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Date:         Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:11:00 PST
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: The Sounds of Silence

> : Which is more impressive?  400 passing yards or 300 rushing yards?
>
> Two straight wins by the Green Bay Packers.

Or the Rams beating Dallas today, *in* Dallas.

> Steve Karlson

Emily (actually a Raider fan)
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Date: 24 Nov 92 00:15:55 GMT

I beg your pardon, tushar, but just what the !@#$%^&*+ do you think
you mean by this?

>
>#2: I have gently nurtured more newbies than are thought of in your
>    philosophy, cf Bayla.


--bayla (introduced to words-l by g toal, and not needing much coaxing!)


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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:38:26 CST
From:         Natalie Maynor <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      JMW Report
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John What's-the-M-For? Williams still lives!  Karen's report was true:
a backhoe ate the phone line.  He called me a few minutes ago to ask
how badly his list mail was bouncing.  Oddly enough, it didn't start
bouncing until this afternoon .  But he's still isolated.  And going
crazy from WORDS deprivation.  Pray for him, one and all...  Can *YOU*
imagine going this long without WORDS-L???
   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
From: ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 21:12:34 GMT
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              16 Nov 1992 20:18:33 CST from <maynor@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

yup....lotsa familiear names.....including beagle@inthe.sky........

and of course many more that are long gone.....

But did everyone get to the end and note the HEAVY TRAFFIC
averaging 19!!!!! messages a DAY!!!!   Not 19 an hour.....a day.....

dan
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From:         Evelyn Duncan <R3EJD%AKRONVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Slamming
              16 Nov 1992 21:12:50 -0600 from <harwell@TENET.EDU>

On Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:12:50 -0600 Anne Burton Harwell said:
>Well, it finally happened: I got slammed by a rival long distance carrier.
>Warthogs. Haven't yet found out the dubious method by which they claim to
>have procured authorization to make the change. Phreaked me out, though.

Anne, which company slammed you; was it Sprint?  There's been a number of
articles in the Akron Beacon Journal about a company (I think it's name is
Cherry Communications) slamming customers of AT&T and MCI to Sprint by
forging the customers names to contracts.
>
>-abh

Evelyn
From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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Subject: Re: Croning
Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:32:50 GMT
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In a previous article, GUBERT@UKCC.UKY.EDU () says:

>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>In a previous article, harwell@TENET.EDU (Anne Burton Harwell) says:
>
>>>What's the deal with this list lately? Volume is way off.
>>>
>Replies RH
>>Too true, sister Pig.  What say we generate a bit?  Maybe give these
>>suddenly close-mouthed Wordslers a virtual enema?
>
>I see you found the right metaphor.
>
Well, it was either that or virtual Ex-lax.  Someone certainly seems to
have fed Tushie Baby with a strange combination of cucumbers, beans, and
tabasco sauce....  He's been burping and farting all over the list lately.:-)
 
-- 
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From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Subject: Re: Reification
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:53:48 GMT
Organization: nope

tushar's close --
>
>I don't think she wanted to know the meanings of these words. She was asking
>about some academic debate about these terms (apparently there is one going
>on in circles where these things are popular).

but not quite on target.  I wanted to know -*<if there were>*- such a 
debate.  

From the answers I've received so far, the consensus seems to be
"no".  Whew.  I was really afraid I'd have to go -read- some of that
blather... er, deep philosophical literary stuff. 

I don't want to say more in this public a forum about why I needed
the info (evil eye, you know -- poo poo poo).  In a month or so, I'll
know the outcome of my endeavor, and let you all in on it.

Thanks to all the public & private helpers.

--bayla

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From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject: Re: Things that make you go *sigh*
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>
> Does this mean I have to write a <poem>?
> --ggs (list lariat)

Would you tether write a pom-mel?
doris
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Date:         Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:24:00 PST
From:         Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: pretty weird

> almost no mail from words-l today....and have to assume that something
> is bottled up somewhere, though note i just posted came back already....
> either all the wordslers died and went to hell (the land of no email) or
> else some netplace is constipated.....hmmmmmmm.....

