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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:07:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Generic bags
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> Somebody start posting quick; we're going off the deep end.  Giggles!
> Bernard! Where are you?
>
> Doris

Sorry, Sis, I was trying on some ziplocks.... oooohhhhh, that's
nice, but do you have anything in teal?
--ggs (thinking that things are improving around here....)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:34:36 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: RE: HELP!
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> reading a well written technical manual.  I would much rather read the
> manual than talk to some ditz on a help line.  Half the time I already

But those aren't the only two options.  I also would much rather look
something up in a book than ask questions on the telephone.  I prefer
doing neither of those things, though.  Trial-and-error is my favorite
computer method.  When the trials lead to nothing but errors after a
pretty long time (long being defined by how much time I have to devote
to the problem), the next step is to send e-mail to somebody who might
know the answer.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:02:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: Five Reasons (was tushar, boy..)
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> The sparkling net.wit apparent in the quoting of the whole article is
> commendable too, and so much so that I have shamelessly plagiarised
> it.
Glad you appreciated it.  Carole didn't get the joke.

     Dearest J. Danforth Toal, could you be missing a smidge of irony
     in the phrase "sparkling net.wit"?

     Carol ("I don't care what you say about me as long as you spell
     my name right.")
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:52:13 CDT
From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: A Query
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>called "Urantia". They seem to be religious or

They're New Age folks. Something to do with religion and Yet Another Explanation
Of Why We Are Here.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:10:38 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Message to Bernard

Hi you old Beagle!  My master says your not such a bad guy after all.
But...if you hadn't growled at me I would have told you about a sexy
poodle I met while we were camped at the Hart Ranch near Rapid City.
Oh well, eat your heart out!


        /\_____/\
       -/ ''''' \-
        {''o o''}     Muffy, who has now been in 45 States!
        {  \^/  }
       ////'''\\\\

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:45:06 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Don Moore!
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:
> What's really funny is that Don called me from about a block from my
> house, but I got confused and thought he was calling from somewhere on
> the other side of town.  So I drove up and down a long street pretty
> far from here, wondering what to do about not being able to find them,
> and finally checked a street very near here on the chance that the small
> cemetery he mentioned was the one almost beside my house. It was!  Muffy
> was in easy barking distance of Bernard the whole time I was looking
> for them!

Did Muffy and Bernard like each other?
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:57:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIT

>molded plastic dashboard.  Somebody tell me what kind of $15000
>car to buy, o.k.?   My mama wouldn't want me to waste her/my
>money on anything frivolous.
>--ggs

Just my small change worth, but I'd avoid both of them.  Get a recent NADA blue
book and look at the year old models and that will tell you how much your car
will be worth in 6 months or so (what insurance would pay if you wreck it).

The Capri is not the same Capri of German-engineered legend.  The original was
a hot little car, well-designed, very capable and very reliable.  The new one
is a piece of junk.

The Miata is a nice car, but well overpriced (unless you can really get one for
15,000.  When they first came out, they were selling at 18,000 and over and a
year later were worth 12,000 or so).

If you're looking for a zippy little sports car, the Nissan 240SX or one of the
lower-price Toyota Celicas are definite cars to look at.  Both, especially the
240, have gotten rave reviews the past three years in all the auto magazines.
The 240 is usually rated best in it's class, with the Celica not far behind.
You also may want to check out the two lower-cost Dodge Stealths (Dodge markets
four different models of the Stealth).

If you're looking for the best value for your 15,000, look at a Ford Taurus,
Honda Accord, or Subaru Legacy/Loyale.  You really can't go wrong with any of
them, even the Taurus (I'm not an American car fan, especially Ford, but the
Taurus is an exceptional car).

Anyway, good luck. I do an awful lot of car shopping (mostly helping friends
and family buy cars) and it can be a lot of fun.

Chris
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:06:41 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Apophasis
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:25:43 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> Stuff from a long time ago wasn't in gopher anyway.  It went back only to
> last Easter weekend.  Akio's tape is in Frank's office, though.  What to

How big is Akio's tape + archives-since-then?  (We haven't lost any have
we?  I was relying on the _gopher_ archives having everything between the
end of Akio's tape and now.  Bound to be stuff dropped off the _ftp_ archive
since the tape was shipped.)

> do with it remains a question in view of the recent list paranoia.  Frank
> didn't want to contribute to the spy hysteria by putting the tape archives
> in ftp space.  He can correct me if I'm misrepresenting him here.

Good man Frank.  Actually, I personally don't mind the archives being
up for ftp as long as there's a readme file in the directory that says
that they're just for the benefit of wordslers and not to be used for
'nefarious purposes'...  worded in a suitable way such that the PH situation
could never arise again.  (That is, assuming ethical researchers/whatevers
- if some outsider were determined to take the data despite a notice asking
them not to there's not much we could do.  'specially since everything from
now on will be on the monthly Usenet CDs...)

