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From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: RE: On the shortage of lives on words-l
Date: 31 Dec 1992 05:22:54 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>Ausbrook, stop following up to every damned posting with vapid,
>>irrelevant and random remarks. As Ruth has said, it annoys her.
>>
>   methinks me boy is confooosed again....it's only tushiebaby's vapid
>and irrelevant and random and generally fucked remarks that annoy her.....
>
Don't forget Graham's and Torkel's; the do quite well in that department....

Dan, you may only be posting with one eye, but you can still post rings around
some of these clowns.:-)

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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Hello
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              29 Dec 1992 07:37:07 EST from
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:37:07 EST Don Moore (813) 974-4078 S/C 574-4078 said:
>Didn't realize you had left ... but not keeping up after hours as haven't
>figured out all the myriad commands to make Crosstalk work (doesn't like
>PF assignments) ...life was so much simpler with old PC ...but also so

  hey, don....can't speak for crosstalk (yuck) but with telix, which is
wonderful shareware, and only 45 smackers or so to register and does ALL
that the expenseive stuff does....you can assign anything you wan t to the
funcition keys...and bet even crosstalk does that....since you're connecting
to ibm mainframe i bet that what you are used to using is pf2, for example,
which is esc-2, and pf3 is esc-3, and so forth...so just assign all those
to your pf keys in the software.  and pf11 is esc-- (escape minus) and
pf12 is esc-+.....

   best

dan
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Job Corps
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> >  What is the Job Corps?
>
> The dictionary definition of Job Corps: a U.S. government program
> providing vocational training and work experience for disadvantaged
> youths.
>
> Michael E. Macmillan
> (macmillm@ewc)

Torkel, in cases such as this would it be possible to just leave them as is
or translate them literally and then include a glossary to explain the terms
more fully at the end of the book?

Just a thought!

Carolyn
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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 01:17:07 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: WORDS-L TP: Susan's History Question
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        "What do the letters of Anzac stand for?"

And for extra marks, on what day does Graham get plastered in honour
of those who fell?

G
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:06:19 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Blather
              20 Dec 1992 03:22:30 GMT from <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>

>        Did you know that a blatherskite is a babbling, foolish person?
>
>Yes, we discussed it about a month ago.  I pointed out that the skyte part
>is derived from an old scandinavian word for shit.  batherskyte -> (lit.)
>'shit-talker'.
>
>G

The hell you say.  No shit?

* Alt-Brad *
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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>One of life's unsolved mysteries.  Where do cows go over Christmas?  I mean,
>according to the dates on the cartons, they produce extra in the days before
>the holidays, right?  And the milk after the holidays takes over at the
>expected date, so inbetween they must all have a holiday and stop producing
>milk, no?

No..... the poor old cows never get holidays.... they keep producing the milk
but it gets fed to the pigs to help fatten them up for next Christmas, so we
can enjoy porkpies and legs of ham.

>And no relation to the above, but why does the milk in the week before and
>the week after Christmas taste like it's a week old?

That's an easy question to answer: Because it is probably two weeks older
than the milk you normally get.... which is probably a week old when you get
it under normal circumstances. Afterall, you don't think they could truck it
from the farms; pasteurise, homogenise and water it down; bottle it; ship it to
the distributor and have the milkman collect it and bring it to your door, all
in a few hours, do you?

>Bah, humbug.
>
>G

I'm pleased to see that you, too, have the true Christmas spirit finally.

Carolyn
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:40:08 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Hello
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The Listserver is back on and Giggles is back and Dan is posting again.
It will be a good last week of 1992.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:58:43 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      abh has perfect moment
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British Mse\um today. Expected the Elgin Marbles. Touched one (shhh). On
way out, through Theban gallery, monstrous statuary in quartzite and
basalt all sides, noticed a crowd gathered in an inconsequential-looking
corner, went over to see what the fuss was.

The Rosetta Stone.

Drooling on shoes, blathering, taken away twitching on stretcher. Yes.

Then went downtown for a look around. Had no idea in world that the
National Gallery would be featuring a special exhibit on Edvard Munch.
Almost passed out this time. Yes, The Scream was there. Rita, more painter
in this guy's little finger than in Magritte's whole body.

And then there was the Renaissance Wing: Tintorettos, Titians,
Botticellis, Leonardo(!), Michaelangelos. These guys don't buy no junk.

I am spent. goodnight.

-abh
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 11:01:55 EST
From:         "Judith E. Schrier" <PRIMATE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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>  Judith "explains":
>
>  >As best I can tell, melba toast is just thin Zweibach.
>
>  I like this! I think it's called, in Latin, defining the obscure by the
>more obscure. However, I was a bit hasty with this query, because even the
>rotten Canadian webster I'm now reduced to invoking had the answer:

I'm sorry...I thought I was referring to something common!

Maybe I'm spelling it wrong? Zweiback? Zwieback?

>mel.ba toast \.mel-b*-\ n [Nellie Melba -1931 Austral soprano] : very thin
>   bread toasted till crisp

No explanation of why she had "twice baked" bread named for her.
She is also the reason for the name, Peach Melba...a poached peach
half with a scoop of ice cream in it, and a dollop of raspberry
puree over the top. Yum.

