Words-L Weekly Digest
BGRI...@ukcc.uky.edu
Old subjects revisited: refrigerator egg slots, headless chickens (Welcome
back, Elwood!), looping midgies, chaining morphans. As Updike says in his
newest book, "At some point history becomes like topography: there is no
*why* to it, only a *here* and a *there*." We are treated to poesy, old and
new: W. T. McGonagall's "Tay Bridge Disaster"; [authorship uncertain]
"Waka waka bang splat"; C. M. Rosen's trope, "As suddenly as a window
shatters my mind was as still as a mouse in a trap"; S. H. Karlson's
quintains in faithful Burma-Shave style; and -- this truly "a salmon
steak among croquettes" -- Professor Smith's "Tercets for Triplets."
New posters:
Diki Gust and Beck the Wreck,
What think they of all this dreck?
Peter Renz: and Wing-Keong,
Can they really last that long?
(This just in: List Event at The Primate House: Sunday-evening potluck
with blomberg as the centerpiece)
Respectfully submitted,
brad
Stephen H. Karlson 753-6980 (815)
Why, thank you, Brad. Now, everybody change your screens to white
letters on a red background, and witness our list scribe's efforts:
New posters: <on six posts>
Diki Gust and Beck the Wreck,
What think they of all this dreck?
Peter Renz: and Wing-Keong,
Can they really
Last that long?
BURMA SHAVE
Steve Karlson
BGRI...@ukcc.uky.edu
Thanksgiving week in the US, and list traffic slows to a dribble, but
the range of topics is impressive: acrophobia, palsy, Feleki's instrument,
business cards, Chomsky's politics, homonymity, the 1942 Cocoanut Grove
disaster, the language of arsehood. A FTF in Manhattan Beach, CA
(Emily, Karen, Karsten) and one in Louisville, KY (Marty, Neal, Brad,
and various associates). Carol Carmick drops in to say hello. Jill
Werts returns with a new .com account. Macphil resurfaces as Phil Paxton,
with new credentials /a (or /c) a Prentice Hall subsidiary. New posters
include bob (moo cow) hyland at St. Louis U (?); r mcdonell at UCSD;
Gerald Walton at Ole Miss (17-10 winners over Miss. State Saturday);
and Peter Montgomery of Camosun College, arguing the quality-of-life
advantages of Victoria Island, B.C.
Respectfully submitted,
brad
Agnes Kruchio
> advantages of Victoria Island, B.C.
respectfully: Victoria, B.C. [on *Vancouver* Island]
Agnes
Who settled in interesting - the allegedly passe' -
T'ranno, after overdosing on lotus in Lotus-land - in the
breathtakingly beautiful (it's true, as far as scenery
is concerned - what's been allowed to stand) Vancouver...
You could see the clearcuts on some of the mountain sides from
my bedroom window..
> Respectfully submitted,
> brad
>
BGRI...@ukcc.uky.edu
>> advantages of Victoria Island, B.C.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> respectfully: Victoria, B.C. [on *Vancouver* Island]
> Agnes
Thanks for the correction. Perhaps Natalie can silently
amend this before she puts it in ftp space...
brad
Natalie Maynor
> amend this before she puts it in ftp space...
Too late. It's been in ftp space for a couple of hours now. And I never
am so presumptious as to edit. I noticed something else in it that I thought
about editing (a typo) but let it go. I can't remember now what it was.
I guess I'll make an exception in this case since our scribe is requesting
one. It'll have to be later, though. Gotta go to class now.
--Natalie (may...@ra.msstate.edu)
Natalie Maynor
of presumptuous while ago. It really was a typo. And now I'll go to ftp
files and edit digest8.
--Natalie (may...@ra.msstate.edu)
Entropy Publishing
With few exceptions, it would have been <presumptious>.
-K
-Mka
Blue eyes cryin' in the rain
>-Mka
This salutation was briefly the topic of conversation in Friday's
Louisville FTF.
Were you by any chance a pitcher in your Little League or high school
(or more advanced?) baseball career? Or perhaps a devote' of the Rob
Deer school of hitting?
