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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:03:53 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Sim Bush
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	Is now available for the mac.  I'll mail it to anyone who
wants a laugh.

Rita
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:56:48 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Frotteurism
              1 Sep 1992 06:08:39 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:08:39 CDT Natalie Maynor said:
>An e-mail friend in Pennsylvania sent me something from a newspaper
>there telling of a dentist who is asking for $5,000 a month in disability
>pay since he suffers from frotteurism, a sexual illness which compels
>males to touch the private parts of females, and thus can't continue
>working.

This is one of those "all in the mind" things.  I have been "frotted"
inumerable times when crammed into the subway at rush hour.  Now it seems
that the crime comes not with the frotting but with the enjoyment of it.
If I close my eyes and think about how disgusting it is being stuffed
in with all these other people, then I am fine.  If I think pleasant
thoughts about the person I am involuntarily rubbing against, it is
sex-thought-crime all of a sudden.

Now where do we sign up for these disability payments ?  I don't think
I can continue to do consulting or programming suffering this way.

Tony H.
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Note to Bernard
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:44:05
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In-reply-to: Tony Harminc's message of Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:12:46 EDT

Tony writes:

   On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:23:40 LCL Anne Haycock said:

   >//anne, "mr. knickerbocker, knickerbocker, number 9..."//

   That is mentioned in Deborah Tannen's book _You Just Don't Understand_.
   One researcher (female) described the girls' game as "monotonous".
   Why was it fun, indeed ?  We boys may never know...

If you think about it, I think it comes down to socialization.  Boys are
told to go out and play and given the freedom to do so.  Girls are given
"organized" things to do--tea parties, dolls, ring-around-the-rosy,
organized games.  I'm not saying this holds true all the time for every
body, but if you look at it this way, you can better see how the "monotony"
label was ascribed.  For myself, I enjoyed climbing trees, playing in
culverts, playing w/my matchbox cars, playing in the new houses under
construction; when it came to Girl Scouts or school, I played four-square,
thetherball, kickball, jacks, on the swings/bars/etc, and whatever games
were "organized" by the adults (or the "popular" kids).

//anne, whose family never told her she couldn't do something because she
was a girl//
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Rabbit-the-cat
Date: 2 Sep 1992 19:39:11 GMT
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In a previous article, "Don Moore  974-4078 S/C 574-4078" (813) says:

>I just saw that cat ....and he (she) did not look too friendly...
	You wouldn't either if you had to sit still for a photograph, when
all you wanted to do was go chase something small and furry.  Like a Muffy
maybe......  Max would think a Muffy was a snack on four feet....
>
>Note from Don:  I told Muffy that no mail from here is going anywhere, but
>                he called me and asked if OK to get cat picture.  So I said
>                OK.  Think the cat frightened him....Muffy's quite docile.
	The cat's probably bigger than Muffy is! <evil grin>  It's a good
thing most cats don't like dog meat...


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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:33:58 CDT
From:         MAYNOR%MSSTATE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      P.S. re Renewal

It just occurred to me that my last note might have sounded as if I thought
that lurkers should be purged from the list.  Not true!  Lurkers are welcome.
All they have to do is send the 'confirm' command to stay on the list.  The
ghosts I was talking about are people who don't even realize they're still
on the list -- people who subscribed ages ago, set nomail, and then forgot.
They are the real deadwood.  (The 'confirm' command is explained in the
messages these people received this morning.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:24:38 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Family values
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1992 09:54:00 EDT, ktw@hlwpk.att.com wrote:
> Bayla, you're being evenhanded, but you're missing one thing, I think:
> the question of who has REAL power in society?  Not the power to
Female primary-school teachers.

> "shape young minds," "spread ideas," but the power to put you in jail,
Oh, sorry.  You meant 'the guy with the biggest gang'...

