[4266] in Central_America
New quotes for Tue May 19
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue May 19 01:31:03 1992
Date: Tue, 19 May 92 01:30:17 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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amgreene (Andrew Marc Greene):
DEAR MISS MANNERS -- I recently received an invitation to an
anniversary celebration, a section of which read:
``Cocktails -- 5:00 p.m.
``Dinner -- 6:00 p.m.
``Dinner -- $20.70 per person
``Your check is your reservation
``Please R.S.V.P.''
Please comment.
GENTLE READER -- Eeeeewwww.
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bjaspan (Barr3y Jaspan):
DEAR MISS MANNERS -- I recently received an invitation to an
anniversary celebration, a section of which read:
``Cocktails -- 5:00 p.m.
``Dinner -- 6:00 p.m.
``Dinner -- $20.70 per person
``Your check is your reservation
``Please R.S.V.P.''
Please comment.
GENTLE READER -- Eeeeewwww.
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buddyroo (Andrew K Smith):
To do some cool stuff!
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cyrus (Cyrus Shaoul):
Is it NOUVELLE CUISINE when 3 olives are struggling with a scallop
in a plate of SAUCE MORNAY?
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hooch (Conrad G. T. Yoder):
Goin' back to Cali for the summer! Have a good one.
Current Address: Summer Address: Parental Units:
Baker House Room 517 6 Sager Court 55178 T.R. 170
x5-7267 Orinda, CA 94563 Fresno, OH 43824
18C/4 (510) 631-0904 (614) 545-6796
Quotes of the Week:
"He who lives far from neighbors may safely praise himself."
- Erasmus (1466-1536)
"On maths tests, I don't think they should have 'answers' - they should have
'impressions.' If we get a different 'impression' than the teacher, so what?
Can't we all be brothers?"
- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey, SNL
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
How much Keeffe is in this movie?
--- Joel
Miles O'Keeffe!
---Tom, "Cave Dwellers"
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mfkeady (Margaret F. Keady):
"The Word Himself cries out for you to return, and with Him
there is a place of quiet that can never be disturbed, where
your love cannot be forsaken, if itself does not forsake that
place."
--St. Augustine
Confessions (IV, 11)
My summer address (after Friday, June 5):
Oakwood Apartments
700 Saratoga Avenue
San Jose, CA 95129
Feel free to send me email, hopefully I will be able to forward it to
my summer job... Have a terrific vacation!!! :-)
A final thought amid academic stress: Remember, it's only school........
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nightowl (Lady Without A Destiny):
MMichaela Ursin
New adress coming up as of may 23: 231 Prospect St. (still in Cambridge)
phone number: 864-6361
"Standing alone in a dream
Where nothing is real
But oh how real it feels
There were times I lost my way
I was alone, lost in a haze
Where are you now
I'll find you somehow
...
Sometimes you got to believe
Beyond yesterday
I'm gonna find my way
In the summer's rain"
--Savatage "Summer's Rain"
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pattilee (Patricia Lee):
That which is worth dying is worth living for...
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rtwhitma (Randall T Whitman):
Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Chapter camp: 5/22-5/29.
Going back to CAli: 5/31.
Returning here: 6/14.
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shabby (Chris Shabsin):
{From system: This user's .plan file is not world readable}
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
I MAY BE STUPID, BUT I AIN'T LOST
In Dwarfstar's Barbarian Prince, a player can remain lost for weeks
in farmland. Presumably, either the Prince is too proud to ask
directions from the locals, or they are incapable of providing any.
from Murphy's Rules
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therese (Therese):
Beethoven's gone but his music lives on
and Mozart don't go shopping no more.
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again
and Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schubert and Chopin used to chuckle and
love whiles composing their long symphony.
But one hundred and fifty years later
there's very little of them left to see.
The decomposing composers.
There's nothing much anyone can do.
You can still hear Beethoven
but Beethoven cannot hear you.
H{ndel and Haydn and Rachmaninov
enjoyed a nice drink with their meal.
But nowadays no one will serve them
and their grave it is left to conceal.
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
with their highly original sound.
The pianos like Pleyel does still working
but thereabout six feet under ground.
The decomposing composers.
There's less of them every year.
You can say what you like to Debussy
but there's not much of him left to hear.
Claude Achille Debussy. Died 1918.
Christoph Willibald Gluck. Died 1787.
Carl Maria von Weber. Not at all well 1825. Died 1826.
Giacomo Meyerbeer. Still alive 1863. Not still alive 1864.
Modest Musorgski. 1880 going to parties. No fun any more 1881.
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
Date: Tue, 12 May 92 12:57:56 PDT
From: Randy Lindsey <lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com>
Subject: Spelling checker advocates massive drug abuse
It is not uncommon in large companies to require an annual "payout", in which
each employee picks up their paycheck in person, displaying ID. I think this
is to guard against payroll padding.
At the facility where I'm doing a project, all 1,500 employees received a memo
ordering them to report to the cafeteria for their annual "peyote". Peyote
appeared several times in the memo, and even in the title line! Eventually
one of my colleagues ran "payout" through the spelling checker, and sure
enough it suggested "peyote" as the alternative.
Perhaps the spelling checker writers are junior staff with closer ties to their
college counter-cultural days than to corporate terminology...
Randy Lindsey
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