HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: forpost-WWII Japanese soldiers
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:58:30 GMT
Organization: Advanced Product Development

I've always assumed that the stories of Japanese soldiers thinking that
WWII was still going on long after it was over were part folklore.  You
know the ones where they are hiding out in caves on Guam continuing some
form of guerilla warfare 20 years after the war was over.

What's the basis for these stories?

David Ternes                                            dternes@udev.cdc.com
             I believe there is no reason to not believe.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Reply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Organization: Rosemount, Inc.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:53:38 GMT

I wrote:
: Or maybe just sneak up and inject them with
: contaminated blood while their sleeping?
                           ^^^^^
Aaargh.                   they're  (obviously)

--
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Rosemount Inc.                                |WATCH in YOUR box of
                                              |VELVEETA?
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From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AIDS and the CIA (was Question)
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:48:14 GMT

cromar@math.rutgers.edu (Scott Cromar) writes:

>I've heard a theory, espoused mostly by right-wing types, that the
>Soviets (back when there was such country) were actively engaged in
>propaganda to persuade third worlders that AIDS came from the
>laboratories of the CIA.  I've never seen any documentation of this
>particular theory, and the sources I refer to are probably less than
>credible. 

I heard such propaganda on shortwave radio circa 1986.  I don't know
if it was of Soviet origin.
-- 
Matt McIrvin
From: dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: furrfu??
Keywords: Beats The Hell Out Of Me
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:58:23 GMT
Organization: Advanced Product Development

In article <1992Nov4.215431.19946@athena.cs.uga.edu> jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck) writes:
>
>Now here's my question:  what does BTW stand for?
>
Bite Tadpole Wax

David Ternes                                            dternes@udev.cdc.com
             I believe there is no reason to not believe.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.conspiracy,alt.tasteless
From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Seventh Circuit Bound)
Subject: Re: Frozen Waste
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:22:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.182925.17576@walter.bellcore.com> tld@cosmos.bellcore.com writes:
>I figure this is the first recorded incident of an `I.C.B.M.' hitting a
>civilian's residence...

You know, it was much funnier when you posted it the second time.

Ted "maybe it was the way you typed it" Frank
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From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Toilet paper: over or under?
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:14:34 GMT
Organization: University of Washington

jrs@zippy.unet.com (John Switzer Frame 3.0) writes:

[toilet paper question deleted]

>I hate to insert logic into a.f.u, but if you've ever had a dog (or a child),
>you'll understand why you NEVER put the toilet paper with the loose end 
>going up over the roll. All it takes is to come home once and find your 
>angry pooch has unrolled the toilet paper all over the house to convince
>you to put the loose end under.

I fail to see why the "under" method makes any difference.  I mean, I'm 
sure a child (or even a dog) has the dexterity to pick up the toilet paper
when it's in ANY position (save being taped down) and drag it all over the
house.

-- 
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* "There's just no end to the fascinating things that are true."  --RB *
**********fnord!********furrfu!********hi-keeba!********meep!***********
From: alange@rahul.net (Andrew Lange)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Airport security
Date: 7 Nov 92 07:59:17 GMT
Organization: a2i network

In article <1992Oct28.223619.8998@Arco.COM> bielak@arco.com writes:
>
>So: does anyone have a FOAF who has actually heard of a person who has
>actually seen someone getting hauled off for attempting to be
>humorous at the x-ray machine? Hmmmm? Or is it just legend?

Well, sort of.  Only it was friends (F) who were hauled off.  Only not for being
humorous at an x-ray machine.

At a summer program I attended several years ago, we got a tour of the White
House.  While waiting in line outside, two of our group started talking about
the latest spy thriller they had read, involving, you guessed it, 'assasinating
the President'.  

The rest of the group finally noticed that they were gone (the Secret Service
can be discreet), and of course wanted to know what had happened when they
came back looking very chastened. (They can't have been gone more than about
30 minutes, the line wasn't that long).

Andy
alange@rahul.net

I don't got no steenking .sig.  I did this the old fashioned way - I typed it
-- 
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From: wbrown@access.digex.com (William Brown)
Subject: Re: 1-9-5-0-s D-a-r-r-y-l-e
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:18:10 GMT

    All of the name-calling launched at Darryle does nothing to reinforce
any arguments and it speaks a great deal of the mentality of those who
resort to it.  Chill OUT.  We don't HAVE to act mature on the net, but
it would be nice if we DID.  And before you counter with "Darryle's
argument wasn't mature from the beginning" think about how mature your
response was.  


