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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:39:08 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Angling

>I continue to miss this one.  What has Lorne Green (aka _The Voice of Doom_)
>to do with dog food ?
>
>Tony H.

He used to do Alpo commercials here in GOC.  The line was "Maybe
Phaedox's been around so long because Alpo's been around so
long."  He was also doing the ads at a time when old folk eating
dogfood was much in the new.

BTW--Hang on up there.

-Mka
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: EMAIL TO MY SCREEN--VILANELLE
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On Fri, 4 Sep 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> So far Tushar has not said no to the addition of the poem to ftp archives.
> But he hasn't said yes either.  Do we assume that the absence of no is
> yes?

Why not: rapists do too.

-abh
a joke, natalie, but you get the point, right?
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (58)
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 10:21:50 GMT


-Analog- is probably the most popular science fiction magazine in the US.
Bertie Wooster is a creation of P G Wodehouse, and if you havent read any
of Wodehouse's work, GET RIGHT TO IT!  Though written by an Englishman, it
was serialized in the now-defunct -Saturday Evening Post- and thoroughly
popular in the US.  Isaac Asimov said that Wodehouse was his favorite
author, and pointed out how difficult it is to write in the first-person
character of a blithering twit without coming off as a twit oneself.
William F Wu I thought might be the author of the stories I was referring
to.  

The government-run medical system of the British Isles (and elsewhere) is
generally referred to in the US under the rubric "socilized medicine."  The
usage is based on "socialism," and as such would be total anathema to as
arch a conservative as our Bill S. 

--bayla
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Date: 8 Sep 1992 03:13:49 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>On Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:03:00 JST, "Akio Tanaka" <TANAKA@JPNSUT20.BITNET> wrote:
>> 39) '92 "October Surprise" (Graham)
>
>The traditional Big Political Move in Election Year in the US.  We'd
The best part of this is that the surprise usually isn't one.:-)  Politics
has gotten too predictable in this country.

And now for my own citations [I was only doing 55wpm, officer, honest!]
29)Boonie hat - US Armed forces soft, foldable, crushable, whateverable hat
often associated with the Vietnam War.  Desert Storm troops had them too.  
They are made to be worn with fatigues, I think, instead of a helmet, or the
hat that's part of the "Class A" uniform or full dress.  I own a desert 
camoflage boonie hat; it rode around in Putt's rear window while Desert Storm
was on.

33)Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop - a lollipop made by Tootsie Roll, a kind of 
chewy candy.   The outside is fruit flavored and can be licked or crunched;
it surrounds the chewy Tootsie Roll center.  It's akin to a Blow Pop - which
is a lollipop with bubble gum in the center.  They were both popular when I 
was a kid, about fifteen years ago.  

40)BH&G Cook Book - cook book published by Better Homes and Gardens, which is
a "women's", read housewive's, magazine.  The rag is definitely un-PC, but
they put out a good, basic cook book that contains a lot of good recipes.  It
hasn't changed too much in 30 years, although they may have added metric
measurements by now, and taken out some of the truely cholesterol-laden
recipes.  Probably not, though.:-)


>
-- 
Nethead, aka the Ruth Hanschka, hath enscribed herein, a message
	ap290 and ak743 , both of the Cleveland Freenet
			Here Be Dragons
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:54:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Little Aaron

Mom just came back from Oklahoma last evening after visiting with
Tom, Joanne, and little Aaron.  She said that he is a healthy little
boy, but he doesn't cry, just whimpers a little.  Is this normal?
Both Henry and Marissa cried up storms when they were little (my other
nephew and niece).

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:56:36 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Well, Anne?
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I'm in love, I really am. Ring, Rich? I'd never ask you to pull it out
just for me! The very idea hurts and I don't even have a "piercing."

Scrap the wedding...let's haul ass for Vegas, stop by and grab SG; we can
improvise with whatever trash the highway coughs up in the dark morning
hours after the patrol cars are back in their garages and the armadillos
are coiled in their leprous dens in the desert. We'll take the scenic
route, past the Trinity Site, lots of mutants this time of year, then
swing down to the border for some anabolics and vasopressin and make the
last leg with eyes peeled open, sure we spotted the spectre of Hunter S.
Thompson weaving in and out of the purply-stained morning cloud banks over
Boulder Dam. Vegas will be a cinch after that run. I'll find a new
aerobics instructor and cheap telnet access, you and SG look for food.
Maybe one of the hitchhikers has some money. The Highway Patrolmen emerge
from their mobile homes and head in to work, strutting bantams who slept
while the fox caromed through their yard. Hunter would be proud of us.
*This* is galavanting, my man.

Ever yours,
-abh
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 14:05:04 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Emoticons
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> Lots of examples.  I am puzzled by this one:
>
>       5:-)      for "I'm Elvis"
That's his wavy forelock...*pompador*! That's the word!

judith
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From:         mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      Re: Today's pop quiz
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IMHO=?
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Date:         Mon, 14 Sep 1992 08:00:56 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gossiping about Natalie and prescriptivism

>It wasn't OK to do so in 1926. Actually I would hazard a guess that it was
>never OK to use "man" as a technical term for female person. What Marty said
>was something different.
>
>tushar

Tushar to the rescue from the sting of Natalie's oh so nasty
barbs directed at li'l ol' friendly me.  Thank you.