Hmmmmm is right - I noticed this too. The football games have all ended (ex-
cept the Hawaii game) so they can't be watching those...

And Dan, what are you doing up at this hour? Becoming a night person like
Graham and Tushar?

> dan

Emily (who got back a little while ago from watching the BRUINS kick some
Trojan butt - barely! 8-) Bruins 38, USC 37!!)
From: gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK (Graham Toal)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 23:46:01 GMT
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:Maybe not what you're looking for, but in the ballpark? Boulevard vs bulwark?

No! I have it now - escarpment, right?

G
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Greetings,

Ruth writes: "A couple of climbers died of exposure... after exposing a couple
of rolls of film."

One dangerous darkroom, eh?

Marty
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Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:14:05 -0600
From:         Doris Smith <dorisann@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      RE: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!
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> Yes, it seems it was Bill Merrill. Senility is setting in ...
>
Welcome to the land of the OLD.
doris (really OLD schoolteacher)
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*** Resending note of 11/23/92 09:23

>And Brad, since both AHD3 and Webster's 9th New Collegiate are strangely
>silent, what the heck does "aporia" mean?

aporia - 1) stroke
         2) a sudden, usually marked loss of bodily function due to
            rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel
         3) a hemorrhage into an organ cavity or tissue

(1350-1400, ME apoplexie from Latin from Greek apoplekt(os))
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Date:         Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:14:14 GMT
From:         Graham Toal <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>
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        >Espen Ore                       19           0           0      322,261
.45

                Norwegian, right?  He just disappeared one day.

She, no?

G
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Posted on 16 Nov 1992 at 06:10:26 by Natalie Maynor
>Does a croning have
>to take place on the exact date of your 50th birthday?

Natalie--croning is linking to cessation of menstruation, not birthdays.

Karen
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*** Resending note of 11/17/92 07:41

>Why does everybody seem to be against taxes?  I'm all for taxes if they're
>fair.  I like the fact that I don't have to make arrangements for the
>street in front of my house to be paved.

Ooch!  That hurts.  I pay all taxes, but none of them will get the sorry
excuse for a road in front of my house repaved!  About every six months
about half the people on this road collect money, buy a truck load of asphault,
and fill the worst of the holes.  The county will pave it for us, if we cough
up about $4,000 apiece.  There are 31 lot owners on Tallowtree Drive and we
must get at least 16 of them to agree to pay the $4K fee (the rest then would
also have to pay it)...but so far have not been able to get a majority.  Well,
at least it (majorly pot-holed road) keeps the speeders down and the car
repair shops in business.
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 14:29:05 EST
From:         Rashmi <rashmi%Spl3.ECE.Drexel.EDU@COE.DREXEL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Real BWP Stats
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Graham asks:
> >Hmmm, wonder who I had dinner with couple of months back - Tushar or
> Mahalingam?
>
> Didn't you <peek>?

Nope.  You see, at the time it never occurred to me that I might be in the
presence of the Mahalingam himself.  If I knew then ...

rashmi

GO EAGLES!!
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Date:         Fri, 20 Nov 1992 09:33:32 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      The truth about wakae must out!

Don Thornton, you have gravely misled the whole list about the
origin of the waka poem. You denied perpetrating it on the list
after I said you had. A short correspondence with Bill Merrill,
however, makes me well-nigh certain that you were lying your
head off when you said that.

Confess immediately, Don.

tushar
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From:         ll23%nemomus@ACADEMIC.NEMOSTATE.EDU
Subject:      Re: Teachers and students
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Posted on 19 Nov 1992 at 20:37:32 by Emily Horning
>You mean about recommendations?

About writing a recommendation for someone 3 years after you taught them.

>what was your reaction to your first set of student evaluations? What you ex-
>pected? Any shocking surprises?

I always seems to have one student who doesn't do well and writes very snotty
comments.

