[LMB] [SPAM?] Re: List Love

[Mark Mandel]

And this email came to me flagged as spam as well, possibly because of lots
of quoting.
I will insert some assorted text at bottom to fix proportion of quoting.

m a m

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Paula Lieberman <paal at gis.net> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Mathews" <mathews55 at msn.com>
>
>
> >
> > My email program buts my posting at the top of everything. It will not
> let
> > me cut and paste until I have actually typed something in it, so I can't
> > start it at the bottom. It won't even let me clip what others have
> written
> > until I've typed something in my own post. So - my best bet is to not
> post
> > at all, and my second best is to post and them cut everything I'm
> replying
> > to.
> >
> Something about your emails causes the spam checker on the ISP I use to
> put
> [SPAM?] at the top of almost anything you post to the list that comes to
> me!
>
> Here's a copy of what the spamchecker notices in the ""Message source"
> view:
>
> X-Spam-Flag: YES
> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-gis (2005-09-13) on
>  spamassassin.gis.net
> X-Spam-Level: ****
> X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=4.5 required=4.5 reject=8.5
>  tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,REPTO_QUOTE_MSN,SPF_HELO_PASS
>  version=3.1.0-gis
> X-Spam-Report:
>  * -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record
>  *  1.8 RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM RBL: SORBS: sender is a spam source
>  *      [65.55.175.211 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net]
>  *  2.8 REPTO_QUOTE_MSN MSN doesn't do quoting like this
>
> > Pat, frustrated with Qwestmail but having had enough trouble with
> > switching and/or being switched between that and hotmail and msn, none
> of
> > which was my doing.
> >
> > http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/
> >
>
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Twenty Questions
Mark A. Mandel Copr. 2005
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Who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?
Who won the crown of Peven of Aum?
Who fears the devil, says Jane unto Jim?
And who put the L. in L. Frank Baum?

What's the use of wearing braces?
What cures the wound of a manticore?
What are Whatsit, Who, and Which?
And what was the work of the witch of Endor?

Where have you been, Billy boy,  Billy boy?
And where is the Queen, O and where is her throne?
Where now is the horse and the horn and the rider?
And where have you been, Lord Randall, my son?

Why did the chicken cross the road?
Why is a raven like a writing-desk?
Why is this different from all other nights?
And why did the Wizards come out of the West?

How many roads must a man walk down?
How many miles to Babylon?
How many of them can we make die?
How many will return and one go alone?

=====

        ANSWERS

        WHO?
•  (No answer). "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)", words and music
Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin, performed by Barry Mann. (thanks to Jeff Urs)
•  Morgon of Hed. _The Riddle-Master Of Hed_, Patricia A. McKillip
•  "Not I, not I, says John all alone." Trad. song(?). Used in epigraph of
_Who Fears The Devil_, Manly Wade Wellman [1st collection of Silver John
stories]. // Arthur T writes on rmf: My Googling doesn't show any
non-Wellman hits.
•  The author of _ The Wizard Of Oz_ was named for his uncle Lyman.

        WHAT?
•  (No answer; rhetorical), "Woad", anon. song.
•  Nothing; there is no cure. _The Books Of Magic_,
•  Dotty old ladies; good witches; angels. _A Wrinkle In Time_, Madeleine
L'Engle. -- // Kate Gladstone writes on rmf: Eccentric female spirits (later
revealed as the ghosts of stars that died fighting Satan)
•  Calling up the spirits of the dead. Bible, I Samuel 28.

        WHERE?
•  "I have been to seek a wife, she's the joy of my life." Trad. ballad.
•  "Down in the stone O, but not in the stone." _The Perilous Gard_,
Elizabeth Marie Pope.
•  "They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow."
_The Lord of the Rings_, J.R.R.Tolkien, Bk. III, Ch. 6, "The King of the
Golden Hall". Q: "Where now is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn
that was blowing?"
•  "I've been with my sweetheart, Mother."  Trad. ballad.

        WHY?
•  "To get to the other side." Trad. riddle.
•  (No answer). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll. One
proposed answer is: Because the notes for which they are noted are not
musical notes. [IIRC, I read that in Martin Gardner's _The Annotated
Alice_.]
•  Four answers, called the Four Questions -- go figure:
 - "On all other nights, we eat either leavened bread or matzah; on this
night-- only matzah.
 - "On all other nights, we eat all kinds of herbs; on this night we
especially eat bitter herbs.
 - "On all other nights, we do not dip herbs at all; on this night we dip
them twice.
 - "On all other nights we eat in an ordinary manner; tonight we dine with
special ceremony."
The Passover Seder, trad. Translation from _The Passover Haggadah_ of the
Central Conference of American Rabbis, revised edition 1982.
•  To contest the will of Sauron. _The Lord of the Rings_, J.R.R.Tolkien,
App. B, "The Third Age".

        HOW MANY?
•  (No answer). Blowing in the Wind, Bob Dylan
•  "Threescore miles and ten." Trad. rhyme; used in _Deep Secret_, Diana
Wynne Jones; filk "???" by Lee Gold
•  (No answer). March of Cambreadth, Heather Alexander
•  Five. _The Dark Is Rising_ sequence, Susan Cooper; filk The Dark Is
Rising by Julia Ecklar

-- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname
   http://filk.cracksandshards.com