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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
Date: 23 Dec 1992 20:30:13 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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In a previous article, gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) 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?
>
Nope - my hair roots are round, and my ethnic "roots" are too mixed up
to be considered square. I'm only square-rooted in your imagination.<nudge
nudge>

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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Flying in China
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Posted on 21 Dec 1992 at 15:26:53 by Karen Kay

>Scond, the writer (Don Cohn) makes the point that Chinese air traffic
>controllers speak English only to foreign airplanes; to Chinese
>airplanes, they speak Chinese.  He implies that this is abnormal
>("Foreign pilots find this disconcerting because only by listening to
>conversations between the tower and other pilots can they get an
>accurate picture of the location of other planes in the vicinity.") but
>doesn't say so explicitly.  Is English the lingua franca of air traffic
>control?

This was a hot topic in Canada a few years ago.  English is indeed the
lingua franca of aviation.  There was a move to allow small airports
in Quebec to use French for radio traffic.  The argument, not unreasonably,
was that it is unfair to require the pilot/owner of a small plane to
learn another language before s/he can even take lessons.  This was bitterly
opposed by pilots' unions and incidently by various anti French bigots
around the country, with the argument above.  A commission eventually
concluded that it would be safe to allow limited use of French at
certain smaller airports, with all sorts of restrictions.  I'm not
sure if it has actually been put into practice.

I find the safety argument unconvincing for two reasons: the level of
English I hear from foreign pilots on the aviation bands is often
quite basic.  Many times I have heard a pilot being given directions
by ATC, he repeats them back incorrectly, is corrected, sometimes
gets them wrong again, and so on.  Now combine this with, in a non
English speaking country, a similar level of proficiency among the
controllers, and...  I think I'd rather have them understand each other
than have everyone else understand what they should have just agreed on.

And then there is military flying - always conducted in the country's
own language, but - inevitably - sharing the air space with commercial
traffic.  No one seems to get upset at this.

Tony H.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:37:14 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Orleans
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> 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.

It doesn't have to be an either/or.  We can have gatherings in both SF and
NO.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Subject: Re: The Whole Nine Yards
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:18:12 GMT
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> Does anyone have a more logical (or documentable) explanation?

I think we discussed this a year or so ago, but I can't remember the
conclusions we reached -- if any.  Graham?  You're good at remembering
such things.  Or was it on another list?  I'm pretty sure that this is
another one of those expressions with no documentable explanation.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:45:15 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Odd
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According to the 'show' command the back files (a relatively small number)
have now cleared.  But there's still no list mail.  Wonder if they moved
some to tape and have lost the tape.  Where are you when we need you, Alt-
Brad?  Get over there to that machine and see whether it's eating our mail!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 10:11:59 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: this winter solstice moment
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          andy lester <alester@meltdown.chi.il.us>,
          Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
              25 Dec 1992 05:34:18 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

On Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:34:18 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>About the cards - you're welcome; it was a great excuse to go digging though
>the stacks.[a library-honed instinct that overwhelms me sometimes :-) ]

   yeah, thats a bitch, aint it....them library instincts.....

>>   interesting....i kinda like them....but am not crazy about them....but
>>today a package came from andy....my programmer son in chicago....and we
>
   well, i am NOW listening to one of the first cds i got....replacements
volume two....which arrived yesterday.....

>Hello Pork Pie Hat!<grin>

   god....thats worse than cyclops even....

>OH lust!  You lucky ..... and with one eye out of commission, you get to sit
>around and read it!:) [if you can hack it one-eyed, without frisbeeing the
>book....]

   well, actually i'm gonna try to catch up on email, as well as cleaning
the garage, doing some laundry, etc.....to say nothing of playing with
the HO trains....and watching the raiders kick some washington butt....
   I do LOVE my new cd player....

   a copy of this is going to andy....at alester@meltdown.chi.il.us

  if enough words-nuts send him a greeting to the internet world he might
even join us....he's run a fidonet bbs for three years or so....makes his
bucks as a codecranker for Follett Library Software....doing stuff with
cdrom library catalogs at the moment....
   when he got a big bonus for completing some megaproject, he went out and
spent a big chunk of it on a new Fender bass.....so he can crank out some
more tunes himself....
   well, he does LOOK like a normal geek.....


  and about 2300 yesterday while we were on phone....he left voice mail whil
i was on local bbs playing scrabble.....his message was 'call and tell me
about your loot'.....so i did.....

   anyhow, i told him about the msg to ruth and the rolling stone record
guide and what a cool babe she was and she was about his age (hes 11/5/67
for those who care)....and his question was "if she walks into a wall
does her nose hit first?" and I said "absolutely NOT".....and he asked if
Ruth wanted to move to chicago tomorrow......(meaning today).....and i said
he'd have to handle that part for himself....

  the rest is now up to andy and ruth.....

dan in potatoland, the porkpie cyclops....
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Hysteria
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:37:59 GMT

Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU> writes:

>all in the works.  Apparently, _Gore Gazette_, which would have continued the
>QQ tradition didn't quite make it.

