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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:26:34 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      sources of wpinfo
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> > Even more paranoid..but the work you're doing will affect your life,
> > whereas mine will just affect my pitiful job.
>
> Or she writes more per minute than you write. :-)
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
                                                                        n
I think it just means I know my system better. :)

> Forget the WP list.  WORDS-L is the best source of all information,
> obscure or otherwise!

Yes--I didn't realize how many wordslers *use* WP.  Now I know where
to come.:)

Karen
who thinks that LANs are unamerican.
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:03:54 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Which large or unabrdg dictionary ...
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> Was it really BOMC??, Natalie
> I knew it was in some ad.

Yes, it was definitely BOMC.

> Well if it was 15 years ago then it must be remaindered somewhere
> ... or would that make it too old to be useful?

Now that I think about it, it had to have been longer ago than 15 years.
It was sometime in the early '70s.

   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     way behind in mail...  but the shrimp-pasta I made from Judith's
     recipe was a smashing success...  not as good as it was in Providence,
     of course, but my guests had no way to know that since they were not
     lucky enough to taste it in Providence...
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:36:25 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Eating whales

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:54:15 EDT Karen Kay said:

>Yes and no. I think some people are genuinely concerned about
>preserving the species. But most anti-whaling Americans can't
>imagine what anyone would *do* w/ a whale, and why one would want
>to eat whale. And so they come down hard on those countries that
>farm whales.

Uh, Karen - did I miss a smiley on this ?  Farm whales ?
This reminds me of the "tree farms" on Vancouver Island.  It seems to
me that the essence of farming is that you plant something (or feed
it in captivity) *before* you harvest it.  Salmon are farmed - eggs
are hatched in tanks, then fry are transfered to cages out in the sea.
But surely no one is even talking of this for whales.  To my knowledge
only a very few species of small whales (e.g. Killer Whales) have
ever been bred in captivity, and no one eats those.

BTW, another problem with whaling is the substantial cruelty involved.
Whales die in a manner that would never be tolerated in a slaughterhouse.

Tony H.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:36:41 EDT
From:         PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      America's funniest

Dan,
 I didn't really have anything specific in mind when I suggested
the auditions for America's Funniest. I saw that they were going
to be in Boise and knowing that you are a man of many talents I
suspected that you might be able to do some bizarre things(like
making rude noises with your eyebrows or something) that AFP is
so fond of.
                                                    Br. Paul
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:40:07 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: horses
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On Mon, 20 Jul 1992 15:06:45 MST, "Dan Lester" <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU> wrote:
> >//  The Queen of the Nile    /''''\     *  Adimin. Info. Services  //
>                                             ^^^^^^
>                                               Type Alert!!!!
                                                ~~~~
                                                   Typo Alert!!!!
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:01:15 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: A Question of Arithmetic
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

Natalie - it's ptobably that xmodem writes the data to disk at regular
chunks (or more precisely the C library does), and while that is
happening, incoming data is lost.  Then it recovers and continues.
This sort of thing happens in lots of systems.  One *possible* way
round it (though it probably doesn't affect download times by much)
is to download to a ram disk.

G
From: venkates@frankel.hep.upenn.edu (Tushar Samant)
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Subject: Re: Cars
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:23:20 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Physics Department

In article <WORDS-L%92072912561361@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>, R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Evelyn) writes:
|> Well, if we're talking about sports cars, I saw a 1925 Pierce-Arrow
|> roadster that I would love to have.
|> 
|> Evelyn

Sheesh.

Why isn't all this automotive business discussed in alt.cars.lemons
or something... I really miss all the flaming that used to occur on
the list. 

---ts
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:02:00 EDT
From:         "PLOTKIN, ALEC DAVID" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Apophasis
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  >  7/28/91   First posting to Words-L

Congrats, You have made througha year in the meat grinder called words-l.
Your prize is a free trip to the place of my choice.


later

alec
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:27:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Goodwill
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> Does anyone else see irony in a bunch of self-supporting computer geeks trawli
> the Goodwills and Salvation Army stores for bargains? Don't these places exist
> to help those <less-fortunate> than we are?
>
> -abh

Ohmygoodddd!  Jesus what a Republican observation, oh me oh I'm going
to *beee* *siickuhhhh*.  Shopping at the thrift stores 1) is a way
of recycling goods so all that stuff doesnt go to waste and have to
be replaced with new stuff; 2) the profits from most (not all) of
these stores are used for better-than-average causes; 3) it's a
hell of a lot more fun than shopping at Bergdorfy's; and 4) it just
makes me *feel* *good* to hang around with the less fortunate.
Try it, annie baby, it would be good for you too.
--ggs  (was that good for you?)
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:49:00 EDT
From:         "Jaiske Jydits Yeitsu Miata" <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Bickering
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> ENUFF AWREDDY!!!
> ts and ggs - who *used* to be two of my favorite people on this list - chew
> the peace gum (since smoking is bad for you, right?)
> If you can't shake hands and make up, at least ignore each other and get on
> with fun and words.
> Doris

