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From: TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815))
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Date: 15 Dec 92 17:10:00 GMT
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: watching all the curves and the like, and being somewhat freaked
: out by the experience.

: if it wasn't the IRT, it was the MTA -- Green Line?

Most likely Boston's Green Line (the trolley subway).  It twists
around like a snake with indigestion ...  It's been a while since
I've been on any IRT lines, most of which are fairly straight (at
least in Manhattan -- I'm chicken to go into any of the other
boroughs on rapid transit, which is one reason I haven't yet ridden
the Coney Cyclone)

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:01:03 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs
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> I assume you're just <playing the part> of the math challenged English
> professor...

I briefly considered majoring in math because I always thought it was fun.
It was kind of like playing games for class credit.  But when I decided to
stick to English (since I found English majors more fun to party with than
math majors), I never took any more math.  That was my freshman year in
college -- back in the days when freshman math was the same old algebra and
trig I'd had in high school.  I don't even know what calculus is.  When I
win PCH sweepstakes, I'll take some math courses.  Meanwhile, not having
had solid geometry, I'm not much into cubes vs jugular shapes.  (Geometry --
plane -- was my least favorite math.)

> Or put another way, why do you think it is that refrigerators aren't
> hexagonal inside ?

Because refrigerator makers anticipated the popularity of boxed wine?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:24:33 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: fun word I'd somehow never seen before (fwd)

>> lifemanship: the art or practice of achieving superiority or an
>> appearance of superiority over other people (as in conversation
>> or business) by perplexing and demoralizing them -- compare
>> _gamesmanship,_ _one-upmanship._
>>
>> lifeman: one who practices lifemanship.
>>
>> (Webster's Third New International Dictionary)

   It is disheartening to see such a word, which may have enjoyed
   a certain vogue status for a few months in 197-, enter the WTNID
   canon.  Even now I have the Saturday reference librarian hard
   at work tracking down this abomination.  Will report back later.

   I mean, one reason we wait so long between editions of major
   dictionaries is for new words to achieve relative fixity.  I have
   never heard or seen "lifemanship," and it's not like it's a
   technical term, know what I mean?

--brad
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: <sigh>
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>OUUUUUUUCH!  Lots less than yours.  Our run about $30.00US a month, with the
>toll calls added in.  It would be about $20.00 without those.  I don't think
>we've ever had one over $75.00US, and that was unusual.   The exchange rate
>may make these more equal than they look, but I don't know what the current
>one is....  Installing a second phone line here is about $50.00US, btw.
>
>--
>                ###     Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###

That's what we get for having a Government-owned facility.... although Telecom
considers itself semi-government and rejoices in huge profits every year....
the Government is talking about selling it off to private enterprise and
a NEC based company (can't remember it's exact name) has made big inroads
into the market in the last two years with it's handsets, but the only phone
lines available still belong to Telecom, although I think they're working on
that side of it too.... so it mightn't be too much longer before we have a
cheaper alternative phone system..... I can only pray! :-(

Carolyn
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 12:50:11 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: plans for salmon bake
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> How about a show of hands, so we'll know what we're working with.

Show of hands of people planning on showing up?  Here's my hand.

                   ^
               ^  | |  ^
           ^  | | | | | |
          | | | | | | | |
          |  U   U   U  |    ^
          |             |  / /
           |            |/ /
            |             /
             |          /

> I'm not sure how much legwork clint and carol have done, so
> if i'm stepping on people's toes on this thing, let me know.
> Politely, of course.

Clint and Carol are both still on nomail, I think.  Anybody posting to
the list about the salmonbake should add cc's to them.

Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM         Carol Carmick
DARLING@CATLIN                           clint darling

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:00:03 CST
From:         tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Macs and OS/2 and other nonsense

Hi.

If you want a jihad, have a gory one. That's the only
thing which justifies it. Don't stuff the list with
wimpy academic discussions about OS/2 and other rot.

