Hope you made it back safely from the bar where you stocked up on charm, etc. I have been doing extensive research into the construction of bottles, there being a major container maker in my town. I have discovered that most bottlenecks are at the t
op. Tried to explain this to my managing editor; he is not convinced. Does your research bear out my conclusions, Lars? Or do we need to continue gathering data, replicating our results? When we have enough data, will we be able to perform analyses and re
ort our findings?
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Response 108 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (13:25) * 7 lines
My girlfriend and I took my 3 kids and her eldest daughter out for Pizza.Of course they always bring the pitcher of soda to soon.By the time the pizza came it was all gone.I had some left in my cup and eldest daughter had some left in hers. When my kids a
re thristy watch out for your drink. My six year old says
"Hey Gee" your not drinking your soda""How come"? "May I please have some" she said "Sure". His reply was "thanks" "and If you don't mind I'll take the straw too".It was done in the politest manner for a six year old don't ya think.We all jumped on the
poor kid Scotty! It was funny.Then they had to play the jukebox"Grandma Got Ran Over by a Raindeer" it was hilarous.They all started singing. This is why I don't go out very much.
What a scene???
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Response 109 of 521: T. J. Cellery (TJ) * Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (14:03) * 5 lines
WOW, first time i came to this area, but then again i haven't been around in a while....had to read all 108 entries as new.....what an interesting bunch of comments, statements, conversations, questions & answers. Absolutely loved it, sure wish this wa
s an open chat..... I would definitely like to talk to many of you regularly........
Terry have you thought about putting in a chat area.......??????????
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Response 110 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (18:58) * 3 lines
We have a chat room. You can get to this from the link on the main Austen Conference page. It is the Pemberley Drawing Room:
http://www.worldrch.com/cgibin/Chat/nph-chat.cgi
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Response 111 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Dec 30, 1996 (21:21) * 9 lines
Good to see you coming around again TJ. One of these
times I'm gonna make it for darts at the tavern down
in Bastrop. Let me know when the next one is going to
be ok?
We can get our own chat room if folks want it. The
kind Pemberly folks have offered us their software
if we want it. It's not ichat, but it's not bad stuff.
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Response 112 of 521: T. J. Cellery (TJ) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (10:31) * 3 lines
from the looks of the stuff on the ramble page, it might be a good idea to have our own chat area.......at least see if anyone else has an interest.......but right now I think I'll check out the Pemberly Drawing Room.........Paul, yea it is nice to be bac
k......do you have anything to do the Bastrop Internet Services??????.......do you know Daryl Kouba??????......hope to see you on Thursday (darts)...........
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Response 113 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (10:35) * 11 lines
I have two servers on the bastrop.net. I can't get a hold of the kid who
does their web page. I'm looking for someone in the Bastrop area, a high
school kid would be ok, who can work part time at the Spring installing
networks, configuring servers, and doing data entry work.
I have a plan to make the Spring a world class web site and I am starting
to sense an organization forming. The folks in the Austen conference are
really pitching in and helping out and starting to take part in some
website projects.
But I need some help locally now.
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Response 114 of 521: Linda (Linda409) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (13:56) * 15 lines
There are a group of us (about 10) who have formed a music group here at work to exercise our mutual love of music. Twice a month, we reserve a conference room, bring in our instruments and meet together during lunch hour. I play piano and keyboard (at
work) and sing, all just a little and very ill, indeed. But, it is something else that affords me an extraordinary source of pleasure (like Jane Austen).
We play and sing lots of different kinds of music because we have different tastes which include popular, country, standards, classical. We haven't had the nerve to attempt jazz, yet. One of the pieces that we do frequently is Handel's Largo from "Xerxe
s which is the piece that Mary sings in P&P2 (at the Netherfield Ball, I think).
For the past couple of years, we have hosted a Christmas sing-along where we play and sing holiday music in the cafeteria and invite the entire building to join us. It has been well received.
Today, I ran into Karen, who is a fellow music group member. As we were chatting, we discovered a mutual love of P&P and P&P2. I'm so excited!! I think that I can create yet another addict.
Now, besides you wonderful internet friends, I will be able to talk about Jane Austen face to face with Karen at work and with my friend Barbra after working hours.
1997 is going to be great!!!
Happy New Year to you all !!!
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Response 115 of 521: Jane (jane) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (14:13) * 5 lines
Linda, That music group sounds really delightful.
I recently found out that a woman who works where I do is a longtime committed lurker to this board. She didn't recognize me from my postings, but we found out by accident that we both like this place. And the significant other of a man I work with is a
frequent visitor to Firthdom, and has a copy of The Making of P&P that she will lend me. Small world, indeed.
Jane
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Response 116 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (20:29) * 7 lines
Well, here it is New Year's Eve, and the state of the northern part of the state (CA) could be better. The Russian River is now 2 feet above flood stage and the people up there have been told to evacuate or prepare to be stranded. So much for the
ir New Year's Eve plans... While the rain has not been excessive in my immediate neighborhood, 3 of our local reservoirs are full-up and spilling over their dams, and our entire TV cable system has "broken" somewhere and they don't yet know where or why.
Before it broke we saw a few seconds of the New Year's fireworks in Sidney Harbour - and I think I spotted Ian waving at the camera.
Happy New Year, all!
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Response 117 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (20:38) * 1 lines
Rain has been excessive here {in PA.} to Joan. We had a flood in the Summer of 1972. Are you worried about flooding? The weather man said we only had more rain "100" years ago. Now that is very strange.
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Response 118 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (20:58) * 3 lines
I am not concerned for my own estate being flooded, but it is sad to see it happening to our neighbors to the north again - they got it badly in 1986 and again in 1995, and here they go again... Many vineyards are already under 3 to 4 feet of wate
r...
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Response 119 of 521: Bruce (McBruce) * Tue, Dec 31, 1996 (21:32) * 6 lines
Heading into 1997 in the Last Frontier, our weather isn't threatening just darn
inconvenient. Forecast for tonight is 40-45 below, extended forecast thru
sunday is 30-60 below. On the plus side, tomorrow we break the 4 hour mark of
available daylight! Had the truck plugged in all afternoon so it would start
tonight, now the question is how long I can stay out before it freezes up.
A happy and peaceful 1997 to all!
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Response 120 of 521: Myretta (mrobens) * Wed, Jan 1, 1997 (00:00) * 1 lines
This all makes Boston's 20 degrees F. and 1 inch of snow seem so anemic. I wish you all a more pleasant '97.
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Response 121 of 521: Anna (Anna) * Wed, Jan 1, 1997 (04:29) * 5 lines
On the subject of one in a hundred year rainfalls; about 5 years ago sydney had the third of 3 one in a hundred year rains in 4 years - ain't statistics wonderful. In the ritzy part of town a Jaguar was swept down the street and deposited on top of someo
ne's Mercedes; truly impressive rain.
Still, at least it was summer, so warm, if wet. I hope those in need dry out soon.
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Response 122 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Wed, Jan 1, 1997 (04:54) * 1 lines
It is warm (relatively speaking) though wet here - it is pouring as I type yet at almost 3 AM it is only 64 F outside. Pineapple express for sure!
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Response 123 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 1, 1997 (10:58) * 10 lines
Austin's sixth street partied down last night and I got a video
of myself at the stroke of midnight on the
Springs' main page.
I started out at the KOOP party at Armageddon and ended up with
the masses on Sixth, watching the big silver start get hoisted by
a huge crane.
Now, I'm sitting in Cedar Creek with my coffee and toast. Happy
New Year everyone!
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Response 124 of 521: Mary C. Fox (MaryC) * Wed, Jan 1, 1997 (23:53) * 1 lines
For all of you suffering through some absolutely awful winter weather, we in southern California are busy taking good care of all the truly nice weather for you and would be vastly happy to send it your way at any time convenient!
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Response 125 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Thu, Jan 2, 1997 (16:20) * 1 lines
Mary, my visiting daughter would greatly appreciate it if you would send your truly nice weather to Seattle. She's heading back there tomorrow and would like to return to decent weather!;-)
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Response 126 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Thu, Jan 2, 1997 (17:58) * 3 lines
and would be vastly happy to send it your way at any time convenient!
Please do not stand on ceremony or await an invitation! Any time at all would be convenient! Stepping on my lawn sounds and feels like treading on saturated sponges. :-(
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Response 127 of 521: Ted Chong (tedchong) * Thu, Jan 2, 1997 (18:23) * 7 lines
Hi Terry, we still cannot access news.prismnet.com for quite some
time after you switch from iamerica.net. It seems like prismnet did
not open usenet access for our IP addresses.
Hope you can check this matter and happy new year.
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Response 128 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 2, 1997 (23:45) * 1 lines
I'll look into it Ted. Thanks.
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Response 129 of 521: Ted Chong (tedchong) * Fri, Jan 3, 1997 (00:03) * 11 lines
Terry, if prismnet granted us usenet access, we can use tin to access
the usenet news, but you have to do (at shell prompt):
rm /etc/nntpserver ; echo news.prismnet.com > /etc/nntpserver
so all of us can access the news.
Hope it helps.
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Response 130 of 521: LLohr (lilah) * Fri, Jan 3, 1997 (20:11) * 3 lines
It's just after 9 pm here in South Florida, and I'm recovering from a day at work that can best be described as, "OK, folks, the holidays are over." Yikes. I'm an editor, learning a new city and looking for a new circle of friends. I just found the Spring
yesterday -- not to mention the Austen group. I suspect I've found some kindred spirits.
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Response 131 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Fri, Jan 3, 1997 (20:45) * 2 lines
Where did you come from Lilah? What kind of editor?
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Response 132 of 521: LLohr (lilah) * Fri, Jan 3, 1997 (22:14) * 1 lines
Amy, I moved here from Hoboken, N J, where I lived for a number of years, working in Manhattan and New Jersey as a newspaper editor. I do the same thing here, for a group of small specialty papers.
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Response 133 of 521: Ian Davey (geekman) * Sun, Jan 5, 1997 (20:00) * 4 lines
Terry, you didn't say that this topic was in multiple Conferences! I just thought I'd visit the Cultures Conference and 'lo what did I see but this topis!
Tch tch!
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Response 134 of 521: Anna (Anna) * Sun, Jan 5, 1997 (20:32) * 3 lines
]topic was in multiple Conferences!
That's been apparent from the postings from "strangers" for some time. It's also in porch
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Response 135 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 6, 1997 (17:41) * 2 lines
When you do a listing of topics, it states that it's a "linked topic".
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Response 136 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 6, 1997 (20:29) * 3 lines
It also states "linked item" every time you read new stuff in it right at
the top of the topic. On future "linked topics" I'll post a note that they
are linked in the intro or in one of the responses to make this clear.
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Response 137 of 521: Ian Davey (geekman) * Tue, Jan 7, 1997 (04:09) * 1 lines
Thanks Terry! Will be much appreciated. From within the Austen Conference this time.
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Response 138 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (22:22) * 172 lines
_______________________________________________________
"Why did the chicken cross the road?"
-----------------------------------------------------
Plato:
For the greater good.
Karl Marx:
It was a historical inevitability.
Thomas de Torquemada:
Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Timothy Leary:
Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would
let it take.
Douglas Adams:
Forty-two.
Nietzsche:
Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes
also across you.
Oliver North:
National Security was at stake.
Carl Jung:
The confluence of events in the cultural gestalt necessitated
that individual chickens cross roads at this historical
juncture, and therefore synchronicitously brought such
occurrences into being.
Jean-Paul Sartre:
In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the
chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Ludwig Wittgenstein:
The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects
"chicken" and "road," and circumstances came into being which
caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.
Albert Einstein:
Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the
chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Aristotle:
To actualize its potential.
Buddha:
If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken-nature.
Salvador Dali:
The Fish.
Darwin:
It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees.
Emily Dickinson:
Because it could not stop for death.
Epicurus:
For fun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Johann Friedrich von Goethe:
The eternal hen-principle made it do it.
Ernest Hemingway:
To die. In the rain.
Werner Heisenberg:
We are not sure which side of the road the chicken was on, but
it was moving very fast.
David Hume:
Out of custom and habit.
Saddam Hussein:
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite
justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
Jack Nicholson:
'cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.
Pyrrho the Skeptic:
What road?
Ronald Reagan:
I forget.
John Sununu:
The Air Force was only too happy to provide the transportation,
so quite understandably the chicken availed himself of the
opportunity.
The Sphinx:
You tell me.
Sappho:
Due to the loveliness of the hen on the other side, more fair
than all of Hellas' fine armies.
Henry David Thoreau:
To live deliberately ... and suck all the marrow out of life.
Mark Twain:
The news of its crossing has been greatly exaggerated.
Stephen Jay Gould:
It is possible that there is a sociobiological explanation for
it, but we have been deluged in recent years with
sociobiological stories despite the fact that we have little
direct evidence about the genetics of behavior, and we do not
know how to obtain it for the specific behaviors that figure
most prominently in sociobiological speculation.
Joseph Stalin:
I don't care. Catch it. Crack its eggs to make my omlette.
Captain James T. Kirk:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
Machiavelli:
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken
which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but
also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend
with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the
princely chicken's dominion maintained.
Hippocrates:
Because of an excess of pleghm in its pancreas.
Andersen Consultant:
Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening
its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with
significant challenges to create and develop the competencies
required for the newly competitive market. Andersen
Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client,
helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution
strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry
Integration Model (PIM) Andersen helped the chicken use its
skills, methodologies, knowledge capital and experiences to
align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support
of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework.
Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road
analysts and best chickens along with Andersen consultants with
deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a
two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their
personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to
enable them to synergize with each other in order to achieve
the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting
and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the
continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was
held in a park like setting enabling and creating an impactful
environment which was strategically based, industry-focused,
and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message
and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core
values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total
business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the
chicken change to become more successful.
Johnny Cochran:
The chicken didn't cross the road. It was planted there by the
police!
Rodney King:
Why can't the chicken just cross the road?
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Response 139 of 521: Anna (Anna) * Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (23:18) * 1 lines
ROFLOL!!!
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Response 140 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (23:52) * 4 lines
Anna: "ROFLOL!!!"
Me Too!!! :-)
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Response 141 of 521: The Mysterious H.C. (churchh) * Fri, Jan 10, 1997 (05:21) * 1 lines
There's a slightly different collection linked to from near the end of the Jane Austen jokes file at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/austt10j.html ; this version includes a Pride and Prejudice version of the chicken joke...
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Response 142 of 521: Mari Topitzes (Mari) * Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (13:11) * 1 lines
Oh dear... Oh dear... I have to wipe my eyes now to resume my viewing.
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Response 143 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (13:21) * 1 lines
Another ROFLOL. With your permission, may I e-mail this to my children - they love these things and I usually get jokes from them.
