HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: clump@cs.mcgill.ca (Clark VERBRUGGE)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Date: 26 Dec 92 23:04:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada

> /* acf5:alt.folklore.urban / twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) /  2:07 pm  De
c 16, 1992 */

> A friend of mine told me this story about trekkies.  It seems
...
> One day, my friend's friend noticed one of her sister's stories,
> and was curious about her sister's writing style.  When she
> read the story, she was shocked because it was pornographic.
> It turns out that there is a huge segment of the trekkie
> subculture that meets and shares stories where the characters
> from the old series are in egaged in much racier stories (the
> one that stuck in her mind was Kirk and Spock's homosexual
> relationship) than those commonly associated with the series.
> 
> Can anyone provide any further enlightenment on this point?
> Maybe 'Lost in Space' wasn't better after all
> 
> Terry "Tiberious" Chan

Funny, I attended a lecture about 3 years ago on just
this subject matter. The lecturer (C. Penley) showed
us a video someone had made consisting of clips of
Kirk & Spock staring longingly at each other, "romantic"
music (aka MOR) playing in the background. It was 
pretty amusing. Apparently this ("Slash") literature
is quite common. I think i still have a few of
the handouts from the lecture -- descriptions
of various Spock & Kirk stories, as well as drawings
of Kirk & Spock lazing around naked...
From: bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Federal Reserve Numbers (was: I Live to FAQ!)
Date: 26 Dec 92 19:47:05 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <BzoyvG.7wv@news.cso.uiuc.edu> msvg2539@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark V.) writes:
>UPDATE:
>
>          Boston, MA             1     A
>          New York, NY           2     B
>          Philadelphia, PA       3     C
>          Cleveland, OH          4     D
>          Richmond, VA           5     E
>          Atlanta, GA            6     F
>          Chicago, IL            7     G
>                                 8     H
>                                 9     I
           Kansas City, KS       10     J
>          Dallas, TX            11     K
>          San Francisco, CA     12     L
>
>Mark "Can't sleep until I know the HIJ cities" Veatch

Ben "Ooops, I left my econ notebook at school" Jackson

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From: jj@allegra.att.com (jj, curmudgeon and all-around grouch)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Dead Cat
Summary: Real, No UL
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:09:29 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

In article <1992Dec23.163153.13764@crd.ge.com> salantel@dssv01.crd.ge.com (E. L. Salant) writes:
>I heard this dead cat in the mall story years ago.  Only in the version

This isn't a dead cat story.  I used to live in miserable little town
in Ohio where they'd turned the local public golf course into a
shopping mall.  This happened.  I was there.  I owned the
garbage.  I watched it happen.  No kidding.

Sometimes there IS justice.

We were having a garbage strike in the summer.  It was sorta
intense.

We used to drive an old '66 Pontiac Catalina that could pass anything
but a gas station.  It had a broken back door lock, you couldn't
lock the passengers side back door.

I wanted to get rid of some particularly wretched garbage.  I had
a thought, "They've been having package thefts from the Mall"... Hmmm....

To make a long story short, I put it in some wrapping paper (yeah
it was summer, so what?) and left it on the back seat.  Somebody
stole it.  I watched them do it, as did a security person from the mall.
They went across the mall parking lot and opened it.  Then they
came to put it back!  They were arrested at that point for
theft.  The cops took the garbage.

Once in a while there IS some justice.
From: mbreen@sdacs.ucsd.edu (Michael Breen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Driving too slow, stopped by cops
Keywords: legend
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:28:01 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: sdacs.ucsd.edu

I played in a band many moons ago whose drummer was an extremely strange
person.  One of his many quirks was his inability to think and drive at
the same time, which resulted in a few tickets for driving too slow.
Apparently, they'd just think he's drunk, and were then unwilling to not give
him a ticket even when they find him sober.

Michael Breen
singing and philosophizing
(and having no problems driving fast enough)
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From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: A FAQ for the Holidays
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <28124@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:21:27 GMT

twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes in response
>  to comments on the FAQ by Joel Furrfu^H^H::
>  +
>  +> U. Lemurs love Twinkies and will do anything to get them.
>  +     Will they post to afu to get them?
>
>I give it a thought when I see a post from Nigel.

You may not have to wait too long.

T. JKFurr asked help on misc.misc in getting net access for nlemur@foo.bar.edu.

ObHolidayUL: Hall of fame running back John Riggins got drunk while
playing Santa at a White House xmas party and told a disgusted
Justice Sandra Day O'Conner "Chill out Sandy."

ObQuestion: Is xmas capitalised?

