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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:56:03 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Perhaps of Interest
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> Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:58:15 +0100
> From: Eric Thomas <ERIC%SEARN.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
> Subject:      New feature in 1.7f - automatic digests
> To: Multiple recipients of list LSTOWN-L
 <LSTOWN-L%INDYCMS.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU>
>
> Release  1.7f  will  introduce   an  automatic  digestification  function
> allowing subscribers  who do not have  the time to read  large numbers of
> messages as they arrive to subscribe to a digestified version of the list
> instead. The list owner decides whether digests are available or not, the
> frequency at  which they are issued  and the day  of week or time  of day
> when the  digest should  be distributed. The  digests conform  to RFC1153
> with an  accepted deviation from  the recommended subject  line (verified
> with the RFC author).

Does this sound appealing to some of you with mail-volume problems?  It would
not, of course, decrease the overall amount (number of bytes) of list mail,
but it would decrease the number of separate messages.  Note that this would
be an option available to individual subscribers, NOT a new distribution
method for everybody.  The rest of Eric's announcement explains that it would
not require much space on the mainframe running the listserv, which means
that *probably* it can be made available at UGA.  I've noticed that UGA
does a good job of staying on top of all the latest listserv releases,
thanks to Harold Pritchett.  I'll let you know if/when this option becomes
available.
  -- Natalie (about to move back to maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Boston
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:44:29 GMT

In article <9301062320.AA12643@Walt.CS.MsState.Edu> Natalie Maynor <maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU> writes:
>Are the people at the Boston gathering gonna send us a live report??

	I think I'm the first back online....  Food was nummy.  I
nominate Mama P.'s salmoncakes for best eatin's, but I didn't get any
of //anne//'s spaghetti sauce.  Pictures were taking for giffing
purposes.



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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:17:12 EST
From:         Elaine M Brennan <ELAINE@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject: Re: London Bridge
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Karen said:
>
>I went to see "Beaches" w/ 2 friends who won't go to the movies w/ me again.
>I sobbed so loudly they moved away from me in the theater.
>
Elaine says:

ask any of us who went to the theater with Karen during the Clambake
festivities if we're surprised by this... I'm not ...
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From:         jc-s <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Scoobie Doo (was Re: Gleanings (74)
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>
>BTW, anyone know of any cheap places to stay in Albany, NY?  Spring Tour
>time on the East Coast ;).
>
>"Nothin' left to do but smile, smile, smile"
>
>        //anne//

there are lots of campgrounds in that area, can't get much cheaper
than that!

hey //anne//, now that ya have a car, when are ya coming down to providence
for one of our famous potluck suppahs?

jenna
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:56:11 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Silence...
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> >>ell, you could always hit ESC ESC W, and forget about the PF keys.:-)
> >
> Don, I think your new system is screwing up again.:-)  You just resent
> that entire post back to the list, unedited......
>
> Whoops?:-)
> --
That's ok.  Some of us ancient folk have to be told things more than once.
Hello, Ruth.
doris
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:12:39 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      tushies age
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              4 Jan 1993 06:03:53 EST from <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU>

On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:03:53 EST <BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU> said:
>  Speaking of birthdays, didn't Tushar turn 24 on 12/25?  Or was that
>  one of his jokes?
>
   Well, according to the gif he LOOKS about 24....though when he puts
on his schoolmarm-uptight-asshole-jerk mode, he ACTS about 84.....

cyclops
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:53:37 WET
From:         Fizzy the Fribble
              <fribble%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Words-L Weekly Digest
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              Jan 11, 93 4:43 pm

From the screen of 'gilbertsmith'...
>
> > Gilbert,
> >   You get mentioned in the Digest more than I do.  It doesn't bother me
> > that I don't get mentioned; I always figure that things could be worse.
> >
> > Evelyn
>
> This *blows* my *mind*!!!!  What could be worse than being left out
> of brad's Weekly Digest?????  *What*???  I challenge anyone on this
> list to name *one* thing that is worse.  Just *one* *thing*!!!!!
> --ggs
>

Being mentioned *could* be worse...

Fiz.
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From: jthomas@well.sf.ca.us (Jim Thomas)
Subject: Re: The list and Elvis stamps
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:48:28 GMT

In article <01GTA8QBMU9W000MUU@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE> STEC8033@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE writes:
>Hi gang,
>   I have been off for a while, in large part because this mainframe is
>a mess.  For the past two months, what it mostly does is crash.  It is
>usually up for about 2 minutes top, before it crashes for ten minutes or
>so.  When it is up, it is slow.  You try and read 200 messages a day with
>a machine like that.  (I was going to say it is as slow as the Irish, but
>I would never say a thing like that.)  It is slightly better behaved right
>now, so I'm going to see how long I can stay on the list.  I hope you all
>had a good holiday.
>                             Bill Sjostrom



Hi bill---thanks for the way-k00l hurling mug that was in my dept mail
Friday. Lists the all-Ireland hurling champs from 1887-92 .... and with
guinness inside, the design nearly glows silver.....