Well, it would be rather hard mailing newsletters carved onto stone tablets...

--Aaron

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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:43:35 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: English peas
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           thanks brad....i knew a liberrytype would finally get these folks
        <straightened out>....

Trying to subvert the new Librarians list already, huh?

G
From: MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Michael E. Macmillan)
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Date: 21 Dec 92 21:35:00 GMT
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I will now add my echo to G's endorsement of wolfgang@rahul.net (also
wolfgang@netcom.com) as a speedy source of modems at a good price. The
guy must sit at his computer waiting for e-mail orders to come in. I
got very quick responses to my e-mail questions and same-day UPS COD
shipment on an external Digicom Scout Plus.  Arrived this morning and
looks solid (compared with, for example, the Zoom products).  Comes
with a 150-page manual, external power transformer, the usual
too-short-for-any-practical-purpose telephone cord, and copies of
Qmodem and Delrina's fax software for Windows and DOS (the so-called
lite versions).  Looking forward to trying it out tonight.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:42:54 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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> In your
> case, since your primary belief system is religious, you're not
> a mere fanatic but a full-blown zealot...

Thanks for the compliment.

*************************************************************
*  Peter Montgomery               Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca  *
*  Professor                                                *
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Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs

Greetings,

For good examples of "mockery" and "belittling" take a gander at some
Swift, some Volataire, or some Aristophanes.

Marty
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 4 Jan 1993 04:38:39 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU (Bernard Chien Perro) says:

>Hello?  Has the listserv suddenly died?
>                        o/.\____/
>         -- Bernard      \______|
>                         / \  / \
>
Sure looks like it.  It's 23:40, do you know where your posters are?
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:08:48 EST
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Operating Systems

* Alt-Brad *:
  Damn straight!  I wouldn't mind pop-up windows with Windows, but trying
to use them with a mainframe system is a bother (can't use my mouse).

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:28:45 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Follow-up to ALD's TP question
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> Toronto, NSW I trust ?

Oh, *that* Toronto.  Then Starkville is the Smiggin Holes and Columbus
the Cootamundra.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:31:04 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Job Corps
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

  What is the Job Corps?
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:49:26 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Question About Online Resources
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              3 Jan 1993 17:45:35 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:45:35 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>Is there an online source for ordering it?  Does anybody know whether it's
>available in one of CIS's bookstores?  Before I go wandering over to CIS
>and start wildly ordering things, I would like to know that what I'm looking
>for is there.

well, you contact oreilly at editors@ora.com

and I would be VERY surprised if the MSU bookstore didn't have it in stock
and even MORE surprised if the MSU library didn't have a copy or two...

it is ISBN 1-56592-025-2

It is the NEW edition, greatly updated and expanded of Krol's rFC 1118,
Hitchikers guide to the internet

cyclops
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:07:07 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Short Note (brag/?)
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

In keeping with the grisly thread, I guess I should report that two MSU
students were brutally murdered a couple of weeks before Christmas.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:13:55 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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>: I'm pleased to see that you, too, have the true Christmas spirit finally.
>
>*Finally*???!?!  You must be new here! :-)
>
>G

Well, it is only my second Christmas on the list.... but I thought you
started 'bah humbugging' a lot earlier last year. :-)

Carolyn
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:42:06 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Brad's Entertainment Question
              1 Jan 1993 13:38:26 +1000 from <LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU>

>> Damn!  Of course I should have known it!  Who played "Hot Lips" in
>> the 1970 movie?  (Don't look, now.)
>>
>> brad
>
>You've got me on that one.... well-known actress whose name escapes me but I've
>seen her in many movies.... if it's the one I'm thinking of, she's starred
>with Jack Nicholson in another movie that I can't think of the name of either.
>
>Carolyn

Sally Kellerman, an actress whose career never quite got off the ground
after that role.  Are you thinking of Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson in
-Chinatown-?

It's an interesting phenomenon to look back on the careers of film
stars who never quite made it.  An example that I think of is Dominique
Sanda, who was in Bertolucci's -Conformist-.  This was 1971 or so, and I
was entranced by her presence on the screen, kept looking for her to
break through (my moviegoing is admittedly erratic) in other roles; and
she never did.  Saw her a couple of years ago in some forgettable made-for-TV
movie, and it was heartbreaking.  Downright heartbreaking.  The film was
about the terrorist hijacking of a cruise ship -- Achille something or other.

brad
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:57:06 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Song (for Natalie)
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> hope this has been duly archived by now....
>
> and i hope natalies reply is also out there in ftp space by now....

not donne.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:47:26 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Did We Have Fun, Graham?
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        Shortly before I woke up this morning I was dreaming about Graham.  But
        I don't remember what we were doing.  Was it fun, Graham?
           --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I don't remember that bit - I just remember being slurped over by some
sort of mutt...

