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by: Johnr Roberts - Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:36 UTC

On Monday, April 27, 1998 at 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Maggie Newman wrote:
> In article <6i29i7$d...@panix.com>, Andrew Welsh <and...@panix.com> wrote:
> >
> >I feel obliged to point out here that I am led to believe (in part by a
> >story in yesterday's NY Times - which can be found by searching the nytimes.com
> >site with the string "houston dwarf council") that the appropriate term for
> >persons of this nature is "Dwarf".
> >
> They are two separate things. A midget is perfectly proportioned, but
> small. A dwarf has a large trunk but very short arms and legs. There
> are certain cranial anomalies associated with dwarfs, too, I believe.
> Also their fingers are shaped smaller. I believe that all these people
> now prefer the sobriquet "little people."
> Maggie "no reason to live" Newman <-- no relation

I agree 100%. This is what I was taught growing up, and I would feel obliged to angrily correct someone who called me a dwarf, as I am in absolute proportion, just shrunk in the wash - like the pocket-sized MG Midget sports car.

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by: Tim McDaniel - Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:36 UTC

In article <6ea7a48a-1a4f-4865-aa29-8284e4292ad5n@googlegroups.com>,
Johnr Roberts <johnr_roberts@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On Monday, April 27, 1998 at 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Maggie Newman wrote:
....
>I agree 100%.

Almost 25 years -- wow!

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by: danny burstein - Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:38 UTC

In <ttgjc9$3kg$3@reader2.panix.com> tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) writes:

>In article <6ea7a48a-1a4f-4865-aa29-8284e4292ad5n@googlegroups.com>,
>Johnr Roberts <johnr_roberts@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>On Monday, April 27, 1998 at 5:00:00 PM UTC+10, Maggie Newman wrote:
>...
>>I agree 100%.

>Almost 25 years -- wow!

Just an amateur compared with Ed Rice

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interests / alt.folklore.urban / Re: Midget-Town in Vienna, Va.

Subject	Author
Re: Midget-Town in Vienna, Va.	Johnr Roberts
Re: Midget-Town in Vienna, Va.	Tim McDaniel
Re: Midget-Town in Vienna, Va.	danny burstein