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Date:         Sun, 10 Jan 1993 09:45:08 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Thank You, Ruth
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On Sun, 10 Jan 1993, karsten wrote:

> > As I am in my cats' house. [not a cathouse, karsten....]   I am also
> > their willing, mostly, slave.
>
> What's your safeword?

"Tender Vittles!"

-abh
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:27:20 -0600
From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: uh-huh
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> > Good luck, Emily...hope it works out!
>
> Thanks Nancy! Me too. They got a lot of applicants for the position (like 70
> or something) and they're interviewing 12. I think they want somebody with an
> art history background; the closest I could get was an MA in medieval history.
> We'll see what happens.

Well, to have been one of the 12 sounds pretty good in itself.  And since
you'd be working with medieval materials, maybe they'll decide your
background is better than what they originally wanted.
ndh (fingers crossed for good luck)
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From: karsten@netcom.com (karsten)
Subject: Re: Cronings: (was: News from a newly non-computer...)
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maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) writes:
> Make that a *VERY* low eligibility age...

Did they lower it again?  The last time I checked it was down
to 50.

--karsten
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Date: 8 Jan 93 04:09:56 GMT
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>
>"What's the base number in the duodecimal system?"


--Aw, C'monnn! Is this <serious>?  And what may I ask is the base
number in the decimal system?  This is worse than the Noah question!

--bayla


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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 11:40:39 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: question
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              4 Jan 1993 01:19:46 EST from
              <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>

On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:19:46 EST Rashmi said:
>Does the song "We will rock you" by Queen have any special significance for
>organized labor?  The Local Teamsters were on strike here and they played it

   no....but it is very widely used in football and basketball venues
by all sorts of college and pro teams....including the bsu broncos....
   I would agree with the "inspirational" angle at least as far as the
'we will win' kind of inspiration goes....

   like a lot of things it will continue as a fad for a while....and
then it will be something else....

  cyclops
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:30:20 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The whole nine yards (revisted)
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              Jan 4, 93 4:34 am

> : 5. "Nine yards", I am surmising, more whimsically than with recourse to
> : logic, may refer to the nine yard saree, which is the longest and in some
> : sense the completest garment one wears (if female).

Uh oh, Graham's doing it now - quoting without sources, I mean.  I've doubts
about the explanation above, though.  Tushar, where did you get your version
from?  (Or did you make it up?)

-rashmi
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:24:33 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) says:

>> Ah, the famous Natalie tin ear again.  You wouldn't get a linking r between
>> idea and why.
>
>Some people *always* end "idea" with an r.  Others, as you say, throw in
>the r's in certain environments only.

And here I thought that was a New Jersey Thang....  Certain areas of New
Jersey seem to breed accents like that.  It's a family joke that the
Rs Bostonians omit migrate south to New Jersey , where they're tacked onto
words that shouldn't have them.  I wonder if there's a lost sock repository
somewhere in the lower 48 too....

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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:18:45 -0600
From:         Anne Burton Harwell <harwell@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Gleaning: Xtian
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Congratulatios, Susan. You may now pass straight to Berkeley, do not pass
Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.

My nomination for politically-corect bilgewater of Words-L for 1993.

-abh
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Date: 4 Jan 1993 22:12:48 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 10:34:45 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>>Now to log off before I go blind.
>
>Doing THAT in the library is likely to get you in trouble....or else
>picked up by some On Our Backs reading librarian....
>
Maybe it would get you two for the price of one?  The former being a direct
result of the latter, on occasion....  Of course, if one is going blind
in the library, chances are the librarian isn't going to want to pick one
up....  They may like 'em big and stupid, but not wet and sticky.:-)

		Ruth
Julie Brown fan....

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From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
Subject: Re: Yoshi Hattori Petition
Originator: rita@eff.org
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:56:34 GMT

In article <WORDS-L%93010612424381@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> R3EJD@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU writes:
>This is needed in a country where you have to get a license for a dog
>but not for a gun.

	Excuse me?  All *my* guns are licensed according to law.






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On Mon, 4 Jan 1993, gilbertsmith wrote:

> How *long* is this Wagon's pipe?

Giggles, Giggles...I thought we already went all over this one...

-abh
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Date: 8 Jan 1993 04:31:26 GMT
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In a previous article, maynor@CS.MSSTATE.EDU (Natalie Maynor) says:

>Doesn't it make more sense to put the name of the other country in English
>and the rest of the address in the language of the other country, since it
>is in this country that that bottom line is read and sent to?  I put U.S.
>in the language of the country I'm sending from (e.g., E.U.) and put the
>name of countries I'm sending to from here in English.

I usually put the country name in the form the USPS can best handle.:-)
They'll provide you with a whole booklet on international postage rates
and some of the regulations.  All you have to do is ask for it.  I'd imagine
anyone outside of the US could get one too, for whatever reason.[strange
are stamp collectors and stranger are their ways]  
Failing the postal regs, I just usually guess.:-)  I can't handle Japanese
or Chinese charecters anyway....

