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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:07:37 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Peekaboo (Wackawacka)
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I wish *I* were artistically talented!

-----Nancy Harwood-----------------------------------------------------------
Journalism Department                           Telephone:  (713) 357-3254
Tomball High School                             Fax:  (713) 357-3248
13705 Sandy Lane
Tomball, TX  77375                              Inquiring minds want to know.


On Thu, 19 Nov 1992, Doris Smith wrote:

> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:26:59 -0600
> From: Doris Smith <dorisann@abernathy.tenet.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
> Subject: Re: Peekaboo (Wackawacka)
>
> >
> >                  '''
> >                 (o o)
> > ------------oOO--(_)--OOo-------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> *PreCISEly* how I feel.
> doris
> (looks sort of like me at the moment, too)
From: R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn Duncan)
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              wordsmiths..)
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:21:47 GMT
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              16 Nov 1992 15:51:38 EST from <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:51:38 EST Entropy Warrior said:
>>>       Nice to meet you. What is a feral hog?
>>
>>Well, unless you're planning on staying around more than a day or two, I
>>really can't say.
>>
>>-abh
>
>Discrete feral pink piggy!  Delightful.

Well, she might be discrete, but, in this case, she's discreet.
>
>-Mka

Evelyn Duncan
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Date: 18 Nov 92 20:40:34 GMT
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> >I found 8 meg RAM enough for OS/2 during my very brief play with OS/2.
>
> Holy cow, computerwoman....I didn't SAY OS/2 did I????

I was responding to somebody else's question of why you got only 8 meg
RAM.  My point was that I thought 8 meg was enough for most purposes.

> I'll run DOS 5.0 and possibly Desqview....though my brief forays with it
> haven't impressed me so far....what am i missing natalie?

The thing I like best about DV is being able to multi-task -- e.g.,
working on something in Wordperfect while downloading a large file with
Procomm.  You can do all that with OS/2, of course, but you have to wade
through screens full of stupid-looking clutter and mess around with a
mouse.  DV is clean and neat and easy.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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*** Resending note of 11/18/92 01:05

>>When I was in the Air Force and had to process many promotion evaluations,
>>I always thought the phrase "courage of his convictions" was one of the
>>most hackneyed, meaningless, trite, useless phrases to describe a person's
>>worth ....and I still think the same.

>I don't know about "meaningless". The phrase carries meaning, and it's
>this sterling quality that helps it to transcend, in rare cases, the
>other drawbacks of triteness and uselessness.

>tushar

Well, having the "courage of my convictions", I contend in the context I
referred to, the phrase was "meaningless".  Without knowing what a person's
beliefs are (and in the cases I related, I did not know) of what value is
the phrase?  It only takes on real meaning when you know what that person
believes in ....and it still is a trite, tired phrase, sort of like
"cutting edge of technology"  (watch your fingers!).
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ethnomethodology
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> >hypothesis to explore, gathering as much as you can of the language and
                                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >context, and then looking through raw data for ideas.
>  ^^^^^^^

> This sounds like ethnography. Ethnomethodology is the study of the social
                                                                     ^^^^^^
> context of language. An arbitrary name given to the method of this type of
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I guess I should have added the word "social" before "context" above.  I
meant "social context."

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Chalk-o (typo, actually)
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              92 5:42 pm

> Surely the use of ...NOT is limited to those who watch SNL or have seen _WW_.
> Besides, she teaches in a high school, and her knowledge of teen talk must be
> prety good - right, Nancy?

Who was it that was looking for them?  This is the second time in the past few
weeks that I've omitted "not" (the other instance was while talking about the
president-elect's age).  Does this signify anything (apart from the fact that
I should probably *read* what I type)?

rashmi
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:34:18 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Why You Shouldn't Clean Out Files When Tired
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> I guess you'll have to and retrieve the big one from the ftp space and
> cut it up into the little ones.   Or could you ask for the files to be
> restored?

I don't think there's a way for them to be restored.  But Tushar just sent
me a note that made me realize the obvious:  he said something like "why not
just append the new file to the existing bio file?"  I'm not sure whether
this is what he meant, but his saying that made a lightbulb flash in my
tired, old brain -- all I need to do is find the right part of the
existing bios file (to preserve alphabetical order) and poke the new bio
in with vi's ':r filename' command, right?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Forwarded greetings
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kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA (Agnes Kruchio) writes:
>> Sex
>> Music (anything but C&W)
>> Youth in America
>> Leather
>> Parties
> 
> Are you sure you're not from VMI?

