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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:14:47 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Questions
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:>        But there's no question that a chewed wintergreen Lifesaver emits a
:>        small flash of light.  In a fabled All Things Considered report, Susan
:>        Stamberg and Ira Flatow locked themselves in a closet at NPR to
:>        demonstrate the phenomenon.

:Ah - triboluminescense.  Also seen when you pull sticky tape off a
:roll in the closet.

Ah yes, light-from-rubbing: another explanation-by-naming.
Natalie should feel reassured.

G
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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>You're a true addict then.  Do you ever mix your fixes?

Most of the time, but I'll take my caffeine straight if I'm desperate.....
learnt how to do that when I was an impoverished student back in the 60's.

>My sister doesn't have that excuse - she lives in New England!:-)  I get
>fairly nasty myself sometimes, but it has to be a combination of sleep
>deprivation and PMS to really set me off.  Three-day headaches will do it
>too, sometimes.

When I suffer all three of those concurrently, I have to lock myself in my
bedroom to protect the rest of the family. :-(

>No problem  - I've been compared with lots of other people, none of whom you'd
>want to associate with.  [often by list cranky people and the imfamous kid
>sister]

Strange! I can't think of anyone you remind me of..... except for me at your
age. :-)

>BTW - for anyone interested - Forever Knight is on!  Yahooooo! [hunk alert!]
>--
>                ###     Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###

Looks like I'm going to have to get Chris to put pressure on his contacts at
Channel 10 to make sure they pick it up next season. Channel 10 have the
Simpsons and Quantum Leap, so they will probably be after that one too.

Carolyn
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      RE: On the shortage of lives on words-l

>Dan. There is a
>documented instance of Ruth asking Ausbrook to shut up.
>
>Tushar

Really?  Well, produce it.  We can spend 1993 reliving 1992 as you saw it.

-K

-Mka
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      cshow
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Ok, so now things are progressing, I think.  I have finally
managed to ftp a .gif file and have it sitting in my 3270
directory.  I also have CSHOW sitting there, but don't know
what to do with it.  How do I make it work to view this .gif?
The .gif file won't work in any of the graphics programs I
have, for reasons that probably everyone understands but me.
Any suggestions?
Please don't say something like "Run CSHOW"....  tell me *how*.
Thanks.
--ggs (anxious to get into *seeing* some of these things)
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:50:52 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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  >Obviously you haven't experienced that kind of mockery, or you would
  >understand.

  Understand what? I asked you earlier whether the respect which you
think we owe all deeply held beliefs consists in not mocking those
beliefs: is this in fact what you mean? And if so, what mocking are we
talking about here? I am not asking for any full and precise
definition, but only for some simple clarifications. In particular, if
I state, in all seriousness and without any mockery in any ordinary
sense, that somebody's beliefs are false and revolting and - to use a
somewhat familiar phrase - "beneath contempt", is this compatible with
my respecting those beliefs in your sense?

  >Funny thing about values. They aren't ideas. They're objects of the
  >will, not the mind.

  I have no problem at all in this context with the ontological status
of values, but only with which among several values you are referring
to. For example, those values which Mill invoked in championing free
speech are not the same as, and not on the face of it compatible with, the
values invoked by those who would disallow mockery of deeply held beliefs.
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Gilbert's Entertainment Question
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> Gilbert:
>
> "What award-winning ABC reporter later became executive producer of
> Australia's 'Sixty Minutes'?"
>
> Your dice rolls are 5 and 1.... so choice of Geography or Science/Nature, if
> you get it right.
>
> Carolyn
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oh great!  An Australia question, after everybody else was getting
really *easy* ones like the Arthur Miller and the Pillow Talk.  So,
I have no idea at all, and I can't even remember who was ABC and who
was CBS and who was NBC.  It's probably not Pee Wee Herman,
so I guess:
       *ERIC SEREVEID*
       ..................
I'll pretend this is right and say ===> GEOGRAPHY
.
--ggs
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:01:54 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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>        Doodle bug, doodle bug
>        Where are you?
>        Doodle bug, doodle bug
>        Your house is on fire.
>        Doodle bug, doodle bug
>        Your house is on fire.

Impoverished childhood you had. The real thing is:

        Doodle bug, where are you?
        Doodle bug, where are you?

        Doodle bug, doodle bug
        Where are you? Where are you?
        Doodle bug, doodle bug
        Your house is on fire.
        Doodle bug, doodle bug
        Doodle bug, doodle bug
        Your house is on fire.
        Your house is on fire.

        Where are you? Where are you?
        Doodle bug, doodle bug
        Where are you? Where are you?
        Your house is on fire.