I can accept the kind of stupidity that makes people
actually have feelings about operating systems and
computers. But what kind of inner sickness makes people
rave, rant, screech, yell, bitch, ooze sarcasm, heap
scorn or derision, or indulge in other ways in a macho
public display of their arbitrary opinions is something
I have never succeeded in finding out.

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 11:11:35 -0700
From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Identification etc

S.I. Hayakawa said he was instantly pegged in Japan as "American", and when he
asked how they could tell was told, "You walk like one - as if you own the
street!"
As for ID, I'd have to check the Arizona Revised Statues, but I seem to recall
seeing something in there about furnishing proof of identity to a police officer
   upon demand/request...
Oh, and that cultural business works both ways - at school I can pick out
Euroes on sight, and my friend Steve and I have a habit of saying "Wet...." to
each other when we spot an illegal alien walking down the street.  They might
as well wear a sign.  Same thing goes at the Grand Canyon:  Everyone is wearing
the same clothes and carrying cameras, but you can point and say "Yes.  No.  No.
   Yes..." and be right about 95% of the time.

John "E-merjency, e-merjency!  Everybody to get frum strit!" W.
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:35:24 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: GEOMETRY OF WINE: NATALIE, YOUR ATTN HERE, PLEASE.
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> Not really any advanced mathematics needed here -- unless you want to --
> simple pictures are all that is necessary I think.

Hmmmm.  Even without pencil and paper I think I'm beginning to get the
picture:  more rectangles fit into rectangles than circles fit into
rectangles. :-)

> I was surprised to hear that the only college mathematics course you took was
> a repeat of high school advanced algebra & trig -- when I entered UC Berkeley
> in 1959 that was not even offered -- today our department even offers (for

Millsaps College was apparently behind Berkeley, alas.  I started college in
1961.  I do remember that lots of my classmates hadn't had trig in high
school, though.  I remember running around the dorm doing their trig homework
for them.  I loved trig.  Flopping all those letters and numbers back and
forth around = signs was relaxing and fun.  I never saw that it had any
relationship to reality, but it was a pleasant activity.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:15:28 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Scandinavians
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              14 Dec 92 19:27:47 -0500. <9212150052.AA27241@sics.se>

  >What is a bathing machine?

  I refer you to the fourth of the "five unmistakable marks by which you
may know, wheresoever you go, the warranted genuine Snarks":


    The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,
      Which it constantly carries about,
    And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes -
      A sentiment open to doubt.
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From:         Matthew Beams <BEAMSMATT@URVAX.URICH.EDU>
Subject:      EEEEEEEEEEK!!!
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Eeeeeethreemorepaperstodofailingnomoneylosingmyhairconstantheartburnnochristmas
spiritgoodsolsticetoyoushalliwearwhitecannotfunctionasanormalhumanbeingalreadyse
tnomailhowcanifunctionoverxmaswithoutwordsliamhavingafitorshalliwearredwhatwoul
dwilliamsafiresayrestwelleveryoneandyesisaidyesiwillyeseeeeekmatthew
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:09:31 -0700
From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Re: Gleanings (71

Except in "Sports" I can kick anyone's butt in Trivial Pursuit, man or boy!
(Also, Pictionary, if I can bring in a ringer!)
BTW, add Bayla to Evelyn and everyone else with which I cannot tube.  This
crap will have been going on for a full month as of tomorrow.  Our postmaster,
busy playing Helen Keller, has been of no help.  My apologies to all.

John, still reeling from the revelation that the List Goddess is BLONDE!
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:41:12 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      TP Game
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What time does the game start? I haven't been paying attention...

-abh
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:31:23 EST
From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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Posted on 12 Dec 1992 at 16:22:26 by Rita Marie Rouvalis
>        CMC is populated by a large number of academics desperately
>trying to find something to publish on lest they publish.

