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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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (27 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 (...) (27 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 (27 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 (...) (27 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. (27 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! ;-) (...) (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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) (27 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 (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 24-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 (27 years ago, 24-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::) (27 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 (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Dear Shiri and Sheeree, are both of you sure about you are typing your names correctly?..:-) Selçuk (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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