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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:04:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv

: Yes.  Generalization alert:  Students of today seem more boring than we
: were.  The exceptions to my generalization are the student participants
: on this list, of course.  :-)

Selection bias alert!  Professors-to-be probably hung out with other
intellectual wannabes (and possibly with their pre-law and pre-med
analogues) and may therefore have a view of their own cohort of
college students ... now that they're professors, they have to deal
with the entire population of students.

I've always had to be careful ... far too many of the students at
the institutions I've worked at remind me of the middling students
from my high school.  Never mind the changing fashion; they still
have the same propensity to look for the easiest way through, and the
same conformity.  Maybe that's why I don't buy into these
generational conflict arguments that keep surfacing.

Steve Karlson

The cheesehead stands alone.
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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        You are, of course, welcome to your suspicions. I haven't particularly
        concerned myself one way or another with how people react to my opinions
        or explanations, with perhaps some exceptions.

That *is* the mark of the true proselytic Zealot after all.

As I said, "Ram it down people's throats"...

G
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Sweatin' it out
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> Was this an 'evap'[orative] cooler', aka a "swamp cooler", or something else?
> They still sell them around here, as the RH is under 55% for 50 weeks of the
> year and they are *infinitely* cheaper to run than AC...

Yes, I think I've heard them called "evaporative coolers."

> John, who can't believe he didn't have AC in his vehicles until 3 years ago.

Do you remember the old car air-conditioners that were shaped like a
butane/propane tank (only much smaller) and were mounted at the top and
outside of a car window?
doris
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:03:44 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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> Black-eyed peas and French bread were on the menu here.

That's ok as far as the luck.  Cornbread is optional as a luck food.  Only
the black-eyed peas are required.  But does French bread really taste right
with black-eyed peas?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who was going to say more about food combinations, but the wee
     beast has started barking wildly, announcing that it's time for
     a walk...
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Subject:      Re: Claudia Schiffer calendar
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I thought Claudia Schiffer was French, but who knows, maybe she's real big in
Australia ... hence the holidays from Down Under.

--Anjani
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              29 Dec 92 10:52:57 -0500. <9212291554.AA16149@sics.se>

  >My choice for favorite candy in boxes is chocolate-covered cherries.

  I'll keep it in mind.
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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: Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians

: In a previous article, "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 " (815) says:

: >: Nethead squared (or is that cubed.. ?)
: >
: >Squared.  Everybody knows it's AMERICA^3.
: >
: Can't be - I've never been square[d].  Or Cubed, for that matter.
: I have been logged, though, both in and out.:-)

How about square-rooted?

G
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Emily's History Question
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>> "Who discovered the iron ore deposits in Western Australia's Hammersley
 Ranges
>> and then made millions out of mining them?"
>
>
>I have absolutely *no* idea - but I'll say Alan Bond, because he's the only
>Australian millionaire I can think of. If by some miracle that's correct, I'll
>take Art/Literature.
>
>> Carolyn
>
>Emily

Good guess, but unfortunately it was Lang Hancock... he died last year. I
thought you might have read something about the haggle there is going on over
his estate between his daughter by his first marriage; his second-wife; and
his step-daughter.

Carolyn
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 13:14:03 +0100
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Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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   >I indicated that such judgements should,
   >IMHO, be presented with respect.

  Yes, because Hitler's convictions reached to the most fundamentally
human elements in him. The connection between this doctrine and Scripture
is far from obvious. However, I will leave this for Christians to decide
among themselves.
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:03:37 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
              <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: This ere t-shirt
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              Harwell" at Jan 2, 93 3:55 pm

From the screen of 'Anne Burton Harwell'...
> > But the term "beached whale" came to mind...
> And you, my dear, make a very cute beached minnow...

Gee - someone else who thinks I am thin...


fiz.
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:08:06 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: NY
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Thanks, Natalie and Bernard.  That was the first message I received after
setting mail a few minutes back.
One of the first events of the year for me was to have 2 glasses of champagne
spilt all over the back of my dress (someone knocked over the waitress's arm).
The band was great, though, and made up for such minor inconveniences.

Happy 1993,
-rashmi
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 12:51:36 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and food
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But abh:  HAVE YOU FOUND BLACK-EYED PEAS YET??

That reminds me.  I didn't realize until very recently that the term
"English peas" is regional.  Why are English peas called English (in the
U.S. South)?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: X or 13? You decide! (was Re: Now for something..)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 03:12:36 GMT

gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:

>In article <BzMt2D.G1@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
>:January 19, 1970 here.  According to everything I've read, that puts me
>:both in Generation X and the Thirteenth Generation.  In any event, I
>:identify with both.