PEACE

Bill
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Where can I look for any scholarly info....
	<1992Nov8.082834.21992@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep  5 1992
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 10:15:04 -0400

In <1992Nov8.082834.21992@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, bill nelson writes:

>: 
>: Gosh, Brad hasn't been reading this group very long, has he?
>
>Nope. He doesn't know the depths of depravity of which this group
>is capable.
nor the voracity og our grandmothers.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
From: dmp1@ukc.ac.uk (D.M.Procida)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Where can I look for any scholarly info....
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:48:17 GMT
Reply-To: dmp1@ukc.ac.uk (D.M.Procida)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

In article <flar.721172242@vincent2.iastate.edu> flar@iastate.edu (Bradley M Armitage) writes:
>Yup, that's is the problem with this copulating net, a silly typo and the
>flames come in numbers.  Well excuse me Mr. Jack DONKEY. Oh, did I spell
>that right?????  Sheezzee, give a bad typist a break or just don't post,
                  ^^^^^^^^
Surely you mean 'furrmmrr'?

Daniele "and don't call me Shirley" Procida
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Microwave Death
Organization: a2i network
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:32:03 GMT

In article <BxK3An.3KC@acsu.buffalo.edu> v462etnn@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson) writes:
>
>The title refers to a UL involving too much suntan-booth time
>in one day, with results similar to you microwave story.

This tale may well have gotten a boost from a true tanning-booth death
of two or three years ago.

It all starts with PUVA, a highly effective treatment for the skin
disease psoriasis.  The patient takes a drug that makes his skin
highly sensitive to ultraviolet light.  He then stands in the
medical equivalent of a tanning booth.  He receives carefully controlled
doses of carefully controlled wavelengths of  UV energy under the
supervision of specially trained RN's.  I've had this done.  My
psoriasis goes away and I get a gorgeous, albeit unhealthy, tan.

The victim somehow obtained the unusual prescription drug, took a handful,
and went from tanning parlor to tanning parlor to tanning parlor,
getting the biggest doses the attendants would allow.

She died of the resultant sunburn.

But she was cooked from the _outside_.

Phil
-- 
Phil Gustafson <phil@rahul.net>
From: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Nonexistant cars
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:12:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Ed Hopper's BBS - Berkeley Lake, GA - 404-446-9462
Reply-To: harris.minter@ehbbs.gwinnett.com (Harris Minter) 

>There was a story in the October 1990 issue of 'Car and Driver' about a
>scam in the early to mid-1970s about a car called the "Dale".  Apparentl
>this woman had started this bogus auto company, and even had people lini
>up to invest and to start up dealerships, all over a car (and company) t
>didn't exist!  The only thing real was the mock-up that prospective
>investors and dealers were shown.  Supposedly the engine displayed in th
>mock-up had "Briggs and Stratton written on it!!  Pretty good story abou
>selling a car that didn't exist.  The article even mentioned hat this
>car was offered as a prize on 'The Price is Right game show in 1975(?).

There was a later insinuation that the woman wasn't a woman at all, just a
clever male scam artist.  Carrol Shelby once described the Dale with,
"Anyone trying to corner in this thing is gonna lose the outside cheek off
his ass....."

When investors attempted to forclose on whatshername, they found "an empty
office and assorted devices used by female impersonators".
                                                                                                                              
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From: billmcc@seanews.akita.com (Bill McCormick)
Subject: Re: Airport security
Organization: SEANEWS - Seattle Public Access News & Mail
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:51:45 GMT

In article <9NOV199211532245@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>Figures.  In my experience, Hartsfield has about the most relaxed
>security posture around.  Once (pre-Lockerbie, I must admit) I went
>through the detectors there with a prototype serial switch about
>the size of a twenty-dollar pizza under my arm.  The guard looked
>at the switch -- a flat metal box with a bunch of DE-25 connectors
>sticking out -- and said, "What is that, some kind of synthesizer?"

The only really interesting airport security experience I had was in
Atlanta.  I was coming home from a trade show, checked my baggage,
got onto the the plane just in time and was relaxing.