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Response 144 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Thu, Jan 9, 1997 (13:27) * 3 lines
Oh, Inko. No permission required. I am on a list of one of those infamous net jokers. These things just get passed around. Usually the things she sends are stupid, but if I get an LOL from any of them as I did with this, I shall put them up.
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Response 145 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (16:50) * 3 lines
SAY CHEESE!!!
WE ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!
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Response 146 of 521: Katy Kendall (kendall) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (17:07) * 1 lines
Ann - I am happy for you. and for all those barechested men in the stands the announcers kept talking about. what a way to call the rest of us sissies.
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Response 147 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (17:30) * 1 lines
There's joy in cheeshead land.
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Response 148 of 521: Myretta (mrobens) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (18:30) * 3 lines
]There's joy in cheeshead land.
Not to mention Beantown!
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Response 149 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (19:18) * 1 lines
Congratulations Ann (Cheesehead) and Myretta (Beantowner) - it's nice to see some different teams in the Superbowl. Now - are you two going to have a bet on the outcome????;-)
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Response 150 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (19:49) * 1 lines
Alright, the beaner and the cheeshead toe to toe.
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Response 151 of 521: Candace (candace) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:09) * 1 lines
Yummmm, does this mean that at all the Super Bowl parties -- Bean dip and Cheese Doritos will be served?
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Response 152 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:40) * 1 lines
Woo-hoo, Ann...maybe it will help you forget last year ? ;)
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Response 153 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:43) * 1 lines
BTW, people...only a month until catchers and pitchers report to Spring Training. Can't wait. Go Braves.
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Response 154 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (20:54) * 2 lines
PLEASE, Mrs. Bennet, no sports, I BEG you! :-(
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Response 155 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Sun, Jan 12, 1997 (22:09) * 3 lines
That's why I put it in the ramble topic, Joan. It is supposed to be for anything one might want to say.
As for me, though I will be cheering for Green Bay, I have absolutely no faith in the team and fully expect them to choke.
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Response 156 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (00:26) * 3 lines
Ann, have a little faith! ;)
---
Joan, sports can be a very welcome diversion from computers, I must say...I hope to be able to make at least one Giants-Braves series at the 'Stick (okay, 3-Com!) this year...anybody else out there like baseball? ANYBODY???!!!
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Response 157 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (01:11) * 6 lines
Kali: anybody else out there like baseball? ANYBODY???!!!
Kali, I'm a big Detroit Tigers fan, growing up in Michigan it was a part of my childhood training just like ice skating and mosquito slapping! I spent many happy days at Tiger Stadium as a child...can't believe they're going to tear down that beautiful o
ld stadium! :-(
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Response 158 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (01:49) * 2 lines
I grew up a Cardinals fan. St. Louis. Busch Stadium. Joe Garagiola,
Harry Carey, Jack Buck and Tim McCarver used to broadcast the games on KMOX.
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Response 159 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (03:13) * 5 lines
Harry Caray...sigh...I've grown up on Skip Caray...
Yay for you guys...baseball lives! And yes, Cheryl...stadiumwrecking is a crying shame...I had the displeasure of seeing Comiskey in varying degrees of demolition whilst the new Comiskey was constructed...almost like the life was being sucked out of the
old stadium and being pumped into the new...
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Response 160 of 521: Ian Davey (geekman) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (03:41) * 8 lines
Congratulations Ann or should I say Slart? So your team is in the final. Well, the beleaguered Australian One Day Cricket Team has missed out on the World Series Cricket Finals for the
first time in 17 years! And on top of that is the New South Wales Shield Team losing very badly to Western Australia, in their Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Now let me tell yo
all that when NSW Cricket is strong, Australia is strong! So come on NSW and Come On Aussie! Oh, Cheryl, now if you would really like to see some venerable old grounds, come and see our
grand stands at our Cricket Grounds!
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Response 161 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (03:44) * 2 lines
I drove by some folks playing cricket in Austin the other day. Will you
please start a cricket topic in the sports conference Ian?
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Response 162 of 521: Ian Davey (geekman) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (03:51) * 1 lines
If you'd like me too, Terry! BTW, what are you doing up at this hour?!? Now if you were in Australia... :-)
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Response 163 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (04:42) * 5 lines
I had to come in to work early today because we're facing an ice storm and the company I work for is on a crash project and need everyone they can to be here. I'm not normally up at this hour.
Have you seen that austen is the feature on the Spring's main page today?
If I were in Australia I'd probably be warmer now.
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Response 164 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (07:47) * 4 lines
Another connection, Cheryl. I grew up as a Tiger fan too. Stormin' Norman Cash, Al Kaline (saw him hit a grand slam once), my mother's heartthrob, Rocky Colavito (sp?)
And Terry, you lived in St. Louis? Me from 76-80. End of the Lou Brock days, hot muggy afternoons in left field. Attended the 7th game of the 80 world series.
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Response 165 of 521: Mari Topitzes (Mari) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (12:40) * 5 lines
Kali, gang; live in Milwaukee, and my hubby was one of the many enjoying themselves at 1 degree above zero yesterday (although I hope, I very much hope, NOT one of the barechested ones! :) )
Anyway, baseball is my game; started as a Braves fan (yes, here in Milwaukee when I was just a sprig), have become a Brewers fan. I can enjoy any baseball game; when we vacation outside of Duluth in the summer we go to Duluth Dukes games; fabulous fun, e
specially if the San Diego chicken is visiting.
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Response 166 of 521: yair (yairl) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (14:19) * 1 lines
i've got to know how to make a good pizza any ideas????????
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Response 167 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (14:51) * 5 lines
Must have a stone, Yair. That is the first thing -- unless you are doing deep disih.
Amy
Who Used to Live in Chicago
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Response 168 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (15:27) * 7 lines
Amy: Another connection, Cheryl. I grew up as a Tiger fan too. Stormin' Norman Cash, Al Kaline (saw him hit a grand slam once), my mother's heartthrob, Rocky Colavito (sp?)
Cool, Amy...I still look back on my 9th birthday as very special...I spent it with my Mom at Tiger Stadium watching a Twi-Night Double header against the hated Yankees...Tigers won both games, Al Kaline hit a homer in one, Mickey Lolich got a one-hitter i
n the other and the Tigers went on to win the Series that year ('68,of course, not '84!) Can still sing the Tiger fight song I learned in 4th grade..."Sock it to 'em Tigers, show 'em how to play...)
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Response 169 of 521: Hilary Talbot (Hilary) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (17:29) * 1 lines
Not 'Teach me tiger', Cheryl????
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Response 170 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (17:36) * 4 lines
We're all behind our baseball team. Go get em tigers. Right?
Go get em, Detroit Tigers. Go get em Tigers!
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Response 171 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (19:14) * 1 lines
I like the Saint Paul Saints--Northern League team that put the fun back into going to see baseball games. They are a total hoot. (Daryl Strawberry slept here)
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Response 172 of 521: LLohr (lilah) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (19:44) * 3 lines
Terry, Amy -- St. Louis is my home town. I remember seeing Stan Musial play at old Sportsman's Park (I was a tiny child, OK?) There ARE no announcers to compare with Jack Buck and Harry Caray describing the game on a hot August night on KMOX -- "this is t
he Cardinal baseball network."
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Response 173 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (19:48) * 5 lines
Yay! More baseball fans! Wow, Mari...you're an even older Bravie than I am...I got hooked back in the eighties, when they still sucked...a great time to love baseball, b/c every game was personal. Fay Vincent was even threatening to review our status as
an Atlanta team! I still have my Dale Murphy baseball card collection...over 300 cards, including his two rookie cards and one I got autographed.
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Good pizza? Zachary's stuffed is the best...they make their dough with beer and put the sauce on top and the toppings inside (go figure)...unfortunately, you can only get Zack's in Oakland and Berkeley...:(
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Response 174 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Mon, Jan 13, 1997 (23:14) * 1 lines
Talking, pizza : fav : thin crust with pesto, goat cheese, green and black olives, onions, prosciutto and walnuts. Other one is curried chicken pizza If you're in the vicinity of Montreal, go or order at Pizzedelic.
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Response 175 of 521: Margaret Howard (Meggin) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (08:27) * 1 lines
Another Braves fan here! The Murph was great, also BRUUUUCE Benedict and Jeff Treadway and Lonnie Smith (so what if he fell for the deke--they should have been able to get him home). Go Braves!!!
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Response 176 of 521: Mari Topitzes (Mari) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (16:16) * 3 lines
LLohr (lilah)''There ARE no announcers to compare with Jack Buck and Harry Caray describing the game on a hot August night on KMOX -- "this is the Cardinal baseball network."''
Lilah, I beg to differ; there is nothing like driving home from your summer vacation and enjoying Bob Uecker announcing the Sunday afternoon Brewer's game...''Get up..Get up.. Get outta here....''
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Response 177 of 521: LLohr (lilah) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (18:10) * 1 lines
Mari, I'd just about settle for any announcer describing any game...are football and basketball seasons over yet???
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Response 178 of 521: Mary C. Fox (MaryC) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (22:06) * 3 lines
I grew up in Minnesota BEFORE the Twins and the Vikes, so am thrilled the 'Pack is Back'. Saw my first major league game in Tiger (then Briggs) Stadium because that's one of the things we always did when we visited our Detroit relatives. Great memories.
.are they really going to tear that wonderful stadium down, can't believe it.
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Response 179 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (22:56) * 42 lines
Moved to collapse topics:
Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (10:14) |
Laura McCarthy (LauraM)
Sorry, but I must do this. GO PATS!!!!!!! JAMBALYA YA JAMBALAYA YA.... Think of me doing a really stupid dance right now.
4 responses total.
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Response 1 of 4: Amy (Amy) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (10:22) * 3 lines
Good. Laura, I am happy for you. Thanks for sharing, dear. Sincerely.
(But can we have a little talk about willynilly topic creation/)
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Response 2 of 4: Mari Topitzes (Mari) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (17:12) * 1 lines
Laura; go to the Ramble topic; we are having quite the sports dicussion over there; of course you'll have to excuse us Wisconsinites if we don't join in your cheer;))
Topic 141 of 141 [austen]: New England Patriots
Response 3 of 4: Ann (Ann) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (17:27) * 1 lines
Go Pack!!!
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Response 4 of 4: Rebecca Davey (Becks) * Tue, Jan 14, 1997 (22:17) * 1 lines
Football in a JA bulletin board!!! Insupportable!!!!
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Response 180 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (00:43) * 5 lines
Yep, Meggin...Lonnie Smith remains my all-time favorite left-fielder. And Bruce one of my favorite catchers...and Jeff Treadway my favorite second-baseman. BTW, I have one of Jeffy's broken bats...something only the biggest fan would want, considering h
is relative obscurity! ;)
Oh, and Jeff Blauser is also a god...because he's a Californian...;)
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Response 181 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (00:45) * 1 lines
Oh, and Laura...I support your Patriot Victory Topic... :::) Solidarity among the sportsfans!
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Response 182 of 521: Bruce (McBruce) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (01:59) * 2 lines
Cheryl and Amy- how could you forget Denny Maclean? And not a bad piano player for a jock. What I remember best about Tiger stadium was the smell of the Wonder
bread factory on the way in, cruising the Lodge with the windows down. And CKLW on the AM radio.
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Response 183 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (02:30) * 5 lines
Bruce: Cheryl and Amy- how could you forget Denny Maclean?
Bruce! Another Michigander has come out of the closet! ;-) I have not forgot Dennt McClain, they could not have won the '68 Series without him! But it was Lolich who won the game I was describing. ;-) I hadn't thought of the Wonder Bread factory in ye
ars! Thanks for the reminder! Fresh bread--what a wonderful smell!
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Response 184 of 521: Anna (Anna) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (05:13) * 1 lines
Nice collapse Amy :-)
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Response 185 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (06:12) * 10 lines
] forget Denny Maclean?
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Hey Bruce. Another link. Tigers and Bob Seger. Nice combo.
Denny MaClean, the million dollar arm with the 10 cent attitude.
re the Lodge: kid story about that another time.
Where did you guys grow up? Me, in Mt. Pleasant, but I worked in Detroit for a couple of years right out of college (Central Michigan)
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Response 186 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (06:41) * 1 lines
We have a Tiger Wood topic in sports by the way, the sports conference here.
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Response 187 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (06:46) * 2 lines
Did I say we had a sports topic here? I believe a Pats topic would be
supportablee there, my dear.
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Response 188 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (06:49) * 3 lines
I meant of course, sports *conference*. Imagine, an entire conference
devoted to sports and austenites are more than welcome to elucidate on
any topic there.
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Response 189 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (11:39) * 3 lines
Amy: Where did you guys grow up?
A Michigan Revival Meeting, eh? ;-) I grew up in Pontiac, a blue collar factory town, about 1/2 mile from the Fischer Body plant...walked many a picket line in my youth...;-)
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Response 190 of 521: T. J. Cellery (TJ) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (12:28) * 1 lines
Grew up in Albany, New York.............but left in 73'.
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Response 191 of 521: T. J. Cellery (TJ) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (12:41) * 12 lines
And for the favorite pizza person........
i found that it you use the pilsbury pizza dough it is pretty good, brush it with olive oil and heat it up first with nothing on it for about 3 to 5 minutesR 350 DEGREES
then add just all fresh ingrediants......fresh tomatoes, parley, basil, oregano, thyme and ground pepper (both red and black).....Crushed red pepper is ok if you cannot find whole to grind.....
then chopped onions, green and red peppers, sliced mushrooms.....
then add a fresh ground italian sausage or a good hard sliced peperoni
cover with a mixture of cheeses 50% shredded mozzerella and the other 50% a mixture of romano, parmasian, provalone and white chedder
return to oven until cheese is melted........
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Response 192 of 521: yair (yairl) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (18:55) * 11 lines
thanks tj
but after having second thoughts about it i think i'll keep on letting
dominos do the hard work.
does anyone know anything about bangkok thailand i'm going to go there
and i can realy use some guiding .
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Response 193 of 521: Margaret Howard (Meggin) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (21:20) * 1 lines
Kali, send me a splinter sometime! :)
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Response 194 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Jan 15, 1997 (21:58) * 1 lines
You got it, Meggin! :)
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Response 195 of 521: Ann Rydberg (Ann2) * Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (15:06) * 2 lines
Boy am I an outsider here! Never seen a game of baseball or whatever you're talking of with such eagerness.( Small chance in Sweden .) Have copied and saved those two delicious sounding pizza variations, though. And thanks Hilary for Tiger memento...
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Response 196 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (15:42) * 1 lines
Come visit, Ann2, and we'll go to a game...
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Response 197 of 521: Candace (candace) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (00:16) * 40 lines
It was thirty years ago that we all met. Five very silly fourteen year old girls. Together we practiced for womanhood. Clothes, make-up, and boys. Little did we know that what really prepared us for the future was the simple act of being together. We
would talk deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping sodas. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks.
