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From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: An observation
Date: 26 Dec 92 22:14:48 GMT
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Torkel, you may be more familiar with zweibach as a form of mandelbrot,
a hard cake for children who are teething.  it usually looks like a 
cross-section of an airplane wing: flat at the bottom, rounded at the
top.  I think the british rusks are related, too.

--bayla
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From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Holidays
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        My favorite activity!  Since I couldn't afford to see both my family

"Stupor is my life"?

        and Karsten during vacation, I'll be grading on Christmas day. (This
        was deliberate.)  I leave Monday to visit Karsten, and if we have
        finally figured out how to do the unix-vm interface, I can be

What's the matter - is it a byte-sex thang?

G
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From:         Tony Harminc <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Early morning blues...
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Posted on 30 Dec 1992 at 23:46:56 by Graham Toal

>Well, spent the last 6 hours cleaning up my flat; now have an hour to
>kill before I go for the 5:30 tube out to heathrow to meet miss piggy.

This could be good: she told me she was flying into Gatwick.

Tony H.
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Date:         Sun, 27 Dec 1992 03:05:25 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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> From: "Ruth M. Hanschka" <ap290@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU>

> >Would that, by any chance, be a Viennese Schmatz?
>
> No, but it might be a Vienna Schmaltz, von Strauss. [and roll your Rs when
> you say that, kid!:-)]

SO what's in an el, besides a few hundred commuters??

> I can believe it.  French origin, I'll bet.  Bi plus the verb for to cook,
> "cuire" in its past tense.[or one of them]

So why would having had the biscuit mean that one is probably
half baked?

[Sorry ;=}]

Pm
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Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:52:19 GMT
From:         Graham Toal
              <gtoal%rachel.ibmpcug.co.uk%kate.ibmpcug.co.uk@KATE.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Nerve of steel
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        --ggs (the one with the silver Miata.....)

If you mention that fucking Miata one more time I'm
going to ram it up your exhaust pipe.

I hope you read the 672 pending messages.  631 of them were saying
nasty things about you...

G
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:03:47 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: inventing a label
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I said:

>Ruth, it's soooo easy to annoy you <evil grin>.

Big mistake. I meant

Ruth, it's *soooooooooo* easy to annoy you <evil grin>.

tushar
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: What A Quiet Bunch
Date: 2 Jan 1993 06:09:39 GMT
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In a previous article, dorisann@TENET.EDU (Doris Smith) says:

>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.
>
Milk works better than corn bread for that.  I made 15 bean soup recently too,
but had to leave out the real spices.  We have some pepper wimps in the 
house.:-)  Do you add tomato paste to yours?  

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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 20:17:15 -0800
From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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>   >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.

Perhaps I should have phrased my earlier comment more circumspectly;
what I did and do mean is that I don't concern myself with the value
judgements people place on my thinking. I try hard to listen and I
try hard to respond respectfully when the occasions warrants. The
actual response ellicted, after my best efforts, is not something
within my control.
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:33:00 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Bleak
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You were right, Brad.  Bleak.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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Date:         Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:35:27 +0100
From:         torkel@SICS.SE
Subject:      Re: Holidays
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              24 Dec 92 17:10:08 -0600. <9212242310.AA20881@sics.se>

  >It's not xmas yet -- not even in Europe.

  Actually in the Nordic countries, for some reason lost in the mist of
time, Christmas Eve is the big day of Christmas, with dinners and presents
and so on. On Christmas Day, people just lie in a stupor.
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Subject:      Re: How I love the winter...

> >  and if you're REAL nice, I'll play the lute
> > under your window....
>
> Do you provide your own transportation?  And how nice is REAL nice?  I'm
> interested...
>    --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)

I work for a coach seat on the plane and a for slight honorarium.  You
_do_ have to feed me.  Any other niceness or gratuities are strictly by
private arrangement:-).

Ken
<I'm not easy, I just play that way on TV>
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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 15:19:00 CST
From:         "Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)"
 <TA0SHK1%NIU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: 2 toasts

: These have got to be the two stupidest arguments I've ever heard for preferrin
g
: a command line machine over a GUI.  I use both.  In fact, on my left I've got
a
: Macintosh, on my right I've got a 386 with windows (with DOS-prompt active) an
d
: right in front of me I've got a VAX terminal (command line, I think, Ruth.

And in his desk drawer, does he have a slide rule to check the
results that come out of all those machines?

Steve Karlson
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: pizza
Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:39:17 GMT
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In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:

>>one worse thing - pizza with hamburger, aka ground beef.  It doesn't matter
>>how good the rest of the pizza is, or where it's from; the hamburger ruins
>>it the minute it hits the cheese or the sauce. [depends on how you build a
>
>   wrong....NOTHING is as good as hamburger and fresh tomatoes....except....

