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Date:         Mon, 20 Jul 1992 23:12:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Political notes from all over
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>I'm sorry, I'm very naive and not used to all this dirty talk.
>Will somebody explain to me, in English please, what "born on
>third base" is supposed to suggest?  Am I just dense or what?
>In other words, J" "W, no comprendo.
>--ggs (just a kid at heart....)

	Oh Gilbert, we simply *must* get you onto STATLG-L.

	I suppose you *do* know what third base is, so perhaps I'd best
	explain the rest.  The phrase was originally spoken by (I believe)
	Tom Harkin, in reference to our esteemed President GHWB.  Harkin
	said something like 'George was born on third base, but he thinks
	he hit a triple.'

	The metaphor, of course, refers to 'born with a silver spoon in his
	mouth,' to Bush's patrician background, to his (now known to be an
	ad agency invention) down-home predilections for country music and
	pork rinds, and to his good-field/no-hit Yale baseball career.

neal
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 23:31:28 CDT
From:         Price Caldwell <tpc1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Craftsmanship revisited?
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Rod, congratulations on your anthologization!
--POrice
(I mean, Price)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 11:47:57 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Last night
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Thanks everyone for helping me put out the fire in my oven.  It
was rather spectacular looking.

About IRC in general, I have to say that I hate it more now than
ever before.  I find it extremely frustrating.  I like MUDs much
better, because you can 'whisper' private messages.  It took me
a long time to figure out that a * meant a private msg.  But
besides syntax, the discourse structure is quite different--
action is very much integrated into the conversation.  I think
many conversations are 50% action, some a lot more.  It allows
you to imitate the use of facial expression/body lg. in FTF speech.

About last night in particular, where the hell did you all go?
You all got bumped twice, and I was left all alone.  Then I saw
the list that Rita saw (you were also bumped, Czarina, I saw you
leave!) of every IRCer, and then I was bumped from telnet.When
I came back, it was Adam, Nancy, and Pat.

What a way to spend an evening.It was kind of fun, but very
confusing.

Karen
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:04:56 GMT
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From:         DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      Re: Trivia, BP, etc

*** Resending note of 07/31/92 12:43

>For the song?  I'd guess about $50.

Right.  Of course, back then it would seem more like $500.  Still, not much
for a folk song that survived ...and in more than one Western.

Don, who is right now thinking about the corny, but entertaining, western
group who sang in the big dinner barn not far from the Hart Ranch near
Rapid City, SD .....we did have a great time...oh well, back to work,
but at least it's Friday!
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:49:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject: Re: Eating whales
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>What if you just like whales (not to eat, I mean)?

     I used to like eating whales.  You know, at first it was fun,
     something to do with my friends.  Then got to where I was
     polishing off a whole baby beluga by myself every night.
     So I went to CA (Cetaceaphages Anonymous), and it saved my life.

     One who has been there
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:53:01 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Women in Combat
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>
> 		note all the violence...
>
> Then signs it...
> >                            Peace,
> >                                  Don
>
>> ...........interesting.....         ;)    LJG   tslgilmore@cc.weber.edu

But peaceful Don is not advocating all the violence.
Doris
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 13:04:52 CDT
From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      My Mac can do these...
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>a :flirtatious or seductive behavior
>1: to engage in flirtation
>2: to act or deal with something lightly or without vigor or purpose
>3: to amuse oneself as if with a toy: PLAY

Can you say the same of a mushy laptop? ;-)

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:45:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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Don,
I *love* CarTalk.... It is *so* funny.  But I did not know that
they trashed the Miata.  As for the dork comment, that's probably
true, present company excepted, of course.  Anyway, I prefer to
think of myself as a <dorf>.
It wasn't an MGA, it was an MGB, the kind with the chrome
bumpers before they ruined the looks with those awful black
rubber bumpers (of which there is, incidentally, a '79 with
only 27K miles available locally for under $6000)  That sounds
like a lot of money for a 13 year old MGB....  But I have
always thought that the MG is the classiest of all sports
cars because it is so understated....  not dorky at all.
The Porsche 914 is a very zippy car, but *uuuuuuggggly* beyond
WORDS.  The Alpine was also a great car, maybe the best of
all, but I have seldom met a mechanic who has ever *seen* one.
--ggs
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:47:00 EDT
From:         ktw@HLWPK.ATT.COM
Subject:      Quail Season
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>     But he's not saying that anymore.  Now Marilyn says they would
>     make their 13-year-old daughter (who must be mortified at all
>     this public discussion of her probably theoretical sex life)
>     carry the baby to term.