Then we just sat there -- nothing happening.  About 15 minutes after
we were supposed to (and ready to) leave, a flight attendent and
2 big men in suits came over to my seat and said, quite politely,
"William McCormick?  Would you come with us?"

Now being the amazingly passive follower of authority I am, I replied,
"What? No. Why!?"  (Ok, well maybe not quite so following...)

The answer?  "There's a problem with your baggage."

I left with the men, thinking it was good that a hundred people saw me
taken off the plane.

Then we sat down and I discovered that I was taken off the plane because
one of my bags was "buzzing."

To make a long story short it turned out that I had thrown my electric
shaver into a computer box.  The jostling of loading the box must've
turned on the razor.  Since it was pressed against a computer's metal
cabinet it was making a horrendous noise.

So that's the story of how Hartsfield International Airport security
prevented what could have been a dangerous situation.  I can see the
headline now: "Remington Microscreen Eats 727"

Bill "I bought the company" McCormick
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Ex-presidents
Date: 12 Nov 1992 05:49:20 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

Scott Cromar (cromar@math.rutgers.edu) wrote:

  +: Bill, you can make your getaway during the confusion about WHICH Terry
  +: is going to go get the gun.  Unless there is really only ONE Terry
  +: (who likes to talk to himself in public).  

Pshaw!  Gowan!

tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
  
  +Who ever said that *any* of the Terries were male?
  +
  +Terry "guess" Monks

Should we take m^Hyour last name as a hint?

Terry "Not a monk" Chan
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Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Subject: Re: College Coed Murder UL
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:31:38 GMT

In article <1711@eram.esi.COM.AU> dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall) writes:
>From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
>Subject: Re: College Coed Murder UL
>Date: 12 Nov 92 03:05:55 GMT
>In article <100826@bu.edu>,
>    uni@acs.bu.edu (Shaen Bernhardt) writes:
>
>| hears some horse breathing or gasping, like someone trying to draw
>
>What do horses have to do with this?

The horse's head is in the bed, and it's so fresh, it's still breathing!  
Didn't you see ANY of the movies?

>
>-- 
>Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
>dave@esi.COM.AU                ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave
>           Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: Question about "T." in James T. Kirk !!!!!!  (As seen on TV)
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 02:08:55 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Keywords: We don' nee' no stinkeen' keywords!

In article <40575@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> dlou@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
>In article <8965@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:
>>In article <18829.2ae957bb@ecs.umass.edu>, rajain@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>>> Anyone knows what the middle initial of Captain Kirk stand for ?
>>
>>No.  I don't think that there is a person on this planet that knows what
>>the "T" in James "T" Kirk stand for.  But ask in alt.folklore.urban --
>>everbody *there* is from another planet and can quite possibly help you.
>
>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, when Kirk and McCoy are on
>trial, the judge says "James Tiberious Kirk, you are accused of..."

Whew.  Thank God we've finally got that settled.  Personally, I
think it's time to stop picking over the decomposed remains of what was,
after all, a mediocre Sixties TV series (clearly eclipsed, in every
respect, by "Lost In Space") and move on to a far more important
question.

As you all know, William Shatner's brilliant acting skills (unfortunately
stifled by the limited role he played in "Star Trek") finally achieved
their full flower in the monumental cop series "T. J. Hooker".  Does
anybody out there know what the "T. J." stood for?

>-- 
>Dennis Lou             || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
>dlou@ucsd.edu          || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
>[backbone]!ucsd!dlou   |+====================================================
>dlou@ucsd.BITNET       |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
See, Terry?  It's not just me.

Larry "disavowing all knowledge of any famous people" Doering
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,soc.culture.african.american,sci.skeptic
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 01:31:59 GMT

In article <BxMHuv.3Cs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> johnb@sage.cc.purdue.edu (John Brainerd) writes:
>
>ALSO, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE A GIF, JPEG or SOME PICTURE OF AN ATM
>CAN BE FOUND????         Thanx!

