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From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
Subject: Re:      Re: OS/2, Mice & Icons's
Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:51:24 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92121913390620@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU writes:
>Posted on 19 Dec 1992 at 12:11:42 by Anne Burton Harwell
>>Yes, it is good to be the lan designer.
>
>Yes, it is good to have money to buy equipment!
>
>We have no size restrictions whatsoever, by the way. I was shocked
>when I found out how little our storage is because I must use 1/6th of
>it!
>
>Karen

You're doing it on purpose now, right?  It's only funny when you're
*genuinely* clueless...

G
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (72
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Posted on 15 Dec 1992 at 16:18:39 by CROSEN@BGSUOPIE.BITNET
>Baba ganouj is a blend of eggplant and ground sesame seeds laced with tahini
>and garlic.

I've never heard of sesame seeds and tahini in baba ganouj!  It's usually
roasted eggplant w/ garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, and yogurt.  Sesame
seeds and tahini go in hummus.

Karen
P.S. How did the meeting w/ Saitama University notables go?
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:20:46 GMT
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>  >To edit a file, pick up the editor name
>  >and drop it on the file name.
>
>  Is this some kind of MS Windows thing?
>
More like PMS, actually.  Not all MS-DOS machines have it, but those
that do can be bitchy, moody, and temperamental - only it doesn't just
stick around for a few days....   It's a MAC thing - is it any
wonder I don't like them?  One cranky creature per household is enough!
[and I got here first] [and my sister got here second...]  


-- 
		###	Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead    ###
			- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
	      Where anything can happen, and it usually does
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: GWW's Fountain-Pen Thread
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> Does the catalog have an illustration?  If so, does it show the thing
> as a setup to sit on a coffee table or setup to fill a room?

It does have a picture, but I can't remember now what it looks like.  It
might be that it doesn't really show where it's sitting.  I'll look when
I get home.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: The Geometry of Boxes and Jugs
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              19 Dec 92 08:24:32 -0600. <9212191430.AA02168@sics.se>

  >Why "The Good Morrow"??  I would've thought mathematicians would prefer
  >the compasses in "A Valediction:...."

  No, the "stiff twin compasses" are considered too obvious by most
mathematicians.

  >Perhaps more interesting, why do mathematicians like Donne??  And is it
  >significant that I loved math and that Donne has always been my favorite
  >poet??

  Of course it is! Haven't you noticed that mathematicians have always been
strangely fascinated by you, and tend to draw you into quiet corners and
either talk to you about butterfly lemmas and pullbacks, or else recite
Donne?
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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: What kind of people are you, anyway?
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-ahh> You're kidding right? This is Words-L, where the weak
-abh> are killed and eaten.

Wasn't it you who commented to me about not having seen so much
bullshit in your life?

*************************************************************
*  Peter Montgomery               Montgomery@camosun.bc.ca  *
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From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: My Top 10
              18 Dec 1992 21:27:17 CST from <tushar@MATH.UCHICAGO.EDU>

>>setting discriptions.  I would like to know what standard W-L usage
>>is I don't look like a stupid newbie. =:-)
    ^so

>I find that last sentence internally inconsistent. Now if you are using
...
>any. Just bung them in wherever you feel they should go and everyone

I think this is illegal in Georgia.

>tushar

Thank you for the clarification.  I feel much better now.

Star Space Alt Hyphen Brad Space Star

* Alt-Brad *
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: End of year Retrospective
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On Sat, 19 Dec 1992, Aaron L Dickey wrote:

> Honey, you have no idea.

No, I have plenty of ideas, it's just that <I never in all my life>.

-abh
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Subject:      Re: Common law

Greetings,

Peter, I'm pleased to weigh in with you on this topic, but these words of
public praise naturally arouse suspicion among the naturally suspicious.
Are you quite certain you aren't a Tusharesque chimera set on entrapping me
into some kind of foreign entanglement??

Marty
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Date: 21 Dec 92 04:21:13 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

In article <WORDS-L%92122014023694@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu (Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)) writes:
>>Amazing.  The inherent contradictions in this place never fail to surprise me.
>
>: Does this mean that you have FINALLY stopped making assumptions about people
>: you don't know well enough to?
>
>Well put, Karen
>
>Steve Karlson
>
>When you see what appears to be a contradiction, check your premises.

But, Steve, a preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with.
And, some folks live in high-crime areas with fences around their premises.

Jim (with a samoyed guarding his premises) Thomas
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Me and my car
Organization: Karsten's Bit Bucket
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:34:30 GMT

samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU writes:
> Some months ago I read a report in the newspaper which said that in an
> accident on 55th Street the fender and a headlight of a bus were badly
> damaged when a woman turned without warning and ran into the bus. I
> honestly thought that it had to be a hell of ponderous woman, in fact I
> was convinced it was a typo, but no American felt the slightest bit of
> ambiguity.

I ran into the side of a moving VW van when I was 10.  I suffered
no more than a sore arm but I left a big dent in the van.