Or netcom?

--karsten

(Why not C&W, too?  MCC is great)
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From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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              11 Nov 1992 09:44:40 LCL from <haycock@MARLEY.THINK.COM>

On Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:44:40 LCL Anne Haycock said:
>Elwood P.!  For some reason, I thought you'd gone missing...
>//anne, who else haven't we heard from in a while??//

Gentle //anne//,
   On one virtual plane only.  I was unsubbed for a while, but keeping
up with the vamily goings on (and on, and on) by virtue of archive FTP.
Nice to be missed; better to be back.

Peace,
Elwood P. (List Chaplain) Dowd
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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 19:31:35 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: One simple (?!) question
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>I'm thinking about having a croning celebration next March, but I have
>lots of questions.  Is it ok to host your own croning, or does somebody
>else need to do it?  Exactly what do people do at a croning?  And what if
>I gave a croning and nobody came?  Would it be a black mark on the rest
>of my life?  Do cronings have to take place in the woods?  Can men come too?
>How should an invitation to a croning be worded?
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>     Proud To Be Old

How about having a Group Croning for all the WORDies who
are elegible at the SalmonBake in July? That will give
plenty of time for our Priestesses to work out the
ceremony...and by then I should be sure whether I'm
entitled...

love, judith, working on it
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Original-From: mhwpa!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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>I have signed on to this discussion group just a while ago and so I am
>a newcomer to this friendly group.
>(the welcome message said this group was friendly)
>Hello to everyone.
Hey, everyone.....looky-look!  We got us some....

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:-)

>My pseudonym name is Kip Shaw.
>Some call me: Kish (to rhyme with Quiche).

Hang around here long enough and you'll hear things you won't believe....

It's not that bad, really.
<snort!>

Ken
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Subject:      your problem or mine?

Is the list operating?

Is my system receiving it?

neal
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*** Resending note of 11/19/92 12:47

>//anne, who's gotta figure out how to set nomail for the week she'll be
>gone or she'll lose Internet privileges fer sher//

What!!!!!!  You don't have unlimited disk space and privileges!!!

If you send commands to listserv directly, try following:

Tell listserv at uga set words-l nomail

Otherwise, good luck!
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Natalie,
 Thanks for posting the list of stats. It was like looking through
an old family album - back in the days of my newbiehood.  There
were lots of names I had forgotten.
                                                     Br Paul
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Frank Mc Exists
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:00:00 -0500
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      Statistics gathered since Sunday, October the 4th of 1992 (47 days)
       -----------------------------------------------------------------

                          Number  of   Outbound   Outbound
Sender's name              mailings     files     recs*100
-------------              --------     -------   --------
ST403231@BROWNVM.BROWN...       24           0           0

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:10:47 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Things that make you go *sigh*

> Then there's those packages of Tortilla chips that contain
> 2.33 ounces...  Why 2.33?

The correct question is: why ounces?

After all, if you allow them to use bizarre units, you can't
stop them from using quantities like 7/3.

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:40:19 EST
From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Teachers and students
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dear bayla, what class were you teaching at Philadelphia College of the
Performing Arts?

There must be a word for a your role in their lives.

don
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tercets For Triplets
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1992, gilbertsmith wrote:

>     you *shit* you *dick* you *fuckin'* *liar*
>     it's heav'n on earth its home sweet home.

Giggles, never change.

Natalie, another submission for the ftp archives?

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:46:36 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update

>>Ah, Judith's cooking! Is it not mama primate who lists the
>>four food groups thus:
>>      Salt, Grease, Chocolate, Garlic
>>Bill
>
>Right. My contribution to last night's meal included the
>three basic food groups that fit together. Chocolate goes
>well with grease, but seldom with salt or garlic.

Bill has already listed the groups. That's enough. Don't
gross us out with graphic descriptions.

tushar
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 24 Nov 92 00:24:02 GMT
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YAYY for Alec!  I used to shop in the B.Altman's store in St Davids, when
there was such a store... took my kids to their Weds nite buffet dinners,
so I didn't have to worry about ordering stuff they wouldn't eat.  

Why am I homesick?

