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Original-From: polaris!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:06:00 EDT
From:         ktw@POLARIS.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: shooting spree
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>How is net life different from FTF life in relation to crazy people,
>threats, etc.?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

It's just more concentrated and therefore the crazies are more likely
to be able to hide or go unnoticed....

    HAMLET: Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?

    FIRST CLOWN: Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits
	    there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.

    HAMLET: Why?

    FIRST CLOWN: 'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men
	    are as mad as he.


Ken
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:59:01 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      RE: Sim Bush
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              at Sep 4, 92 1:54 pm

>
> It's so funny, even the Mac crashed. Thanks for the chuckle.

	Did it?  Didn't crash any of our machines.

Rita
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:52:16 -0700
From:         MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      Re: Unix lessons
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To Michael: thanks for the response. Marilyn
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:56:37 -0400
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject: Re: info, please
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Bayla,
	I don't have a new enough almanac (newest I could find was 1981)
to check exactly, but my memory says that New Hampshire school teacher Christa
McAuliffe died in the Challenger disaster.

Nancy,
	That, indeed, was one day I was glad I did not teach public school.
I find it hard enough to try to explain such happenings to myself, let alone
to a roomful of young children.

	I was undergoing my physical exam at Harvard when Kennedy was
assassinated -- thought the Harvard radio station was playing some kind of
hoax -- don't I wish?
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:50:00 EDT
From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: i'm a poet and didn't know it
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>You all will be happy to note that a poem
>i wrote was  a finalist in the Prov.Journal
>poetry contest.  It was picked (along
>with 17 others) from 727 entries.

VERY nice!  I guess they think you are even if you don't think
you are.  People who are never think they are....

Ken <who has also lived with that accusation periodically>
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:38:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: OOOOPPPS (was: Thank You...)

>Oh Jesus....  the minute I hit the send key I realized that
>I was making one of those *awful* oooops errors....  So very
>sorry, folks....
>--ggs (hoping -abh didn't see *that* one....)

Some people will do anything for a little attention.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:57:07 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ribbit...ribbit...ribbit...
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> 	Today was the day Lyndon Johnson was born. Does anyone know how
> old he would have been?

84, two years younger than my father, who at one time dated one of his
sisters.
Doris
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:54:20 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: bumper sticker

>                                         The *intent* of the second
>sticker is probably to elicit humor, but what is does instead - in my
>opinion - is make me think that (1) the child of the person putting the
>sticker on his/her truck is not doing well in school and (2) the parent has
>neither any respect for education nor has he/she instilled any in the child.

It makes ME think that it is giving a snobbish sticker what it deserves.
I probably haven't properly understood what the context of the first
sticker is, but anyway I can't think of any situation where it is not
ridiculous.

If my mother put a sticker on her car saying "Get this, my son goes to U of
Chicago, OK?" I'd be pretty embarrassed. But my mother would never do that,
even if she had a car.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:15:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: sayings
Comments: To: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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> >  Just Ducky      as in      How are you doing?  (reply) Just Ducky
> 	Beats me, but if I were you I'd be asking Giggles....  He might
> have perpetrated this one in his donkey puck-munching youth....
>
> It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead

You have come to the right authority on this one.  When they asked
me how I felt right after swallowing the <biscuit>, I answered,
<Just Ducky> and it caught on among the Scouts and spread over the
face of the earth like <Duck Butter>.....    So, by analogy,
Duck Butter=Donkey Buiscuits=Mule Muffins, therefore <Just Ducky>
means, in fact, <I feel like sh*t>....  sort of ironic tinge to it.
Which, in fact, is what I heard as I was researching Agnes in the
D. H. Hill Library of NOrth Carolina State University, from a
fellow scholar sitting at the next table......
*But* that belongs in WHTMITL....  which *is* forthcoming.
--ggs (rivalling J" "W as authority on everything....)
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:49:36 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Note to Bernard
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//anne writes:
> ... jacks, on the swings/bars

Is this something to do with Jim Thomas?

G
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Date:         Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:42:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: PCPLUS

>     Revise Entry 1MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
>     :        NAME: Ra                       :
>     :      NUMBER: 325-2860                 :
>     :        BAUD: 2400                     :
>     :      PARITY: NONE                     :
>     :   DATA BITS: 8                        :
>     :   STOP BITS: 1                        :
>     :      DUPLEX: FULL                     :
>     :        PORT: COM4                     :
>     :      SCRIPT: RA                       :
>     :    PROTOCOL: ASCII                    :
>     :    TERMINAL: VT102                    :
>     :        MODE: MODEM                    :
>     :    PASSWORD:                          :

Very interesting, Natalie.  I must have an older version of
PCPLUS.  My entry list does not include PORT or PASSWORD.  Else
it's the same.

I *am* amused that we both sent our SideKicked menus to the list
almost simultaneously.  See why I'd miss you by noon?