<sounds of disgust>  One of two foods I've found so far that I won't eat
are raw tomatoes.  Those, and cucumbers.  

>>pizza]  What's worse than hamburger?  Nothing, unless it's anchovies.
>
>    anchovies and black olives is God's own gift to pizzadom....and a couple

I'll give you the black olives.  I *love* black olives on pizza!  But the
anchovies still have to go.<ecch>  Salt city!

>
>dan the pizzacyclops   o-)
>
The porkpieclops with mozzerella?
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:05:00 EST
From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Job Corps

On Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:52:14 GMT Jim Thomas said:
>
>Because it's a demonstrably successful program support by both Dems
>and Repubs

I'm for any program that will take kids out of gangs and put them to
work doing something useful as well as providing an education for them.

If it hadn't been for what my dad learned in the CCC, he wouldn't have
finished high school (he was an orphan who was passed around from one
sibling to another).

Evelyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Date: 22 Dec 1992 21:42:21 GMT
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In a previous article, BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu (Brad Baxter) says:

>>In the clearing stands a Boxer....  In the corner of the dorm room stand some
>>boxers....<grin>   Which Boxing Day do you prefer, wash day, the fight at
>>Caesar's Atlantic City, or the one on December 26th?
>>--
>The 26th, positively.  It is, by the way, my lovely wife's birthday.
>This requires me to present extra presents to make up for her
>deprived childhood.  BTW, anyone try the coffee liqueur recipe yet?
>
Nope, not unless scarfing some Irish Coffee jelly beans counts!  Your wife
has my sympathies; I was born in February, and that was bad enough!  I used
to get some combined presents too.

>(BTW: for newbies, that means, "breaking the wind.")

Or Boxing the Watch, for those who know the phrase....
Or....  Bicycle, two-wheeler...

Or, heck make up your own, all ye innocent mewling babes in Wordsland!

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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 12:19:54 MST
From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: The Whole Nine Yards
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              29 Dec 1992 15:45:17 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>

On Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:45:17 CST <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>occasions. Thus, "the whole nine yards" came to mean doing some-
>thing "properly". The British Raj veterans brought this phrase back
>to Britain.
>
   but that isn't what it means, tushiebaby.....


oh, well....it figures....

dan
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      ricemail, beanmail, chainmail
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On Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:09:03 EST Evelyn Duncan said:
>No, Dan, it's a whole new mailer (with pop-up windows, menu choices,
>message pop-up windows, etc.). I got used to the old one, and they changed
>it on me.

i understand that....assuming we're still talking aobut RiceMail 92....
but the options are still there....you've still got a file that sets
them for you, as opposed to the global ones....

dan
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:48:30 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: An observation
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> Here is an example for you, Peter: Donne is discernibly male.

Donne is also discernibly sexy.  He may be the sexiest of all dead white
males.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         Dan Lester <ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: abh has perfect moment
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On Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:58:43 -0600 Anne Burton Harwell said:
>British Mse\um today. Expected the Elgin Marbles. Touched one (shhh). On

   interesting piece on these too....in latest Smithsonian....

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

   Wow!   Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make it to the big city across the pond.

What weapons did they have with them?

cyclops
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From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Jay Leno Kicked Off Tonight Show?
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              Dec 23, 92 1:46 pm

> I just heard a rumor that Jay Leno is being replaced by David Letterman
> on the Tonight Show.

Really?  Last week's NYT (or was it the WSJ) said that Letterman was going to
CBS.

-rashmi
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Camillemania
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Posted on 28 Dec 1992 at 21:34:25 by Graham Toal
>:>serious. A woman can say a lesbian is humorless and not be anti-woman,
>:>can't she?
>:The thing I wonder about is whether a lesbian can do that and still not
>:be anti-lesbian.  Or whether she is just obtuse.
>Or perhaps being bi she doesn't identify with (political) lesbians as
>closely as you expect her to?

Ummmm...I didn't know that she is bi.  I thought she was a lesbian.  In
any case, I am just surprised at her comment.  My own experience is that
the lesbian s I know are among the funniest people I know.  It didn't
surprise me to learn that there are lesbian comics--I think they are very
funny.  That's all.  I never assumed that political lesbians are funny,
btw. :)

Karen
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In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:

>I've been <cleaning>. This pisses GT off, I'm afraid.

Good!  Maybe he'll get it out of his system.:-)  Is it because he likes
to live in a pigsty <*oink*> or just that he's too hung over to handle
a vacuum cleaner's noise?

