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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (62)
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>> 	What does that 99 and 44 one-hundredths *really* signify?

>> 	Clue:  it has nothing to do with purity.

>	But has something to do with air, no?

In a sense.  I'm not all that familiar with the manufacturing process, but I
suspect that you are correct.

We haven't received any mail from the outside world in about 4 hours, so I
don't know whether anyone else has responded to the question.

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                    "You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
                                          -- Larry Andersen, relief pitcher
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 26 Sep 92 05:02:25 GMT
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In a previous article, harwood@TENET.EDU (Nancy Harwood) says:

>> >     As for ex-yankees, I am not sure such truly exist.  I guess I
>> >should give these poor wretches the benefit of the doubt, as they are
>> >not totally responsible for this terrible birth defect.
>> Hey!  We're not the ones who talk like we have a speech impediment!
>>
>> <feeling very provocative and donning asbestos longjohns>
>> Ruth
>
>Speech impediment, darlin'?  Us?

Not all of you, honey, just the ones who have the stars and bars tattooed
on their tongues!  Some of them Rebs just never have gotten the idea that
the South *lost*, and learned how to talk straight.  Not that us Yanks can
talk right either - some of those Boston accents are enough to make a 
Brooklynite cringe.  Brooklynites are a separate species from Northerners,
of course.

btw - quite a few messages have been showing up both on the list and in my
mailbox.  This is quite odd.:-)  It's probably caused by the Wheaties 1.0
mailer we're using.....
[now there's a gleaning for you, Akio!]

-- 
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:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:47:19 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Some notes on forging mail
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> DAILY. If I mention albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu, will you be surprised, Natalie?

I don't know albert.  But I've used gnu.ai.mit.edu.

> If you see a message from dent.uchicago.edu with no name, you can be sure
> it is me. If you see a message from ra or ts1 it hardly stays anonymous.
> Especially if it has an ascii dog in it somewhere.

Ah, but you won't see any reference to ra (or gnu.ai.mit.edu) if it's
list mail.  The listserv hides the evidence.

> to certainities. I know all about "mconnect", of course, but the truth is
> that I looked up the man page on it yesterday. I still don't know exactly

Maybe I should look up the man page on "mconnect" since nobody has told
me what it is yet.  Whatever it is, I don't use it (or at least am not
aware of it) when I fake mail.

> goonsquad.spies ... probably a bbs. To my horror the mystery poster called

Bernard and I used to have accounts on doomsday.spies.com -- or was it
spies.doomsday.com?  I can't remember now.

> Natalie waits for confirmation from him. Wow. Well, I am content to let the
> lad protest a bit more. This is fun, after all.

True.  And nobody has guessed correctly yet, IMHO.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Speeding

Got to agree with abh ...my fast driving days are all in the past.  Fortunately
I survived several incidents which could have easily killed me ..and in one
case 3 others ...but no one ever go hurt by my fast speeds ...I was very
lucky.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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Subject:      Golden Words For Tomorrow
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Golden Words For Tomorrow
.
_What's this?  Are you saying there's something wrong with
being PARANOID?  Is this some type of underhanded comment at
me?_
  ----abh, in the post "Re: What kind of dossier is that stuff
      going into?", on July 30, 1992, before the military
      invasion.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:39:18 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Survey

It was extremely interesting, and I'll have to look it over after my
test today and after I finish reading the convention stories on the
Vampyres list.

Evelyn Duncan

P.S.  I don't drive a car; I use public transportation.
From: gtoal@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Graham Toal)
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Date: 3 Oct 92 11:44:27 GMT
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In article <9210030045.AA15643@dent.uchicago.edu> tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
>I am snobbish enough to believe that decieving people by faking addresses

Why do men spell so badly?

G
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Greetings,

Oh, I see why you folks got so defensive about these VMIsters: you
thought just because of me they were going to conclude you were *all*
losers!

Still, so much for the thesis that words-l kills and eats the weak.

