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From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Gleanings (68)
Date: 20 Nov 92 04:29:23 GMT
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In article <m0mre6S-000MSuC@ddsw1.mcs.com> Diki Shamlian Gust <dikig@DDSW1.MCS.COM> writes:
>>
>>            13) RICO (Anne Hy.)
>>
>>         Can't remember, so can't answer.
>>
>> A US Supreme Court ruling that allows law enforcement agencies to
>> seize the property of people accused of drug crimes.  (Note - accused,
>> not guilty).  A law that is being seriously abused to raise money
>> for local police forces (they get to keep the procedes locally).
>>

Rico= Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act; federal legislation
that authorized the government to confiscate the property in cases where
there was evidence of a "pattern" of criminal activity be several 
(or more) people acting together or as part of an organization. Originally
inteneded to be used against "organized crime," but the application was
extended beyond the original scope, especially drug sellers, but has
inlcuded other crimes as well. The statute us abused by federal (and
local agents where states have passed equivalent laws). US Supreme Court
has upheld its basic provisions despite demonstrable abuses. Its worst
feature is that it presumes guilt. 

Easily passed at the time because it was assumed that it would only be
used against the nastiest of crooks. One on the books, the broad wording
has been easily expanded, demonstrating the need to oppose dangerous
laws even if they seem to target those deserving of little sympathy.

Jim (maybe a "liberal" USSC will eventually overturn it) Thomas
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      emulaser
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has anyone out there ever used emulaser or a similar product?

it is supposed to turn your printer into a postscript printer....i have
a laserjet, and this will be a software product to do the postscript
conversion....

good?   bad?  indifferent?   a useless knockoff?

dan
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Greetings, Bekka,

You are indeed a diamond among cubic zirconia, a salmon steak among
croquettes, a Granny Smith among yellow deliciouses, and a bon mot among
hackneyed phrases.

Marty
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Another Contest

*** Resending note of 11/19/92 23:12

>We could spend the next few days voting on *which* wordslers would be
>most likely to post a message like this.  Then, I could tabulate the
>votes and tell everybody how everybody voted and then ......
>No, bad idea.

Absolutely, bad idea.......

>--ggs (just getting over the <injury> and the effects of the
>       medicine.....  back to normal, happy to say)

Rats....Tushar doesn't really leave ...and now you're back to normal...

Can the day get any worse........
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: what? no report yet?
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> On Mon, 23 Nov 1992 11:12:31 EST, "Elaine Brennan" <elaine@brownvm.brown.edu>
>  wrote:
> > well, *you're* the one who was going to come visit so you could give
> > the list an <appropriate> report and then didn't manage to make the
> > trip ...
>
> See Giggles! Even strange newbies know how to use wackawackas <appropriately>.
>
> G
> (Hmmm... Brennan.  Brennan.... sounds vaguely <familiar> actually.  It'll <com
> back to me...)

Everyone is doing so much better under by expert tutelage.  I am a
fucking mentor, that's what I am.  And so <proud>.
--ggs
From: MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Michael E. Macmillan)
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>Ethnomethodology involves going into a different culture with no
>particular hypothesis to explore, gathering as much as you can of
>the language and context, and then looking through raw data for
>ideas.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

What's special about this?  Isn't this the way most of us stumbled
through our theses and dissertations regardless of the field or
culture?

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Original-From: mhwpa!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Subject:      Re: Gleanings (68)
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>>14) Mea Shearim/Judge Sol Wachtler (Ken W.)

I forgot Sol Wachtler.  He is now the FORMER chief judge of the New
York State Court of Appeals.  Man is 62, married 40 years, kids, etc.,
respected by all political parties, mentioned at one point as a
possible Supreme Court nominee.  He's got himself a mistress: very
Uptown Republican divorcee, quite a stunner, did fundraising for the
Republican party.  Well, she ends the affair and takes up with a
lawyer from Short Hills, New Jersey.  Wachtler loses it: begins
sending his ex-mistress notes claiming he has photos of her and her
new lover "together," and demands money for the photos or he will
release them, PLUS have her 14-year-old daughter kidnapped.  Problem
is that the woman's powerful friends include the head of the FBI.
Wachtler was arrested and put under a suicide watch.  He's currently
out on his own recognizance, wearing an electronic monitor so they
know where he is at all times

He resigned from the bench.

Ken
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Subject:      Gleanings (68)

Woe is me...will I never make the gleanings again? :-(
Good morning Akio!