G
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:12:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)
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> 17) Di-yuh (Gilbert)
.
I believe I said that I was just going to "di-yuh", which is
Southern English for "die"....  Southerners tend to turn every
monosyllabic word into two or more syllables.  I once knew a
Southerner who made the name "Sam" into 4 syllables:
"huh-sa-yum-uh"...
.
> 18) WHTMITL (Gilbert)
.
In the context of the authentic alternative history of the
Swedish novelist Agnes, I mentioned my disappointment that no one
seemed interested, after I spent so much time in the library
researching the topic.   WHTMITL:  What Happened To Me In The
Library (never materialized because the wordslers didn't deserve
the whole story after their disappointing behavior.).... 'scuse
me, make that     behavior).
.
--ggs
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:34:05 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tushar Was Online!
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> :-) finger tushar@zaphod.uchicago.edu
> [zaphod.uchicago.edu]
> Login name: tushar                      In real life: Tushar Samant
> Directory: /db/tushar                   Shell: /dev/null
> Never logged in.
  (1)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> New mail received Sun Aug 23 10:16:30 1992;
>   unread since Sun Aug 23 02:49:13 1992
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> No Plan.
(2)~~~~~~~~~~~

This is a good time for me to ask a question that has puzzled me ever
since I first logged in (on?) to Tenet.  What do (1) and (2) above mean?
Obviously (1) doesn't mean what is *says* because we know Tushar *has* on
at least one occasion logged in.  Item (2) simply makes no sense to me at all.
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:53:21 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Jenna's poem

I wondered myself why she is not posting the poem. Please do.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 09:54:18 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Ausbrook's lawschool
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              26 Aug 92 22:01:13 -0400. <9208270203.AA19873@sics.se>

  Tony says:

  >Hmmm... - this is in reference to the Japs comment ?  I was thinking about
  >that and how it seems to me that Jap has lost most or all of its offensive
  >nature over the years.  It sounds about as offensive to me now as Brit does.

  It appears that North American and Japanese sensibilities are out of
synch here, judging by an exchange on "Jap" in soc.culture.japan. To
some Japanese at least, the term is still highly offensive. So people
who use the word should at least be aware of this.
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: Gleanings (57)
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 04:23:39 GMT


In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>On Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:24:53 GMT Doretta Hanschka said:
>>Who Molly Ivins is I haven't the foggiest.
>   Oh, Ruth....get the to the library....or the bookstore....
>she's only one of the funniest and smartest women around....
>even if she IS from TX
Do I hear an dig aimed at the list oinker here?  

>>Actually, it's one of the tunnels that lead *into* New York, specifically
>>into Manhattan.  I've been through it once or twice.<ick>
>   Gee, is that sposed to mean it is one way....and it doesn't also
>lead *out* of new yourk?
>   And at least half of it is IN new yourk.....
Nope - there is no way out of New York!  It's the black hole of the east
coast!
>
>   another favorite that he does....is "ain't gonna piss in no jar"
>with the great line....."aint gonna piss in no paper cup, less'n nancy
>reagan's gonna drink it up....."
I'd forgotten that one.:-)  It's getting a bit dated, but still good.
>
>   Also, its SKID ROPER without the extra S.
That's what I get for working from memory....

>
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:47:45 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ill-mannered people
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              24 Aug 1992 23:30:14 EDT from <rashmi@CBIS.ECE.DREXEL.EDU>

On Mon, 24 Aug 1992 23:30:14 EDT Rashmi Murthy said:
>Patience, dear Mgarber; we're also waiting for the truth (bated breath
>and all).  Didn't you read his post saying he needed more time to write
>up his adventures.

Methinks MGarber doesn't READ anything.....but just posts oneline replies
to ALL messages....

dan
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Note to Bernard
Date: 31 Aug 92 08:52:38
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In-reply-to: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU's message of Sat, 29 Aug 1992 21:26:04 GMT

macphil pens:

   as in (?)

   flea.
   flea fly.
   flea fly flow.
   vista.
   cumalada cumalada cumalada vista.

   shibaraku desu ne.


Which I know from camp as:

Flea.
Flea fly.  
Flea fly flew.  
Mosquito!  
cumalada cumalada cumalada vista. 
<echo: cumalada cumalada cumalada vista.> 
Oh no-no, no not the vista.  
<echo: oh no-no, no not the vista> 
Eeny meeny jipsaleeny oo-walla walla meeny.  
<echo: eeny meeny jipsaleeny oo-walla walla meeny.> 
Itchy itchy scratchy scratchy--oo I got one on my back-y
<echo: itchy itchy scratchy scratchy oo I got on my backy)
Kill the big bad bug with the big bad spray...
<echo: kill the big bad bug with the big bad spray>
PSSHHT!


