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Original-From: hlwpk!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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Date:         Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:34:00 EDT
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Subject:      Re: Ashe and AIDS
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>I am not being holier than thou. I gossip (I think we all do), and I read
>Kitty Kelly on Nancy Reagan.

I got out of the habit of reading stuff like that a few years ago,
when Ms. Kelly published Frank Sinatra's bio.  I devoured it.  Wow,
Frank had mob connections.  Wowzers, Frank and Ava went around small
towns drunk, firing off guns.  Geez, Louise, Frank balled Lauren
Bacall while Bogie was DYING, fer Chris'sakes....  Then it occurred
to me (especially when a friend of mine called me on it) that there
is an unanswered question behind all these revelations: SO WHAT?
I'm not having Sinatra to my house for dinner anytime soon.  I don't
owe him money.  He doesn't owe me money.  He was the greatest singer
of torch songs I ever heard.  What else matters???

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:37:00 EDT
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From:         Adam M Hartfield <AHARTFIE%DREW.DREW.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
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>Are there any people on this list that are studying Russian,
>has studied Russian, or is a Russian prof?

I took it for 3 years--9th grade through 11th grade in high school.  I
didn't care for it much, but managed to get straight A's in it
because I had an incompetent teacher who never tested us on anything.
If you feel like learning 6 cases, an entirely new 33-character alphabet,
and an entirely new way of thinking as well, then go for it.  If
you're looking for something easy, then go to Latin.  That's what I
did.  You may like Russian better in the long run if you get a
chance to use it.  I never used it outside the classroom, and as a
consequence I remember very little.  Of course, same with Latin, but
the Latin helps you with English.

--Adam
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, The Happy Spore"
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Subject:      Re: Pencils (was Re: TV)
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RE: Being Directionally Challenged

Some left-handers have very odd ways of slanting their hand and/or the
paper when they write.  I've seen people write with the paper at a 90
degree angle, and I've seen a few write totally upside down.  Maybe
this is their way of dealing with the streak problem.  When I write,
however, it's a mirror image of a right-hander.  And yes, my
handwriting is atrocious too.

Re: language being vertically or horizontally oriented

If I'm using a felt-tip pen, it doesn't matter, because the ink has
dried by the time I get to the next line (assuming my hand didn't
smear over it as soon as I went on to the next word).  With pencils,
though, it's pretty bad either way.

--Aaron
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:21:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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Pleadeth      "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

> Can I still come to the clambake even though I was not teased or tormented
> as a child?

     Of course.  We were speaking of childhood, and as long you
promise you haven't left your childhood, then you are still eligible
to be teased and/or tormented during childhood, and thus would be a
potential victim of the the aforementioned teasing/tormenting slime
monsters, and thus can come to the clambake.

     Alternatively, if Mama Judith says you can come that probably
would overrule the above rules. ;-).

The Ronin
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: CALLING ALL STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN
              7 Apr 1992 20:52:00 EDT from <AHARTFIE@DREW.DREW.EDU>

I think part of the advantage of Latin (with regard to grammar improvement for
English speakers) has to do with the fact that if you were fortunate enough to
come from a home where good English was spoken, you just DON'T learn the
grammar rules... you learn early on that you can get by with what sounds right:
because if it sounds right, it usually is.... you never have to think about
grammar until you have to take a foreign language...Latin is good, but
actually, almost any Romance language will do...
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From:         GUBERT%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      RE: never impressed

If its a sneak attack, then it would hardly have the desired effect.

And I presume you never ran into anyone smart enough to use due
process against you -- the harassment alone can be enough.

JAG
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:00:00 MDT
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From:         The Ronin <WHITERJ%MSCD.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Bumper sticker: Play it safe...

Surveyeth     RKESSLER@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU

> home. I'm making quiches and hoping for the best. As an undergraduate I
> was occasionally invited to dinner at my advisor's--and that seemed an
> honor. Do those of you who teach invite students over? Were you invited
> when you were undergraduates?

     At Mines there was a tradition of professors having 'office
hours' at home.  They would leave their porch lights on during these
hours to indicate that they were home and receiving.  Quite a few
friendships were built that way.  Mines also required that all of the
administrative officers (president, v.p.'s, deans, registrar) had to
also be a professor in one of the departments.  Most of them had to
teach at least one course each semester in his field of expertise.
Even the president would have his proch light on for students from
time to time.  Unfortunately I got there as a massive reformation of
the school was occurring.  The influx of new people (students and
faculty) destroyed most of the social matrix that had existed, so I
missed out on a lot of this.  Did have one professor who had
semi-regular parties for his graduate students (and the occasional
favored undergrad) at his home.  He also had a regularly scheduled
meeting at a local restaurant/lounge happy hour every Friday.  It was
a way for all of us to meet in one place away from school and
socialize.  Just ran into a similar group here at Metro.  hadn't
realized how much I had missed it.

The Ronin
From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (Graham Toal)
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Subject: Re: Goodbye
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:22:31 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <9204160017.AA15317@Ra.MsState.Edu> maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:
>Sorry!  This is *much* too long.  That's ok, though.  Probably only
>Graham has read this far -- since he's a captive to the oddities of
>his system for reading list mail.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

No problem.  It flies past pretty quickly now I've got a 14.4K
modem with compression.  No longer will I be resident list grouch
with a phone-bill problem...

