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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:10:22 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Eggspots in the fridge

>Ruth writes: "A couple of climbers died of exposure... after exposing a couple
>of rolls of film."
>
>One dangerous darkroom, eh?
>
>Marty

Play the game, Marty, you cad. After you have asked for it like this, you
can't also keep making your mordant comments.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:22:07 EST
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Teachers and students
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A former student came to see me this afternoon. (I feel like I've been
spending almost as much time w/ former students as w/ current students
these days!) Anyway, this guy graduated a couple of years ago, and was
here to talk to people about graduate school.  He wasn't asking me for a
recommendation, but he did mention that he felt bad asking people for
recommendations. I think he graduated 2 years ago.  I was really
surprised--I've been studying Japanese long enough, I guess, that I
think the teacher-student bond is for life.

I was wondering what other people who teach feel about this?

Karen
who is tired of the incessant rain and looking forward to LA next week
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:39:43 EST
From:         Don <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      RE: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!
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Tushar your memory isn't completely accurate. I was involved in that
topic but didn't post the poem naming or defining waka(s).

Just supplying information.

-Don
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:22:51 -0500
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Re: FYFI
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              23, 92 9:18 pm

>
> > > My mama frequently dressed me as a <girl>.  Ohmygod.
> > > --ggs (who still loves earrings....)
> >
> > And where do you wear your earrings?
> > doris
>
> Why, I thought you'd never ask.  On my <lobes> of course.
                                        ^^^^^^^^^
Oh, giggles, you make me blush...Which ones?
A

> --ggs
>
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:28:09 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gone Found (Was Re: Deleting a letter
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              at Nov 16, 92 10:57 am

> >Elwood P.!  For some reason, I thought you'd gone missing...
> >//anne, who else haven't we heard from in a while??//

Jenna?  Steph?

rashmi
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:58:54 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Scotland's greatest poet
              15 Nov 1992 16:18:09 -0800 from <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>

Graham, is this a joke?  Let's standardize the spelling anyway.  Is it
William Topaz McGonagall?  Why don't I find him in the index to the
Britannica (11th and the 14th)?  Hmmmm.....

brad
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:21:12 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Another Contest
              20 Nov 1992 16:16:00 EST from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

On Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:16:00 EST gilbertsmith said:
>.
>You wimmin are such sissies.  Crossen is getting all worked up about
>the possibility of another exciting night with a beer in front of the
>monitor, and you wymmyn....!  I never!

Some people prefer beer, some prefer wine, I prefer movies.
I think I'll watch Frank Langella tonight.

>--ggs

Evelyn
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      RE: The Sounds of Silence

*** Resending note of 11/16/92 11:28
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)" <TA0SHK1@NIU.BITNET>

>The cheeseheads play Duh Bears on Sunday 11/23.

Well good luck to them!  "Duh Bucs", not known for winning, tamed the Duh
Bears yesterday in front of sold out 72K plus crowd!  Bucs played
fantastic first half, and much too cautious the second...
But Mr. Murray did *not* repeat history. (Several years ago, the Bucs built
a 20 to nothing lead against the Bears, only to see Mr. Murray kick a
winning field goal in the last minutes of that game).
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:09:42 EST
From:         "Tony @ Brownvm" <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Headless Chickens ...Everywhere
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Posted on 18 Nov 1992 at 20:26:26 by Doris Smith

>I can remember when I would watch my day put the chicken's head on an old
>tree stump and chop the head off with a small hatchet. The chicken's body
>would continue to run around for a short period of time.  He sometimes
>varied his method, and rang their necks instead.

I think this is known as change ringing.

Tony H.
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:32:28 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Thanksgiving get-together
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Posted on 22 Nov 1992 at 17:19:00 by Blue eyes cryin' in the rain
>Hi folks,
>Anyone out there who will be within reasonable distance of Louisville
>KY on the day after Thanksgiving?

Ditto for anyone else who will be in/near Los Angeles the Tuesday before
Thanksgiving.  karsten@netcom.com will provide details of our get-together
with Emily.

And of course there will a report afterwards!

Karen
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:42:25 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Another Contest
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              Kaczmarczik" at Nov 20, 92 11:58 am

> There's a problem with this whole line of thought -- to say that she (I
> can't say Nancy and I won't say Mom) meant "absolutely not" in the context
> of Wayne and Garth's "NOT!" is the same as saying that she *doesn't* agree
 [  ]
> Besides, my mother never watches Saturday Night Live and has not seen
> _Wayne's World_, so the likelihood of her talking this way is pretty close
> to non-existent.

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?

rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 07:31:51 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      RE: The Sounds of Silence

*** Resending note of 11/16/92 18:10

>It would be rather difficult for Mr. Murray to repeat history for
>the Bears, Don.  Eddie Murray is kicker for the Detroit Lions;
>the Bears' placekicker is Kevin Butler.