Anna Quindlen's column in the Sunday Prav...sorry, NY Times...  dealt
with the same thing.  Basically, her point was that Dan Quayle is fair
game, but a 12-year-old girl is not, and to use her the way that
whoremaster Larry King used her is despicable.  What else would anyone
expect from Larry King: taste??

>     It's a measure of the debasement of the debate about abortion
>     that Quayle caught a ration of crap for saying "I would support
>     my daughter no matter what she decided," when those are easily
>     the most sane and loving words I've ever heard from DQ's lips.
>     What does Operation Rescue expect him to say -- "I would throw
>     the little trollop out in the snow"?

Quayle even got to me when he said that.  Matters touching ones
children can bring out the nobility in anyone.  As for your rhetorical
question, you know the answer.  The answer is "yes."

>     Frankly, I don't know if I could be as sanguine.  If my
>     hypothetical 13-year-old daughter got pregnant, I would be
>     inclined to march her down to the clinic no matter how she felt
>     about it.  I'm not proud of that from a civil liberties
>     standpoint, but I think babies have no business having babies.

I have a different problem: two boys, one of whom is 14.  They get it
drummed into their heads at home and in school: sex is not safe.  It
is the ultimate pleasure and the ultimate joy, but even before the
Age of AIDS it was a loaded gun.  When it comes down to it, parents
are not Civil Libertarians: they're benign dictators.  The nicest
thing I would say to one of my sons if he came home and told me he'd
knocked up his 14-year-old girlfriend would start with "You stupid
bastard," and go downhill from there.  Kids have no business fathering
kids, either.

Ken
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:59:03 +0200
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: <sigh>
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              21 Jul 92 12:55:00 -0400. <9207211657.AA26128@sics.se>

>     EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT A MAC IS A TOY


  What does "toy" mean here?
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:47:24 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (54)
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>>  5) To suck eggs (Rita)
>
>	Slang for being really awful.

That's what I thought from the context. It's just an emphasis on "to suck".
Nothing to do with what grandma knows.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:07:31 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: My Mac can do these...
              21 Jul 1992 13:55:17 CDT from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

I use Windows because that's what Akron U. provides for my work; we're
an IBM shop.

Evelyn
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:21:08 CDT
From:         Anne Harwell <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Looking for help w/ tact...
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>How about, "Well Bob, with anyone else that comment you made yesterday
>about <student>'s looks would be taken as condescendingly sexist, but
>you're such a good looking guy I just can't hold it against you"...

I say you <accidentally> kick his nuts and then apologize.

-abh
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 13:22:25 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: dreary weekend
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>
> >What part of acadamia dominates your life?
> >Doris
>
> Hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee.  Rolling on the
> floor laughing near hysteria.  Doris, if you are stuck in the groves
> of academe, it is hard to think of a part of academia that doesn't
> dominate your life.
>                             Bill Sjostrom

Bill,
Between your chortles and Neal's pointing out the narrow scope of my
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
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 09:30:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (54)
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 9) Hefty (Carol C.)

     Brand of plastic trash bag ostensibly worn by obese net-surfing
     housewives.

12) Cetaceaphages Anonymous (Carol C.)

     Whaleaters Anonymous, an invented twelve-step program for the
     treatment of those addicted to the eating of whalemeat.

     Carol ("all the genius stuff I write, and *this* is what gets
     Gleaned?)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:08:24 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Looking for help w/ tact...

Karen,
  Just sit him down and tell him that what he said wasn't appropriate
or businesslike. Then, if he refuses to be reasonable, kick him where
it hurts (him, not you).

