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Comments:     Originally-From: Penny Ward <UNCPEW%UNC.BITNET@idbsu.idbsu.edu>
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Help with an obscure question (x-post)
Comments: To: All fellow wordslers <words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu>

well, it is a words question....personally I think French refers not to
the residents of France, but to some Dr. France ....    dan
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I found this inquiry posted to another list and thought that
someone on this list just might have an answer.

Any takers?

--Penny

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From:         David Dodell <ddodell@STJHMC.FIDONET.ORG>
Subject:      Help needed

Please reply directly to slclancy@uci.edu

From: slclancy@uci.edu


Greetings!

I am looking for the origin of the term "French" which is used to describe
the external diameter of a catheter. One "French" equals 1/3 millimeter.
It is often expressed as 8 Fr., or the French Scale or the French Size, or
merely as "French Catheters."  I have looked in the standard dictionaries,
catheterization books, journal articles, histories of medicine, etc.  The
closest I have come is from the Chief of Cardiology here, who seems to
remember that it may have been a scale developed by the French in the 19th
century, but he is not sure.

If anyone can supply me with an answer and/or a reference, I would appreciate
it.  Please email me directly.

-- Steve Clancy
   Biomedical Library
   University of California, Irvine
   Irvine, CA, U.S.A.
   SLCLANCY@UCI.EDU
   SLCLANCY@UCI.BITNET
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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
Reply-To: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 02:42:11 GMT


In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>I wouldn't try it.  Sending her anything will just land your message in
>the wrecked mailer and it will be burped or hiccoughed back to you - it's
>a shame to treat a head that way.
>
>> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:22:51 -0500
>> From: Nancy Harwood
>> Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
>> To: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
>>
>> On Wed, 26 Aug 1992, Doris Smith wrote:
>> >
>> > Uh, 'scuse me?
>> >
>> > when Nancy Harwood wrote:
>>
>> Let's just say some of us are *very* confused...perhaps I should send *my*
>> head off to Ruth for repairs.
>> ndh

*Hic!*

-- 
It's Ruth the NetHead, back from the [virtual] dead
	- ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
fighting for truth, justice and static-free lines
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From:         "Alec D. Plotkin 215-645-4366"
 <185422285%VUVAXCOM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      My mailer burped.

I am see my old mailings. I am sorry if you see duplicates. They
tell me it should be fixed soon.

later

alec
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:33:29 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      Re: Fabrications
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Thanks Karen, got them OK.
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: T-shirt colors
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:51:11
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	<1992Sep2.113310.11316@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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In-reply-to: jwagner@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:33:10 GMT

2Judith writes:

   Teal is one of the few colors that looks good on *everyone* with a nice
   cranberry being another.  I *love* it too>

   2Judith who had her colors *done* a few years ago and wouldn't be
	   seen *dead* in yellow, khaki, or sand but would look that
	   way

For the sake of already having too many teal t-shirts, please note my
request *NOT* to have another teal shirt.  Raspberry (not purple or pink)
may possibly fit in to the "universal" category.  Black and primary colors
are also not on my list of colours to buy (I would never wear them...even
if it came from Words-l).  (White, on the other hand, I would wear...how
'bout teal, or raspberry, or black lettering?)

//anne, being picky but you can do what you want anyways//
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:27:55 EDT
From:         PBARFOOT%SUVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject:      help

Ok you creative wordslers - I have a colleague who is thinking
about joining the list but is a little reluctant. I need you
to persuade her with some of your weirdest reasons why she
should join.Send them to her at LIBDAS@SUVM. Her name is Denise.
                                                   Br Paul
From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
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Subject: Re: Brother Barbara
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:26:58
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In-reply-to: "Natalie Maynor"'s message of Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:24:28 CDT

Natalie posts:

   My sorority was officially named "fraternity."


And not to get into a thorny debate (but I'll say it anyways), my sorority
claims to be the first true female fraternity--I know it sounds like a
contradiction in terms, but in the sense of being more than a social
association, it was.  I understand our initiation ceremony and other
official meetings very closely resemble those of male fraternities.  

I guess I never thought about it much.  I was pretty apathetic about the
whole thing--I did meet a couple of wonderful women who will be my friends
for life--I have some outside of the greek system too.  Wasn't too thrilled
with the greek socializing thing--too reminiscent of the who's popular and
who's not charade of jr. high & high school.

