End of ADS-L Digest - 15 Nov 1995 to 16 Nov 1995

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There are 17 messages totalling 453 lines in this issue.



Topics of the day:



 1. Fw: HUMOR: Thought for Wednesday, Nov 15, 1995 (fwd) (2)

 2. Don Nelson puts behind

 3. Fixinto

 4. POETS day (8)

 5. Ruby Tuesdays (4)

 6. Bounced Mail



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Date:  Fri, 17 Nov 1995 08:10:56 -0500

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: Fw: HUMOR: Thought for Wednesday, Nov 15, 1995 (fwd)



>Great story! Did the E A Newsletter present it as a joke or as a

>real experience?

>> >

>> >        At a lecture on linguistics, the speaker suggested

>> >    that in English there wasn't the opposite of a double

>> >    negative, whereby two affirmatives resulted in a negative.

>> >    Someone from the audience called out "Yeah, right!" which

>> >    brought down the house.

>> >

>> >    -quoted in the Electronic AIR Newsletter

>> >

>> >

>>

>> Wayne Glowka

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>

>

>Tom Uharriet

>utom[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]admn.712.nebo.edu



I don't know the context. I was passed the message by a librarian who got

it off one of the lists she subscribes to.



Wayne Glowka