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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:18:38 EST
From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Gleanings (62)

Ok, Ok, Akio.  I know I've been slow.  Before answering, though, I had to savor
being this week's MOG (MOG's of the world unite!).  3 1/2 times !!??!  The 1/2
will be explained below.  It's my <modest> attempt at attributive justice.


Akio <<<asker of the dumbest questions>>> Tanaka/5 Oct 92
President, Professor Gilbert Fan Club - Tokyo Chapter
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 1) Bodeans (Marty)
 2) Al Stewart's Modern Times (Michael A.)
 3) Special Service School (Bayla)
 4) Unketbarrskogsdunkel (Torkel)
 5) Fred Flintstonemobile (Ruth H.)
 6) 'Natura non facit saltum' (Steve K.)
 7) WEC docs (Michael A.)
 8) Ivory soap/Austin City Limits (Ruth H.)
 9) Martin Bormann (Neal)
10) Kal Kan (Ruth H.)
11) Richard Dawson (Michael A.)
12) Orson Swindle (Agnes)
13) Heffalumps/HRP (Neal)
14) Harvey Korman (Bob W.)
15) Lenore (Ruth H.)
16) Brett Coleman Kimberlin (Brad G.)
17) Narcisse (Brad G.)
18) TBC (Gilbert)
19) College Foundation, Inc. (Gilbert)
29) Majorska (Michael A.)

Marty     1
Mka       4 (MOG to the max)
Bayla     1
Torkel    1
Ruth      3 (a close second--but she tries--others of us just show up)
Agnes     1
Neal      1
Brad      2
ggs       2


Sooooo . . .

 2) Al Stewart's Modern Times (Michael A.)

     Modern Times is an album by Al Stewart, a Scotsman who had one monster
     album in about 1977 called The Year of the Cat.  Modern Times is out of
     print in the U.S., and I was asking G if it was still available in MOE--to
     which he has yet to respond.  Al's specialty is <historical> ballads.  But
     on Modern Times there is a great song called Apple Cider Reconstitution.
     I lost the album moving some time or another and I miss it madly.  (I use
     to be a terrible Al Stewart groupy, actually--followed him up and down the
     East Coast most of my college existence.)

 7) WEC docs (Michael A.)

     Words-L Election Commission documents
     A lame attempt at a joke at the expense of those who were actively
     campaigning for votes in the WFF.  The FEC is the Federal Election
     Commision, with whom (which?!?) various campaign financing and other
     documents must be filed by candidates for federal office.  I still think
     that there was an aweful lot of PAC activity in the WFF--and there's no
     telling what sort of deals were struck in the smoke-filled buffers of
     private mail.  I can only attribute the fact that the Toal House Kooky
     tied me for most unpleasant to outrageous spending based on illegal
     contributions.  Conventional wisdom had it that I was a cinch, a shoe-in,
     the clear choice of the <people>.  My lawyers are working on a challenge
     to the balloting now.

11) Richard Dawson (Michael A.)

     The original host of the real Family Feud on boober.  (But he was really
     just the best on Hogan's Heroes, a TV comedy about life in a German prison
     camp that was a take-off, probably, of the movie Stalag 17.)

29) Majorska (Michael A.)

     And this is where the 1/2 point comes in.  Majorska originally appeared in
     the second of Ken's parables.  I merely quoted it.  I think I recall that
     he said something about hitting the neighbors with a bottle of Majorska.
     I assume(d) that it is either Russian or Polish vodka--the name would fit
     either.

I hope that is all clear enough for you (and ggs, with his empty <dense> card).
It was an honor to be this week's MOG.  Since I know no Japanese--I know, I
should have been studying the textbook that the list seems to be spontaneously
generating, I shall offer you the best toast I know--

Na Twoja trumne, ze stuletniego deba, ktory posadze jutro.

Czesc

-K

-Mka
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