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Normally I don't play the Devil's advocate, but what the heck: (URL) I heard how much fun my Israeli friends had over Purim break I felt like I missed out on Purim this year so I decided to snag my sister's haloween costume... ;-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) heh, I haven't wore a costume for purim since grade school... ;) and btw, isn't the devil a non-jewish thingum? ;) Dan (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Yah, I realized that after I uploaded... my host site has been way too annoying lately so I was thankful it even loaded it at all... I'm not gonna mess with it now ;-) (...) Well, I called my friend to say happy b-day and found all my friends (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) enlighten me a bit on purim... seems enough like my favorite holiday, halloween for me to like it. i love the pics! you're a red devil! ; how can i not!? ;-) later ~ craig~ (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) It is! It's one of my favorite (jewish) holidays (1) and it has a lot in common with Halloween. There IS a story behind it but I have no time to tell it now; I'll just tell you what we do: a. dress up; b. make "haman's ears", cool and weird (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) that would be hamentashen, or however you would pronounce it. (interesting story my father recently told me: hamentashen have absolutely nothing to do with haman! the h was added later, and it was originaly said- ammentashen, which, in german, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrurKG.JqB@lugnet.com... (...) like (...) Hi Shiri I wish you could have come with me and my husband and younger daughter Mon. pm to hear the Megillah. It was a wild time. There's the Esther (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, it *will* work in NNTP posts -- provided that your newsreader sets the message headers appropriately[1] when you post, and that other peoples' newsreaders interpret these headers similarly when they display them. It just won't (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people)
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Dear Shiri and Sheeree, are both of you sure about you are typing your names correctly?..:-) Selçuk (...) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I hope so... People misspell my name often enough, I wouldn't want to do it to myself ;-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for sharing, Shiri! Gee, I hate to say what I was doing for Purim -- but let's just say I celebrated in my own manner and leave it at that. -- Richard (Never a moment to recover myself...or my failing health... ::cough, cough::) (24 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) for what it's worth, "Shiri" is how I'd spell your name. I never saw a "Sheeree" before - what's the source of that? :) Dan (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Well, you're originally Israeli so it doesn't count... we all spell phonetically, while them USians tend to complicate everything... :-) (...) I dunno, but when I first realized people mispronounce/misspell my name, (at age four ;) my older (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote in message news:38DAB195.7540B3...own.edu... (...) it (...) hi Sheree is just the name of a movie star my mom liked many ... years ago, Sheree North. (If you think I'm going to tell you how many years I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sorry for being Blur(singlish phrase!!!) but what is purim-Jewish holoween???? Ravi (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey Ravi, Yep, it's a jewish holiday, similar to halloween. I explained it all here: (URL) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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ravi <helixwolf2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrwnvH.GwE@lugnet.com... (...) felt (...) haloween (...) Mon. (...) and (...) costumes. (...) Purim (...) fun (...) Reminds (...) holoween???? (...) It does have that aspect to it with the (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Hi Sheree, Sounds like you had a great Purim! I feel like sharing a bit of Israeli Purim tradition with you... so I'll tell a bit of my side of Purim. (...) Yep, niece. [...] (...) Don't forgot chocolate and peanut butter! (icky, sticky! ;-) (...) (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) If it makes you feel any better, so did I. I remember my friends all wanted cars for high school graduation, but I just had to have one of the first HP calculators. (Yikes! I guess I really must have been a geek.) : ) Maggie C. (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There is another Shiri (or Sheree) around..:-) She is Sheree Rosenkatz, look at this: (URL) thinking both of them having the same nationality, I thought that they should had the same name also, but just interpreted differently when (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) holoween???? (...) Ravi Ps:Great -another NG to Read PPS DEJA VUE I HAVE SAID THE ABOVE BEFORE (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ya well...I used one to finish grade 13 with...and I'm NOT old :). I did it for the sillyness of not having a decent calculator...got quite good at using it, but it fades fast. (I had a +-/* calculator, and the slide rule, and a book of (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) because (...) it (...) By the Way What is a slide rule??? Ravi (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Hey, no problem! Any time! (...) Hmm... my easy solution is to read lugnet via the web. That way you can follow the most recent threads if you have enough time... or just follow any group you like individually. You can also easily find threads (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Slide rule... Hmm... How can I explain?.. I saw one when I was in middle school but never used one (There were Casio 3600Ps when I was a high school student, and Casio 5000s during university) It's kind of a computing tool for logarithms and (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I had a Casio 3600p during high school and a Casio 5000 during university and was very happy with the latter especially. It was a very efficient engineering student tool, AFAIK. It has built in matrix math capability up to 5x5 (including (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Maggie Cambron <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:38DAF681.9F9442...ell.net... (...) wanted (...) HP (...) Hi Maggie I don't mind being "old" :-) . I mind the teflon coating my brain seems to have developed in some instances when I am (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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ravi <helixwolf2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrxC2L.H87@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) using (...) and (...) A sliderule is an instrument used for calculations/operations including multiplication, division, extraction of square roots as (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Shiri Dori <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrwrCw.7H2@lugnet.com... (...) Purim (...) I have been know to make some filled with chocolate chips, others with pecan pie filling and still others with marzipan/almond paste and slivered (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Here's a web page with tons of old HP calculators: (URL) used one of the early desktop models at my dad's work. I also used the original Wang calculator at his work. Fun stuff. I've got an HP 25C at home which I picked several years ago at a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Depends on what you mean by 'devil'. Do you mean the guy in a red suit with horns and a pointy tail, carrying a trident? Yeah, that probably is non- Jewish. Non-Christian, too, although it's a bit of mythology made up *by* Christians (I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Wow. This is a holiday I've never heard of. I read a lot, but I have never come across this. Thank you all for teaching me something today. (I'm serious.) I'm Lutheran and from Texas, and as much as I read, I've never heard of this. I hope you all (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) i do use the web Shiri but i tend 2 read by NG In Batches Of 20 ib reversese Chronological order Ravi (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Gee - in the last year or so I threw out my HP 9830A because something fell on the keyboard and broke a few key caps off beyond repair... brought tears to my eyes to find it broken from an avalance in storage... I had the plotter and the wide (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Wow, interesting site! As it turns out my calculator wasn't one of the earliest after all but a second generation (now I don't feel so old!). But what really surprises me is that the one I use now (HP 15C) has been discontinued for over ten (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's what we used them for-- mainly logarithms as I recall (and I don't recall much!). Maggie (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Maggie Cambron wrote in message (...) recall (...) You can also do multiplication and division (and addition and subtraction I think - don't remember what all scales are on the rule). Also roots and powers (in fact most calculators perform roots (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I use one of those (48G). Once you've used Reverse Polish Notation, you can't ever go back... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <20000326.125628.509...no.com>... (...) So true, though these days I mostly use a non-RPN calculator. I keep watching for a modestly priced RPN calculator, but it just doesn't seem like it will ever happen (HP's (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Not only that, but your remedial math students are a lot less likely to try to borrow your calculator when they forget to bring theirs to class! : ) Maggie C. (24 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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