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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:15:27 -0500
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Help with a movie question
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BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes re _Run_

>     The movie is on The Movie Channel on 23 and 29 December, if you
>    have access.  It would be fun to have you identify the Boston
>    scenes...

Brad & Rita--

        I still seem to have TMC available -- left over from a free preview
and should be able to tape this this afternoon or evening.  Maybe we can
have a New England Wordsler Twelfth Night bash, view this flick and
can identify all the Boston (if that is what they are) scenes for Brad.
I mention Twelfth Night so we can get past all the other holidays where
most of us are likely to be tied up with family, etc. Are any of the Brownies
up for this?  When does Judith return from Louisiana?

Happy holidays to all,
Joan
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:31:58 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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On Sat, 26 Dec 1992, Dan Lester wrote:

>    but thanks for calling...that was really neat....chris is the other
> wordsler who has called since my eye trouble started....

And we both use Macs...hmm, that ought to tell you enough.

Incidentally, Chris, your phone did not answer yesterday, nor yours Rita,
nor yours Tony, and Giggles's son talked to me very nicely but he just
never in all his life, so there. After three thwarted tries and one waste
of money call, I just gave up and decided to go play with my toys.

Bah humbug to the lot of you! ;-)

-abh
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From:         jc-s <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: How I love the winter...
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>
>He would.
>
>I'm looking forward to wearing my new t-shirt at the salmonbake.  It's a
>hand-me-down from a friend who gave it to me for xmas because I had coveted
>it and because it's more appropriate for me than for him.  I can't do it
>justice by trying to describe it.  It involves tongues and a dog.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Hmm. i have a tshirt that involves a dog and tongue as well...
the caption is "teaching him bad manners" is it the same
as yours?

jenna
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 23:17:43 EST
From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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Posted on 26 Dec 1992 at 11:23:02 by torkel@SICS.SE

>  Oh, by the way:
>
>lludd> webster 'cream Judith'
>cream Ju.dith \'kre-m\ \'kre--me-\ \'ju:d-*th\ n \'ju:d-*th\ n
>   [Judith E Schrier ? poss. myth.]: tart yet strangely soothing
>   cream with secrets ingredients, usu. eaten summer evenings,
>   with fresh fruit

Uh, where do I get a copy of this 'rotten Canadian Webster' ?

Tony H.
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 00:52:37 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Ruth, it's soooo easy to annoy you <evil grin>.

The post mentions you but is addressed to Natalie.
You really needn't take the trouble.

tushar
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:15:00 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: New Gif!

>> You can now see Peter Montgomery in living color.  Another sexy, bearded
>> WORDS-Ler.
>>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>Blush!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>Pm

I think you have got the wrong impression, friend. You forget that this
is Natalie speaking. I have in the past posted a faq about Natalie-speak,
but I failed to note therein the very important fact that in this dialect
"sexy" means "discernibly male".

Perhaps I should publish this FAQ file again for the benefit of newbies.

tushar
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 10:41:30 EST
From:         "Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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Anne Harwell writes:

abh>The day after Christmas is one of the nicest of the year. The frenzy
abh>is over, we're as far as we can be from the next Christmas, the
abh>presents are opened, the big sales await, and life goes back to a
abh>more leisurely pace.  Or so I sincerely hope for all Wordslers.

        Well, the boxes and wrapping paper are thrown out, the dishes
are washed, most of the leftovers are eaten, and we're going out to look
for Christmas bargains today.  Life is pretty good.  I need to get off
the computer so we can go shopping.

Take care,
Tom Lee
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:07:22 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Monthly Hello
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              30 Dec 1992 16:30:05 EST from <lpoint!ah@THINK.COM>

On Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:30:05 EST Adam Hartfield said:
>Duty)...  My holiday was OK..thanks to those wordslers who sent cards and
>missives (Gail, that's the longest xmas letter I've ever seen, let alone
>read!)
>
   yup.....i'll agree with you adam....but almost daily gail comes up with
some important tidbit that she left out....   o-)

   she just commented, as i read this to her, that she said almost nothing
bout our kids or jobs or a couple of the trips or.....


dan
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:34:33 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>On Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:12:14 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>>is a factor, but I know a lot of people the world wouldn't consider
>>"attractive" who are a)happily married, b)engaged, or c)have very active
>>social lives.  As long as a person doesn't have a truely horrible B.O. [IMHO]
>
>   agree...as i've posted at length....
>
>    and i trust i know ruth well enough to know that she wasn't offended
>at my son's question about whether her nose would hit the wall first...and
>same with my repeating it publicly....etc.....obviously not the type of
>'harrassment' that i would give to someone i did NOT know....
>
No problem; I know the source.:-)  Besides, it's purely a hypothetical
question, as even I'm not blind enough to walk into walls face-first....
[not quite]:-)

-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:42:41 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: PCH Sweepstakes
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> > I was very surprised to get a letter from the Treasurer of PCH the other
> > day.  The first paragraph reads "Our Director of Contests, Margarete
> > Thuemmler, advises me that you are one of the people who meets all
> > requirements to guarantee you Finalist status in our current
> > Sweepstakes. Congratulations!"
>
> I got one too.

