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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:15:29 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (73
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:04:26 EST, "Tony Harminc" <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
 wrote:
> You threatened to, but never did.  Unless I missed it when I was off
> for a month or so.
>
> Do tell.

Gulp.  Well, it was the night before Christmas, about 6 or 7 years ago
when Acorn were rich and could afford proper Christmas parties, and
we'd hired a local nightspot for the office do.  It was one of those
places that doubles as a restaurant by day, so they had lovely big
oaken tables in the upstairs room where the buffet was.  Anyway, there
I was, tucking into the pate and caviar, sitting at the head table
with Chris Curry (one of the two owners of Acorn at the time), and
Clive Sinclair (Chris' ex-partner and now rival), and a <mature woman>
around Mama's age who turned out to have been both Chris and Clive's
secretary at one point.  So, I was sitting down, munching away, when
the woman beside me asked in a <piercing> loud voice (in the worst of
Cambridge's local accents - it's not a pleasant one) what I wore under
my kilt (as English women are wont to do - I did mention I was in full
Highland dress?  No?  - this was back in the days when I could get into
a kilt without looking like Harry Lauder.  Or is it Harry Secombe? Anyway,
the one with the big stomach).  Not willing to allow this woman to steal
the dignity of Scotsmen in general, I lifted her hand away with a "Do
you *mind*???".  A few minutes later I felt a hand sidling down the
side of my kilt.  *Whack* - I slapped it away rather forcibly this time;
"Madam!" I said...  About 5 minutes after that, she was at it again.
Oh well, I thought, ... I'll give her marks for perseverance I guess.
And I suppose it *is* traditionally 'third time lucky...' - I'll just
keep my mouth shut and try not to smile too broadly...

And that, ladies and gentleman, is the story of how I ejaculated on
Sir Clive Sinclair's shoes.

G
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:12:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Red Line Story

        Fer sher...

        Get off at the Woodcrest station, and my parents will gladly hop the
        mile or so from their house and greet you.

Thanks for the offer, Neal.  If I do take the trip, I'll let you know so
you can alert your folks that a gut reactionary will be hopping off the train.

Steve Karlson

In late December, 1962, the North Shore Line announced it would cease
operations at 4:01 am, Monday, January 21, 1963
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:59:16 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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On Sun, 3 Jan 1993, Rita Marie Rouvalis wrote:

>         Am I the only one who ate a grape at midnight?

Please Rita. You're losing your grip on the distinction between IRC and RL.

-abh
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Susan's Sport/Leisure Question
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>On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU wrote:
>
>> "What South Australian racing trainer had 200 winners in the 1979-80 season?"
>
>I move to strike this question because NOBODY except an Australian could
>ever get it!!
>
>-abh

In all fairness I can't do that.... the previous players have nearly all been
hit with questions that only an Aussie would have any hope of answering. You
never know, Susan might be into the International Racing Scene... after all
Steve knows more about Australian trains than I do.

According to former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Frazer (who was caught
with his pants down in a US hotel) "Life wasn't meant to be easy!" and neither
was this game.

Carolyn
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:33:45 CST
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Silence...
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Hello?  Has the listserv suddenly died?
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:54:55 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Early morning blues...
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        >Well, spent the last 6 hours cleaning up my flat; now have an hour to
        >kill before I go for the 5:30 tube out to heathrow to meet miss piggy.

        This could be good: she told me she was flying into Gatwick.

She lied to throw people off the trail :-)

We're back. 6:50 arrival was 7:45 + 1hr for customs + 1hr travelling.

zzzzzzz

G
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:58:35 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: new year's eve
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        dates are sticky fruit.

        jenna

Only if you get the right sort of dates...

G
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 18:20:48 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Say Something To Jeffrey
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I'm a day late, but Jeffrey, if you're still with Aunt Natalie, here's
another hello.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Let the sniping begin!
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:18:37 GMT
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In article <WORDS-L%92122119401730@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
>Posted on 21 Dec 1992 at 19:08:14 by Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)
>>It's already happening ... the PC crowd has already been sniping at
>>Boy Clinton because his cabinet isn't multicultural enough ...
>
>I thought he was specifically criticized for not pointing enough women
>to cabinet posts?  (I don't blame him for being p.o.'d at this criticism,
>btw.  It does seem awfully early to be giving up hope!)

