HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:46:57 GMT
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <1992Dec17.072606.3810@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <7939@news.duke.edu> klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj) writes:
>>
>>But you seem to be correct that there is not one in "Connecticut" [sic].
>
>How about Lowell Weicker?
>
>cjl

  Well, the last photo I saw of him, he looked like he had put on some
weight, but not enough to qualify as a town.  At least, not yet.

k "not sweating to the oldies.  yet." g

  Is it just coincidence that "follow up" and "f****d up" have the same
initials and same number of letters?

-- 
Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
Div. Nuclear Medicine  POB 3949		 voice: 919-681-5894
Durham, NC 27710  		         fax: 919-681-5636
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From: neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)
Subject: Re: Full moon and tides
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:23:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.153224.22250@newsgate.sps.mot.com> rapw20@email.sps.mot.com writes:
>Over the weekend, I heard a network news commentator say that high winds  
>and a full moon caused (or made worse) the higher-than-usual tide that  
>caused so much damage along the northeast coast. What does a full moon  
>have to do with it? I find it hard to believe that a full moon has any  
>effect on the tides. The mass of the moon, and hence its gravitational  
>pull on the ocean doesn't change, nor does its distance from the earth (at  
>least not because the moon is full).
>
   One thing does change, it's the relative positions of the sun, earth,
and moon. The sun also exerts a tidal influence, about 40% of the moon's
if I remember correctly. When the sun, earth, and moon all lie on a line
then the tidal effects of the sun and moon add up (in a crude sort of
way) to make a larger net tide. This happens when the moon is new or
full. When the moon is at half-phase then the sun is trying to stretch
the oceans out along the sun-earth line, the moon is trying to stretch
them along a line at right angles to this, and the effects fight each
other to give relatively weak tides.


-- 
 Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student  | Entropy isn't what it
 neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca    Ad astra  | used to be.
 utzoo.utoronto.ca!generic!cneufeld              |
 "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" |
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Counterclockwise Twisters
Date: 15 Dec 1992 06:59 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
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Summary: Another attempt to explain the US to Blighty
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>> been restored to their home.  Also, President Carter came to review the
>> damage and declare the town a "disaster area".  

>What does this mean? Does it mean that a bunch of spaced-out musicians had
>just played some very loud music there? Is it a special tactic to increase
>tourism a la` "disaster area of special interest", or does it just make
>the victims feel better? I think we should be told.

It qualifies the area for various kinds of governmental assistance -- most
notably, I believe, government-backed, low-interest loans.

Joe "Don't know whether the governor goes clockwise or counterclockwise" Chew
From: tbrowne@jarthur.claremont.edu (T. Erik Browne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Keywords: KIBO = Knowledge In Bozosity Out
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:27:39 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711

In article <1992Dec8.025721.12120@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>Does anyone know any interesting mnemonics for remembering things
>(as opposed to the other kinds of mnemonics)?

"How I want a drink.  Alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving
quantum mechanics."

The number of letters in each word gives you pi to the 14th decimal place.

How = 3
I = 1
want = 4

etc..

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From: farenebt@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Droopy)
Subject: Re: absentee ballots
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:14:29 GMT

friedman@ocf.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Friedman) writes:


>I've often heard people say that absentee ballots 
>(specifically for the last election)
>are only counted if the vote is close enough.

>So if I voted in the last election as an absentee, was my vote 
>counted and when (before or after the results came out)?

>Is this fact or fiction?

>Thanks

Well, my dad used to be a county elections commissioner here in NY
and he said that they wait until 1 week after election day and open
all the absentee ballots, regardless of how close the election. There
are often many local and state elections which can be decided by absentees
============================================================================
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: obrien@netcom.com (Robert O'Brien)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:21:44 GMT

bmb1021@ultb.isc.rit.edu (B.M. Buck) writes:
>pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins) writes:
>>
>>obTypographicalOddity: The English word with the largest number of
>>apostrophes is "fo'c's'le", short for "forecastle".
>>
>
>Interesting, but exactly how is fo'c's'le supposed to be pronounced?
>like it was spelled "foksil?"  

