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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 13:56:22 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Identification etc
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 > I hate to tell you this Karen, but Americans stand out in a crowd
> no matter what race they came from.  I remember a plane flight once
> when I saw an asian-looking couple and I thought 'Texans!' before they
> even opened their mouths.
>
> Observations like these bring me to the conclusion that the 'typically
> American' features that we come to recognise over here are not
> genetic but culturally acquired. It's something about the mouth
> muscles that gives it away.  Must be from a lifetime of vacuous
> smiling and repeating 'hae a nice day'...
> G
> PS And the clothes don't help much either.  Checked shirts and cameras.

What...no big hats and boots?  What a surprise, since of course Texans all
dress routinely as if we had just come in off a hard day out on the range
punching cattle.
ndh
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: NEAT!
Date: 21 Dec 1992 04:40:56 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, ll23%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu (Karen Kay) says:

>>wheelchair of his.  I think he's moved in with his nurse.:-)  Frankly, I
>>don't blame his wife for getting a divorce; I just wonder how she put up with
>>him for as long as she did.....
>
>Why do you say that?  About putting up with him?  Other stuff I've read said
>he did move in with his nurse--and his wife married...his best friend or his
>doctor or lawyer or something tawdry like that.
>
From all accounts, Steve Hawking can be a real pain in the butt when he
feels like it.  From the brain stem up, he's actually a pretty normal
guy.  Hence the nurse.:-)  I don't know what his wife's up to, but the
nurse is/was/ married to the man who designed the speeck synthesizer/
computer thingie on Hawking's chair.  I got to the end of the book tonight.:)

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		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:00:31 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Words-L Trivial Pursuit
              12 Dec 1992 16:14:00 EST from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

>                                         All these if-I-could-just-
>break-a-bit-of-wind-my-ego-wouldnt-be-so-<inflated> persons.
>--ggs  <n567126@ncsuadm.bitnet>

     Damn!  So *that's* my problem.

* Alt-Brad *
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Camillemania
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:12:22 GMT

ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:

>Does this mean that you have FINALLY stopped making assumptions about people
>you don't know well enough to?

>Karen

It's nice to know that even though we live in such impersonal times, there
are still pots willing to take the time to call kettles black.

--Aaron
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Burke again
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:20:57 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>   >Burke?  Got a first name on that?
>  His name is James Lee Burke.

That looks familiar; I think I've read one or two of his books.  Not bad.
Not fantastic, but not bad.  Sara Paretsky's better, and Sue Grafton better
yet.

>  >rough translation, coward, or someone who's bold, but only if no one bigger
>  >and nastier is watching.
>  Here, apparently, your Yankee handicap is showing...

Well, I did warn you....:-)  I was just going by what I've seen of racoons.
They're bold little suckers, but only if something bigger and badder isn't
watching.  Or a territorial domestic shorthair....a female cat will take out
a racoon if it comes after her kittens, or just invades her space....

>   >["These kinds of guys don't come up the middle."]
>   >Untrustworthy - they don't know how to be direct about anything.  sneaky.
>
>  JAG, who also explained this, agrees regarding the derivation, but it's
>clear from the context that the intended meaning is not that these people are
>untrustworthy (they are known to be scum), but that they don't take
>unnecessary risks.
>
Hmmm - well, like I said, I was guessing.  And without more context...
Oh well.:-/  They had to be scum, really - real men go for the full body
crunch, and of course the alley-oop.:-)
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 14:48:25 EST
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Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?

Ruth M. Hanschka
> Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?


Silly.  Deranged.  Mentally Unstable.  Warped.  Crude.  American
Psychos (is there an 'e' in that) (at least some of us, anyway).
Sweet Texan Grandmotherly teachers.  People who sit all day at the
computer with nothing better to do than send out tripe.  Hmm, I think
that's everyone....

