From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V1 #314 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Wednesday, December 16 1998 Volume 01 : Number 314 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V1 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: latin is dead but i'm still takin it [CLEARVVATR@aol.com] ET: aww thanks! [CLEARVVATR@aol.com] [none] [mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four)] ET: poems, prose, pointless prittle ;) [Naomi Vaughn ] ET: Re: ["Seth D. Fulmer" ] ET: The Chicken mystery [mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 02:44:23 EST From: CLEARVVATR@aol.com Subject: ET: latin is dead but i'm still takin it In a message dated 98-12-15 00:03:47 EST, you write: << This is a short little poem that I wrote. It's half in Latin and English. It's translated below. The word "promitabas" means "you promised" as does "spondeabas" >> the only thing that i know how to write in latin is "agricola est puella." translation: the farmer is a girl. i'm in my second year of latin and the only thing i know how to write is that! but i am gettin along...i'm kind of gettin how to say the farmer is a boy... "agricola est puer"...? eh, who cares. it's just a second language i'm never gonna use! jen thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 02:49:09 EST From: CLEARVVATR@aol.com Subject: ET: aww thanks! awww...thanks for all the tips on how to go from digest to loose mail! gee wiz ya guys, your support is just so overwhelming...no joke! i'm now a part of the loose community! jen thank you. i think i'm on drugs. i've been sending an overwhelming amount of mail to everyone and anyone lately. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:50:56 -0500 From: mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four) Subject: [none] Hey Seth, Thanks for the info on "tu" I wasn't sure about it and I didn't want to ask my Latin teacher. To say " I love you" is it "tu amo" or "te amo" Hey Jen, you will use Latin more in your life than you realize now. You've probably heard that a hundred times but it's true. I've only taken one year of Latin even though I'm in my second year of high school and I learned so much it even helped when I took my PSAT's. You'll be surprised at how much more latin you know than you think you know. Take my word on it. Hey Kat, great poems as usual. I like "Mr. Perfection" the best. Keep the creative juices flowin' ! <3 always ~Mandabear~ Somewhere down the road there'll be answers to the questions. Somewhere down the road though we cannot see it now. Somewhere down the road you'll find mighty arms reaching for you. And they will hold the answers at the end of the road. -Amy Grant- ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:58:38 -0600 From: Naomi Vaughn Subject: ET: poems, prose, pointless prittle ;) hey angels ~ here’s some recent poems. alot of them are just practice thoughts of sorts from the book i’m reading. so...there ya go. I haven’t yet decided which i’ll be sending...so...it may be 2...it may be 10. ;) so, anyway...hope you all are well...and looking forward to christmas. i’m in a surprisingly good mood, all things considered...but, anyway...you nice people don’t want to hear about that. hehehe..hmm? oh yeah...the poems...sorry...forgot. hehehe...gotta love that delete button. ;) okay, here ya are. enjoy. comments and all that related 'stuff' is mucho appreciated. chao, adieu, see ya, farewell, g’bye... love always ‘n eva, Naomi the unknown "okie" angel - -- ((wrote then when I was sick...and thinking less then...clearly...)) I see only through green eyes looking through at everyone else a blurry haze my perception fogged my mind clouded 4:46pm/27nov98 - -- ((I was basically asleep when I wrote this...so... ;)) in/out falling in falling out out of me out of you into dreams broken, found into arms out of heart so quick to come then it’s gone don’t hold too tight you may not realize it’s gone so hold strong but loose and sure but meek falling out out of me falling in into you 12:35am/8dec98 - -- bring me thick white cloud fastened on the end of a thorny wand soft petals of sweet aroma; bring me love. - - golden glitter paper tendrel torn from the wrappings of special givings holding dreams within it’s winding ring; bring me faith. - - shread of thought clutched between the pages of endless knowlegde and flow of word; bring me, your wisdom. 1:46am/12dec98 - -- ((maybe a little strange...but, oh well...)) green wisdom great tree, canst thou tell me of the people walking under the o’erhang of thy thick branches? does't thou hear the whispers of their souls? oh, tall, green holder of wisdom... will'st thou share thy knowledge? 1:57am/12dec98 - -- connect I clutched the jagged rock in the tender of my palm gripped tighter and tighter till it tasted thick wine of blood merging my life with it’s depthless strength. 12dec98 - -- rose bitter thorn, so hungry for red sweetness guised by soft rose, pleasing to the senses as thin fingers pluck the flower and thou leapest inside the skin. 12dec98 - -- missing inside there’s a being. it creaks and moans, it calls out in silent tongue searching for it’s ear, it’s voice, the other piece, of itself; it’s completion. 12dec98 - -- daisy and I unwrap the daisy. soft, thin petals, plucked from yellow bed of life, falling from my fingertips, down, down, down, back to the earth. 2:16am/12dec98 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:18:50 EST From: CLEARVVATR@aol.com Subject: ET: Re: (no subject) << You'll be surprised at how much more latin you know than you think you know. Take my word on it. >> yeah but not if you're like me and dont study one bit! the only thing that i've learned is convoco which is call together. i just depend on my incredible, amazing memory to save my ass on tests. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 20:13:15 -0500 From: mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four) Subject: [none] Tell me what you think. ~Untitled~ Sometimes life doesn’t go as we plan, Sometimes your a player, sometimes your a fan. You sit and watch as the people rush by, Never knowing if you’re part of their lie. Their cover seems so real and yet it’s not, They run their emotions so cold and so hot. Hardly ever is there an in between, Everything is so rough, so jagged, so keen. Rollercoasters of emotions rip through the days, You can’t hardly wait to exit the maze. The end is closer, yes, it’s really near, Why is it then, do you still possess fear? Do you know the dangers that lie ahead? Can you believe all that they’ve said? The trek of the coaster is that steep incline, Everything is going okay- everything’s fine. You can’t see what’s on the other side, You must trust yourself to humbly abide, By the rules and regulations of this game, And you must realize it will never be the same. (12/15/98) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:24:08 -0500 From: "Kevin Pease" Subject: ET: Re: Re: (no subject) >> Jen writes: >yeah but not if you're like me and don't study one bit! the only thing that >I've learned is convoco which is call together. I just depend on my >incredible, amazing memory to save my ass on tests. Don't sell the old memory too short. In my experience, when it comes to languages, like 75% of it is just remembering enough of the vocabulary to be able to form a coherent sentence. As a victim - er, student - of (at one point or another) French, Latin, and German, that was generally where I had the most problems. I knew what I wanted to say, but I didn't know the proper words or verbs to say it with... Latin is especially helpful if you ever take lots of Bio (or some other science) in the future... take an anatomy & physiology course, and I guarantee the names of the muscles will make a heck of a lot more sense to you... when you start hearing about adductors (rough meaning: "to carry towards"... a muscle that causes motion of something towards the midline of the body) and abductors (rough meaning: "to carry away"... a muscle that causes motion of something away from the midline of the body)... and supination and pronation and all that stuff, a little Latin background makes them seem a little more sensible. Just knowing some of the words, and having some idea of what they mean, can help in a big way. I took one year of Latin in high school... and now I couldn't form a proper Latin sentence if you paid me. But the Latin course (while not *essential*) did help me understand some of the words that I later went on to hear in my college Biotech courses... for instance... you know what the Latin word "convoco" means. I bet you can make a pretty good guess as to what the English word 'convocation' means, even if you've never heard of it before. Kevin - ---------- Kevin Pease kbpease@boston.crosswinds.net ICQ UIN: 3106063 AOL IM: kbpease http://www.crosswinds.net/boston/~kbpease/ "There oughta be a bridge somewhere they could dedicate to me / I'd probably come to the ceremony with a can of gasoline / then walk on over to the other side, and there I'd light a match / and sit and stare through the smoke & flames wondering how I'm gonna get back." ---(Chris Knight, "It Ain't Easy Being Me")--- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:33:27 -0500 From: "Seth D. Fulmer" Subject: ET: Re: At 08:13 PM 12/15/98 -0500, Mandabear four wrote: >Tell me what you think. Um...in 1 word in English...it can't be said quite acurately but if Latin is used..Magnissimus comes to mind...This describes my life to a 'T' but then right now I'm entering the depression dip in my emotional curve(I've found if I plot an emotion vs. time graph..it looks like a simple trigonometric function(sin, cos))...Catch me when I'm fully happy(and I'm not faking it like I am now to most people), and I will have faith in life and reality :) Well..talk to y'alls later :) Take care and Have a Great Day! :o) Seth Fulmer mailto:usfulmer@mcs.drexel.edu mailto:st96t879@post.drexel.edu mailto:kaosking@voicenet.com webpages: http://www.voicenet.com/~kaosking Cool Quotes and stuff :) "We've made houses for hatred; It's time we make a place where People's souls may be seen and made safe" - -Jewel "Innocence Maintained" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:06:29 -0500 From: mandabear4@juno.com (Mandabear four) Subject: ET: The Chicken mystery << <<< WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?????? Pat Buchanan: To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American. The Bible: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing" Colonel Sanders: I missed one? L.A. Police Department: Give us five minutes with the chicken and we'll find out. Bill Clinton: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road. I don't know any chickens. I have never known any chickens. Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told! Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question. Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough for us. Aristotle: It is the nature of chickens to cross the road. Karl Marx: It was an historical inevitability. Saddam Hussein This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it. Ronald Reagan: What chicken? Captain James T. Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before. Fox Mulder: (anyone know who this person is?) You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it? Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was. Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity. Bill Gates: (This is the one that made me laugh out loud) I have just released Chicken Coop 98, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook- and Explorer is an inextricable part of the operating system. Einstein: Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken? Bill Clinton: I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. However, I did ask Vernon Jordan to find the chicken a job in New York. - --------- End forwarded message ---------- ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V1 #314 **********************************