Jon "Lemurs roasting on an open fire" Papai
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 28 Dec 92 10:47:38 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

Not that it's important, but I've got this (fake) street sign in my
office:
	Life is a beach blvd

Parsing is context sensitive. Both ((life is a beach) blvd) and
(life is a (beach blvd)) will do. Most often the latter is used.

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YuHoHoo "life is a newsfeed"
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Sun,  3 Jan 1993 15:39:20 -0500 
From: "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: CD Legends


A couple more things to throw on the CD fire:

(let me know if this one has circulated) You can put them in the
microwave, and get neat "fractal-type" images to appear.  I've never
done it myself, but I know people who have.

My roommate and I both had CD players, the same CD, and stereos, so we
tried to synchronize them.  We succeeded, but it only lasted about one
song before you could really tell that they were different.  By the end
of the CD they were a good 3-4 seconds apart.  It seemed awful strange
to both of us.

From my tinkering around with CD's, I don't believe that there is any
way in hell you could play one backwords without defeating a major part
of the CD player, and even this might not work.  My thought has always
been that there is some data like "you're at word number 2098403298430"
every once in a while on the disk, allowing it to increment the timer,
know where it is, and aid in recovering from the fatal whack that they
recieve once in a while.  (i.e. skipping from vibration -- not
scratches) 

I've seen disks where the music timer is not right, nor consistent -- I
timed it against my stopwatch.  I'll look around for which disk, but
that was back when I had less than ten of them, now I have ten times
that. 

Steve


"I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed." -They Might
be Giants

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From: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte)
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Reply-To: bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:09:38 GMT

In article <28110@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) writes:
>
>  +	Some of the issues we have been discussing are:
>  +
>  +	- if you run through the rain, do you get wetter since 
>  +	  you will obviously get hit by more rain drops, or do you 
>  +	  stay drier since you will spend less time in the rain ??
>  +
>  +	- what effect does the rain have on this if the rain comes
>  +	  down consistently or when it varies ??
>
>Coincidentally or not, Cecil Adams wrote a response to a similar
>query.  There was a study mentioned in that fountain of wisdom,
>_Discover_ magazine several years ago which referred to a study
>by Alessandro DeAngelis of the University of Udine (Italy).  He
>considered a situation where a sprinter ran at 22.4 m.p.h. vs.
>a brisk stroller who walked at 6.7 m.p.h.  His conclusion was that
>the sprinter would get 10% less wet, therefore sprinting is not
>worth the effort.
>
>Through his own comments and experiments, Cecil concluded that
>DeAngelis was "crackbrained."  There was some consideration of
>"head" drops vs. "chest" drops and that you would get hit by 
>the "chest" drops in any case (as would the "head" drops, but 
>there's no question there).  Skipping the details of his trials 
>with red construction paper on a rainy day on his street, Cecil
>concludes that you are significantly (i.e., more than the 10%
>of DeAngelis) drier if you run.  
>
>Cecil does point out that he was unable to find the paper (a 
>check on "Current Contents" in the UC library database also 
>turns up nothing).  This column ran in the 11 December 1992 
>_East Bay Express_ (Oakland, CA).
>
>
>Terry "How about hail?" Chan
>--
Terry,

	Who is Cecil Adams, name does not mean anything to me.
	If anyone can shed some light on where to find literature
	or study(s) done on this or a closely related subject, please
	post !!!

Bruce


>Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
>Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe per diem




























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From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Subject: Re: Trademark legends
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:37:38 GMT

In article <Geoff.6b4p@equinox.gen.nz> Geoff@equinox.gen.nz (Geoff Mccaughan) writes:
>Simon E. Booth (sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu) wrote:
>>Even stranger, I read on the net (so it must be true!) somewhere a story
>>alleging that Bayer was in operation before and during WWII, making not
>>aspirin but such nasty military chemical products as Taubin and Zyklon,
>>which were nerve gases.  No reference to the Bayer company appears in any
>>accounts of the Nuremburg trials.
>
>Zyklon B was simply hydrogen cyanide crystals. Manufactured by I.G. Farben.
>I have no idea if they have any relationship to Bayer [I have vague memories
>that there may be a tie-up to BASF, but I wouldn't put money on it].
>
The term 'Zyklon B' must be based on the similar designations the Germans
used for the various rocket fuels they used in their rocket program
(i.e. hydrogen peroxide was called S-stoff).

I know I read somewhere that a present-day German chemical firm was making
chemical weapons for the Nazis during the 1930s and 40s.  Might have been
the connection to BASF you mention.