We grew up together, the five of us. Transforming from girls to young women. We ran gaily then. Each of us, one by one meeting, falling in love, and marrying our soul-mates. Those years were filled with bridal showers, weddings, baby showers, and chil
d-birth. After each milestone we would gather, talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our
heeks.
We went head-strong into our thirties. Each developing a new found independence and calmness which comes when you have finally begun to feel comfortable with yourself. Our careers were established, our children growing, and all five marriages still stro
ng. We had all done our jobs well. It was no problem to leave our families for short periods of time. It was then that we began our "Enchanted April" weekends. Off to the mountains or the ocean. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and choc
late, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks.
Our thirties began to come to a close. Each time that we would meet, we would sound like a Jane Austen novel -- "How is your mother?" "How is your father?" -- this would follow with tales of illnesses and hospitals. When or how our chain calls started,
I don't really remember. It was a instinctive reaction designed so that the sufferer would not have to repeat their story more than once. One would call the other, each in turn. "One of us is hurting" we would tell the next until we made a complete cir
le. Again, we would gather. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks.
One by one our parents began to leave us.
We held hands and our breath and tip-toed into our forties. We now gathered most often at our parent's funerals. Although our husbands tried to comfort us, it was the five of us that we would seek. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and cho
colate, sipping wine. We spoke of our hopes, dreams, and fears. Always starting so seriously and always ending in laughter with tears running down our cheeks.
Just this week another mile-stone has occurred. One of us became a widow. How can this be? Up until this moment, we all still remained with our one and only husbands. How lucky we were -- how well we choose -- how smug we were -- how fearful we are.
Did we never think that this type of tragedy would happen? All along the chain call, each one said the same thing, "I am so scared. We now must face the facts. There will be a time when one by one we will start loosing each other."
Tomarrow we will bury her husband. After the sevices, when everyone else leaves, we will remain. Talking deep into the night. Eating junk food and chocolate, sipping wine. Speaking of our hopes, dreams, and fears. We will start out quite serious and
somehow end laughing. Funny how there will still be tears enough to run down our cheeks.
Thank you for letting me ramble.
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Response 198 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (02:03) * 1 lines
Oh, Candace - that is absolutely beautiful. Now where is that box of tissue! Please do share this with your five-some, too.
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Response 199 of 521: T. J. Cellery (TJ) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (09:52) * 1 lines
Candace..........THANKS
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Response 200 of 521: Ann Rydberg (Ann2) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (11:34) * 4 lines
Candace, it should really be the other way around....I thank you for letting me follow your rambling. I feel an ache in my throat and my eyes are a bit dim.
This past autume my mother died and I miss her so. This life is ours to handle with care, and the way you and your friends do it together is just....
Oddly, I find it comforting that it is the same for us whoever or whereever...
We must part from the one's we love. Better think of it now and then...
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Response 201 of 521: kathleen (elder) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (12:22) * 4 lines
Candace -- what a beautiful "ramble" on the blessings of friends. Our thoughts are with you and your friends as you pass another milestone. (And my prayers are with your one friend who is going through this painful time.)
Thank you for wanting to share this w/ us.
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Response 202 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (16:09) * 1 lines
Thank you Candace for rambling and sharing so beautifully. When you think of the sadness, though, also consider the blessings of having five such good friends. It's so rare that friends can stay together through all the stages of their lives.
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Response 203 of 521: LLohr (lilah) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (18:34) * 3 lines
Candace, that was moving, eloquent and beautiful. How lucky you are to have such friends to see each other through the inevitabilities of life. I lost my beloved father in August; watched my mom struggle with the transition into widowhood. That's when I
saw the rituals and the resulting strength that a group of women friends give to each other, and that's when I realized I truly believe in a sisterhood. Thanks for sharing with us.
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Response 204 of 521: Margaret Howard (Meggin) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (22:28) * 3 lines
Candace, my father died last week. The first person I really talked to about it was my best friend--her father died 18 months ago. We've been best buddy's since jr. high--a long time ago. Yet she still knows me better than anyone else, despite the fact
that we now live miles apart. How lucky you are to have a group of friends to help support each other in time of need. No one else could make me laugh last week, but my friend Kathy could. That is what best friends are for.
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Response 205 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (23:33) * 1 lines
Everyone, I hate to break the sisterly mood created by Candace's lovely ramble, but it was recently revealed that our own Saman just got into medical school! Congratulations...
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Response 206 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Fri, Jan 17, 1997 (23:50) * 7 lines
Meggin, I am so sorry. Yours and Candace's story make me even more thankful my own mother is better all the time -- just learned two days ago that a heart oblation procedure done a few weeks ago had been successful even though at the time the doctors pron
ounced it a failure.
S'man, I am very very happy for you. I know how much you wanted this. You deserve it.
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Response 207 of 521: Katy Kendall (kendall) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (11:52) * 5 lines
"...our own Saman just got into medical school! Congratulations... "
WOW
This is so exciting - where will you do to school!!
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Response 208 of 521: Rebecca Davey (Becks) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (12:42) * 3 lines
Way to go Saman!!
I'm so sorry. Margaret.
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Response 209 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (14:07) * 3 lines
My sympathies, Margaret, and all others who have recently lost family members or friends. It's a difficult time, I know, when good friends are invaluable.
Congratulations, Saman! Does this mean we'll now have an "ER" topic here??
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Response 210 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (16:51) * 19 lines
Candace, that is one of the most eloquent, touching ramblings I have experienced.
I have a photo in my family album of a group of women I know who match this description very closely.
I miss having a similar relationship in my own life and it is touching to hear about it in anothers life.
That's the photo on the left of the women I spoke, that's Ann Evans the bride, ex-mayor of Davis
California who married a delightful Englishman named David. They are still living in Davis, CA as far
as a I know. These women all grew up together.
I'm very glad our week long task to put out the new Webstalker has been completed and the product is now
being shipped out to reviewers and beta testers. This is the first free moment I've had in well over a
week.
I'm hoping to get together with the Unix team and the folks who inhabit this community today and
tomorrow before I go back to the intense development effort I'm involved in right now.
I'm sitting in my office/master bedroom in Cedar Creek looking out over the woods and pastures, feeling
good. I've got the Wide World of Sports Ice Skating on the tube, this is one of the most esthetic and
relaxing sports to watch. (more about this in a future ice skating topic in the sports conference).
Ekaterina Gordeeva is skating now, what a fine skater.
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Response 211 of 521: Anna (Anna) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (17:24) * 8 lines
Margaret, please accept my sympathy.
] it was recently revealed that our own Saman just got into medical school!
That's great Saman, will you be starting this year? You must be really busy as well as please. I hope you'll still be able to join us occaisionally if y ou have to relocate.
Amy, I'm really glad to hear your mother is improving.
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Response 212 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (17:53) * 1 lines
Happy birthday Kathleen Elder!
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Response 213 of 521: LLohr (lilah) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (19:24) * 1 lines
Margaret, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
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Response 214 of 521: Katy Kendall (kendall) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (19:45) * 1 lines
Margaret - I am very sorry you lost your father. Hope you and the rest of your family ware getting through this.
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Response 215 of 521: Candace (candace) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (21:17) * 1 lines
Thank you to everyone for the responses to my essay. In truth, what I really thank you for is this wonderful forum and all my wonderful cyber friends. This was truly the best therapy. To Margaret -- I am so sorry for your loss. I lost my own father five years ago. I know exactly what you feel. Peace be with you all.
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Response 216 of 521: Margaret Howard (Meggin) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (21:26) * 2 lines
Thanks to all for the expressions of sympathy. You have touched my heart.
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Response 217 of 521: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (08:22) * 8 lines
Margaret, otan osaa, as they say here in Finland.
It could roughly be translated as "I take a piece of
your sorrow and carry it with me", and means that I
am very, very sorry about your father.
Keep on smiling, though. Despite many things the world
still is a beautiful place.
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Response 218 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (09:21) * 4 lines
otan osaa
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That is lovely Mixu
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Response 219 of 521: Mary C. Fox (MaryC) * Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (19:31) * 3 lines
Terry, figure skating ranks right along with P&P on my list of things I really enjoy. Saturday the 'Stars on Ice' were in town and a group of 8 of us went to dinner and the show. The evening flew by and it is difficult to pick out the best, but Ecaterina's numbers were very special. Torvil and Dean were an awesome presence in the show. Hope some of the other contributors to this board have the opportunity to see this wonderful production. And thanks to you Terry for providing this great home for all
f us.
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Response 220 of 521: Mary C. Fox (MaryC) * Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (19:32) * 3 lines
Terry, figure skating ranks right along with P&P on my list of things I really enjoy. Saturday the 'Stars on Ice' were in town and a group of 8 of us went to dinner and the show. The evening flew by and it is difficult to pick out the best, but Ecaterina's numbers were very special. Torvil and Dean were an awesome presence in the show. Hope some of the other contributors to this board have the opportunity to see this wonderful production. And thanks to you Terry for providing this great home for all
f us.
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Response 221 of 521: Mary C. Fox (MaryC) * Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (19:32) * 1 lines
Oops, sorry for the extra post.
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Response 222 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Mon, Jan 20, 1997 (21:52) * 1 lines
I would kill (well almost) to see Torvil and Dean in person!
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Response 223 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Wed, Jan 22, 1997 (23:47) * 7 lines
Candace, let me tell you how very deeply touched I was by your "ramble", frienship, family and the act of sharing is at the core of the soul.
Margaret, accept these thoughts of peace. Loosing someone close, whether one who's life as been a long fulfilled road or, has we experienced last week, loosing a little one who had so much to experience, is never easy.
Let us rejoyce in the happiness of their newfound home/salvation.
Amy, all my wishes of health for your mother.
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Response 224 of 521: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (08:03) * 7 lines
Amy, I am glad you liked the expression. I think the reason why we
have "otan osaa" is because if we said "Olen pahoillani" (meaning
"I am sorry") it would mean that I did the thing I am sorry for.
Anyway, I like "otan osaa" myself. It even sounds nice.
I just happen to love Finnish, and feel myself very fortunate that I
have it as a 1st language.
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Response 225 of 521: Margaret Howard (Meggin) * Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (12:25) * 3 lines
Mixu, I greatlly appreciate the kind sentiment expressed by "otan osaa". All of the words of sympathy expressed for me and my family have meant more to me than I could ever have believed possible. You all don't know me and you didn't know my father, yet so many of you have made such an effort to let me know that you care. I am overwhelmed by all of this.
Johanne, you write of losing a little one. How terrible. My father was old and sick and in pain and I take a great deal of comfort in the thought that he is in a better place, having lived a full life with many joys. Johanne, my heart aches for you.
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Response 226 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (16:16) * 3 lines
Just to make things clear, I personnaly did not loose my child this past week, heaven forbid, I would'nt be able to be here at all, wondering if I would have any sanity left in such a short time.
But my dear friend did loose her very soon expected baby and having lost one myself a couple of years ago, it stirred up memories. So close to the miracle of life but taken away a nano-second before. No choice but to confort ourselves with beliefs of a better place for them and the faith in a destiny much bigger than our mere comprehension may aloud. Thanks.
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Response 227 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Thu, Jan 23, 1997 (16:24) * 2 lines
Most people have no idea how much of a loss a miscarriage can be -- at any stage.
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Response 228 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (10:06) * 1 lines
Most people also do not realise that 25-33% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. With such I high number, it should be more widely known.
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Response 229 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (15:51) * 8 lines
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
I have, this day, taken down all my Christmas decorations!!!
(Thank you, thank you very much! Now I just have to get it carried out to the garage!)
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Response 230 of 521: Ann Rydberg (Ann2) * Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (16:23) * 1 lines
That is . I have still the tree as it is so fresh and smells so good; I have not had the heart to throw it away. But I took away the last x-mas cloth the other day and have only kept one electric candlestick in the kitchen-window to brighten our dark and early mornings in January.
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Response 231 of 521: kathleen (elder) * Sat, Jan 25, 1997 (23:56) * 4 lines
Cheryl & Ann2 -- with both of your messages blinking at the same speed, I began to feel that Christmas was still here!
To any interested viewers of CF movies: I recently loaned my copy of "Dutch Girls" to Mari. If you are interested in viewing it, let me know via email (kelder@miworld.net for home or k_elder@fre.fsu.umd.edu for work). I can ask Mari to send it to you when she has finished watching it. As long as I get it back sometime, I would be happy to share.
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Response 232 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (02:36) * 5 lines
ANTI-SUPER BOWL PARTY
Grace and I were talking at Pemberley today, bemoaning a full day of the Football Fan's High Holy Day, when we decided that we should hold our own party at Pemberley! The madness, I mean game begins at 6pm EST, but the Pregame crap, I mean festivities start hours and hours before that. So the official party shall begin at 4pm EST, earlier if you cannot stand anymore of John Madden! ;-)
Y'all come!
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Response 233 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (09:13) * 1 lines
Who in your opinion was worse Dandy Don,Howard or John Madden?
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Response 234 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (09:19) * 3 lines
Wow, Super Sunday is here. And we have cheeseheads and anti-Superbowl
partyin'. Are you going to have your own anti-Superbowl half time show
with entertainment?
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Response 235 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (09:19) * 3 lines
If you are not watching but only hearing the noise, Madden's yelling is really grating.
But! I don't have a football husband anymore. Yay!!!!!!!!
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Response 236 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (09:20) * 5 lines
Hey, Terry, we posted at the same time. Are you a football fan?
If you have time, would you look in deeper?
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Response 237 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (09:21) * 1 lines
Madden's comments on the web are naive and comical. "How do you dot com something?"
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Response 238 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (09:22) * 1 lines
Amy throws a pass and Terry goes deep...
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Response 239 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (09:32) * 1 lines
What?
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Response 240 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (16:15) * 2 lines
Missed signal. Let's try that play again.
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Response 241 of 521: Grace (Grace) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (16:29) * 6 lines
Cheryl, I am here. Where are you??
Your thoughts (in chat yesterday)about Darcy as a quarterback have sparked my interest in the game, football...that is. But remember...if you get to be the
team masseuse, I get to do the locker room interviews, up close and oh so personal.
One more thing.....about those whirlpool tubs for the athletes...are you sure they accommodate two comfortably???
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Response 242 of 521: Grace (Grace) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (16:32) * 6 lines
Cheryl, I am here. Where are you??
Your thoughts (in chat yesterday)about Darcy as a quarterback have sparked my interest in the game, football...that is. But remember...if you get to be the
team masseuse, I get to do the locker room interviews, up close and oh so personal.
One more thing.....about those whirlpool tubs for the athletes...are you sure they accommodate two comfortably???
