Re: Maya's poem

Okay, I brushed all the coffee grounds and egg shells off this morning's
"Arizona Repulsive" and the AP version IT had didn't mention Eskimeaux.
My theory is that someone hipped her to the fact that the PC term now is
Innuit, and all later "official" versions were so edited.  (Hey, if the
Congressional Record can do it...8-(    )

John "What did Zoe know, and when did she know it?" W.
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