HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of the large and small prong on 2-pronged plugs
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:39:46 GMT

In article <15NOV199212004732@elroy.uh.edu> st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
>That subject says it all ...

Polarized plugs have one wide blade and one not-so-wide one.  One is
ground, but I forget which.  Someone will know, I'm sure.
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.science:4049 sci.misc:1838 rec.arts.startrek.tech:6383 rec.scuba:6096
From: awright@gssec.bt.co.uk (Alan Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.science,sci.misc,rec.arts.startrek.tech,rec.scuba
Subject: Re: Human bodies explode in vacuum?
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:26:00 GMT
Organization: BT, Software Engineering Centre, Glasgow, UK

In article <1992Nov17.193610.14444@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>,
mayne@phi.cs.fsu.edu (William Mayne) writes:
|> 
|> >If I'm not mistaken, the 130' limit applies to ALL recreational SCUBA diving,
|> >as going deeper than that requires *planned* decompression stops, at which
|> >point it's no longer recreational, but professional, diving.
|> 
|> I disagree with the use of the word "professional" here. Nobody pays me
|> to dive. I know lots of cave and a few wreck divers who do technical diving
|> but aren't in any sense professional divers. Staged decompression certainly
|> takes some additional knowledge and preparation. But it is not so difficult
|> or dangerous that it deserves a reputation for being macho or elite.
|>
|> [deleted]
|>
|> Bill Mayne

Is it not about time that the terminology was sorted out? We need to
get some form of common reference when discussing technical issues.
I don't think there is any need to get hung up on this but it does
keep cropping up. Here are some suggestions:

Recreational Diver:	No decompression and no deeper than 40m/130'.
			Relaxing and enjoying the view, when the viz
			is more then 6 inches :-).

Sport Diver:		Competitive or hunter type, similar to recreational
			diver but more exertion and stress. Not me :-)

Technical/Deep Diver:	Nitrox/heliox/caves etc but no strenuous work.
			... suggestions

Semi-Pro Diver:		Possibly the type who works in a dive store and
			does odd u/w jobs around the harbour/marina, or
			the odd bit of salvage.

Marine Biologist:	Makes lots of money doing u/w films about marine
			life and giving interviews (being facetious here
			- I know they do an excellent job)

	Technical note: my associate beside me has just pointed out that
	'facetious' has all the vowels and they are all in the correct
	order - what a mine of information he is :-)

Professional Diver:	Brave, brave people. Salvage, stress, special
			equipment/tools/breathing apparatus, etc.

I would also class a professional diver who dives in his recreational
time differently from a Recreational Diver unless he conforms to the
definition.

How about a few proposals and then we can ask Nick about including it
in the FAQ.

Alan

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
Subject: Re: Real Death at Disney
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:31:28 GMT

dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:

>In article <1992Nov13.215926.21700@u.washington.edu>, 
>  medic@hardy.u.washington.edu (Travis Lauricella) writes...

>>The article, regarding a death in DisneyWorld, has been canceled.

>>Besides, a friend of a friend of mine got hauled off to jail for doing that.

>For dying at Disney World, or for cancelling an article?

No - for being a friend of a friend.
-- 
Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc.   Amateur Radio Callsign KZ1O
Project Leader, OCR products            kz1o@n0ary.#noca.ca.na
Internet: dbushong@wang.com
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Subject: Re: Those whacky, flakey, Satan worshippers
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 22 Nov 92 19:00:30 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

In article <1992Nov22.234515.434@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer) writes:
> SATAN-WORSHIPPING BOY SENT HOME FROM SCHOOL
> 
> COLORADO CITY, Ariz. - A 14-year-old boy was sent home from school for
> wearing a "Batman Returns" Penguin T-shirt.

To our international audience:

Colorado City is in the far north of Arizona, right next to the Utah
border.  It is heavily Mormon, heavily inbred, and polygamous.  In fact
its claim to fame is that it has successfully thumbed its nose at state
and federal officials who have tried to enforce anti-polygamy laws.

>      James Bateman was told to change on Nov. 4 by Colorado City School
> District Principal Lawrence Steed.
>      Bateman's mother said Steed believed the T-shirt was inappropriate
> and that it represented devil worship.

This sounds plausible.

(YES, another afu motto.)
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: how microwaves cook (Flaming Microwaves ILLEGAL in Colorado!)
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:37:07 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Nov22.041400.29285@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> kkoller@nyx.cs.du.edu (Capt. Sarcastic) writes:
>rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>
>>um...kurt? could you watch and make sure that next time you don't attach my
>>sig to something i didn't say? 'cause next time, it might be important.

>>thanks.