That makes three of us!
>
> > So keep your fingers crossed--it may be time to start ordering the Suns
> > and checking out boats for the Words-L Villefranche Tour. I trust Carol
>
> Yes!

So will we gather in France or Ireland this summer? Or both?
ndh
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:55:36 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Greetings From Brad
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I just talked to Brad (Uncle Brad, not Alt Brad), who is about 50 miles
from here right now.  Alas, our schedules are such tomorrow that we're not
going to be able to manage a FTF this time.  He sends greetings to the list
and this information:  dial 1-800-new-word (in the US) to hear Tony Randall
talking about words in the American Heritage Dictionary.  He (Brad, not Tony
Randall) will be back in Kentucky in a couple of days and thus back with us.
He's suffering from extreme list withdrawal right now, after six listless
days.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 09:08:37 -0500
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@RA.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject:      New Year's Good Luck Foods
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Until the Southerners began talking of the need to eat black-eyed peas
to insure good luck in the coming year, I had never heard of the
custom of eating any special food on New Year's Day.

Does anyone know the origin of this?

Happy & healthy New Year to all,
Joan

P.S. I vote with Ruth: canned green peas are terrible -- fresh or frozen
can be great.
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 08:05:09 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Hohoho
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> You can make up for your oversight by providing his present on the
> appropriate January day for Greek and/or Russian Orthodox Xmas (sorry,
> I don't know the dates).  By then he'll need more Snausages, no doubt.

What he really wants is for me to have another party so that he can have
things like sausages wrapped in dough instead of snausages from a box.
He also wants Judith to come back and visit.  The last night she was here
(or rather there since I'm here, not there, right now -- or rather the here
that I am right now is not the here of the time I'm talking about) -- this
sentence is getting too long.  The last night Judith was in Starkville,
Bernard spent the first half of the night in bed with her instead of with
me, thereby hurting my feelings.  He told me later that he did it to make
sure she knew that she was a welcome guest -- that he didn't mean to hurt
my feelings.  And he did, after all, come join me around midnight.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 11:10:18 +1000
From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Nancy's History Question
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>Geography for me, thanks.

Hang on a minute! You've already had a turn.... you'll have to wait until
all the available new players have had a turn, then if Geography is one of
the options available on your dice roll, you can have it.... otherwise
you may have to select another one. :-)

>Laird is Lord; Bairn is baby; what is Baird?)
>
> Alt-Brad *

How about 'Baby of a Laird'? :-)  Actually, I believe it means "Killer of the
Boar" - rather appropriate, don't you think? :-)

Carolyn
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: What's in a name?

> > Here's a nominee for the WORDS-L list of interesting names (is anybody
> > actually keeping such a list?):

We talked about this here a little over a year ago; it was fun then and it's
still fun (at least I think so). Would these posts be in the archives?

> I imagine we could all contribute to such a list.  Here's my contribution:
>
> Non Douglas

That's a weird one - my mother used to play bridge with a woman named
Fornia Horsely (Horsely was her married name). Say it out loud and see if
you can keep from laughing.

> doris

Emily, easily amused
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:18:47 -0600
From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Susan's Science/Nature Question
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A pedometer measures how far you walk (as opposed to an odometer measuring
how far you drive) -- either in miles or kilometers depending.

(I like this version; Trivial Pursuit -- The Essay Portion.)

-----Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik-------------------------------*<:-)-------------
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:52:29 -0500
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@RA.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bye ... good holidays
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I'm one of the ones who'll be around -- both children here -- will be
online more than I'd like because still doing grading --

Holiday greetings, Joan
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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Early morning blues...
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Posted on 1 Jan 1993 at 19:42:27 by LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU

>>It can't be that great over there - we've had *lots* of Kiwis immigrating
>>here recently, for more money.  Your costs may be relatively lower, but
>
>We've had lots of Kiwis crossing the Tasman as well.... seems things are a
>lot worse in New Zealand than they are here.

Just as Graham can't seem to remember that Canada and the US are different
countries, he probably doesn't know that NZ and Australia are too.

