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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:02:05 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Werner, buddy!
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>    " Research is what  I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "
>             Wernher von Braun

I want to know the source of this quote!!!  Getting these pithy things
from a quote-server is totally frustrating if no source is given.How
can I find this????

Karen
"to hell w/ Aristotle and Cardinal Newman!"
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:03:47 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Birth Order
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> > What about the wonderful third child....such as myself?
> > Melicent                                                             the

Me too!!!

> Well, you are indeed wonderful...and much more relaxed than us uptight
> firstborns.  :-)
> ndh

I'm not relaxed...but I'm the 3rd of 8.

Karen
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:48:33 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      dreary weekend
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This is *not* a promising weekend...Tenet goes down at 10 p.m. tonight,
supposedly to be back by 1 a.m....UGA will be down...I *could* clean
closets and cabinets...yuck!  I'm already in grandchild withdrawal--I
didn't need list withdrawal as well.
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:41:42 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Whales
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> When I thought about it, and for sure I have *not* thought about this *a*
> *lot*, I suppose I pictured it white because I was picturing the
> *blubber*. *That* is white, is it not?
> Doris

I have no idea.  My neighborhood grocery when I was in Japan didn't
stock blubber.:)

Karen
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:10:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: Goodwill
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     I only wish I knew anywhere north of Tiajuana that you can get an
     unused blue velvet sombrero that's the size of a coffee table and
     dripping with sequins and silver embroidery.  And I'm sure your
     mom is just as <nice as pie>, Evelyn honey.

     Carol
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:16:26 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: How's Adbam doing/ EAT-L
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> >  The CO list is fascinating.... everybody
> > telling about their first, or most recent, CO experience.
> > --ggs (who gets around a bit.....)
>
> I'm *almost* afraid to ask. What is a CO experience?  If it's going to
> make me blush, ignore the question, giggles.
> Doris

Yes, Doris, but then if he tells *you*, I won't have to embarrass myself
by asking.
ndh (who obviously doesn't get around much)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:47:21 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (52)
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On Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:03:00 EDT, "Evelyn Duncan" <R3EJD@AKRONVM.BITNET> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:00:19 EDT Rita Marie Rouvalis said:
> >       Adam's hit a timewarp again..
> I wonder if there's a TARDIS for E-mail.

There will be in a few weeks: my old machine tardis.ed.ac.uk should
be back up soon...

G
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:38:51 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Kids having kids
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1992, Graham Toal wrote:
> :	Doris you are so right. As the mother of two beautiful adopted
> :children, (15 years ago today we got the call to come pick up our son),
> :and a high school teacher my students know my views on teenaged
> :pregnancy. This year my yearbook editor was pregnant and decided to give the
>
> Oops!  rapid gender reassignment...  (Sorry Pat)

Pat, I guess you *are* going to have to start signing yourself Patricia. :-)
ndh
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:16:10 EDT
From:         Prudence Tucker <tucker@MOENG2.MINC.UMD.EDU>
Subject:      hi
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hi guys
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:32:01 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: tushar, boy, you eat with that mouth?
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1992 11:12:00 CDT, "Bill Sjostrom" <TA0WXS1@NIU.BITNET> wrote:
> P.S.  I actually did run into Jim in the parking lot Saturday night.

Nasty!  Get those brakes fixed, guy!

G
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:03:59 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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>
> > No no no no no nanette.....  The blue is too gaudy.  If you get the
> > blue, I won't ride with you...... often.
>
> giggles, she currently drives a *red* car. But don't tell her I told you so.
> Doris

Caught you!  Yes, giggles, it *is* red...very red!
ndh
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:28:06 -0400
From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Blue Moon Saloon (was Re: Texas Women's University)
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              19 Jul 92 16:54:00 EDT." <9207191656.aa29635@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

>> > No...I live in Victoria. By the way, dear uncle, where is the Blue Moon
>> > Saloon? I haven't had a cherry phosphate since I was a soda person (I have
>>
>> You are in the Blue Moon Saloon right now -- or at least you were when
>> you wrote these words.
>>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>I couldn't have said it better.  In fact, I *didn't* say it better,
>only later.
>--ggs

