HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bmb1021@ultb.isc.rit.edu (B.M. Buck)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Glitch at the Dog Track
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:06:42 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

In article <1993Jan26.040732.4773@nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein) writes:
>Could it be that the late losers were frantically entering their bets
>figuring the computer would reject the bet any cycle, and got it
>wrong?  Or perhaps was the clock so screwed up that a normal number of
>incorrect bets were entered before the start of the race but recorded
>as placed afterward.  If this is the case, the winners could claim
>that the same error recorded their bets at the wrong time.
>-- 
>/|/-\/-\          This article is supplied without longbox
> |__/__/_/        and uses recycled 100% words, characters and ideas.
> |warren@         
>/ nysernet.org    

I see it as even possible that some of the afer-race bets were made by
people who didn't know the outcome of the race.  This is a bit unlikely,
IMHO, but it's the only reason I can think of that someone could
reasonably bet on a losing dog after the race, unless they were
phenominally stupid.


-- 
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"I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV."
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From: 890870m@dragon.acadiau.ca (Jason MacNeil)
Subject: Re: 54-40..what does their name mean?
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:39:06 GMT

ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi) writes:

>In article <9301252032.AA21973@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> stevep@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca (Steve Portigal) writes:
>>a decent band), when Al Bundy used the phrase "54-40 or fight" (not
>>in context, only as a sample phrase) on Married With Children.
>>
>what's now Canada.

>In the 1840s the border between what's now Washington state and
>British Columbia was a matter of considerable dispute.  The Americans
>wanted it to be at the latitude 54 degrees 40 minutes -- hence 
>the slogan, "54-40 or fight!"  The British wanted it somewhere near
>where the Washington/Oregon border is now.  A compromise was reached,
>whereby the border at 48 degrees that had already been established
>partway to the Pacific was merely extended all the way.  The border
>among the islands off the coast in the Pacific was not settled for
>a few more decades.

Just a mindless follow-up: 54-40's latest release Dear Dear is, according
to my CD player, 54 minutes and 40 seconds long.  Anyone else notice this?

-- 
     < Jason MacNeil | jason.macneil@acadiau.ca | (902) 542-7585 >
     < ASU Box 6818, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, B0P 1Z1 | nevermind >
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From: c-chan@mcl.ucsb.edu (Christina Callihan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking,rec.food.restaurants
Subject: Terrifying Twinkies (was Re: The Big Pot of Grease)
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:52:21 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban

In <1993Jan19.162034.2345@acuson.com> lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:

>In article <28478@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>>C521832@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu wrote:

>>jlpicard@austin.ibm.com writes:

>Can hepatitis REALLY survive simmering for 1000 years?

Not that I know of (speaks the Bio. major :).  Depends on the temperature
of course......

>Drew "have some 1000 year old twinkies, still soft" Lawson

A biology teacher at my high school tacked a Twinkie to a bulletin board
many years ago.  That Twinkie is still there, and the _only_ change it
has undergone was to turn a little greyish from the dust it's been
collecting.

Scary.  Very Scary.  8)


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From: nolan@twg.com (Nolan Hinshaw)
Subject: Re: Vegetarians and B vitamins
Reply-To: nolan@twg.com
Organization: Unabashed Carnivores Society
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:19:18 GMT


Idunno what all the fuss is about. Vegetarians are just loaded with B
vitamins, calcium, and other nutrients. Eat a vegetarian now and then for a
well-balanced diet.
--

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From: stephen@cs.uow.edu.au (Stephen Lance Rogan)
Subject: Re: saab story (was Headlight Dimmer Switch)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:44:16 GMT

nolan@twg.com (Stirling Moss?) writes:


>In article <C16ps0.DHw@rahul.net>, phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>[interesting stuff about Saabs deleted, including stuff about going downhill]
>Thanks for the brain tickle, Phil. I remember stories about folks like
>Lungstrom and Maakinen being faster on their roofs than on their wheels in the
>Monte's Alpine segments. I wish I had a film...

Not so much a car going faster on its roof, but definitely cheaper.
Someone I was in first year at Uni with had an interesting experience when
had more people to move than would fit in the car.

Simple solution, two climb on the roof on hold on for their lives.

This didn't go unnoticed by the police at the time, who promplty pulled
him over and began issuing fines.
I can't remember exact fine values, but those on the roof were fined so
much for unsafe seating, and those in the back, on the seat were fined
*MORE* for not wearing their seatbelts !!!!!