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: FYFI
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>From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078" <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>
>
>>The problem is, I'm not *old* enough to remember.
>>--ggs (laughing anyway at sk's funny poem....)
>
>Oh Oh!  I DO remember reading Burma Shave signs :-(

NO WAY is -ggs not old enough to remember! He's only a
few months younger than I am, and *I* remember Burma
Shave signs!

love, judith
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Subject:      Re: Things that make you go *sigh*

>                                            If the address is correct,
>perhaps fwp or gt or ts or some other of the computerphreaks can help.
>
>bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu

This tendency of irresponsible stereotyping is now reaching epic
proportions! I am a student of Computer Science. My activities and
preoccupations are altogether different from phreaking.

tushar
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 16 Nov 1992 07:41:10 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ("Natalie Maynor") says:

>The net seems strangely quiet this afternoon, although most places are
>responding to 'ping' ok.  Is everybody just feeling quiet today, or are
>the net goblins secretly stealing mail?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

The local goblins have been gobblin' mail all day.  I found 64 mailbounce
messages in my mailbox today, from failed/rejected Bitnet posts.
Something's been a-chewin' on the wiring 'round here....

-- 
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
Date: 18 Nov 1992 20:46:29 GMT
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In a previous article, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:

>>Don't enumerate your fowl...
>>doris
>
>This reminds me. Everyone check out this cool question: WHY do
>we say "disoriented like a decapitated chicken"? Has anyone SEEN
>a headless chicken?
>
Oh Lawdy, not this one again!  This thread has been spindled, folded and
mutilated at least once before.  But to answer your question, I have seen
headless fowl.  

>
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Teachers and students
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> > I always seems to have one student who doesn't do well and writes very
 snotty
> > comments.
>
> I have one of these in my class - can't wait to see what he writes! NOT. 8-)
>
No matter what you do or who you are, there will always be at least one of
those students.  Even though you know how negative and hurtful those
comments will be, you have to read them, just in case there is some tiny
speck of truth in the mud somewhere.  I always try to read that kind
first...get them over with and go on to the ones where something
constructive is said.

In a couple of cases over the years, some of the people who have been
*very* negative have come back and said they feel differently...that does
help.  I think the negative ones affect us as much as they do because
as teachers we *have* to put so much of ourselves into what we do...it's
sometimes *hard* not to take this kind of thing personally.
ndh
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Date: 19 Nov 92 01:34:00 GMT
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Greetings,

Has anyone else noticed that dialogs with Ruth are startlingly similar
to dialogs with Tushar?

I had long thought of Tushar and Lisa of URIACC as soulmates; now I posit
a kind of triangular relationship.

Marty (somewhere off the shore of virtual Bermuda)
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:28:01 CST
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: what can it mean?
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> Bernard Chien Perro         11
> Paul Barfoot                11
> Rod Kessler                 11
>
>  Who are the <people> in my neighborhood. In my neighborhood. ...

The best.

>  One of these things is not like the others. .....

You're right.  One is ahead of the other two in combined total:

:-) grep bernard stats
Bernard Chien Perro             11           0           0
BERNARD@ENGLISH.MSSTAT...        2           0           0
:-)
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:42:27 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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> >in some way memorable, either positively or negatively, and I remember those
> >who have stayed in touch.
>
> Would you write recommendations for them?
>
Karen,
 You may not have addressed your question to high school teachers, but as
a teacher of seniors I am called upon quite often to write letters of
recommendation.  The majority are for current students and are
wanted by the student for purposes of college admittance or for
scholarship applications.  I have a questionnaire that I ask the student
to fill out in order that my memory might be jarred into remembering
details about the student.  This was important when I taught juniors who
would come to me during their senior year for letters of recommendation.
Another thing that I frequently do is ask for a letter from one or both
parents *and* from the student which include things that assist me in
drawing a word picture of the characteristics, traits, and strengths of
the student.  This is time consuming, but I abhor "form letter" recs.  If
I write a "form letter" rec, it means I don't *really* recommend the
student.  Harsh as it sounds, I have refused to write a letter of rec. for
a couple of people when they have exhibited traits that would disqualify
them for whatever it was they were trying for.

doris
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>She'd volunteered to type his term paper, as a way of gettin to know him;
>the big problem was that she didn't know how to type, and was sufficiently
>late with the paper that he almost failed the course!  I still don't
>understand why he married her, after all that...

You don't understand why he married her! She volunteered to type when
she didn't know how to type and you don't understand! Hell, if two
females did this to me simultaneously I'd commit bigamy.

tushar
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Blast From The Past (Long!)
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> Natalie, you want me to buy you a Superball ticket?  Superball is the
> multistate lottery that Idaho is a part of .      last nite a couple in

I may be able to become a lottery winner right here in Mississippi.  On
Nov. 3 we finally were able to vote to remove the constitutional ban on
lotteries.  That doesn't mean there will be lotteries, of course, but it
means we're one step closer -- rid of one big impediment.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:01:58 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning
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> Thanks Karsten, for the laugh.  I'm ROFL as I visualize Natalie playing
> Tetris with her new OS/2 environment and trackball - or better yet, with a
> joystick.