Marty
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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject: Re: Sunrise, sunset...
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Say, Carolyn, I've always wanted to ask but never found anyone suitable:
how the hell can anyone lurk this list for months and months and never
actually post anything?  (OK, I know, you finally did, but I have
genuine trouble understanding this.)

G
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 01:20:00 CDT
From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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Subject:      Naive? But the odds are pretty good.....

    >(All right, all right...it's naive to believe that most people
    >are basically good, but I can't help it. I'd rather get
    >disappointed over and over again than stop believing that.  So
    >sue me.)

Guess most people *are* basically good. Just that, in the aggregate, if
one-in-100 is a dolt, and we run into a thousand people, ten dolts
hits critical mass and makes stuff a pain. On the other hand, 99-1 is
pretty good odds anywhere.

Jim (be naive but carry an uzi) Thomas
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:15:42 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: re: Tushar's Test
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> >Well I don't think NITEMAN was funny.
> Frankly, even I thought it was a bit off.

Niteman was for real.  I had a telephone conversation with the person
in charge of their system.  (He called me to discuss mechanical behavior,
not human behavior.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Border Grill lowdown
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:43:05 GMT
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Karsten laments:
>
>At least until I got back to my car and found a $15 ticket for an
>expired parking meter even though my meter still had time on it.
>

I was more fortunate: I had just driven up, and was standing by the
meter about to put in my money when I saw the cop start to write out
the ticket... this the same officer I'd just asked "where should I 
park so as to line up with Delta's arriving flights?" ... He seemed
startled by my  protest, but put away his pad and went in search of 
another victim.

--bayla 



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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 23:30:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Shivvering in DeKalb???

:>It's just past October, and it starts to get cold in northern
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

: Uh, it was 81 degrees in downtown DeKalb today, Steve.

True enough, Jim; and I took advantage of what may be this season's
last opportunity to wear my AMERICA**3 team shorts today.  But
your statement does not vitiate mine:  Consider the sequence <1/n>.
Although at early realizations of the sequence, you are a long way
from zero, just as in the early days of October, you may be a long
way from zero, as the sequence progresses you get closer to zero, and
those temperatures will get closer to zero as October progresses.  So
a newbie roast may still be in order.

Words-lers will please note that I made practical use of my math
talents today verifying scores at a golf tournament.  I was unable
to find any trick to lower Northern's scores enough for them to win;
they tied for second.

And, if any words-lers are so inclined, I challenge them to produce
a formal proof of a claim I alluded to in an earlier post: that
lower tax rates reduce tax cheating.  (Marty, if you're reading this,
next time you propose I use "misguided analysis" I may respond with
some real analysis.  Cardinalities away!

Steve Karlson

Is the lifted tack modelable as a chaotic phenomenon?
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:46:00 CDT
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: 747

Steph, keep us advised about that crash.  The early reports in the
US are that it was truly awful, because the plane was unable to
dump its fuel before crashing, which contributed to the rapid spread
of the fire.

Steve Karlson

Not the best end to an otherwise nice day
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 08:05:00 EDT
From:         ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: surplus cadets
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>VMIers.  Just think how you would feel if your chosen career, selected,
>say 4 or 5 years ago, had suddenly collapsed.  I mean, what happens to
>recent graduates of military school in the post-cold-war world?  They
>probably wind up taking low-paying jobs as mercenary advisors in third
>world countries.

Sob.  Sniffle.  Maybe I should apologize to them, too....  I thought
they came here seeking a war they could not find elsewhere.  Hey guys,
don't fuck with middle-aged quasi-intellectuals: you're waaaaay outta
your league around here.

>Under the circumstances, the arrival of class rings is an occasion for,
>at best, adulterated celebration.

Particularly if one of the people they celebrate with is married and
fantastically drunk at the time.

>Why, their prospects are just as bad as those of culturally elite
>intellectuals under another Bush/Quayle administration!

We have to find them a war to fight, preferably in a place not linked
to the Internet....