>> who is tired of the incessant rain and looking forward to LA next week
>  Yeah - me too! But *where* are we *going*??? 8-)

To the place near Karsten's house--IF he ever phones.  Otherwise to the
place in Santa Monica you mentioned.  He has been quite slack about this,
and I say we don't let him forget it!  (To be fair, he's been very busy at
work. But that doesn't stop it from being annoying.)

Karen
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Date:         Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:59:09 EST
From:         "Tony @ Brownvm" <EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: emulaser
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Posted on 18 Nov 1992 at 22:28:58 by Dan Lester

>has anyone out there ever used emulaser or a similar product?
>
>it is supposed to turn your printer into a postscript printer....i have
>a laserjet, and this will be a software product to do the postscript
>conversion....
>
>good?   bad?  indifferent?   a useless knockoff?

I haven't used it, but I'm looking for a good one too.  Names I have
come across are goscript and ghostscript - the former for MS/DOS
and the latter unknown - possibly unix.  Please let me know what you
find out.

Tony H.
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Date: 17 Nov 92 17:52:26 GMT
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>Ooops!  In my not-very-wide-awake state while ago, I wrote in error.
>It was not Virupaksha's name I researched -- it was the other one --
>can't spell it right now.
>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
It was Mahalingam. You will recall that I sent a reprint request
to a person of that name several weeks ago...He's a virologist at
the U. of Colorado School of Medicine.

judith
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From:         gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Croning
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> Is there a male counterpart to croning?  Would if be one of the
> following milestones?:
>
> mid-life crisis
> onset of senility
> second childhood
> when male trades in 40 year old for two twenties
> purchase of sporty convertible
>
> and, well you know....
>
>                             Peace,
>                                   Don

I think it is, definitely, the onset of prostate trouble.
Nothing reminds <one> of <one>'s maleness as *that* does.
The *curse* of being a man.
--ggs (not <croned> yet but expecting it any day now....)
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*** Resending note of 11/18/92 10:19

>> Don, peaceful and unpretentious

>Woo-woo! Don, 50 hipness points for the Florida Peacemaker!

>-abh

Well....thank you Anne <I think>
From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
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Date: 23 Nov 92 20:59:42 GMT
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In article <WORDS-L%92112313222531@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> gilbertsmith <N567126@NCSUADM.ACS.NCSU.EDU> writes:

>I become.  But I think they are really men's novels.  I think wymmyn
>do not like his books very much.  Can the wimmin out there tell us
>why?  Is he a m.c.p?

I've never read Updike, but my guess is they probably don't say much
to women.  My mother likes his stuff, so I may be wrong.  I think
women are more attracted to Irving's work because he always has such
strong, unconventional female characters (although they're starting to
get a bit predictable).

One of the things that turned me off Glenbarry Glenn Ross is that it
didn't have a single female character.  Not that that is by definition
bad, but it just didn't say anything to me.  Even all those sappy
women's movies like Thelma and Louise and Fried Green Tomatos have
male characters.  I didn't like the feeling of being irrelevant (which
is only slightly worse than the marginal feeling I get from most
movies).

Is a lot of yelling and abusive language by salesmen turning on each
other to make the sale in a fit of cannibalism when the usual prey is
too scarce all that it takes to win a Tony these days?  The acting
was superb, but the story didn't say anything new.  (Why am I
obsessing on this?)




-- 
Rita Marie Rouvalis              rita@eff.org 
Electronic Frontier Foundation   | And he spun himself right down 
155 Second Street                | into the ground. Now wasn't that 
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Subject: Re: Query re Clinton's Dick

Ggs tries more games on the Sinclair Spectrum!

>All I can say is that Clinton's Sinclair certainly didn't elicit
>much interesting commentary on this list.

Does it suggest something?

>Am I the only one with a <morbid> curiosity about such <things>?
>Does this mean I am a pervert?

Don't know about the first question. As for the second, yes!

Don't lose heart! Acknowledging the problem was the first step
towards its solution! Here is one suggestion to check your dangerous
perversion, perhaps effective, perhaps worthless:

Get all thrills out of show-bottom memories.