Doris, ever since I got my new car, you have been *no* *fun*.
I promise to go <tick-a-lock> on my innocent little lippie-poos.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:54:24 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Generic bags
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> existence, I'm just absolutely crushed on this Monday.  My outing for
> the day will be to go refurbish my wardrobe with the newest in Glad Bags.
> Doris

You'll be sad to know that I couldn't find my size in either Glad or Hefty.
Wouldn't you know it - I had to resort to the skimpier generic bags,
accessorized by yellow ties. And, darlinks, yellow is *not* my color.
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:18:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Done
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The uuencoded versions of the gifs now how the appropriate names.
Sorry about my earlier stupidity!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:51:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Going to RDU
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O.K. now, I'm leaving for the airport to pick up my
son/step-son who is returning after two months in what
was once Czechoslovakia (until yesterday)....  But, I *will*
be back... I *will* be back and have a few things to say
before I leave again for a four day <quick-trip>, after which
I *will* be back.  Hold y'all's breath, now.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:17:00 MST
From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Eating Whales

Karen, is the word you seek "ambergris"?  AKA 'whale phlegm'?  (What a lovely
sounding word phlegm is!)  Karen, where you at that you have whale meat in the
markets - Baffin Island?  8-)
And I don't think yanks are ethnocentric on the topic of whaling - we used to
be pretty fair hands at it ourselves, and got at least one damn good book out
of it, too!

John "Notice how quiet it got when Giggles left for the airport?" W.
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:25:37 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Apophasis
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Has anybody mentioned Sister Miriam Joseph as a good source.  A rhetoric
colleague of mine said she's "old but good."
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:04:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: WHTMIT

gg,

The other car I forgot, and should receive serious consideration, is the Eagle
Talon tsi.  Definite in the hot-sports (gt) class.

Chris
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:13:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: In threes (was :Re: Hey you kids!)
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>to the first appearance of Gable at the foot of the stairs in GWTH.

Gee, what film was I thinking of?...  Gone With the Hail?  I guess
that was GWT_W_, folks....

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 00:59:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      What is CO Where is She?
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Does the expression "CO" refer to:
1)  my high school chemistry teacher, whose name was C.O.Bragg?
2)  "Coming Out", as in making your bow to the social world of
    Richmond, VA?
3)  "Convenient Other" , as in having a <mistress> or a <master>
    outside one's primary relationship?
4)  All of the above?
5)  None of the above?
--ggs (who will sooner or later reveal the correct answer if
      some sm*rt*ss doesn't come up with it first)
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:01:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT

>Thanks, Chris.  Good car advice.
>--ggs

No problem. Another bit of advice.  No matter what the sticker says, even if it
says "Factory Wholesale Price" or something like that, there's always room for
bargaining.  If the dealer says "Look, I can't give you the car for $11,000,
that's what I paid for it," he's very likely telling the truth.  But what he
doesn't tell you is that as soon as he sells that car, the factory sends him a
dealer rebate of $1,500 to $2,000, money only God, the factory and the dealer
know about. Certainly, he paid $11,000 (or is making payments based on $11,000)
but that's not the whole story.

Good rule of thumb is to take 20-25% off the asking price and start from there.
And never pay more than 10% below the asking price.  (There are exceptions to
this rule, such as cars that dealers can't keep on the lot due to popularity or
whatever, or a car that's been sitting on the lot for 8 months because no one
wants it because the color is wrong, but those are fairly rare).

And avoid the "dealer options" like stain prevention on the upholstery. They'll
charge a hundred bucks for spraying Scotchguard on the seats, something you can
do for $6.

Have fun,

Chris
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 20:09:40 EDT
From:         jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      hurrmph
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I think i have strep throat, and i can hardly talk,
and i signed on to irc to see if there was anyone to
play wiff, and there was no one.

i guess i'll just go to bed.


jenna who was all set to impersonate tushar again.
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:56:40 U
From:         Anne <harwell@SMTPGATE.TECHRSCS.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Reminder: IRC Night Thursday
Comments: To: Words-L <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

If anyone is interested in doing a Words-L interactive conversation, I'll be
hanging out in the IRC under channel #bandwidth at 7:00 Central time on
Thursday July 23 until things get so boring or otherwise insufferable that I
have to leave :-). If you are not sure how to get in the Chat, send mail to
Rita. Once you are in the Chat, if you need help, type this command:

/msg bandwidth help me please

or some similarly groveling message and I will get in touch with you and walk
you through the paces.

Hope to see you there.

-abh
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:29:20 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Bowling and Pool in Ireland?
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>Jim (hurling is like ice-hockey on grass) Thomas


Obvious puns relating to Wayne's World deleted

-abh
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:22:26 CDT
From:         Smells Like Teen Ambergris <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Dessert
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>any and all advise gladly noted.