Funny how one can remember things long (and perhaps better left) buried...

//anne//
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:58:53 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: List wars
              25 Aug 1992 23:53:55 EDT from <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>

The only computer-joke punchline I know I learned from Evan Schrier
this May in Seattle (at the Blue Moon Saloon):

     "At least he's not a COBOL programmer."

--brad (I forget the rest of the joke.)
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From: ak743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Doretta Hanschka)
Subject: Re: San Diego
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 03:51:41 GMT


In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>and little kids.  Her reason was:  "I don't like Mondays."
>>When the song came out, there was a lot of to-do on the local rock
>>radio station.  Then ended up deciding to not play the song.
>>
>   Ok.....but the BEST of the genre isn't that one, but Julie Brown's
>"Homecoming Queen's got a gun...."
>
>(yeah, the WHITE JB, the one who also falls in love with an alien, etc.)

And "Likes Them Big and Stupid" - "in love 'til we're through then he's out
in the hall"<grin>  I always liked Julie Brown.

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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:46:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Love Potion Number 9, with PBA sunblock

(This post probably won't make it any farther than the one this morning, but...)
Says here, written 1958, words and music by Leiber and Stoller, first recorded
same year by the clovers, remade in 1965 by the Searchers.

[Damn.  Make that 'c' uppercase, one of you editors, wouldja?]

John "Ecclesiastes 12:12" W.
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 3 Sep 1992 04:07:11 GMT
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In a previous article, N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU (Gilbert Smith) says:

>thanks, rita, but how does one "bring it in as text"?????  How
>do you get from the e-mail to the "other part" (non-net) of the
>pc?   You can tell I don't know anything about this.

Bring it in as text?  Get the thing onto the same drive as your WP, ahem,
software, and just tell WP to convert the file from ASCII to WP-format.
It's in the utility commands some place.  

		Ruth
who's done it a million times

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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 10:19:11 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Notes from all over
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              1, 92 10:40 pm

> 1). U2 have finally fulfilled the promise the made us in _Boy_, in
> _Achtung Baby_. Bono rocks like a young god walking the planet, and Edge
> is playing some angelic riffs.

	OK, that's the CD for the day! (I hate trying to choose.)

> 2). I humbly decline the nomination to angelic status. I am feeling
> positively wretched tonight and have been <sitting on my hands> to keep
> from taking net.revenge on a <offender>. OINK.

	Who Who??? Oh, do it, please.  It's been so loooooong since
you really let someone have it.



> 3). "So let it be written, do let it be done." "Make it so."

	Highways in Cyberspace!


> 4). Toad the Wet Sproket is the nicest surprise I've had in 2 months.

	That must have something to do with the Junior League..


> 5). John WTMFW, I don't know what the hell you are talking about, and I
> agree with you totally.

	That's frightening.


> 6). Dan, yes, yes, and yes. And no.

	Absolutely.

> 7). Ausbrook is not Tushar. I have proof. Tushar's funnier, but Ausbrook
> is cooler because he deliberately serves to my backhand.

	Fascinating.


> 8). BRING ON MENOPAUSE.

	Amen Sistah.


Cz.
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From: maya@carina.unm.edu ()
Subject: Re: Love Potion Number Nine, with PBA sunblock
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 16:19:54 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

>   Neener-neener, neener!!!  
>
>A words-quest: is this a Colorado/Arizona thing?  I actually thought
>"neener-neener, neener!" was a Haycock fambly thing...John, are we related?
>I've always wanted an older brother...(unless you're younger than me, then
>I guess a younger brother would be ok).

	What an odd world this is, in unexpected ways.  Growing up in
El Lay, we too said "Neener-neener, neener", with a specific tonality
(is that the right word?), something like European police sirens.  I
would love for //anne// to be my older sister, but I already have one
named anne.  I would love for John to be my older brother, but I 
already have one named John.

	Hmmm.   