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Response 243 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (18:00) * 6 lines
Grace: One more thing.....about those whirlpool tubs for the athletes...are you sure they accommodate two comfortably???
Some things are worth a little discomfort! ;-)
(and I'm at Pemberley now...where are you, dearie?)
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Response 244 of 521: Ann Rydberg (Ann2) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (01:20) * 1 lines
Sorry, I missed that party,Cheryl and Grace. But from what I hear it was not totally without sports, eyh eyh, nudge,wink?
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Response 245 of 521: Grace (Grace) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (09:03) * 3 lines
Ann, Mostly we made sport of the Neanderthals sitting in front of the tube whooping and hollering over such a stupid game.
You'll be pleased to know that after much discussion, we also did reach some consensus about those Lycra pants the gentlemen wear on the gridiron. Should have been there!
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Response 246 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (00:37) * 6 lines
Congratulations, Kali!
On receiving her first law school acceptance letter
But we never had any doubt.
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Response 247 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (01:04) * 1 lines
Thank you, Amy dearest, for your encouragement and optimism. You're great! :)
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Response 248 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (01:23) * 1 lines
Brava Kali
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Response 249 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (02:05) * 2 lines
tHip Hip Hooray!
(Which school was it?)
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Response 250 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (02:06) * 2 lines
Hip Hip Hooray!
(Which school was it?)
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Response 251 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (02:06) * 1 lines
Hey! I did not post that twice - though it does bear repeating. ;-)
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Response 252 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (02:20) * 4 lines
I have only one thing to say to you, my dearest niece...
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Response 253 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (02:48) * 1 lines
THanks guys! It was Georgetown, Joan...:)
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Response 254 of 521: Myretta (mrobens) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (07:19) * 1 lines
But, of course, I'm not at all surprised. Congratulations daughter.
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Response 255 of 521: Ann Rydberg (Ann2) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (12:59) * 3 lines
Was it not Mr Bingley who found it amazing that young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished?!
And in our midst are several very accomplished, who also posess a certain something in their air, their adress and expressions. They study law, go to medical school and I know not what!
Good luck, Kali! (Just saw you in Best of chat!)And Saman too!
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Response 256 of 521: kathleen (elder) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (13:14) * 1 lines
Congrats, Kali -- and may you receive many more happy responses! I hope you have a large field of choices (although Georgetown is certainly not too shabby).
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Response 257 of 521: Mari Topitzes (Mari) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (13:15) * 1 lines
Kali, Saman; go to it, girls!
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Response 258 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (13:41) * 1 lines
Isn't this great? We are all so proud, like a bunch of mother hens. It is sweet.
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Response 259 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (15:37) * 1 lines
CONGRATULATIONS Kali -- Georgetown is really great. Starting with the cream of the crop!! Congratulations also to Saman. What a bright bunch we have here - nice to know the next generation is in good hands!!;-)
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Response 260 of 521: Katy Kendall (kendall) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (16:13) * 1 lines
Georgetown!! Great. congratulations, Kali
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Response 261 of 521: Laura Astorian (alix) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (17:57) * 3 lines
Congrats, Kali! I'm a UGA person, myself, but Georgetown is an awsome school. Just one question, what is a Hoya, exactly? I've heard so many things from people who go to Harrison High School as to what it is, but those Harrison people usually have problems with that whole collective reasoning/agreement thing! Sorry to those that I've offended, but at least McEachern can agree on their mascot. One more question, has anyone noticed that allmost all Latin teachers are either nutty absent minded professor
types, or grandmothers-from-hell? Just a thought.
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Response 262 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (18:59) * 3 lines
Latin teachers? Our Latin teacher in high school was a messy genius type. Here at Cal, Professor Knapp is very normal. He's married, with kids, and very nice. so, you're a Dawg (woof woof woof!), Laura? Oh...and a hoya is actually a retaining wall (selected by students long, long, ago...). It has nothing to do with the bulldog that the athletic department took on as a mascot.
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Thank you for your interest and encouragement, guys...you're great!!!
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Response 263 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (19:24) * 2 lines
A hoya is a certain way of throwing a frisbee: Hold the frisbee with your first and second fingers on the inside with the second finger along the inside of the rim, place your thumb on the top of the frisbee, then hold the frisbee in a vertical position (perpendicular to the ground) over your shoulder, then in a motion similar to a baseball throw throw the frisbee with strength and with a flick of the wrist high into the air. The frisbee will then invert and float upside-down back to the earth--that is a
oya!
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Response 264 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (20:19) * 1 lines
A hoya is an ornamental plant that grows well in hanging baskets and has tiny star-shaped flowers.
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Response 265 of 521: Susan Christie (Susan) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (21:55) * 3 lines
Kali, I haven't been on here long, but want to say Congrats! Georgetown is
pretty cool . . . and you must be pretty smart! But then we already knew that.
Enjoyed seeing your picture.
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Response 266 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Tue, Jan 28, 1997 (22:15) * 3 lines
Thank you, Susan! Glad you liked the pic.
Ann, Joan, I had no idea that a "hoya" was so many things! The Hoya Laura was refering to is the official Georgetown "mascot"...which is not a dog, but a retaining wall. I know not why that was chosen by early Georgetown students.
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Response 267 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (00:08) * 8 lines
WOW OF THE DAY!
Henry's Jane Austen Info site was featured Monday on CNN Interactive:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9701/27/on.the.net/austen/
You know what I think is neat? That sometimes, once in a while, good content is discovered and recognized on its own merit. Nice job, Henry. You deserve the recognition.
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Response 268 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (03:29) * 1 lines
Woo-hoo, H...
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Response 269 of 521: kathleen (elder) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (07:09) * 1 lines
That CNN write up is "mah-ve-lous" !!! Good work HC -- who's your publicist? ; )
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Response 270 of 521: T. J. Cellery (TJ) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (11:55) * 5 lines
Congratulations Kali.......i did not notice but were you one of the non fans for football.......(I guess i could read back a bit and find out).........but to many of us out here Georgetown is to Basketball what Notre Dame is to Football.....hope you like b-ball........not just the fact they are two great catholic colleges.........
Also has anyone tried to make either of the pizza's yet...........been curious to find out if you liked it
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Response 271 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (13:14) * 1 lines
Cool, HC! ;-)
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Response 272 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (14:30) * 1 lines
THank you, TJ...I like football alright, i guess...basketball even less...but then again, I don't go to school for the athletic departments! ;)
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Response 273 of 521: Ingrid Gordon (Inko) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (16:51) * 1 lines
Congratulations! HC. That's great publicity and a really nice write-up. IMHO You deserve all the accolades you can accumulate for your pages!
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Response 274 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (16:52) * 1 lines
Congratulations! HC. That's great publicity and a really nice write-up. IMHO You deserve all the accolades you can accumulate for your pages!
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Response 275 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Jan 29, 1997 (21:40) * 1 lines
Inko is obviously very excited! :)
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Response 276 of 521: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (03:57) * 11 lines
(This is the 1st time I use blink...
Take a deep breath and embrace yourself, because
you deserve it (hug yourself for me, too!). Save
the strength to be used later.
I'll try to convince a tonttu (Finnish elf, a guardian
spirit of places etc.) to follow you... If you think
something invisible is living at your flat, just
"forget" some food on the table - the tonttu loves it!
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Response 277 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (08:53) * 3 lines
Hip Hip Hourra Henri
If not for your webpages I probably would'nt be here, million thanks and **smoosh** 
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Response 278 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (10:07) * 3 lines
Johanne: million thanks and **smoosh**
Johanne dear, is this the French equivelent of a *samooch*? ;-)
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Response 279 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (10:11) * 6 lines
] Johanne: million thanks and **smoosh**
Johanne dear, is this the French equivelent of a *samooch*? ;-)
__
Wouldn't that be "Mmmwwwa!"
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Response 280 of 521: The Mysterious H.C. (churchh) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (10:15) * 1 lines
If so, I think it should be spelled "smouche"
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Response 281 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (11:02) * 6 lines
Okay, then I guess my
"Mmmwwwa" would have to be
MMMMMMMMoi!
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Response 282 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (11:48) * 3 lines
Mmouah, Mmouah, Mmouah Amy, I like it very much. Mmouah Henri, and when kissed dearest, something else than the spelling should occupy your thoughts ;)
Kissing Fest
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Response 283 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (11:51) * 2 lines
Well, I think kissing is a fine topic for this place. I'd not be ashamed to have either Ayelet's mom or mine read about it. We start moving the schwinging today.
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Response 284 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Thu, Jan 30, 1997 (13:06) * 1 lines
We're moving the Schwinging?
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Response 285 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (02:08) * 1 lines
I'm laughing my a** off as I type!
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Response 286 of 521: Candace (candace) * Fri, Jan 31, 1997 (21:31) * 1 lines
Kali -- A big Congrats!! Oh the places you'll go!!!
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Response 287 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Sat, Feb 1, 1997 (03:43) * 1 lines
Thank you, dear Candace and Mixu...
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Response 288 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Sat, Feb 1, 1997 (10:22) * 3 lines
What a find :
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Response 289 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Sat, Feb 1, 1997 (11:02) * 3 lines
Congratulations, Kali
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Response 290 of 521: Ann Rydberg (Ann2) * Sat, Feb 1, 1997 (11:39) * 3 lines
Congratulations to HC on Great CNN presentation !
By the way you must have been doing lots of work on that site this autumn if I
remember correctly. I visited and used bibliographies before I found old P&P2 board, in September. Were the colours there then?. Looks nice and inviting.
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Response 291 of 521: Doug Larue (del) * Mon, Feb 3, 1997 (17:15) * 72 lines
Relationship
No ship, please.
Not now.
I haven't a captain
nor a first mate ‹
never mind a crewŠ
It would take all my courage
to try a relation inner tube.
How about a relation floatie?
Frozen margaritas in the pool
some sultry summer night?
Relation = Relative = Relativity =
Energy = ME scared.
Time flies when I'm fleeing fun.
Marybeth Gradziel
June 19, 1995
Reproduction
We women need not be
alone for long.
We can grow friends.
Find the right seed.
Care for the sprout.
and
Enjoy the fruit of our labor.
Marybeth Gradziel
August 22, 1995
Dream Thought
I understood it all
one night.
How men
looking for women
get mixed up,
and flit from
one to another ‹
always looking for more.
If only they knewŠ
Inside every woman
is an infinite
number of other women
just waiting
for true love,
trust and acceptance,
to come out
and love the man
in an infinite
number
of womanly ways.
Marybeth Gradziel
August 24, 1995
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Response 292 of 521: mich (mich) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (16:26) * 1 lines
Very nice Doug,thanks for sharing
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Response 293 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (19:51) * 1 lines
OJ verdict is in, not read. I have this terrible feeling something awful is going to happen.
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Response 294 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (20:12) * 1 lines
< sigh > I wish the media would stop making such a big deal of this. They are now saying that they will delay the President's state of the union address to wait for the reading of the verdict. Where are our priorities, for heaven sake???
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Response 295 of 521: kathleen (elder) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (20:24) * 5 lines
I agree, Joan too. I was going to shut off the tv when I heard that there was this conflict about what to cover! (However, the snow/ice storm here cut off the cable before I could get to the remote. :-))
It is delightful to come to this civilized oasis, but I had intended to pay some attention to the President's address. Oh well, maybe I'll be a more informed citizen tomorrow.
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Response 296 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (20:25) * 1 lines
At least ABC is going ahead with the President's address as planned. I plan to compliment them excessively!
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Response 297 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (21:26) * 1 lines
This is really scarry
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Response 298 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (21:27) * 3 lines
This is really scarry
but on the other hand there's a lot of parodies outthere
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Response 299 of 521: The Mysterious H.C. (churchh) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (21:39) * 1 lines
My TV is broken, so I'm listening over NPR -- they haven't broken into the speech to announce the OJ verdict yet ;-)
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Response 300 of 521: Henry (churchh) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (21:41) * 2 lines
Last message outdated -- State of Union solid but unmemorable...
OJ verdict: GUILTY!!
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Response 301 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (21:45) * 1 lines
The ultimate victory! ABC showed the President's entire speech - and then was still able to tune in to the trial just in time to get the verdict live. HA HA HA! Take that CBS and NBC!
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Response 302 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (21:49) * 1 lines
I'm speechless.....
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Response 303 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (22:15) * 1 lines
I stayed on ABC all evening, and never realized that CBS and NBC were not on the President's speech. My feelings about the evening - what else is new???
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Response 304 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (22:15) * 1 lines
I stayed on ABC all evening, and never realized that CBS and NBC were not on the President's speech. My feelings about the evening - what else is new??? Sorry, I'm feeling cynical!!;-)
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Response 305 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Tue, Feb 4, 1997 (23:45) * 1 lines
I'm speechless.....
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Response 306 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (00:21) * 1 lines
Clinton has an excellent sense of timing. He finished exactly as the verdict came in. Now that's a great politician!
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Response 307 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (03:56) * 1 lines
He's a slick one, he is...;)
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Response 308 of 521: Adi Shacham (Adi) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (14:22) * 3 lines
I'm in such a terrible mood, I had to share it with you: yesterday 73 Israeli soldiers were killed when 2 helicopters collided. Seventy-three young men! the majority of them were just twenty years old. they were just born and now they are dead...
I know at least 2 of them (there are still 20 more names not published), and the feeling is awful. If they were killed because of the war in Lebanon - I could at least understand it, but they died because of a stupid mistake, and it was a horrible death (there was ammunition on the helicopters, and it caused fire and explosions when it crashed on the ground). everyone here are so sad. almost everyone knew someone that died. I wish things like that will never happen again to anyone in any place.
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Response 309 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (14:28) * 1 lines
That's awful, Adi. Even if they had died in actual battle, would it have been worth it? I doubt it. Most wars today are such ego-vehicles that I have trouble justifying them. And I've always considered myself a hawk.
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Response 310 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (16:15) * 1 lines
Deepest sympathy, Adi. It is always bad whenever young people have to die, but in such a horrible crash it seems even worse. Also agree with Kali, death in battle or in a war would not have made it worth it--but then I'm a dove!! I hate all wars and can see no logical reasons for them.
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Response 311 of 521: Anne3 (Anne3) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (16:18) * 1 lines
Adi, I'm terribly sorry. If the helicopters were as explosive as you say, it's likely that they at least died instantly. I hope that's some comfort.
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Response 312 of 521: Adi Shacham (Adi) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (16:42) * 3 lines
Kali, of course it's not worth it, those lives are so precious. those boys should not die, period. but sometimes you just can't help it - our men soldiers don't "play" in war, they are defending our northern border from terrorist attacks and from missiles. so it's understandable to die while you are defending your love ones and practically giving them life. I can assure you that in this case no ego is involved.
what's killing me is that those soldiers were the top of the top of the youth in Israel: they were fighters in their way to their missions in Lebanon. they weren't just "Jobnicks" [=this is the name to describe the men soldiers who do office jobs like clerks]. they were already risking their life in their jobs protecting the rest of us, so they should have a better destiny than they had...