Simon

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From: bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Subject: Re: Yet another _sewer_ newsgroup...
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 20:33:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec23.165549.10673@phyrql.Alt.ZA> lucio@proxima.Alt.ZA writes:
>PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>
>>Jon "alt.tla, the newsgroup of palindromes." Papai
>
>"... and of three-letter-abbreviations"
>
>Lucio "I saw it earliest" de Re.

"... and even tree-letter-acronyms"

Ben "I figured it was a joke but just in case" Jackson
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From: levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Ordinary Disney abductions, no dyed hair
Date: 31 Dec 1992 11:06:14 -0600
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

We've seen debunkings of the "lost kid at Disneyland, found
with hair dyed, etc."

What about ordinary kidnappings at Disney?  I recently read a
very ghoUL-ish FOAFtale.

?? Foreign family w/2 kids visits Disney, one kid lost, nice lady
   offers to watch other kid while parents search.  Both kids still missing!

Rob

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From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Archie Pittigrew's Testicles
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 06:17:17 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

hillman@triton.unm.edu (Dan Hillman) writes:

> In article <1992Dec23.100017.18798@husc3.harvard.edu> joltes@husc10.harvard.e
> >
> >>|> "Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
> >>|> sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
> >
> >I've received at least 20 messages commenting on that quote and asking for t
> >source.  Interest is now high enough to warrant the advent of the Archie 
> >Pettigrew Fan Club.  The membership fee is, of course, two-fifty, and the so
> >purpose of the group is to find the origin (if possible) of the quote so fol
> >can calm down.
> >
> >And no, I don't know where it came from.  I heard the joke years ago and fou
> >it again in a quotes file 'bout 3 years back.  The rest is history...
> 
> The quote is from the sketch "Murder at Moorstones Manor" by Michael Palin
> and Terry Jones. The book in my hands says "Scripts of a television
> comedy performed on the BBC in 1976 and 1977" under the Library o' Congress
> description and "Adventure...Terror...Mystery...Frogs..." on the back.
> 
> Palin, M., & Jones, T. (1978). *Ripping yarns*. New York: Pantheon Books.
> ISBN 0-394-73678-8
> 
> -- 
> We've replaced the fine baby Jesus we normally use with Folgers Crystals.
> Let's see if they notice the difference.


Why do Scotsmen wear kilts?

Because a sheep can hear a zipper a mile away.


Pope Charles   SubGenius Pope Of Houston     "Bob" loves you!

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From: jonathan@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Jonathan L Neuenschwander)
Subject: Re: Anyone here read the Fortean Times?
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: 24 Dec 92 05:54:55 GMT

Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:

>        Have any of you guys seen the Fortean Times? It was started yonks 
>ago by a Mr Forte (or some such.) It exists purely to report ULs. They make
>no attempt to explain the causes - scientific vs spooky - they just report
>wierd newspaper stories, strange occurrences, etc. The pictures and stories
>are fabulous. Many of the (untrue) legends from the FAQ I have already
>seen reported in this magazine. I'm just suprised it's not in the FAQ, 
>itself.

I believe the Mr. Forte you refer to is Charles Forte, and the Fortean 
Times undoubtedly is published by the society which bears his name.  They
are into investigating unexplained phenomana of all types, though they seem
fairly content to leave such things as ghosts and UFOs to others.

I first became acquainted with them a couple years back when I ran across a
book in the Undergraduate Library here at Purdue called _Unexplained_Mysteries_
(I THINK that was the title, it's been awhile).  I've always been interested
in such things, and I found the book to be fascinating reading.  It went from
cryptozoology -- which I always thought was just dealing with things like 
Bigfoot and the Yeti, but actually encompasses much more, to other stories that
I'd never heard before.

Stories like a rash of attempted abductions of children several years ago by
people in clown suits -- very similar clown suits, and the Mad Gasser of 
Matoon (anyone heard this story?  Pretty bizarre).  

All this is from memory, and it's been awhile.  So if anyone's interested,
I'll go look up the book in the library again.

Jonathan "Darn it, can't think of anything to put between my names"
Neuenschwander


___ |Jonathan      |Internet:jonathan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu|Whom computers
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|   |              |America Online:Buzz Lee               |must first drive mad
 
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From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:03:18 GMT

[find-and-replace stories deleted]

There is the apocryphal story, dated around the time when personal computers
(and word processors) were still something of a novelty. A computer salesman
(yes, it's a man in the story) was showing off the features of a word
processor to some prospective customers, concentrating especially on those
features not possible on a typewriter.

Like the find-and-replace function.