Evelyn
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 10:25:47 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: <sigh>
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              92 5:41 pm

> >>   What does "toy" mean here?
> >
> >	I certainly have a lot of fun playing (..er working) with mine.
> >
> >
> >Czarina
>
> Another find from the perl manual: if the operator "@eff" is attached
> to the end of the string, each letter in the string is replaced by the
> one to the right of it on the qwerty keyboard.

	Gosh.  And to think I came up with the alternative login
"toys" just by putting my fingers on the keyboard wrong.


Czarina
Who has accounts all over the place under different logins, but is
currently amusing herself as czarina@mindvox.phantom.com
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Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 11:59:26 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Okay, what's the opposite?
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Nobody answered my last question yet, but heck, I'm a wordsler.
(And btw, -abh, it seems like you also read Zen and the Art, in
addition to Joyce.)

Anyway, this question has to do w/ orality--we talk about the 'orality'
of a written text.  Do we talk about the literality of speech?? Or what?

Help, help, help.  We don't have an interstate, so I don't know if there
is grass on it or not.

Karen
"If each wordsler wrote a paragraph of my diss, would I be done?"
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:19:35 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Gregarious Giggles
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>          No. of       % of
> Rank Articles KBytes Total   User
> 1  7453    7206.9  1.5%   ldm@wetterhorn.UCAR.EDU  (UNIDATA Local Data
 Mangement
>  daemon)
> 			      100% ncar.weather
>
> 2   262     186.5  0.0%   sys@mgweed.UUCP  (WA9DNZ)
> 			      100% chi.weather
>
> 3   239     146.8  0.0%   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!
Good going, Giggles.
Doris
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:12:00 EDT
From:         Ovinglay Is-hay Eeahtamay <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Acknowldging ggs' existence
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> Of course I recognize your existence, dear ggs, I expect you
> to drop the silly idea of a polluting car and put the downpayment
> on the "S.S. Words-L" so we can sail to Ireland next summer.
>
> Seriously, your advice about Bob was good.  It will be difficult
> to call him a chauvinist, though, because he is a feminist and
> has published feminist literary stuff.But the rest was good.
> I may borrow it word for word.:)
>
> Karen

Oh, good.  Thank you Karen.  First time you've spoken to me since
I was nasty to your friend.  Seriously you are a sweetie and I have
a picture of you at the clambake, which I have on my <dresser> to
remind me of those lovely days of summer when we were
<acquaintances>.
How could this man say such a thing if he is really a feminist?
That is wierd, like, that is pure-d AC/DC stuff.
--ggs
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:36:50 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      A Query
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We have learned of some publications by a group
called "Urantia". They seem to be religious or
perhaps "spiritual" or maybe even "cult". Has
anyone heard of them? Know anything about them?

A customer asked my daughter, at the bookstore
where she works, if she could order certain books
from them.

love, judith
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 14:46:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Re: Gifless No More
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     Well, rats.  Looks like it didn't work, Elwood.  Anybody have any
     other bright ideas?

     16:28:05 > FTP FTP.MSSTATE.EDU NETDATA
     * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
     * * BITFTP is no longer able to provide service to  * *
     * * nodes that are not directly on EARN or BITNET   * *
     * * or NetNorth.  Your node appears to be           * *
     * * accessible from BITNET only via a mail-only     * *
     * * gateway.  If you believe that your node is      * *
     * * directly on BITNET or NetNorth or EARN, please  * *
     * * send mail to MAINT@PUCC specifying your         * *
     * * BITNET/EARN/NetNorth node name.                 * *
     * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

     Carol
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:26:01 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: You said a mouthful
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On Mon, 27 Jul 1992, Gilbert Smith wrote:
> > Well, all I can say, ts you little artichoke heart you, is that you
> > have *not* been <reading your mail> very carefully or else you are
> > something less than <observant> of late.  Too involved in all that
> > you-thought-I-was-an-inhabitant-of-the-world-but-in-fact-I-am-not
> > sort of recidivous rhetorical metagrobolizing to realize that
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > some things <can't be stopped>.
> > --<ggs>
> You haven't been paying attention Nancy Louise.