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Response 313 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (18:22) * 2 lines
Adi, I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel. But I am so sorry.
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Response 314 of 521: Katy Kendall (kendall) * Wed, Feb 5, 1997 (21:29) * 1 lines
Adi - I am so sorry. You are bringing the 'other side of the world' closer to all of us.
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Response 315 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Thu, Feb 6, 1997 (10:49) * 1 lines
Let me had my voice to Inko, Amy and all us in share this pain. We're thinking of you and all who is hurting.
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Response 316 of 521: Carl W. Goss (lasalle) * Thu, Feb 6, 1997 (11:26) * 2 lines
Let me add my sorrow, Adi. Life can be so unfair--the Israeli people have suffered so long; the endless war and persecution. So many Israeli youth gone
in past mideast wars. Now, even technology revolts against them. And Israel the only real democratic state in the mideast. The older I get, the more I think the universe was somehow wrongly put together.
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Response 317 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Thu, Feb 6, 1997 (11:34) * 1 lines
Too many have Carl, Israely and not, whether the're made knowns to us or kept in the back of the medias priorities. Too many innocent victims, especially children.
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Response 318 of 521: Adi Shacham (Adi) * Thu, Feb 6, 1997 (17:50) * 4 lines
Thank you all for your kind words.
Carl, I never thought about it like that but I guess you're right: the universe was wrongly put together. God probably made a mistake when he placed Israel in the middle east.
this was another horrible day. most of the funerals took place today. On the radio and T.V there were just quiet and sad songs, and between them - stories about the lives of all the dead soldiers, talks with their families and friends, talks with politicians and basically anything that could make you cry endlessly. I can't take it anymore. I wish this week will be over already.
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Response 319 of 521: Kathleen Grant (Kaffeine) * Thu, Feb 6, 1997 (22:48) * 4 lines
I just had to stop by before I head to bed to recommend a show I just saw. If "Riverdance - The Show" comes to your town, RUN to get tickets! I don't think I've ever had two hours in the theatre pass so fast! I'm not even sure how to explain it to you...its main focus is traditional Irish dance, but there's Russian, Spanish, and American dances as well. The energy level is just phenomenal.
Also, in the program there was an ad for "Tap Dogs" which will be in town in a couple of weeks. Am I right in remembering that this show was highly recommended here?
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Response 320 of 521: Anna (Anna) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (04:03) * 6 lines
] "Tap Dogs" ... was highly recommended here?
mmmmnnnnhhhhh!
all male, more 'modern' than Riverdance (at least the shows I saw) but definitely worth a look...
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Response 321 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (09:00) * 1 lines
Kathleen, I have seen these ads for "Riverdance" but I think it is to purchase the video. What area are you in? I don't think they are coming here.
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Response 322 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (15:56) * 3 lines
MY CAR JUST GOT STOLEN!!!!!
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Response 323 of 521: Johanne (JohanneD) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (16:01) * 1 lines
So sorry Ann, hope nothing too valuable in it !
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Response 324 of 521: Anne (Anne3) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (16:09) * 1 lines
Oh, Ann, I'm sorry.
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Response 325 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (16:12) * 1 lines
That terrible. I'm so sorry Ann.
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Response 326 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (16:19) * 1 lines
That's awful, Ann. What a horrible annoyance x 50 plus disgust and inconvenience and I can't even think what else. Yuck.
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Response 327 of 521: kathleen (elder) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (16:28) * 1 lines
Oh, Ann, how awful. And it makes you feel so angry, helpless, violated -- a truly rotten experience. Were you at work or home when it happened? I hope you are OK.
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Response 328 of 521: Mari Topitzes (Mari) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (17:25) * 1 lines
Ann, so very aggravating! Ok in body, if not spirit, I hope.
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Response 329 of 521: Kathleen Grant (Kaffeine) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (17:28) * 7 lines
Ann - That's terrible! Its one of those things that's hard to grasp - you know where you parked it and it takes a minute to register that it's really not there.
Donna - I'm in the Detroit area. I don't know where its headed next, but hopefully it will end up near you soon.
Anna - I think I'm going to check it out (Tap Dogs). :)
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Response 330 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (19:03) * 2 lines
My car was parked in the lot in front of my apartment building and was probably stolen sometime last night. The cops were hopeful that they would be able to find it, but I doubt it. This is actually the second car that I've had stolen. The first one was stolen from my brother at gunpoint. The cops eventually recovered that one and the thief got 4 years in jail. Now I've lost another one. It is a pain in the neck to be carless. At least the weather won't be too bad for the next few days, so walking won't b
too bad. Thanks for your messages.
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Response 331 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (19:39) * 2 lines
That's really bad news Ann. I hope you were covered and you get some new wheels
soon. What kind of car was it?
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Response 332 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (19:50) * 1 lines
1989 Jeep Cherokee Limited Edition with tinted windows and leather seats! I inherited it from my parents when they bought a Land Rover. It is a very popular car among thieves, but is getting on in years. I don't think there is any chance that I will be able to replace it with a comperable vehicle.
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Response 333 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (20:14) * 6 lines
Very sad indeed Ann. I do hope you get it back.
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Response 334 of 521: Joan, too (jwinsor) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (20:19) * 2 lines
Ann, what a bummer!
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Response 335 of 521: Susan Christie (Susan) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (22:20) * 3 lines
Ann, I'm somewhat new here -- where do you live? I'm so sorry to hear about your
rig; Jeep Cherokees are cool. You have a good attitude about it, though. Hang
in there and keep your chin up.
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Response 336 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (22:37) * 1 lines
I live in Minneapolis, not the best place to be carless in the middle of winter. I figure that there is nothing I can do about it. It's just going to be a pain in the butt to get it replaced!
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Response 337 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Feb 7, 1997 (23:14) * 5 lines
I lived and worked in Mpls without a car for about a year. I worked as a city
planner till I left there in a schoolbus that I recycled into an "rv". Bought it
from the Owatonna School district. But that was then. In today's world, getting
around in a good car is more of a necessity. I really liked the town, I met some
very good people there.
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Response 338 of 521: Susan Christie (Susan) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (00:07) * 2 lines
Will be sending good thoughts your way, Ann. Keep thinking positive. Hope
this next week brings better things.
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Response 339 of 521: Kali Pappas (Kali) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (03:44) * 1 lines
Suck.
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Response 340 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (14:05) * 5 lines
Good news:
THEY FOUND MY CAR!!!
I haven't seen it yet, so I don't know how much damage was done. I know they broke a window and had to damage the ignition to start it. Thanks to everybody for your support, I'm sure it showed up so quickly because I had so many people thinking about it across the world. Thanks to all!
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Response 341 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (14:06) * 1 lines
I didn't realise that yapp takes the word news and makes it into a link!!!
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Response 342 of 521: kathleen (elder) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (14:28) * 2 lines
Ann, that's terrific. I hope you can get your car fixed and functional really soon. Glad you didn't have to wait too long to find out about it, either.
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Response 343 of 521: Susan Christie (Susan) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (15:41) * 4 lines
Ann, it's wonderful!!!
You did get lots of instant support, and I'm sure
it helped.
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Response 344 of 521: Rebecca Davey (Becks) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (16:38) * 1 lines
Hope everything works out, Ann!
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Response 345 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (16:45) * 3 lines
Gee, maybe we should start charging -- strangers, that is -- for this psychic service. Woman power. Be afraid. (Hil, did you start that "be very afraid" stuff?")
Very glad to hear it, Ann.
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Response 346 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (19:27) * 7 lines
Ann, So glad they found your car. Hope it'll be driveable soon!!
There is a terrific review of P&P2 in today's NY Times by Christoper Lehmann-Haupt, a book reviewer. He compares P&P2 to the book and likes it very well indeed, better than any other Austen adaptation.
Link is:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/tv-austen-review.html
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Response 347 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (19:37) * 3 lines
That is an increadible review!!
(By the way, you probably have to register at the NYTimes site before you can view the stories there. I would heartily recommend that you do. The NYTimes site is one of the best newspapers on the web and includes most, if not all, of the printed paper (including the crossword puzzle!!))
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Response 348 of 521: Ann (Ann) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (20:06) * 27 lines
I have sent the NYTimes a E-letter in response to this article. I thought I would share it with all of you:
Dear Sir or Madam,
Your reporter, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, is not the first to fall in love with the BBC/A&E production of Pride and Prejudice. This production in particular, and Jane Austen in general, has a large and loyal following on the internet. There are several sites which have been founded specifically for the purpose of discussing this production, and which have subsequently been broadened to include all of the works of Jane Austen. Other sites have been established solely to provide information and access to Au
ten's works on the internet. Some of the URL's are as follows:
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/janeinfo.html
http://tvnight.org/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/austen/all/new (requires registration)
http://www.bluemarble.net/~amyloo/wwwboard/ppbb.html
It is suprising to me that she, of all authors, has such a strong following in cyberspace. I am continually amazed by the wide variety of Jane Austen information available on the internet, as well as the variety of people interested in her work.
The virtual community which has been created around an interest in Jane Austen includes men and women, it includes people from the age of nine to well over sixty, and spans several continents and languages. It represents the best of what the internet can be by bringing together so many people in so many different walks of life, races, and cultures. We have come together and have indeed formed a community. We cry together when one of us suffers from a loss of a loved one, and we celebrate when one of us pa
ses a milestone in life. We support eachother, even though few of us have ever met or even know what the others look like. We are grateful to Miss Austen for giving us the reason come together, and are grateful to the BBC/A&E production for introducing so many of us to her work.
I am glad that your paper has recognised this wonderful production, which has brought so many people to enjoy Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen, and which has brought so many of us together in cyberspace.
Thank you,
Ann Elizabeth Haker
haker001@tc.umn.edu
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Response 349 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (21:47) * 1 lines
As Lizzie would say "Beautiful".
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Response 350 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (22:03) * 1 lines
Great news Ann. Whewwww! * slaps Ann a high five *
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Response 351 of 521: Susan Christie (Susan) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (22:27) * 2 lines
Ann, whatare we going to talk about next? Do keep us
posted regarding your now recovered vehicle.
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Response 352 of 521: The Mysterious H.C. (churchh) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (22:53) * 1 lines
Did someone save the review -- it's expired from the NY Times site...
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Response 353 of 521: Donna (Donna) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (23:00) * 1 lines
Yes, it did expire. I did a search and found an old review about JA which listed your site HC.
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Response 354 of 521: Amy (Amy) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (23:00) * 68 lines
February 8, 1997
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK / By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
'Pride and Prejudice': A Great Movie of a Great Book
Plenty of bad movies have been made of good books, and a fair number of good movies have come from bad books. But a great movie of a great book? Speaking from a book reviewer's vantage point, I nominate Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," a co-production of the BBC and A&E, which is being rebroadcast by A&E in two parts, on Saturday and Sunday.
I had missed the production the first time around, but when a friend lent me the tapes, I was instantly and completely caught up by the Bennet family and the thwarted romances of the two eldest daughters, Jane and Elizabeth. I did not get free until I had watched the entire five-hour production three or four times.
The Bennets' world seemed more real than mine. I found myself repeating the memorable lines. I caught myself humming the music. As with a really good book, I discovered more and more to enjoy as I grew familiar with the main action and could concentrate on the smallest of details: for example, the way you can still overhear Miss Caroline Bingley (played with grand imperiousness by Anna Chancellor) after the camera has shifted away from the reception line at the Netherfield ball.
But best of all was the way the film spurred me to read the book again after 40 years and to re-experience as literature the wayward romances of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet with Charles Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Surprisingly, the book proved somewhat disappointing at first. As the friend who lent me the tapes rightly put it when I asked him how the book compared with the film, "It makes you fear for literature."
"Oh! Shocking!" as Miss Bingley would say. To admit that the literalness of film might surpass the stimulus to the imagination of Austen's language. "Abominable!"
But this was my experience at first. And it is not simply to be explained by the inherent vividness of film as a medium or by the masterly performances of Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth, Colin Firth as Darcy, David Bamber as Collins, Crispin Bohham-Carter as Charles Bingley, Adrian Lukis as Lt. George Wickham and Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Catherine.
Other films of Austen's novels I happen to have seen don't come near to offering the pleasures of this production. One need hardly consider the 1940 Hollywood movie directed by Robert Leonard, with its mangled script (by Aldous Huxley yet!) draining the story of all dramatic tension, its miscasting of a too-old Greer Garson as Elizabeth and its simpering performance by Laurence Olivier as Darcy.
Both the "Emma" starring Gwyneth Paltrow and a forthcoming BBC/A&E co-production of the novel with Kate Beckinsale (to be shown on A&E on Feb. 16) are entertaining enough but seem thin compared with Austen on paper.
While Emma Thompson's "Sense and Sensibility" has much to recommend it, it suffers considerably from the lack of the novel's ironic narrative voice, which mercifully distances the reader from the excesses of its two leading characters.
And "Persuasion," while the best of the feature-length adaptations of Austen, is so brilliantly cinematic that one almost misses Austen's narrative voice. Moreover, it is not nearly as faithful to the original as the film of "Pride and Prejudice" is, and one has to have read the novel to understand certain subplots that are barely touched upon in the movie.
(I have not seen the 1985 BBC production of "Pride and Prejudice," directed by Cyril Coke, or the movie "Clueless.")
In "Pride and Prejudice," an early work of Austen's (at least in its original form, completed in 1797 and titled "First Impressions"), little distance exists between the narrator and the viewpoint of the leading characters.
In fact, the narrator's outlook is close to that of Elizabeth, who, except for the prejudice that prevents her from seeing the truth about the deceptively charming Wickham and the too-proud Darcy, is one of the most liberated women in all of literature, especially impressive considering the narrowness of the society she lives in.
So "Pride and Prejudice" translates easily onto the screen. True, the initial hostility between Elizabeth and Darcy is more deeply and subtly developed in the book. And we understand more clearly the extent to which Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are alienated as husband and wife.
But consider how the film improves on the book. Take, for instance, the introduction of Collins, the cousin of the Bennets who is to inherit their estate.
In the book, Bennet reads aloud the letter to him from Collins detailing how he wishes to "heal the breach" that subsists "between yourself and my late honored father" and how he plans to visit the Bennets. The family then reacts to the letter, noting the pompousness of its style. A few paragraphs later, the text announces: "Mr. Collins was punctual to his time, and was received with great politeness by the whole family."
In the film, Bennet starts reading the letter, but Collins' voice takes over a little way through, as the viewpoint shifts and, to the mocking sound of a bassoon, we see the clergyman's world through his eyes: his church; his condescending patroness, Lady Catherine; his departure in his "own modest equipage" and his arrival at the Bennets' estate by hired carriage.