I would like it if someone named something really delicious after
me...Chocolate Judith, maybe? Or Garlic Judith?

love, judith, who ought to find some breakfast...
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 12:37:35 EST
From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: What's in a name?

>> I like Car Talk's lawyers, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
>> * Alt-Brad *
>
>Or a banker named I. Fleecem.
>Ken

How about Natalie Dressed?

* Alt-Brad *
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Date:         Fri, 1 Jan 1993 18:55:09 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English peas
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What is DARE?  How does one (ie me, a Teneter) access it?

Thanks for spelling Le Sueur correctly - I just looked at a can.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:36:31 EST
From:         Bill Merrill <ST401601@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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I have to side with W.C. Fields on this one: "In this life every
man must have beliefs, and as for me, I believe I'll have another
drink."

I believe I'll make that a double. ;-) Merry Christmas all
and see you next year.

Bill
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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> > Black-eyed peas and French bread were on the menu here.

> That's ok as far as the luck.  Cornbread is optional as a luck food.  Only
> the black-eyed peas are required.  But does French bread really taste right
> with black-eyed peas?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Hot French bread tastes right with anything.  Plus, I had bought it at
Sam's Warehouse and figured it would get stale if I didn't use it.  So I did.
And didn't think spaghetti would taste good with black-eyed peas.
doris
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:32:42 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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              23 Dec 92 01:56:12 -0800. <199212231044.AA13647@sunic.sunet.se>

  Peter explains:

  >Let's see now. I have a discussion with Hitler about racial purity.

  But this description of how you propose to argue with Hitler
bypasses completely the question I asked. Since you object to my
mocking Hitler, but not to my saying bluntly to Hitler that his
beliefs are revolting and beneath contempt, what are your grounds for
objecting to the mocking? Surely my saying this to Hitler will put him
off every bit as much as my mocking him? (I would, of course, say such a
thing only from a very safe distance.)

  If your present remarks are to be at all relevant, your doctrine must be
that one should not bluntly insult people's beliefs either, by declaring them
revolting and beneath contempt, but should follow your proposed approach
in confronting people about their beliefs. But then we have no reason to
single out "mockery" in particular, but are dealing with the wider question
of how one should confront people about their beliefs if one wants to
have a meaningful discussion with them.

  >I guess (but I'm sure you can tell me much better) the reason I dislike
  >the idea of belittling even the most contemptible of deeply held beliefs
  >is precisely because they are so DEEPLY held.

  Well, this is what I suspected, but I had to wait for you to say it
yourself.  You "admire commitment of the will", you feel that "deep
convictions reach to the most fundamentally human elements in a
person", and to "mock such commitments is to mock humanness itself",
and this quite independently of the contents of these convictions.
Your attempts at a pragmatic justification of the "no mockery"
principle, which frankly were pretty feeble, we should perhaps just
set aside. This deep admiration for "depth" and commitment and
fanaticism, no matter in what cause or on the basis of what beliefs,
is found in a lot of people of an intellectual bent in the murkier
reaches of (mostly) right-wing politics and religion. I can't say I
myself respect this deeply felt conviction regarding the sanctity of
deeply felt convictions. But then I also sometimes make fun of beliefs
for which I have great respect.
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Monthly Hello
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              2 Jan 1993 06:18:20 GMT from <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:18:20 GMT Ruth M. Hanschka said:
>Ahh, but the important trip was reported on in detail - the Clambake.
>We'll even forgive the other five pages of useless trivia....<grin>
>
   Well, just for the edification of others....if any of you didn't get one,
and WANT for some reason, this five page epistle from the keyboard of gail...
just ask....and tell me your snail addres....it went by snailmail to all
whose addresses i had....

dan (and gail)
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:43:07 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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> G
> (Hey, I bet you didn't expect that, huh?)
>

I expected exactly what happened. Another attempt at a flame
turning out to be little more than a Bardford fart.

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*  Professor                                                *
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:26:34 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Questions
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  What are the Maryknolls?

  What delicacy do we find if we open a box of milky ways?

  Going by car from Louisiana to New Mexico via Texas, which area would
  "the Panhandle" refer to?

  "Indians in heel-worn cowboy boots": what does "heel-worn" mean here?

  "Blowing up a VC nurse in a spider hole": what is a spider hole?

  "For some reason they make me think of people cornholing each other":
   people doing what to each other?

   "A cop on the pad": a corrupt cop?

   "The three moles by the corner of her mouth were the size of BBs":
   what are BBs?

   "You never could resist mashing on a guy's oysters": what, if anything,
   does this idiom convey to you?

   Vick's VapoRub: what revolting product is this?

   Lum 'n' Abner land: what is the reference?