>What I don't understand is how come they skipped 11 and 12?

Reaganomics?

--Aaron

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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:36:46 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Say Something To Jeffrey
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Thanks, Karen!  I hear Jeffrey in there right now telling his father (my
brother) that somebody who teaches Japanese in Missouri just told him hi.
They're both impressed with e-mail now.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:19:33 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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        >:I seriously doubt that fanatics are moved by deeply held beliefs.
        >:The very notion of DEPTH is inimical to the BLINDNESS that is
        >:characteristic of fanaticism.
        >
        >Nonsense.  Go tell that to Torquemada.
        >
        >G
        >(Hey, I bet you didn't expect that, huh?)
        >
        Actually, nothing you say could surprise me much anymore.  The "yipe!"
        reflex has been burned out.:-)  But, how much do you know about that dud
e,
        anyway?  Just curious - I don't know much of anything except that he was
        a prize arsehole on a power trip.

You're really missing your cues Ci... I mean, Ruth: you're supposed to
say "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

G
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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re: X or 13? You decide! (was Re: Now for something..)
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:03:43 GMT

In article <BzMt2D.G1@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
:January 19, 1970 here.  According to everything I've read, that puts me
:both in Generation X and the Thirteenth Generation.  In any event, I
:identify with both.

What I don't understand is how come they skipped 11 and 12?

G
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:53:07 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
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>    I wonder if its origin might be sociological -- hog jowl and black-eyes
>    being within the reach of all households, however humble.  Just
>    wondering.

I do think that its affordability is a factor, but that still doesn't
explain the origin.  Why not chitlins and turnip greens, for example?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date: 3 Jan 93 19:30:00 GMT
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Everyone will be very relieved to learn that I have *finally*
mastered CSHOW and am now looking at everyone through the
gif-viewer, and am shocked, delighted, amused, and exhilirated.
But, a question for you hackers out there:  I accidentally ftpeed
a .gif without the binary indication and now I can't get it again
without erasing the one that's there.  How to do it?  Is there
some kind of delete command?  I keep getting a note about using
the (REPLACE command, but I have tried every format I can think
of and nothing works.
-abh in front of the airplane is a real *trip*!
And who is this *roman*?
The system instructs me to use format:
    get foreignfile <local file> <(REPLACE
but nothing seems to work.  So if I want to ftp, for example,
   stupid.gif, a second time because the one I got wont work,
what command do I issue?  The first time, on my system, this
is the format that works:
   get stupid.gif stupid.gif
Somebody tell me, please, because there is someone I want to
<eyeball>.....
--ggs (having made a resolution to become in 1993 once again the
       loquacious poster that I once was....)
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Nerve of steel
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:33:12 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92122122471041@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU> writes:

>It probably means that that person simply isn't <well-connected>.  I,
>personally, am right proud to be on the list, even though various
>acts of God have prevented my maintaining the BWP status that I once
>enjoyed.  The controller went down again, as you all may have guessed.
>It now has a new <power> supply, thanks to Mr. IBM with the bad breath.
>So I am, once again, back.

	After such a run of bad network connections, I'd be
considering paying for an accout at CONCERT if I wuz you.




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Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      The Annual Christmas Letter

I absolutely loved today's Cathy in the comics .... I am a recipient of a
yearly missive extolling the marvelous achievements of a family of super-
achievers.  This family lives several states away, I rarely see them, no
contact at all for a year, but they mail out reams of stuff each year
about how great each of their lives and adult children's lives are.  Some
of it true, some greatly exaggerated, and all negative stuff unmentioned
(understandably, I guess, but would like to see something more honest).
So, I would like to (but won't) respond with a fictitious letter, containing
some of the following ideas:

   a.  Well Suzie's pregnant again... we had hoped she would finish high
       school ...but her school has a good program for unwed teenage
       mothers.  At least this time the father is not a married man ...
       and least she thinks so.

   b.  Well Raymond is finally out of the house (phew).  He lost his fifth
       job in 4 years .... really wasn't his fault ...the brakes on the
       company truck wern't that good ... and besides the building he
       hit needed a lot of work anyway.  Well, don't expect he will be
       back home soon (I believed his story about the great deal he got
       on that batch of VCR's - new, in package, only $20 a piece!)
       anyway, as I said he probably won't be back soon as I doubt he
       will earn time off for good behavior.

   c.  And Uncle Frank ...he dodged a bullet again ..literally.  Seems
       the woman's husband came home unexpectedly and fired at Frank as
       he made a hasty exit out the back door.  Unfortunately, in his
       haste to escape in the dark, he tripped over something and broke
       a leg.  But no problem!  We still had the crutches left over when
       my old man broke his own leg the night he was so drunk that he fell
       in the sewer companies new purification pools ...boy, was that ever
       a stinking mess!

