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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:05:05 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      re: Social Security
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

>  when you start to
> think about all the information that is available about you (credit
> [....]
> goes on and on...), the only thing that probably keeps most people
> from breaking out into a cold sweat is the fact that "no one would
> possibly be interested in little ole' me!"  But what if they were?
>
> Scary stuff?  Uh-huh.  As I said, I don't think there is some
> organized plot, but we sure are setting ourselves up for one.  My
> faith in my fellow human beings only goes so far.  I want protection!

Why do you think it's scary stuff?  What kind of plot?  I'm not challenging
the idea -- I'm just curious about it because I don't understand.  I'm not
sure what anybody would do with all that kind of information about me.
It's true that I assume that "no one would possibly be interested in
little ole me."  You say, "But what if they were?"  Ok, what if they were?
Why would they be interested in my bank statements, phone records, purchases,
etc. etc., and what might they do with that information?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

P.S. Bernard wants to write thank-you notes to everybody who expressed
concern for his dog-biscuit deprivation today, but I'm behind in mail
right now and am refusing to let him use the computer.  He's been lolling
around the house all day while I've been busy.  He should have logged on
earlier.
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:31:40 EDT
From:         Don Thornton <DTHORNTN@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Which large or unabrdg dictionary ...
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Was it really BOMC??, Natalie

I knew it was in some ad.

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

Don      (dthorntn@brownvm)
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:34:49 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Ohhhh, gif-less me...
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Natalie,
>  Don't worry about progressive brain rot, dear.  Just put it down to still
> being on vacation.

But it started long before vacation, and it doesn't seem to want to stop...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:27:09 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: Re: Gopher
              28 Jul 1992 10:27:00 EST from <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>

On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:27:00 EST Blue eyes cryin' in the rain said:
>   Stepping into Tony's shoes for a moment, probably because I called in
>   my order for OS/2 yesterday...

I should point out that I don't work for IBM and I certainly don't
get a cut on OS/2 sales :-) .

>>                                                          (3) communication
>>programs are slow on os/2 -- and they are what I'm most interested in...
>
>   Are you sure about that?  Why would anything other than modem speed
>   have any effect on comm programs?

If the operating system is busy with something else when a byte
comes in on the line, then it may not shift context fast enough
to handle the next byte that comes in.  This is not a problem for
DOS, because DOS can do only one thing at a time.  Multi-tasking
kludge-ons like Windows try to make DOS do multiple things at
once, with poor results.  OS/2 is good at grabbing control away
from whatever is running (say the solitaire game or Word Perfect)
and giving it to the comm program for long enough to handle that
byte, and then returning quickly so that you don't even notice.

Tony H.
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:29:00 EST
From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
Subject:      test -- ignore
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YOU HEARD ME!!  Ignore this message...

Right now (6:25pm, EDT), it looks like I can't participate in WORDS-L, much
less the IRC chat tonight.

bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu tells me it's running Unix, then just sits there.
Am I supposed to give it a command of some sort?  Eventually it (or is it *my*
machine?) throws me back to my VMS prompt.

Meanwhile, the Pitt Unix machine refuses to connect to IRC.

Any suggestions?  If so, better send them to me directly, as I haven't gotten
any list mail in 4 hours -- since the big thunderstorms passed through.

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          "If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it"  --  Dick Allen
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:26:31 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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> --ggs (who *never* treated himself to anything special in his
>        54 years)
Then it's high time you did so.  Get on out there and treat yourself!
Sis
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:45:20 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      I feel so CHEAP
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I just found out that the "Tushar" I was flirting with on the chat
tonight was an IMPOSTER. I need a shower.

-abh
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:19:04 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Eating whales
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              22 Jul 1992 12:59:00 LCL from <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM>

On Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:59:00 LCL <Carol_Carmick@BEAV.INTERSOLV.COM> said:
>     Do you know, Dan, I'm going to raft the Snake through Hell's
>     Canyon in about three weeks, and I just plain CAN'T WAIT.  I

  Lucky you.  I'm jealous.