        Doodle bug, doodle bug
        Your house is on fire.

tushar
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Date: 28 Dec 92 18:51:06 GMT
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In article <Pine.3.03.9212280101.A10963-9100000@Joyce-Perkins.tenet.edu> harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) writes:
>On Mon, 28 Dec 1992, Jim Thomas wrote:
>
>> Nope again. She criticizes lesbians for lack of style, lack of sexuality,
>> and lack of humor. Like I say, if ya read her stuff, see her on tv, and
>
>Man, Jim, that's just it. She's right. No sense of humor. Too damn
>serious. A woman can say a lesbian is humorless and not be anti-woman,
>can't she?

The question wasn't whether CP is anti-women, but whether her swipes at
lesbians were blanket criticisms or reserved for separatists. 
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>Anyway, Tushar, got great life outside of E-MAIL, but it's not watching TV!

You play video games?

tushar
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:26:41 EST
From:         GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Debit insurance

I didn't mean to imply that it was a shady activity.  It is not.

JAG
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 12:25:00 CST
From:         "Jim Thomas (tk0jut1@niu.bitnet)"
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Subject:      Khat Scam

For whoever it was that suggested that khat/quat was a dangerous
drug and wanted a pointer otherwise, here's something from
Newsweek, 28 Dec, '92 (p. 4):

                              KHAT SCAM

    Newspapers call it "Somalis' drug of violence," the cause of
    rampages by addled gunmen. The Pentagon is now quietly
    investigating whether its urinalysis tests and drug-sniffing
    dogs will detect it.  But drug experts say that fears over
    khat--theleay plant many east Africans chew daily--amount to
    "reefer madness" hysteria.  Dr. Lester Grinspoon of Harvard
    Medical School likens khat's effect to caffeine's and
    says Somalis would react to confiscation "like Americans would
    react to someone taking away their morning coffee."


Jim (It's the sugar, not the caffeine, that makes folks crazy) Thomas
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:42:00 PST
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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> >I have absolutely *no* idea - but I'll say Alan Bond, because he's the only
> >Australian millionaire I can think of. If by some miracle that's correct, I'l
l
> >take Art/Literature.
> >
> >> Carolyn
> >
> >Emily
>
> Good guess, but unfortunately it was Lang Hancock... he died last year. I

Who?? Never heard of him.

> Carolyn

Speaking of Alan Bond, exactly how did he make his money anyway?

Emily
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 24 Dec 1992 20:31:32 GMT
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In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:

>> list.  Me, I always went for *both* Barbie and Lego, and got as much fun out
>> of building my own doll furniture [wooden] as playing with it.:-)  What does
>> that make me? [besides weird, we knew that already]
>
>......Naaaaah.
>
>Once and future Lego Queen. Barbies were tied to bedposts and tortured.
>
Barbies here were given rides on Standard-guage trains; they sat in the
gondola cars.  
-- 
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:14:52 GMT

ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:

>First of all, I never claimed to be attractive. (I'm the one
>w/ her finger in her nose standing behind Elaine in Elaine.gif.)
>Second of all, I did *NOT* 'slip in an ad hominem attack', I
>asked a question.  You need to distinguish the two.

Can't say I've had the pleasure of ftp'ing that particular GIF...I'll grab
it tomorrow sometime.  

Okay, if it was a serious question, then here's a serious response: what
was I *supposed* to have learned during my absence, IYHO?

--Aaron

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Date:         Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:13:46 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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> From: ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
> I haven't had a baby, Peter, but I do believe that there is a
> reason why labor is called that--and it has nothing to do w/ joy!
>
> Karen

I rather gathered that from the experience of friends of mine.
In fact I have deep admiration for anyone who is generous as to
go through such an experience. But then deep admiration is probably
a concept as out of place on this list as deep beliefs.
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: X or 13? You decide! (was Re: Now for something..)
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>So, why Thirteen?  Doesn't "say" anything to me -- I certainly don't find
>any reason to relate to being called a member of "Generation 13".  Rather
>seems to defeat the point of calling us "X".  We have no place, thus "X".

        The authors assert that you're the 13th generation since the Founding
        Fathers.  They name several of the generations (working backwards:
        Thirteener, Boomer, Silent, GI, ...), but offer nothing more to
        support the assertion.

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Subject:      Re: Car talk 'tween the girlz
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>Posted on 29 Dec 1992 at 12:18:07 by Bud
>
>Re: Car talk 'tween the girlz
>
>From:         Bud <VB7R0046@SMUVM1.BITNET>
>
>With all this phallic symbol stuff bout cars, where does a 4-wheel drive Duelly
>P/U with a 8 ton winch, gun rack, 400 horspower and a "SCHWING" bumper sticker
>fit into the scheme of strap on manhood or the real thang.
>
>                             Bud
>                      (my truck is blue ;) )

*swoon*

i'm in luv.

-jenny-
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>No more of the X tag now that _The Atlantic_ has labelled y'all Generation 13.

        And equates you Thirteeners with the WWI 'Lost Generation.'  The
        article also equates us Boomers with the 'Missionary Generation' that
        preceded the Losts.

