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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:37:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: TshirtII, Cubbies, zero

...and then there's the always [un]popular,

        DISK QUOTA EXCEEDED

_my_ personal favorite...  8-(

John "I don't really CARE if the eagle screams, I'm TIRED, GODDAMIT!~" W.
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:45:46 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: rapture schedule
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On Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:06:58 MST, "Dan Lester" <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU> wrote:
> for those who haven't already heard, THE Rapture, not just any old rapture,
> but the one that will transport the truly good and believing off to heaven,
> has now been scheduled for October 28.  the exact time has not been set,

Aha!  This year's "October Surprise".  It's probably a coded message to
the CIA agents in Bosnia to start shooting...

G
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:04:33 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: RE: Gender

>"he" is sexist.  I realize what your point is:  that both cases involve
>the listeners' reactions, that the speakers do not necessarily think
>about YourAnus or the sexism of "he."  I don't see that similarity as
>having much to do with the topic at hand, though.

If people don't think about the "sexism" of "he" it isn't there.

I see that over the course of a weekend Gender got hijacked--SFJ,
bimbos and funky glasses.  So-called back formations--and male
feminists--which I never said I was--who make Le Pig puke.  Gotta
stay on top of this list all the time, dontya.

Woops--gotta go.  God-daughter and dad just came by to go for a
walk.  I'm not in nugget mode anyway, Natalie and all.  Not
enough entropy-fighting caffeine today maybe.

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:06:26 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Self-correcting (why not try proofing?)
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>    I don't know....just that most places I've worked (5 of 7, I think)
> give the wed off....and those are all US state supported universities,

Many years ago the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was a holiday here, but
that was changed because students started skipping the Monday and Tuesday
also.  Now classes end at the end of the class day (night) on Wednesday.

> >     asking me to tromp around department doing a survey of computer stuff...
> >     why me????  never mind -- the dean's office *did* give me this
>      ^^^^^^^^^
> Because you're the only one who knows one when you see one?  Much less
> what kind it is?

You may be right.  I sent him an off-the-top-of-my-head answer to the
questions, telling him that I would give the precise answers Monday.
He liked the details of my off-the-top-of-head stuff about monitors etc.
I thought I used pretty scientific descriptions like "three XTs with
CGA yuck monitors."  Why do people buy CGA color monitors?  Monochrome
with CGA card isn't bad.  CGA color is awful.

> DOES sound like something a student could do, but.....might be better than
> being on the tenure committee....and probably less contentious.

I didn't mean to imply that a student should do it.  I agree that it would
be *MUCH* better than being on the tenure committee.  We have no choice in
that, however.  All of our T&P committees are committees of everybody at
the rank or, in the case of tenure, everybody with tenure.  I'm talking
about at the departmental level.  The other levels have smaller committees.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU (Blue eyes cryin' in the rain)
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Subject: whew
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:56:00 GMT
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Either the net or the Pitt connection thereto is really munged.  Last message
arrived 'here' almost 12 hours ago.

Which is why I'm all caught up at the moment.  So I'm off to the next lecture
here in Hanover.  See you later, when you have more to say...

Oh, Elaine -- Pittsburgh is between I-70 and I-80, and not all that far from
I-90.  We're a good long day's drive from Providence (the drive to Keene NH
took 10.5 hours).

neal
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:11:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      2 X 4

> A 2 X 4 is a board.  So Anne is a bored (board) bandwidth pig.
>Weak I know, but what the heck, it's a slow night.
>Doris

Weak isn't the word.  Does that make Le Pig a drunk stiff?

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:42:48 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Acronyms/Gender
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              Aug 11, 92 10:30 pm

>
> Just a little WORDS question here - do most people pronounce the letters
> in acronyms, or the words they stand for ?  I would've written "a UL"
> because I say just the letters.  Evidently Rashmi say "an Urban Legend".
> Or perhaps uses "an" in front of U sounds ?
>
> Tony H.
>

In fact, I debated over a/an when I was typing out the post and wasn't
sure which one was appropriate.  I guess I said "Urban Legend" and
decided to go with an, though "a UL" sounds right too.  Trust a
words-ler to notice it!

rashmi
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:33:08 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: On Gender and Such
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>"Man is the only mammal who does not always scratch his testicles in public."

The only men who don't scratch them in public are eunuchs.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 20:31:51 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Free Press/Utne Reader
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> To which add The Utne Reader.  (Yes, it's on sale over here in
> your average corner-shop newsagents...)

Wow...I've never seen it on a newsstand *here*.  Is the Sam Adams
story all over again?! (Torkel can buy it and I can't.)  I used to
read the Utne Reader when I had time--our big plagiarism case
last year was an article from the Utne Reader...we are very lucky
they didn't sue.

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:53:26 U
From:         Anne <harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Back on net
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If this message reaches the list, then our LAN server is back online.

Thanks.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 12:37:52 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Aren't we discussing politics?
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So, Mka, have you heard any good lawyer jokes lately?