G
(PS $UK350.  Pretty damn cheap in my book.  Even cheaper since my
Boss paid for it ;-) )
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Date: 10 Apr 92 18:13:00 GMT
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Replieth      Graham Toal <gtoal@CASTLE.ED.AC.UK>

> Probably 'rare' as in the Scots sense of 'fine and wonderful'.

     Almost another redundancy, as all that is Scottish is 'fine and
wonderful'.

The Ronin
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 00:17:00 EST
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, Jupiter University"
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Subject:      TNMWS10 dead!

Uh, is this part of the problem?  My last email was accepted by UGA, but not
that other server, whatever its name is.  All mail is being HELD there now.

--Aaron
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: The Nashanul Akadame, agin

Janet's son, interpreting "station maahster" as "station monster"
is still looking for the monster.

Take him to the dispatcher's office.  Train crews don't refer to
the "delayer" for nothing.

Steve Karlson
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From:         droby%NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Reflections on the matter of language change
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              17 Apr 92 09:18:52 CDT." <9204171048.aa01082@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

Says "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>:
>:-) finger fwp
>Login name: fwp       In real life: Frank Peters
>Directory: /home-isis/cc/fwp        Shell: /bin/ksh
>On since Apr 15 14:39:37 on ttyp1 from Jester.CC.MsStat
>16 hours Idle Time
>No unread mail  [<---- lie!  He has a program that makes it just look
>                             that way.]
>No Plan.  [<---- except to butcher poor Bernardykins]
>
>Yep.  He appears to be out of town.  Today is a university holiday.
>I'm totally against university holidays.  People like Frank should
>*never* be allowed to leave.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

	Ah, but he left a terminal logged on in his username.  Sounds like a
wonderful opportunity for Bernard to take over the system.
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Date:         Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:49:00 CDT
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From:         "815 Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980"
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Subject:      Re: "nothing wrong"

From Bayla, above water in Evanston:

"Euclidean geometry, Newtonian physics, and ... Ptolemaic astronomy
function well within their own limitations (I understand that
mariners still navigate using an earth-centered system.)  In these
cases it can be argued that there is some sort of absolute reality
against which they may be tested: no such situation exists for
anything that humans have invented as social tools."

1.  It's possible to work out your position on the ocean using the
Ptolemaic model.  The cumulative errors aren't that great.  If
you're using the Global Positioning System (which uses satellites
to calculate your location, you're using the Copernican and
Einsteinian model.)  The Global Positioning System, by the way,
provides data for those funky Sail Track graphics on ESPN.

2.  The absolute reality of anything may be unknowable, but we can
make ever better approximations to that reality.  Newtonian and
Einsteinian physics are ever better approximations to a model of
motion in the universe.  Why can't we apply the same kind of
analysis to "social tools"?  Can't we look at the objectives and
the performance of social systems using various social tools and
make some sort of deduction about what tools accomplish their
goals more effectively?  Can't we also study those goals and ask,
are those good goals?  Would I be happy with my position under
a system that pursues those goals?

Steve Karlson

"What is the world coming to?
"Exactly what it deserves."
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Goodbye

> ---can't you just dial in to a local computer center and use the network
> for free?  That's what I used to do (from home) before I had an account...
> I couldn't do e-mail (because I had no address) but I could connect to
> anything else I wanted with a local call to Georgia Tech....doesn't this
> work everywhere?

Aha.  Add one to the list some of you have been trying to compile of
places with open telnet access.  This is what I was talking about
several weeks ago when I said that some places still allowed it.
It's a vanishing thing, however.  I'm surprised Georgia Tech would
have it, considering some of the things I've heard about the security
paranoia there.  Even Mississippi State, home of the open and honest,
did away with open telnet access six or eight months ago.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 08:32:46 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Raises

> >dan  (one of the many, I imagine, who will get no raise next year,
> >      same as all other Idaho state employees)
>
> Well Dan, here in Florida, all State employees were given a raise (last year)
> effective Jan 1, 92.  But do to budget, raise was delayed three months.
> Now, again, due to budget problems, raise has been cancelled.  Well, we

I have no sympathy.  There have been no raises here in FOUR YEARS now.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Carol Goodson <CGOODSON%UGA.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TV
              8 Apr 1992 22:07:29 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

I buy the real TV Guide too... it's more reliable than the newspaper and
gives more details....especially about old movies, which I record and devour,
my secret vice.
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     We must exclude someone from our gathering or we
      shall be left with nothing.

           -A Passage to India-
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From:         GUBERT%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU

The "meaning" of 'good ole boy' is contextual -- even here in the South.

I agree that no one who has contracted AIDS deserved to contract it.
I do not care how stupid, reckless or ignorant they have been.

JAG
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Date:         Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:41:42 CDT
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From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell%PANAM1.PANAM.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Well, really.
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>Somebody say something controversial.

