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Tue Nov 5 01:38:18 1991
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 91 01:37:46 EST
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benjamin (Benjamin J Renaud):
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ckclark (Calvin Clark):
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Note 117 What's all this about Eunuchs? 1 of 3
SNL::LITTELA "Some common sense, PLEASE... 26-Nov-1991 11:41
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What's all the fuss about eunuchs? Everybody is talking about
eunuchs and it makes me sick. As if these "guys" don't have it
tough enough already.
Everyone, my boss included, tells me I'll have to learn to use
eunuchs. ( I can't imagine what for!) And I'm told there are
even courses about eunuchs. This makes me sick. Sick! Sick!
One of the programmers here even offered to let me take home
a video course about eunuchs. I was polite but I laughed at
him behind his back when he left. If I'm gonna watch a tape
on my own time, it's gonna be about Tom Cruise not some
eunuch.
I just wish everyone would just shut up about eunuchs. Leave 'em
alone, I say. Let them live their life and let me live mine.
Emily
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Note 117 What's all this about Eunuchs? 2 of 3
BIGVAX::OLSEN "When I speak, everyone listens" 26-Nov-1991 11:42
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Emily, that's "UNIX" not "eunuchs". It's a kind of software.
Ken
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Note 117 What's all this about Eunuchs? 3 of 3
SNL::LITTELA "Some common sense, please... 26-Nov-1991 11:43
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Never mind.
Emily
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dom (Dominic J Sartorio):
Dom logged out at Mon Nov 4 19:31:25 EST 1991.
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
However much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!
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goz (David Gomez):
To get some sleep.
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
...
There I am in younger days, star gazing,
Painting picture perfect maps of how my life and love would be
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Rain soaked and voice choked like silent screaming in a dream
I search for our absolute distinction
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("Love's Recovery",Indigo Girls)
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Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with
and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone
to hold your hand -- these things are "marriage," and sex is but the
icing on the cake. (Lazarus Long)
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jinx (Guillermo J Rozas):
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Written on Mon Nov 4 07:00:01 EST 1991
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lsc (Lecture Series Committee):
LSC Movies for the weekend of Nov 8 to Nov 10
Fri. Nov 8 The Ladykillers (1955) 10-250 7:30
[ dir: Alexander MacKendrick; with Sir Alec Guiness, Katie Johnson,
and Peter Sellers ]
Guiness stars as the leader of an unlikely gang of crooks whose
exploits are discovered by their sweet-little-old-landlady.
Well, the only thing to do is bump her off - but how? At 77,
Katie Johnson came out of retirement to steal the show in this
zany spoof of 1930's gangster films.
Fri. Nov 8 Thelma and Louise 26-100 7 & 10
After killing a rapist in self-defense, Thelma (Geena Davis) and
Louise (Susan Sarandon) take off for the Mexican border on a
barnstorming, hell-bound descent into criminality and liberation.
Sat. Nov 9 Soapdish 26-100 7 & 10
Get the real dirt behind everyone's favorite soap opera! This film is
more fun than the National Enquirer, and stars Sally Field, Kevin
Kline, and Whoopi Goldberg, too!
Sun. Nov 10 The Lion in Winter 10-250 6:30 & 10
Brilliant, fierce and personal drama (adapted by James Goldman from
his play) of Henry II (Peter O'Toole) deliberating over a successor on
a fateful Christmas eve. Katherine Hepburn co-won the Best Actress
Oscar for her strong performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine. Oscars also
went to Goldman and composer John Barry.
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Classic Movie shows end before the start of the second
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sethf (Seth Finkelstein):
Subject: NATION'S LIBERALS TOO EASILY BAITED
MIKE ROYKO
David Duke, the ex-Nazi who wants to become fuehrer of Louisiana, was
on a TV show the other evening matching wits with a noted liberal
journalist.
His adversary was Michael Kinsley, a regular on the show ``Cross
Fire.'' Kinsley is the show's intellectual left-winger. Patrick Buchanan
is the show's intellectual right-winger. The format has them interview
some public figure, then snipe at each other's ideology.
Anyway, David Duke was the guest and Kinsley tried his best to zing
him. However, Duke took advantage of the free air time to make his
campaign pitches and remained calm until Kinsley asked him whether he
had undergone cosmetic surgery.
I don't know why, but the face lift seemed significant to Kinsley, so
he jabbered shrilly, trying to trap Duke into a lie or a confession.
Duke tried to respond, but they were both yammering at each other until
two words seemed to jump out of the TV.
Duke said: `` ... you worm.''
For a long moment, Kinsley's gaunt face seemed to freeze. His eyes
bugged. Actually, they always bug, but they bugged even more. I guess
nobody has ever called him a worm before. For the remaining minutes of
the show, he seemed subdued, even rattled.
