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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:50:47 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids

>Greetings,  Bekka,
>
>Stay!  At last a newbie who already understands the crucial lesson to be
>learned at the altar of Words-l: all our messages are "just random
>thought patterns late at night."  It has taken Tushar years to come to
>the same understanding.

I beg to contest this ridiculous statement. I was aware of this elementary
fact on Feb 6, 1991. I trust no reasonable person will demand I be aware of
it earlier than that.

I have been giving a lot of undeserved attention to this particular stand
of Marty's, though. It seems surprising to me that Marty does not appreciate
the wholly different personalities of Ruth and Bekka. If Marty doesn't
understand the seriousness of this accusation, I ask him to substitute the
hip word "persona" for personality.

Elsewhere, someone seemed to see parallels with Marilyn, which surprises me
too. All in all, a sigh of relief in honour of the fact that Lisa has not
got mentioned.

tushar
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> The figures are for four hundred and fifty-eight days, darn it.
>
> Jeez.
>
Tushar, did I ever tell you that I switched from math to English?
doris
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Gawd, Evelyn, I don't know anymore.  I think I've had just about as much sex,
politics, and religion I can bear for  one week.  I'm going to log off, go
into the you-call-this-LIVING room, and listen to Barenaked Ladies until the
corners of my mouth turn up...  You kids have fun.  Play nice.

JMW
        "MY BRAIN HURTS!"       - Mister E. T. Gumby
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
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              19 Nov 1992 20:52:44 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:52:44 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>as a replacement for the old one.  In other words, instead of screwing
>around with the big file in ftp space, I could simply cat all the little
>files into a new big file and toss out the old one.

So why not download the whole thing (or ftp it in your environment), process
it with a REAL program like WP5.1, save it ascii, and pipe it back up to
ra.?


dan
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>>I didn't say this. Wrong prediction, friend.
>>
>   So much for tushie being able to predict every response i make....
>so much for his omniscience and omnipotence....

Dan, your responses fascinate me strangely. They jolt me out of my
complacency and force me to reexamine the very axioms on which I
base all my logic. When I find there is nothing wrong with them, I
am, yet again, comforted. It's a fulfilling experience.

tushar
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Subject: Re: Southern Culture on the Skids

Greetings,

ggs, choose your weapon, you eater of broken meats!

Tushar, hold that door, I follow anon.

Each of us has his limits.

Marty
From: CCOCHRAN@uga.cc.uga.edu (Charles Cochran)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 04:32:00 GMT
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              15 Nov 1992 22:25:06 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

>Tushiebaby, did you predict THIS reply?  This newbie is hereby christened
>List Fresh Meat.....as the first one to actually read enough before
>jumping into the fray to name him/herself Fresh Meat.....
>
>Welcome, Meat.....
>
>dan in potatoland, which goes just fine with meat....

Nicknames are fun, but I think not. In fact, I reject any suggestions
by any dan associated with potatoes. (Note the "e".)
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tercets For Triplets
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On Mon, 23 Nov 1992, Rashmi wrote:

> now this.  I guess interested parties will have to attend the next Words-L
> gathering that Tushar attends, and find out the truth for themselves.

There *is* a .gif of him with Steve K. and Bill S. in the archive.

-abh
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From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: emulaser
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>Judith, kindly make no more unbearably smart-alec remarks.
>
>tushar

Moi?

judith, sulking...
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Another Contest
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> > 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.
> > -----Susan Harwood
 Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)------------
>
> I wish *I* had a daughter who would come to my defense as eloquently
> as this.   But I *know* that nan is a SNL junkie and has spent years
> going to great lengths hiding this information from her daughter.

Well, after all, Gilbert, she *is* your niece!

Actually, I'm an _Andy Griffith_ junkie, although Susan has introduced me
to a couple of more recent shows that I like--_Star Trek_ and
_thirtysomething_.
ndh
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Jeeves Unmasked. Finally. Maybe.
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              14 Nov 1992 18:42:59 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Sat, 14 Nov 1992 18:42:59 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>It's quite obvious that Jeeves is none other than Professor Moriarty,
>ghost-writing for Bertie Wooster, applying his plotting brain to

Ah, tushiebaby......who gives a fuck.....?

dan
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Date: 18 Nov 92 11:28:20 GMT
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RICO is a law, not a 'decision' -- acronym for Racketeering Influenced 
and Corrupt Organizations [Act].  It was duly passed by Congress, and has
been used against various sorts of organized crime which didn't seem 
"touchable" in other ways.  At the time of its passage, there was 
quite a bit of fuss about it being too vague in its wording: I haven't
been watching, but there was probably a judicial test of its consti-
tutionality -- that may have been what G was thinking of, when he 
called it a decision.

