End of ADS-L Digest - 4 Apr 1995 to 5 Apr 1995

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There are 23 messages totalling 551 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. with a name like ADS-L, it had better be interesting

 2. needs + washed

 3. Harassment pron

 4. Sluggish Listserv

 5. Bounced Mail

 6. definition/variation request: Anglepoise lamps

 7. Harassment (3)

 8. "the royal I" ??????????? (3)

 9. P of W's English

 10. churros

 11. Ambrosia!

 12. names to nouns

 13. Ambrosia? (2)

 14. zinc (2)

 15. harassment

 16. Cigarette brands. Help, please!

 17. s'mores, smoores, semurs



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Date:  Wed, 5 Apr 1995 21:41:24 -0700

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: with a name like ADS-L, it had better be interesting



Death Cigarettes remind Larry Horn

> of the routine Monty Python used to

> have (or some other group--does anyone recall it?) that played off the old

> "With a name like Smuckers it HAS to be good", creating e.g. Vomit brand

> canned ham or Dead Cat brand aerosol . . .



SNL, I believe; I can hear Jane Curtin delivering the pitch.



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Jerry Miller's stepmother called a kitchen sink a "zinc".

Isn't that what Germans call the counter?



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Natalie Maynor asks,

> Is there also a converse for "namesake"? I've wondered about that before.



Converse? I've always thought of it as symmetric.



*\\* Anton                       Ubi scriptum?