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neal traven@pittvms Bitnet 412-624-0097 (office)
tra...@vms.cis.pitt.edu Internet 412-624-0110 (fax)
"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
-- Larry Andersen, relief pitcher
sam...@cs.uchicago.edu
Very conservative statement. I think we have completely established
that this is a list of acrophobics. As more acrophobics come out in
the future, we will see that there are many many more of us on this
list. More of them, I mean.
>palsy, Feleki's instrument, business cards, Chomsky's politics,
>homonymity, the 1942 Cocoanut Grove disaster, the language of arsehood.
This brings me to an important point, Brad! Don't you think that your
opinion of what is important enough to be mentioned in a digest is
completely misrepresenting the nature of the list? Ha! I find it simply
preposterous that the hysterical shouting, snide remarks, and screaming
matches that go on here do not get even a passing mention! Discontinue
this biased mainstream reporting at once, Brad! We are not a bunch of
po-faced dons dissecting Chomsky's politics all the goddamned time!
To repeat, history writing is not the same as establishment propoganda!
A historian should never be judgmental! Note that! Ha!
tushar
BGRI...@ukcc.uky.edu
LIKE IT IS.
In the meantime, would you expound on those "po-faced dons"? I find
three senses of "po" in my lexicon:
1. Southern U.S.: poor
2. Australia and New Zealand: chamber pot
3. German (Slang): ass, tush
Any of these fit your usage?
--brad
Agnes Kruchio
> Tushar, I have taken your criticism to heart. From now on I will TELL IT
> LIKE IT IS.
>
> In the meantime, would you expound on those "po-faced dons"? I find
> three senses of "po" in my lexicon:
>
> 1. Southern U.S.: poor
> 2. Australia and New Zealand: chamber pot
> 3. German (Slang): ass, tush
Tush, tousche...TOUCHE', Brad....
> Any of these fit your usage?
>
> --brad
>
But maybe tushie (note the diminutive form) means "poker-faced"?
A
sam...@cs.uchicago.edu
>misspelling of presumptuous while ago.
You on the other hand are being quite offensive in suggesting that
we are petty enough to "leap upon misspellings".
Where is the indefinite article? Where are the quotation marks around
the mention of the word 'presumptuous'? How pathetically illiterate!
Excuse me while I sneer.
tushar
Graham Toal
G
sam...@cs.uchicago.edu
>LIKE IT IS.
Way to go! Let's see FYFI taking a full 83 1018s of the digest from now on!
>In the meantime, would you expound on those "po-faced dons"? I find
>three senses of "po" in my lexicon:
>
> 1. Southern U.S.: poor
> 2. Australia and New Zealand: chamber pot
> 3. German (Slang): ass, tush
There is the slangy rural Marathi sense of the word : a cowpat.
On the other hand if you ask Edward de Bono, he will tell you
that po is the same as Janus in the face context.
Neither of these fit my usage.
tushar
Natalie Maynor
> >misspelling of presumptuous while ago.
>
> You on the other hand are being quite offensive in suggesting that
> we are petty enough to "leap upon misspellings".
What makes you think I was suggesting that you might have leaped upon
them? I was simply pointing out that this is a mild-mannered group.
You're falsely inferring.
> Where is the indefinite article? Where are the quotation marks around
> the mention of the word 'presumptuous'? How pathetically illiterate!
What indefinite article? I wasn't using "while" as a noun. I didn't
use quotation marks around "presumptuous" because I underlined it
instead. You mean your terminal didn't even show the underlining??
--Natalie (may...@ra.msstate.edu)
Michael E. Macmillan
>A historian should never be judgmental! Note that! Ha!
Balderdash! Spoken like real math or c.s. major.
Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)
sam...@cs.uchicago.edu
>>>misspelling of presumptuous while ago.
>>
>> You on the other hand are being quite offensive in suggesting that
>> we are petty enough to "leap upon misspellings".
>
>What makes you think I was suggesting that you might have leaped upon
>them? I was simply pointing out that this is a mild-mannered group.
In that case you are being offensive by suggesting that the mild-mannered-
ness of this group is surprising enough (and is disguised enough) to merit
a comment in the nth year of its existence. You also suggest that this
might not be the case everyday by using the word "today". Be a little bit
nicer to us, Natalie.
>What indefinite article? I wasn't using "while" as a noun. I didn't
>use quotation marks around "presumptuous" because I underlined it
>instead. You mean your terminal didn't even show the underlining??