Well, I'm outta here for the weekend.  If anyone spots Tushar (with
or without supermodel in tow), tell him we'll never let him forget
this!

Have a good one, everybody.  See y'all Sunday night,
rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:07:20 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: To Crown
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So what's the difference between certificated and certified, Tony?

g
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:08:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Let's try this again, shall we?
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> >I'm too tired to tytpe straight.  or edit.
>
> ...or to watch your back. Yoo-hoo, Giggles! Punchline alert!
>
> -abh

Man who reach for soap on floor bound not to keep back straight.
.
--ggs (thinking that finally, after 256 messages today, someone,
*someone* has mentioned his name....)
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:11:15 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Pleasant Discovery

Don here, NOMAIL still set, just checking to see if any of my staff left
me any problems ..they haven't ...so guess all is OK.  But was very pleased
to find two WORDSLERs sent me very pleasant and uplifting private mail - I
will answer both sometime this weekend, but don't have time now.

Kind of a sad anniversary of sorts today ....five years ago today my dear
second wife was buryied ...I know...I should not reflect on such things..
not really fair to Joyce and Dawn....

So thanks to my WORDS-L friends.  It helped when you had no way of knowing.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 06:38:52 -0400
From:         Joan Boorstein <boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: alumni associations\
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ndh laments:

>Requests to remove me from their mailing list have had no
>effect...obviously once you're a "Baylor girl" you're one forever.

Consider returning one of their envelopes with a note that you are
deceased - sure stopped Harvard from badgering my husband -- he was
determined never to give them a dime when he found out that even as an
alumni several times over they still wanted ~$1K/year to use their libraries
(not check anything out, mind you) and this was the figure about 20 years
ago.
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:59:45 EDT
From:         Theresa Wild <TWILD%URIACC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: we made it!

Happy Aniversary to Dan and Gail!!!!


Theresa
twild@uriacc.uri.edu
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From: mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner)
Subject: What do you call...
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 19:04:16 GMT

What do you call yourself *between* semesters? If one was a 
sophomore last spring semester, and will be a junior next semester,
whe people ask you during the summer what you are, what is the
correct answer? :)

This has always bothered me... (throw in summer classes and what
does it become?)

Scott

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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Fresh persons
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>>who was tuned by an osteopath this afternoon and feels WONDERFUL!!!!

>hmmmmm....bet Neal will be glad to hear/see that.

>dan

	Yeah, sure, thrilled to death.

	I'd say more, but what else is there to say?

neal
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:31:00 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK%IUBACS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      ABD

>10-4, but a long time ago.  However, I am ABD politiches wissenshaft.
>
>JAG

I can see why--it's politische Wissenschaft.

Hey--we ought to do a survey of the list--how many ABD's v. Docs.

-Mka
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: Re: Offbeat Westerns
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:06:01 GMT


And how could I have forgotten -THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN- ??!!  We had seen
the Japanese original (Seven Samurai), probably not on video either but you
never know -- there's a space opera version as well, whose name I've
forgotten, but Robert Vaughn plays "the same" part of a scared warrior!

--bayla
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 18:29:49 -0400
From:         Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject:      Re: List wars
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              Aug 20, 92 5:22 pm

>
> >>You guys can do what you like, but you might just end up contributing to the
> >>demise of the free lists - and mess it up for other people, too.
>
> WHO was responsible for that bit of doggerel--off list to Le Pig
> in her person?  Let me know--I'm dropping down to the hardware
> store for some fresh napalm now.

Get a grip and read back - I thought "entropy" was everywhere - and
it is that towards which the universe tends - downhill, in
thermodynamics terms, in any case...



> -Mka
> Life is determined by sun spots--and

entropy flares.
=oxymoron
Ak
>
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 1992 06:19:36 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: when did in become on
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> Why would one have to talk back to the television set or radio to be
> affected?  Why could the effects not be manifested in the speech

I don't know.  But for some reason people's phonology changes through
interactive conversations rather than passive listening, whether we're
talking about tv/radio or FTF.  Or at least this is generally true.
There are no doubt exceptions.

> patterns one affects when talking to others?  Do I understand you to
> say people do not take pieces of what they hear on radio or
> television as models for their own speech?

Yep.  I'm talking about phonology only.  People do add or change
vocabulary as the result of media influence.  I'm not sure about
morphology/syntax.  I've never thought about that.  My guess is that
it might also be influential.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 12 Aug 1992 08:26:58 EDT
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: when did in become on
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              12 Aug 1992 13:11:15 EDT from <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>

>Never heard 'on' except in yank movies.
>
>Wouldn't you say "meet me at six o'clock"?
>Or do you say "meet me six o'clock"?
>
>G

  I would of course say "meet me at six o'clock."  But "weekend"
  seems different.  It's that space of time that stretches over
  Saturday and Sunday.  Your usage seems to refer to a point in
  time when the week ends -- maybe that point when you get home on
  Friday evening and check your mailbox.    --brad
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Date:         Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:39:50 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: On Gender and Such

>be a bit strong to describe the recent discussion.  One thing I've
>especially enjoyed about it has been its friendliness.  Our recent
>member from Uranus is one of my favorite arguers.  He presents interesting

Aw shucks, Natalie.  Want to take this thing off list?