//anne, KAT (can't draw a theta) @ CU-Boulder//
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:52:14 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Aspiration
Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> I'd like to know exactly when k, t, and p are aspirated by Americans
> (assuming that a general statement can be made). I used to think that
> these sounds were aspirated when they were the first consonants in a
> word, e.g. "call", "part" etc. But now I think it's more complicated.

That's the general rule (except substitute syllable for word).

> It seems to depend also on whether the vowel after the k, t, or p sound
> is accented, and if so whether it is the first of all accented places
> in the word, and with which other consonants it is clustered (if it
> occurs in a cluster).

The placement of /k/, /t/, or /p/ in a cluster is definitely significant.

> It might even depend on whether the consonant
> begins a morpheme in the word. All this is vague, of course.

Since morphemes are frequently separate syllables, this would fit the
basic rule.  (But, of course, morphemes are not always separate syllables.
Send some examples.)

> Can someone tell me the rule? If not, I'll post a list of words tomorrow,
> and I'll be happy to know which of the consonants you aspirate. But if
> anyone knows the rule, I'll be - er - much obliged.

Slight aspiration usually occurs in the supposedly unaspirated allophones,
though -- e.g., noticeable aspiration of /p/ in /pIn/, very slight
aspiration of /p/ in /spIn/.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     who is NOT a phonologist
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:22:10 EDT
From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Geneticists, Language
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Posted on 25 Aug 1992 at 02:50:50 by karsten
> This guy clearly doesn't realize that Indo-European languages are a
> plague contracted from visiting interplanetary aliens...

Maybe that's where gender in lg. came from? Seriously, I like this
theory, it fits w/ my Sanskrit experience.

Karen
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:01:34 -0500
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
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> >
> >Your timing is just off.  Try us on a typical weekday/night instead of a
> >weekend.
> >Doris
>
> not the way i remember words-l.  you must be a newbie!

 It's all relative.  I don't remember you, so guess I am a newbie to you.
And when I suggested trying us on a typical weekday/night I meant you
would see how un-boring/un-quiet we are.
Doris
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:49:22 EDT
Reply-To:     Graham Toal <gtoal@ed.ac.uk>
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@CURSCI.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: system crash fix
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On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:50:45 CDT, "Anne BWP Harwell" <aharwell@panam1.panam.edu>
 wrote:
> NCSA Telnet, while a worthy product that has made telnet access available to
> thousands, is worth exactly what you pay for it compared to some of the
> commercial products out there. TCPack from Advanced Software Concepts is a
> slick implementation, works great.

You mean NCSA telnet *on the mac*...  NCSA telnet on DOS is as good as
or better than the commercial offerings.  The mac one may be grotty because
no self-respecting producer for the PD would be seen dead hacking for
Apple's indirect benefit...

G
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From:         Entropy Warrior <AUSBROOK@UCS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Pascal

>  The formulation is also faulty. <3,4,5> is one of an infinity of solutions
>for n=2.

Got another?

-Mka
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:22:51 -0500
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: TGTABagnes2
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Comments: cc: Multiple recipients of list WORDS-L <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992, Doris Smith wrote:
>
> Uh, 'scuse me?
>
> when Nancy Harwood wrote:
>
> > Well, then, you would have every right to ask what *they* are doing there?
> > >
in response to

> > > > And just in case you want to know in more detail, yes, I practically
> > > > expired with mirth. I was saved because I am very reserved.
> > >
> > > 7Tushar!! Your're back. Not only that, but you reacted the way I did. And
> > > I, too, am *quite* reserved.

Let's just say some of us are *very* confused...perhaps I should send *my*
head off to Ruth for repairs.
ndh
From: rita@EFF.ORG (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
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Subject: Re: Mario Cuomo fans - Read this.
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:20:25 GMT
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              4, 92 10:14 am

> Ken - Kultural Elitist Lefty Snob

	But we luv ya anyways.  Your machines straightened out?

Rita
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:12:46 EDT
From:         Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: Note to Bernard
              1 Sep 1992 10:23:40 LCL from <haycock@MARLEY.THINK.COM>

On Tue, 1 Sep 1992 10:23:40 LCL Anne Haycock said:

>//anne, "mr. knickerbocker, knickerbocker, number 9..."//

That is mentioned in Deborah Tannen's book _You Just Don't Understand_.
One researcher (female) described the girls' game as "monotonous".
Why was it fun, indeed ?  We boys may never know...