--karsten

(demonstrating the need for external airbags on vehicles)
From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Date: 14 Dec 92 04:11:15 GMT
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In article <1992Dec14.011410.23665@eff.org> rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis) writes:
>	Jim, I've been bashing academics since my first year in
>college.  But don't take it personally; some of my best friends are
>graduate students. 
>
>BTW, will be showing up at CFP3?  I'd like to give you a big smooch in
>person.

Harrumph! I've been bashing academics since highschool. So there! 
Some of my best friends are grad students too.

Would be pleased to give and trake a big smooch at CFP3 if I can make it.
I'm easy to recognize---I'm the one with the tweed sport jacket, guccis,
and briar pipe. 

Jim (absent mindedly forgetting his last name......
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: <sigh>
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Posted on 16 Dec 1992 at 19:09:50 by Ruth M. Hanschka
> Installing a second phone line here is about $50.00US, btw.

Mine was $80 earlier this year.

Karen
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Gif
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That reminds me...  Speaking of Macs, whatever did abh's Mac do that led
to the quotation marks around the name of that gif??  I had to go into
the encoded gif and edit out the "" to make it usable.  And then I had to
mess around with backslashes to get rid of the first decoding of it that
had the stupid ""'s in the filename.  But at least I learned a new Unix
feature in the process.  I sent FWP a note telling him that abh's gif
wouldn't go away -- that it seemed to be lodged permanently in my home
directory (the first decoding of it, that is -- the one with the ""'s).
I've known for a long time about using \'s to deal with odd characters,
but apparently I had made a typo somewhere in my 'rm \"3friends.gif\"'
because it wouldn't go away.  Frank told me to try 'rm \"3 <tab>' and
that the <tab> would fill in the rest of the filename appropriately.  It
worked!  (Actually, I used 'del' instead of 'rm', but I don't like to
mention that to Frank because he splutters in contempt.  That really is
the only DOS command I have as a Unix alias.  There's something so much
more serious seeming about 'del' than about 'rm'.  I'm afraid I would use
'rm' too casually.  So I've wiped 'rm' out of my active finger vocabulary
and use 'del' instead.)
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Radar Detector
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Yeah, I know this was discussed just a few weeks backs, but I lacked the
foresight to pay attention at the time.  Will some kind soul please repost
the highlights, or email them to me (rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)?  If nobody
saved the relevant messages, could we discuss the matter again, PLEASE.  I
am looking for general information - what to look for in an effective one,
which brands are worth buying - that sort of thing.

Many many thanks, and may you never cross paths with the fuzz.

-rashmi
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 03:44:41 GMT

>That was Carol, not Carolyn.  Carolyn is in Australia, not Oregon.  But
>after asking my question about whether anybody had seen Carolyn's posting
>here, I saw it.
 
  Carol, Carolyn; Tushar, Thusfar.  It's just a question of niggling
  lexical units.  And where is that game board?
 
  Yes, UGA may be up, but is it procreating?
 
  brad
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From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: plans for salmon bake
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1992, jc-s wrote:

> will appreciate a words-l group. They also have a hottub.

*blink*   I think I just changed my mind about going to the Salmonbake...;-)

-abh
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 15 Dec 92 07:44:17
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In-reply-to: Bill Merrill's message of Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:11:49 EST

Bill writes:

   who run the train became friendly. The other night the engineer
   invited her up front. "Come on in here," he said. "It's much
   better." So she rode in the engineer's cab all the way to her
   stop. He even let her drive! As she left, the engineer asked
   if she would be taking the same train the next night. "Sure,"
   Karen said. "Well," he said, "be ready to go to Alewife.
   The tunnels are really neat out there!"

   When Diane told me this, I was reminded of that old song about
   romance on public transportation that goes "Clang, clang, clang
   went the trolley, ding, ding, dong went the bell." But alas,
   the recent storm prevented Karen from keeping her rendez-vous,
   so I don't know yet if the story has a happy ending.


If I may be so bold as to admit that I have noted that there are one or two
certifiable "hunks" driving on the Red Line...'course, most of the time all
you get is a glimpse as their visage blurs by you, but, every so often, you
meet up with them as they switch trains/ends at Alewife.  

Here's to happy endings.

//anne, the not-so-bold as to talk to them//
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
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              at Dec 14, 92 1:26 pm

AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!!!

Just can't take any more of the when-will-the-listserv-be-up messages.  The
one I'm replying to must have been #314 in the series.

<Whew> I feel alotbetter now.

Good Afternoon Everybody.
-rashmi
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: enclosed solicitation -- anyone else get one?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 07:31:48 GMT

ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka) writes:

>I don''t return them empty; I stuff all of their  own junk back in the
>envelope before I seal it.  If it's from something totally obnoxious, a few
>rocks can go into the mix too.<evil grin>

Don't use rocks.  Postal Service regs say that if a Business Reply Mail
sticker/envelope is used for something that's obviously inappropriate
(i.e. an envelope full of rocks, a BRM sticker glued to the carcass of a
dead animal), they can just throw it away, and your enemies will never
have the joy of paying for it.  Just stuff the thing as full of waste
paper as possible.  That's usually good for around $1.50, and they *will*
pay for it.

--Aaron

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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:25:59 CST
From:         Tushar Samant <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Red Line Story

>This seems to be the rule on the subways I've seen.  Are there others
>that let you see out the front ?