	Yup.  I'd make it "foksul" to help explain how it sounded to me.


>>obUL: Some people on the net actually know when apostrophes should
>>be used.
>>
>
>This is true, a friend of mine says he knew someone in college who knew
>this.  ;-).  Actually, I do know when apostrophes should be used, but
>that doesn't mean that I use them.
>

Being one of the bearers of the apostrophe handed down from Brien Boru,
first king of Eire ("Ireland"), I've made it a point to know when and how
to use them.  I just dont always choose to use this knowledge, such as
within this very sentence.

	Bob "Bob O'Bob" O'Brien
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Conductivity of water
Date: 15 Dec 1992 08:59 PST
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

>> why are firefighters not afraid to use leaking hoses near large voltages
>Ah, but we DO worry!

I missed that one, though I was not the original writer of the statement.
One does indeed assume that the third-rail power trip button would be of 
great interest to firemen!  

Joe "No, the power trip button has nothing to do with LSD" Chew
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Crazy as a $2 bill
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:07:39 GMT

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

>Hm. Are you fishing, or just poor at math?   8 + 8 = 13?

Yes, in base 13.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: New(?) UL, ban religious broadcasts
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:47:35 GMT

richg@hatch.socal.com (Rich Greenberg) writes:
: This morning on CBS radio's "Osgood File", Charlie described a new
: (to me) UL that may be an offshoot of the "modem tax" UL.

Nope - it appeared before the modem tax UL.

: According to this UL, Madeline Murray O'Hare, the (in)famous
: athiest is gathering signatures and has "many" thousands of
: signatures already on a petition to ban religious broadcasts
: on sunday.  The FCC is receiving thousands of letters daily
: against this petition.  Charlie says that they answer each one
: with (I assume a form) letter stating that there is no such petition,
: but the UL keeps going.
: 
: This is new to me.  Anybody else heard of this one?

It has been around almost as long as O'Hare has been an activist. It
is also false that she is making such an attempt.

The FCC gets occasional bursts of letters from some town or another,
when the rumor hits the area. They do not get thousands of letters
every day.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
From: (null pointer)@rock-opera.cc.purdue.edu (Dartanyan the Witchling)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:00:40 GMT

In article <If_xP4i00iUz43g88S@andrew.cmu.edu> "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>I just want to say that the apparent knowledge of drugs on the network
>and the volume of people that have significant knowledge makes me
>utterly sick.  Is there something about computers that forces you all to
>take drugs, or do you just hang out with people who and that's how you
>get your knowledge.... anyways, you'll tell me that YOU don't really DO
>them, but I won't believe you.
>
>This whole discussion of LSD has gone too far and is upsetting me more
>with every post.
>
>Steve
>
>
>"I can't understand what makes a man hate another man, help me
>understand." -Depeche Mode
>

	Then why are you reading alt.drugs?

				Sean
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell)
Subject: Re: Another University Exam One
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:17:38 GMT

briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) writes:

>Well, once upon a time, when I had about 90 minutes from the scheduled end of
>an exam I was giving and leaving town, I, personally, _did_ give a T/F test in
>a survey course where all 100 answers were "T" ...  The grade distribution
>looked about the same as any other similarly long T/F I had given, so I presume
>very few if any of the students notice3d the "pattern".

   I just finished teaching a course along with a collegue, and part
of the exam included some multiple choice questions. After we had
got the exams back from printing, my collegue realized that two of
his questions had been "cut-and-pasted" from his earlier copy of the
*marking* scheme for a previous exam, instead of from the students'
copy. As a result, the correct answers were marked with an asterisk!
We considered several alternatives:

   - reprint the page in question. (Too much work.)
   - use a black marker to put marks beside all questions. (The
     asterisk still showed through a trial copy.)
   - hope the students didn't notice. (Easiest.)

   We left the exam "as-is", and there appeared to be no greater
number of correct responses than expected on the two questions.