>//anne, whose mom once tried to get us to make up a dictionary of all our
>"unique" family words//

-maya
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Rhubarb Pie
Date: 4 Sep 1992 20:47:25 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>btw- how many licks does it get to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie
>>Pop?
>Or a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Mom?
	I wouldn't know about those....

>In either case it depends on the angle, moistness, and firmness of the
>tongue doing the licking.....
In other words, Bernard would get to the center more quickly than, say, 
a dried-up old librarian? <crunch>  Thought so.:)

>dan the tongue
well, it sure gets plenty of exercise [care to comment, Gail?]

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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:57:25 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Where is Ruth Who is She?
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On Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:22:41 -0500, "Doris Smith" <dorisann@TENET.EDU> wrote:
> puzzles me is that all of the -by now close to 100 I'm sure - messages
> that have been burped back to me were messages posted to Words-L, not to
> you personally.  That being the case, I *still* don't understand what is
> happening.

It's the old usenet thang... replies to ruth *don't* go to words-l but
go as replies to her instead.  As mine do.  Sometimes.

G
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:28:51 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: One Student's Opinion
              28 Aug 1992 16:54:07 EDT from <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

On Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:54:07 EDT Judith E. Schrier said:
>You forgot to add that you *also* had to walk barefoot
>uphill through 10 miles of waist-deep snow to get *home*
>from school...
>
>judith, who *loved* analytic geometry :-)

So did M. C. Escher.

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:34:56 CDT
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Subject:      Re: I am not afraid of words-l!
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>	You are so, rich rhubarb, you yummy stalk, you.

Richh: just look on it as a dungeon where everybody is smarter than you.

Then we'll get along fine.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:44:07 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Law of Supply and Demand
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>Well, after reading Judith's and Anne's replies to this topic, I got to
>thinking that I might show them to Heidi.  Then my better sense took over.
>Derisive laughter does not become her very well, so I give her few
>opportunities to practice it.

Of course she laughs...she has the supply all to herself!

judith
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:11:10 EDT
From:         EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU
Subject:      Re: Rhubarb Pie
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Posted on 3 Sep 1992 at 20:57:12 by Rita Marie Rouvalis
>        I need a good recipe.  Anyone got one?  Anyone know
>what it tastes like?  Giggles or one of his sistahs must.

Strawberries. Rhubarb. A ton of sugar.  I don't think it's
good for Nico.  You can make stewed or boiled rhubarb too,
but it's pretty well inedible w/out sugar.  I can check my
healthy books, but those are the only ways I've had it.

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:04:36 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Law of Supply and Demand

Good Morning,

The area of South Florida that was in Andrew's path is, understandably, in
dire need of almost everything.  Much of this need is being met by people
of the Tampa Bay area.  There are many heart-warming stories of people
donating goods, use of trucks, and their time.  But an item in this
mornings news was, to me, very upsetting.  One of the great needs of that
devestated area is for framing lumber, and particularly 2x4 sheets of
plywood.  Much of those lumber supplies are coming from Tampa.  The item
that upset me:  the price of lumber has greatly esculated ...the cost of
a 2x4 plywood sheet, for example, was $9 before Andrew - now it is $16!
The Law of Greed seems to pervail in some people's hearts.  The modern
day carpetbaggers are with us.  But there is another saying that I have
an excellent example of: What goes around, comes around!  (My example is
of a relatively new neighborhood filing station, that during the "gas
crises" of 1979, was requiring all customers to buy a $3 "car wash" in
order to purchase gas.  After the "crisis" people remembered.  The place
went out of business in less than 3 months due to lack of customers.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:08:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: You are NEVER safe
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>>So, has anyone heard from Professor Sjostrom since he departed this
>>vale of tears?  Via Bitnet or otherwise?
>
>I got a rash of care packages from him last week, which he said he was going to
>send me just before he left. They were ultraballisticonservative magazines.

Soldier of Fortune for starts, I'll warrant, and stuff that makes
the National Review look like the house organ of the CPUSA :-).

Ken
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>	Did it?  Didn't crash any of our machines.


eeeeennnnt! thanks for playing the Clueless Game.

-abh
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