I think that is supposed to be 'perish', but otherwise I agree
with the description.  It was a revelation for me to find out
that there is actually good stuff written on the topic of CMC
in various communications journals.  If these people are typical
academics, I am in the *wrong* job....

Karen
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Neologisms
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> : My mother, who has just completed grading nearly 100 freshman comp final
> : exams, reports the following neologisms.

I encountered two separate instances of 2^0 = 0 while marking junior circuits
exams this weekend - quite horrifying, eh?  And in this case they can't even
claim that they were using "neologisms".

-rashmi
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:41:46 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: OS/2, Mice & Icons's
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:Clueless about WHAT?  Seriously, I have no idea what you are nattering

:In article <WORDS-L%92121913390620@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
:ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
:>Posted on 19 Dec 1992 at 12:11:42 by Anne Burton Harwell
:>>Yes, it is good to be the lan designer.
:>
:>Yes, it is good to have money to buy equipment!
:>
:>We have no size restrictions whatsoever, by the way. I was shocked
:>when I found out how little our storage is because I must use 1/6th of
:>it!

Does the phrase 'problematically large' ring any bells?

G
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Camillemania
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1992, Aaron L Dickey wrote:

> Suprising.  Is she your hero in terms of her opinions, her personality, or
> both?

Yes.
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: How much more of this
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harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) writes:
> What do they think I'm made of: iron?

You don't plan to sit steel for this?

--karsten
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:13:08 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts
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        >I haven't met a Risc OS user who can stand MacDos. It just doesn't do
        >half the things a good window system should.  And there's so much that
        >doesn't multi-task even under system 7 - you keep getting trapped in
        >hundreds of little dialogue boxes, all alike.

        You just have to drag 'n drop objects in them so they don't look alike
        any more.

Yes, it's amazing - apparently the mac people still drag *outlines*.

How quaint!

G
PS Where did you see RO3?
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 12:37:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs

> Wise choice.  You can't bullshit in maths with stuff like "but if everybody
> uses it, it must be acceptable"...

Explain common proof constructions such as "There exists ..." in
which the word order was evidently lifted word-for-word from a
symbolic sketch of the argument, and the use of the word "where"
to mean "in which."

Steve Karlson
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:46:09 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: ULTIMATE NON-MATHEMATICAL QUOTE FROM DONNE
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        Natalie, your attention here, please. The following quote proves
        that Donne was a mathematical moron.

                Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one;
                Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
                A constant habit;

        Then somewhere else he says "at round earth's imagined corners".
        What a total imbecile.

        tushar

Not at all - it's a poetic interpretation of the equation

                  i.pi
                 e     = -1

G
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From: lncjb@wombat.newcastle.edu.au
Subject: Re: Chilled-water @ UGA [Plus Chocolate Wafer Crumbs]
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:19:54 GMT

In article <maynor.724302769@Ra.MsState.Edu>, maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor) writes:

> Just think -- some people use usenet all the time.  What a horrible
> thought.  I want my list MAIL!!!

Me too! News input time in down to 6+ hours but it's still not good enough. :-(

> Yes.  Bernardykins may have to go to Georgia soon to recreate.
> --
>    Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Perhaps he should procreate while he's there as well, so that they will have
their own little Bernardykins to fix the problem the next time something like 
this happens. :-)

Carolyn
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From: gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Date: 18 Dec 92 16:23:26 GMT
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:Trial in Tampa, begun yesterday.  Seems man, mid fifties, upset that his
:younger ex-girlfriend took up with a younger man, got revenge in a rather
:unusual way.  He broke into a motel they were at and stabbed both repeatedly
:(but not fatally).  He then, using a pair of vice-grip pliers, removed the
:mans penis.

OK, who else guessed who it was from before they read the .sig?

G
PS Hey Don, I've got some really good stories of rape and torture in Bosnia
- wanna swap?
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:51:54 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

In article <1992Dec14.153358.1053@eff.org> rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.041115.12174@netsys.com> jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas) writes:
>
>>Would be pleased to give and trake a big smooch at CFP3 if I can make it.
>>I'm easy to recognize---I'm the one with the tweed sport jacket, guccis,
>>and briar pipe. 