Well, folks, I would love to continue this, but got to get to work.

                            Peace,
                                  Don
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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              22 Dec 1992 01:10:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

Didn't Eddie Matthews play for the Milwaukee Braves?

--brad
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (73)
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              Dec 21, 92 5:16 pm

> Dewa, yoi otoshi wo omukae kudasai.
>                 M A Y     T H E    N E W   Y E A R    B E
>         A    P E A C E F U L    A N D    P R O S P E R O U S   O N E
>                             F O R   Y O U

Thanks, Akio.  Wish you the same!!

>  2) Employment Authorization Card (Rashmi)

What it says - it's issued by the INS and permits the holder to work legally
in the country. I just looked at mine, it contains a picture and, surprise,
fingerprints as well!!

-rashmi
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:55:45 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      The Twelve Bugs of Christmas

This starts:

For the first bug of Christmas, my manager said to me
   See if they can do it again.

And ends:

For the twelfth bug of Christmas, my manager said to me
   Tell them it's a feature
   Say it's not supported
   Change the documentation
   Blame it on the hardware
   Find a way around it
   Say they need an upgrade
   Reinstall the software
   Ask for a dump  (Aaaasssk fooorrr a duuuuump!)
   Run  with the debugger
   Try to reproduce it
   Ask them how they did it and
   See if they can do it again.

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:41:34 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: e-oops

>> 1) So what do you make of Carolyn's explanation?
>>    Answer honestly.
>
>I love this: coming from soneone who 24 hours ago was boasting of having a
>life.

What has this got to do with life? Answer the bloody question.

tushar
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In a previous article, gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>:much higher than anything else at Busch Gardens and was wondering what
>:it could be ....oh, it's the new roller-coaster!  Wow....did I really
>:tell Steve I would give a report on this thing?  Maybe I will come to
>:my senses before it opens ....this thing is HIGH!
>
>I don't understand the point of these stories.  Nobody has died yet.
>Does somebody fall off the crane in the next episode?
>
Grahammie-pie, Humpty-Dumpty was PUSHED!  Somebody wanted scrambled eggs
for breakfast, and the coaster was handy.  You know ivory-tower egg-heads too -
pretty naive in the ways of the world.  

And a fine Bahh Humbug to you too.

-- 
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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: New Gif!
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> From: Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
>
> You can now see Peter Montgomery in living color.  Another sexy, bearded
> WORDS-Ler.  Ftp to ftp.msstate.edu or isis.msstate.edu or ra.msstate.edu,
> cd to docs/words-l/Gifs, specify binary, and get peter.gif.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Blush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pm
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>Question of momentum.  What is that North Carolina shade of blue called,
>by the way?

        Try 'Carolina blue.'  At least, that's what a Tarheel would tell you.

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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      It came!
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Gib,
 The book was in the mailbox when we returned from Austin today.  I have
thumbed through it and it looks interesting.  Smells interesting, too. :-)
So does the poster/wrapping paper.  My Christmas is now complete.  Thanks.

 Now, what is the <story>?

doris smith
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Orleans
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> On Tue, 29 Dec 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:
> > whole month of March is bad for her.  Any other suggestions?  I could
> > get there just about any weekend.  It's about a five-hour drive from here.
>
> Yeah, move it to SF to coincide with CFP3 the second week of March, and then
> you'd have absolutely no trouble getting a wealth of Wordslers together.
> -abh

Very possibly true.  I think New Orleans would be a wonderful place to get
together...what about early April?  Or late February?  I love New Orleans,
and think it would be a wonderful location.  And, of course, I am
influenced only partly by the fact that it is within driving distance and
my price range. :-)
ndh (who hopes someday to get to a Words-L gathering)
ndh (
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: New Year's Good Luck Foods
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:35:36 GMT

In article <Pine.3.03.9301021813.C19315-8100000@abernathy.tenet.edu> Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU> writes:

>Please Rita. You're losing your grip on the distinction between IRC and RL.

	OK.  You'll appreciate this.  I had a crisis moment in
Filene's department store this afternoon.  I had just bought my
wedding dress and was walking towards the elevators when my wedding
became "Reality" in a sudden flash (maybe it was the price of the
dress..).  My knees gave out, and my girlfriend grabbed me and asked
me what was the matter.  I told her, "I want my virtual life back."

	We then proceeded to shoe shop like possessed fiends.  I've
never bought 3 pairs of shoes on the same day in my entire life.  Good
thing this is all going to be over soon.


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