You're right, Karen. And it was actually just E Smeal who was making most
of the noise. I'm not sure what PC crowd Steve is thinking about (maybe
it's the PCers like Bob Dornan and others who complain because there
aren't enough white males...???). What Steve calls the "idiot Left" has
overwhelmingly indicated that they thought Smeal was off base. I think
some refuse to let facts get in the way of a few swipes.
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:01:51 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Holidays
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          Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
              24 Dec 1992 18:55:00 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:55:00 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>For what it's worth, Judith finds that things are smoother when she connects
>to Brown's VM from the tn3270 and slip on my PC instead of from tn3270 on Ra.


agree....but didn't specifically recommend which platform is better, since
guess i just assumed they'd be directly on a unix box, or dialing up to
the unix box without slip....a directly net connected 386/486 with tn3270
beats ANY other options for speed and perfection....

got the WONDERful xmas card today natalie....looks just like me....   8-)

hugs

dan
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:23:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: New Orleans
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> Appropos of nothing much:
> Sitting on the counter in my dressing room is an old fashioned footed
> bathtub with gold lettering that says "Hotel Monteleone  100th Anniversary
> 1886-1986."
> doris

I probably took a bath in that tub.  Did I leave a ring?
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 10:52:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Questions
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OH GREAT, I know some of these, being as I am from TEXAS:

>   What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?
.
Milky Ways are candy bars -- have sort of gooey centers covered in
chocolate (the center is nougat, I think)
>
>   Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
>   "the Panhandle" refer to?
>
From Louisiana, one would go through either Dallas or Houston, then up
toward Lubbock and Amarillo, which are in the "Panhandle", the part of
Texas that sticks up....  just before Lubbock, you go up on the
"Cap Rock", a very sudden rise to a plateau.
.
>   "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
>    people doing what to each other?
>
"Cornhole" means to do anal intercourse, as in the old joke about
the Indian (Native American) maiden who was offering her sexual favors
to some guy.  When he tried to pay her in corn, she turned over, saying
"Front hole money hole, back hole corn hole".... (Cant believe I just
told that awful joke....  Well, it's holiday time....)
.
>
>    "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
>    what are BBs?
>
BBs are tiny shot that go in air guns, used for killing little birds,
mainly by adolescent boys.
.
>    "You never could resist mashing on a guy's oysters": what, if anything,
>    does this idiom convey to you?
>
The oysters must be the testicles.... "to mash" often refers to
making sexual advances.  A "masher" is a guy who comes on real strong
to an unwilling partner.
.
>    Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?
>
A mentholated salve for smearing on the chest when one has a cold.
Smells very strong.
.
>    Lum 'n' Abner land: what is the reference?
.
Radio comedy team from the 50's...  they were funny, dumb country
guys.
>
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:14:33 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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> Until the Southerners began talking of the need to eat black-eyed peas
> to insure good luck in the coming year, I had never heard of the
> custom of eating any special food on New Year's Day.

Some people think that the black-eyed peas have to be accompanied by hog
jowl, but I think that's mere superstition -- unlike the black-eyed pea
rule, which is truth.

> Does anyone know the origin of this?

No, but I do know that it's been around a long, long time.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:36:59 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: John's History Question
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        Either Anne is still on Texas time or she's learning to keep
        Graham hours.

Yup, I reckon so.

G
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:40:11 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:56:12 -0800, "Peter Montgomery"
 <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA> wrote:
> I guess (but I'm sure you can tell me much better) the reason I dislike
> the idea of belittling even the most contemptible of deeply held beliefs
> is precisely because they are so DEEPLY held. I admire commitment of
> the will in a world which does its best all day long to avoid even think-
> ing about commitment. DEEP conviction reaches to the most fundamentally
> human elements in a person. To mock such commitments then, is to mock

That's what I was afraid you meant.  People like you scare the bejesus
out of me.

G
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:19:35 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: On the shortage of lives on words-l
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Posted on 29 Dec 1992 at 22:52:46 by samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU

>Duh, we have now started talking about Fords. Count
>me out of car talk.

Not even the Ford Prefect ?

Tony H.
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
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>> "What award-winning ABC reporter later became executive producer of
>> Australia's 'Sixty Minutes'?"
>
>Oh great!  An Australia question, after everybody else was getting
>really *easy* ones like the Arthur Miller and the Pillow Talk.  So,
>I have no idea at all, and I can't even remember who was ABC and who
>was CBS and who was NBC.  It's probably not Pee Wee Herman,
>so I guess:
>       *ERIC SEREVEID*
>       ..................
>I'll pretend this is right and say ===> GEOGRAPHY
>.
>--ggs

Sorry Gilbert! It was Gerald Stone. I believe at one time he was a foreign
correspondent and spent many years in the US... he has a discernible American
accent or he may be a transplanted American.... there are a lot out here -
especially in the media.

Evelyn was almost correct ABC stands for Australian Broadcasting Commission.

It is John or Ausbrook's turn next.... category please!

Carolyn
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:26:48 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Idle thoughts
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The students are gone, the professors turned in their grades this morning,
and I'm marking time until I depart on Wednesday.  Here's something that
caught my eye in the Wall Street Journal at lunch:  an ad for Time magazine
that reproduces the 65 "Man of the Year" covers.  There were four that I
did not have a clue about:

1929  Owen D. Young
1933  Hugh S. Johnson   (should get partial credit here; I know he was a New
1951  Mohammed Mossadegh                                       Dealer)
1955  Harlow Curtice  (say what?)