Any number of things can now be claimed about that letter, in the same
vein. Underlining, in general, does not denote mention of a word. It's
in fact a USE of the word - emphasized, moreover. Besides, however many
airy remarks you make about "while", it is still true that saying "while
ago" instead of "a while ago" doesn't sound right to a lot of people.
You didn't even say "awhile".
Jeez.
tushar
sam...@cs.uchicago.edu
>>A historian should never be judgmental! Note that! Ha!
>
>Balderdash! Spoken like real math or c.s. major.
Ever since a recent flamefest, I have started ignoring all postings which
lack substance, MEM. I hardly want to get into another name-calling war.
tushar
Natalie Maynor
> ness of this group is surprising enough (and is disguised enough) to merit
> a comment in the nth year of its existence. You also suggest that this
> might not be the case everyday by using the word "today". Be a little bit
> nicer to us, Natalie.
You're still falsely inferring.
> Any number of things can now be claimed about that letter, in the same
> vein. Underlining, in general, does not denote mention of a word. It's
> in fact a USE of the word - emphasized, moreover. Besides, however many
I always underline a word used as a word.
> airy remarks you make about "while", it is still true that saying "while
> ago" instead of "a while ago" doesn't sound right to a lot of people.
But then "a while ago" doesn't sound right to alot of people...
> You didn't even say "awhile".
That's because I didn't mean "awhile."
--Natalie (may...@ra.msstate.edu)
unhappy because she missed Carolyn's postcard deadline
gilbertsmith
> LIKE IT IS.
You mean, brad baby, that the next
Digest will consist of the following:
.
tushar yells, tushar pouts, tushar curses, tushar emits flatulant
tones, tushar preaches, tushar complains, tushar rants, tushar
snorts, tushar skinks, tushar pturts, tushar garfs, tusha.....
.
As always, the truth will out.
--ggs
sam...@cs.uchicago.edu
You could enlighten me as to what you really meant, then. Anyway,
>> Any number of things can now be claimed about that letter, in the same
>> vein. Underlining, in general, does not denote mention of a word. It's
>> in fact a USE of the word - emphasized, moreover. Besides, however many
>
>I always underline a word used as a word.
I am talking about a general convention. Please don't prescribe your own.
Rather ill-mannered of you!
>> airy remarks you make about "while", it is still true that saying "while
>> ago" instead of "a while ago" doesn't sound right to a lot of people.
>
>But then "a while ago" doesn't sound right to alot of people...
Name ten. These should include at least five who habitually say "I was
thinking about this while ago" without visible hesitation.
tushar
sam...@cs.uchicago.edu
>Digest will consist of the following:
>.
>tushar yells, tushar pouts, tushar curses, tushar emits flatulant
>tones, tushar preaches, tushar complains, tushar rants, tushar
>snorts, tushar skinks, tushar pturts, tushar garfs, tusha.....
>.
TUSHAR?
tushar
Natalie Maynor
> You could enlighten me as to what you really meant, then. Anyway,
I can't remember now. I wrote that almost twenty-four hours ago. If
I went to the archives and found my words again, I might falsely infer
their intention at this point.
> >I always underline a word used as a word.
> I am talking about a general convention. Please don't prescribe your own.
(1) It is a general convention. I'll send support for that when I get to
my office later this morning. (2) I said nothing prescriptive. Saying
"I always underline a word used as a word" is not saying "You should always
underline a word used as a word."
> Rather ill-mannered of you!
Why? Would it be ill-mannered of me to say that I always take Bernard
for a walk when I get home in the afternoon?
> >But then "a while ago" doesn't sound right to alot of people...
> Name ten. These should include at least five who habitually say "I was
> thinking about this while ago" without visible hesitation.
Richard, Mary Ann, Bob, Linda, Jack, Emilie, Nancy, Joe, Jerry, Mimi.
--Natalie (may...@ra.msstate.edu)
Michael E. Macmillan
>Ever since a recent flamefest, I have started ignoring all postings
>which lack substance, MEM. I hardly want to get into another
>name-calling war.
>
>tushar
The substance is evident. I didn't think I had to spell it out for
you. Balderdash = it is simply incorrect to assert that historians
don't make judgments. They do it all the time. Indeed, it is at
the very heart of what they do.
Michael E. Macmillan
(macmillm@ewc)