HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hellcat@wetware.com (HellQat)
Subject: Morpheus gets nerdy
Organization: Castle Wetware SemiResident TroubleMaker
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:12:06 GMT


Portnoy sat close to the corner, which wasn't too difficult,
seeing as it wasn't really a corner, just a vertical line.
His face screwed up in concentration.  He applied the ink
to the wall--

"HI!  Whatcha doin'?"

The sound of the penguin's voice made Portnoy jump.  His eyes
became mere lines and he began grumbling like he'd learned awhile
back from one of Terry Gilliam's dirty-old-man animations.

"Go away."

"Why, what is all that stuff you're writing on the wall?"

"It's a lex specification.  Go away.  You're annoying me."

"A what??"  The penguin sounded confused.

Portnoy was pissed.  He stood up on his stool, which was quite
a feat in only two dimensions, and yelled at the rounded, large-snouted
figure of the penguin.

"GO AWAY YOU GODDAMN STUPID PENGUIN!!!"

The penguin was so startled he jumped clear out of the frame.

Portnoy continued his work, which was difficult at first because
he couldn't see much when eyes were still lines, but soon his face
radiated satisfied and inspired vengeance as he worked, muttering
and grumbling the whole time.  Finally, he stepped back to admire
his work:


%{
/*
**  opus.l
*/
%}

LETTER		[A-Za-z]

%%
OPUS		return PENGUIN;
POOPUS		return SHITTY_PENGUIN;
FLEAPUS 	return PARASITIC_PENGUIN;
CRAPPUS 	return PIGLIKE_PENGUIN;
DUFUS		return STUPID_PENGUIN;
ODIPUS  	return CONFUSED_PENGUIN;
VEXPUS		return ANNOYING_PENGUIN;

{LETTER}US	return KILL_PENGUIN_IN_COLOURFUL_AND_IMAGINARY_WAYS;
.		;
%%
#include y.tab.h


Portnoy couldn't wait to start on the yacc grammar, especially the
actions...

-- 

HellQat --> Who?  Me?  Working too hard?


Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rigler@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Michael A. Rigler)
Subject: Re: The Toilet Revolution!/Revelation!
Organization: Sex, Cheese and Rock 'n' Roll
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 03:34:55 GMT

cj@sgi.com writes:
>
>kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov writes:
>|Once you have seen a member of the opposite sex brushing their teeth,
>|all thoughts of lust go straight out the window.
>
>This is utterly untrue.  All my sweetheart-with-the-phallic-name
>has to do is *floss*, and I am moved to jump him.

It depends.  Some lovers floss with elegance.  Some are even downright
sexy when they floss.  The best lovers will overcome their inhibitions 
and allow you to floss them.

But some lovers drool and make little *plink* noises and spatter tiny
multicolored nuggets of last night's dinner onto the mirror.  The worst
ones of all open their mouths real wide so you can see their uvulas 
wiggling, and then they try to talk:  "Hnxl?  Hiv yoo s'nmeed m'fxln?"

--
Rigler                       "Tremble and urinate before me."
                                                    --Ken Johnson
                                                      (copyright 1991)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Subject: Re: Repulican Truths (Oxymoron #406)
Reply-To: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 05:21:06 GMT


In a previous article, cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) says:

>I'm into it.  Today's secret word is "choice".
>Scream REAL LOUD whenever you hear it!
        ^^^^^^^^^
s/b VERY LOUDLY.  But then, it's your "choice".

YYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
-- 
=======================
"Endeavor to persevere"
=======================
From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: uk.misc,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Green transport?
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:27:58 GMT
Followup-To: uk.misc,talk.bizarre
Organization: Bugs-R-Us


In UK.MISC article <Bt5rC5.B64@exnet.co.uk> dhd@exnet.co.uk (Damon)
writes:

#  I think [bus companies] have a problem in that the quality of diesel
#  fuel is [not] tightly controlled ...  they have to tune for the worst,
#  thus making more mess than they need under ideal conditions. 