I also couldn't have said it better.  But I could have said it *much* later.
- R.M.
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 02:32:22 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: e-mail on today's Talk of the Nation

On Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:37:09 EDT Rita Marie Rouvalis said:

>> That reminds me:  the latest issue of Compute has an article on
>> E-mail.  Trouble is, the article discusses only such services as
>> Prodigy and Compuserve; it doesn't discuss Internet, Bitnet, or
>> Usenet.
>
>	More than likely, that is because services such as CI$, etc.
>are affordable to the average user, while full-fledged Internet connections
>are not.  And although users can get on the Internet through such services
>as Tenet, Cleaveland Freenet, The World, etc., such public access UNIX
>sites are still regrettably more the exception than the rule.

And because the Internet, Tenet, and Cleaveland Freenet don't advertise
in magazines ?

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:08:14 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Call for Standards
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>                                    Too much laxity has crept in to the list
>of late: frivolous postings designed to do no more than make someone feel good,
>mail with no ulterior motives, messages that completely lack any prurient or
>venial aspects.

Oh, you realize it. You are so cool. I mean, even to realize it THIS late
is kinda pretty good for you. I didn't mean you are Cool, heh heh, doesn't
take long to know you are hot, hee hee hee. And that reminds when I was on
the way to the comp lab ... suddenly found I had this whacking hard disk on
me, don't know where it came from hee hee hee. Thinking of reformatting it,
have to keep up with the new hi-tech heads hee hee hee hee.

Been POSTING and all to words-l lately, huh? That's pretty cool. Like,
which ftp site has this heavy duty spellchecker you used? It's got to be
a pretty intelligent one; there are only like twenty horrible solecisms
in your letters the last week, man you do know some cool ftp sites.

Heard of the Urdu word for "soul", lately? Don't let it fall in your ears
again <chortle>.


>Therefore, I request from you Wordslers a set of guidelines that will
>ensure consistent, high quality list content.

Words-l doesn't NEED it - it's a C00L SAL00N!!!1!1  No need to stop it from
getting worse, because it can't! Try your guidelines in alt.moronic, slim
chance, but a definite one.


>Here are a couple from me to set the ball rolling:
            ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~            ~~~~~~~~~~~~
            Hee hee hee.              Hee hee.


>Posts should include some sort of double-entendre

Like, *sic* jokes or something? Heh heh heh. Or speaking with forked tongue,
       ^^^
ha ha. I am a mahalinguist at that, snigger. Can lick anyone else <nudge>, I
am that ballsy, you know, hee hee hee.


>Posts should be, whenever possible, multi-tiered: understood on different
>levels  by different sub-groups

After O'HAre, why does the merest mention of "multi-tiered" make me giggle?

Which reminds me of the time I was on my way home from the airport, thinking
how cool hot showers are, hee hee.

tushar

PS: I forgot - NUTTELA!!!!!
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:20:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIT
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> ggs, item 16 of your report is a hard pill I also had to swallow last year...
> my mother in nursing home, and childhood home off limits to me, but still
> in family, sort of.  And Dawn would love your choice of cars!
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                             Peace,
>                                   Don

Ask Dawn if she has ever driven a Mercury Capri with a turbo engine.
I tried a Mustang at the dealer's insistence, and I thought Jeez
why would anybody want this .... like driving my Plymouth Voyager.
The Capri was really zippy and has a tiny back seat which the
Miata doesnt have....  but it is kind of cheapo looking with
molded plastic dashboard.  Somebody tell me what kind of $15000
car to buy, o.k.?   My mama wouldn't want me to waste her/my
money on anything frivolous.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:15:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Guilty as charged
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> >WELL, if it wasn't you, it should have been.
> >--ggs (thinking it was probably -abh)
>
> It was me, you sweet old <daddy> you.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> But I *love* Cousin Lenny, so there!
>
> -abh

That is *so* funny, I can't hardly GUOTF.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:05:07 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: Gifs
              21 Jul 1992 08:50:00 LCL from <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM>