Thank you, Gilbert...I'll try to do better.
Nancy Louise
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:54:00 LCL
From:         Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM
Subject:      Death and the drowned kittens
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On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:19:47 CDT Tushar Samant said:
>>>ARRFFFHHH.  No, *that* *just* *really* *pisses* *me* *off*!!!

>That's what Death said when he found a sack of drowned kittens.

     Like, "Hey pal, killing kittens is *my* job"?

     If this comes from a story, I'd like to hear the rest of it.
     If not, maybe we should write the rest of it.

     Carol
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 20:11:59 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Literality
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> No SHIT! Like, you heard me speaking someplace? Or you think when I
> pipe stuff in the list I am, like, SPEAKING and shit? Gimme a break.
> Man, this is just WAY too weird!
>
> SPEAKING. Oh man, THAT was a funny one.

I'm trying to envision these paragraphs spoken w/ an Indian accent
(Gujarati, isn't it?).  I just can't do it...I keep ROTFL.:)

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:12:00 EDT
From:         "J'aime beaucoup mon Miata" <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: hi
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> Hi, Tushar...always nice to hear from you, particularly when you are in a
> good mood.
> ndh (terribly afraid this is a vapid inanity, but posting it anyway)

Nannnnnnnn!!!!!!!  You're in trouble now, sis.
--ggs
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:30:10 -0500
From:         Melicent Tlucek Bryarly <melicent@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: You said a mouthful
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> On Mon, 27 Jul 1992, Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 wrote:
> > Doris, you are absolutely right ...new grandparents need no excuses!  Nancy
> > is doing just fine.  Also, thanks for the welcome back.
> > Don, who will have to sign off soon - I think - as expecting Joyce back soon
 -
> > she went to see baby Joseph - about 6 hours ago!
>
> Don, surely you're not expecting her back already...six hours is *not*
> long enough!
> ndh
Nancy...grandchildren are wonderful, I'm sure, even if I did keep the
water boiling for a month....however, sons coming home after two years in
Japan with US Air Force Intellegence (I don't know if that is spelled
right...it looks wrong) is even better. Rob comes home Aug. 26..I won't be
going to school that day...Melicent
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:59:04 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Blue shorts
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> > Was it just me, or did anyone else notice the little satiny blue shorts Al
> It was just you.  I've *never* met a woman who pays as much attention
> to men's groins as you do, Anne.  And making remarks about them in front
> of people :-|
> G

I personally thinks it's the blue shorts that gets her. :)

Karen
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:58:00 EDT
From:         Rita Leonard x3403 <LEONARD%BCVMCMS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Guilty as charged

------------------------------TEXT-OF-YOUR-MAIL--------------------------------

>
> But I *love* Cousin Lenny, so there!
>
> -abh

Is there a Cousin Lenny Fan Club being formed?  May I join?

Rita L.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:37:32 CDT
From:         Tushar Samant <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Transistors=brain cells
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>This month's "Japan Report" has an article about transistors that
>I found fascinating; cyberreality is upon us.
>
>"Researchers at Tohoku University's Faculty of Engineering recently
>announced that they had succeeded in developing a new type of
>transistor, one which operates much like a human brain cell.

Why do I get the feeling that I have read this before? For the past
six years at least I have seen articles saying something like this.
They all sound the same. In order to be eye-catching, more needs to
be said than "much like the human brain cell" (and the rest of the
description) and since I won't understand any greater detail than
that, such articles will never impress me.

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:20:02 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Cleveland Freenet
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A question for you real computer people who understand these things...I've
been trying to reach Cleveland Freenet since Saturday, without success.  I
wrote to the TENET helpdesk, thinking perhaps the powers that be had
decided there was too much interesting stuff on Freenet for sheltered
schoolteachers...the reply I got said that the system was probably just
down for repairs or the installation of something.  But five days?  Is
this likely?  Another helpdesk suggestion was that Freenet might have
changed its address...is this likely?  If so, how does one *get* the new
address?
Puzzled (who would ask her son-in-law, a *real computer person*, but he's
not getting much sleep lately, doing Dad Patrol from midnight to 3 a.m.
every night)
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