-Mka
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 16:26:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: RE: WHTMIQR12
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> >his skimpy Speedo and frolics in the surf en pelotas, as they
>
> Giggles, it was worth wading through eleven installments to learn this amusing
> idiom. I have never heard it before, though I have lived 33 years in the
> hispanic world, and with my <friends>, there's no reason why I wouldn't have
> heard it before, but it's great and I plan to regale the office with it
> tomorrow.
>
>
> -abh

Usage is Peninuslar only, I think, but not sure........  Anyway,
I love it too and think we should do all in our power to propagate
it's usage wherever <el idioma> is spoken.  hate to disappoint you
though.... I think it refers not to the <pelotas> but to the <piel>
(skin) which gives the <pelota> its name....  What the hell!  You
don't have to tell them that in the orifice.
--ggs (thinking that another great one from the Peninsula is:
<de puta madre> as in....   Ay, esta es una playa de puta madre!
Non-peninuslar hispanics often do not understand that this means
"fantaaastic!")
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Doublings 
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 11:35:10 +0000


In article <WORDS-L%92081723204161@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU writes:

>O.2% of the list probably means just you, though I haven't
>checked the size of the list recently.

*O*.2????  Where were you brought up?

0.2% of the list probably meant me actually.  I doubt she was counting herself.

G
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 09:42:19 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Icons

>Surely you're not saying that, because one is unaware of the manner in
>which language frames how we see, think, and communicate about the world,
>that such frames do not exist??? The perniciousness of sexist language is

Surely I am--and I did not not mischaracterize a thing you have
said.  To return to Natalie's bone buried in the yard--as far as
the linguistic analogy is concerned, if you don't know there is a
bone in the yard, there isn't one.

You talk of building blocks to translate your thoughts--it's the
same thing you said about being being a jumble of icons that
symbolize who you are.  You don't translate your thoughts with
building blocks.  The building blocks *are* your thoughts.  Your
thoughts are either sexist or they aren't irrespective of the
blocks you use.  The blocks cannot be inherently sexist--they
cannot be inherently anything.  Cf. if a white person uses the
word nigger it is racist and perjorative; if a black person uses
it, it may be a sign of affection.

Go surf for a while and think about it.  (I wish I could.)

-Mka
who has had about as much of this thread as she can take--but
will still take all comers in the interest of entertainment--
and who should be writing an article on the exclusionary rule and
unclean hands.
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:35:03 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Geekazoids

>ps- what happened to "Words-L - Where The Weak Are Killed & Eaten"?  Are
>we getting mellow?  (Mka hopes so...)

Naaah.

-Mka
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:40:27 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: TshirtII, Cubbies, zero
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              WILLIAMS" at Aug 21, 92 3:10 pm

	How about:  "Words-l:  Stop me before I post again."
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Date:         Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:19:27 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIQR13
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> Thanks to you, sis.  If you had been there, you could have kissed
> me on the cheek like everyone else did.  Except my tc.
> --ggs

I would have been more likely to have hugged your tc and given her my
heartfelt condolences.
Doris
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:46:15 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: alumni associations
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Posted on 20 Aug 1992 at 06:45:46 by Joan Boorstein
> alumni several times over they still wanted ~$1K/year to use their libraries
> (not check anything out, mind you) and this was the figure about 20 years

Ha! Yale was only $30/month 4 years ago....it's the gym they wanted mega
bucks to use.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:09:48 CDT
From:         Absolut Bandwidth <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: animals
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>comes up periodically) and everyone claims to be one.  Buncha wannabees.

I bow to your superior geekiness, O Rashmi.

-abh
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Giggles' News
Date: 16 Aug 92 03:52:06 GMT
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>Actually, I think he is afraid to tell his wife that he is going to
>make NM cookies for the words-lers because she gets a what-kind-of-
>bunch-is-this look on her face whenever he mentions anything remotely
>related to <clams>.....
>--ggs (making cookies in the dark....)
Just as long as you're not tossing your cookies in the dark after drinking 
much Corona and eating too many <cookies>.  That midwestern bug might be
one of those that can travel via Bit/Internet....

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 16:26:06 CDT
From:         Raving Misanthrope <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject: RE: Little Aaron Tyler
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>--ggs (who would still play with dolls if he could get away with it)

Giggles,

1). you are still playing with the dolls right here on words-l

2). obvious joke deleted

3). obvious play on words deleted

4). obvious incendiary remark deleted

5). obvious self-referential compare-and-contrast comment deleted

Warmly, caringly, and sensitively yours,
-abh