Stephen
From: dkelly@bio4.acpub.duke.edu (Diane Kelly)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kimo Sabe
Date: 27 Jan 93 22:01:39 GMT
Reply-To: dkelly@bio4.acpub.duke.edu (Diane Kelly)


There was a long article in SMITHSONIAN magazine hunting for the origin
of the term Kemo Sabe, some time in the late 1970s or early 1980s.  The
details are fuzzy, but among other things I recall are the suggestions
that the term came from the name of a summer camp attended by the
daughter of the writer of the "Lone Ranger" radio serial -- camp
Kee-Mo-Sa-Bee.  But the article went on to shoot down this hypothesis. 
I don't remember what the final verdict was, but anyone sufficiently
curious could track down the issue.

						Jim Cambias
						Misusing the Equipment
						at Duke Bio
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:57:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.215517.15375@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.215638.14265@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson) writes:
>>
>>ObUL: COBOL was written as a joke.
>>
>>Hugh "get it?" Grierson

Actually, it is my understanding that my girlfriend's father suggested
the idea of COBOL (or whaTeVer) to Grace Hopper as a joke, and was,
shall we say, non-plussed when she took it seriously...

************************************************************************
Give me the Luxuries, and the Hell with the Necessities!

	- pynq@quads.uchicago.edu, who is still costing the net
	  hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars, every time he posts -
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From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Acronyms & Funny names
Date: 26 Jan 93 18:16:16 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <C1H0JD.78n@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser) writes:
>In <C1Fyuy.1vK@portal.hq.videocart.com> mandrews@portal.hq.videocart.com (Mike Andrews) writes:
>
>>In article <1k1tdqINNfle@lynx.unm.edu> mycroft7@vesta.unm.edu (Cliff Coy) writes:
>>>
>>>> HIV - HIV virus   - Human Imm.. Virus virus
>>>> ICBM - ICBM missile - Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile missile 
>>>> HARM - HARM missile - High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile missile
>>>> (anti-radar)
>
>>PCV - PCV Valve = Pollution Control Valve Valve
>>                  (actually...  Postive Crankcase Ventilation Valve)
>>RAM - RAM Memory chips  = Random Access Memory Memory chips
>>SIMM - SIMM memory - SIMM modules - SIMM memory modules
>>                       = Single Inline Memory Module memory modules
>
>How about
>
>START - START Talks = Strategic Arms Reduction Talks Talks

Actually, I thought this one was Strategic Arms Reduction TREATY Talks.

I like: ATM Machine = Automatic Teller Machine Machine
        ATV Vehicle = All-Terrain Vehicle Vehicle
        CBS Broadcasting System = Columbia Broadcasting System Broadcasting
       (or any other TV network)  System


-Kristy "P" Patterson
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 |kristyp@dartmouth.edu|to free the soul...we wouldn't be that brave, I know.  |
 +=====================+==========================Toad the Wet Sprocket========+
From: jeremiah@yang.earlham.edu (Jeremiah Wilton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Aids in pizza
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:14:28 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <13959@optilink.COM>, walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
> And this reminds me:  Does anybody remember the
> advertisements for a diet candy called "AYDS"
> about ten years ago?  It went something like
> "Why go hungry when you can have AYDS!"
Yes, and they're still around.  Imagine how their market share must have
dropped.  I saw them as recently as last year in a drugstore here gathering
considerable amounts of dust on a shelf. AYDS Chewy Squares, or something like
that.
-- 
Jeremiah Wilton | jeremiah@yang.earlham.edu | JEREMIAH@EARLHAM.bitnet |
                |       NeXTmail only: jeremiah@math.earlham.edu      |
From: Terry.Smith@f870.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Terry Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: My mother the gorilla
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 03:35:24

 sc> whales are mammals, and they don't have four limbs.
 
    Tsk Tsk, they do carry the code, and some are found with more than
vestigal traces.
Just thought I'd bore you with that irrelevance
Terry

 * Origin: Elizabeth Park BBS (3:800/870.0)

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From: bwilson@austin.ibm.com (Brad Wilson)
Subject: Re: starting a car takes more gas that idling
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:58:25 GMT
Reply-To: bwilson@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin


In article <1993Jan21.210843.269@gems.vcu.edu>, hleaves@gems.vcu.edu writes:
|>
|>People have always told me that it takes more gas to start a car than to leave
|>it running. That, suppposedly, is why you shouldn't turn off your engine for a
|>brief stop. I can believe that this is true for a very brief idling period, but
|>not for any longer times. What would be considered the crossover point, where
|>it is better to stop your engine than leave it running? (considering gas
|>consumption only, not including engine wear from starting)
|>
|>-- 


I was told it takes about 1 minute worth of gas to start a warm engine.

