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To: Gauguin who wrote (16456)	1/12/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: jpmac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

>>The grass must be greener on the other side<< Universal picture words that invoke... You're standing, looking about, the ground barren and parched, deep seams running where it's cracked, scraggly weeds and a few wilting stalks of corn.. you look yonder way and see... a lush meadow, dark rich-green grass, knee-high, moisture glistens from its sharp tips, it waves softly and the ground slopes gently down to a pond... but you know, you being you, that if you scaled that wicked looking four-strand barbedwire fence that the picture would flip-flop.

To: Gauguin who wrote (16456)	1/12/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 71178

That's - - interesting. Do you always think in words? I usually only think in words when I am talking or writing, or thinking about something I want to verbalize. Of course, I talk to myself a lot, so I do mentally verbalize a lot, but a lot of the time not. I have a non-verbal mental twin, she is a lot smarter than I am, but we can only communicate when I am half-asleep, usually when I am waking up. Last night I was having a hard time sleeping, and she and I were exchanging non-verbal mental jokes and laughing at each other. "Idjit!" I think she takes over when I am in really bad situations, too, like about to have a wreck, or the time I pulled the space heater away from the wall and broke the gas pipe, or the times I was attacked. I get this - - clear - - feeling, like the world is in slow motion, and I have extra time to react.

To: Gauguin who wrote (16456)	1/12/1999 6:35:00 PM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Sorry but, the guiding fathers of the University of California are way ahead of you. In their infinite wisdom they have placed a Maritime Environment Observation Facility on the shores of Cook's Bay, about an hour's turbo-prop hop from Bora on Moorea. And I suppose the Regents probably make personal visitations at great personal deprivation every winter just to insure that work is progressing satisfactorily.

To: Gauguin who wrote (16456)	1/14/1999 12:15:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

(although he'll deny it because he lies like a kaftan) taht's DRAPES. A caftan DRAPES. Off the paunch&lustlumps. >Me, I wonder if I need to change languages.< Well, yeah, if it's COBOL now. Cuz in less than a year you'll be - uhm, I forget. Something. Important. <pfffffff...> Our local microbrewery has a sign proudly proclaiming that <local software consultant> has certified their beer as Y2K compliant. Good, I say. Imagine losing your ENTIRE buzz at the stroke of midnight, 1/1/00.