Here are the women:

1936  Wallis Warfield Simpson
1937  Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (with her husband)
1952  Queen Elizabeth II
1975  "American Women"
1986  Corazon Aquino

Here are the non-personal ones:

1950  American Fighting Man
1956  Hungarian Freedom Fighter
1960  U.S. Scientists
1966  Young Generation   (Hey, I made the cover of Time!)
1969  The Middle Americans
1975  American Women
1982  The Computer ("Machine of the Year")
1988  Endangered Earth ("Planet of the Year")

--brad
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:52:25 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's History Question
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On Thu, 24 Dec 1992 LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU wrote:

> Just for that, Graham, I think I'll send abh a photograph of me to scan in
> which my 'beard' doesn't show. :-)

Send me both! I'll post gladly!

-abh
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject: Re: Hello

*** Resending note of 12/29/92 11:56
To:           DON MOORE <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>
>>Anyway, Tushar, got great life outside of E-MAIL, but it's not watching TV!

>You play video games?

>tushar

No ....at least not yet.  So far have resisted playing Dawn's new Sega
Genisis and have no games (again yet) for new jazzy PC.  But have been
spending time (alot) with mice trying to see if icon do it right.
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Red Line Story
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:52:35 GMT

In article <BzLEzB.2w6@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
:::urp::  Yeccch...let me guess, it comes standard with pineapple slices,
:doesn't it?

That's certainly an option, yes.

G
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:27:17 EST
From:         "Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What's in a name?
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Star space alt hyphen brad space star writes:

AB>I like Car Talk's lawyers, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

        <Grin>  And their staff composer, Bela Cartok, and their staff
grammarian, I. M. Shirley Wright ...

Smile, it's more fun than groaning,
Tom Lee
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:57:09 EST
From:         "Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Barbie dolls
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Aaron writes:

ALD>I'm still not sure why the phrase was so bad.  Barbie dolls in
ALD>general appeal to girls because they sort of identify with "her", or
ALD>at least with what they hope to become as teens ....

ALD>I think those calling for the recall aren't giving the kids enough
ALD>credit; if any little girl gets scared off of math for life because
ALD>of something her doll says, then that kid's got some problems that
ALD>no "neutral" doll is going to prevent from coming out eventually.

        I think that Barbie's opponents fear that girls will look upon
the plastic thing as a role model.  If they're not like Barbie (i.e., if
they're overweight, if their breasts aren't huge, if they do well in
math), people won't like them, and they won't be "popular."  Foes of
Barbie don't want girls to be pressured in this way.

Not really involved,
but I don't see why anybody would want one anyway,
Tom Lee
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Camillemania
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On Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:35:45 EST <ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM> said:
>> Great one-liner by Molly Ivins: "Madonna has done for girls what lassie did
>> for dogs."
>
>Which Madonna, though?  The Boy Toy of 1985?  The social commentator
>of "Papa, Don't Preach"?  The sexual-religious mystic of "Like a
>Prayer"?  Or the cynical and brilliant businesswoman who would go down
>on Lassie if a camera were around and it would advance her career?
>
  right....but she probably already has....whether on camera or not...

and doesn't even care if lassie is the theoretically female lassie of the
stories, or the male lassie that played the part on the tube, and also in
films, i believe....luckily for them lassie was a hairy breed, not a short
hair like bernard where the family jewels would be visible to all....
of course the sex-changing of lassie would probably please madonna even more...


dan the cyclops
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: Deep Beliefs
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:46:24 GMT

In article <01GSL1R5BZWG001CBT@opie.bgsu.edu> CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes:
:Greetings, Torkel,
:
:I usually see Ruth's messages only in quoted passages in other folks' posts.
:I prefer it that way.

Aren't kill files wonderful :-)  Actually, I have to confess that once or
twice I've deleted Carolyn's posts unread, thinking they were Ruth's.

Ruth, could you go back to your old distinctive style of no gaps between
articles please to make your mail more instantly recognisable?

G
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      India
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I recently read a review of "Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God" by Jonah
Blank.  He is an American Journalist who spent 6 months in India in
1990, reporting for the Dallas Morning News.  The review says "...Blank
seems to have become so imbued with the spirit of the noble Prince Rama
that he tends to look at present-day India in too romantic a light.
Having believed the ideal Indian to be 'a man like Rama: pious, brave, a
duty-driven battler for peace and order of his world', he regrets
finding that today's Indian is really 'a bazaar merchant haggling over
the price of dyed broadlooms so he can afford a new VCR for his color
television.' " As aren't we all....

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:52:54 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: On the shortage of lives on words-l

>>In Dayton, 4 young people went on a spree of "joy killing."
>>A middle-class couple left their 9 and 4-year-old daughters home alone
>>while the couple were taking a vacation.
>
>The episode in Dayton is the only one not making the news on aus tv....
>guess that's not considered newsworthy enough anymore. :-(

That's disappointing? Or is the ":-(" just random?

tushar
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