HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Entropy Warrior)
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Subject: Re: Clinton and, well, you know
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:45:32 GMT
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>The last time I voted for a Presidential candidate (instead of voting
>against his opponent(s)) was in 1980, and it was for Anderson.
>
>Evelyn Duncan

Me too.  In Chicago.  To make sure he got the federal money.  My vote was
stolen.  It ended up in Lake Michigan.  Hyde Park was not loved by the machine.

-K

-Mka
d
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     The material published by our house does not necessarily reflect the
views of the owner or editorial board.  Our aim is more to please than
instruct, though we do believe that some of our publications may be
instructive.

     We value all our readers and would regret being forced to publish
elsewhere because a few refuse to read our material in the spirit in which it
is offered.

     -The Editor
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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In a previous article, PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU ("Judith E. Schrier") says:

>>a hopeless *ss and to start being nice to your elders.
>>I cannot begin to say how <proud> I am of you.
How utterly, nauseatingly sweet of you, cousin Giggles.:-)

>>--ggs (who *never* holds a grudge....)
>Hmmmm, that sounds just about like it.
WIth that speech, it's hard to tell....

>love, judith, who doesn't, either
Hey, WELCOME BACK!  And just where have you been, Mama J?  And if you
say to Londin to visit the Queen, I'll send the boys of VMI your way.
<shudders>
Maybe we should do that anyway - they need a mama and a good spanking.
[no Graham - the *other* kind of good spanking]
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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Subject:      Re: New Train possibilities.

Thanks, Alec, for the New Train Possibilities.  May I make a few
editorial comments:

> train could be available for all Metroliner service between Washington
> and Boston by 1996. That trip currently takes 4 1/2 hours.
> ABB Traction Corp. of Sweden, the manufacturer of the X2000, says the
> new train can make the trip in less than three hours.
> The high-tech trains won't be able to go full speed until Amtrak
> installs new signals and electrifies the entire length of track.

Current best running time, Penn Station to DC is 2 hr 30 m; current best
running time, South Station Boston to Penn Station is 4 hr 30 min or
so.  The idea is to cut the New York to Boston running time to 3 hr.

> Amtrak's Metroliners ... go as fast as 125 m.p.h. on straightaways
> but must slow to 10 m.ph. on the most severe curves.

The Swedish train won't be able to take those severe curves much
faster.  The 10 mph restrictions are in the approach tracks to the
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York stations; there are some
tunnels that have speed restrictions to avoid stressomg the structure

> the estimated cost of converting Amtrak rails to accomodate the
> X200 from Boston to Washington is $80 million.

That's got to be on top of the cost of electrifying the New Haven to
Boston section.  That's about 150 miles of double-track railroad, and
wiring runs over $1 mill per track mile.

Steve Karlson

38 FAST trains!
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Is that a kielbasa in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Date: 14 Oct 1992 04:02:37 GMT
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In a previous article, "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS" () says:

>>uncircumcized.  No anesthetics, of course.  I can't even imagine
>>that....
>
>>ken
>        Unfortunately, *I* can, and just as soon as I'm able to straighten
>out from my doubled-over/fetal position I'm going to STOP thinking about it!

So can I, even if that appendage isn't part of my anatomy.  The feeling of
having a kneecap slip its moorings probably comes pretty close.  As in
pass the morphine?:-)

>John "Ooooooooh, that SMARTS!" W.
See Giggles, one lousy finger slice isn't *that* bad

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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:55:58 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What's wrong with the Post Office
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I haven't been following the p.o. discussion, but I'll jump in to say that
I choose p.o. over UPS any time I'm given a choice.  Among other reasons,
I'm not crazy about finding things like a new computer tossed in my carport
inviting thieves.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:20:56 EDT
From:         IBAILEYTW%1994B%VMI@IST.VMI.EDU
Subject: Re: Respite from the Kiddies
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HEY!  The "VMIers"  aren't "unsubbed"  just quiet.  We'll keep it that way
unless someone out there has something that they want to discuss with us.
Feel free no matter how much you hate us.

                                    Love,
                                     Country
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Racist and sexist economics
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 23:59:51 GMT

EL406041@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU writes:
> Was there a big conference or something?  Because NPR said this AM
> that 600 economists endorsed Clinton's economic proposals. This
> smacks vaguely of 9 out of 10 doctors...

They're probably all out of work and think a Clinton government is
more likely to hire them than a Bush government.