>Steve Karlson

Steve, that's what I get for trying to remember with fading memory ...:-(
Maybe Mr. Murray is the new kicker Bucs just hired and kicked his first
two field goals last Sunday for the Bucs....  Anyway, you're right, Bears
probably are mad, especially Ditka.. and Bucs are glad there wasn't about
another minute left on the clock......
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Date: 22 Nov 92 15:44:22 GMT
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We haven't heard much from Portland lately about Salmonbake '93.  How's
the planning going?  Were any of the Portland Planners at Clambake '92?
You realize, don't you, that around 55 people attended and that the
Providence Planners put in quite a bit of work.  Volunteering to organize
a WORDS-L gathering is not a minor move.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:16:14 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Blast From The Past (Long!)
              16 Nov 1992 20:45:12 -0600 from <dorisann@TENET.EDU>

On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:45:12 -0600 Doris Smith said:
>Natalie,
> Now I know why I still feel like a newbie.  What ever happened to those
>folks who were posting in the neighborhood of 400 messages?  And abh had
>under 10??? :-)

And Tim Johnson (ST402711@BROWNVM) had 10 messages.
>
>doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)

Evelyn
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:31:30 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 486 for thanksgiving dinner
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              17 Nov 1992 06:47:26 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:47:26 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>I found 8 meg RAM enough for OS/2 during my very brief play with OS/2.
>I hated OS/2 not because of sluggishness but because of appearance and
>mousiness.  It's still sitting in a box on my shelf.  Thank goodness for
>DESQview.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Holy cow, computerwoman....I didn't SAY OS/2 did I????
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?

dan
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Date:         Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:04:19 EST
From:         ann mandi <AMM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      where's words-l?
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Hey, where'd everybody go?  No mail from words-l since midnight.


ann mandi
bitnet:  AMM@BROWNVM     internet:  AMM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU

'No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.'
-- Connie Mack
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:44:04 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: pretty weird
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              21 Nov 1992 23:24:00 PST from
              <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:24:00 PST Emily Horning said:
>And Dan, what are you doing up at this hour? Becoming a night person like
>Graham and Tushar?

   I'm almost always a night person.  I normally go to bed at 0100 and
get up at 0700.  I'd go to bed at 0300-0600 given my choice, but the
combination of job and spouse tend to eliminate the choices of my
bodyclock.  8-)

>Emily (who got back a little while ago from watching the BRUINS kick some
>Trojan butt - barely! 8-) Bruins 38, USC 37!!)

   We weren't so lucky.  Big game of the year against Idaho....and they
have beaten Boise State for 10 straight years....though overall BSU has
been MUCH better...they can't win that game....the big rivalry....and this
year it was 21-16 Idaho in early third quarter.....and we were freezing our
buns off in 35 degree temps with 30mph winds....almost as cold as the folks
up at the UW-WSU game in PUllman (which we saw end of on tv)....but early
fourth quarter we were down 41-16.....and final was 62-16, which we heard
on radio in truck in parking lot....Cinda, daughter from U of I, was in
end zone watching every second of it....grrrrrr
   Coach resigned last nite....second losing season EVER for BSU.....and
5-6 is NEVER acceptable here....

dan
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:31:23 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: FYFI

>Very perceptive.....  bingo!  I am <sick> and <tired> of people
>like -abh and -gt- winning on the basis of three-word posts, while
>my lengthy, pithhhy posts go unrecognized.
>--ggs

repeat to yourself:
     I have a vocabulary of seven words

-K

-Mka
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Date: 17 Nov 92 20:39:00 GMT
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> The truth, now, ggs: if the Repubs had been giving things away,
> wouldn't you have made some negative comment about their having
> come by it in <unnatural> fashion, or <throwing their money
> around>?
>
> --bayla

No, I would have just said they stole from the poor to give to the
rich, and I would have been *right*!   Why,  dear bayla, do all my
private messages to you come back with some idiotic note that your
mail address doesn't recognized my domain?  I cannot exchange sweet
nothings with you with this going on.
I am bored with being nasty about Republicans.  The election is over.
I am going to start being sweet to everyone.
--ggs
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
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Subject:      Headless Chickens ...Everywhere

Tushar asks:  Have you ever SEEN a headless chicken?  Cute.  He knows of
the great LIVE headless chicken survey I conducted a year ago, just as
he knows millions of people daily see dead headless chickens.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:18:00 EST
From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: BWP Stats
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> > Gilbert Smith                   196
>
> Don't forget that Giggles had a wounded digit for a while.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

That's true, and a wounded <heart>....  I'm really surprised that
I even posted that many.  Seems like I have been just <tick-o-lock>
for months......  ever since the phantasm of the phamiliphewd
(anybody remember that?)
--ggs ( who cannot bear to give it its *real* name.... )
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:30:06 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Eggspots in the fridge
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My refrigerator has 13 eggslots.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:36:19 -0500
From:         Rebecca S Altes <rsast11+@PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids

marty,

   your fourth comment in that reply i suppose being a random thought blurp?

   the purple zucchinis fly acroos the grey sky,

   quietly changing the landscape into a thing

   of great beauty and sorrow.

   the theological theme park opens today,

   and the key to upside-down christmas trees is

   a six-pointed star,

   but all i can think of are the

   opportunities i have missed,

   and i broke the key to life

   when i twisted it the wrong way

   in my haste to open the door.