It *is* a pretty rough law, and it makes me nervous.  

--bayla
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
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        gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL          44
        Graham Toal                    186
        gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK             115
        gtoal@IBMPCUG.CO.UK             25
        gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.C...       38
        toal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK        9
                                    _______
                                       417

Oink oink!!!
G
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: Pray for him, one and all...  Can *YOU* imagine going this long
: without WORDS-L???

When it's not sailing season?  Oooof, the pain!, the pain!

Steve Karlson

Hard water season is coming!
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids
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        I'm not volunteering anything Ruth.  I suspect after perusing a few of y
our
        posts, Bekka will soon see that she is possessed of uncommon cogency.

My first thought on seeing bekka's classic post was 'This must be
Marilyn's sister!' :-)

G
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From:         Charles Cochran <CCOCHRAN@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids
              17 Nov 1992 06:53:19 -0500 from <rsast11+@PITT.EDU>

Goodness, I love this e-place. I could sit and talk all day about the
alleged disintegration of southern culture, and about other topics which
are being raised here.

Unfortunately, I do not seem able to come to grips with the sheer volume
of material generated here. My schedule as a full-time newspaperman and
part-time graduate student does not permit it. And I don't see how all
you other folks do it.

So, though I like it here, I find it necessary to unsubscribe. Adieu. I
have enjoyed my brief exchanges with one or two of you. Anybody who
wishes -- or even feels the least bit inclined to do so -- should feel
welcome to send me private mail at ccochran@uga.bitnet. I would be
pleased to receive, and respond to, <any> correspondence.

Have fun, friends. Perhaps I'll resubscribe when there are a few more
hours in my day (or when I learn to manage the hours I have more
effectively).

Charles Cochran ccochran@uga.bitnet
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Date:         Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:03:05 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: One simple (?!) question
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              at Nov 16, 92 6:53 am

> > Natalie--croning is linking to cessation of menstruation, not birthdays.
>
> It's linked to 50th birthday in some places.  Maybe those croners are in
> error.  I don't know.  All I know is that croning takes place on 50th
> bdays in Huntsville, AL.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

This croning ceremony appears to be more widespread than I thought.  Wonder if
Hallmark makes "Welcome to crone-dom" cards.   Does Paglia have anything to
say on this, Anne?

rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:15:00 EST
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Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids
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Greetings, Ruth,

Many of us on the list owe you a great deal of gratitude for making it
abundantly clear that most, if not all, communication is indeed random.
I suspect Tushar is one of the chief beneficiaries of your example.

I'm not volunteering anything Ruth.  I suspect after perusing a few of your
posts, Bekka will soon see that she is possessed of uncommon cogency.

Marty
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Subject: Re: November 22
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Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 20:22:50 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92112213533021@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM writes:
>> In article <WORDS-L%92112208131358@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM writes:
>> >Twenty-nine years.
>>
>> How long have you been psychic, Ken?
>>
>> G
>
>Missing the allusions, today, old man?

Missing the jokes, Ken?

G (Tushar will explain it for you...  Jeez, to think I've been
waiting *years* for someone to set me up with that line :-(  )
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Subject:      Re: Southern Culture on the Skids
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              17 Nov 1992 06:53:19 -0500 from <rsast11+@PITT.EDU>

On Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:53:19 -0500 Rebecca S Altes said:
>   By the way, about Uncle Bonsai, I heard them when Dick Cerri (D.C.
>   folk community radio personage, since they took Lee Michael Dempsey
>   off the air) was going through his extremely nouveau stage, they were
>   too strange for me,give me Tom Paxton, Kate Wolf, or Buskin & Batteau
>   instead and I'll subside.

 Gee, Bekka must not be a Real Woman.....how could a Real Woman NOT like
songs like "Boys Want Sex in the Morning" with lines like "boys want
sex in the morning, sex without warning...." when she/they want to
sleep and don't thave their eyes open or makeup on....

dan
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Subject:      Re: what? no report yet?
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:Just imagine my mother.

:-abh

Must I?

G
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_Mastergate_:  a hilarious parody of the Iran-Contra hearings; written
by Larry Gelbart (of M*A*S*H).  I was wondering if anyone received my
message about it:  I had asked the list if anyone knew if the script had
been published (I'd like to get a copy of it), but no one answered. :(

Evelyn
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992, James R Llewellyn wrote:

> on. If there is anything pertaining to the following topics, please feel
> free to send them to me personally.