--The Internation Society of Ill-Feeling (comprised of LH and Ken)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Missing in action?
Date: 12 Dec 1992 22:47:22 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Has anyone heard from Don Moore lately?  Something he said privately
recently has me wondering if something unpleasant is up in the Pasco
Jungles, or else maybe in Tampa.  
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		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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From: maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject: Re: UGA
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:35:44 GMT

bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer) writes:
>Or they're worried that a lack of a/c would crash the iron?  Is oogacooga
>edyou run on mainframes or other hot-running machines?  

The listserv is on an IBM mainframe.  I think it has drowned in the cold
water.
--
   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Neologisms
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:51:12
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In-reply-to: Doris Smith's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:17:42 -0600

Our Educators unite:

   On Mon, 14 Dec 1992, Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815) wrote:

   > I take off points for misusing "there" "their" and "they're."  I'll
   > probably get ripped for it on at least one course evaluation.  If
   > the comments are suitably semiliterate, I may even post them for the
   > amusement and amazement of the list.  I'm also considering adding
   > "affect" and "effect" to the penalty point list.
   >
   So do I.  I also take off points for misusing "its" and "it's."
   Do any of your students write "were" for "where"?

   doris

I can't imagine *not* docking a student for these!  How else do you learn
that your usage is incorrect and your spelling abominable?  Bad enough
speaking in the subjunctive is nearly extinct, but to allow people to
believe "riting how it souns" is acceptable is doing them a disservice.  We
had the thread a while back of people's subconscious prejudices regarding
grammar/usage; and I do believe that it can be an obstacle in people's
careers--perhaps not if the person reviewing you writes poorly as well and
doesn't know the difference, but, overall I think it is.  

//anne, still making mistakes, but "its" a learning experience//;)
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 00:13:23 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Burke again
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              15 Dec 92 22:32:18 +0000. <9212152310.AA22331@sics.se>

  Ruth asks:

   >Burke?  Got a first name on that?

  His name is James Lee Burke.

  >[coonass:]
  >rough translation, coward, or someone who's bold, but only if no one bigger
  >and nastier is watching.

  Here, apparently, your Yankee handicap is showing...

   >["These kinds of guys don't come up the middle."]
   >Untrustworthy - they don't know how to be direct about anything.  sneaky.

  JAG, who also explained this, agrees regarding the derivation, but it's
clear from the context that the intended meaning is not that these people are
untrustworthy (they are known to be scum), but that they don't take
unnecessary risks.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:34:52 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Strange Year
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In addition to the torrential December rains, other oddities of this year
include not a single berry on my holly bushes and not a single pecan on
my pecan trees.  How am I gonna toast pecans without any pecans?  I refuse
to *buy* pecans -- they don't taste the same when they're not from my own
trees.  And how is the holly on my mantel gonna be red and green when
the holly bushes are solid green this year?  At least maybe I can find
some climbable trees with clumps of real mistletoe.  Yes, I know that it's
poisonous.  Yes, I make sure that Bernard doesn't taste it.  He wouldn't
anyway.  He carefully sniffs anything before eating it.  And he doesn't
eat poisonous plants or strange beasties.  Speaking of poisonous plants,
I found out not long ago that it's a myth that poinsettias are poisonous.
They're not.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:18:48 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts
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              17 Dec 1992 22:13:29 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

>Me too  - great [or at least OK] minds think alike....
>--
>                ###     Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###

Thank you, Ruth.

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:38:21 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Chilled-water @ UGA
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When UGA goes down tonight at 2100 hrs, I will have no access to Words-L.
Will the entire list be down because the UGA node is out?

brad
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:51:29 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: value of a BWP

>I may not be of that opinion now, but that is not to say that I didn't concur
>with those who were advocating that label for you when it was being discussed
>previously - I didn't view that gif until a few weeks ago and your appointment
>of List Hunk predated that by many months.

Rather Graham-like sense of time. Carolyn, I must ask you how long a month
is according to you.


>>Yes Carolyn, now that you mention it, I have fully woken up to the fact!
>
>The fact that you were 'bad' and being punished for it or the fact that I
>just wasn't talking to you for some 'unknown', 'perverse' reasonn?

