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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: An observation
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>Serve it to your ungrateful family who think you spend too much time
>hammering on a terminal and say Happy New Year.
>
>-abh

So you've got one of them too! I had a wonderful Christmas Day this year....
I didn't do any cooking in 100 degree heat; just put all the goodies in
bowls and on platters and threw them on the table; handed each one a plate
and said "Go for it!"... which of course they did like ravenous beasts....
but the best part was no-one complained and I, for the first time, didn't feel
totally washed out by the time evening arrived.

Carolyn
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In a previous article, ktw@MHWPA.ATT.COM () says:

>Far out!  Somebody noticed!  I'm doing my best to build my own legend,
>and I'm succeeding.:-)  I am available for weddings, bar mitzvahs,
>pre-nuptial agreements, and if you're REAL nice, I'll play the lute
>under your window....
>
And if we're even nicer, you won't?:-)  There *is** a croning ceremony coming
up.....  You up for the gig?

-- 
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From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: inventing a label
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        interminable cross-talk acts. If I ask what causes objects
        more than 25 cms away from my eyes go blurry will you say
        "myopia"?

Why not? - that's what doctors do.  I know someone who got into a
heated argument saying "I'm not just bald - I've got alopecia".

G
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Subject: Re: About this trivia game
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:53:51 GMT

Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU> writes:

>Be my guest, fight over the honor with cdc.gov, have at it...I never was
>any good at this stinking game anyway.

Ahhh...I get to challenge someone to zee duel.  Where is my sabre?

--Aaron

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Subject:      Boston gathering?
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What's this about a Boston gathering?
  --Rod, in Cambridge
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From:         Karen Kay <LL23%NEMOMUS.bitnet@MIZZOU1.MISSOURI.EDU>
Subject:      Say Something To Jeffrey

> Somebody say hello to my nephew.  I'm showing him e-mail.

Hi, Jeffrey!

Karen
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
 <WILLIAMS%MC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Sweatin' it out

>Do you remember the old car air-conditioners that were shaped like a
>butane/propane tank (only much smaller) and were mounted at the top and
>outside of a car window?

>yes....LONG ago......   o-)

>cyclops
        I was going to say, "Oh, it wasn't THAT long ago, Dan!" when I
remembered, ooops, yea, I guess over twenty years WAS!  They never did
work worth a damn, either.  "360" air-conditioning was better.  Natalie,
I too remember those huge plastic air ducts - first car I remember seeing
them in was a '54 Cadillac.  (The only car still in production named after
an explorer...)  That was the one with the hidden filler car, too.

John "I like Ike" W.
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Subject:      Re: Greetings from N.O.

> I'm not the only e-addict.  :-)  I wasn't even the one who said anything
> about e-mail today.  It was Judith who said "Let's go find telnet access."
> So here we are at Tulane.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Sure, Natalie, sure....  Blame it all on Judith.:-)

--
Kenneth Wolman          |       To die of fear of revealing yourself
AT&T Bell Laboratories  |       to the person who loves you is murder.
(908)582-4815           |
Kenneth.Wolman@att.com  |               --Stan Rice, "Anne's Curls"
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Subject:      Re: Another List Gathering?

Natalie suggests:
>Let's start discussing good dates for a N.O. gathering -- a Pre-Salmon
>Jammin in N.O. like last year's Pre-Clam Slam in Seattle.  I think Jim
>and Helen are planning on being in Louisiana sometime in May.  How about
>mid May for a gathering?  That also would be like last year -- May in
>Seattle, July in Providence.

You might want to make that March or April, in deference to those not
acclimated to 'Southern' climes -- early Spring in NOLA is best, by
May, especially late May, the heat and humidity may already be
intolerable for them.

JAG
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From: kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey)
Subject: Re: Found in a Toystore
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:54:51 GMT

"Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU> writes:

>        Easing back into the list isn't easy...

Sez who?

--Aaron
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>Ah, but you're an *assistant* professor - that's only half as pretentious.
>>(And you never put it in your sig...)
>>
>   I also never use it, but am indeed a Professor.  with no adjectives in
>front of it.

Just lots of invective following it?:-)

>dan, the cyclops, with a still way-too-dilated left eye that doesn't focus
>worth a shit.
>
Join the club, lovey - that's me at night with my glasses off.  20/100 in
both eyes, with a little astigmatism thrown in for grins.  Still, you have my
sympathies, and hopes that yours at least will clear up.  
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        On the Feast of the Blessed Virgin:

Proselytize somewhere else fuckface.

G
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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>
> The list seems strangely quiet this morning.  Is everybody hungover, or
> what?
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Nope.  Realizing that in three days I have to go back to work and need to
have made a *big* dent in the grading I brought home by then.

I *do* have the black-eyed peas on the stove, though.