--karsten

(It's not a recession until the economists start getting laid off)
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
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> *nan* dear.... I think this man is <putting somebody on>!!!!
> Of course, if Clinton *had* said this, I would agree with him, since
> just about anything that has ruined this country is surely of
> Republican leaning.
> Don't y'all thank so?
> --ggs

Well, I'm sure my mother would certainly think so...as I think I have said
before, I was grown before I knew that nice people *could* be Republicans.
ndh
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Subject: Re: From the Annals of Democracy
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:16:00 GMT
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Original-From: mhwpa!ktw (Kenneth T Wolman +1 201 564 2866)
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>     When you looked at the Republicans, you saw the scum off the
>top of business.  When you looked at the Democrats, you saw the
>sum off the top of politics.  Personally, I prefer business.  A
>businessman will steal from you directly instead of getting the
>IRS to do it for him.  And when Republicans ruin the environment,
>destroy the supply of affordable housing, and wreck the
>industrial infrastructure, at least they make a buck off it.  The
>Democrats just do these things for fun. (p.30)

Is Parliament of Whores this good all the way through???  This is
the kind of stuff you want to call up people to read to them.

Ken
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 10:17:42 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (63)

Hi, Akio!
  Gleanings are the best part of Monday. :)

Eustace Tilley:  the top-hatted, monocled man on the masthead of the
New Yorker.  Before the changes were made, there was a different illustration
of him and his butterfly pet in the arts section.  Since Tina Brown took over,
there hasn't been a one.

Al on Quantum Leap:  He is the only link between Sam and the Quantum Leap
Project.  You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out
that Al's an admiral; he certainly does not act like one:  he's a cigar-
smoking womanizer, but he is a good guy.

Socialist Labor Party:  one of the top socialist parties in the U.S.
It's located in Palo Alto, California and publishes a weekly called the
People.  I think the founder was Daniel DeLeon.

Prozac Paratrooper:  John M. Williams' name for those of us who take
Prozac for depression.

To fire Murphy:  Murphy is a fictional character who takes the blame for
an unpopular business decision made by the bosses.  The bosses tell the
public that Murphy was fired, when, in reality, there was no such person.

Robert H. Treller:  the head man at Publishers Clearing House.

Chebyshev Polynomials:  These are interpolating polynomials of functions;
the error between the polynomial and the function is minimized in the closed
interval from -1 to +1.

Hope this helps.

Evelyn
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From:         "JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS"
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: "Dennis! There's some lovely filth down here!"

I'm with Ruth.  "The Holy Grail" is on A&E tonight, providentially opposite
the Presidential Deflates...  Of course, those of us who own our own copies
needn't worry about that...

John "Feche le Vache!" W.

ps - is that "Ruth the Chaste", or, just "Ruth"?
From: maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU ((Natalie Maynor))
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Date: 15 Oct 92 21:19:52 GMT
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> > only Graham, who is half naked, looks appropriately dressed for Mississippi.
>
> 1) Which half?

It's kind of hard to say -- it's not like consecutive quadrants.

> 2) Who took the picture and where and when??!?!?!

Not you or Jenna or Adam or Price or abh or Rashmi or Karen or Neal or
Elaine -- unless you used a timer.  Those are the people in the picture
I'm looking at right now.  July 5, 1992.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: RE: LATER
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:32:24 GMT
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In a previous article, tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:

>>TUSHIE!  Where have you been lurking?  Get your caustic a** back in here!
>"tart human ass" is the correct anagram, not "caustic a**". I wasn't
You mean you get paid for posting to Words-l?  Or was the money compensation
for something else? 
>lurking. Just went back whimpering to momma because I couldn't take it.
>Other reasons will soon be collected in a well-reasoned account and
>placed before the list.
Oh boy!  WMMRWBTM, coming soon to a mailbox near you!
>
>Refuting a passing newbie who doesn't care is a very alien method of
>having a bit of fun.
Well, my sister always said I came from Mars....:-)  

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Date:         Tue, 13 Oct 1992 07:25:35 CDT
From:         "(Natalie Maynor)" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Presidential politics
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> What makes you think 'administrators' are so much better off?  I'm not.

The figures.  The budget here is fascinating, in actual figures, in
raise figures, and in relationship of salaries to those at other universities.
Our administrators are near or above the salaries of their counterparts at
other universities in the Southeast.  Our faculty are far, far below.  I
don't seek out copies of the budget, btw, since I find looking at it a
depressing activity.  But I can't avoid seeing some of the figures when
they're given out at places like Faculty Council.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Judith E. Schrier)
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>Judith, are you by any chance changing planes in Pittsburgh?  I can't imagine a
>Providence-Memphis nonstop.  If so, please let me know, so I can help you
>figure out where the next gate is...
No, sweetie, I'd have let you know if it did. I change in
DETROIT! (NorthWest...I'm collecting frequent flier miles...
else it would have been United through Chicago one way, and
DC the other way)

>Don't let the fact that I haven't yet been to our brand-spanking-new airport
>stand in your way.
I wouldn't have, honest!

*BIG HUG*
judith
From: dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith)
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> > > I was grown before I knew that nice people *could* be Republicans.
> > >ndh
> > They *can*???
>
> And do we know any?  By hearsay even?
>
> G

Honesty is the best policy, even if it is going to cause me to lose
friends.  Yes, you know at least one, moi.  However, perhaps I'm not
considered "nice."  And while I consider myself a Republican, I remain
open-minded (no comments about the holes in my head) and often vote for
the person rather than the party.
Doris
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>i always sort it by sender, so wordsl stuff comes at the end...and i
>always pick off the private stuff, especially if its from an id
>like gaill or ap290, which sort at the VERY beginning of the list...
>
>so, ruth gewts private mail....and so does gail....and i get to list mail
>when i can.
Gee, Dan, I think I've been complimented.:-)  Thanks.