As his reading of his letter ends, he is greeted at the Bennets' front door with Bennet's words, "And here he comes!" Thus, with magical fluidity, the novel's space opens up, and we are given a tour of Austen's little world as well as firsthand experience of Collins' toadying pompousness.
Comparing the film and the book up to this point, I was prepared to admit that my friend was right: It does make you fear for literature. I thought of Henry James' remark, "An acted play is a novel intensified."
By the end, I'm relieved to report, the book's richness overtakes the film's. The book's suspense is greater, mainly because the narrator goes inside Elizabeth's head (as the film cannot do) and allows the reader to share at length her despair over Darcy's probable loss and her hope for the remote possibility of his return.
And where the film can give us only snapshots of the various characters reacting to the consummating weddings, the book ends by leaping into the future and explaining with narrative tongue in cheek how various characters adapt to the outcome.
Still, despite the triumph yet again of the written word over the pictorial image as the better way to tell a tale of psychological nuance, this reader will never again be able to open the pages of "Pride and Prejudice" without picturing the actors in this unforgettable television production.
In a perfect example of the synergy possible between written word and moving image, the film brings to life the world Jane Austen saw and makes you appreciate how she sifted it in her imagination and rendered it in her prose.
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Response 355 of 521: Susan Christie (Susan) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (23:41) * 3 lines
Amy, thanks for sharing ... but we already knew P&P2 was
addicting and very difficult to improve upon. This just proves the point. (Although
I don't necessarily agree with his opinions regarding other adaptations).
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Response 356 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (23:45) * 1 lines
Sounds like Christopher needs to be sent our URL so he may continue to wallow with the rest of us! ;-)
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Response 357 of 521: Inko (Inko) * Sat, Feb 8, 1997 (23:47) * 5 lines
Ann, thanks so much for e-mailing the N.Y. Times. I think it's great that they know their article is appreciated and that there is a bunch of us out in cyberspace who feel the same way their reviewer does!
And thanks, Amy, for getting the article here. I wasn't sure how to do that. After all, that was my first link ever!! I'm learning, but ever so slowly!!
BTW, I watched A&E tonight but I was disappointed--I really missed all the extra scenes I have on my tapes, and I hate being interrupted by commercials all the time! But it allowed me to get some work done and listen to it in the background!
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Response 358 of 521: Cheryl Sneed (Cheryl) * Sun, Feb 9, 1997 (00:28) * 4 lines
Inko: BTW, I watched A&E tonight but I was disappointed--I really missed all the extra scenes I have on my tapes, and I hate being interrupted by commercials all the time! But it allowed me to get some work done and listen to it in the background!
YES Inko! Me too! In fact I only watched the last 15 minutes...the proposal scene...ooh baby, lots of heat in that room! ;-)
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Response 359 of 521: Anne (Anne3) * Sun, Feb 9, 1997 (17:54) * 3 lines
Susan: but we already knew P&P2 was addicting and very difficult to improve upon. This just proves the point.
Yes, Susan, but what delighted me about the article was that a big cheese like Lehmann-Haupt, who as regular book critic for the New York Times holds a high position in literary circles, would admit in public to being as obsessed with a t.v. adaptation as an ordinary mortal! P&P2 conquers ALL!
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Response 360 of 521: Katy Kendall (kendall) * Sun, Feb 9, 1997 (18:05) * 3 lines
Ann - I am making my way into this conversation late - like Mr. Woodhouse. I am glad they found your car - please let us know more as you get it back and back into working order.
Thanks for the letter and the article.
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Response 361 of 521: Hilary Talbot (Hilary) * Sun, Feb 9, 1997 (20:13) * 5 lines
I have just been reading back, having not visited for a while.
Adi, I wish I knew some way of comforting you. I hope as time moves on you will feel better.
Amy (#345),not me, I think?????....I don't think I'm that scary!
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Response 362 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Feb 10, 1997 (21:25) * 1 lines
I guess this topic got kicked out of Austen!
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Response 363 of 521: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (06:36) * 11 lines
Ramblings, everyone!
I have a terrible flu, am low on cash, and on a tight schedule.
And yes, I almost forgot: I'm also turning 27 on Thursday!
I'm beginning to feel old...
On the other hand, it's Valentine on Friday, so:
Thank you for letting this off my mind. I feel better already.
I'll see you next week!
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Response 364 of 521: T. J. Cellery (TJ) * Wed, Feb 12, 1997 (14:08) * 5 lines
beginning to feel old???????????
old is just a state of mind....take it from someone who is about to celebrate the 21st anniversary of his 21st birthday.........
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Response 365 of 521: Don Drew (fuzz) * Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (11:34) * 4 lines
I have just browsed down through the responses, all 364 of them and find
them to be interesting. I thought this would be more of a political
discussion than I have found, but am certainly glad for the camaradery.
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Response 366 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Feb 16, 1997 (21:50) * 1 lines
Welcome Don! Hope you keep checking back in with us.
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Response 367 of 521: Don Drew (fuzz) * Mon, Feb 17, 1997 (17:42) * 7 lines
Thanks for the welcome. Where does peoples interest lie? I would be
interested in people that have ideas that would lead to organizing the
State Univ. of New York (SUNY) students into a voting block, or at least a
political voice with a little muscle.
I think it is a damn shame what the SUNY Board of Trustees are trying to
do to the state system.
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Response 368 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Feb 19, 1997 (03:22) * 1 lines
Open a topic in politics, the conference.
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Response 369 of 521: aubrey (aubrey) * Tue, Apr 8, 1997 (12:53) * 1 lines
You guys are very interesting but I'm not sure how I fit in since I'm going to go out on a limb here and actually say I'm not a huge Austen fan--I like what I've seen but I guess it didn't hit me the way it hit you all (so what am I doing here? long story). But you welcome even lukewarm fans, eh? You seem like a nice bunch folks, you won't wallop me, right?
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Response 370 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Apr 8, 1997 (19:37) * 1 lines
You're cool. Come on out and play!
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Response 371 of 521: kelly (mtlady) * Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (15:16) * 1 lines
I wrote my intro. in another section. I heard today that there is a virus out there and it comes in your e mail and says from aol and states free aol on line and when you open it your entire system is wiped out including your antivirus programs. I figure it is for real because the alert was from washington and sent out to gov. fac. recieved in Atlanta at a gov. research fac. anyone heard about this?
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Response 372 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Apr 10, 1997 (20:36) * 3 lines
No, can you provide more details. Is it documented anywhere on the web or is there
any anti-virus company that recognizes it. Have you contacted the folks at F-Prot
or Norton to see if it's real. An email to them might clear things up.
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Response 373 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Sat, Apr 12, 1997 (14:23) * 5 lines
My,my, my...
Terry, this has really grown since last I checked in.
At the Denver Public Library today.
Brandon is on a plane bound for Philly and I'm cold and lonely. The weather is bringing me down. The middle of April. 10 degrees. Six inches of melting snow. My flowers, the ones I planted three weeks ago, will never bloom. Sad. I'm checking out a Kabir poetry book, an Aaron Copland CD and several other random fiction stories -- sci-fi, romance, modern weird, you know... a little bit of everything to help me get through the week. Miss Austin, miss warm weather. Need a cup of caffeine and a chocolate macad
mia cookie. Mountain biking and skating are on hold until the snow melts and the trails dry up. Thinking fondly of my former life...
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Response 374 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Apr 12, 1997 (17:27) * 14 lines
Wow, Miss Stace' checkin' in... glad you found some access.
Are those Interent terminals very busy? Isn't it cool that libraries
have net access now. Nearly all the Austin libraries have net access.
I get Denver stations on my satellite dish so I got a little glimpse
at your weather. I won't mention what kind of day we're having in
Austin or that all the plants all over are in multi-colored profusion.
Do you go snow skiing? That would seem a natural for you with your
athleticism. Have you been in any more ironman competitions (run,
swim, bike)? Well, enough of this indoor activity for now, time to
get outdoors. Keep on checkin' in, Stacey!
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Response 375 of 521: aubrey (aubrey) * Mon, Apr 14, 1997 (09:23) * 1 lines
Stacey stacey check back in! I'm a desperately unhappy Dallasite longing to relocate to Denver/Boulder. Please give me some words of encouragement while I wait out this interminable job-hunt. I miss Austin, too--partly why I'm heading for D/B! It's the closest I've found to that great Austin ambience. Guess I'll trade hellishly hot summers for frosty winters!
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Response 376 of 521: grumble (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (12:57) * 1 lines
well, I'm bummed...one of the 2 main potential employers I'm looking at in Denver now lists "no jobs available" on their home page (they used to have half a dozen) and the other one still has the 2 unsuitable-for-me jobs they've been listing since Feb. Time to do more searching and sending.
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Response 377 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:18) * 1 lines
Did you get in touch with Stacey yet?
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Response 378 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Apr 16, 1997 (21:42) * 1 lines
Have you thought about moving to Austin? Just a thought.
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Response 379 of 521: aubrey (aubrey) * Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (13:18) * 1 lines
Like I said in one of my many intros, it would be a dream come true to return to Austin, the town of my heart. Unfortunately, the reality is that I am just too old to live in the squalor afforded by the measly salaries paid for my line of work in Austin...so I visit and dream...
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Response 380 of 521: dainty (aubrey) * Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (13:33) * 1 lines
Plus I'm just too dainty these days for the blistering hellfire of those Austin summers (they made a man of me in my 20s, but now...I can't breathe!)...like Colo winters will be any less hellish!
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Response 381 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Apr 17, 1997 (23:37) * 1 lines
What work do you do again?
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Response 382 of 521: nerd (aubrey) * Fri, Apr 18, 1997 (08:07) * 1 lines
Molecular biology (got my MD, quit my residency, took up lab work). Sadly, the labs in Austin are easily staffed by peons fresh out of college willing to work for peanuts. There is Ambion, the lone industry. Perhaps I should give them a whirl, see if they'd be willing to pay me vast sums of money to enjoy the Austin ambience....
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Response 383 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Apr 19, 1997 (00:25) * 7 lines
Talk to my friend Bob Nagy who works at UT Botany when he gets over his
throat surgery (about a week). He's mailto://bob@spring.net
He may be able to help steer you in the right direction. I'll mention
him to you. His home page is at http://tvnight.org/~kreblon
There's hope!
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Response 384 of 521: thanx (aubrey) * Mon, Apr 21, 1997 (13:07) * 1 lines
You are very kind, terry. I will definitely look there! Sadly, UT is the lowest-paying, but what the heck, I'll see what's up. My ramble for today: I changed the tire on my car ALL BY MYSELF!!! last Saturday. I'm so proud of myself. Plenty of lacrimal lubrication to get the lugs off (fortunately this all took place in the privacy of my own driveway)!
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Response 385 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Apr 22, 1997 (23:26) * 2 lines
The folks I know there love it. Despite the low pay. They like the relaxed
atmosphere and benefits.
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Response 386 of 521: indeed (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (08:55) * 1 lines
As indeed I did during the 3 1/2 years I toiled in the Micro dept--great people and a fine ambience (ESB is a cool bldg)--much better than the tense unsmiling environs of UTSWMC Dallas! I'll see what the pay scale is for my now-advanced status (cf my previous inexperienced level), eh. I just need enough to pay the vet bills and the car repairman!
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Response 387 of 521: I digress (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (09:24) * 3 lines
And apropos of nothing, let me just rant about my pet peeve, trafficwise: so you're tooling along virtually alone on the road (plenty of oncoming traffic)(but no one near you in your direction). Mr Doofus is exiting a parking lot, wants to join you on the road. He sees you 10 blocks away and waits. And waits. And waits. When you are right upon him, mere inches from his front bumper, he EASES his tuna boat out directly in front of you. Having used up every last ounce of driving courage on this bold m
neuver, he proceeds to drive 5 mph for a block or two, then slams on his brakes without warning, apparently (why use a turn signal? HE knows where he's going) wishing to turn left past all the oncoming traffic. So the pair of you spend eternity waiting for a brek in traffic sufficiently large to accomodate a tuna boat driven by a moron whose used up all his courage. Not a soul behind you; he could have done all of this after you passed, but NOOOOO, he HAD to pull in front of you. Thank you and good ni
ht. seriously, any other traffic annoyances out there? Or do I just need to get the idiot magnet removed from my front bumper?
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Response 388 of 521: oops (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (09:26) * 1 lines
sorry about the typos--combination of spleen-venting and weird response frame (I can't see half of what I type!)
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Response 389 of 521: ha ha (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (09:28) * 1 lines
I'm over in Austin rambling, go back to main menu, see there's a new response in porch, come over here, and it's ME! This is too fun, chatting with myself (are the voices in my head bothering you?).
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Response 390 of 521: yelp! (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 23, 1997 (13:03) * 1 lines
And I return hours later,see another new response, and whaddaya know--ME AGAIN!
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Response 391 of 521: hoo hah! (aubrey) * Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (13:04) * 1 lines
AUBREY RULES THE WORLD!! I am the only responder! I am queen of everything! Ruler of mesopotamia! Goddess of The Spring!
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Response 392 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Apr 24, 1997 (16:09) * 10 lines
Well, you see, aubrey, the 'ramble' topic is actually replicated throughout several
conferences and forms sort of a common thread through all these conferences. It started
out in the austen conference and spread out from there (though it's no longer linked to
austen after the major metamorphosis it went through.
Anyone see the story on the WELL in the latest issue of Wired? Two folks I know pretty well,
Cliff Figallo (fig@well.com) and John Coate (tex@well.com) are on the cover looking like
guys out of the Xfiles. Also pictured is Stewart Brand. I was one of the original members
of the WELL and much of the inspiration for the Spring comes from what Cliff and John did at
the WELL, even the name was originally a play on the WELL. Anyway, check it out.
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Response 393 of 521: wheee (aubrey) * Fri, Apr 25, 1997 (08:13) * 1 lines
I thought someone was typing in porch while I was typing in austin. Ddidn't realize the computer wouldn't be able to figure out it was me all the time. Will look for Wired and your pals. You're a funny man of the spring/well/geyser.
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Response 394 of 521: wheee (aubrey) * Wed, Apr 30, 1997 (09:10) * 1 lines
Once again, aubrey is the queen of all she surveys! I rock the Spring! I am so large and in charge! I think I will chat with myself a while....
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Response 395 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Apr 30, 1997 (17:10) * 1 lines
I've been offline here about 3 days, I'll be getting back on soon.