I'll even volunteer to write the readme :-)

Still, the ideal thing would be to have everything on Gopher.  Could
ftp.msstate.edu run a gopher server perhaps, using the same space that
would otherwise have been ftp space?  That way you can look for anything
interesting, but not download the whole lot to study.  (Well, not without
immense difficulty)

I suspect the reason searches were usually for recent stuff was that
the old stuff people would want to look for was *very* old rather
than one or two months old.  Certainly that was the case with me.

G
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:46:22 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Sea World (was re: Gleanings (54))
              28 Jul 1992 14:31:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:31:00 EDT Gilbert Smith said:
>.
>SWOSM

Siegi wants one small mouse.
>.
>--ggs

Evelyn
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: WHTMIT
Date: 29 Jul 92 09:29:22
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In-reply-to: Gilbert Smith's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:13:00 EDT

   But keep the advice coming.  When this is done, free rides for
   everyone.  This is obviously something that we can <get into>.
   --ggs

Giggles,

The car of choice among the techy-types I work with is the Saturn.  If I
had any disposable income I'd seriously consider it.  'Course, I don't have
any disposable income and I do have a lot of imagination so I'd really like
a Mercedes gull-wing (60's, was it?).  In reality, due to personal crash
testing done by members of the Haycock fambly, we choose 4WD (four door
only--sedan or station wagon) Subarus as our car of choice.

//anne, who's favourite is still the bazooka bubblegum pink vw bug we had
in colombo (right hand drive!)//
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:42:27 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ohhhh, gif-less me...
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> I prefer the all lower case, the way most of the Unix world does it.

But remember when the archive logs were named things like June5 instead
of their current form of june5?  A Unix hot-dog had named them June5.
I preferred the lower case. :-)  Of course, he had also named the
directory archive, which I asked him to change to my system -- Archive
(since it's a directory).

> Especially, when you put in abortions like ClambakeGifs with an upper
> case character in the middle of the word.  I though only
> marketing types did that kinda shit, like NeXT and AViiON......

Awww.  I thought ClambakeGifs looked kind of cute.  Maybe I was being
influenced by those who write things like MsState.Edu instead of what
I write -- msstate.edu (since case doesn't matter in addresses).
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:25:45 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: My Mac can do these...

Rita,
  What's wrong with Windows?  I happen to like it:  Microsoft Word is
much, much better than WordPerfect!

Evelyn
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:05:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: WAKE UP!!!
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>Wake up, oh drowsy listserv!  Why are you being so ornery on a Monday
>morning???
>                        o/.\____/
>         -- Bernard      \______|
>                         / \  / \

Be cool, O most noble hound!  I thiiiink the listserv is coming back
up.  Hell, you haven't lived until your entire Internet link is down:
AT&T was s'posed to bring down the Usenet servers yesterday, but
instead they trashed the entire Internet: ftp, telnet, uucp....  No
mail, no feeds, no nothing.  Things are still not quite right.  The
mail I'm getting is arriving via some funny alternative paths.

I followed the information on Dan's posting from last Sunday about
PsiLink: I asked for the information and am going to subscribe to
their service.  Depending on AT&T's Internet links is a bit too
chancy.  "It's just not worth it," as the advertising says, especially
if you want to talk to your Friends and Family....

Ken
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:32:10 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Death and the drowned kittens
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> Where *has* our little list gone?
>
> I thought IRC night was tomorrow.

I'm here!  But I'm also on IRC since I have to go somewhere tomorrow
night.  Or rather Bernard is on IRC right now (channel #Clambake).
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:18:37 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Hey you kids!
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1992, Gilbert Smith wrote:
> > >.... Hey there..... you with the stars in your eyes....
> > >(and it's only 9:45 pm.....)
> >
> > But Giggles, that's not Rosemary Clooney!  You definitely sound more
> > like John Raitt right now.  Or rather, last week when you sang this.
> > And if you're doing the reprise by the female lead, it would have to be
> > either Janis Paige or Doris Day.
>
> How right you are.  But, I was thinking of another time in another
> life, when it was definitely Rosemary Clooney (who *did* sing it on
> some album, I think)....

Hey, Gilbert, if it's any comfort, I remember that other time and other
life, too.
ndh
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:14:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Quote for tomorrow

The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the west garden;
They hurt me.  I grow older.
                -Ezra Pound
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:29:14 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pictures of y'all
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              23 Jul 1992 22:47:00 EST from <RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU>

On Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:47:00 EST <RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU> said:
>Dan: I'm curious to know how the pictures you took at the Pawsox game
>came out. -Rod

Look great.  want some?  Which ones?  Of whom?

dan
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:40:56 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Death and the drowned kittens
              22 Jul 1992 09:54:00 LCL from <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM>

Death is a character in a series of books by Terry Pratchett.  And, no,
he doesn't consider killing kittens to be his job; in fact, he LOVES
cats.  The first book to feature Death was _Mort_, and the last was
_Reaper Man_ (where Death is replaced just because he has a personality).