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Subject: Re: The burning fiery furnace
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In a previous article, torkel@SICS.SE () says:

>       >Nope, it *is* a down-in-the-cellar one.  Forced hot-air, using
>       >ductwork.
>       >The place probably also has central air-conditioning.
>
>  In a small yellow-brick house in a working-class neighborhood in Montana?

He probably thought the building was in Louisiana - you never said it 
wasn't.  It's definitely a cellar unit, then, if the house has a cellar.
If it's an old house, chances are the furnace is an oil-burner, or maybe
even coal.  Oil's more likely, though.  I wouldn't know about the central
air, not having any myself.:-(

>beer of course, but the visitors wanted Coke and water. Sven instructed
>the waitress, in Swedish: "And it would be nice if you could bring lots
>of ice. These people are crazy about ice." I guess it's the same with
>air-conditioning.
>
Yep - in Montana, it *can* get really hot.  It also gets very cold, and
very windy.  Just btw, I drink my coke at room temerature.
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
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>   One of the most awful tornadoes in terms of loss of life hit Tupelo,
>   Mississippi in 1936 or so.  People who experienced it often have
>   these storm cellars in their backyards.  My 91-year-old grandmother
>   calls hers "the stormhouse," and it is -- a concrete-block bunker
>   that she keeps moderately well provisioned.  Despite her age, she
>   still calls on family members to go with her to the stormhouse whenever
>   a "bad cloud" comes up.
>
>   brad

The 1988 (on December 1) tornado that hit Raleigh was a real jewel.
Destroyed about 5,000 homes in the affluent northern suburbs and
completely flattened an enormous K-Mart (which was resurrected as
a Wall Mart)....  The devastation was unbelievable.  I *love*
storms.  My mother always piled me in the car to go look at the
latest tornado damage in West Texas every time one of them hit
within driving distance.  She also enjoyed taking me to watch
house fires, which probably was the thing that led me to set
our garage on fire when I was 7, burning it down completely and
destoying our new car, which my father had managed to buy in spite
of the rationing at the end of WW II.  I was a sweet child.
--ggs
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From:         Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
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> "What film's climax takes place on the face of Mount Rushmore?"

Oooooh, I like this question *much* better!  I believe that's _North by
Northwest_.  And I think I'd like to try history next.
ndh
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: {Operative Human Biological Interchange
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> And is 'Peter fucks himself' a reflexive use?

Yes.  But the verb is still transitive.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 06:10:45 EST
From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Boston

Re: the gathering at Joan's.  Did y'all watch the movie -Run-?  Pretty
bad, huh?  Could you identify the fictional city?

brad
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 10:43:21 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Dual Croning on 19 March
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> relate.  She told me to confirm her participation and set the wheels in
> motion.  So back to you all....

EXCELLENT!!  Any of the plans will be fine with me:  Starkville (obviously),
New Orleans, The River.  I will not be on spring break that week, alas.
(Ours is the previous week.)  But assuming the plans are for a weekend, I
can be anywhere within a radius of however far it is from here to N.O.
What the heck -- for my once-in-a-lifetime croning ceremony, I'll fly to
Stockholm that weekend.  Wanna plan it, Torkel?  I started to include Tokyo
but decided that might be a bit of a stretch for a weekend.  I'd get too
confused about what day it was and risk missing by 7 a.m. Monday class.
Hmmmm.  Since it would be 10 p.m. Monday in Tokyo then, I probably would
make it to class after the croning, now that I think of it.  But I might
get confused on the other end and not get to the croning on time.  All
things considered, I still prefer for it to be somewhere within CST zone.
That includes Dekalb, Steve-of-the-tacky-sail.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
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> Or maybe tail-pipe to tail-pipe is more appropriate.
> How *long* is this Wagon's pipe?

Something is striking me as backwards in this symbolism...
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:29:57 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Orleans
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              4 Jan 1993 18:54:48 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

On Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:54:48 CST Natalie Maynor said:
>> >Easter weekend will be a long weekend for some people.  That might be a
>> >good time.
>> What weekend is this?
>
>The weekend that's a little over six weeks after Mardi Gras.  :-)


ooooooops....try a little UNDER six weeks....like 40 days....

cyclops
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
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> What do you do in the event of a tornado?
>
> Emily

The collective "you" has been instructed to go to an inside room or
closet, away from plumbing, and I think the southwest side of the house.
The personal "you" sleeps through it.  Really.  That is a story in itself,
though, and (Graham will be glad to know) I don't have time to tell it, as
it involves trees and wet concrete and truck headlights and a school
newspaper and being yelled at.
doris
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: On Eire and Edinburg(h) (was Re: First ma
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Posted on 8 Jan 1993 at 09:23:46 by torkel@SICS.SE
>  No, pilots everywhere use English.

Not true--I already posted that this is not the case in China.  I
suspect Vietnam, Cuba, etc. come into this category as well.

>The international language of matters
>pertaining to mail is French, but I don't know to what extent this is
>actually observed.

It is true that air mail stamps in Japan say 'par avion'.  At least
they used to.

Karen
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