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Response 396 of 521: Goddess (aubrey) * Fri, May 2, 1997 (09:26) * 2 lines
But I'm having sooo much fun! I NEVER get to be the one in charge! However, you are better at it than me...Fun in the lab: I was doing an experiment yesterday that required the use of some truly noxious organic chemicals; when I was pouring them out under the fume hood (like one of those kitchen range exhaust fans, only it's enclosed on 3 1/2 sides)(designed to suck away noxious vapors so they don't enter the lab) I couldn't quite reach the sink at the back of the hood, so without thinking I NATURALLY
tuck my head under the hood to get better leverage...just a half a whiff of that stuff and I blacked out and hit the floor. Yikes-a-hootey! I'm still reeling from the shock a day later! Maybe I should consider a different profession? One that doesn't require frequent use of noxious and dangerous chemicals and gene-altering isotopes?
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Response 397 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 2, 1997 (13:21) * 4 lines
I wondered why you hadn't been posting for a couple of days! Wow!
Take it easy there. Glad you back with the conscious folks. You're
set up as a telnetter now! Let me know if you have any questions about
how to use the telnet / yapp interface.
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Response 398 of 521: yes I do (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (09:08) * 2 lines
Well, terry, I've tried every way I can but I still seem to have some sort of block vis a vis telnet. I can get to stroud (but only via typing it into netscape or clicking on the url you left me in tv conf--the url on the welcome page still doesn't work), but get lost therafter. There is a ws-ftp to click on at one point in the depths of Stroud, but my choice seems to be to download it, which (since this is NOT my own computer) I am a bit leery of. There is no Windows95 choice. On this computer (NOT i
NetScape) there is a ws-ftp icon which I played with a little, but it couldn't find telnet://tvnight.org so I stopped (but now my password and name are on the ws-ftp page). Maybe I should try this from a personal personal computer (my brother is a computer jockey; I will enlist his help).
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Response 399 of 521: WHAT?????? (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (09:10) * 1 lines
Where the hell did THAT come from???? All I did was type in the letters for that telnet thing and it went purple!!! Does that work for other sites? http://www.vabeach.com for example?
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Response 400 of 521: help me!!! (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (09:31) * 1 lines
Help terry I'm scaring myself--every time I type in a url it lights up. Did I sniff too much pet ether last week or is this the glorious result of being a telnet gal? Yikes! Stop me before I hurt someone! So that vabeach url is from my e-pal who wants so desperately to join the Spring but cannot get on. I don't know what the site is, it was just the first thing I tried! AND IT WORKS! This is toooo spooooooky for me. How does the computer know where to go if I didn't tell it?
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Response 401 of 521: it gets worse (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (09:58) * 2 lines
Terry I am serious, this is WAY too spooky: I sent an e-mail (via NetScape)to my bros requesting their assistance in this telnet thing, and when I typed in the spring telnet url thingie, IT LIT UP! WHY IS THIS SUDDENLY HAPPENING?? As you will note from my previous comments, I never used to be able to do lit-up urls--when I suggested websites to my e-pals, they never lit up before. How does the computer know I have a telnet account when I'm not logged on that way? IS BIG BROTHER WATCHING ME? I'm getti
g paranoid!
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Response 402 of 521: what?! (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (12:38) * 1 lines
I just left a lot of responses in ramble via telnet (with the kind assistance of my e-pal and my brother) and they didn't show up here. What's up?
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Response 403 of 521: what's more... (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (13:35) * 1 lines
And now my responses are gone from telnet, although that last response (left via the website) showed up on telnet. I am deeply confused. Plus, where are the messages left for me in telnet by my e-pal pungo? Terry, take my hand and leadeth me beside the spring waters, for I knoweth not what is happen.
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Response 404 of 521: Jennifer Fosmire (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (13:38) * 4 lines
what happens to the stuff I write here? It vanished!
Hmmmm, I went to the web spring and typed that above message in, and when I came back, this last telnet response was still here...
I think I need someone else to chat with for this to work?
"."
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Response 405 of 521: aaugh (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (13:41) * 1 lines
Terry you'd better get here quick. My computer is now sassing back at me. I was roaming around telnet in ramble and it informed me "a message entered before yours at 403"--I don't know what it's talking about, but that's pretty spooky. Truly bizarre, tho--I asked it to take me to tv conf, but before it would it asked "do you feel more enlightened now?" WHO IS TALKING TO ME???? Are the voices in my head bothering anyone else?
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Response 406 of 521: dazed and bewildered (aubrey) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (13:43) * 1 lines
response 404 is me in telnet. "." is me trying to leave! What happened to my first set of responses a few hours ago? Why did that STUPID response show up? Where did my name come into all of this?
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Response 407 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, May 5, 1997 (22:17) * 1 lines
Keep after it aubrey, you'll catch on. This telnet stuff really does work!
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Response 408 of 521: ha! (aubrey) * Tue, May 6, 1997 (07:49) * 1 lines
It may work for you. It just scares me.
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Response 409 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 6, 1997 (09:15) * 2 lines
It's not all that scary. What editor are you using? vi or pico?
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Response 410 of 521: doh! (aubrey) * Wed, May 7, 1997 (08:13) * 1 lines
ummmm...I am my own editor? Let me ask the computer god who runs the show around here. He's nice and knows everything about our set-up (he should, since he set it up!).
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Response 411 of 521: plus (aubrey) * Wed, May 7, 1997 (08:23) * 2 lines
I couldn't find anywhere in tv conf to put this, so I'll just yammer away here: last night I got to watch a tv pilot. It was not so good but it was fun getting to watch something that may or may not be a show. The only person I recognized was Cynthia Geary from NExp (so maybe this should go there). It was a lame sitcom about a totally uninteresting couple of 20somethings getting married and all the trouble with involving their families in the wedding (his: NY Jew, hers: Southern crackers; hi-jinks ens
e!). You think I could parlay this into a career? I can critique potential shows from the comfort of my own living room! Or not.
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Response 412 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, May 7, 1997 (09:13) * 1 lines
You might want to hold on to your day job till you explore this a little more.
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Response 413 of 521: hey there! (aubrey) * Wed, May 7, 1997 (13:02) * 1 lines
It's so exciting to have you here during the day, terry! I like! So what, you think they won't pay me vast sums of money to sit around bitching about others' lack of creativity? Am I doomed to knocking myself out with organic solvents for the rest of my natural life? Breathe in, breathe out....
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Response 414 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, May 7, 1997 (18:33) * 1 lines
Are you and telnet getting along now?
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Response 415 of 521: hmmph (aubrey) * Thu, May 8, 1997 (12:11) * 2 lines
Well, not exactly. I've asked my brother the computer chimp to help me out (so don't be surprised if you read some really dull test messages here--I gave him my logon to work it out for me) so we'll see what he comes up with. My friend pungo has given up completely on The Spring (he e-mailed you for help and didn't hear back and since I can't find him on telnet he's going to find somewhere else for us to play--but I'll still be here!). I prefer the web-nased bbs rather than telnet. Maybe I'm a sucker
or cool graphics (also this computer is pretty fast) or whatnot. What again are the advantages to telnet?
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Response 416 of 521: oops (aubrey) * Thu, May 8, 1997 (12:11) * 1 lines
That's "web Based" bbs!
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Response 417 of 521: and (aubrey) * Thu, May 8, 1997 (12:12) * 1 lines
Oh yeah the tv pilot people never called me for my opinion--what have you been telling them about me, terry?
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Response 418 of 521: about last night (aubrey) * Fri, May 9, 1997 (10:06) * 1 lines
The tv pilot people called last night; apparently the wrong show got beamed out so they didn't even interview me. My shiny new career vanishes like a candle in the wind....
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Response 419 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 9, 1997 (14:00) * 1 lines
like the old Elton John song.
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Response 420 of 521: my oh my (aubrey) * Wed, May 14, 1997 (14:10) * 2 lines
how time does fly! I can't believe it's been so long since I've logged in. Boss-man really has me totin barges and liftin bales. Plus I've walked out on him a couple of times in the middle of the workin day when he starts smokin in the lab. Anyway, I got a phone interview, out of the blue, from Amgen, a company I applied to back in Feb--thought they'd forgotten all about me but apparently not. I am hopelessly unqualified for the job in question, plus it's in 1K Oaks CA where I'll never live, but who
ares! I'll take the interview process as far as she'll go. I need the practice. Hey, also my bro in Denver has mentioned an editing job (for medical journals) so maybe I'll get something after all!
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Response 421 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, May 14, 1997 (16:17) * 2 lines
I just got offered a webmaster job in Calif and a system network job for
Compaq, but I got an even better job offer inAustin. So I'll stick around.
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Response 422 of 521: super! (aubrey) * Thu, May 15, 1997 (08:06) * 1 lines
But even if it weren't a better offer--you'd stay in Austin, right? Calif can't compare! Do you have to move to do a computer job? Can't they just link you up or something and let you stay in that fair city?
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Response 423 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, May 15, 1997 (08:15) * 6 lines
I would probably stay. If it were Northern Calif I'd be more tempted.
I had a good dinner last night with Doug Larue and he has some ideas for
pumping up the Spring and Capcity. Doug is a very talented designer and
editor of Capitol City Arts and Entertainment magazine. We're working on
ways to build traffic and to attract more dedicated websites.
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Response 424 of 521: yeah! (aubrey) * Fri, May 16, 1997 (13:36) * 1 lines
I can't wait! I'm all aglow! More people would be grrrreat. I've been spending time on another website (wbs.net) and while it's fun having "live" conversations, the people and topics are lame. More people here would be ideal. Let me know if I (useless as I am) can help--I'm still doing word-of-mouth promotions to everyone I meet who uses computers.
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Response 425 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, May 16, 1997 (17:59) * 2 lines
Anything you can do would help. I'm working 12 hours a day now so it's
harder to promote this thing.
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Response 426 of 521: oh no! (aubrey) * Mon, May 19, 1997 (08:26) * 1 lines
Terry you must relax! Austin is for slackers! Please tell me you will not keep up this pace. Breathe in, breathe out...
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Response 427 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, May 19, 1997 (12:54) * 2 lines
I think I pumped it up a bit here on Sunday night. Take a look
around and you'lll see some action, Aubrey.
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Response 428 of 521: yikes (aubrey) * Sun, May 25, 1997 (09:20) * 1 lines
Where have I been??? I'm back now!
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Response 429 of 521: Jennifer Fosmire (aubrey) * Sun, May 25, 1997 (09:28) * 1 lines
hahahaha and I'm STILL fooling myself with this ramble-in-many-conferences gag! every time I put in a response I go and check the other conference!! I have a memory span the size of a GNAT!!!
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Response 430 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, May 25, 1997 (09:43) * 4 lines
I'm heading off to TJ Cellery's big party today, he's one of
our posters in the sports conference and he's got bands, darts,
and all kinds of activities going on out in Lake Bastrop today
and tomorrow. It's already been going on for two days.
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Response 431 of 521: hey there! (aubrey) * Tue, May 27, 1997 (08:26) * 1 lines
Hope you had fun terry. I linked the spring from my "home page" (such as it is) on wbs.net--hope that's ok!
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Response 432 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, May 27, 1997 (09:31) * 1 lines
It's more than ok.
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Response 433 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Tue, May 27, 1997 (21:38) * 4 lines
Hiya!
Once again found myself within 3 yards of a computer and had to say hello! Miss you. Miss Austin. Should be back in late June early July. We'll do the Dog&Duck/veggie burger thing!
Spring has finally reached Denver! Yea! Camping, biking and beer guzzling for Memorial Day. JuneFest this weekend -- more beer, camping and biking! Hope all is well with EVERYONE -- too many new people, I feel lost Paul!
Smiles and hugs!
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Response 434 of 521: Ginger Coplan (ginger) * Wed, May 28, 1997 (00:50) * 5 lines
We had a great party out in Bastrop at TJ Cellery's digs, he had live bands,
horseshoes, good friends, great food and four frolicking days. He's been
doing this for 25 years now (all around the country).
Too bad about the Avs' Stacey Leigh!
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Response 435 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, May 28, 1997 (07:56) * 1 lines
Stacey, did you hear about Don moving out to Denver?
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Response 436 of 521: Mitch (msegal) * Thu, May 29, 1997 (10:56) * 1 lines
Hi. Is there anyone interested in the Canadian federal election?
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Response 437 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, May 29, 1997 (13:50) * 2 lines
I hadn't been giving it much thought. Fill us in ok?
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Response 438 of 521: Texan! (aubrey) * Mon, Jun 2, 1997 (08:33) * 1 lines
There's a Canadienne in my wbs chat group who want the current guy booted out in favor of the contender who she says "won't let the Frenchies walk all over us"--I'll ask for more details, eh?
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Response 439 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jun 2, 1997 (11:19) * 1 lines
How about those Bulls las night?
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Response 440 of 521: Ginger Coplan (ginger) * Sun, Jun 8, 1997 (10:00) * 1 lines
They're having a quiet war about that, Aubrey?
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Response 441 of 521: oops (aubrey) * Wed, Jun 18, 1997 (07:58) * 1 lines
sadly ginger that's all I know--and terry see my query in porch intros; I am confused (so what's new!) by these new choices we have! "preserve as unread"??? why???
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Response 442 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jun 18, 1997 (11:42) * 1 lines
Why? Because Dave Thaler just upgraded our interface. We'll be putting out
some upgrade notes soon. Aubrey, so good you're back!
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Response 443 of 521: wheee! (aubrey) * Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (08:06) * 1 lines
Thank you terry! glad to be here! so sad that boss-man keeps me away with WORK! So what is with thie COOKIE business????? why do yuo keep asking me to send them? I make a really great oatmeal chocolate chip (to die for!)--wouild a dozen satisfy you? Seriously terry this is getting ridiculous! I can hardly get on the spring for having to machete through a thicket of computer messages about COOKIES--help meeeeee!
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Response 444 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (17:33) * 2 lines
Your broswer lets you turn off cookie notification. What browser are you
using aub' ?
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Response 445 of 521: thanks! (aubrey) * Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (08:10) * 1 lines
I am using netscape...everyone is telling me cookies are the worst thing in the world but you seem relatively calm about this...so I will take heart and attempt to figure out how to turn them off. if I can't can you help!
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Response 446 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (08:30) * 1 lines
Sure, be glad to help. What version of Netscape do you have?
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Response 447 of 521: Jennifer Fosmire (aubrey) * Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (12:49) * 1 lines
yu got me there pal, I just click it on hee hee hee...let me have a look-see...
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Response 448 of 521: yikes (aubrey) * Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (12:54) * 1 lines
the icon says 3.01 but what actually comes up is 3.0...I deselected cookie under the preferences "show me a warning before accepting a..." and I sure hope that's ok--I don't know why someone would select that--terry? do I need to know when the computer has accepted a cookie?
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Response 449 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (12:55) * 2 lines
Not really. It's mildly interesting. Not something to work up a frenzy
over.