>>rachel "congeniality" perkins

>Sure, no problem.
>
>Now is the time for all good me to come to the aid of their country.
>       -Rachel Perkins
>
>      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
>                  -Rachel Perkins

much better, thanks...

bah.

rachel "where's that 'famous quotes' book again?" perkins


--
	          -just give me what for,
         rachel perkins = rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu 
       naked coed internet grep-always keep your link up!
From: eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Mandates (Was: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.)
Summary: murky mandate
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:02:14 GMT
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

In article <1992Nov18.133516.26440@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In article <17NOV199201422048@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov> dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
> >In article <Bxu0L8.F6y@chinet.chi.il.us>, 
> >  dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung) writes...
> >
> >>Let's stop misusing "clear mandate"!  
> >Not at all.  A "mandate" is an authoritative command.  Bush was given a
> >clear, authoritative command to get his fanny out of the White House and back
> >to Maine or Texas or wherever else he wants to pretend to come from.
> I agree about Bush; my point is that Clinton doesn't have one, as a slew of
[stuff deleted]

And if the election were held a week earlier or a week later, the
results would likely have been dramatically different. Let's face it:
the electorate is fickle. They wake up one day, yawn, glance at the
paper... "Oh, my Gawd, look what [Candidate X] did yesterday! I'm
[1) voting, 2) not voting] for him!" The population is a sea aboil
with mandates, bitterness, uncertainty principles... Better not to
worry about it and let the guy do some work.

-------- eric@npri.com ---------- or ---------- ...uunet!uupsi!npri6!eric -----
        "Women, women... Very nearly indispensable, creatures of grace."        
Eric C. Williams/ NPRI/ Alexandria, VA/ USA/ (703) 683-9090/ Usual disclaimers.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: elf@ee.ryerson.ca (luis fernandes)
Subject: cheap chips (Was Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?)
Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:49:54 GMT

heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:
>Mike Berman <MSB101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>
>>Along related lines (I know this one is true), it is cheaper to make certain
>>computer chips with math coprocessors than to make them without (since it costs
>> extra money to sever the line to the coprocessor).  But the ones with the
>>coprocessor cost more.  Of course in this case, you're paying for technology...
>
>[...]
>
>That is, the main processor was
>working, but there was some trouble during the fabrication that screwed
>up only the "math coprocessor" portion of the chip.  Well, there was no
>reason for Intel to throw away a perfectly fine half-working chip, so
>they "officially" removed the floating point unit and called it the SX.
>
>	So, it was more than just profitteering on the part of Intel.
>
What I cannot reconcile is that a 50MHz i486 (~15MIPS) chip costs
~$500 (in quantities of 1000) while the new SPARC chip that Sun
has produced with TI, costs ~$150 (SPARC2 speed ~30MIPS); with this
new chip the whole computer (video, IO, etc.) can be designed with
12 (yes, twelve) support chips.

--
luis fernandes  <elf@ee.ryerson.ca>
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:29397 sci.med:21396
From: masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
Subject: Smoke pipes -- leave later!
Date: 23 Nov 92 15:36:53 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


And then there's a study that found that pipe smokers live an average
of two years _longer_ than nonsmokers! It was in the papers a couple
of years ago; I can probably dig up the reference if anyone's
interested. 

I can see it now... Californians jogging up to the tofu-and-sprouts
bar in their spandex suits for an alfalfa shake and a bowl of Borkum
Riff... 

Well, it's the kind of thing that just might be true. C. Everett Koop
himself, surgeon general under Reagan and no fan of cigarettes, said
that pipes cause no signifigant increase in heart disease.  (Yeah, I
know the objections. Spare me your flames, I use 'em to light my
Peterson.)

~\U Steve.
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Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?
From: leb@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (BASEL, LESLIE)
Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:29 MST  
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <1992Nov17.211708.15580@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes...
>egilmour@ac.dal.ca writes:
>: 
>: bill> According to some people from the UK - pedophilia seems to be fairly
>: bill> well established there.  It is not in the US.
>: 
>: bill> Here in the US - most child molesters are relatives of the child, usually
>: bill> the father or uncle.  There are no organized groups anywhere in the world,
>: bill> that has been documented.
>: 
>: First of all, what do they mean by a well-organized group?  I believe I saw
>: on 60 minutes or some such show that pedophiles from all walks of life
>: from many different countries were taking advantage of the situation in 
>: countries where prostituting children is legal (or at least overlooked), 
>: and that these prostitution rings cater to international pedophiles - 
>: even ones from the US.
>: Does this constitute an organized group?
> 
>Can you believe 60 minutes? It is a sensationalistic news broadcast.
> 
>Note that I was talking about pedophelia and child molestation, here in the
>US - not in the international scene. It turns out that the largest distributor
>of "child porn" here in the US is the US government. They use it to attempt
>to entrap pedopheliacs. Apparently, they have had little success.   
> 
>As far as organized child molestation groups - I don't think they exist.
>Certainly, there are prostitution "rings" - there are "rings" which will
>supply anything for which a person is willing to pay a sufficient price.
>I have seen no documentation that they are organized. In other words, 
>some of the "rings" may know each other - but I doubt if they are organized
>into cooperative groups. I might be wrong - is there anyone posting here  
>who lives in one of the countries that allows child prostitution?
> 
>Bill

The name of the U.S. org. is NAMBLI (or something close) - 
North American Man/boy Love I(something).
I don't know much more than that except they (?) found one meeting in a 
library in LA and were kicked out.