Get real! Do we look like your secretaries!

-abh
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Subject:      Pidian

Greetings,

I missed most of the Pidgin thread (alas, wimp that I am, I've deleted
several thousand messages unread in the last few weeks).  I just wanted to
observe that there is a major discussion of pidgin in the E.B. s.v.
Languages of the World.

Marty
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 10:26:00 EST <ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM> said:
>
>I've heard about Tim Johnson.  He is famous at Brown and almost as
>famous in List circles.  What is the line of Hotspur's from _1 Henry
>IV_: "I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair." That's what I've heard
>about him.

Yep, that's Tim!
>
>Ken

Evelyn
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>(2-1 the tushie says he predicted every friggin syllable of this....including
>the gratuitous translation of fuckin to friggin....)

I didn't say this. Wrong prediction, friend.

tushar
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gee, i think we need a new archive on specimen collecing.

if you haven't already done so, can you please create one, Bernard?

And while you're at it, can you provide one of your own?

dan
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From:         Joan Boorstein <boorstein%umbsky.dnet@NS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Wackawacka
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From a signature on another list ---

        < O_O >
       ==( . )==
   Prrrouwf, Wackawacka

Joan
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> Good grief man, it's self-explanatory!
>
> Person A answers "All my life"
> Person B asks "How long have you been psychic?"
>
> It's the sort of joke two friends randomly come up with in front of a third
> person to bemuse them.  Has to be spontaneous.  Ken's set-up line was perfect.
> I guess you have to be there.
>
> G

Oh, yeah.  I get it!  So, this means that person B asks a question
and Person A *knew* what the question was going to be before person
B asked it...  Yeah, I get it!  That is *really* funny!  Really.
Of course, Person B should really ask "How long have you been
<psychic>?"  That makes it even *more* funny.  Right, sk?
--ggs
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Date: 16 Nov 1992 07:35:39 GMT
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In a previous article, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU (Tushar Samant) says:

>>
>>Try again, Tushie; that was Ken quoting Groucho Marx..  Or it was
>>someone quoting Groucho; it's one of the few quotes clean enough and short
>>enough to post....
>
>Perfectly true! Ruth, I committed a grave error when I awarded someone
>else the context-free languages prize. How could I have forgotten you?
>
Beats me, Tushie darling.  How many years have you been in academia?
That tends to rot out long term memory rather quickly.  Of course, only
you would think of the above as context-free.:-)  

>
-- 
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Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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> Oh please. Besides, the point was to highlight Clinton's waffling behavior
> that we have come to know and love. They say a people deserves the leaders
> it chooses for itself.
>
> -abh
.
At that infamous Gore rally the day before the election at 8 a.m.
two Republicans in Uncle Sam hats had a booth set up selling
Clinton waffles with syrup.  Even though I objected to the stunt
because of its implications, I thought it was a hilarious
idea.  I did *not*, however, dine on waffles, because the Gore
people were giving away ham biscuits inside the Civic Center.
Typical....  the Republicans were *selling* their stuff, the
Democrats, giving them away in the most Populist manner
possible.
--ggs (expecting the Democrats to *give* me lots of stuff
in the years to come....)
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Who was at the party...
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>Leah brought some tuna pate and red wine; Blommie (who tells
>me his name is pronounced "Bloomberg"...Neal, is this true?)

        Yes, absolutely true.  When settling on his nom de pixel, he tried
        several alternate spellings; I reminded him of the <correct> one.

>brought white wine; Ann Mandi brought a killer cheesecake,
>with homemade jam to put over it; Frank brought chips and

        Ann, you never told me about <these> talents...  What kind of jam?

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              16 Nov 1992 20:54:52 EST from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:54:52 EST <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU> said:
>   Dan, this is a most dignified response.  Some of us have been
>   taking bets all day on how you would handle this.  I am happy
>   to say that I put my money on your better nature.  Thanks,

Thank you.  The above is undoubtedly in contrast to tushies "predictions"
with his dowsing rod or whatever he uses....or is it tarot cards, tush?

dan
From: gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Jeeves -- the answer
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:07:43 GMT
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:10:00 EST, "Blue eyes cryin' in the rain"
 <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU> wrote:
>         requires genes.  That parent must have been his mother.  Bertie is the
>         product of a dalliance between a high-born lady and a man not of her
>         station.  The man is Jeeves.  Jeeves is Bertie Wooster's father.

It is admittedly a *looooong* time since I read these (maybe 20 years) but
wasn't there *some* indication of their relative ages?  I didn't think
Jeeve's could be nearly old enough?

G
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