Is that the one that's the same as Reversi?  Reversi was the only thing I
liked about Windows the two days I tried it a long time ago.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 24 Nov 1992 05:17:30 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Something is Missing
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Because Akio said he's on holiday today.  Emperor's day or something.

G
From: BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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Date: 17 Nov 92 01:18:33 GMT
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Last week Carolyn used "bichabum" as a good-natured epithet for someone.
I was waiting for Akio to glean it, but he must know the word already.
Would Carolyn or someone else explain?  Is it Aussie dialect?

brad
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In a previous article, ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM () says:

>> > Maybe Clinton will do what LBJ did when asked about his war wounds.
>> > On Larry King.
>>
>> Now *that* would make a nice photo Christmas card.  I want one.
>> --ggs (it could carry the greeting "Look what Santa left for me under
>>   the tree...a little elf....)
>
And I laughed when I saw it, in spite of mys<elf>.

>Gilbert G. Smith, you are a very sick person.  That is the highest
>compliment I can pay anyone on a Friday afternoon after the week I've
>had, so be complimented, sir.

Yes indeedie, for your grand show of bandwidth piggery and context-free
Burma Shave jingles if nothing else!

>Ken ("Still crazy after all these years")
If we went any crazier, we'd be sane.  Scary thought, that.

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From: harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 01:58:24 GMT
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 KIS100F@smsvma.bitnet wrote:

> >(this is true) had named Street Car Named Desire rolled to a gliding
> >stop and I was yes stranded in middle of the cutting intersection,
> >in middle of the nowhere, in middle of the island.

You were a bottle baby, weren't you?

>     The above message was meant to be addressed to Anne but I typed in
>     Evelyn because just before typing the above, I read a message by

Don't know what this means...e-oops or clever ploy at self revelation?

-abh
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From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: emulaser
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>>Judith, kindly make no more unbearably smart-alec remarks.
>>
>>tushar

>Moi?

>judith, sulking...

Ok, I love you both deeply ,but stop using my name in vain. Or, Capitalize
Alec.

Thanks
alec
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>Don't enumerate your fowl...
>doris

This reminds me. Everyone check out this cool question: WHY do
we say "disoriented like a decapitated chicken"? Has anyone SEEN
a headless chicken?

tushar
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Date: 16 Nov 92 16:55:19 GMT
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:47:53 EST, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU wrote:
> McGonagall, William, 1825-1902.
>
> There he is, big as life, 32 editions listed on the OCLC database,
> including -The World's Worst Poet: selections from "Poetic Gems"-
> (Springfield, IL: Templegate, 1979).
>
> Sorry I doubted you, Graham!                    --brad

Doubting Thomases, the lot of you!

I should point out that McGonagall did *not* think he was writing
doggerel.  He was convinced he was a great poet, and very hurt when
publicans would throw peas at him during recitals.

Rabbie Burns, btw Akio, is Scotland's 'Offical' greatest poet.  He was a
womanising drunk - thoroughly nasty piece of work.  A lot of self-respecting
Scotsmen (the only kind of course) want nothing to do with him.

G
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Posted on 18 Nov 1992 at 06:39:18 by Natalie Maynor
>>  What other words belong in the set?

What about 'ovular' instead of 'seminar'...and womyn who give
ovularimony instead of testimony.  The list is endless.

Karen
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Things are getting <sticky> in here.

-abh
I need a shower
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              20, 92 7:10 pm

> > Emily (anyone remember the sketch on Letterman a few years ago - the fastest
> > typists in the world? :)  )
> Yes, I saw it.  Dave had some sort of speed-typing stunt, but it
> backfired when the woman produced what looked like gibberish.

> --karsten
> (who learned to type 60 wpm on a manual QWERTY typewriter)

Yes, I remember it now, didn't when Emily first mentioned it.  Dave trying to
talk his way through it was pretty funny.

rashmi
(who never learned to type)
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ha and ha again
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1992, Entropy Publishing wrote:

> Piggish pride triumphs <again>.

Still no answer from our sniveling little correspondent in the frozen Midway.
I must truly have <rendered> him speechless.

>OINK<
-abh
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> >>"Virupaksha Mokshagundam"        8
> >        No comment needed.
> Undoubtedly the classiest eight letters written to the list in that period.

Did I ever tell you that I did a bit of research on the name when it first
appeared on the list?  According to an Indian acquaintance here, it *could*
be a real name -- but he also told me what else it could be.  I researched
it out of curiosity only, not out of any plan of zapping Virupaksha from
the list.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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