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Maybe it would be better if they made love not war. But what would it do to our guys? And how would it help us catch bin Laden?
Incidentally, there seem to be unwelcome changes in way Board works. When it works. Real flaky today.
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Doesn't sound like it needs Viagra
Edited a minute or so later: Sorry, Geoff, I didn't read the post above correctly. Tried to delete this and was refused permission.
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I remember having been haunted by a description of a maelstrom in a short story possibly by Edgar Allen Poe, but my memory is very vague on this point of authorships.
In the story, a boat is pulled down into a maelstrom off the coast of a Scandanavian country, I believe.
Anyway, are the winds partly responsible for this phenomenon?
We've listed lots of winds, but have we mentioned cyclones, twisters, tornadoes, and other general windstrosities other than the hurricane? (Hmmmm, I wonder what a cane has to do with a hurricane? And does the hurri have anythin' to do with hurry? Actually, having witnessed many an ADHD actor back stage looking for a prop, I can imagine the panic over needing a cane for an upcoming chorus number and being in a hurry to find the cane...)
Best regards from
Poor Wordwind whose computer crashed this morning...This one's a slow one I'm on that the retailer loaned me till mine's fixed...I repeat: Always back up everything with floppies; always back up everything with floppies; I didn't...)
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Dear WW: the maelstrom is not something WhirlingWinds do not create. Here is a URL about it. Not very long. http://www.ub.uit.no/northernlights/eng/maelstrom.htmCommiseration on computer collapse. But backing stuff up on floppies is I think obsolete. If I had much stuff I wanted to back up, I would get something that could hold a hundred megabytes. Can't even remember name of thing.Here is a mile long URL about the gadgets: httphttp://windows.berkeley.edu/hardware/pcstorage.html://windows.berkeley.edu/hardware/pcstorage.html
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Oh, many thanks, wwh, for the link to the maelstroms, the "ocean's navel." There was mention of the Poe story I had remembered, "Descent into the Maelstrom."
On my crashed computer: The worst part are all of the things I had copied and pasted, terrific pictures and bits of text, and hundreds of rare words I enjoyed studying. I will mend my ways.
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WW-- i didn't follow dr. bill's link, but he is right about floppies.. CD burners have been come so reasonable, and blank cd's can be found for about $0.25-- more expensive than a single floppie, but since they replace so many! the are really cheaper.
but just incase.. open your Word processor.
In WP look in Tools-- Settings--> files and set your default file folder for WP doct, and set a default back up to A:/ and then make it a habit to keep a floppy in the drive..
in Word, Tools, options--> file locations.. you can also set up an autoback up to A:/
then you don't have to remeber-- every time you do a save/ the program will try to save to A:/ and remind you to install a blank disk..
if you get a CD burner, leave that as your backup..
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I went back and read some old threads and came across the regrettably short one y'all had discussed about Tod Sloan. That sent me looking online for tod, and then to toddy, and toddy to arrack, then to rack, and under rack I found something else blown by the wind, so I thought it might find a nice comfy place here:
[what else?]RACK, n. [See Reek.]
Properly, vapor; hence, thin flying broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
The winds in the upper region, which move the clouds above, which we call the rack
Sorry--I couldn't post the link because it appeared to take up too much room...
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RACK, n. [See Reek.]
Properly, vapor; hence, thin flying broken cloudsAh--not likely that rack could cause ruin, then... 
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