Tony H.
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:58:05 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      glasses and eyes
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              23 Dec 1992 20:46:38 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

On Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:46:38 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>Join the club, lovey - that's me at night with my glasses off.  20/100 in
>both eyes, with a little astigmatism thrown in for grins.  Still, you have my
>sympathies, and hopes that yours at least will clear up.
>--
      well, yes....i'm about 20/400 in each eye....well was before the
retina crap started up....and the left one is now about 20/400 WITH the
glasses on....and it is supposed to improve a bit in next few months
before they give me new glasses lens on that side....and there has always
been astigmatism on both sides....but now the left one shows all things
tipped down and to the right about 15 degrees, so besides being fuzzy
nothin liines up.

   at the moment the scary part is the different KIND of fuzziness....the
kind i've always had is just out of focus, like when camera isn't focussed,
just sorta fuzzy/blurry....but the left one now is wiggly....like looking
thru glass blocks, or one of those shower doors....and lines of print
that i can sorta read if i hold the book about four inches from my face
are all wiggly, with lines of text that look like caterpillars, with
each character individually distorted.   oh, well.....

anyway, the dilation is going away, though it is still real sensitive to light.

could be worse....any of it beats that 50% curtain across the eyeball..and
i am thanbkful for what has been done so far....

hugs

dan the cyclops    o-)

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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Orleans
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> > I'm going to be there the weekend of February 26-27, at the Monteleone
>                                                               ~~~~~~~~~~
> Sitting on the counter in my dressing room is an old fashioned footed
> bathtub with gold lettering that says "Hotel Monteleone  100th Anniversary
> 1886-1986."

My parents spent their honeymoon at the Monteleone.  July 31, 1935.  New
Orleans.  No air-conditioning.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: What's in a name?

> Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> writes:
>
> >And we have Dallas Raines, KABC, channel 7.
>
> So THAT'S what happened to him.  Nothing like a union shop.
>
> So, is KABC's news, IYHO, as bad as WABC's is? Eyewitless News,
> I-missed-it News, etc?

KABC's the pits. Local independent stations are better (like Channel 9).

Re: ZBT - here at UCLA it's referred to as Zillions, Billions and Trillions.

> --Aaron

Emily
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: e-oops
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1992 samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

> 1) So what do you make of Carolyn's explanation?
>    Answer honestly.

I love this: coming from soneone who 24 hours ago was boasting of having a
life.

Of course, Wombat was saving face--it WAS an e-oops!

-abh
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From:         Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik <amadeus@CCWF.CC.UTEXAS.EDU>
Subject:      Peeing and Walls (was Re: Inexcusable favouritism by Carolyn)
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On Mon, 14 Dec 1992, Ruth M. Hanschka wrote:

> In a previous article, gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:
> >
> >Yeah?  Bet you can't pee over the wall!
> >
> Why would she want to?  Unless Tushar were on the other side, maybe....

This reminds me of how I learned just how different boys were from girls.
In the first grade, one day we were all queued up to do the
bathroom-before-recess thing.  As might be expected, there was a girls'
line and a boys' line.  I had already done my business and was in the line
to go outside when Tommy Haygood came running pell-mell out of the boys'
room yelling, "Mrs. Greenburg, Stan Gustas is peeing on the wall!"  Well,
of course, Mrs. Greenburg went into the restroom to stop this anarchist
and subversive behavior.

Me, I had this *huge* question mark hanging over my head for the rest of
the day, trying to figure out how he did that (visualizing someone with
the equipment I had attempting this maneuver) and failing miserably.  So,
of course, the minute I had the chance, I asked my mom.  It seems the best
questions are asked in an automobile, in 5 o'clock traffic.  :)

As for the rest of the story, no, I don't remember how my mother answered
the question, but take my daughter as evidence that I figured it out.  So
I learned that 1) the apparati varied significantly and 2) boys didn't
seem overly concerned with the state of their bathrooms.

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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: What A Quiet Bunch
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:39:57 GMT

I don't drink enough anymore to get hungover.  A couple Sam Adams and
a glass of champagne at midnight.

Nico and I are spending the day writing our wedding vows.




-- 
Rita Rouvalis                                Electronic Frontier Foundation
rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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Posted on 23 Dec 1992 at 17:06:14 by Graham Toal
>You and abh have already performed that experiment I seem to recall.
>(At the clambake; different crotch; green shorts)

The experiment I remember was with the color-changing shorts.

Karen
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Date: 22 Dec 92 19:45:46 GMT
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And speaking of operating systems, Novell just bought AT&T Unix for
$365 mill in stock. It's seen by industry analysts as a defensive
competitive move to challenge the dominance of Microsoft software,
especially in networking.

Wonder if the new owners will change the restrictive (and over-priced) 
licensing practices?
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English peas
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> When I read Natalie's account of June days in the 50s in Jackson, I thought
> of air-conditioning.  Children somehow seem immune from the worst effects
> of that brutal Mississippi heat; I mean, the heat and humidity of those
> largely un-air-conditioned times is screened out of the nostalgic memories.

I didn't mind the heat and humidity.  Houses back then had attic fans and
lots of windows.  I still prefer open windows to a/c most of the time --
except in cars.  If given a choice of whether to give up car a/c or house
a/c, I'd give up house a/c in a minute.  Remember not many years ago when
the governor of Vermont recommended banning all car a/c?  I wondered at the
time how often she had driven in Mississippi summers.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)