Dave Halliwell
Department of Geography
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
From: jrs@zippy.unet.com (John Switzer Frame 3.0)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Making Urban Legends - Carjacking
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:31:50 GMT
Organization: Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City

In article <12DEC199217521364@csa3.lbl.gov> jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera) writes:
>>> Son of wealthy furrier 
>> He was not the son of a wealthy furrier 
>
>I know the truth can be changed in many ways as it becomes urban legend,
>but a furrier transform?

As someone who's two days away from a Calc final, I hope that the new Congress
finally passes my suggestion of death by ferret for those who make horrible
puns such as this!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.science
From: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Subject: Dead Pigeons (was: Electric Field Question)
Reply-To: lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson)
Organization: ACUSON, Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 20:14:05 GMT

In article <sf=0Ymu00iUxA4PnZ8@andrew.cmu.edu> "Stephen M. Lacy" <sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>(On another note, where do pigeons go when they die?  I'm assuming that
>there are literally millions of them in places like NYC, yet you rarely
>see a dead one.)  

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.

Drew "does pigeon taste like chicken?" Lawson
-- 
Drew Lawson                      If you're not part of the solution,
lawson@acuson.com                you're part of the precipitate
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: More on "Thad"
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:35:24 GMT

pfritsch@skid.ps.uci.edu (Paul Fritschle) writes:

>starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky) writes:

>>I am listening at the moment to a newsradio interview with the people who
>>are analyzing "Thad's" letter.  According to the experts, there is a certain
>>amount of doubt regarding the fact that this letter was written by a child,
>>and a certain amount of suspicion that the whole thing is quite bogus.

>>(One of the people on the radio was checking the handwriting, and it has
>>some signs of an adult trying to imitate a child's writing.)
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>You mean like the odd combination of upper- and lower-case letters?
>Soon as my roommate and I saw that on the news we both said "Hoax."

You got it.  Although a dyslexic man called up the talk radio and mentioned
that HIS handwriting looks like that--might be a dyslexic kid.

>>it were real, and they are continuing the search for the mystery child...

>Doesn't hurt anything for them to, so long as they aren't wasting
>resources needed elsewhere, though, of what I recall of that area,
>there isn't too much up in that neck of the woods.
>
Like I said, no bustling metropolis.  :)
-- 
************************************************************************
*            Sarah Skovronsky     starfish@u.washington.edu            *
* "There's just no end to the fascinating things that are true."  --RB *
**********fnord!********furrfu!********hi-keeba!********meep!***********
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Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:40:11 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

trelford@trelford.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton) writes:

> 
> Now that Terry has raised the question of lust-crazed trekkies,
> I would like to ask for further elucidation myself.
> 
> First, what is the etiquette concerning the use of the holodeck?
> Would it be frowned upon if Cmdr Riker ordered the computer to
> produced the likenesses of Deanna Troi and Dr "Ball" Crusher,
> both dressed as leather-clad fetish-inducing hose monkeys?
> 
> What if Wesley did this?  What if the captain did it, and ordered
> the image of Wesley to watch?

As they KEEP ON TELLING US, they are all too well adjusted  in the
24th Century. No hang-ups. Death is to be welcomed at the right time,
etc. Besides, they probably don't NEED the holo-deck for your examples.

OBUl: NCC-1701-W will be destroyed by the Cylons.


-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
  This .sig unintentionally left blank.

Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.
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From: mccall@Oswego.EDU (D. Todd Mccall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.sex,alt.flame
Subject: Re: New Idea
Date: 11 Dec 92 22:12:49 GMT
Reply-To: mccall@oswego.Oswego.EDU (D. Todd Mccall)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Dec9.181912.2116@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_huntercj@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>
>
>
>                                 FAR RIGHT
>                         Articles of Confederation
 
 [Lots of really intolerant stuff deleted to save bandwidth]
 
