HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The El (Was: Re: Conductivity of water <plus a story from Uncle Dave>)
Date: 21 Dec 92 19:10:45 GMT
Organization: DSC/Optilink Access Products

In article <BzJ394.J5F@polaris.async.vt.edu> jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr) writes:
>In article <13695@optilink.COM> manley@optilink.COM (Terry Manley) writes:
>>I lived in Chicago for a while quite near the "L".  For those of you
>>who don't know the "L" is an (extremely noisy) electric train system
>>employing a third rail.  
>
>Interestingly, it's called the El because it's an elevated train.  Not the
>"L"... the El.

WEl I haven't been there since '79 and the brain tends to wipe out
unpleasant memories!  I was undecided as to whether it was "L" or
"El" - did it stand for "Electric" or "Elevated" or  "Loupe"
as in "The Loupe".  For those of you that don't know, "The Loupe"
is the downtown area of Chicago.

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From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Crazy as a $2 bill
Date: 27 Dec 1992 00:44:49 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

The $2.00 bill was, ul says, not just spent at the track, but
before then, it was spent at the whorehouse......

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From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CD Legends
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:13:52 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower) writes:
 
>I understand that the Boston "Third stage" gives a countdown on your
>cd players display during the intro.

There are several CDs in my collection that do this on certain tracks.  I
think it's related to song length and how the tracks are arranged on the disc.
The "countdown" should have a minus sign in front of it, indicating that you're
n seconds *before* the beginning of the next track.

The phenomenon is not unique to the Boston CD (which I have).

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							joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
From: mike@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Cosmik Debris)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:09:45 GMT
Organization: Electrical Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

In article <1992Dec21.211033.9241@news.columbia.edu>, bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) writes:
> 	I am somewhat new to this news thread and do not know if this
> 	is a new or old subject, but some my colleagues and I have
> 	recently started a discussion about the rain.  We have pondered
> 	in what way can you not get hit by rain drops ???
> 
> 	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 ??
> 
> 
> 	Any new views on this would be interesting !!!
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
An umbrella solves the problem.
-- 
Cosmik Debris -- "I owe money, therefore I am"
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Skyscraper FALLS DOWN.
Date: 30 Dec 92 00:48:47 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <1992Dec26.213308.17373@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>ObNYCUL: US Grant is not the only person Interred in Grant's Tomb.

Actually, no one is "interred" in Grant's Tomb, since "inter" means "in
the earth," and the coffins are right there out in the open where you
can see them.  I guess they're below ground level, though, so you could
argue about it.  

On my one and only visit to the Tomb, I thought it was really groovy that
they are blowing cooled air over the caskets.  Is there really enough 
soft tissue left that there would be a smell problem if they didn't? 
I mean, when they dug up Lee Oswald after only about 25 years he was
just a skeleton.  What could be left of the Grants by now that would
require special air-conditioning?  

Bruce "As long as you're up, get me a Grant's on the rocks" Tindall

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
From: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Subject: Re: AFU Flan Cub
Reply-To: rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Richard Sucgang)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:35:19 GMT

[sorry can't resist]

In article <1992Dec23.194239.3733@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)writes:
>>Terry "Can't someone give me a straight answer w/o a flame?!" Chan
>
>What do you expect?  Can't have rec.cooking w/o flame.
>
>Jon "Home style, home made, made from scratch, fresh, char broiled" Papai

Sure you can with a microwave!

richard "don'cha just love no cook cheescake" sucgang

-rich
Richard Sucgang  : Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology Columbia University
(sucgang@cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu | rs54@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu)
"...Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, individually, collectively or otherwise." 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: Driving without shoes
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 13:50:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.210420.3268@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com
(bill nelson) writes:
> [stuff deleted]
>
> The officers usually state that - when there are skid marks. All it means is
> that the person was attempting to make a panic stop. It says nothing at all
> about how efficient/effective that effort was.

Sometimes skidmarks will tell you. ASB may create a nice on-off-on-off mark.
An irregular pattern may indicate defective brakes or an attempt to avoid
blocking. Skidmarks that aren't straight also tell a story.

> The implication that you can "stand on the breaks" and stop in the shortest
> distance. There are only two times when that is true - if you have anti-skid
> brakes or if you have defective brakes.
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And, you should also have extreme luck. (And, why is the word "defective"
used here?)

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
From: boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell)
Subject: Re: Walking Between Rain Drops !!!!
Organization: Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:49:39 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.211033.9241@news.columbia.edu> bs24@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Bruce Sarte) writes:
>	I am somewhat new to this news thread and do not know if this
>	is a new or old subject, but some my colleagues and I have
>	recently started a discussion about the rain. 

"Say, Jeb, whuzzat fallin' on our heads?"

"Dunno, Bruce."

"S'wet."

"Yup."

"S'pose it's rain?"

"Mebbe."

"Les' go post to talk.bizarre. Mebbe we can get rainwater in
our keyboards."

"Sure thing, ol' buddy."

Alas, only Jeb's keyboard was shorted out.

> We have pondered
>	in what way can you not get hit by rain drops ???