--
<<O>> Brad Wilson, AWSTools.  [Don't ask questions.]
The opinions and statements above are not meant to represent anyone but me.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: an8460@anon.penet.fi (The Borg)
Subject: Secret US Technology unleashed!
Organization: Anonymous contact service
X-Anonymously-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:53:13 GMT

A friend at work got this from a reliable source who works for a Top-Secret
military research lab  .My friend says his source is an old girl-friend who
works back east near New Jersy.  He didn't say where.

According to the source, her lab was working on a new type of microscopic 
mite which would metabolize certain elements and metallic compounds found
in electronic equipment.  The idea was that the mites would be air-borne
and could be spread by airplane or satillte over hostile areas, where
they would reek havoc upon enemy equipment.  The affected areas would
later be treated with checmicals or radiation to kill the mites.

Anyway, the source mentioned that recently, a cleaning lady accidently
threw out 4 containers of mites.  Two were recovered in tack, one was
slightly damage, and the fourth was found near the landfill, OPEN!.
Supposedly, the research center treated the landfill, but recent rashes
of electronic equpiment failures in and around their site, have lead
some of the researchers to believe that the mites are still loose.

Has anyone else heard about this?  I suppose the technology exists to make
mites that do this. To me, it sounds like something from ST-NG.


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Subject: Re: Hepatitis and Taco Bell Scare.
From: leb@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
Date: 23 Jan 1993 23:19 MST  
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Keywords: hepatitis beans shit Taco Bell savage humor
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <C19yvy.3Br@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mphall@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Hall) writes...
>In article <1993Jan22.210842.13855@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:
>>In article <C12tFz.Hn@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> mphall@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Hall) writes:
>>>	Here in Bloomington, Indiana we have been experiencing a small
>>>epidemic of hepatitis.
>>
>>Interesting, we're having one in Denver, too. But it started at a
>>caterer's not Taco Bell. I wonder how many other cities are involved.
>>
>>
>Why do you think I x-posted to alt.conspiracy?  My money's on MANY MANY
>others and a probable link to the Bilderbergs.  Or the Rothschilds.
> 
>-Mike
> 
>-- 
>Michael Hall
>mphall@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu



Well, there are reports in the Tuscon Daily Star of a batch of poisoned
burgers from Jack in the Box burgers making people REALLY sick and killing
some kids.

Rodger "will document for food" Coghlan


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From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Re: Snipers at Stalingrad
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:43:48 GMT

In article <1jtg2fINN736@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock) writes:

>years.  At any rate, it is not blatantly impossible.

Motto of the week!


-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
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From: andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer)
Subject: Re: Epileptics and computer games
Organization: University of Sussex
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:38:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.002833.2463@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> mprc@troi.cc.rochester.edu (M. Price) writes:
> (about the Govt. Health warning on Nintendos...)
>
>   Yes, this was big in the UK over Xmas. For some reason, all the
>affected children seemed to be Welsh.
Well of course, that would explain it, wouldn't it?
( :-) )

Andy "Nos Da" Holyer


-- 
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Computing Studies, University of Sussex, |  nothing, which exploded."
JANET: andyh@cogs.sussex.ac.uk           |   - Terry Pratchett
From: jp@poseur.jpl.nasa.gov (John Pipkins SSE SMCC)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Chocolate Protein Content
Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:13:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Software Support (JPL/NASA)
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jp@poseur.jpl.nasa.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: poseur.jpl.nasa.gov

In article <93027.152949MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, <MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
|> The FDA's limits on insects and rodent droppings in food are fairly stringent
|> compared to what other countries allow. An biology experiment in college
|> had us identify what the "defects" were in a box of number 8 spaghetti.
|> Anytime a dark splotch was found in a noodle it was isolated and tested/
|> examined. The results were that the processing to the noodle made it very
|> difficult to detect what the impurity was. My group could find little
|> correlation, but the professor -- who was more talented at it than we --
|> claimed he could match up spaghetti impurities to lab samples of insect
|> parts and droppings. Most of what he found were mice droppings.


All this and more can be obtain from the FDA in a little pamphlet
called "The Defect Action Level Report".  Available for the asking.
You like apple butter?  Then you love insect purree.