Y'all should drop into Bloomington today--the hospital's running
a free rectal screening program.  Sounds yummy, no?


-Mka
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: The Return of the Lifted Tack

> Steve! Good to see you back!
> -abh

> The list is looking up again!  Welcome back, Steve!!
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Thanks, Anne and Natalie.  Good to read your posts too ... some of
the current threads don't yet make sense ... a few more days and I'll
have the picture.

University College Cork begins classes October 5 -- Bill S. may be
back too.

Steve Karlson

Get a good start and sail on the lifted tack.
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Father's Day, Anne, Father's Day

>  >>You will be, Giggles, you will be.
>  >>
>  >>-Mka
>  >Wow!
>  >I wish I had said that.
>
>  This is pretty deep, and it only just dawned on me that Tushar
>is being a bit critical of Mka.

El Torque--Tushar's spin doctor.

-Mka
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From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: wordsler birthdays
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>Hmmmmm.  You are making assumptions....  How do you know I wasn't talking
>about reaching 30?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Because you and Dan Lester have birthdays a few months apart and are
always kidding each other about which one is the older. And because
when you mentioned summers at Lake George during the 60s
I recalled having to stay home while the big kids got to have
all the fun. Anyway, list goddesses are ageless :-) Bill
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
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>Lorne Greene does (still??) Alpo dog food commercials -- there is now
>Alpo cat food and Garfield is featured on these commercials.

	Highly unlikely that Lorne is still doing a lot of commercials, as he
	died a couple of years ago.

	Betcha didn't know that half of the Cartwright family were Jewish...

neal
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Date:         Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:49:20 EDT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: The wonders of telecom
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On Fri, 11 Sep 1992 12:10:57 GMT, "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET> wrote:
> Graham, you are right on target!  Thanks for something that really needed
> saying!  As is my nature, I never discuss in private who I am having
> problems with, or what I think about someone else...but could I ever
> put names to your post! ...but I won't...just liked what you said.

Oh, *that* e-oops!  Actually Don, I wasn't thinking of you at all :-)
[The guy being trashed by the women on this list wasn't even on this list]

G
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:55:34 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Rhubarb Pie
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On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:47:25 GMT you said:
>In other words, Bernard would get to the center more quickly than, say,
>a dried-up old librarian? <crunch>  Thought so.:)

   yeah.....but I don't KNOW any dried up old libarians....

>well, it sure gets plenty of exercise [care to comment, Gail?]

   damn betcha....

the potatoman
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Deconstruction

>Picked up a new word in IRC the other day, maybe you all have already seen
>it: Rofling. "I'm sitting here rofling at what he said." I love it, a true
>neologism, not based on any ancient languages, instantly sensible to
>anyone clued to the net.scene, witty, inventive, so very.
>
>-abh

Glued, not clued.  And does the verb to xerox give you shivers?

-Mka
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Date:         Sun, 13 Sep 1992 16:33:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIHC
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> I don't believe I've read that one. I *did* take
> freshman comp, and we had one of those books of
> essays, but it didn't have "Back to the Lake".
>
> Do I hafta read it? Will it be on the final?
>
> judith

No, you dont *hafta* read it, but if you want that <extra credit>
you've been asking for, you damn well better read it--twice!
--Prof. ggs
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From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Tongues, Jasmine, and Football (was Re: Tongue
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Posted on 5 Sep 1992 at 15:58:35 by Natalie Maynor
>So my tongue is probably less than an inch behind yours in its activity.
>Interesting.  Wonder if there's an article in this...

Probably less than 1/2 inch. Someone's probably already written the
article; English phonetics is pretty well done.

>This is much more fun than the work I'm supposed to be doing.  And I'm
>NOT a phonologist.  Maybe that's why it's fun.  Maybe the fun would be
>spoiled if I knew what I was talking about.

Not to spoil your fun, but this is articulatory phonetics, not phonology.
I did a lot of this in grad school and adored it. It's very useful for
language pedagogy.  I hate participating in studies as a subject, but
doing them and reading about them are fun.

As long as we are in babbling mood...does anyone know if gardenias need
a lot of water? As much as hibiscus?