--bayla
From: ubacr45@ucl.ac.uk (Mr G Toal)
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In article <WORDS-L%92112208131358@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM writes:
>Twenty-nine years.

How long have you been psychic, Ken?

G
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:46:11 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: what? no report yet?
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> stare--her flashing eyes! her floating hair!--and said: "Only talk about the
> weather! That's all she wants to talk about--the weather." Thank God there was
> some.

What I want to know is how you, way up there many miles away, knew there
were tornadoes here when I didn't know??  A couple of hours later I found
out that there were in fact tornadoes here yesterday.

Remind me sometime to tell about cooking a steak on a grill outside while
a tornado was doing its think one block away.  (That wasn't yesterday --
it was a couple of years ago.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Re: Teachers and students

I absolutely agree with Doris's sentiments about "no form letter"
recommendation.  If the person is worth writing a recommendation for, then
you ought to tailer your recommendation to that person.  That is one reason
i disliked the "courage of his convictions" phrase.  Other useless phrases
are:  "One of the most valuable assets...", "....brings great honor on...",
and one I really detest "..last, but not least..".  I've always wanted to
say "Excuse me, if this person is not least, which one of the others was?"

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:40:00 EST
From:         "Alec D. Plotkin" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Wimmin" "Womyn" - Historical Roots?
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>>People who object to "men" inside "women."  (Waiting to hear Dan's response
>>on this one...)
>>

>: Most men don't WANT to be inside any women who spell 'women' as 'womyn'....
>: and yes, I know the feeling is mutual.....

>Hear! Hear!

>Steve Karlson

Prediction: Big war starts because of comments like the ones in the
above message.

later

alec
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:10:11 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED!!!!!!!!!!!
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Congratulations, Alec!  Good for you!

-----Nancy Harwood-----------------------------------------------------------
Journalism Department                           Telephone:  (713) 357-3254
Tomball High School                             Fax:  (713) 357-3248
13705 Sandy Lane
Tomball, TX  77375                              Inquiring minds want to know.
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: FYFI
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> Someone please explain it is with these mothers who dress their little
> boys as girls! Not that I'm into the sex-stereotyle thang, understand, but
> it just seems like they'd <take a clue>.
>
> -abh

I don't have a clue.  The closest my son ever came to being dressed as a
girl occurred when he was an infant and my brother and my husband, who
were baby sitting while I was shopping, decided to go diamond ring
shopping for an engagement ring for my now sister-in-law and my husband
grabbed the closest blanket, which happened to be pink.  He then couldn't
understand why people kept ooohing and aahhing over the precious baby girl.
doris
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cincinnati dialect: Update
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              "ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM" at Nov 19, 92 3:45 pm

Ken:
> There is a version of Cincinnati chili that uses chocolate.
> Everything rational says it should be atrocious, but it's really quite
> good.

I was under the impression that chocolate and cinnamon were the ingredients
that made Cincinatti chili different from any old chili.

rashmi
From: gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Date: 18 Nov 92 00:35:21 GMT
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           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).

G
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From: gtoal@nyx.cs.du.edu (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Graham needs some putting in place!
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:17:27 GMT

In article <9211221820.AA24977@tartarus.uchicago.edu> samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>>>Hmmm, wonder who I had dinner with couple of months back - Tushar or
>>>Mahalingam?
>>
>>Didn't you <peek>?
>
>How would that distinguish?

You're right - an accidental typo made that nonsensical.

I meant to say "Didn't you <peak>?"

G (who remembers full well what 'Mahalingam' meant)
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:28:37 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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>>Eleven slots for eggs, ten hot dogs for packages of eight buns (or is it
>>the other way around?)...
>
>Darn it Doris, that's not the same thing! You could easily buy four packages
>of hot dogs for five of buns and peace is guaranteed! On the other hand,
>buying twelve goddamned fridges just to house eleven (or twenty-two) doz
>isn't something everyone finds convenient!
>
>tushar

I don't believe that Tushar doesn't realize that you keep a
dozen eggs in the egg carton until you open it. When you
open it, you *use* one or more egg, and put the rest (< 12)
into the rack on the door.

love, judith
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:17:55 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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> --ggs (expecting the Democrats to *give* me lots of stuff
> in the years to come....)

If so, it will be worth what you paid for it.
doris
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