This guy's REALLY into this thread. :)

mdw

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From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,misc.legal,soc.culture.british
Subject: Re: The amazing disappearing British Constitution
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:28:40 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: solntze.wpd.sgi.com


In article <1992Nov12.213144.3145@pierrot.comlab.ox.ac.uk>, Geraint.Jones@comlab.oxford.ac.uk writes:
> 
> You would be hard pushed to argue that England as a
> single political entity of any sort predates the Norman
> Conquest.  That makes it less than a thousand years old,
> and neatly draws your attention to good hard evidence of
> literacy in the Doomsday book.  If you meant Britain, as
> you probably did, you have to cut that thousand years down
> to a measly few centuries since one or another of the many
> acts of union.  There are many nations who can look down
> their noses at such newcomers, particularly in Asia and
> Africa, I suppose, but several in North America even.
> Goodness, even Mann is older than
> that.                      / g

Are we permitted to extract a general rule from this?  If
so what is it?

Is it that the "age" of a country resets to zero when there
are unions with previously separate countries?

    +	Texas was a Republic, with an Army, Navy, and National
	Debt, recognized as independent by Britian and France,
	and joined the US in 1844.

    +	In 1848, the US forcibly amputated about a third of
	Mexico, and added it to itself.

    +	After the US Civil War, the US forcibly reincorporated
	the Southern States which had enjoyed a period of
	effective independence, and which had floated loans
	which were accepted by European investors.

    +	Newfoundland joined Canada only in the nineteen forties.


> Don't be silly.  Surely you didn't catch me joining an annual
> Consitution spat?

Well, it started out quite interesting, but I'm starting to find
some of the logic a bit strained, as I have explained above.

jon.
From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: WW11 over, News at eleven (was forpost-WWll Japanese..)
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:34:03 GMT
	<49469@shamash.cdc.com> <1992Nov10.183111.13237@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu
In-reply-to: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:31:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.183111.13237@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Mind the Gap) writes:
) In article <49469@shamash.cdc.com> dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes) writes:
)>In article <1992Nov9.235830.29517@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
)>>Wow! World War 11 over!
)>>
)>>No one even told me it had started.  What happened to the wars 3 to 10?
)>>Did they go the same way as VO[1-4], varieties 1-56, [1-6]UP etc...
[deletia]
) While, you're at it, see if you can bring back the first four Henry
) movies, and the first nine Malcolm movies.

What I would like to know is whatever hapened to the people who tested
Preparations A through G?

Bill "Preparation C was probably for Courgette" Ward
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Puking on shoes - A part of the culture?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:37:42 GMT

In article <BxGx1w.D47@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>
>This diode thing has gone on for some time, and it's all Terry Chan's
>fault.  At AFU |\/, I passed out more diodes than everybody could carry.
>No more diode jokes.  This includes tunnel diodes, Gunn diodes, step
>recovery diodes, and obscure devices only cjl can remember.

Let's start alt.folklore.diodes.

cj "what about diodes with only one lead?" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jonathan@vort.cuc.ab.ca (Jonathan Levine)
Subject: Re: HERE'S HOW TO SHUT DOWN THE NET!
Organization: n. Organizing or being organized; organized body or system or society.
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 18:25:50 GMT


Well, you're closer, anyway.  I'm not of that era either (b.1960), but from
what I've read, what Lennon said was something more along the lines of:

If you took a poll right now, you'd probably find that we are more popular
than Jesus.

Unfortunately, Lennon had a great sense of humor that was largely
underappreciated, as most people viewed him as a crank.

-- 
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                (fax)   403-686-1254 | Virtual  Universe         (Calgary AB)
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
From: emanuel@dxcern.cern.ch (Emanuel Machado)
Subject: Re: Calvin/Hobbes diagnosed as clinical schizophrenic
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 13:17:27 GMT

In <lg6a14INN4id@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:

>[note: readers outside the USA probably won't understand this, but I have
>not limited the distribution because you should know what you're missing. ]

        Are you kidding? :-) Calvin & Hobbes is  (are?)  VERY  popular  in
Europe  as  far  as  I  can  tell:  There  are  cartoons  of  him  in some
newspapers, and some of the books are  translated  into  other  languages.
They prabably reach outside Europe, since several international newspapers
(e.g.  International Herald Tribune) carry them.

        Personally, I'm a fan of this  kind  of  comics.  Somehow,  I  can
identify with his imagination... :-)

>Trelford Pinkerton MD            (actually CA, but I've always liked Bethesda).
>--
>   Inventor of the Lambada-Calculus.
-- 
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