Happy new year to one and all.
doris
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From:         LNCJB@WOMBAT.NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
Subject:      Re: An observation
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>"You've had the biscuit!" is something one might say to
>someone who has used up their last chance.
>
>Pierre l'triscuit

That would be "You've had the rachet!" here. "He did his biscuit!" means he
'went off half-cocked' or 'flew off the handle' because 'his brains were
over-baked'. :-)

Carolyn
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Subject: Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:52:02 GMT

Agnes Kruchio <kruchio@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA> writes:

>> I have a relatively small list of "Deep Thoughts" in Unix fortune file
>> format.  You're welcome to an email copy if you'd like.
>>
>> Why not propose an alt.deep.thoughts USENET group?  They seem to be
>> letting just about any crazy idea go through these days.
>>
>> --Aaron
>>

>...Er...ahem....first I think I will get enough time to breathe, then to
>sleep, then....

>...Whew, I should have know someone would take this seriously...

>Agnes
>Scratching her head...agin

Hey, I get a Deep Thought every time I start up my Mac.  Better than
"Welcome to Macintosh."

--Aaron, who doesn't understand Canadian humor

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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:22:45 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Nerve of steel
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1992, Graham Toal wrote:

> I'm amazed abh hasn't broken down again this weekend and started mailing
> everyone in sight because words-l seems to be dead.  Most uncharacteristic
> of her, I thought.  At least the replies have stopped now...

I don't know what you're bitching about, Graham, you never reply to them
anyway. I might as well delete you off the Emergency Listserver, but I'm
not that mean.

-abh
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: English peas
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              at Jan 1, 93 7:54 pm

Now don't get me wrong, I'm no food snob, but the thought of *canned* peas,
petite or not, is revolting in the extreme.  It's just boiled/steamed peas,
right?   Why not get the frozen hulled ones and do it yourself?  Or does this
Le Sueur stuff involve something more complicated?

-rashmi, pea-snob
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From:         "Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Christmas
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Graham Toal writes:

G>I have to say I find all the God shit deeply offensive.  Do I get
G>equal time to post bits from the Necronomicon?

        Funny, I can't find any mention of Christmas in my copy ...

Tom Lee
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From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Debit insurance
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Ruth says

> Wild guess: check bouncing insurance?  You can't overdraw a debit card,
> at least I don't *think* you can overdraw a debit card.  Coubbe....
> Overdraft insurance does exist; this might be another name for it.
> [bounced = rubber checks  - insufficient funds in the back account to cover
> the draft...]  This could be the same idea for an ATM, aka debit, card.

Might we be talking here about what is some times called a line of
credit, whereby a person can overdraw their account up to a preset
amount, without recrimmination, and only a small interest charge?

Pm
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From:         Graham Toal
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Subject:      Re: How I love the winter...
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        Far out!  Somebody noticed!

We all noticed.  We just assumed that you'd post it soon enough anyway
without having to ask.  (This isn't a request btw)

G
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From:         "Thomas J. Lee" <tjl9@CUNIXF.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Touchtones and Alternative Librarians
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Neal writes:

NT>Agnes, I could swear I saw a book written by Jack Handey; it may have
NT>even been titled _Deep Thoughts_.  Perhaps it was at Hawley-Cooke
NT>while wandering around looking for wordslers, but I really don't
NT>remember it well.  Anyone have easy access to 'Books in Print'?
NT>(Yeah, like a dozen librarians on the list.)

        Yep, it's right across the room.  And yes, there is a book
called _Deep Thoughts_ by Jack Handey.

Cheers,
Tom Lee
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From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
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: Ahh, but the set from 1912 is sitting here, not out there, and so are the
: older ones.:-)  It's just too darned bad we can't go over each others' houses
: to play.....

Are you sure you want to come all the way to frozen Illinois to play
with trains?

Steve Karlson
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A local gathering sounds great to me.  Unfortunately, because of a bizarre
schedule, I will only be able to attend if it is held in Newton; and then
only for an hour or so.  Still I would love to be there for whatever
amount of time.  In any case, count me in to provide something for the
pot-luck.  I'll find a way to deliver it regardless of location.

Rita L.
LEONARD@BCVMCMS

P.S.  Joan, the counterpart program to the Peace Corps that you were
      thinking of is, I believe, VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America)
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Did We Have Fun, Graham?
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Shortly before I woke up this morning I was dreaming about Graham.  But
I don't remember what we were doing.  Was it fun, Graham?
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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> > and that stack of work appears to have *grown*,
>
> Hide it.  That's what I've done with all my still-undone work.  It's buried
> under my desk and won't come out till tomorrow at the earliest.
>
But tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of vacation time;
And all my yesterdays are catching up. . .
>
> Bernard just ate cornbread and black-eyed peas.  I hope all of you have done
> likewise.
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

Black-eyed peas and French bread were on the menu here.
doris
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From:         JOHN WHAT'S-THE-M-FOR? WILLIAMS
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Subject:      Sweatin' it out

Doris remembers:
>that we had what was called a "water cooler," a window-mounted fan with a
>water hose fed into the back of it.  The fan blew over the water and this
>allowed cool air to circulate rather than warm air.  These could not be
>used in humid areas, however.
Was this an 'evap'[orative] cooler', aka a "swamp cooler", or something else?
They still sell them around here, as the RH is under 55% for 50 weeks of the
year and they are *infinitely* cheaper to run than AC...