Heinz Wolf writes: Der challenche facink der teems in diss Great Egg
Race is to build der self-tunink Diesel Enchine out off sree
koathengers, a pile off old kutlery en a krate of old telephone
exchenche parts in forty-five minutes. 

-- Heinz Wolf


-- 
////  Advice to dieters:          ////  Ken Johnson, A I Applications Institute
////    Never eat more than       ////       80 South Bridge, EDINBURGH EH1 1HN
////    you can carry.            ////                 E-mail ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk
////               -- Miss Piggy  ////     phone 031-650 2756  fax 031-650 6513
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:26160 alt.elvis.sighting:24
From: pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk (Jakob G}rdsted)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.elvis.sighting
Subject: Re: GOOLEY: I SAW ELVIS
Date: 16 Aug 92 01:12:06 GMT
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

glockner-gregory@CS.YALE.EDU (Gregory Glockner) writes:

>In article <1992Aug12.045828.25414@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> rcoursey@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Robert Leon Coursey) writes:
>>Ok...for the last time...
>>
>>Elvis is dead! He has been for a LONG time now. Let him rest in pieces.

>No!  No!  Not according to what I saw in the Weekly World News!

>It seems that about every two weeks, one of the tabloids runs a story on
>an Elvis sighting.  My personal favorite was:

>  "I died, went to heaven, and met Elvis!"

>I'm convinced that these guys who write these stories must get really 
>drunk and have one great time writing them.  All you need are a few
>ingredients:

>Elvis, Jimmy Hoffa, Pregnant Grannies, Space Aliens, Hitler, etc.

>Here are some I'm making up:

>"8 Month Pregnant Grannie marries 3 headed Space Alien"

>"Jimmy Hoffa and Hitler found in Serbian concentration camp"

Who is Jimmy Hoffa? 
--
      Jakob Gaardsted   .    .  | Black Rainbow(TM)     .         .      .
  Computer Science Department . |. Invaporated      .        .        .    .
University of Aarhus, Jylland(!)|   .            .      . Cordless Life  .  .
 .  pilgrim@daimi.aau.dk   .    |          .    .    .     Pointless Mouse .
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:26046 soc.culture.german:5645
From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Subject: is this a mid-life crisis?
Reply-To: cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Organization: SGI TechPubs
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:05:36 GMT

---
I'm thinking about taking a motorcycle riding course.
I would love to own a luscious leather jacket.
My SO says that this is not ridiculous, and that he
would be happy to ride behind me.  I'm having trouble
believing him.

Am I having a mid-life crisis?  Aren't I too young for that?
(I'm 26.)  Aren't middle-aged men the only ones who get to 
have mid-life crises?

---
c j silverio
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: Zed <zed@silver.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: BEST IN BED
Summary: I just sez 'em, I don't explains 'em
Reply-To: zed@silver.lcs.mit.edu
Organization: Liars for Truth
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 21:03:50 GMT

cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:

>I think it's healthy to give men some of their 
>objectification right back in their faces.  It's
>instructive for the poor little dears.

I 'xpect this is about so efficacious as splashing 
a fish to teach it how water feels.

-- 
 "A falling dream is a wonderful dream, one of the best dreams one can have.
                           Where did you fall to, and what did you discover?"
zed@silver.lcs.mit.edu
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Jim Small's secret research product.
Date: 14 Aug 92 19:24:08 GMT
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

You all ever wonder what ol Jim Small does over there at NMRDC, which
stands for Naval Medical Research and Development Command and not
anything to do with Roger David Carasso? I never did, but then I got
wind of it.

You know how they've figured out that the brains of homosexuals are
somehow structurally different from heterosexuals?

Well the Navy figured that they could develop a system whereby they
could pass recruits through a CAT scan and immediately sort out the
homosexuals and send them home. This, coupled with urinalysis and HIV
testing could let them do sort of a one stop elimination of
undesirables.