Karen should take a peek at the entry list and see if there is a
script file, no?  And if so, what it says, like:

IF NOT LINKED
DIAL "3"
ENDIF
MLOAD MAIL.KEY
TRANSMIT "^M"
WAITFOR ">>"

The "IF NOT LINKED" statement could gum up a lot of works if the
entry is, say, 4, and there is nothing under 4.

When do we write the PCPLUS tutorial?

-Mka
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:19:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: FTP???
Comments: To: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>
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> Bring it in as text?  Get the thing onto the same drive as your WP, ahem,
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> software, and just tell WP to convert the file from ASCII to WP-format.
> It's in the utility commands some place.
>
> 		Ruth
> who's done it a million times
.
now ruthie that is just as clear as mule-muffins....  this is
precisely my question:  How do you get the thing onto the same drive
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
to call my machine people, but it's so much more fun hearing from
all of you on this.
--ggs
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:19:27 -0400
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pascal
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Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU> asks:

>> >  The formulation is also faulty. <3,4,5> is one of an infinity of solutions
>> >for n=2.
>>
>> Got another?

It would appear that noone yet has completed the mathematics lesson for today,
if my mail is working (which it has not been since I've returned) -- that is
why the reply from the Math/CS side of UMass/Boston.

If <a,b,c> satisfies a^2 + b^2 = c^2, then so will <ka, kb, kc> for any
positive integer k.  Proof left to the reader (and here is a case where the
proof is indeed trivial).

Joan Boorstein (jboor@cs.umb.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:18:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <LMMCIDL%LIB.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Jewish Murderers have grivenas a new topic

So what you're saying is that grivenas is nothing more than Kosher cracklin's?

John "Call me Fishmeal" W.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:14:17 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Two Tushars

>There's a Tushar online on Ra right now.  But not a Samant.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I own up. Natalie is my creation. Lifted the style wholesale from old
Mrs Saldanha to create her. Had to read a bit from Fromkin and Rodman
from time to time, though.

Started out as manually written letters, though in the recent past she
has been mostly software. I'll put the programs on ftp at Ra.

But you have to admit "Natalie" was pretty convincing, eh?

tushar
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 12:42:56 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: English aspiration
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Posted on 29 Aug 1992 at 21:21:46 by Tushar Samant
> If I don't aspirate where I should, it is generally heard as voiced.

So what? That doesn't mean it is.  I bet Taiwanese or French speakers
don't hear your unasp Cs as voiced.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:18:26 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Ausbrook's lawschool
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: nature over the years.  It sounds about as offensive to me now as Brit does.

What's this 'Brit' crap, Canuck?

G "That's "Hey Jock *Sir* to you, mush!"
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:41:28 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: fire and ice
              28 Aug 1992 17:13:19 EDT from <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>

>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.

I tried it here without incident.  (Power on, pajama top with a
liberal application of Windex.)  But I also tried it once using
the rubber gloves (just happened to have a pair lying about) and
must confess that it adds a certain ritualistic cachet to the
undertaking.  :-)

brad
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:52:35 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Correction
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I forgot to add - of course it's not OK to put "tmesis" etc in the ftp site.
I know it's a family affair and so on and that's quite all right, but one
can't put any mediocrity in there. Seriously.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:03:38 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English Aspiration

>I ask this cos the couple of attempts I've made to (deliberately) alter the
>way I say certain words have been complete flops. I'd get confused
>between the old and new versions (in the middle of a sentence) and almost
>never try it any more.  The word that made me give up : "composite".

The attempts I have made to alter my pronunciation have been flops too. But
I just think that if I try hard enough, I might manage.

>rashmi
>(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)

YOU don't fill out that test, by the way.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:30:56 -0400
From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: RevereWare
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              02 Sep 92 17:19:00 CDT." <9209021823.aa22516@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>:
>>entertaining story.  It has to do with pseudodivorce and moving and
>>questions like "I know your mother gave us the RevereWare, but can I keep
>
>What's a psuedomarriage then? What GGS's mother would call <living in sin>?
>
>-abh

I think I'm in one.  If we ever have a pseudodivorce, it'll be
unpleasant and complicated, probably as bad as a real divorce.  Should
it ever happen, I'll ask Paul how it compares to his real divorce.
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: RE: disks/modems/novels
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 05:04:09 GMT


In a previous article, TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA (Tony Harminc) says:

>On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:15:13 EST Entropy Warrior said:
>>                                           As I write, I am
>>avoiding the first 75 pp. of Tax.
>                       ^^
>Hah!  A WORDS question: what is the origin of this doubling of
>letters to make the plural ?  It seems to be used for a very few
>words only.
>
>Tony H.
>(Waiting for a <very obvious> explanation)
OK, but just to save you from having to wait too long.  It's English, and
in English, the abbreviation for pages is 'pp.' for no reason at all except
that it looks good.  Not being a grammarian or linguist, I can't be certain
of that.  And, someone is bound to come along and correct me.:-)
 
-- 
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:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:54:19 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force

Consider this my "statement of interest" in a t-shirt.  I would, of course,
prefer to have "Gentlemen's auxiliary" somewhere on mine to avoid any
confusion.