Stay indoors. 

>	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 ??

Consider a body (a) with a velocity (b) running through
raindrops (c) carrying pizza (d). Body (a) begins debating
the question of whether it will get wet or stay dry by
running toward building (e). Body (a) stares upward at the sky, 
catching raindrops on tongue and doing other dumb things. 
Body (f) snatches pizza and runs inside,
reasoning that, while running may get body (f) wet,
body (f) will be considerably happier than body (a), which
will be (1) wet and (2) pizzaless.

>	- what effect does the rain have on this if the rain comes
>	  down consistently or when it varies ??

As any fool knows, rain falls consistently. All raindrops
are exactly 1cm apart and contain one cubic hemisemimeter
of H2O. If you can shift yourself exactly 90o out of phase
with respect to the raindrops' periodicity you will, in fact,
not get wet at all. You will soak your pizza however.

>	Any new views on this would be interesting !!!

This must be a postulate, I sure can't derive it.

>Bruce

If you say so.

-T

What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again (WHACK)

-- 
Tom Boutell, boutell@cshl.org

Clausthaler is the best non - alcoholic beer in the known universe.
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:50:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Colors of Olympic Rings
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

> The number is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^

... the squaws of the TWO OTTER hides!

Ray "that's okay, I once muffed a quote from the Muppet Movie" Depew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Dead Pigeons (was: Electric Field Question)
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:16:56 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Dec23.144557.8832@tellab5.tellabs.com> doug@tellabs.com (Doug David) writes:
>In article <IfAp=Oq00WBKA1dLBE@andrew.cmu.edu> "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>Excerpts from netnews.alt.folklore.science: 17-Dec-92 Dead Pigeons (was:
>>Electric.. by Drew Lawson@acuson.com 
>>> That is because NYC (no, I'm not using MSWord) also has millions of
>>> flies, cats, rats, crows and other things which will gladly eat a dead
>>> or slow pigeon.
>>
>
>NY has alot of homeless people too. Mmmmmm, nothin like pidgeon roasted
>over a barrel fire.

Back around 1967, The Avatar, a Boston underground newspaper, had a recipe
for roast Boston Common pigeon.

Tastes just like spam.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	merk!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: aluminum/aluminium (was alzheimer's and Aluminum pots and pans)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 18:25:39 GMT


In article <1992Dec29.001854.1604@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:

>ObUL: In England, it's spelled aluminium.


T.

From Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary:

     aluminium

     cheifly Brit. (1812) : ALUMINUM


Barth "in England it's still spelled Barth" Richards

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From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Date: 31 Dec 92 09:42:09 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <C01M0H.59p@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu 
(Ben Jackson) writes:
> I just read in our local paper that President-elect Clinton's first
> executive order was that there should be "fresh flowers" on his desk
> every morning.  Can anyone confirm this? 

Kinda hard to give an executive order a month before you become executive.  

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Them's the FAQs, ma'am
Date: 23 Dec 92 16:39:15 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Dec22.213824.22047@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>What about kidneys?

That was Leopold Bloom, not Dick Joltes.

Bruce "with relish" Tindall
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cjt1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Charles Ten Brink)
Subject: Re: American Civil War Stuff
Reply-To: cjt1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:01:37 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.215657.22821@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Whenever you visit the D'Angelo Law Library, be sure to ask Chuck to
>see the special collection of materials on obscentiy law that they keep
>locked away on the third floor, a collection rivalled only by that of
>Ed Meese or the Vatican.
>
Come on, you know we microfilmed that stuff and sent it to St. Louis
during World War II.

I thought we *were* the Vatican.
--Chuck
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From: geoffb@coos.dartmouth.edu (Geoff Bronner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: little girl embedded in grille (was: Re: I Li
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:12:20 GMT
Reply-To: geoffb@Dartmouth.EDU
Organization: Amos Tuck School
Disclaimer: I don't represent Dartmouth and Dartmouth doesn't represent me.

In <JTCHEW-221292104206@b50-afrd4.lbl.gov> JTCHEW@lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:

>excessive
>caution (driving far too slowly for conditions, stopping ten feet
>behind the stop sign just to make sure, negotiating a corner as
>though you were docking the Exxon Valdez) is one of the most
>useful signs by which the nice officer spots a drunk.

I was watching a 'Holiday Drunk Driving' type news report on WMTW
Portland, ME the other night and I had to laugh when they asked a cop how
he looks for drunk drivers. His response went like this, "People driving
below the speed limit, people speeding, people driving over the center
line for excessive periods of time, people driving eratically...."

Speeding and going too slow? Watch out Mainers!

-Geoff "What if you drive too slow and in the wrong lane?" Bronner
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	"Don't believe the hype!"
		-Public Enemy
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Need Recipes - Spinach Salad and Caesar Salad
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:34:41 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

A very confused poster writes:

> Hi, Does anyone have recipes/ingredient lists
> for both Spinach Salad and Caesar Salad?

Sure, but it'll cost you ... no, that's way too tired for THIS group...