I have forgotten what the fact was, but it sure sounded different when you
mentioned it last. Sending home and stuff. What is 'bad' by the way?


>>I apologise unconditionally.
>
>I will accept your apology only if it is truly heartfelt.

But I have problems with the definition of heartfelt. How do you mean?


>>I prostrate myself before your feet.
>
>Get off the floor! That's not necessary and will gain you no points..... to
>a mother that indicates that you have no consideration for the person who
>washes your clothes.

Here you show rather blatant ethnocentrism. My mother would certainly not
think of it as a lack of consideration for the person who washes my clothes,
and she didn't even have a washing machine till a year ago. Shocking! Has
there perhaps been a certain dumb-headedness on your part from the beginning,
Carolyn, that lead to your inexplicable flying off on tantrums?


>>I weep unabashedly.
>
>Crying is good for the soul.

Ah, but for the SOUL! Now that's another concept I have big problems with.


>>Will you ever forgive me, Carolyn?
>
>Possibly, but not yet..... I need more evidence that you are truly full of
>remorse for your sins against me.....                        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Then post an act of contrition and I'll type it 50 times. I have forgotten it
but I remember it had words like these. Big words for trivial things.


tushar
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Top ten lists
Date: 19 Dec 1992 06:56:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Good stuff and bad stuff...bad stuff and good stuff...
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck stuff....
How many happenings total enough stuff,
A letterman list of fun and rough stuff?

[Now we need one more line,
and the Burma Shave sign.... ]

Let's see
Best things - getting access again,slamming clams, and informative e-oopses

Worst things - losing access [most likely], Salmonbake locations [that I 
probably can't get to], and flamewar-starting e-oopses.  Ahh yes - let us not
forget the Family Feud, and our lovely little war recently over Macs, PCs, and
idiot operating systems that make old manual typewriters sound better by the
minute....

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Subject: Re: UGA
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:54:17 GMT

In article <maynor.724274618@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) says:
: What is a chilled water system, btw?  Do IBM mainframes have cold water
: running through their innards?  Maybe the water got too cold and froze
: the listserv.  I would say it's time for UGA to be back up.  It still is
: not answering to 'ping', alas. 

IBM pig iron is water cooled.  Yes, the cold water runs through their
innards.  Quite an impressive amount of it actuallys.  Its one of the
many things that make the beasts so expensive to run.

I guess I'll have to dig up Bill Joy's quote about ancient dinosaurs
with bodily fluids being pumped from a semi trailer.  He was talking
about an IBM at a UNIX conference.
--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:39:00 EST
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Subject:      UUCP Mail
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UUCP request att!D.atte5d02d2 to mhwpa!D.atte5d02d2
failed on system 'mhwpa'.
Reason for failure:
        remote system can't create temp file
        remote file system is low on free space
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From:         CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: alt.swedish.chef.blender.dork.dork.dork

Greetings,

That's odd!  Graham says Torkel's postings have always been in English!
All this time I've been reading them in Hausa!

Marty
From: ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
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Subject: Re: NEAT!
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:28:59 GMT
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Posted on 20 Dec 1992 at 01:56:35 by Ruth M. Hanschka
>ps - has anyone in here read the new White/Gribbin bio on Stephen Hawking?

Do they talk about his divorce?  I still haven't heard anything beyond
the fact.

Karen
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: UKy / U of L
Date: 13 Dec 1992 05:55:47 GMT
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In a previous article, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:

>Did I say it was a tight game?  Seven and a half minutes to go
>and UKy leads 78-54.
> 
Well, it *was* a tight game.  Now it could be a walkover....  Kind of
reminds me of the local weather lately.  All these dire predictions about
how much snow Connecticut was supposed to get, and the central 10 miles
of the state gets slush and 5", max.  Some big snowfall, and an even
closer game.:-)

>
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: OS/2, Mice & Icons's
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>My supervisor has three '486 computers networked together with a
>total of almost 2GB of hard disk space.
                 ***
>
>He prefers to multitask by using multiple processors.
>
>--karsten