Watching that show, I think I spotted the source of the liberals'
image problem. Someone like Michael Kinsley goes on TV and is seen by
millions and he comes across as a weenie. He looked and sounded like the
kind of arrogant kid who was the smartest in the class, but was a
schoolyard sissie.
For all of his education and knowledge -- and he's been a Washington
boy wonder for several years -- he managed to let an ex-Nazi and ex-Klan
snake-oil peddler come away with no worse than a draw. Why? Because he
looked and sounded like a weenie. Even worse, a shrill, smart-alecky
weenie.
And for some reason, those are the sort of liberal journalists who
wind up on those Washington talk shows and shouting matches.
If you have ever seen the McLaughlin Group, a sort of political zoo
with everybody yapping at once, you've seen that show's house liberal,
Morton Kondracke.
Morton is very smart and decent. I've known him on and off since he
was a young and earnest reporter in Chicago.
But when he gets on TV, he acts like a weenie. Not as big a weenie as
Michael Kinsley, but a weenie nevertheless. He sits there while
McLaughlin the Windbag and Robert Novak the Sneer beat up on him. Then
he smiles sheepishly and says something decent and earnest and weenie-
like.
With that kind of public representation, it's little wonder that
liberals, as a group, have such a weenie image. Many thought of liberal
George McGovern as kind of a weenie. And they saw Ronald Reagan,
Hollywood warrior, or Dan Quayle, legal draft dodger, as macho guys.
Yet, McGovern was the genuine war hero.
I'm beginning to suspect there is a conspiracy by the TV execs to put
weenie-type liberals on these Washington shows, while stacking them with
tough talkers like Novak or big-shouldered snarlers like Buchanan. (The
hawkish Buchanan, incidentally, sat out the Vietnam war with an owwie
knee. Now he jogs several miles a day. A miraculous recovery.)
It seems to me that they should be able to find a liberal who wears
more than a 13-inch collar, doesn't have translucent wrists, and never
shrieks like a boy soprano.
My friend Mortie, for example. Mortie would have made a far better
showing against ex-Nazi (and I wonder about the ``ex'') Duke.
Mortie might have said: ``So, you used to celebrate Hitler's
birthday, huh, kid? And wear swastikas, and you said that Jews should be
dumped in the ashbin of history? Well, I'm Jewish and I fought in the
Marines in WW II, and I noticed you skipped Vietnam, and I can still do
a hundred fast pushups. So when the show's over, why don't we meet in a
dark alley somewhere and I'll give you a reverse face lift, you two-bit
fascist?''
And if Buchanan gave him any lip, Mortie might ask: ``Hey Pat, you
closet pacifist, you ever try jogging on crutches?''
Instead of Kondracke, I would offer the McLaughlin Group my friend
Big John, who looks something like Lucca Brazzi, the Godfather's prize
torpedo, but thinks faster than a computer. He might tell someone like
Novak: ``I could explain why your observations are stupid, but you
wouldn't understand, so I'll just warn you that if you sneer one more
time I will take your head home as a paperweight.''
But I suppose it's too much to hope for. So I'll simply suggest that
Michael Kinsley go lift some weights, get his adenoids removed, stop
jiggling that Adam's apple, watch John Wayne's movies instead of Woody
Allen's, and maybe a fascist creep won't call him a worm.
After all, if he's going to act like a worm, somebody's going to put
him on a hook.
(C) 1991 BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
NOT TO MENTION PERFORMING THE MINUTE WALTZ
In SJ Games' Car Wars, it is possible for a driver, in the space of
six seconds, to accelerate from 0 to 90 mph, perform as many as 25
driving maneuvers safely, and fire on three successive targets long
enough to receive a sustained-fire to-hit bonus on each, all the while
maintaining a steady stream of conversation with his allies.
from Murphy's Rules
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takamori (Daiji Takamori):
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therese (Therese):
Our written history is a catalogue of crime
The sordid and the powerful, the architects of time
The mother of invention, the oppression of the mild
The constant fear of scarcity, aggression as it's child
-- Sting
Dream of the Blue Turtles
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
From: abb3w@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Arthur Bernard Byrne)
Newsgroups: alt.humor.oracle
Subject: Re: ask me something
Date: 4 Nov 91 18:34:57 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia
In article <91307.214110IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> IO10781@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (Somebody else ...) writes:
>ask me something
The Oracle replies:
} Why don't all you sill freshman and newbie types every read the
} Frequently asked questions files on a newsgroup before posting
} something to a newsgroup? Or at least read ALL of the posts carefully?
} Could it just be that humans are as fundamentally stupid as every
} question I have ever recieved suggests, and the entirety of human
} history implies?
}
} You owe the ORACLE an e-mail note sent as soon as possible
} (and BEFORE you post next) to oracle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu, using the
} word "Help" in the subject line. Do it. NOW.
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