>     think Idaho is about the prettiest place on earth.  We rafted the

   It's right up there, thats for sure.  Of course after seeing Galen Rowell
do a slide show on Tibet last nite, and getting two books autographed
by him, and a poster autographed, I'd have to put Tibet (and a lot of his
other work) right up there too.

>     gone to heaven.  I had a religious experience in an open outhouse
>     at sunset on a cliff overlooking a herd of bighorn sheep...

   I had one of those religious experiences too....had been constipated
for days.....and then.....ahhhhhhh......

>     when I smell fresh blubber... well, it's tough...

   Understand that too....we all have our drugs of choice.....

dan
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Date:         Mon, 20 Jul 1992 22:37:00 CDT
From:         "tk0jut1@mvs.cso.niu.edu jim thomas"
 <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      good taste.....

Bill writes:

    >P.S.  I actually did run into Jim in the parking lot Saturday
    >night.  One reason I like liberals is they have good taste in
    >restaurants.  He found a really good Mexican place in Sycamore.

Phew! On first reading, I thought you wrote "cause liberals taste
good in restaurants." And I like conservatives cause they taste
good in, uh, 'cause they have good taste in, bourbon.
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:41:55 PDT
From:         "Elwood P. Dowd" <ELWOOD%UCSBVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      BWPiggery

Gentlefolk,
   Forwarding a note from another list for perspective.  Rapidly browsing
through interleaved notes from disparate (and oft desparate) lists affords
me a simple-minded entertainment.  Since the predominance of traffic is
from WORDS-L, I find myself frequently having to do a mental BSF1//SCAN
when I see something like this.
Peace,
Elwood P. <SIMCC> Dowd
------------------------ Original Message ------------------------------

Why all of a sudden am I getting upwards towards 25 messages a day?  I may have
 to quit the list, a lot of these are multiple copies of the same message.  Is
 someone doing something wrong out there?
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 09:32:51 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: birth order
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>   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.
>
My 86-year-old aunt, the oldest of seven children, is currently looking
after two of her three remaining siblings, visiting them daily in a
nursing home, taking care of the sale of their home after they couldn't
live there any longer, and generally holding them together.  I really
believe she will outlive all the others, at least partly because she sees
them as still her responsibility.
ndh
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:50:00 EDT
From:         "PLOTKIN, ALEC DAVID" <185422285@UCIS.VILL.EDU>
Subject: Re: Kosher ( was Sea World
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Rocket Roger Clemens is the pitcher in question.

later

slow arm alec
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:03:05 GMT
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From:         "Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078"
 <DBFABAK%CFRVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Apophasis

*** Resending note of 07/27/92 14:55
To:           DON MOORE <DBFABAK@CFRVM.BITNET>

>Clancy's _Sum of All Fears_.  I'll never forget Lenny Abbey's reply:
>"BGRISSOM, you are a grade-A creep.  Go play someplace else."  I'm

About a month ago Dawn (my daughter) send a message to the group ...but
it was not really her first.  A year and a half earlier, when I knew no
one on WORDS-L, she wanted to send a letter to someone.  I picked Lenny's
name at random.  His reply was something like "why would Dawn want to
talk to me?"  Time proved it was an excellent question.
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 05:59:44 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Words (was Re: Girl Scouts)
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> I think what most people mean by agnostic is really "skeptic".  Not to
> get too prescriptivist about it, but an agnostic claims that there
> is little or nothing knowable about god.  The skeptic says "show me".

So what is a "semi-agnostic"?  Adam's answer to my question yesterday
made good sense to me, btw.  I'm asking the question again for general
words-related debate, not because Adam's personal answer wasn't clear.
It might be, however, that he's more a skeptic than a semi-agnostic.
OTOH, if you're not saying "show me" but instead are saying "I haven't
had time to figure it out yet," I guess you're not really a skeptic.
Or would you be a semi-skeptic in that case and thus perhaps a semi-
agnostic if you're equating agnosticism with skepticism?