Tony H.
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:33:00 PST
From:         Lobstrosities Unite <CHRISS%CWU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: fire and ice

>So might I ask other WORD-Lers to take the huge risk and let me know
>whether I've just been lucky over the past 20 years or whether perhaps
>something in Graham's environment is a bit strange ?
>
>Tony H.

Naja, I clean mine all the time when their on.  As far as I know, I'm still
alive.

Chris
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:17:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ribbit...ribbit...ribbit...
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I guess that LBJ would have been 84 today. One year older than my
father, who was also a Texan and a dead ringer for Lyndon in every
way.
--ggs
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 13:04:16 CDT
From:         Bernard Chien Perro <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Note to Bernard
Comments: To: words-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Hey, Bernard, I was just leafing through my new Plow and Hearth
> catalog and noticed they sell a flea trap--it has a 4-watt bulb that
> warms this sticky stuff that releases a flea-attracting scent. Effective
> w/in a 15-foot radius. They also sell pet wipes call Flee Away.
> Just thought I would keep you up-to-date.

Although I appreciate your keeping me up to date, I'm concerned about
whether I would like the flea-attracting scent.  Would they let me do a
sniff-test of it before buying?  I realize that I don't wear the trap
or anything like that, but presumably it would need to be somewhere near
me.  I'm also not sure about the pet wipes.  Exactly what is involved
in the wiping process?  I like being brushed but am not sure I would
like being wiped.
                        o/.\____/
         -- Bernard      \______|
                         / \  / \
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Date:         Sun, 30 Aug 1992 21:09:00 EDT
From:         Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Mule Muffins and Mr. Bush
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It just occurred to me, rereading my recent post (which I
always do.... reread my posts several times while waiting for
the intelligent replies from the wordslers) that *if* my buddy
had not been Buddy but Georgie, and *if* Georgie were *really*
a Texan, that I could go on TV with an announcement that this
*person* once stuck a lump of dried mule sh*t in my mouth and
that I consider him <unfit> to serve our beloved country.  Then
I could be <instrumental> in altering the course of our country,
and the makeup of the Supreme Court and the <law of the land> and
*somebody*, whom I hesitate to name, would have the opportunity
that she has been waiting for for many years, to say, in effect,
that "he has been doing that to me for ages.... *ages* I say."
Ah, the accidents of history.
--ggs (a revisionist at heart...)
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From: bayla@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Bayla Singer)
Subject: worse verse
Summary: words-l
Keywords: verse
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:00:10 GMT

The idle mind... thinks of a Words-l Garden of Fractured 
Verses, and picks some easy targets:
     
      Speak harshly to your Ay Bee Aitch,
       And Flame her when she teases,
      She only does it to Annoy,
       Because she needs the Attention.

     
      Gilbert Giggles sugar and spice
       <Kissed> the Girls and it was <so nice>
      When the Boys came out to play,
       Gilbert Giggles sure had some stories to tell!


      Tushar Samant goes on a Rant
       And nobody senses the Difference.
      Between aspirate 'h' and desperate ache,
       He tries, and he fails, to be justanotherguy.


      Akio Gleans and asks What It Means
       And Wordslers try to tell him
      The inscrutable West is opaque at best,
       And you've got to Poke Holes just to See Through.   
     

      Higgledey Piggledy Conservative Bill
       Went off to Ireland just for the thrill
      Hoisted a few, afore anyone knew,
       He'd come to enjoy socialized medicine.


--bayla (what's that about the Devil's playground?) 
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:57:40 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (57)
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              31 Aug 1992 16:17:00 JST from
              <TANAKA%JPNSUT20.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:17:00 JST Akio Tanaka said:
>I don't exactly know why, BTW, but I tend to associate Jodie Foster with
>Anne Burton Harwell.. .  .   .    .     .       .        .         .

   hmmmmm....I associate her with anne@think.com....
though anne@think.com is much prettier.

>15) To drop the soap in the shower (Dan)

   Graham musta been in prude-bitch mode today.   Sorry, G.....hope you
recover soon....

>32) BFD (Dan)

   Big Fuckin' Deal

>37) VH1 (Dan)

   The more "adult" or "mellow" or "mainstream" version of MTV.
MTV owns VH1, and there is some crossover.  VH1 does more music and less
of the gameshows, etc.

dan
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Date:         Sun, 23 Aug 1992 05:55:28 CDT
From:         "Natalie Maynor" <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: The Evidence
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> worth pointing out.  Wilful ignorance doesn't count either - some people,
> for instance, would actually *defend* 'alot'... in which case they're
> welcome to it.