   What do you sell when you sell debit insurance?
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Electronic Literacy
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:05:15 GMT

In article <01GT0OHADBB6000674@camins.Camosun.BC.CA> Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA> writes:


>Having been involved in this kind of analysis since c.1974, I've become
>convinced that nobody really understands electronic communications,
>except in bits and pieces. Having been involved in all kinds of forums
>and conferencing set-ups, I'm well aware of the varieties of local
>customs involved, which is partly why I was surprised to see the use
>of profanity on Words-L. Words-L is in fact the first I've run into
>(and I was on it about 3 or  4 years back), in which the laws of the
>Jungle are the only ones that apply.

	WHERE on earth have you been?  Prodigy?

	You haven't been on words-l long enough to understand the
nature of communications here if you call it the laws of the jungle.
This place is positively kinder gentler.
	

>Rita, you didn't read what I said. I think its silly to try to explain what
>exists, because that doesn't help knowing where we might go.

	Oh really?  Not at all?

>I don't want to know where we MIGHT go, I want to know where we WILL
>go. I think we need to know where we will go, so we can deal with
>the effects of electronic culture on literacy, in order to help
>people to be more literate.

	And how are you going to know where we WILL go?  Consult a
psychic?  
 



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rita@eff.org                                                    eff@eff.org
CIS:70007,5621                                                (617)864-0665
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 10:33:50 GMT

maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:
> Bernard just ate cornbread and black-eyed peas.  I hope all of you have
> done likewise.

Does the presence of blueberries matter?  I hope I didn't tempt fate with
the blueberry cornbread I made to go with the canned black-eyed peas
Karen bought.

--karsten
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Deep beliefs
Date: 28 Dec 1992 03:34:07 GMT
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In a previous article, gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK (Graham Toal) says:

>        >(Hey, I bet you didn't expect that, huh?)
>        >
>        Actually, nothing you say could surprise me much anymore.  The "yipe!"
>        reflex has been burned out.:-)  But, how much do you know about that dud

>
>You're really missing your cues Ci... I mean, Ruth: you're supposed to
>say "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
>
Ahhh - another Python quote.  So sorry, I was deprived in my youth.  Now,
I will attempt to remedy this hole in my education.   Wait a sec...this is
Princess Bride, isn;t it....  I don't have that memorized either.

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From: jthomas@netsys.com (Jim Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Camillemania
Date: 22 Dec 92 03:29:29 GMT
Organization: Netsys Inc.

In article <1h3mi1INNabm@cat.cis.Brown.EDU> ll23%nemomus@academic.nemostate.edu (Karen Kay) writes:
>Posted on 20 Dec 1992 at 23:12:26 by Jim Thomas
>>If you're saying you agree with her, does that also mean you agree that
>>domestic violence is an overblown and silly issue?
>
>What, we can't like part of what she says w/out buying the whole pkg.????

I think I was quite specific in identify just a <few> of CP's outlandish
claims. But, when one says they like the whole pig without differentiating
what part of pig they prefer, it's safe to assume that they're going
whole hog.


>I sure do like what she says about deconstruction....

Scary, considering how little she seems to know about it.

Jim (Do women stay in abusive relationships because of hot sex?) Thomas
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:47:18 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      this winter solstice moment
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          Gail Lester <gaill@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>

has been brought to you by the Cyclops of Potatoland

and his female companions.....the Mighty Cinda, who is prying her eyes open
in preparation for boarding the DeltaBird for Salt Lake and Chicago....and
the Wonderful Gail, who is already slaving away at HP, probably starting to
process the books she bought last week.  Friday she took her assistant
on an expedition to BookStar, the big discount bookstore.  After filling
several of the little handheld baskets of books, the manager finally decided
they really DID need a book truck to start to stash their purchases.  I
imagine it was their sale of the day, as Gail left with six boxes of books
and a $3,000 charge on her HP Library Visa Card!  And that was after an
extra discount they gave her for such a large purchase.  Wouldn't YOU love
to go shopping for books like that?  I know I would.

Ths subject line is a reminder that Winter began at the exact moment I began
typing this note to all my DIET and WORDS-L friends.  I've set both lists
to mail again, and will begin digging through it all.  Fun!

Best to all....happy holidays....happy vacation....happy end of finals, etc....

dan in potatoland
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:25:14 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Christmas wrapping
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Although the tree is still up and probably will remain so until this
weekend, the wrapping and bows have all been cleared away.  Am I the only
one who religiously saves the bows for reuse?  I usually buy at least one
new package every year, but there are some that keep resurfacing.  We have
one little gold foil guitar that came to us on a package from Foley's at
Christmas of 1964...it still shows up on a family package almost every
year, and I recapture it to use again because I think it's so cute.
ndh (who found out that Christmas with a grandchild is much more fun than
Christmas was without one)
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Questions

Milky Ways:  a brand of candy bars with chocolate and caramel nougat.
There are two types:  regular with milk chocolate covering and insides,
and dark with dark chocolate covering and white chocolate or vanilla
insides (my favorite).  A regular Milky Way with nuts is a Snickers.

Vick's Vapo-Rub:  This is a medicinal ointment that one applies to the
chests of children with croup or colds.  It is supposed to relieve the
congestion.  It also can be used in vaporizers or in bowls of extremely
hot water to create medicated steam to be breathed in.

Evelyn