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This came up a couple of years ago, and I think it'd be interesting to revisit it. I've subscribed to AWAD's E-mails for 6 or 7 years now; a friend sent me the link. I don't remember how she stumbled across it. And I met my current (and, I hope, last  ) husband on this very message board.
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My best friend sent me a gift subscription, but I didn't check out the bulletin board here until a year or two later. The bulletin board is kind of buried down below on the home page--and no special attention is given to it as being a great place for word hounds to meet and talk. That's a shame, really. However, it was a too happy day when I came across the bulletin board, and went, consequently, overboard in my posting enthusiasm, as you well know, AnnaS. 
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Ditto, more or less; and I have thanked my friend many a time! Anna--when you first laid eyes on him, did you say, "Wow--you look just like my last husband!"?
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"Wow--you look just like my last husband!"Ha! Who *did say that, anyway? Dorothy Parker?
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Smithsonian Magazine article
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My Dad bought himself a Reader's Digest book on using a PC, and one of the chapters featured an explanation of mailing lists, along with examples, including AWAD.
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my sister signed me up for the daily word, and from there, I found the board... glad I did.
formerly known as etaoin...
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Alex and I were cut from the same cloth.
Unless Alex was answering the "Who did say that, anyway" question...
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re:"Wow--you look just like my last husband!"?
a woman, (i forget her name) who was head of an advertizing agency (in the 1970'/1980/--right into the 1990 and maybe still!) and was also a columnist for the old McCall's magazine (which became Rosie!, and now is gone..) met a man a few years after she was widowed (with 2 young children, and building the ad agency up to be a big one, with a national rep) and told him, "you seem very much like my second husband."-- he asked how many times she had been married, and she said "once". (he later became her second husband)
--but someone else might have said, "Wow--you look just like my last husband!"-- but it sounds an awful lot like the first quip.
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i was hired a few years ago to help with a rollout of lotus notes..
one of the users was overwhelmed with mail, and needed help organizing it.. I saw AWAD in here mail box and we got to talking about it.. and she signed me up for a free subscription. i found awad talk very soon after..
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Same here, but I got the girl.
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Smithsonian for me too, but I already had a husband (first and probably last). 
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Smithsonian article.
I and my late husband were the parents of six children, with a gap of 8 yrs between fourth and fifth. I used to tell people the older ones were by his first wife, which was true, but usually got me odd looks or "but that one looks like you"!
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A few years ago my co-worker stumbled upon AWAD (maybe through dictionary.com?) and we started using the daily word around the office. I don't work there anymore but we still throw the words into e-mails sometimes.
At some point I googled AWAD and found this site.
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A reference in some periodical (can't remember, could have been New Scientist) led me to the AWAD e-mails, and from there quickly to AWADtalk.
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It was brought to my attention that somebody's posting in a thread here had mentioned me. Let's see, that was back in January.
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hope that preceding didn't defame you.
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I've known about it from the get-go, getting the emails from about 1995 or 1996. I just never bothered with it until 2000.
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Oh, I misread AWADtalk for AWAD. I've known about AWAD since ca. 1995, when I had my own word list (called Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey: Words, words, words) and somebody at work pointed out there was another word a day list, AWAD. UJG was never that popular outside of a small circle of friends who had email and almost never got distributed outside of work (Oracle). But some of these same friends would occasionally ask me when my UJG list would get resurrected, and that's why I finally started my blog under the same name. (And that's why some folks on AWADtalk who've known me from day one call me nuncle.)
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tsanks, tsuwm, for the memories.
oh, and YART this!
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tsanks, tsuwm, for the memories. Indeed. S-i-g-h...what an innocent I was, then.
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