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:21:08 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Gif Names
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> That won't actually help, sorry!  chicago.uu will still say
> bill+tushar+steve.gif inside it.

I KNOW!!  I suffer from leaky, rotten brain.

> Sorry I mentioned it.  Probably more bother than it's worth.

I'm not sorry!  It was no trouble to delete the old ones and re-encode
the gifs, and it would have been misleading to leave them in that stupid
condition.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Speaking of catering to the lowest common denominator
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:19:07 GMT

tushar himself queries:

>Why "lowest common denominator"? Where did the phrase come from?
>What is the exact meaning of the phrase and how did this phrase
>come to mean that?

And humor-impaired bayla responds:

Surely you jest.  Or, perhaps, you know the phrase as 'least common
denominator' -- that number, which when applied in arcane ways to a group
of fractions, helps to transform them all into expressions of the same
type: e.g., 2/8 + 1/4 + 4/16 must be turned into 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4 before the
addition operation may be performed: here '4' is the lowest common
denominator.  The metaphor implies that there is a characteristic, common
to a large group of people, which will enable one to please them all if one
caters to it.  The 'lowest common denominator' plays also on the senses of
"lowest" and "common" to suggest that such a characteristic is not of a
refined nature.  Greed, slapstick humor, fast food -- things "anybody"
might like, if their sensibilities had not been "educated."

This way to the egress.

--bayla
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:22:23 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ohhhh, gif-less me...
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              24 Jul 1992 13:51:10 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:51:10 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>I like it because I like using upper case (for first letter) for directory
>names and lower case for file names.  If I were the ruler of all of Ra's
>ftp space, it would be Docs/Words-L/... instead of docs/words-l.

I prefer the all lower case, the way most of the Unix world does it.

If case is gonna be sensitive, why give folks an extra chance to fuckup?
Especially, when you put in abortions like ClambakeGifs with an upper
case character in the middle of the word.  I though only
marketing types did that kinda shit, like NeXT and AViiON......

gee, something that Natalie and Dan DON'T agree on....   8-)

dan
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:30:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Subarus (was Re: WHTMIT
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Before this thread dies, I should probably pipe up and tell the few of you who
care that I too own a Sube -- a burgundy 1986 4WD GL coupe.

In general, it's been fine and fun and reliable, but it *has* suffered from a
broken timing chain TWICE.  The first time was in my parents' driveway, the
second at highway speed.  The latter was quite impressive, as the techometer
went from 3000 RPM to zero in milliseconds.  Unfortunately, the shock of that
sudden stoppage apparently did something to one of the valves, and that
cylinder lost compression.  About a week and ~$800 (plus rental car charges)
later, we were back in action.  The extended warranty, BTW, didn't cover a
penny of it, since the breakdown was a result of the breakage of a 'belt.'

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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 19:19:01 EDT
From:         kieran2101@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: dreary weekend
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>Hi folks. I've been lurking on this list for a few weeks now, >and enjoying
the "dribbling insanity" that floods my mailbox.  I >hopeyou won't get
serious in any great hurry...  this list >provides the entertainment sorely
lacking in my >acadamia-dominated life.
>-  Ruth (jsrmr@alaska.bitnet)


Ruth--

Not to fear...we got through all the seriousness about...oh...two months ago.
 Welcome to the new reality. :)

--Aaron
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:56:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: Crosspost about women
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>> > The rest are feminazis and bored obese
>> >glad-trashbag-wearing housewives who call adult boards cruising for young
>> >teenage boys.
>> Gee, I wouldn't say I was *obese*...

>And I prefer to cruise for older men.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

     Rats.  I thought the trashbags looked kind of... you know, punk
     chic.

     Carol "wardrobe by Hefty"
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:03:10 -0500
From:         Melicent Tlucek Bryarly <melicent@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: birth order
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1992, jcs wrote:

> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:55:35 EDT
> From: jcs
> Subject: Re: birth order
> To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
>
> I'm the second and last child to be born of
> one firstborn (of three) and one lastborn (of 9 living children)
>
> but my sister, who is 6 years older than i, is the least
> dependable person around. she's flighty, and overly emotional
> and hypersensitive. She lets people take advantage of her
> all the time.  I"m the tough one, and the one who has taken
> the "older sister" role over since i was about 15. Katherine

Interesting...my oldest sister, 6 years older than I also, sounds like
yours. However, when we were visitng our other sister and i had an
accident falling down a flight of stairs and breaking bones, teeth,
etc...she took over and made decisions and stood up to our Mother. I told
her to stay that way, because i wasn't going to fall down for her again.
Melicent
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