Uh oh....hey, I wear jeans and sweatshirts and teach in cut-offs when
its warm. I don't own a real pair of shoes (the dog ate my last pair
10 years ago) but do have a good pair of Nikes I wear to weddings,
funerals, and other formal occasions. Mike has seen me, and if he, too,
thinks I look like Jim Warren (who's actually good looking, but
very professorial even though he's not a professor), I'll be devastated.
Believe me, Rita, I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the
looks-like-an-academic party. People usually guess my profession as
a drug-dealer, undercover cop, or--at conventions--someone who drifted
in from a convention of psychotics. 

Jim (who thinks academics dress funny) Thomas
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Date:         Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:46:57 EST
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Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv

> Nope--it came from a different group--CMC newsgroup, I think. It should be
> noted that the original thread was from, I think, an undergrad who asked
> if the term "lurker" was/was not PC and the responses were mostly from
> undergrads and Rita herself. She taints herself with her own brush.
> It's not clear how she generalizes to "academia" in her attack, since
> I'm sure CMC is no more the domain of academics or silly threads than
> any other newsgroup.

Dearly beloved people....if we begin a revival of Who Wuz The Spy In
The Blue Moon Saloon, I am going to take out a membership in the NRA
and buy myself an elephant gun.

Ken <Dr. Love>
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:46:57 GMT

In article <BzFwE6.Bq8@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
>rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
>
>>Generation X and Proud.
>
>You can't be Generation X....you have a job.

	Generation X'ers never conform -- even with other GenX'ers.


-- 
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"
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*** Resending note of 12/18/92 11:35

>>Is 50's worse?  "In the mood" to "rock around the clock"

>Oooooh....*serious* dancin' music!  It doesn't get better than them...
>just add "string of pearls"...

>ove, judith

Alright Judith!  ....and can I add a romantic waltz to Ann Murry's
"Can I Have This Dance...For the Rest of My Life"!

Don, who would much rather be dancing than grossing out G or being
grossed by Marty  (be thankful I did not relate details of Gainsville
murders).


Oh, and if you really want to get grossed out, watch the Bucs play the
49's tomorrow.  (unless, of course, you are a 49's fan).
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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs
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Posted on 18 Dec 1992 at 19:43:02 by Natalie Maynor

>Why is it possible to fit far, far more liters of boxed wine into a
>regrigerator than liters in jugs?

I assume you're just <playing the part> of the math challenged English
professor...

Or put another way, why do you think it is that refrigerators aren't
hexagonal inside ?

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:29:00 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Mice, icons, etc.
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> Posted on 17 Dec 1992 at 20:43:31 by Peter Montgomery
> >BUT! You are also using up 30 megabytes of your hard drive, just to do
> >all that.
> No, I'm not.
> Karen

You don't have to use 30 meg.  I remember that from when I used OS/2 for
a *very* short time.  You don't have to install everything.  I got rid of
OS/2 not because of the amount of space it required but because I simply
didn't like it.  I much prefer DESQview.  My copy of OS/2 is sitting on a
shelf in a box.  Too bad it wasn't shareware. :-(
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 09:16:50 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: NEAT!
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Good morning, Wordies!

It's *raining* in Starkville, and all the Golden Triangle.
But we just ate breakfast (Natalie's neighbor sent over a
loaf of onion-bread that she made in her automagic bread
baker yesterday) and are preparing to Face the Day!

Be well, y'all!

love, judith
From: gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Date: 18 Dec 92 16:33:31 GMT
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          I haven't met any Macintosh user who can stand Windows.

I haven't met a Risc OS user who can stand MacDos. It just doesn't do
half the things a good window system should.  And there's so much that
doesn't multi-task even under system 7 - you keep getting trapped in
hundreds of little dialogue boxes, all alike.

G
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