> (Who remembers fondly various arguments about prescriptivism we used to
>  have on the list)

Me too.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:02:21 -0400
From:         droby@NOVA.TCS.TUFTS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Visitors
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              19 Jul 92 18:01:47 EDT." <9207191811.aa29989@Nova.TCS.Tufts.EDU>

>Just saw DonR and Paul off after their visit here.  (I hope they made
>their 5:20 flight - it was getting a little tight.  They haven't called
>yet, so I trust they are on the plane...)

	We just made it.  Losing only one notepad and some
reproducable and mostly probably wrong math research by dropping it at
customs in the confusion of figuring out that it was my belt buckle
that was alarming their security machine.

> >We had brunch at Papillon downtown, and then Don, Paul, and I took
a >tour of Spadina House (a restored 1860s house in what used to be
the >country north of Toronto and is now pretty much downtown) while
>Barbara spent the afternoon giving composting advice in a park (she
>is a volunteer with the Recycling Counsel of Ontario).  >

And Barbara explained all about composting, and when Paul and Tony
both disappeared Barbara and I had a nice chat about computer networks
of various sorts.  What were Tony and Paul *doing* anyway?  Oh, I
think they were paying the bill.

>In a marked break with previous patterns and predictions, the day was
>actually fairly sunny!  (Naturally yesterday was rainy because of the
>wedding Don and Paul were at.)
>

	Luckily the bride was small, so she fit under the umbrella.
Her dress needed a little help though.  It was a Portuguese Catholic
ceremony, so now I know the trials you poor Latin Catholics had to
endure, with a ceremony you couldn't understand and all that kneeling
and standing and more kneeling and everything.  Paul got out of it by
playing the organ, which maybe wasn't entirely pleasant either since
he really plays piano and isn't used to having to change keyboards
when the keyboard runs out.  But he sang a song in the middle, which
was the only thing I could understand because he doen't speak
Portuguese either and sang in English.

And we didn't even know there was a rain-song-fest going on at the time!

>We hope they'll return for a longer visit some time.
>
>Tony H.

	Thanks, we just might.  We only saw a little of Toronto, and
it looks like a nice place.  It's also en-route if we take the right
route between Paul's family and home.

	Paul's in Milwaukee right now, helping his father move to
Detroit.  I'm going to meet him there later this week, and then we're
driving back.  We're probably going through New York this time though,
and stopping to visit my sister in Rochester.

- R.M.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:22:57 CDT
From:         Bandwidth Pig <aharwell@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: IRC night
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

The commane /join creates a channel if the name doesn't already exist. The
person creating it gets to be op. With op privs come POWER...to make the
channel private, to invite others to join, to /kick unwanted people off.
There's usually online help. Oh, and Ken, since you're volunteering...NEVER
type anything that someone tells you to if it starts with /mode and
you don't know what it means.

-abh
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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:36:32 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: email texts (was One Reason [etc.])
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
              23 Jul 1992 21:40:46 CDT from <tushar@ZAPHOD.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:40:46 CDT Tushar Samant said:
>interest you and a rule like "more than a page of quoted material" is a
>bit rigid for me.

I didn't think ANYthing was too rigid for a mathematician.

dan
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:11:54 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: WHTMIT
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> of zippy, racy, fun *little* car with *no* *top*, for that lovely
> winding roads by the light of the silvery moon.

A Honda Civic with a sunroof?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:51:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: ehsya ackbay
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> With a giggle here and a giggle there
> Everywhere a giggle giggle
> And a giggling good time was had by all.
> Doris (who thinks everyone must be IRCing tonight)
.
This is poetry.  Poetry, I say.  Owitrypay.
--ggs (getting bored now.......)
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:04:00 EDT
From:         Ovinglay Is-hay Eeahtamay <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Birth Order
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> >John M. "Or does being adapted throw the curve off as well?" W.
>
> I've been adapted dozens of times...
>
> -abh

Another <pregnant> post....
Send that girl some Magnums!
--ggs
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:13:00 HST
From:         "Michael E. Macmillan" <MACMILLM%EWC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: What kind of dossier is this stuff going into?