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Dick "we only microwave pets in AFU!" Joltes		joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: terry awards
Date: 30 Dec 92 03:43:41 GMT
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor

In article <1992Dec29.174029.7136@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
>>You've sorta tried to multiply lemurs on a log table.
>		       ^^^^^^^^
>	What does "sum" have to do with multiplication?

Bet you can't use a slide rule, either.

Phil
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dfl@panix.com (Danny O'Bedlam)
Subject: Re: Federal Reserve Numbers (was: I Live to FAQ!)
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:37:42 GMT
Organization: Panix, (New Yawk City)

the reserve districts are:

I think this is in order.


	Boston		A
	NewYork		B
	Philadelphia	C
	Cleveland	D
	Richmond	E
	Atlanta		F
	Chicago		G
	Minneapolis	H
	St Louis	I
	Kansas City	J
	Dallas		K
	SanFrancisco	L

	there are several parts of the Federal Reserve system that are
not reserve district cities.  they are Culpepper, Virginia, for a long
time a processing center and original home of the old "Culpepper Switch";
Washington DC, home of the Board of Governors; and now, East Rutherford,
New Jersey (near the "Meadowlands" sports complex), called EROC, a system
center for FRB New York, replacing the backup site in Pearl River.  


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <9212241217.hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:17:28 GMT

hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey) writes:

	[ode deleted]

>If only my grandfather had known this.  He performed laborious
>calculations in biblical numerology, using 365.25 days per year
>and 365 nights.

	We all know he should have used 365.242197 days per year,
at least for the next 1650 years.

ObUL: Ships occassionally wreck on reefs that the Navy and Coast
Guard have on secret charts that they don't release to the public.

Jon"JOhn claude von DAMME=EMMJAOD=mnenomic for 31 day months in Spanish"Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Ethnicity & Soc.Secur.No.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 11:31:36 GMT

MIWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET () writes:
: The story I heard is that the 1950s era government rigged the social security
: system so that any government agent or knowledgeable employer or banker could
: tell the ethnicity of someone by the middle two numbers. An -06-, -52-, -32-,
: -12- or any other EVEN middle number belongs to Blacks, Hispanics, Jews,
: Asians, etc. Any ODD middle number (e.g.  -67-, -43-, -07-) shows its owner
: to be a WASP of reasonably pure upbringing.
:    I asked around and could find very few odd middle numbers. My results:
: 
:      * EVERY even-numbered peson was either, Black, Hispanic, Jewish, Asian,
:        Roman Catholic, Greek, or other Eastern European.
:      * EVERY odd-numbered person I found was white. A few were half Jewish
:        or half Roman Catholic.
: 
:     Coincidence or not, I would like to know what other people have
: found about this and the results of their informal surveys.

I can refut this by example. I would be considered a WASP. My middle two
digits are 56.

So, the UL is wrong. I also received my SSAN in the 60s.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:18:08 GMT

It's hard to tell who first wrote

>>I have never learned the mnemonic "thirty days hath September.....".

but if you want to know how many _nights_ there are a month, you can
use this mnemonic by Justin Richardson from _The_Faber_Book_of_
_Useful_Verse_ (Simon Brett, ed.)

    Rhyme for Remembering How Many Nights
	There are in the Month

    Thirty-one nights hath December,
    Plus six others we remember--
    Jan., July, Aug., May, Mar., Oct.
    The rest to thirty nights are docked,
    Save Feb., which twenty-nine hath clear,
    And twenty-eight each un-leap year.

If only my grandfather had known this.  He performed laborious
calculations in biblical numerology, using 365.25 days per year
and 365 nights.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: extreme strength (was: mom lifting car..)
Date: 31 Dec 92 13:55:42 GMT
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.10 Rev. Dec  7 1992
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

In <1992Dec29.185926.5236@panix.com>, Daniel Burstein writes:

>Ever carry someone on your back?  Figure on that being 200 pounds.  Ever
>pull someone up a climbing rope or ladder?  well, that's your two hundred,
>plus their two hundred.  
i doubt i have the strength to do either of those things, and i weigh
closer to 150 than to 200.  your examples are far from universal.

i *have* carried a 9 pound cat on my back, but i don't think that's what
you meant.


little "they said i wouldn't have to climb ropes in this newsgroup" gator
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:57:02 GMT

In article <doetzl.724953003@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> doetzl@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Joe Doetzl) writes:
>Subject: Re: Amusing signs

Driving back from LA to the Bay Area last week:

	LANDSCAPING - NEXT 23 MILES

Good thing they told us.......
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From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
Subject: Re: Dead Pigeons (was: Electric Field Question)
Date: 26 Dec 1992 21:44:14 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Others said:
# >Ok, so where are the pigeon bones?  Surely, they don't eat the bones
# >too.  Where are all the dead rats, cats, crows, etc (I know, flies
# >virtually turn into dust when they die) 

The pigeon bones are the same place all the elephant bones are.
Since that seems to be a mystery, and elephants are a little larger
than pigeons.......

The alternate, conspiracy theory is that the U.S. government is
collecting those dying pigeons to feed to the alien they have in 
Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson.

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