Well that's what Jim Small is in charge of.

rp -- although by the time he's done Bill Clinton will be president and
      the Navy will be working on eliminating gay harassment.
From: kazu@radix.co.jp (Ono Kazunori)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: lue!!!
Date: 18 Aug 92 11:37:00 GMT
Distribution: talk
Organization: Radix Co. Ltd.,Yokohama, Japan

Suomalaiset!!!
Jos haluat ystaevaeae Japanissa.
Olen taenne!!!
Nyt opin ja opiskelen suomea.
Ja puhun vaehaen suomea.
Laehetae E-kirjettaesi minulle!!!		Odotan sun
E-kirjettaesi!!!
					Kiitos.
--
===<< Kazunoli Ono >>==========================================================
|   Office : Radix Co. Ltd. 1-1-5 Furo-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Japan      |
|   Home   : 1-1 Futaba-cho, Minami-ku, Yokohama-shi, 232 Japan               |
======================================================<< kazu@radix.co.jp >>===
From: waldbyjf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (The Automatic Waldby)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Descent
Date: 22 Aug 92 23:44:45 GMT
Reply-To: waldbyjf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

I am a new day dawning.  My new power is simply to be, and to
evolve.  Later, perhaps, I'll remember to have been.  But today...

..I shall race towards the twilight with blistering haste.  For I
exist to find her, to witness her milk white skin glistening in the 
moonlight, to feel her belly ripple at my caress.  To breathe her 
strange scent...

..filling my head with wild horses and fields of clover.  Lost 
for an age in dense thicket of hair as the Empire crumbles.  Tracing 
a lazy arabesque along her inner thigh.  Brushing downy fur with my 
lips.  I dream as a child dreams of the empires yet to be and of my 
glorious part to play in them...

..until I break over snowy mountains and shine my light down on 
two perfect circles of red and gold.

Mother never warned me about this.  Should I not take nourishment 
from the proffered teat?   Yes, I think I should...

--
Auto - Waldby
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr))
Subject: Rictus HEP, big spender
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:39:42 GMT

He's going to spend 8 billion on an ssc.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.cascade
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Subject: Re: toast
Followup-To: misc.test
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:15:50 GMT

In article <5899@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite) writes:
>Blair P. Houghton writes:
>>Currants.
>Currency.
Crabalocker Fishwife.

				--Blair
				  "Clearing out the cobwebby
				   corners of my cranium."
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Origins of this group
Date: 13 Aug 92 03:15:44 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats

In article <Bsu6Ht.By9@news.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey) writes:
>In article <=13m2k=.rdc@netcom.com> rdc@netcom.com (Roger David Carasso) writes:
>>mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] It Came From The Sump") writes:
>>)pavel@vizbiz.com writes:
>>))Where did this group originate?
>>)Here.
>>Hell.
>
>While that isn't quite where it originated, it definitely does seem to be
>where it is going.


And my sled is ready.

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
From: donald@convex.com (Don Dodson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Seven Letter rot13 pair
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:20:36 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <71394@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>So is someone going to tell me the magic unix incantation to find all these?

Periodicy is running at about 2.1 years.  That long ago I posted
the following:

rot13 < /usr/dict/words | sort | comm -12 - /usr/dict/words

Don

Also posted a story composed entirely of these words.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: nelson@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Nelson)
Subject: Re: big dog party (rmk flame)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:30:28 CDT

In article <9208172138.25@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug17.111442.23303@walter.cray.com> nelson@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Nelson) writes:
|> 
|> >|> blah...blah...
|> >|> this year, would anybody bother to come? 
|> >|> m
|> >
|> >gooley would...but then, he comes whenever he can.
|> 
|> Somehow, I would never consider
|> someone who is isolated on the northern prairies at Cray Research to have the
|> last word on sexual sophisitication.
|> 
|> When you can post prose here of the same caliber as Mark, then come back and
|> tell us of your great sexual conquests.
|> 
|> Doesn't Cray have a FQDN?
|> 
my dearest most sovereign mr. kelly -

i would have thought that you, being the net god you claim to be,
would have been able to translate my internet (xxx.com) address to
UUCP.  apparently i was mistaken, so here...we...go...now pay vewy,
vewy cwose attention mr. kelly.