>Brought over a new handy-dandy voltage converter, plugged in hair dryer,
>and got precisely 30 secs of warm air out of it before the converter
>exploded in a ball of flame and a loud pop. Bad smell followed.
>
That's what you get for trying to use USer appliances in Europe.  Good old
step-downs.:-)  I've blown a few transformers, so I know the smell you're
referring to.  

>England is confounding..GT owns a sparcstation yet carries a skeleton key
>on his chain, and it is not an ornament. There's this constant butting up
>against the past with the future. I haven't yet had a good sense of what
>present is here.

That's a hard one to figure when anything "Old" has to be at least from the
time of Charles II before it earns that label.:-)  I just hope there's a
deadbolt key on that keyring too, with a Sparc in the hovel.  

>I can't believe ow many Indians live here. They even run the Chinese
>restaurants.
>
That sounds about normal.:-)  Up this way, the best Italian restuarants 
seem to be run by Greek immigrants....  Btw - this post is definitely
from "Lunnon"; you dropped an 'h' above.;-)  They'll turn you into a
Cockney yet if you don't watch out...or maybe just an IBM user....?

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From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Madonna, Hammer, and me
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My hair dryer has been fine all over Europe (even when I had to scrape off
part of the plug because I forgot to take the plug adaptor).  The secret is
to make sure that your hair dryer has a switch on it to flip back and forth
between the different voltages.  No converter is necessary except to make
the plug fit the outlet.
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
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From:         BGRISSOM@UKCC.UKY.EDU
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              3 Jan 1993 20:30:00 EST from <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>

>  Who is the woman with
>Torkel?  I remember a discussion about it, but forget who it is.
>Blond bombshell, no doubt about it.
>--ggs

Watch your mouth, Bubba.  That's my sister.

brad
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Subject:      Re: Deep beliefs
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Posted on 21 Dec 1992 at 11:11:36 by Peter Montgomery
>repugnant to all commonly held standards of humanity, then go to your
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Commonly held by WHOM???

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

>> Yippee!  Finally!  Just our of curiosity, did a certain pair of padded
>> envelopes make their way to your new office yet? [they're demos for your
>> new padded cell, Ken]  BTW - big congrats on getting something published!
>
>Yes, Ruth, they did, and I was remiss in thanking you, but thank you!
>
You're welcome - glad you enjoyed them.:-)  When does the issue with the poem 
come out, and where do I get a copy of the magazine?

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Subject:      Re: new year's eve
              31 Dec 1992 20:11:31 EST from <GE777009@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>

>So, am i the only one without a date on this
>most fethive of eves?
>
>jenna shakin' and bakin' in the kitchen tonite

   I had a date, but canceled it this afternoon.  Here I sit, with
   a bottle of the cheapest bubbly I could buy in the fridge, ready
   to work through some of the computer loot I got for Xmas.  My
   New Year's resolution is to learn how to use Windows 3.1!

   Szczesliwego Nowego Roku to all the Words-L Illuminati!

   brad
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From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Free Your Mind

> Greetings, Marty,
>
> I was wondering if you might comment on the lyrics of the current smash
> hit "Free Your Mind."

...And the rest will follow (?)
Be color blind, don't be so shallow.

> -abh

Is that the one?

Emily
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Date: 22 Dec 92 17:28:26 GMT
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> I like Car Talk's lawyers, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.
>
> * Alt-Brad *

Or a banker named I. Fleecem.

Ken
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Date:         Sat, 26 Dec 1992 00:58:41 -0500
From:         Joan Boorstein <jboor@MOTE.CS.UMB.EDU>
Subject: Re: Gleanings (73)
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Have been reading back mail in a random order ....
> 12) Nurse Ratchet (John Wm.)
        I don't think that John has answered this -- has he gone away for
the holidays or has the backhoe hit again?  In any case I believe this is
the Louise Fletcher role in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest_.  She plays
a strong-willed head nurse in an insane asylum -- and enter misfit Jack
Nicholson and then do the sparks fly.  The movie won Oscars for Best
Picture, Actress, Actor, Director and Screenplay in 1975.  I don't
recall the context in which this came up so can't make any more cogent
comments.

Joan
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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Wondered how long it would take...
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This is a test to see if I can respond to the Emergency List Serve today.
In the past, all of my attempts to reply have bounced back to me with the
"undeliverable" tag.

doris smith (dorisann@tenet.edu)
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From:         Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
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>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.

        Been there.  Done same.  Awesome.

>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.

        Once spent a wonderful afternoon in Oslo's Munch Museum -- the
        exhibition was organized chronologically, so you could see his swings
        from normal to deep dark depression and back again.  I think there are
        several versions of 'The Scream' (or did the National Gallery have it
        on loan?).

        Been to the Tate for those Turners yet?  Get up close to see the use of
        color...

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