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alloy-digest           Friday, July 3 1998           Volume 03 : Number 174



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: Alloy: keyboards..?                                    [RThurF@aol.com]
  Alloy: How do i unsubscribe?  [Candace Roberts <icehouse@worldnet.att.net>]
  Re: Alloy: Spiders in California            [Lazlo Nibble <lazlo@swcp.com>]

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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 07:25:54 EDT
From: RThurF@aol.com
Subject: Re: Alloy: keyboards..?

In a message dated 7/2/98 12:46:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dalexander@juno.com writes:

<< So far I've managed to stay problem free, except for the ol' carpal
 tunnel that acts up after a few hours of Tetris at work.  Yes, Robin, you
 might want to look at that last line a little closer.  I'm a keyboardist
 (computer) and I am also a keyboardist (piano).  Of course, diet has
 something to do with it as well.  But I'm getting carried away on
 something nobody probably cares abo<snip>... >>

Come back here! What's wrong? Lay your head on Robin's nice warm comfy
shoulder & tell her all about it. Here, have a cookie :) Now what were you
saying?
Robin T

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Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:17:46 -0400
From: Candace Roberts <icehouse@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Alloy: How do i unsubscribe?

does anyone know how to unsubscribe temporarily?

thanks
gordon

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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 09:56:37 -0600
From: Lazlo Nibble <lazlo@swcp.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: Spiders in California

On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 07:05:11PM -0400, RThurF@aol.com wrote:

> This brings up a subject I've been wondering about. A friend of mine once
> told me about this thing called an 'earth baby' which is supposedly some
> kind of very large, spider-like thing that lives in the ground. The
> friend's aunt's house was being renovated & one day they saw this thing
> standing in the middle of the kitchen floor. It was the size of a
> tarantula but looked 'flesh-like' and even seemed to have a
> human-looking face of sorts. The workers told them it had come out of
> the ground, that it was an earth baby & was harmless. Then my friend's
> aunt tried to sweep it out the door with her broom, and it jumped about
> three feet straight up, at which point my friend & her aunt ran
> screaming out of the house. Does this thing really exist? What is it
> really?

Sounds like a vinegaroon.  They're related to scorpions but don't sting --
they just squirt vinegary stuff at you.  I saw a cat catch and eat one once,
and for the next two hours he had a look on his face like someone had made him
eat a big sour lemon. :-)

Like the guys said, they're harmless, but I have to admit they're pretty
intimidating looking.  Check out <http://www.zianet.com/snm/roons.htm>...

- -- 
::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)
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