                                              bekka
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 22:29:06 EST
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Real BWP Stats
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Hmmm, wonder who I had dinner with couple of months back - Tushar or Mahalingam?

rashmi
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:22:00 EST
From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*

Greetings,

The premise of the question is false.  I, for one, have never said
"disoriented like a decapitated chicken."  Who is the intended "we?"

I have, of course, heard the colorful expression "running around like a
chicken with its head cut off," but again, I have never said this (since
I try to eschew colorful expressions, which tend to draw undue attention
to one's writing, along with the consequent critical scrutiny that often
ensues).

Marty
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Date: 22 Nov 92 09:39:26 GMT
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In article <9211220034.AA05210@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:
>What's tap-tap-alt?  I do alt-s to switch in DV.  But gnu screen sounds
>interesting.  Right now I'm mainly interested in getting a new hard disk

My desqview switches full-screen processes when I tap ALT twice. I thought
this was the default but maybe I configured it that way so long ago I've
forgotten.  Obviously chosen to be quick to type when the boss comes in...

G
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:47:53 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Scotland's greatest poet
              16 Nov 1992 00:58:54 EST from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

>Graham, is this a joke?  Let's standardize the spelling anyway.  Is it
>William Topaz McGonagall?  Why don't I find him in the index to the
>Britannica (11th and the 14th)?  Hmmmm.....

McGonagall, William, 1825-1902.

There he is, big as life, 32 editions listed on the OCLC database,
including -The World's Worst Poet: selections from "Poetic Gems"-
(Springfield, IL: Templegate, 1979).

Sorry I doubted you, Graham!                    --brad
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Handbook for Torture?
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              20 Nov 1992 17:55:14 EST from <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

rec all last week, or two or three, ago?   I told you all about
some books you could get from the Loompanics folks up on the Olympic
Peninsuila....

they have a number of books on torture....how and why to do it,
how to survive it, etc.....

dan
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Are The Portland Planners Planning?
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> Natalie, just in case - don't let the person who volunteered (in the presence
> of Judith) to roast a goat slip away - his services might be needed.

Good point.  I'll do what I can to make sure he doesn't renege on his
promise.  Although he said he would roast the goat himself, he might be
planning on getting one of his systems programmers to do it for him.  He's
Director of the Computing Center.  A Unix systems programmer would probably
be an excellent goat roaster...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:18:31 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Handbook for Torture?
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:My undergrad research group, the one I asked you all the reconstruction
:methods question for, has moved on...  Now we would like to find out
:about torture.  What is the purpose of torture?  Is it mental or
:physical?  We were wondering if there is a standard handbook, like the
:60's terrorist handbook for bomb-making?

Ask Jim.  I'm sure he'll have something like that.  I can only help with
bomb-making ;-)

G
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Tercets For Triplets
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 02:17:20 GMT

In article <9211221905.AA25141@tartarus.uchicago.edu> samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>GILBERT NEEDS A CLUE OR THREE!
>

>mud-slinging sleazy slander-spree! This tiresome cervical pain has now

	Cervical?  Anne!  Rashmi!  You never told us about *this* side
of Tushar...





-- 
Rita Marie Rouvalis              rita@eff.org 
Electronic Frontier Foundation   | And he spun himself right down 
155 Second Street                | into the ground. Now wasn't that 
Cambridge, MA 02141 617-864-0665 | lucky?  --Deadsy 
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning
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>  Tetris is a in which you try to fit falling blocks of various shapes
> together to form a solid line.  Windows' Reversi is not similar.

At one point my plan was to leave OS/2 on my computer for occasional use
(like game playing).  I can't remember now what it was that led me to
believe that OS/2 was about to eat my computer.  All I remember is being
terrified that it was already nibbling away at the computer's vital organs
and rushing to get rid of it.  I also remember having to take emergency
measures to restore the computer to DOS health.  Maybe I'll play with it
again sometime -- after I win PCH sweepstakes and retire to a life of
full-time computer play.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: FYFI

As roadside poet
Giggles takes a dive
The punchline comes
on sign
number five.
BURMA SHAVE
.
Steve Karlson

My head grows bald but not my chin.
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:40:54 CST
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      RE: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!
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> >and ">", at least according to a poem posted by Don Thornton.
>
> I'd forgotten that poem.  Thanks for recalling it.  Natalie, is it
> in the ftp space?

I don't remember it.  How long ago was it?  If somebody will send it to
me, it will go into ftp space now.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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