On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 08:50:00 LCL <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM> said:
>>Everybody who
>>has e-mail can use ftp, although it's apparently rather messy to do it the
>>mail way.
>     Please elucidate.
Gentle Carol,
  It is, as Natalie says, messy, but it <works for me>.  It amounts to
sending your FTP commands in a file to a server machine at PUCC, which
then performs the FTP and sends the resultant file(s) back to you.  I
will send you a sample of a file that I have used to FTP WORDS-L files,
& instructions for use by private mail.
Peace,
Elwood P. (it ain't a computer if fewer than 8 men can move it) Dowd
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:40:58 -0500
Reply-To:     Doris Smith <dorisann@tenet.edu>
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Amateurs????
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>Don't get out much, eh Doris?

Not when it involves sports.
Thanks to Neal and Alec for answers to my question.
Doris (who still thinks she ought to live in an ideal world)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:26:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: dead afternoon
              22 Jul 1992 17:00:00 LCL from <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM>

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:00:00 LCL <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM> said:
>
>     Well, I've had it both ways.  Reviewer A thinks he's* the son and
>     heir of William Safire and goes after contractions and dangling
>     prepositions with fundamentalist zeal.  He rewrites entire
>     paragraphs in a tortured marginal scrawl and demands that you set
>     his edits in 24-point bold underlined Helvetica italic.  Your
>     manuscript comes back streaming red from a thousand wounds, but
>     at least you know he read the whole thing.
>

"24-point bold underlined Helvetica italic"?  A snap for Microsoft
Word for Windows:  just point to each setting and click with the
handy mouse!
>
>     Carol

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:00:04 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: More songs about republicans and food
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              21 Jul 92 15:42:27 -0400. <199207211947.AA15621@sunic.sunet.se>

  >And somewhere in one of the verses:
  >If you don't believe in fairies, they won't believe in you...

  Here's a similar line from a song that I hope at least some wordslers
will know...

        We forgot to pray for the angels
        and then the angels forgot to pray for us
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:01:43 -0500
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      .tar.z?
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One of you unix gurus out there help me please: How am I supposed to unpack
and use a .tar.z file?

Thanks in advance,
-abh
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:48:01 EDT
From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Goodwill
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Only little worries about the store.
    That large lot has turned into the unofficial park and ride lot
    for the area since RIPTA buses stop there.

    That  interior (an old grocery store) space always looked like
    it could be used for many exciting things ... (indoor recreation
    place, live band dance place, large holography lab, etc.).

    There are one or two church run second hand stores in the village
    which have always been there so seem to fit right in. They are small,
    this looks like a Super Sal.Army Store.

    Don       (dthorntn@brownvm.brown.edu)
From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Wiz of Oz is a SATANIC PLOT!!
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:38:18 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Back about 20 years, when I was a Brownie leader, the Philadelphia diocese
announced that the Girls Scouts were guilty of secular humanism, and it was
a sin of "faith and conscience" to belong to them.  Since 75% of my troop
came from the local parochial school (the others from Solomon Schecter, a
jewish equivalent), that was the end of my career as a GS leader.

The Catholic kids were encouraged to join the Campfire Girls.

--bayla
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:15:14 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WH e Re: TMIT a Re: you?
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Tusher, your description of Bombay is quite poetic. I would love for
>my students to read it so that they get the idea of painting pictures
>with words. Do you mind?
>Melicent, who teaches journalism and English in Victoria, Tx


I don't mind - most flattered. But seriously,

1) How is it poetic?