-rashmi, chronologically, but not culturally, a member of said generation

        By openly consorting with Boomers, you and Rita (and LH, and //anne//,
        and Lisa, and Jenna, and Aaron, and ...) have shown your true colors.
        As for the VMI boys, let's just say they <exemplify> Thirteeners.

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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Debit insurance
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>  I notice nobody has any ideas about "debit insurance".

I've forgotten the context, but could it mean "insuring one's self against
incurring a loss"?

Carolyn
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1992, Natalie Maynor wrote:

> But aren't phallic cars more appropriate for men to drive?

You really *haven't* been following the Paglia thread ;-)
Besides, men already drive their cars like their, erm, Sinclairs, and.
oh, well, I digress terribly...

-abh
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>: It wasn't really necessary - the instructors ignore these things.
>
>I don't.

It depends on what you are trying to test. In real life math researchers
are not expected to get quick clever answers to short and tricky questions
within two hours without looking anything up or discussing with others.
And they are certainly not required to come up with camera-ready copies
of solutions. It might be different for business school or law school.

tushar
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>>   "He's from Arkansas!"
>>
>>hahahahahahahahaha (chortle, guffaw, roar)--great sense of humor, those guys.

>Yep <grin>  <chuckle>  I like it, for some reason.  Good old self-referencing
>jokes......
>
>>Jim (I still don't get it) Thomas
>>
>You wouldn't.

Sounds just like 'He's Polish' to me.

JAG
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What I Got For Christmas
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Congratulations to giggles and his second grandchild.

Did you ever reveal just what "stuff" you plan to keep in the cigar boxes?

doris
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Test of CMS 8 (c1992 Richard A. Schafer)
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Hell, it's not so bad.  I don't think they will make the changeover in
two hours at the computing center, though.  They always make such glib
projections, sorry for any inconvenience, etc.

One change I noticed with that last message:  my headers used to include
(at least for me) an "In response to" line with the e-mail address of the
person whose message I was replying to.  That's gone now.

brad
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Date: 22 Dec 92 03:44:06 GMT
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In article <Pine.3.03.9212211011.A2787-8100000@formby.tenet.edu> harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) writes:
>On Mon, 21 Dec 1992, Jim Thomas wrote:
>
>> Tenuda is to MTV/The Comedy Channel--an occasionally entertaining
>> comic with little of substance to say.
>
>I take it we won't be ircing then?

You'll find me in the #emo channel.....
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From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Graham stop using cutesy words
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Graham, you are the guy who had some devastating comments to make
about imitating Kerouac or whoever it is. Far more unnatural and
stupid is using words like "thang" and "nuffink". Graham, stop
using words like "thang" and "nuffink". They look and sound
grotesque.

tushar
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Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: Emily's History Question
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>> Good guess, but unfortunately it was Lang Hancock... he died last year. I
>
>Who?? Never heard of him.

Lang Hancock was a prominent Australian millionaire before Bondie was even
heard of.... but he never sponsored an America's Cup challenge, so I guess
that explains why you have never heard of him.

>Speaking of Alan Bond, exactly how did he make his money anyway?
>
>Emily

I wouldn't swear on it, but he used to be a plumber and made most of his
money through investment properties. Poor old Bondie is in bankruptcy now
though..... just another tall poppie cut down to size by the bankers.

Carolyn
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In a previous article, gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>           6   197     237.8  0.0%   rsr@soda.BERKELEY.EDU  (Roy S. Rapoport)
>                                      79% soc.bi
>                                      7% alt.sex.bondage
>                                      5% talk.rape
>
>        [rest deleted to save bandwidth]  Should this have come as a surprise?:-
>
>Yes, I though Roy Crap-rapport spouted off *much* more than you.

I wouldn't know, having never met the man anywhere.  

>Fancy Ruth being <in bed> with Roy.  Who'd have believed it.
>
I WOULD!  Anne, he took the bait!  I left user #6 in here just for Grahammie,
to see what he'd do, and he just did it.:-)  <heh>  

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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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> Cheap shot, Peter; the Newfoundlanders have enough to put up with without
> you jumping in.[I'd say that, just because they're Newfies, but they're
> your minority, not mine]  Besides, it's probably printed in Japan!

Hey! The shot is at the lexicographers. I have great respect for
New Foundlanders. They comprise one of Canada's three founding
nations.

Anyone want to guess why the Gage Canadian Dictionary has a main
entry for all the Canadian Political Parties except the Liberals?
And why the examples in the front of the dictionary use the
New Democratic Party (ie half-gluteus socialists)?

Perhaps someone would like to know the difference between
Edmonton and yogurt?

Pm
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Subject: Re: Nerve of steel
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: And he's been drinking stale milk.  You would have loved the eggnog at my
: party, Graham.  You should have come.

I did have some egg-nog (or advocaat to be precise) (on ice-cream).

And don't worry, I will...

G
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