G
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: RE: On the shortage of lives on words-l
Date: 2 Jan 1993 06:23:00 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>On Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:50:17 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>>As for annoying, it's still not clear from her haphazard remarks whether
>>she is claiming she annoys me or me her. Who is the potter, Dan, and who
>>the pot?
>
>well, yes.....if tushiebaby is smoking too much pot.....THAT might explain
>it i suppose....
>
Pot?  Nahhh - this looks more like a bad LSD trip! [Tushie got on that
magic bus and never did get off....]

>the cyclops of newyears
>
The wheezing/hacking cyclops still?  Or are things clearing up for real?
Are the docs feeding you any interesting drugs?:-)  
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What's in a name?
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              "ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM" at Dec 22, 92 12:32 pm

I have a friend called Ashfaque, whose parents are from Bangladesh.
He says he had a really tough time in High School (here), the kids called
him Ass-fuck.

-rashmi
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 23 Dec 1992 05:27:48 GMT
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In a previous article, BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu (Brad Baxter) says:

>>Nope, not unless scarfing some Irish Coffee jelly beans counts!  Your wife
>If you get the chance, try chocolate covered espresso beans.  Mmmm<crunch>

I never have, but have heard the effects described.<*boiiiiiiiiing*>  [that
was me bouncing off of the ceiling]

>>Or Boxing the Watch, for those who know the phrase....
>I don't know the phrase.  I'm almost afraid to ask.  Almost.

You need to read a few novels set in Regency England, then.:-)  It's a sort
of "sport" that young men of so-called good family played.  It wasn't much
fun for the watchmen....
 
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From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Date: 1 Jan 93 21:45:52 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

In article <WORDS-L%92123121314047@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
>>Don't you remember MASH? We're having our tenth rerun of that series at the
>>moment on aus tv. Margaret Houlihan, the head nurse in that series was known
>>as 'Hot Lips'.
>
> Damn!  Of course I should have known it!  Who played "Hot Lips" in
> the 1970 movie?  (Don't look, now.)
>

The same one who taught Bud Cort flying lessons in Brewster McCloud.
Wonder if she's any relation to Harry (and why is he saying all those bad
things about me???) --

Jim (about to start on Cisco Pike trivia) Thomas
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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> And you don't even know if ABC stands for American Broadcasting Corp.
> or Australian Broadcasting Corp.  (or are they just Companies?)
>
> Evelyn

Right.  This is too depressing.  Almost as depressing as gt's
shit-ass response to my innocent little question about the .gif
enigma.....
--ggs
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  >Good morning.  I just wondered whether anybody else was around.

  Sure I'm around, me and my revolting translation. Listen, Bernard, you're
known as a dog about town and as a widely traveled canine. Do you
know what kind of place "Fairgrounds" in New Orleans is? Or, for that
matter, "Evangeline Downs"?
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 26 Dec 1992 22:51:29 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>On Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:34:18 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>>About the cards - you're welcome; it was a great excuse to go digging though
>>the stacks.[a library-honed instinct that overwhelms me sometimes :-) ]
>
>   yeah, thats a bitch, aint it....them library instincts.....
>
What's worse, I don't have the time or the $$$$s to go back for an MLS
so that I can train the suckers!  As it is, they kick in whenever they want 
to...like in places where I shouldn't be spending money....:-)

>   well, i am NOW listening to one of the first cds i got....replacements
>volume two....which arrived yesterday.....

I've got two Replacements albums sitting here - not bad, not fantastic.

>>Hello Pork Pie Hat!<grin>
>   god....thats worse than cyclops even....
>
Thank you.  <doffs virtual hat>  I try.....
>
>   well, actually i'm gonna try to catch up on email, as well as cleaning
>the garage, doing some laundry, etc.....to say nothing of playing with
>the HO trains....and watching the raiders kick some washington butt....
>   I do LOVE my new cd player....

I'll root for the CD player, if you don't mind, and mourn for the Giants.:)

>   a copy of this is going to andy....at alester@meltdown.chi.il.us
>
>  if enough words-nuts send him a greeting to the internet world he might
>even join us....he's run a fidonet bbs for three years or so....makes his

What's his FIDO netmail address? [and is this a hint?]

>   when he got a big bonus for completing some megaproject, he went out and
>spent a big chunk of it on a new Fender bass.....so he can crank out some
>more tunes himself....
>   well, he does LOOK like a normal geek.....
>
It's a hint....:-)  
>
>   anyhow, i told him about the msg to ruth and the rolling stone record
>guide and what a cool babe she was and she was about his age (hes 11/5/67
>for those who care)....and his question was "if she walks into a wall
>does her nose hit first?" and I said "absolutely NOT".....and he asked if
>Ruth wanted to move to chicago tomorrow......(meaning today).....and i said
>he'd have to handle that part for himself....
>
>  the rest is now up to andy and ruth.....

It's not a hint, it's a swift kick.:-)  This is the second time someone's tried
to set me up with someone in Chicago....<grin>  What is this, "Let's Get Ruth
A Date" Month?

>dan in potatoland, the porkpie cyclops....
>
Just don't tilt it over the good eye....
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