It just might work!

tushar
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Date: 17 Nov 92 20:23:25 GMT
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Hello Tushar.It's interesting to me that this occurs in communities that
(from a very limited knowledge and experience) in which assimilation is not
or does not appear to be an issue. I have always assumed that it was more
prevalent in those segments of any minority community which wishes to be
*like* the majority.

Self-Hatred, and Portnoy's Complaint, eh? Is that like masochism?
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In a previous article, AMM@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (ann mandi) says:

>>My refrigerator has 13 eggslots.
>>   --Natalie (maynor@ra.msstate.edu)
>
>mine doesn't have any.
>
mine neither, never did.  The old fridge [vintage 1965, GE I think....]
had some, but I forget how many.  It was a freezer-on-the bottom type, which
seems to have gone out of style.....  Is it economics, or frozen dinners?:-)


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Subject:      RE: My first CS assignment: THE WAKATRON!

>Tushar your memory isn't completely accurate. I was involved in that
>topic but didn't post the poem naming or defining waka(s).

Yes, it seems it was Bill Merrill. Senility is setting in ...

tushar
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From:         Diki Shamlian Gust <dikig@DDSW1.MCS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Gleanings (68)
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              Nov 18, 92 00:35:21 am

>
>            13) RICO (Anne Hy.)
>
>         Can't remember, so can't answer.
>
> A US Supreme Court ruling that allows law enforcement agencies to
> seize the property of people accused of drug crimes.  (Note - accused,
> not guilty).  A law that is being seriously abused to raise money
> for local police forces (they get to keep the procedes locally).
>
> G
>
You're sure that's not police farces?

Diki
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Subject:      Re: Why You Shouldn't Clean Out Files When Tired
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              at Nov 19, 92 7:58 pm

Natalie, I'm not sure I understand.  Can't you get a copy of the BIOS file in
ftp space, and put it in your directory on Ra?  Then you can edit it as you
please, no?

rashmi
From: bsinger@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Bayla Singer)
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Date: 17 Nov 92 01:35:14 GMT
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Seriously, I would suspect/guess they were looking for possible effects 
of any hard radiation that might manage to get through the astronauts'
assorted packaging.

If it were today, of course, I'd be *certain* the dox were preparing
evidence for some future liability suit. (The 'before' of 'before & 
after', if you will.)

--bayla
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Date:         Sun, 22 Nov 1992 13:05:43 CST
From:         samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Tercets For Triplets

GILBERT NEEDS A CLUE OR THREE!

High time you people heard my plea; ignored the gibbersmith's insane
mud-slinging sleazy slander-spree! This tiresome cervical pain has now
begun to bother me with his dastardly dung-campaign! Called me a pouting
twerp, did he? That shit, that dick, (that fucking LIAR) distinctly needs
a clue or three. Out of your hole, into the fire of flames, at once, you
loser wuss! Jump in, or rouse my blazing ire! Your stupid claims involving
us do not amuse, I'll let you know, you ignoble ignoramus!

Now chew on that, bozissimo! You're now excused, but please refrain from
putting up a petty show of measly-minded muck again ... lest varicose
should grow the lighter vein.

tushar

(A private note to Natalie: I demand this letter be available by ftp!
 It's fine to say all's fair in war, but cheesy sully-sallies are a bit
 too much to stand. -Tushar)
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              14 Nov 1992 15:11:16 GMT from <gtoal@RACHEL.IBMPCUG.CO.UK>

On Sat, 14 Nov 1992 15:11:16 GMT Graham Toal said:
>*This* room?  You mean _my_ room?  Or _your_ room?  Or the
>virtual Blue Moon Saloon room?  Or is it in fact a Magrittean
>reference to the fact that 'this room' is in fact just dots
>on phosphor, and there is no more a rhinocerous in it that
>you or I are in it?
>
>G (Always glad to help obfuscate...)

Gee, if I didn't "know" it was from Graham, I'd think that Tushie had
pirated his account....but of course can I ever REALLY know anything?
Is this the start of another lame-ass thread?   (actually, its probably
near the end of it, as I'm two days late....though better than seven
days late....i'm catching up)

dan
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