>       God, I hope you didn't give it to them, MEM.  For the record,
>Aldus asks for your SS number on their registration cards -- I always
>send back some smartass comment in that spot.  Your social security number
>is not a form of identification, and it is illegal for it to be asked for
>as such.
>
>Czarina

I'm a little chagrined to admit that after a few moments' hesitation
I did.  Probably because I have such unwavering faith in our
Canadian friends.  Surely they wouldn't cooperate in any massive
evil, would they?  I'm afraid the notion that a social security
number isn't identification has long since fallen by the wayside.
Perhaps the card itself wouldn't serve as identification, but the
number is everywhere.  It's the number on my driver's license, for
example.

I've been thinking about buying something from another Canadian
company.  Maybe I'll go ahead and do it to see whether the same
demand is made.  Meanwhile, I'll wonder whose SS number was
responsible for all those copies of Corel Draw being sold in retail
stores.

Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:47:14 EDT
From:         jcs <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Speaking of catering to the lowest common denominator
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>From:         Bayla Singer <bayla@CASBAH.ACNS.NWU.EDU>
>
>tushar himself queries:
>
>>Why "lowest common denominator"? Where did the phrase come from?
>>What is the exact meaning of the phrase and how did this phrase
>>come to mean that?
>
>And humor-impaired bayla responds:
>
>Surely you jest.  Or, perhaps, you know the phrase as 'least common
>denominator' -- that number, which when applied in arcane ways to a group
>of fractions, helps to transform them all into expressions of the same
>type: e.g., 2/8 + 1/4 + 4/16 must be turned into 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/4 before the
>addition operation may be performed: here '4' is the lowest common
>denominator.  The metaphor implies that there is a characteristic, common
>to a large group of people, which will enable one to please them all if one
>caters to it.  The 'lowest common denominator' plays also on the senses of
>"lowest" and "common" to suggest that such a characteristic is not of a
>refined nature.  Greed, slapstick humor, fast food -- things "anybody"
>might like, if their sensibilities had not been "educated."
>
>This way to the egress.
>
>--bayla

Thanks Bayla, for replying to the Tushar before i could. I would have
just called him a doofus and been done with it. (that's doofus in an
endearing, respectful way)
You are much more eloquent, this grasshopper will try and learn the
way from you.

the jenna
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:35:56 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Whales
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> > I forgot--whales are also highly valued for their ....
> > you know.  What we get from sperm whales to make
> > scent.  Is it sperm???  Oh no!  Have I been rude
> > on words-l?
>
> No, it's *worse* than that...
> G
                                                                        ==
What? I've been stupid?  I don't mind that...what could be
worse than being rude...

Kirksville's Answer to Miss Manners
who doesn't mind being stupid in front of words-l
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Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 13:29:47 EDT
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Women in Combat
              31 Jul 1992 11:21:00 MST from <TSBZALESKI@CC.WEBER.EDU>

There's one thing that most people forget:  women have been in combat
zones and the front lines during both the Korean War and the Vietnam
War.  True, they did not fire rifles or fly planes into combat, but
they were in the areas just the same.  These women were nurses in MASH
units and in first aid stations at the front.

Evelyn Duncan
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:39:02 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      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.

{We know how human brain cells work?????}

Radically different from transistors of the past in both structure
and function, the new one uses a single device to process multiple
input signals.This breakthrough will now make it possible to construct
circuitry using approximately 90% fewer transistors than in the past."

Now if we could only use this for human brains....

Karen
"fuzzy logic 'r' us"
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:41:05 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Gopher & OS/2
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:00:47 CDT, "List Goddess" <maynor@ra.msstate.edu> wrote:
> But it handled 19,200 baud flawlessly from last December until now.
> I'm not convinced that the recent problem is related to DV.  Guess I
> should try downloading outside of DV sometime and see.

I didn't realise your problem with lost blocks was when running under
desqview.  Have you changed desqview parameters recently?  The serial
task should have full control of the machine.  If some other job is
timeslicing, you'll get the same behaviour of regular lost data errors.

G
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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:03:54 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Kosher ( was Sea World )
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> (but doesn't like the *taste* of butter on a roast beef sandwich).

Why would anybody put butter on a roast beef sandwich???
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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