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Subject: Re: Mnemonics
From: deyoung@acs.harding.edu (Joel M. DeYoung)
Date: 27 Jan 93 07:59:19 -0600
Reply-To: deyoung@acs.harding.edu
Organization: Harding University

In article <1993Jan27.040411.8948@netcom.com>, tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield) writes:
>In article <7oa1VB4w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall) writes:
>>schamber@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Sylvain Chamberland) writes:
>>
>>> In article <6u8mVB1w165w@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz> system@codewks.nacjack.gen.n
>>> >Only problem is that this is wrong. Pluto is closer to the sun that Neptune.
>>> 
>>> You're kidding!!!!!
>>
>>> 
>>> Where did you get that???
>>
>>It's a well known scientific fact.
>>
>>> 
>>> I'm no astronomer, but back in high school, people told me Pluto is the
>>> 9th planet and was discovered only because of ambiguities in Neptune's
>>> orbit...
>
>So was I, but being born in the 60's I've grown accustomed to the fact that
>people and planets move around, never staying in the same place for their
>entire life.  ( :) x 10 )
>
>I can imagine the guys surprise at this statement though.  When I went through
>science class in school, I was told the same thing.  Imagine my
>shock/disbelief/surprise when I was told otherwise.  Poor guy,  the universe
>has pulled a mean trick on us people who learned astronomy before [darn! I
>don't have the date handy].  
>
>Hey, anyone know when Pluto becomes #7 and Uranus becomes #8?  From looking
>at this chart (unfortunately it's in a geography book) it looks like the 
>duration between Neptune's and Uranus' orbit is only about 20 degrees of 
>Plutos orbit so with a oribital revolution of 248 years, it seems like it 
>should be very soon.  (or is that just a imaginary effect from them trying
>to locate Pluto's orbit on the same plane as the rest of the solar system???)
>
>Darn! I wish I had a decent starchart handy to check this out.  It's gotta
>be the way it's drawn.... but then again, maybe I might be able to start an
>UL with this diagram.
>

I am assuming from the lack of a smilie in your second last paragraph
that you are being serious.  Pluto will never be the seventh planet from
the sun.  The time that it is the eighth planet is relatively short
indeed.  It takes Pluto 249 years to orbit the sun, and from 1989 to
1999 it will be closer to the sun than Neptune.

Source:  Pasachoff, Jay M.  _Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe_. 
         4th Ed.  1991, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.  p. 271.

Joel
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From: pz@ANTONIADES.LCS.MIT.EDU (John Pezaris)
Subject: Re: Coke Machines
Keywords: snopes = asshole
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:08:58 GMT

In article <C17LsB.FBr.2@cs.cmu.edu> smith+@cs.cmu.edu (Sean Smith) writes:

>>>The Coke machine in the School of Computer Science (fomerly the CS
>>>Department) at Carnegie Mellon used to be online.  


This story reminds me of two things from MIT.

(1)

Legend: the elevators and the 9th floor electric door locks in the Aritifical
Intelligence Laboratory/Lab for Computer Science building at MIT were wired so
that typing <terminal>-E and <terminal>-D on your Lisp Machine would,
respectively, call the elevator for you, or buzz the door.  I may have the
exact keys wrong.  Give me a few days, and I'll get them right, since there
are one or two people left who would remember.

(2)

Fact: there was a PDP-11 in the early 80s which controlled a (then) advanced
technology laser printer (the `XGP') on the 9th floor of the same building
that was severely customized.  Among the customizations was a single (SINGLE)
wire snaking out of a side panel with a switch hanging off the end marked
`Magic' and `More Magic' for the two positions.

Related Legend: The PDP-11 didn't boot unless the switch was in the `More
Magic' position.

	- pz.


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From: mkjensen@iastate.edu (Martha K (Puester) Jensen)
Subject: Re: Yeast (Re: Vegetarians and B vitamins)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:03:23 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.163900.24279@acuson.com> lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
>In article <1jpik2INNfnh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:
>
>>Umm. Since when has yeast been classified as a plant?
>
>Well, yeast is a fungus.  Last I heard, fungi were plants.  They are
>not _green_ plants, but that "green" is there for a purpose.  It
>distinguishes them from the other plants.
>
>
>Drew "not a botanist" Lawson
>-- 
>Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
>lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate

Hate to break this to you, but fungi are definitely not plants, green
or otherwise.   Not to be rude, but what you heard last is very wrong.

Martha "a botanist" Jensen

mkjensen@iastate.edu

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