all you do, is take my address listed below, and essentially turn 
it around - uunet!cray!eastrg1!nelson

phew...that was a mental strain, mr. kelly, but i'm sure you too 
can learn this important skill.

i also think that you've been underestimating the sexual prowess of 
women other than those in your family.  i'm sure that your personal
experience has been minimal and perfunctory, so i would just say that
sex starved people, such as yourself, in glass houses...

and, one more thing...cray research is not solely located in
minnesota and wisconsin.  the office i work in is located in maryland.
whoa...hold on now...mr. kelly was misinformed?  yes, sadly this is
true.

c
oh, and was that comment about "posting prose of the same caliber" some
sort of challenge?

+===============================================================+
Christine Nelson           Going out of my mind...   
nelson@eastrg1.cray.com          ...back in 5 minutes.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: john@lightning.mmm.ucar.edu (John J. Allison)
Subject: true story
Organization: STORM Project Office, NCAR, Boulder
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:26:16 GMT

I once knew a man who ate spam.
He liked it so much that he hated ham.
When people laughed, he said "flim-flam,
I'll smash you with my Dodge Ram."
-- 
----\
-jja
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
Subject: Re: BEST IN BED
Reply-To: cj@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:40:45 GMT


In article <1992Aug19.085252.23564@alembic.acs.com>, gypsy@alembic.acs.com writes:
|personally, i would find it even more useful
|if t.b could find something more bizarre and
|less demeaning to all involved to discuss.

Sex?  Demeaning?  Hoo ha.  That's your scene,
not mine, sister.

I think it's healthy to give men some of their 
objectification right back in their faces.  It's
instructive for the poor little dears.

---
c j silverio
From: reese@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Hated hATed hAteD
Date: 15 Aug 92 14:02:56 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <memo.576293@cix.compulink.co.uk>, dwindera@cix.compulink.co.uk (Wavey Davey) writes:
> 
> Who is the most hated person in talk.bizarre?
> 

I think you know the answer to that already.

Jason
From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: If you send it, he will come
Date: 17 Aug 92 18:47:59 GMT
Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA
In-reply-to: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 15 Aug 92 05:56:33 GMT



In article <1992Aug15.055633.4445@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka) writes:


     44,313,436,331 = 89 x 497,903,779


Geezum, and I used to think that RICHH had too much time on his hands.

Actually, according to my Casio CM-100 (computer math calc[<-fancy
sci-fi computer writing]):


89 x 497,903,779 = -E-

Which analgrams to:
===================
--E
E--
- -E
  and:
BYTE MY WEENIE
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: The course of evolution
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:58:17 BST
Distribution: world
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.

mrx@sgi.com (you: coma: marilyn monroe) writes:
> kenj@kambo.wpd.sgi.com (Ken ``Blackfur'' Jones) writes:
> >*I finally gave in and bought SimEarth [...]
> 
> >Oh, I got that.  Every time I play, I feel a little bit like mister x.
> >Especially, when I get bored and bring on an earthquake or radically
> >change the tilt of the planet's axis.
> 
> you too, eh?
> 
> i'm still working on the interface to the
> giant orbiting induction coils.

I tend to feel it's kinda cheating to just plonk down animals unless they've
previously evolved naturally.  As a result, I often fail to get a good mix of
species.  My first attempt at a planet ended up with sentient trichordates,
no insects, no mammals, and no dinosaurs.