1). Shrimp is better than lobster

2). Bill Clinton is not a jerk

3). Gravity is really lots of little spiderwebs holding the world together

4).  2 + 2 = 5

5). Usenet culture sucks

-abh
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From:         "Aaron Dickey, Jupiter University"
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Natalie--

Then your station isn't following the guidelines, but they'll almost certainly
show it sometime this week.  Consult your local listings. :-)

--Aaron
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From:         torkel%SICS.SE@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: nouns
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              15 Apr 92 09:01:19 -0500. <9204151403.AA16555@sics.se>

   Tushar says:

  >I merely meant that in the general formulation,
  >the binary operation is called "multiplication", in and outside the
  >mathematical world.

  Well, I guess that is so. But the fact should not be bruited about, if it
prompts people to awful puns. (All puns are awful.) The binary operation
should be called "binary operation" in a non-mathematical forum.
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From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Well, really.

>How about this?  Hello.  Nice day, isn't it?
>
>Doris

Oh, my!  Someone speaks!

Hi, Doris.  I don't think we've ever talked before. Nice tameecha.  I also
don't ever recall reading your biography.  Who are you and what do you do?

Chris
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From:         Czarina Rita <rita%EFF.ORG@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
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>It's more than a nickel these days, but you pay it when you get on, so poor
>Charlie's situation is no longer possible.

        It's possible at Braintree and Quincy Adams on the other side
of the red line where you have to pay an additional token to get off.

Rita
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From:         the Freshman Scott Huddle <huddle%VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Elvis stamp
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>as to which Elvis stamp the USPS should manufacture; the "young" Elvis or
>the "old" Elvis?  I have a hunch as to which one this group prefers, but
>I'm not going to say. ...

I heard the Post Office was going to compromise and use both stamps,
the young Elvis for normal mail, and the old Elvis for bulk mail.

(rim shot)
-scott (huddle@vttcf.cc.vt.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:50:11 CDT
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From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor%RA.MSSTATE.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject: Re: A solution to all BWP problems
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> Has anyone here ever suggested perhaps setting up a permanent WORDS-L/BWP
> channel on IRC?  I could put my bot there, and thus have a nice place for
> everyone to hang out and stop wasting precious bandwith with all the lags and
> silly headers and such.  Whaddya think? :)

It would be ok as a supplemental activity, but I certainly wouldn't want
it as the real thing.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Peter Larimer @ U.N.H." <P_LARIMER%UNHH.UNH.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      wps
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> By the way, I also don't own a whip, but I really do need one as a prop for
> a play.  Anyone know a good place to buy a whip around Boston?

How about Washington St.

Pete
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From:         BGRISSOM%UKCC.UKY.EDU@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU
Subject:      Re: gleanings (39)

Les says, re Richard Brautigan:
>        _The Abortion_ proposes a curious sort of "library" in which any sort
>of written material by jus' plain folks is stored away in a cave, for reasons
>never explained....A few years ago I heard of a group in New England
>creating a library on just the same lines.

    The library was created!  I hope I can go back and find the piece;
    I remember reading it last spring or summer.  I think it was located
    in Vermont, was named after Brautigan, had a shelving arrangement under
    broad and whimsical subject categories, and used Mason jars as bookends.
    People pay an annual fee to have their (unpublished) manuscripts
    bound and maintained there.               --brad
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 09:50:49 EST Evelyn said:
>Dan,
>  First, congratulations!  I'll send the money order this afternoon.
>  Second, about blown-in cards:  how do they stay in the magazine while
>it's going through the mailing process?  As soon as I pick it up out of
>the mailbox, half-a-dozen cards fall out.  :-)
>
   First, thanks for the check in the mail...and same to all others....
more about another check in another msg.

   Second, they don't all stay in during mailing....they litter
every postoffice in the world.   But, most do....and that is mainly because
mags are shipped in bundles ....  think of how many dozens or hundreds or
thousands of Time or Newsweek arrive in each PO around the country.  Then
in the individual carrier's mail, most is bundled together for different
parts of the route...in tubs, or in bags for those who still carry it that
way.
    Obviously, more than enough make it.  NOW, if we all just mailed
those cards  back in, and if thousands of others did, then they might
quit it.  Each card returned costs them some 55 cents or so, and if they
were ALL sent in blank.....
   (to say nothing of those who are nasty enough to tape them to a brick
or a box of garbage or.....)

dan
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Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:53:13 EST
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From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.bitnet@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Cambridge pre-clam Update
              6 Apr 1992 13:49:20 -0400 from <droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU>

On Mon, 6 Apr 1992 13:49:20 -0400 <droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU> said:
>
>It's more than a nickel these days, but you pay it when you get on, so poor
>Charlie's situation is no longer possible.

Maybe not in Massachusettes, but, in Cleveland, it's entirely possible.
The RTA has some lines where you pay when you get on, some lines where
you pay when you get off, and some lines a mixture of the two.

>
>I never understood why she didn't hand him a nickel instead of a sandwich,
>except maybe she liked having him trapped on the subway.

That's how I always figured it. ;-)
>
>- Don R

Evelyn (who thanks her lucky stars she lives in the Akron area, where
things are logical, more or less)
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