Karen
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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              and Football (was Re: To
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> > Oh oh oh.... this is *too* funny, which is the only thing that
> > is keeping me from bursting into tears.  Those <spoof postings>
> > dear G, were direct quotes from my book review in the South
> > Atlantic Review, and it *is* a shock to see one's own jargon
>
> It was an interesting review.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Thanks, mama, I *needed* that.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 15 Sep 1992 11:53:22 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Emoticons
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              Sep 15, 92 10:03 am

>
> >        5:-)      for "I'm Elvis"
>
> Viewed sideways, the 5 is a swoop of hair over a brow.
>
> -abh
>
I like your suggestion better than mine.
Ag
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From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> I *like* being your Auntie Doris, Jill. This climbing the family tree on
> Words-L has rooted out some strange branches, hasn't it?  We are *so*
> fortunate to be located on the strong tree trunk and not on some of those
> weaker limbs with three knobs.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Auntie Doris

This is *so* funny....  auntie doris is getting really good at the
double-entendre, refer-back-to-posts-of-months-ago-and-expect-some-
body-to-get-it kind of thing....  not to mention her newfound
proclivity to delightfully slightly off-color remarks.  I just
love it, because I feel like I <taught her everything she knows>...
Does she talk to her students this way?
--ggs (very appreciative of this <wet> wit)
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Prescriptivism"
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> >Right.  Your arguing, of course, won't preserve the distinction.
>
> On the contrary, given a sufficient number of people with like feelings
> the distinction will be preserved. That's after all the point of arguing.

If a sufficient number of people have like feelings, the distinction will
be preserved because they're making the distinction, not because they're
arguing about it.

> I am still puzzled about who these people are.

Look around.  They're everywhere.  Safire et al.

> OK, let me be clearer: is it illogical or unscientific to prescribe on usage
> of words? Is it merely useless?

Not being very science-minded, I probably shouldn't try to comment on
whether it's unscientific.  Illogical?  Not necessarily.  It's mainly
useless.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:26:10 EDT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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On Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:22:14 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> I'm getting lost.  What are we talking about?  I thought we had moved

> are you saying you pronounce it with three phonemes?  Do you have a [t]
> before the [theta]?  My tongue can't manage that.  Assimilation eats up
> that [t].  I pronounce it [e{theta}].

Exactly.  Actually, I'd rather assumed *everyone* pronounced it that way.
I should have know better with the range of extreme local accents in
this group!

G
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Kulchur, NY
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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 18:16:33 GMT


UNFAIR, UNFAIR!  New Yorkers are getting a bum rap herein.  I was born and
raised in New York, and proud to be so.  I believe I have previously told
the stories of people who have made remarks of the form "A New Yorker would
never have <been so nice/helpful>, before knowing that I am one.

I will not remain silent in the face of slurs against my native city.

--bayla  
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From:         aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU
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>As to my claim to be related to someone on the list...
>My mother has gone off to study lamaism in Tibet in
>a nunnery there.

Why didn't you just tell us: you're related to Tushar!

-abh
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Family Tree
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> > This is lovely, Gilbert, but I thought we were *cousins*...I think it's
> > Natalie who's your other sister.  Unless, of course, there's an
> > *inheritance* involved. :-)
> > ndh
>
> Nancy dear, you are forgetting the <branches> of the tree that have weak
> knees, and three of them at that.  _ggs is just trying to maintain some
> kind of <decorum> and show only the one-kneed branches.  If he were to
> show Natalie as his sister as well as his mother, what *would* people think?
> Doris

Well, as I said before, I *don't* think I'm going to try to explain this
family situation to Gilbert's cousin-in-law Joe...I already have trouble
trying to get him to go to my family reunions.
ndh>
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:43:27 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Aspiration
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On Fri, 4 Sep 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> What's a.f.u.?  And how can "huckle" be a morpheme?  Doesn't matter

Since I am NOT a Usenetter (yet...hurry up Austin with my nntp feed), I
can only guess this was typo on GT's part and he really meant a.e.u, or
alt.english.usage.

-abh
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Family Tree
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>
> Well, as I said before, I *don't* think I'm going to try to explain this
> family situation to Gilbert's cousin-in-law Joe...I already have trouble
> trying to get him to go to my family reunions.
> ndh>
>
My hubby doesn't know a thing about e-mail or Words-L.  Bless his heart, he
thinks I'm doing school work.
Doris
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Zen
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>No disrespect was meant toward Zen or Japanese culture. I made a bad joke.

  Ho, Alec! There's no such thing as "disrepect towards Zen". I don't
know about Japanese culture.
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Date:         Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:21:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Family Tree
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> > This is lovely, Gilbert, but I thought we were *cousins*...I think it's
> > Natalie who's your other sister.  Unless, of course, there's an
> > *inheritance* involved. :-)
> > ndh
>
> Nancy dear, you are forgetting the <branches> of the tree that have weak
> knees, and three of them at that.  _ggs is just trying to maintain some
> kind of <decorum> and show only the one-kneed branches.  If he were to
> show Natalie as his sister as well as his mother, what *would* people think?
> Doris

doris, dear, get out your reading glasses.  Natalie is my *aunt*...
*bayla* is *our* mother... the mother of us all what with the way
she is always trying to make peace every time you get in a spat
with someone....   but, it just would not *do* to have an *aunt*
who is a *sister*, even though, in my <real> reality, as you all
recall, I *did* have an <Aunt Sister>....
--ggs
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