What I really want is a planet populated by sentient carniferns.  I nearly
did it once, but unfortunately I find it hard to resist the temptation to
fiddle with the atmosphere, and I ended up submerging most of them under
water and then frying the rest when I tried to lower the oceans a bit.


mathew
-- 
"Even the most bizarre of the unions (probably that between a cat's gall
 stone and a single note 'G' from CNN's ident theme) managed to convey a
 sense of rampant impropriety."  -- 'Fortran Five', Simon G. Lawrence Leonard
From: myers@src.dec.com (Andrew Myers)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: 4 words + 1
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:56:27 GMT
Organization: shimrod

semipermeable
apotheosis
ungulate
ukase

-andru
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ajm@wag.caltech.edu (Abner J. Mintz)
Subject: Re: Libra Verdi
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 13:15:58 GMT

>The Dewey Decimal System sucks.  If you have more than 10 books,
>you want the Library of Congress system.  Not that the LoC system
>is perfect, either:  computing machines were once a subtopic of
>mathematics.  As a result, all of the billions of computer books
>are jammed into one section of the QAs.

Could be worse.  I once found "the Amityville Horror" and a number of other
horror novels filed in a library's religion section.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Big Squeegee)
Subject: Re: BEST IN BED
Organization: The International House of Secretions
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:52:37 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.162221.23481@ccs.QueensU.CA> 3005904@jeff-lab.queensu.ca (Colleen Davis (Dexter)) does her imitation of a nose:
*ooh!ooh!Pick.me!Pick.me!


Mark "Be calm, look cute" Lippert
From: heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: ss consideration
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:08:27 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center

In article <Bsy9qq.86w@news.udel.edu>, hamlet@ravel.udel.edu (Chris Adams) writes...

>today, I unsubscribed to t.b
> 
>yesterday, I caught myself thinking about
>buying a television.
> 
>the day before, I gave a lot of thought
>to the imperial palace in kyoto.

Freakin' english majors.  I own *2* TVs and I'M DAMN PROUD OF IT!

John G. Heim                                 Email:  heim@macc.wisc.edu

"Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't." 
                   - The Adventures of Lone Wolf Scientific
From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Fess Up, pt. 2
Date: 20 Aug 92 18:39:55 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test
Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA
In-reply-to: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU's message of 20 Aug 92 14:14:20 GMT


In article <1992Aug20.141420.968@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson) writes:

   BUT I think I will play along with the game, and attempt to put my condom-
   protected dick inside any woman who writes  to me about this. And when I do,
   carasso, since you are my main suspect, i will mail you this condom as 
   a present, suitable for framing or re-use.                  ^^^^^^^
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^


ObDumbQuestion: How do you re-use a condom?



ObStolenAnswer:  Turn it inside out and shake the fuck out of it.
From: EE117@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: May we have 4'33" of silence please?
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:55:27 GMT
 <1992Aug15.025522.26752@nuscc.nus.sg>
Organization: University of Liverpool

only if you remember to oil the piano lid

-Ian.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: nelson@eastrg1.cray.com (Christine Nelson)
Subject: Re: big dog party
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:14:41 CDT

In article <1992Aug16.055315.21081@alembic.acs.com>, gypsy@alembic.acs.com (hippolyte) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> so if there were to be a t.b.b.d.p in, say,
|> the virginia beach/williamsburg area, sometime
|> this year, would anybody bother to come? 
|> 
|> m

gooley would...but then, he comes whenever he can.

c

+===============================================================+
Christine Nelson           Going out of my mind...   
nelson@eastrg1                     ...back in 5 minutes.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: From _Over 2000 Place Names of Alberta_
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:20:24 GMT

PENHOLD, village
   "When the railway were putting the line through(The Calgary-Edmonton
   Railway, CPR)they had a little conference trying to determine a name for
   what is now Penhold but could not come to any agreement.  One of the men
   accidentally dropped his pen and the nib stuck in the map they were looking
   at.  This gentleman said(you guessed it) 'Let's cal it Penhold'."
   (Mrs. Florence Long, secretary-treasurer, 1970)

--
---Alfvaen(a.k.a. Aaron V. Humphrey)
"So you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts
 what's so amazing about really deep thoughts"
Current Album--Tori Amos:Little Earthquakes
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