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Response 450 of 521: Jennifer Fosmire (aubrey) * Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (13:00) * 1 lines
hey!! now you actually being here IS soething to work up into a frenzy over!
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Response 451 of 521: hoooeee! (aubrey) * Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (13:01) * 1 lines
And I am frothing! I have never had anyone here when I am here! so I want to hear more about the electronic minds *peering about* are they here right now?
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Response 452 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (13:45) * 1 lines
They are, join minds.
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Response 453 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (10:27) * 4 lines
Can...we...revive...this...topic?
I already thawed it out in the microwave.
(and, it's not like some of us need it *wink*
cause we ramble in other places, BUT...)
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Response 454 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (11:12) * 2 lines
Sure pop it in the wave.
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Response 455 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (18:06) * 1 lines
and what, praytell, are we rambling about?!?
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Response 456 of 521: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (18:14) * 3 lines
jesus! I had to go through 2 friggin years worth o crap to get here! And what do I find but the same damn words I posted somewhere else.
This is un nerving!
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Response 457 of 521: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (18:18) * 1 lines
lol!
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Response 458 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan 15, 1998 (23:09) * 1 lines
Apparently we're rambling about not getting anywhere...
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Response 459 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (10:04) * 3 lines
Ramble is a mega linked topic. So if you ramble here,
you ramble everywhere. Just so you know.
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Response 460 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (12:16) * 1 lines
That's an intimidating thought. I'm afraid to ramble now.
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Response 461 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (13:28) * 1 lines
But, Autumn...
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Response 462 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (13:44) * 1 lines
Sorry, I seldom think I have anything worthwhile to say, much less to have it echoed throughout the spring.
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Response 463 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jan 16, 1998 (15:12) * 3 lines
I always appreciate your posts.
If you've read most of mine,
worthwhile is not always a requisit.
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Response 464 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sat, Jan 17, 1998 (15:52) * 1 lines
Ahh, but I'm not a deep thinker like you. An eloquent stream of consciousness always rates higher than inane chit-chat.
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Response 465 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jan 17, 1998 (23:23) * 5 lines
I appreciate the compliment, Autumn.
*blush*
No one has ever referred to it as eloquent.
Weird, convoluted, abnormal, strange, etcetera,
but never eloquent...
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Response 466 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Sun, Jan 18, 1998 (21:39) * 1 lines
Well, consider yourself eloquent.
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Response 467 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (17:11) * 2 lines
"I was born a ramblin' Maaaaannnnnnnnnn.
Trying to make a livin' an doin' the best I caaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnn."
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Response 468 of 521: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (17:59) * 4 lines
roflmao!
(that's a pretty excellent dickie betts,
especially from someone subject to recurring
cat dreams...)
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Response 469 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:21) * 3 lines
*grin*
gotta be too much herb tea!
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Response 470 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:41) * 3 lines
Hey, ramblin' girl, speaking of tea, just got a shipment
of chai in today. A free sample from the Pacific Chai
company. Who says I never got anything free off the net?
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Response 471 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:45) * 4 lines
where?
Good stuff?
I'm a big Celestial Seasonings fan...
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Response 472 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:46) * 4 lines
JUST POSTED THIS IN MOVIES....
NOW I HAVE TO READ IT AGAIN IN FITNESS!!!!!!
AAAccccccccccccccccccck!
Paul, what are you doing to me?!?!
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Response 473 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:49) * 10 lines
It's a conspiracy Stace, remember when I told you a few
days ago that when you post here you post everywhere
(thought I was kidding, eh?). Anyway, I got the free
Chai tea from Pacific Chai which I found by searching
for the word "chai tea" on yahoo's site.
http://www.PacificChai.com
Good stuff! Spicy, weet, rich, and *instant* chai tea.
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Response 474 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (19:56) * 1 lines
Stacey, what are your favorite CS teas? I love the mandarin orange spice, and I use their green blend for iced tea.
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Response 475 of 521: Nickoalai S (nike) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (11:58) * 39 lines
Well as the thread in this group goes more into tea, all I can add to that is the fact that I have never drunken so much tea in my life like I do now living in Londo for half a year, you really drink it at nearly anytime in the day it's incredible...
Just to continue rambling (I hope nobody minds)
I am just not willing to spend hours over what I should be doing, preparing
for my finals here in the South Bank University in London.
It has been quite a semester here, and I must say to anybody who has the chanceto join such an exchangeprogramme, do it (like the Nike ad tell's you to)
It's an expirience I don't want to have missed, and I already have spend
a moth in an american Junior high school, a couple of years back (yeah yeah,
those were the days)
this thred was called Ramble? wasn't it ? ;-)
I just could go on for hours, telling you about the freezing weather we had here
after we had the warmest day in January two weeks ago, since the recordings began some hundred years ago, the weather is really unpredictable...
Somehow I could do with some real proper sunshine, staying here
I have acquired one of the most ugly teints I have ever had, the last time I had such a pale skin was after learning for my last exams in Germany for nearly a whole month and not seeing the outside much...
Well I guess all you can do about that is either eat a wagonload
of carrots (betacarotin) or lie under a artificial sun for some time, which I actually
don't have, or I should better say shouldn't have ;-)
Rambling on I could now go into the fact that I spent nearly 2 hours downloading the newest Mac OS -8 upgrade to 8.1
Apart from that I found a cool webpage explaining about Java
and even offering a whole online store for free (all the scripts and everything
that is needed to make such an to run an online store)
so if everything else fails (my studies here as a building engeneer)
I will open an online store selling ...
well I don't know...
ah! I got it
I'll sell semelly socks ;-)
Well what I would really like to do at the moment is continue writing
my webpage, but I can't continue, because I couldn't setup my harddisk here, because
my friend wanted back his casing for his harddisk ...
well just in case you would like to have a little look around, or find out
a bit about the thesis that I want to write about, check out
my page at http://www.hardlink.com/~nike
I would like some feedback...
Well I guess I have rambled enough ;-)
I should get back to my studies (yuck)
See ya around
enjoy the tea (I usually just have the normal PG Tips Black tea here)
Bye
Nike
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 476 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (18:59) * 3 lines
Just in, the inside scoop on Clinton's woes from
the Drudge report in politics.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 477 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (20:23) * 5 lines
Read it in the politics conference.
Either it's over for Clinton or Starr.
One of them will bite the dust soon.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 478 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (20:28) * 5 lines
Nike, now thar's a ramblin' man! Gosh, it's great you're back with us.
Buddy, ya know, got a gig with Microsoft up in big D. Funny, Buddy always
despised Microsoft now he's getting those BillyBucks. I wish him well. It's a
great break for him and he can help a lot of other visually handicapped folks break some
barriers.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 479 of 521: Nickoalai S (nike) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (10:21) * 20 lines
Yeah!
don't get me rambin, when I actually have some work to do ;-)
(at least not, when the work I do have
to do is somethin I hate doin, like revising all the stuff
I learned the last half of the yaer...
Is Buddy still around here in the Spring?
Well I guess it's often like that, when money is involved...
I also would work for Microsoft, but in my heart I still would
prefer to work with a Mac,. Anyway, a really great break for him, I
must say.
Why is it in big D? I thought they were up in big R?
Well I hope to read lot's astuff in the various topics, only at the moment I don't
have that much time, but I will broowse a bit.
See ya around
See ya around
Nike
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 480 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (10:43) * 6 lines
Hey, anyone want a free frisbee?
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/cgi-bin/gdml2x/game/pathfinder/apc_survey2
will get you one if you answer their plastics survey.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 481 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (10:44) * 3 lines
Big, or Dallas, is a tech support location. That's what he's doing,
supporting handicapped users. And getting all the free food he can eat!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 482 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (12:15) * 1 lines
Don't forget to clue him in on the frisbee!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 483 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (16:45) * 7 lines
Autumn... teas (the faves)
Tension Tamer
Echinecea
Ginseng
Bengal
[A[C[C[C[C[C[C[B[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D SpiceSleepyTime
Emporer's Choice
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 484 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (16:54) * 1 lines
I haven't heard of a couple of those...maybe they're marketed differently in other regions? Like out here we have Edy's ice cream, but on the West Coast it is Dreyer's. And in Europe, Arizona iced tea is called Colorado iced tea (sounds more exotic "Old West" or something, I guess!)
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 485 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:05) * 7 lines
My super favorite in the Bengal Spice...
clovey
cinnamony
yummy!
Shame you don't have them.
What are your favorites?
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 486 of 521: For your dining & dancing pleasure (russell) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (16:53) * 7 lines
New this month in Culture Wars magazine online: http://www.culturewars.com
The Kingpins of Drug Legalization: Investigating Their Role in the Culture War
by Michael J. Ard
Who are the voices crying out for the de-criminalization of narcotics, and
what are their real objectives? The answers may surprise you.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 487 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:03) * 1 lines
My favorite is the mandarin orange spice, but if the Bengal is as good as it sounds, I'll have to look for it. Only I hope it is not too cinnamon-y, because I can't stand their apple cinnamon spice flavor. Or anything with mint.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 488 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:18) * 6 lines
Thanks Russell, that culturewares site was mentioned in our web
conference as a cool website not too long ago.
On a less frenetic front, and back to teatalk, I picked up some more
chai tea tonight and and hibiscus blend. My two current favorites.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 489 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:23) * 1 lines
Ooh, hibiscus is yummy!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 490 of 521: Doug Larue (doug) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:33) * 5 lines
Hey I just saw that culturewars site, gonna read it now.
Oh, Terry, I didnt know you were a Tea Coinsure'
You continue to surprise me!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 491 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:36) * 1 lines
Oh, he's a regular renaissance man.....
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 492 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:40) * 5 lines
Gosh, hey honest, I haven't been making under the table payments
to Autumn. That hibiscus is great brewed with fresh grated ginger
and sweetened with white grape juice.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 493 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:42) * 1 lines
Wow--it would never occur to me to doctor tea with anything but honey or fructose. Old family recipe?
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 494 of 521: Doug Larue (doug) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:48) * 7 lines
I only came into this conference because I saw that was where the current action was. But dagnabbit if I wasn't exposed and affected by the culture oozing from the electrons of Terry's universe.
We are headed to Mexico City tomarrow to go an a ancient indian adventure, talk about culture! I will be exposed to a great deal of over the next week or so. We are going to one of the valcanoes and as many pyramids as we can find, hopfully this will become celestinial. Speaking of culture, I hear there is a very cool (Spring Like) site called http://www.boat.org
check it out!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 495 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (20:54) * 1 lines
Sounds like an incredible outing, Doug!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 496 of 521: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (18:31) * 1 lines
Hot pepper cheese craving... anyone want to join me?
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 497 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (23:07) * 2 lines
Sure...
Can I put you and the cheese on a Ritz?
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 498 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 29, 1998 (09:07) * 2 lines
you can try... but i won't fit.
maybe you sould put the cheese and the Ritz on me!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 499 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan 29, 1998 (11:19) * 1 lines
kinda like a little snack buffet?
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 500 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (03:06) * 1 lines
*sigh*
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 501 of 521: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (03:06) * 2 lines
is that a sigh of relief or of dispair?
(or were you just breathing heavy and got confused?)
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 502 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (03:06) * 12 lines
drinking my tea, having finished my bagel.
Fairly happy today
Well, certainly not sad
And I read a post from many moons ago that mentioned boyce
I associate the name, obviously with the spring, but also with the summer months in Austin. And, all of a sudden, I became really homesick for Austin.
My old apartment off of Riverside, runs around Town Lake, late night skates around town stopping in assorted coffee houses to play cards...
The smell of the air with humidity. The hot sticky feel after exercising in humidity and sunshine. Riding through the Greenbelt, reading off Mt. Bonnell...
To no one in particular...
Do you ever feel happy and sad at the same time?
Odd how this came up so suddenly.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 503 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (03:06) * 4 lines
I guess that's me. Yeah, I feel happy and sad simultaneously.
Well I got a contract on a house in Austin today. I now have 10 days
to change my mind.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 504 of 521: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (03:06) * 2 lines
(all the time)
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 505 of 521: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (15:22) * 3 lines
Wow, a house--that's a big commitment, Terry. Sometimes I think ours is a full-time job.
Stacey, that happy/sad feeling; sometimes. More commonly I feel a persistent undercurrent of restlessness laying in wait beneath the surface.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 506 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (15:54) * 1 lines
yes to all of the above...
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 507 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (17:28) * 6 lines
congrats on the house Paul!
and as far as the brief trip into emotional uncertainty...
there's nothing like a class full of rowdy boys to bring you back to the here and now!
*smile*
and nothing like a beer (or four) to make the day a mere memory!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 508 of 521: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (17:39) * 5 lines
whew! (spamified)
found ramble in another conference... that I'd never checked before
two plus years of... rambling.
(worn out)
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 509 of 521: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jan 30, 1998 (19:53) * 2 lines
ramble rambles all over about 7 or 8 conferences. Ramble really rambles.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 510 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Tue, Feb 3, 1998 (23:48) * 1 lines
nite, all
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 511 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Wed, Feb 4, 1998 (15:19) * 1 lines
afternoon...
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 512 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Feb 4, 1998 (19:44) * 2 lines
Evening, ma'am, hain't seen ya 'round
none too much lately. Ya'll okay and all?
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 513 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Thu, Feb 5, 1998 (17:16) * 3 lines
fine. busy. frustrated with certain things but nothing catastrophic...
you know how it is when you begin to vent...
a trickle, a stream, a flood...
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 514 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (00:04) * 4 lines
yes, I know...
but, if I gotta talk to ya'll,
then ya'll gotta talk to me
*wink*
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 515 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (12:55) * 2 lines
sure you wanna talk???
*wink*
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 516 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (13:51) * 3 lines
yep, talk would be the correct verb choice
(I'll even sit on my hands in case I forget)
*wink-wink*
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 517 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (17:26) * 2 lines
what should I sit on?!?!
*grin*
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 518 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Feb 6, 1998 (23:53) * 6 lines
to keep things "easy", my lap,
since we already been there...
do we need Terry to do the drivin'
this time, or are we just gonna
"park" while we talk?
*crossing fingers*
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 519 of 521: stacey leigh vura (stacey) * Sun, Feb 8, 1998 (21:29) * 4 lines
okay.
In an effort to expand our cultural horizons, let's each choose a different language to speak to each other in. (Kind of the way men and women relate anyway)
You may speak whatever you like
I choose body language!
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 520 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Feb 8, 1998 (22:23) * 1 lines
No problema, mi amiga.
Topic 30 of 71 [sports]: Ramble
Response 521 of 521: wer (KitchenManager) * Sun, Feb 8, 1998 (22:48) * 4 lines
or, I could pretend you were written in Braille,
but since I'm sitting on my hands, not sure how
I would read you...couldn't guaranty that there
wouldn't be a misunderstanding, you know...
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