	Bosnia/Herzagovina
	Freedonia
	Saipan, where they can flush out the last Japanese soldier from
		WW2, who is still hiding in a cave....
	The University of Virginia football team

Ken, who hasn't dissed a military man since 1968, and isn't really
	dissing a man now, either.
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Date:         Sun, 4 Oct 1992 18:43:00 EDT
From:         FRANZ&GEORGE <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Golden Words For Today
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> Always check attribution, friend. This could land you in big
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> trouble. Also finger venkates@frankel.hep.upenn.edu before
^^^^^^^^^^^
> saying anything. Do this fingering without any Graham quotes
> prejudicing you.
>
> tushar

Mr. -ggs has also asked that we remind Mr. Samant that he (Mr. -ggs)
is under the impression that he is already in "big trouble", unless,
of course, he is dreadfully mistaken.
Yours,
F&G
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From:         harwell@BANDW.PANAM.EDU
Subject:      Re: abh's oops
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>But notice the simple signature.  No X's and O's.  No sweet nothings.
>I'm disappointed.

Dear Natalie,

Thank you for your sweet message of support. I remain

Yours,
-abh
XxOo
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:33:00 PDT
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Interesting Word

> > P.S. I am looking forward to meeting Karen, Karsten and Marilyn Garber this
> > Friday for dinner at the Border Grill in Santa Monica - any wordslers in the
> > LA area are welcome to join us!!
>
>  And the rest of us will be expecting a full report!
>
> Rita

Of course! And I'm bringing my camera.

Emily
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 10:57:25 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: New dictionary
              23 Sep 1992 23:51:18 -0400 from <RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU>

Rod polls the readership:

>I wonder how many of us on Words-l already own this new dictionary?
>I noticed that while _designated hitter_ is in, _designated driver_ isn't.
>E-mail is in, with a capital e (_see electronic mail_).

I owned a copy of AHD3 for a couple of weeks, breaking it in, so to
speak, before giving it to a friend for a wedding present.  I will
probably buy my own copy next time I'm out to Pace Membership Warehouse
($25 or so there, I'm told).

Publication of a new edition of a major dictionary is an exciting
event.  A snapshot of the living language, but very different techniques
applied in different publishers' darkrooms, and that's the fascination.
WTNID in 1961: I experienced the brouhaha over it only retrospectively.
AHD1 in 1969: somewhat overshadowed by the Apollo program.  Random
House 2nd in 1987: a bold challenge to Merriam-Webster's unabridged
empire.  The Second Edition of the OED in 1989: promises of revolutionary
electronic refinements to accompany the completion of a project lasting
more than a century.

I'm still waiting for my library's copy of The New OED on Compact Disc
to arrive so I can experience what consulting an electronic dictionary
is like.  I read that there is a 116,000-word American Heritage Electronic
Dictionary (3 MB storage) available, but I bet it's just a scaled-down
prequel to the printed AHD3.

To Don Thornton, belatedly:  AHD3 is your best bet for a post-divorce
home dictionary.  A stand to display it on would be a nice touch, for
it's too large to function as a desktop model.

Torkel's Webster on the NeXt:  what species is this?  The samples from
it he has reproduced here are tantalizing.  With the computerization of
lexicography, will "edition" lose its meaning as far as dictionaries go?
Perhaps we'll all get quarterly updates or -- more likely -- upgrade to
new versions, ordering them at deep discounts through the Computer Shopper.

One of the lexicons in this library's reference room is magisterially
entitled -12,000 Words-.  One of my favorites.  Published in 1986 by
Merriam-Webster as an inter-edition update to WTNID.  25 years of new
vocabulary in a single alphabet!

brad
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Sunrise, sunset...
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Steve,

>What's the deal?  In the States, residents of Lawn Guyland or of
>Chicago can watch it rise over water and set over land; residents of
>Muskegon, Michigan or San Diego can watch it rise over land and set
>over water, and in the summertime, residents of Cleveland can watch
>it rise over water and set over water.

No deal! Just an observation that 'internal compasses' are not reliable in
different environments and that it takes quite a while to adjust to the
new surroundings. One week over there was not long enough for me to adjust,
but that may have had more to do with having driven the 5,000 miles over
there and having passed through three timezones on the way, all in 5 days.
Jet-lag would have been preferable.