Thank you for excluding me from those deserving of flames.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
     whose WP spell-checker recognizes "alot" as correct because she
     added it... along with various other four-letter words that WP
     didn't recognize...
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Date:         Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:23:18 -0700
From:         MGARBER@DHVX20.CSUDH.EDU
Subject:      RE: Unix lessons
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Are y'all giving VMS lessons. I would like to know how you get th
>signs in front of each quoted line. Does the program put it there or
do you do it in the editing process.
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:05:16 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What about Henry?
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              2 Sep 1992 22:39:00 CDT from <TK0JUT1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

On Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:39:00 CDT tk0jut1@niu.bitnet Jim Thomas said:
>the death penalty can be so easily dismissed.  In the last 5 years in
>Illinois, we've released three "wrongfully conficted" (ie, not guilty)
>types from death row. I obviously disagree with Clinton's views on
>this subject, but to his credit, he doesn't duck the issue and fall
>back on "kill 'em all...."!  To his credit, he has publicly displayed

ok....but what about the killer who WANTS TO DIE....would you accept
giving him some pills or a gun with one bullet or something like that?
There are really those who ARE guilty...and admit it...and even say they
wanna die.  I'm all for taking them at their word.....any reason not to?
And, assuming they have been legally convicted and are on deathrow anyway,
then we've already decided they aren't insane....so that reason is gone.

dan
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Date:         Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:52:29 EDT
From:         Rashmi Murthy <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What does this mean?
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              at Aug 28, 92 8:49 pm

>
> bast> webster boffo
> 1: a hearty laugh
> 2: a gag or line that produces a hearty laugh
> 3: something that is conspicuously successful: HIT
>
>   Is this it?

Thanks, Torkel.  (2) is what I'd guess, didn't know about (3).
The webster here had "buffo" (clown), but not "boffo".

rashmi
(rashmi@coe.drexel.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:35:16 EDT
From:         Evelyn <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Re: TshirtII, Cubbies zero
              26 Aug 1992 09:52:20 MST from <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>

On Wed, 26 Aug 1992 09:52:20 MST Dan Lester said:
>
>   Well, assuming that those are the result of an Old Testament curse on
>tshirt makers, Ithink I'll pass......especially on the pregnancy part...

You would be famous, but you would still need the XXL.
>
>dan

Evelyn
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From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:27:11 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%92083116440542@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Gilbert Smith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU> writes:
 
>What am I going to do with this <newbie>, who is showing signs of being
>a big TM.....
>--ggs
 
gas:
 
I beg to differ.  I think I may just have to redivert my time expenditure(s)
from my Windows programming at home and start typing (again).
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Date:         Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:24:45 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject:      RE: Gleanings (57)
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	Akio, why do you glean Ruth more than anyone else? Are you saying we're not as
	interesting as she is? :-)

No, I suspect because she's more incoherent than most of us, though JWTMFW
is rapidly catching up (in fact he sound like he's been on acid for a week)

G
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:33:20 EDT
From:         Rita Marie Rouvalis <rita@EFF.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Rhubarb Pie
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              92 9:16 am

Elwood,

>    If you *did* want to try a rhubarb pie that Nico could sample (I'm
> assuming here that he is IDDM-II), there is a way.  Use the recipe of

	Actually, he is type I, and has been so for over 20 years.
At this point, when he wants a sweet, he just eats and takes the
extra insulin to cover.  The only artifical sweeteners in our house
is for his coffee and the diet coke.

	Hey, have you ever found a diabetic cookbook that didn't
go over the edge and have non-fat, non-cholesteral, non-sugar,
non-salt, non-TASTE recipes?  I mean, the sugar in the recipe may
not be good for him, but for goodness sake, I can still cook with
butter and eggs!

> Peace,
> Elwood P. (growing my own since the Sixties and never been caught) Dowd

	Alas, I have no yard.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:50:32 MED
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@STACK.URC.TUE.NL>
Subject: Re: TGTABagnes2
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	Just kidding...actually, you're not allowed to expire, at all.  I

Is this the opposite of Dan Quayle who never inhales?

We are all holding our breath waiting to see if tushar suffocates.

G
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