John, who can't believe he didn't have AC in his vehicles until 3 years ago.
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In a previous article, BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:

>"What is Margaret Houlihan's nickname?"
>
>This is luck holding up?  Margaret Houlihan?  Entertainment....  I haven't
>the foggiest.  I'll guess Happy Houlihan in desperation.  Give me Geography
>next should this somehow hit the target.
>
Brad, that cheap champagne must be shorting your memory - Loretta Switt?
M*A*S*H?  HOT LIPS!  Sally  Kellerman had the role in the movie.
That show ran about 8 years longer than the war it was set in, and is now
in global syndication.
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Date:         Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:36:57 HST
From:         Michael Macmillan <mmac@PEGASUS.COM>
Subject:      Oxford Companion
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One of my Christmas acquisitions is an interesting compendium of things
titled _The Oxford Companion to the English Language_, edited by
Tom McArthur (Oxford University Press, 1992).

Just browsing through, my eye falls on many interesting things, for
example, the unfamiliar to me term amphiboly.  I see it every day but
didn't know what to call it: ambiguity caused by lack of grammatical
clarity in which a phrase or sentence can be understood in two ways.
The example given is "the shooting of the hunters."

There is a considerable discussion of BBC English and a lot on
dialect.  Alas, nothing I can see on Cincinnati dialect.

Here's an interesting item on "blue-eyed English."  This will probably
pop up in Carolyn's version of Trivial Pursuit.  Blue-eyed English, it
seems, is the name given to Percy Grainger's attempts to use English
without its Latinate element.  An example, quoted from John Bird's
biography of Grainger: "Nothing should be done for take-it-easy,
know-nothing & care-less keyed-hammer-string players.  We tone-wrights
should be-shame them all we can."

The very next item tells me that the term blurb was coined in 1907
y Frank Gelett Burgess to describe a comic-book jacket he had created.
The design included "a sexy young woman whom he called Miss Blinda Blurb.

One more item.  There is an entry under "Scottish Joke."  These jokes
present Scots as "undeemably mean."  The example given: "Whilst in
London's West End tonight, a Scotsman died of starvation on the back
seat of a Pay-as-You-Leave bus."

Merry Christmas, GT.

----------------
Michael E. Macmillan
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: What A Quiet Bunch
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We ate the last of the cornbread yesterday.  I had made a huge pan full a
couple of days ago when I made 15 bean soup, Cajun flavored.  It was too
hot for my tastes, so the cornbread helped me mask the cayenne flavor.
Jim likes hot and spicey food, but I have difficulty putting out the fire
in my mouth and throat.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:15:04 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Barbie dolls
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              at Dec 23, 92 5:35 am

> Besides, when you get right down to it, math class *is* tough.  Being male
> or female has little to do with it, unless you want to get into one of
> those "all teaching is biased against everyone who's not a white male"
> arguments.  Torching Barbie dolls isn't the answer (though I'd love to see

Math class may be tough for both Ken and Barbie, Aaron, but it was only
Barbie who admitted it.  I agree that the recall is a silly idea, but hope
the controversy prompts the Barbie-dialogue writers to pay more attention
while writing her lines in future.

> PS-- Anyone know where I can get a copy of "Heather Has Two Mommies" in
> time for Christmas, so I can scare the shit of my straightlaced 1-year-old
> cousin's family?

The local Border's had a copy, last time I checked.  I'd guess that any decent
sized bookstore in NYC probably has a copy.

-rashmi
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Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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              26 Dec 92 04:01:47 -0800. <9212261202.AA09168@sics.se>

  >I simply don't concern my self with the value judgements
  >people place on my thinking. To do other wise would be to be a slave
  >of everyone else's opinions. Is that a position you are advocating?

  But I said nothing about value judgments. Your comment about not
concerning yourself with people's reactions was made in response to my
surmise about Christians being offended.
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Help with a movie question
Originator: rita@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:57:18 GMT

In article <168C313F32.BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU> BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:

>     The movie is on The Movie Channel on 23 and 29 December, if you
>    have access.  It would be fun to have you identify the Boston
>    scenes...

	Well, sorry to disapoint you, Brad.  Cable is Evil, so we
don't subscribe.  Maybe I'll rent the flick, tho.




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