2) Isn't it much less of a picture of Bombay than a picture of a
   warped ego?

tushar
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:19:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: No Picture of Giggles (was Re: Eating Whales)
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> >2 sys@mgweed.UUCP		(WA9DNZ)
> >			      100% chi.weather
> >
> >3 n567126@ncsuadm.ACS.NCSU.EDU	(        Gilbert Smith )
> >			      100% bit.listserv.words-l
> >
> >Not only that, but you were our only representative in the top 25 this time!
> >The reason #3 is really #2 is that #1 is apparently a machine.
>
> OK, #1 is a machine. And what does #2 look like?
>
> Jeez.
^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> tushar

That cute little ts keeps saying this.  Can someone please tell me
what this means?
--ggs (failing to find this word in my WTNID ... )
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:19:58 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Death and the drowned kittens
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

>On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:19:47 CDT Tushar Samant said:
>
>>That's what Death said when he found a sack of drowned kittens.


Why me? I am not the default poster to this list. So the following
rule is not valid:

Always attribute every posting to Tushar Samant except when the
poster is Torkel, in which case attribute it to "whoever that was".

tushar
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:56:14 EDT
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Reading manuals
              24 Jul 1992 16:07:00 LCL from <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM>

>     While we're on the subject of documentation, I have a question
>     for you guys.  What's the best manual you've ever used, and why?
>
>     Carol

This is a most provocative question.  I wanted to respond immediately
that the OCLC User's Manual from the mid to late 70s is the best I've
ever seen, but then I realized that my experience of manuals is rather
limited; plus, I might not be able to give a good Why response anyway.
Could we have the UGAless weekend to think this over, Carol?

colonel brad
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:20:02 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      more aggravating stupidity courtesy ggs
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>ts, you *&%OJ(*#@ you keep your f*()*&*&g sh&$%#@y H)#$@ a#@#%$ our
>of this discussion.  you just can't keep from *&$ can you?  And this
>is just *so* typical of a &%$*(*& like you, turning up like this and
>*&$%ing up this list.

None of the 13! substitution ciphers worked. Explain yourself immediately,
and KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THAT STUPID SHIFT KEY< YOU LOSER!

Any bet that there will be a damnfool pointless reply to this.

tushar
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:00:51 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Call for Standards
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              Jul 30, 92 10:53 am

>Gosh, Rita, all I can do is commend you on your <splendid> work on the Internet
> and encourage you to continue!

	Gee Willikers, Anne, I do believe I shall <blush> at the
compliment.  Careful, or I, too, may become afflicted with a
<fat head>.

Czarina
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:15:08 GMT
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From:         DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu

*** Resending note of 07/29/92 18:08

>hello.

Hi!
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Sea World (was re: Gleanings (54
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:57:43
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In-reply-to: Nancy Harwood's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:03:01 -0500

Nancy writes:

   > No, September 16 and it's 29, not 44.
   >
   > ;-)
   >
   //anne//, you and my mom share the same birthday...she'll be 80 this year!
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I *love* it when this happens...one of my best friends has my birthday
(phrasing intentional).  My early best wishes to your mom...who's gotta be
one great lady.

//anne//

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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 14:43:35 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
              28 Jul 1992 14:37:00 EDT from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

Oh, Gilbert, don't shoot him because he has an Alfa Romeo.  From what
I've heard about those cars breaking down all of the time, just having
an Alfa Romeo is punishment enough.

Evelyn (who's fallen in love with a red Saturn)
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:15:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: <sigh>
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>   >Well, lemmesee.... it means, uh....  "an instrument for providing
>   >pleasure to children, an instrument having no apparent utilitarian
>   >value......"
>
>   A weird definition! What does lack of utility have to do with toyishness?
> What has greater utilitarian value than toys?
>

What language are we speaking here, please?  Of *course* Tork my dear,
toys have "utilitarian value" if you mean that they are "useful"
because they give pleasure to people, but that is not the commonly
understood definition of "utilitarian"....  So, I submit that in the
English that *most* people speak, "utilitarian" means something like
"practical" in a sense that does not include "providing enjoyment"...
So, you can just <sofist> all you want to but I just have to say that
this *really* *pisses* *me* *off*!!!!  WEIRD indeed....  I am quite
sure that there is *never* anything weird about anything I choose
to say.....   Ohmygodddd, I am *so* pisssssssssd offfff.
Where *are* my pills.....  there, I feel so much better now.
Nobody loves me.
--ggs (calming himself by <toying> with his PC....)
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