First of all I would *advise* you learn to spell "advice..."

Then, stay away from that cheezball side of town. If for no other reason than
is is better to shock the neighbors and have them gossip about you than is it to
piss them off and have then take shots at you.

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:44:00 GMT
From:         WERTSJ <WERTSJ%DIALOG@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      re: What kind of dossier is this stuff going into?
Comments: To: mbx <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

 You don't want to know.  I feel paranoid when such things bother me,
but I really think that there is too much information being collected
on us...and we have *way* too little control over the uses of it.  I
believe the EC has much more stringent privacy regulations, don't
they?  I have heard that there are concerns over sharing data from
the EC to the US, because of our lack of privacy statutes.  Is this
accurate?

>Interesting idea.  I don't know whether it's even possible in this
>state.  Obviously there has to be a means of creating numbers for
>those few people who don't have SS numbers when they apply for
>driver licenses, but those must be getting fewer and fewer.
>
>mem.

I remember having to get my social security number before I could get
my first driver's license, so that they could use the ssn as the
driver's license number (in Indiana about 16 years ago).  So far as I
know, they still do it that way, although now kids have to have
social security numbers at age 1, I think (must have in order to be
a tax deduction for the parents).  Now you need one to have a bank
account, be a tax deduction...soon we'll just do away with names.
"Oh, by the way, did I mention that I met your friend 90X-XX-XXXX
last night at a party?  He was with 91X-XX-XXXX, and they looked very
chummy. <nudge, nudge>"

Jill
   (wertsj%dialog@mcimail.com)
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:58:21 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: birth order
              29 Jul 1992 20:14:10 -0500 from <harwood@TENET.EDU>

Nancy,
  I'm a firstborn, but I gave up being serious and dependable a couple of
years ago.  I was too serious and dependable for my own good, and my
family depended on me to hold it together.

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:54:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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> *I* want a Miata...a blue one...and I want it *now*!
> ndh (who is contemplating a trash bag fall wardrobe, and is extremely
> unlikely to get a new car)

No no no no no nanette.....  The blue is too gaudy.  If you get the
blue, I won't ride with you...... often.
--ggs (tending toward red or black)
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:16:05 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Urgent and desperate questions
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	An issue of crushing and overwhelming importance.  Is bowling unknown
	outside of the U.S.?  Do I have to leave my bowling ball behind when
	I go?  Even more important, do I have to leave my pool cue behind?
	This is important.  These are my main forms of keeping sane, except
	for maybe picking on the liberals on Words-L.
	                              Bill Sjostrom

Not at all, lots of 10-pin rinks here, and in Scotland a few 9-pins.
(Of course you won't be able to use your ball for 9-pins -- no holes)

And there are pool tables everywhere, except that the Irish don't
play by the standardised rules, so you'll find all sorts of silly
local rules, different in every pub - like 'the black has to go
in the opposite pocket to the last ball you potted, or you lose...'.

Mind you, even regulation league rules will be pretty alien to an american...

G
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:02:22 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Sea World (was re: Gleanings (54))
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> Of course they do...so do I.  And I can't help wondering if they were
> allowed to drink milk with tuna fish or any other fish....I grew up
> believing something really terrible would happen if you drank milk with
> seafood.

True.  Milk and fish are a no-no combination.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:05:14 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Doors, etc.
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> And I don't have a door so I don't need a doorstop. :-)

Why don't you have a door?

Karen
who needs several doors because she likes to play her African
street music loud while she works.
From: venkates@frankel.hep.upenn.edu
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Subject: Re: I feel so CHEAP
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:09:55 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Physics Department

In article <0095E06A.6B6F4FE0.4217@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>, aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU (Bandwidth Pig) writes:
|> I just found out that the "Tushar" I was flirting with on the chat
|> tonight was an IMPOSTER. I need a shower.
|> 
|> -abh
With the kind of language you used, I think you need a dip in
the Holy Ganges.
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:19:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Re: Five Reasons (was tushar, boy..)

Was this an attempt to put up the World's Longest Post Composed
Entirely of Quoted Material?  Congratulations!  You won....  Oh:
I almost missed the three lines at the end....

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:32:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: What is CO Where is She?
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> I vote for numbuh five.
> doris
>

Ah, doris, you are a smart <cookie>.
--ggs
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor)
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Subject: Re: Reading manuals
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:34:40 GMT
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> > don't do it, and they seem to think that reading the documentation
> > (such as it is) is, somehow, strange.
>
> I think they are stupid, then.  I have to admit that it depends on

Are we talking about sitting down and reading documentation -- sort of like
reading a novel?  Or are we talking about looking up the answer to a
question when the need arises?  Those strike me as totally different
activities.

And if FWP doesn't kick those people running fat programs off of Ra, I'm
gonna SCREAM!  The primary purpose of Ra should be my e-mail pleasure,
unimpeded by the number-crunching hogs and their CPU-guzzling programs!!
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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