You nearly got me making a semantic association error with that one. 2GB is
one of our radio stations...... I've not heard anyone talking in gigabytes
here. :-)

Carolyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: JMW
Date: 12 Dec 1992 06:09:26 GMT
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In a previous article, R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn) says:

>John,
>  Can you get a group of disgruntled E-mail users together and go to your
>postmaster's boss?
>
Carrying picket signs made of stapled-together punch cards, no doubt.:-)

>P.S.  Take 5 deep breaths and fix a cup of Sleepytime Tea.
>
Nahhhhhhh - Bengal Spice or Stash Licorice tea, if you're into licorice....
Inhale a few deep breaths of the steam from the tea, then take a group of
irate users and verbally pound the crap out of the postmaster.  Or better 
yet, go over his pointy little head to his/her/its superior.  
-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Chilled-water @ UGA [Plus Chocolate Wafer Crumbs]
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:02:20 GMT
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In a previous article, R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Evelyn Duncan) says:

>Whatever happened to Veg-O-Matics and the little onion-chopping jars?
>They're great for taking one's anger out on the veggies instead of the
>actual target (who just may arrest you).
>
I have the second one of those - the chopping jar.  I never use it for onions,
though; it's too much of a pain.  I also have a rather funky nut grinding
jar - put the nuts in the top, put the lid on, crank the sucker, and voila -
finely chopped nuts.[or sinclairs, I suppose, if someone were stupid enough
to stick on in the grinder....]  Another favorite device is a meat grinder,
also human-powered.  There are some cookie recipes here from my grandmother
with ingredients that have to be ground, and electric devices just don't
do it correctly. 

but for taking out one's agressions, I still think a big cutting board and
a good knife are the best way to go.<evil grin>  Either that, or a sword
and a watermelon target....
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		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:24:18 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Test from Usenet reader
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>   Hi, this is Brad, just testing from bit.listserv.words-l.  I
>   wanted ("I was thinking...") to see how long it takes this msg
>   to get to the list.

And hi again, Brad.  This is a reply being sent as mail to the listserv --
initiated at least a minute later than the reply I sent via nn's F command.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell)
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Subject: 2 toasts
Date: 16 Dec 92 14:17:20 GMT
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Raise a glass with me to Stanley Kubrick, the greatest director alive.

And here's to the Vexatious Sex [you know who you are], without whom I
wouldn't have purchased a fax/data modem last night. Me, who doesn't own a
computer.

-abh
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From: maynor@walt.tmc.edu (Bernard Chien Perro)
Subject: <sigh> 
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:07:43 GMT

Supposedly UGA was to be up and running again by 8 a.m. <sigh>
 -- Bernardykins
--
  -- Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:08:15 EST
From:         jc-s <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Burke again
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET>
>
>Torkel,
>  I can help you with four-o'clocks:  a four o'clock bush has bell-shaped
>flowers that open up at roughly 4 P.M.  The colors are usually of the
>pinkish-violet variety (the ones we had in Mogadore were magenta).  It is
>best to pull the blossoms off the stem when the blossoms wilt; then the
>bush will produce more flowers.  If you don't, a seed will form.
>
>Evelyn

is it me, or does anyone else find this vaguely pornographic?

blushingly,

jenna
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:08:12 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: End of year Retrospective
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> How about if we each post our 10-(best? worst? greatest? you name it) list
> and see what stands out in people's minds.

A Quick Ten Off The Top Of My Head:
(order of events on each list is chronological)

Five Best List Events:

-- distribution of list t-shirts
   (Some people received theirs in Dec. '91, but mine arrived in
    Jan. '92)
-- list gathering in Seattle
-- THE CLAMBAKE
-- Anne D. names baby after list dog
-- first list couple to go public, e-oops or not: K&K

Five Worst List Events:

-- Aaronology nastiness
-- ProjectH paranoia
-- VMI clutter
-- public responses to negative categories in giggles's game
-- departure of The List Honey

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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