"Watch this. For example, I can change every occurence of 'm' in this
document to, say, 'n'."

A few keystrokes, and presto, every 'm' becomes an 'n'.

"And now, watch as I change them back."

Click, click, click, and all the 'n's become 'm's...including those that
had been 'n's in the first place.


--        | Simon Fraser University | SFU does not admit to having opinions of
Keith Lim | Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6  | its own; any found above are mine only.

"The problems of our entire society are of a sexual nature."
                                          --Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, Twin Peaks
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Date: 1 Jan 93 00:34:51 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

Speaking of Time magazine and political correctness, a couple of weeks
ago Time published a sneering column about a university drama department
that had put on a version of Brecht's "The Good Woman of Szechuan"
entitled "The Good PERSON of Szechuan".  It then went on to make PC
titles out of all sorts of literary works such as "Person and Super-
person, by G. B. Shaw" etc. etc.  

Unfortunately for Time, the play's director may not have been being
PC, just literal.  The title of Brecht's play in the original is
"Der gute Mensch von Sezuan".  Now, boys and girls, get out your
German dictionaries and tell me what "Mensch" means....

Bruce "Parent Courage" Tindall


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From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF)
Subject: ruining fountains with detergent (Was: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters  
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 04:18:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.114527.27420@u.washington.edu> dst@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dale Tanigawa) writes:
>There are a few legends here at the UW involving Drumheller Fountain, which
>is bordered on one side by the chemistry building.  Drumheller is a nice
>big pondish sized fountain.  One of the legends is that someone launched a
>can of sodium from the chemistry building into the fountain---sodium reacts
>explosively with water.  The other is slightly more entertaining.  Supposedly,
>a grad student dumped a failed experiment in the fountain where it reacted
>with all the duck shit to become something else entirely.

Pranks like tossing stuff into fountains may seem funny to the perp's but
they often don't realize that they wandered across the line into vandalism.
We have a fountain at Virginia Tech, right on the plaza between the library
and bookstore.  People used to come by and toss boxes of detergent and
other things in there, watch it foam up, then run away before Security
came along.  Result of their fun: the fountain being stopped, the fountain
works being taken to pieces to get all the detergent (or whatever got
thrown in this time) out, and a lot of wasted man hours.  Eventually the
administration just stopped putting water in it at all, and now it just
sits there idle except on home football weekends and Founder's Day and
stuff.  Sure, it's fun for the thirty seconds people stand there watching
it foam, but it's really kinda pointless and wasteful.

Joel "working for the university changed my point of view on some things" Furr
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
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From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: They used to think...
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:24:37 GMT

leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE) writes:

>Prevalent in my youth were "you can't get pregnant the first time" and
>"you can get pregnant 'holding hands'" (some young folks in rural Montana 
>thought _I Wanna Hold Your Hand_ was  filthy song).

It depends where you hold them, I suppose....

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@compass.gvc.com
"Her love was like a wave-division multiplexor" - Dilbert
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
From: russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: UL: Statistics in Media are Accurate and Credible
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:13:15 GMT
Organization: russ at home in Albuquerque New Mexico

In article <naran.725184955@sfu.ca> naran@fraser.sfu.ca (Travers Naran) writes:
>David B. Horvath, CDP <MBADBH@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
>
>>Of the two, which gives more hours (minutes?) for their dollar of pay with
>>equal annual salaries?  If a company would base the salary on an internal
>>calculation of $/hour, under these conditions, wouldn't it make sense to
>>pay the man more (for more hours) and the woman less (for fewer hours)?
>
>The City of Colorado supposedly did this, and with the help of a professional
>statistician, they were able to determine there was pay inequity and in fact,
>came up with a standard way of assigning what are fair wages. The factors
>compares were amount of education (I think quality of education was also
>factored in), hours spent at the jobs, physical conditions, etc.

Where is this "City of Colorado", and what is its population?  The
value of a job is the cost of the employee - if there are too many
applicants for a job then (typically) the pay for the job is reduced,
just as you reduce the amount that you pay someone for something when
there is a large selection of sellers.  Accordingly when something is
scarce you pay more for it - whether "it" is the skills that an
employee can bring to your office or a gold and diamond ring.

When you need a piano tuner you need someone that knows how to tune a
piano and not anyone with 1.8 years experience doing semi-technical
manual labor and a high-school education or GED.

None of the above could be used to justify organized oppression in the
workplace, and doesn't.  But just because there are a lot of
applicants for a particular job (allowing the employer to get a
bargain) doesn't mean that the employer is somehow cheating his or her
workforce.

-- 
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