In Chicago, some trains do. I don't know, though, whether it's always true,
whether it depends on the company or on th eroute or whatever - I always
travel on the bus and my lack of life is showing.

In New York, you can definitely see out the front.

tushar
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Date: 16 Dec 92 16:55:00
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Marty responds:

   Greetings,

   By the way, Anne, Fischer did win the match--but who cares, really?  After
   all, this is rather like replaying Superbowl III twenty years after the
   fact.

Oops.  Now I have my answer.  

//anne//
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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> Re 60's mentality: Damn good job of explaining it, Carolyn. GWW

Thanks, Gerald! I think if I had it to write over again, though, I would make
it a little clearer of my classification of the generations. It could have
been confusing as I was referring to late 30's/40's children as having a
60's mentality, but only referred to the other as children born in a particular
decade.

Carolyn
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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:43:51 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (71)

>        Sure. Which one came first, kewaladvaita or shuddhadvaita?
>
>I am but an egg.
>
>G

This leads me to a cool new question which I think everyone should check
out.

tushar
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: plans for salmon bake
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                I just knew you'd join in the organizational action, Jenna.

Yeah, she'll <keep us in line>...

G
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From: maynor@Ra.MsState.Edu (Natalie Maynor)
Subject: Gateway
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 14:17:22 GMT

At least the usenet gateway appears to be up again -- it seemed to be
down late yesterday.  UGA is still dead, though.  The list mail making
its way through the gateway now is old.  <sigh>  I guess Bernardykins
and I will log off and go jump up and down on chocolate wafers to make
crumbs. 
--
   Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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> There is a precedent for this sort of separation.  George III's oldest son
> [I forget what name he was crowned under] and his wife cordially hated
> each other.

George IV.  The House of Hanover was as imaginative as it was adept
(although it was on George III's watch that the Brits tried to remodel
the White House and the Capitol)

Steve Karlson
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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> >contradictory to me.  I've known a fair number of people whose reason for
> >choosing this profession was that they wanted to wear jeans, sweatshirts,
> >cut-offs, and not own "real" shoes.
>
> Really?  That's odd...on boring spring days, one of my favorit e pastimes
> has been to go sit on the front steps of our dorm with my roommate and
> play "Guess Who's the Professor".  We enjoyed about a 90% success rate.

I don't see that your answer is a contradiction to what I said.  That game
could be played quite easily here.  Professors can usually (not always, of
course) be distinguished from students by age and what they're carrying.
And professors can usually be distinguished from other staff by clothes.
The men in coats and ties and the women in hose and heels are usually non-
faculty (or rather non-teaching/non-researching -- the term "faculty" here
is pretty confusing since it includes lots of non-teaching/non-researching
positions).  Middle-aged people in jeans are usually faculty in the College
of Arts & Sciences.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Tushar Samant <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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>every time!  The second bag is there because the cookies tend to cut through
>the first one, which could lead to a big mess.:-)

And then there is the third bag, in case the second one breaks!

Oh god <grin>, I just kill me sometimes... <very evil grin>

tushar
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Scandinavians
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          >What is a bathing machine?

          I refer you to the fourth of the "five unmistakable marks by which you
        may know, wheresoever you go, the warranted genuine Snarks":


            The fourth is its fondness for bathing-machines,
              Which it constantly carries about,
            And believes that they add to the beauty of scenes -
              A sentiment open to doubt.

Oh, I forgot about that.  I was thinking of the sorites in his book
on logic.  Salt-encrusted bathing machines.

G
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Date: 16 Dec 92 11:28:40 GMT
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  Marty knows his Latin:

  >Four-o-clocks are part of the family Nyctaginaceae.  The species in question
  >is likely the Mirabilis.  Bougainvillea are related and often found in the
  >southern climes.

  Looking in an old encyclopedia, I find the statement that Nyctaginaceae
Mirabilis (or is it the other way around?) is grown in Sweden, but no
hint of what it might be called in the vernacular. Of course this is not
really a point of any consequence.

  >I think the phrase "those...don't come up the middle" clearly means Dixie
  >Lee doesn't have to worry about imminent danger since Vidrine and Mapes and
  >their associates won't act directly while under scrutiny

  Given the football meaning of the term, it is clear that this is what it
means in this context. However, in this case it was not at all clear to me
what was intended when I first read the passage, since "coming up the middle"
meant nothing to me.

  >I suspect a stump jumper is just Texas "white trash," but I don't know.

  There are several such terms for people in the book ("peckerwood
kid"), and since there are no Swedish equivalents anyway, all that
needs to be checked is whether there is any very specific or
interesting meaning to take into account. (Such as, "a stump jumper is
an extremely beautiful woman from Texas who has gained enormous
prestige by jumping ceremonially over the sacred stumps of the
petrified cactuses of the mysterious Mumza.")
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:44:51 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Assisting the police in their inquiries
Comments: To: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Thu, 17 Dec 1992, JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS wrote:

>         I hear, and obey, Anne Burton...  I think the whole thing is
> resolving itself even as we speak...

So don't keep us in suspense, mahn!

-abh
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