Carolyn
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From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Deconstructing the Feud
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	--Good grief!  Which way gets called "west"?  Anyhow, I usually figure
	direction by putting my right hand where the sun rises, which gets me
	standing on a mental compass with my nose pointing north; fo me, the
	sun traverses right to left as is.

At last!  Exactly!  that's just what doesn't work in NZ - you'll end
up facing the wrong way.

	Graham, are you "oriented" bass-ackwards from the rest of the world, or


Yes, but you knew that already :-)  btw, Chambers doesn't have any adverse
comment for 'orientate', which surprised me.

	am I?  Natalie, is this just another example of dialect differences
	between the British Isles and US?

Huh?  you mean 'right' means 'left' in the US? :-)

G
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:25:32 CDT
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject: Re: God contacted me.

Alec gets mail:

>>From: god@words-l

Now THIS one, for instance, is clearly from me.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:35:30 MED
From:         "(Graham Toal)" <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: explanation, please
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bayle, the differences in rn behaviour are probably because it adjusts
its display if it thinks you are on a slow dial-in line.  Probably
thinks the telnet connection is high-speed, even if it's just the
same modem...

There's some stuff buried in the middle of 'man rn' about it.

G
PS Sorry about the typo.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:52:44 EDT
From:         mgarber@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      RE: tushie baby.....
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I know this is the tedious request from a tedious tyro, but do tell
for the benefit of latecomers, the highly curious, and the yentes who
want totell others, who is valentine smith (real or not) and what is
val-l (real or not) and did he really get run off hist. and polisci.
And who is mamaprimate that so many miss, and is she the smae

as judith who escaped from listtorture and listtyranny.

Marilyn
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 06:06:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      aging
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>I thought Santa was Galmin.  Re birthdays -- here's one happy thought, Chris:
>You'll feel much better ten years from now.  I sank into despair over reaching
>30 but felt fine about 40.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Oh, good!...turning 30 didn't bother me at all (although I will
admit to thinking the "where is my life going?" thoughts), so
does that mean that turning 40 will be wonderful?  I do have a
few years to contemplate it (well, a couple more than a few...
more like 8 1/2 ;-)  ), so I'd like those contemplative moments
to be *more* than pleasant...fabulous would be nice!

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)

(I hope this makes it to the list.  I've sent a few since we
started having internet-link problems, and never received
receipts back, so I doubt if they made it.  My priceless
words lost to all posterity...how will you all survive?)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:35:21 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Vampires

On the VAMPYRES list, the members were asked "Would you like to be a
vampire?  If so, why; if not, why not?"  I'm asking the same questions
of the members of this list.  Heck, it's the time for surveys!

Evelyn
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 07:32:46 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: I was going to wait until Christmas, but . . .
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> >> Type EXT TT at mail prompt to view this animation. i.e. MAIL>ext tt <CR> .
>
> >Ur, uh, don't you think you need to specify which system this works on?
> >My guess is VAX.
>
> Not on this VAX system.  But my response would be that it depends on the
> terminal type, not the operating system.  I'd also guess that you'd have

My guess of VAX was based on what he said about a mail prompt that looked
like "MAIL>".  The only time I remember having seen such a prompt was
when I was in somebody's VAX account (with that person's permission, I
might add).
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who is amazed at how wide awake 7 a.m. students seem in lab this
     morning after football partying last night...  maybe freshmen
     haven't caught on about partying yet...
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:33:16 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: WHTMINJ 2
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              92 9:48 pm

	Wow.  I had nearly the *same exact* problems with my college
loan.  The bank turned it over to a collection agency (never having
notified me that the loan was *due*, and misplacing the checks I had
written them to pay it off since I *knew* something was amiss).
I reported the bank to the state for being incompetant.  They must
have done this to a lot of folks, cuz the bad karma finally swung
around and smacked the <bastards>.  The Bank was held up on the
Friday when all the social security checks are cashed -- and the
robber got a clean getaway.  All's I can say is MY money will never
enrich that place's coffers, and I wish my family would just smarten
up and switch too.  So there.

Rita
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