Tony H.
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:53:29 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Amazon Colors
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              Rouvalis" at Sep 1, 92 11:12 am

>
> 	I vote for black.  Or khaki.  Lavender is right out.  Blue
> might work if it is navy.
>
YAY!  You tell em, Rita!  Black's COOL!!  And khakhi's one of my favorite
colors.  Anything but red, red sux.

rashmi
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:42:31 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words-l All-Amazon Task Force
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              at Aug 31, 92 4:56 am

>
> >I don't know what John " " W means by tube (finger?), but she sneaks past my
> >filter file as well.  Ruth now has a special line in my filter-rules file all
> >to herself!  A few others on the list also have this ability, btw.
>
> I always was a sneaky devil.:-)  How do I do it?  And why do I need a filter
> in the first place?  My messages are always quite clean -

Aww, you know what I mean -- filter incoming mail so that list mail sits in a
separate folder until I can read it.  Very useful, especially on days when there
are kazillion words-l messages (haven't had many of those lately).
How do you sneak past??  By having a different "From" address.  It's easy to get
around, though, just check for ak***@cleveland.freenet.edu".

Haven't come across anything that will screen messages for "cleanliness" yet. :)

rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:34:31 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      turning over the compost pile
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              31 Aug 1992 17:12:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:12:00 EDT Gilbert Smith said:
>researching the topic.   WHTMITL:  What Happened To Me In The
>Library (never materialized because the wordslers didn't deserve
>the whole story after their disappointing behavior.).... 'scuse

Well, _I_ thoroughly enjoyed the results of the research....it was
fascinating....not as great as Quintana Roo, but that was better mainly
because it was about YOU....someone I know in PERSON.....

Now, PLEASE tell what happened in the library....inquiring librarians
wanna know....please?

dan
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:50:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: bumper sticker
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> Gilbert, I want you to come take over my academic study period
> class...you're just what they need!
> ndh

In the 4th grade, we had a new, young teacher who had so much trouble
controlling us that she would sit at her desk and cry every day.  We
felt sorry for her, but could not bring our selves to give her any
help.She lasted about three months, and then we got a guy named
Mr. Faulkner who sent me to study hall and said, under his bad
breath, "And I hope you *rot* there."  I was really the teacher's
pet in those days.  I told my parents and they marched down to the
principal's office and made the teacher apologize.  After that, he
loved me, as you can imagine.  I was only 10 years old and had only
recently quit playing show-bottom with the female honor students during
recess.  I think it <marked me> for life (the *rot* there comment, not
the playtime behind the hedges.).
    We had *such* fun in those days.
    I was threatened with expulsion when I was 11 for having made a
joke with one of those honor students:  "I know something on you!"
"What?"  "KOTEX!!!!!"
    Jesus Christ, I was only *11*.
--ggs (All right, Robert, perhaps you would like to stand in front
of the class and read to everyone this note that you received from
Tommy.... perhaps they will enjoy it as much as you have.....)
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:56:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Life's seamy side
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> ultra-violent offenders. Unlike some other countries, the U.S. just
> keeps chucking people in prisons (about 2.5 percent of the adult
> population is under some form of correctional supervison, and we have
> about 1.3 million currently in prison or jail).  Cynics are made, not
> born.  But, I wouldn't call it a "fascination"--it's just part of the
> real world that I deal with routinely.
>
> Jim (It does get depressing) Thomas

I wonder to what extent that percentage would be affected if drug
possession and use were de-criminalized.  Anybody know?
--ggs
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:26:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Pascal

>Er...can I ask a dumb question? What has this to do with
>language/lit/words? Some sort of linguists' plot to confuse the uninitiate?
>Agnes

Well.  Something tells me that Agnes hasn't quite caught the spirit of the list
yet.  Just a sneaking suspicion.

Chris
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From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
Subject: Re: Snuff Films
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 04:39:32 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <WORDS-L%92090309034271@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU> writes:
>>Well I <never did in all my life!>
>
>yeah. sure. :-)
>>
>
>>G
>>PS Say Jenna, what's the story with the school credits etc?  Did your
>>uncle/lawyer ever sort it out properly?  I take it *something* happened
>>or you wouldn't be back in university...
>
>well, thanks for asking Graham. I didn't think anyone read my
>postings anymore.

Well I do
Despite my newness.
And I wanna see this poem of yours...

RICHH
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:13:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: More on Silvia/Celia
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maya my dear *where* have you been....  it's been so long and now
you just <pop up> out of nowhere....  keep answering those old
messages, the new ones are pretty *boooorrrring* these days....
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:56:34 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: The tyranny of sub-cultural hegemony

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:32:00 CDT tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas said:

>Jews don't know from dreck!" Picky point, schmaltz is grease, not fat.
>I'll dig out the distinctions if anybody really thinks it's that
>important.

From a chemistry point of view, grease is a mixture of oil and soap.

Tony H.
(Who picked up a few buzzwords working at three oil companies)