>of course sometimes, like now, i sort by subject line and pick off a
>whole thread that is interesting, like this one.
Ahh yes, interesting sex toys?  And who knows about which?  Or is it
who admits to [not] knowing?:-)  And how much of all this will show up
in Gleanings on Monday?




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Subject:      Re: "Grow" the economy?
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>Clinton just spent a few minutes talking about 'growing' the economy.
>Does this sound weird only to me?

It is a strange way to use the verb, one that has also been spreading
through the computer networking world. But how about Bush saying "you can't
*grow down* the deficit by raising taxes" ? That's really weird.

-abh
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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For those interested in strangeness.....try a catalog from

Loopmanics Unlimited
Box 1197
Port Townsend WA  98368

"publishers and sellers of unusual books"

Their latest supplement includes the following:

Best Cat Houses in Nevada
Feature Film Making at Used Car Prices
How to be Twice as Smart
Would the Buddha Wear a Walkman?
How to Open Handcuffs Without Keys
Improvised Modified Firearms: Deadly Homemade Weapons
The Get Out of Jail Free Book   (how to get contraband in, how toget your
    self out, disguise and sabotage, etc.)
The Privacy Poachers: How the government and big corporations gather, use
    and sell information about you
Don't Bug Me: the Latest High-tech Spy Methods
War Crimes: A Report on United States war crimes against Iraq
Ragnar's Big Book of Homemade Weapons: Building and Keeping your Arsenal Secure
    "many of these devices are now illegal, but just a few short years ago
     they weren't"
The Closet Cultivator  (the latest in marijuana growing techniques)
Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evil.
Exotic Weapons: An Access Book
    (includes blowguns, exploding arrows, sap gloves, tonfa, tiger claws,
     ion ray gun (??!!??), yari, sword umbrellas, etc.)  [don't glean
     them Akio, cause I sure don't know.   8-)   ]
Understanding U.S. Identity Documents    (including how to fake them, of
       course)
The Hydroponic Hot House
Serial Slaughter:  What's behind America's Murder Epidemic?


A little something for everybody, I guess.

dan
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Date: 13 Oct 92 20:16:40 GMT
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>        Al Gore actually has a good understanding of the NREN and its
>trappings.  He even uses e-mail.

Or, as I heard in IRC last week, "g0r3 waNtz 2 g1ve g0bz & g0bz 0f $$$ 2
tHe 1nTerNet#@!#@!!##!#"

-abh
that is an actual quote from a log file
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 1992 12:54:01 EDT
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: 99 and 44/100 percent pure
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> Tea I can't stand.  I always think I'm drinking weak
>coffee.  My tc/sw, however, who does not tend to economize on
>anything, saves her teabags and uses them three or four times.
Oh, dear! My mother did that, and brain-washed me into
doing it, too. It was one of the few Big Economies my
late husband was into.

I started graduate school when my son was in highschool;
my first Major Transformation was to throw away the teabag
after the first use!

I still get a thrill out of it, probably comparable to Natalie's
when she opens a fresh bar of soap.

love, judith
From: CROSEN%BGSUOPIE.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Greetings,

Actually, Quayle claimed that Gore's plan would cost American taxpayers
$100 billion, and asserted that Gore had so stated in his book.  Quayle
was distorting and misrepresenting the meaning of Gore's words in
a shamefully obvious way.  Only a misinformed cretin or blindly
partisan fool would accept Quayle's interpretive leap.

Marty
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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I warned her:
>>-abh insults me, with <no provocation whatsoever>.  Watch it, kiddo!

To no avail:
>That's the Words-L spirit!
>
>-abh

--No, abh my friend, that's *your* spirit, and a mean puir thing it is,
too.  Next offense gets your <entrails> used for divination: I still have
that  obsidian knife.  Not to mention another cup of Irish coffee. I find
that honey catches more newbies than does vinegar (or essence of vice-
presidency), and even when provoked I try to avoid being <rude>.  As 
now. [Sentence fragment intentional, O pedants.]

--bayla (sugar, spice, and all)
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In a previous article, "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 " (815) says:

>Would you believe I was grading homework assignments and then working
>on the model railroad last night?
>
Knowing you?  Yes; it seemed to be your idea of a hot date a few months 
back.:-)  Me?  I was at a chamber recital; one of the musicians is a friend,
and she brought three friends from the Hart School of Music.[aka the best
part of UHahaha]  I got to hear the piano used the way it was meant to be for 
once, instead of as a means of keeping a bunch of semi-tone deaf singers on 
key.:-)
You should have been there, instead of getting frustrated by some recalcitrant
wooden parts....
>
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