 If it wasnt so long, I would've thought it was a case of unattended terminal,
 as it is...it sounds intolerant, and terribly unoriginal...and dangerous as
 it represents a social step back about 100 years or more. The intolerance
 represented in the article(too long to requote) is, IMHO, very unAmerican,
 however being able to say/think it is American.(classic paradox :)
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From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel K. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Frontier?
Date: 18 Dec 92 09:42:37 GMT
Organization: Escape from Blacksburg, VA

In article <28014@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>
>A friend of mine told me this story about trekkies.  It seems
>that one of his friends had a sister who was a very quiet,
>religious person, who spent most of her time reading.  After
>a while, she became a real avid trekkie; going to conventions,
>reading books, and finally getting to the point where she
>began writing her own stories and swapping it with other
>people at those conventions.
>
>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?

If *anyone* can, it's the readers of talk.bizarre.  Why, just the other day
Matt Welsh was rhapsodizing about a hot date between the Horta and that being
that ate hatred.  Oy, the lubricant bill for that episode alone could have
bankrupted the Gorn, were it not for the fact that the Gorn had video rights to
the whole episode.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: UL: Monumental LSD overdose taken (was: Re: Brands of LSD)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:05:00 GMT

sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu ("Stephen M. Lacy") writes:
: 
: I just want to say that the apparent knowledge of drugs on the network
: and the volume of people that have significant knowledge makes me
: utterly sick.  Is there something about computers that forces you all to
: take drugs, or do you just hang out with people who and that's how you
: get your knowledge.... anyways, you'll tell me that YOU don't really DO
: them, but I won't believe you.

Sigh - another moralistic asshole who wants to determine what is right
for everyone else.

For your information - I do not use the illegal drugs. I couldn't care
less whether you believe me or not. That does not mean that it is wrong
for me to have an interest in the substances.  I also have a very strong
interest in explosives. That does not mean that I go out and blow things
up every chance I get.

: This whole discussion of LSD has gone too far and is upsetting me more
: with every post.

Well, don't read the fucking posts then. No one is forcing you to. Go
sit in front of the boob tube and suck on a few bottles of lite beer
instead. 

Sheesh! Get a life - and stay out of the lives of others.

Of course, it could be a case of another person who left their terminal
unattended. If so, then the above is directed at the "person" who made
the posting.

Bill
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From: wisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Wisp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: College Libraries Funded by the Trivial
Date: 15 Dec 92 10:13:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England

In article <1992Dec14.031342.25424@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.022412.19178@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>>Wasn't Yale funded by a lock manufacturer?
>>
>>Derek "You can always pick them" Tearne
>
>That was a barrel of laughs.
>
>Hugh "laughed until I stopped" Grierson

At least you started...

The Wisp. [we are *not* amused...]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: leecr@microsoft.com (Lee Crocker)
Subject: Re: Amusing signs
Date: 15 Dec 92 05:29:26 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

>But you seem to be correct that there is not one in "Connecticut" [sic].

Misspelled spelling flames are always amusing, but I think this is a
new form--[sic] inserted after a correctly spelled word.
-- 
Lee Daniel Crocker    | Free minds; free bodies; free trade.
leecr@microsoft.com   | Libertarian Party  1-800-682-1776
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From: jane@soave.swdc.stratus.com (Jane Beckman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,ba.politics,ca.politics,talk.politics.misc
Subject: They used to think...
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:17:09 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., San Jose, CA

I just thought of a new "retroactive UL" over the weekend.  I
was discussing archeology with someone.  And they said...

"You know, they say early man didn't understand about sex.
You know, babies just came.  They didn't make the connection
that sex had anything to do with it, because babies came so
much later.  Sex was one thing, and having babies was another.
That's why there was a mother goddess, but no father goddess.
They didn't realize babies had fathers, too."

And I realized I'd heard this one a couple times.  Sounds a
lot like "In Columbus' time, everyone thought the world was
flat."  

And besides, how are we to know what folks thought about sex,
back at the dawn of history?  It's not like they left sex
manuals behind.  

--
  Jilara   [jane@swdc.stratus.com]

"The field of pseudo-science hasn't progressed much in ten
years, except to gain access to the net." --from ca.earthquakes
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