Rodger Coghlan

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: dishwasher trick
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 01:04:00 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

In article <1992Nov13.205209.1699@bert.eecs.uic.edu> artn@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Stephan Meyers) writes:
>>> Put some clean plates in your dishwasher before your start it.
>>> You will see that the rest of your dishes get cleaner than usual.
>>Try putting fewer plates in your dishwasher before you start it.
>>You will see that the dishes get cleaner than usual.
>
>	I have noticed that the fewer plates in the dishwasher gets
>them cleaner, but I am not clear on why this is so.  In the laundry
>it makes sense (less clothes=more water and less dirt to get at), but
>the dishwasher never fills with water (does it?  I've opened mine at
>many points during the cycle, and it's never splashed out at me), the
>water just splashes on the dishes, right?
>	So why do less dishes come out cleaner?  Does the water
>recycle and get "used up" by the dirt?

Yup.  The bottom of your dishwasher fills with hot water, then it
sits there spraying the same water (hopefully mixed with dish detergent)
on the dishes over and over again.  After a while, the dishwasher drains
and fills again with water and rinses the dishes.  

The more dishes you have in there, the more stuff there is to contaminate
the wash water.  In case you were wondering, there is a grinder (kind of
like a baby garbage disposer) that takes care of any floating chunks in
the wash water on its way out of the dishwasher.

Larry "Look, Terry, no airplanes or famous people" Doering
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:43:00 GMT
Organization: Will pay money for food.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov14.095348.3563@news.columbia.edu>, 
  lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...

>This is why periodically we have a call for the abolition of the electoral
>process, and a call for popular vote, since each state has to give all
>of its electorals to one candidate, the results are often quite skewed from
>the popular vote itself.

It was designed that way, and it works very well.  The electoral college
prevents candidates who do not enjoy broad popular support from winning
national elections, thus eliminating the possibility of a crank with a huge 
regional following ascending to the White House.

 - snopes

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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:28:17 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
: 
: Face it: Clinton didn't win; Bush did lose.  The only mandate Clinton has is
: to not be another Bush, or he'll be out in 4 years too.  That's not what we
: usually mean as a clear mandate, just a negative example.
: 
: Futher, the high turnout for Perot indicates that many didn't want either of
: them.  I seriously doubt that anyone took Perot as a viable candidate, so
: it would appear that most of the Perot vote is a protest against both Bush
: AND CLinton.  And remember, Perot pulled out of the race, and then back in.
: Can anyone doubt that he would have gotten even more of the votes had he
: stayed in consistently?

Certainly. He would still probably have received the protest votes. However,
he would have received fewer votes, if he had stayed in the race. He was just
starting to show how unwilling he was to compromise or work with others with
whom he disagreed. He started to appear paranoid and delusional - not traits
that most people desire in their leadership.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Smoke cigarettes -- die young
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:55:36 GMT

FELSON_ADJ@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU writes:
: 
: I left the university scene for 7 years to return to finish my degree.... I've
: noticed that more than ever are tobocco addicts... What would people think if
: there were people shooting up intravenouslys hanging around every exit and
: entrance of every building...  I usually have to dodge 2 or 3 people on my way
: between classes just to stay upwind of these young drug addicts. 

I would say that it was their choice. Stupid, but never-the-less, their choice.

Bill
From: colombo@bronco.fnal.gov (Rick Colombo - Fermilab)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: LSD Laced Lick-on Tattoos
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:30:13 GMT
Organization: Fermilab Computing Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: bronco.fnal.gov

In article <1992Nov15.081315.15943@serveme.chi.il.us>, joeg@gagme.chi.il.us (joe grosch) writes:
> egilmour@ac.dal.ca wrote:
> : Last year in my city police were warning the parents and schoolchildren 
> : about LSD laced lick-on fake tattoos that were apparently being sold to kids
> : in schoolyards.  Bulletins were being sent to schools and the 
> : news made mention of these warnings.  I can't believe that this could
> : be anything but an urban legend, and I seem to remember
> : that even when I was in grade school
> : we were issued the same warnings by teachers.  Has anyone else
> : heard about this?  Sometimes it is surprising that teachers and police
> : cannot even separate urban legend from fact and that they would 
> : spread this unsubstantiated information.
> : 
> I first heard this one when I was growing up in New York City in the late 
> 60's. I never saw any, nor have I ever met anyone who did find some. I now 
> have kids growing up in Minneapolis and about every other year we hear this 
> story from the teachers and the police. I've even gone so far as offer my 
> kids $10.00 if they find any. Being the mercenary little beggars they are, 
> if there is any LSD laced lick-on fake tattoos being sold in the 7 county 
> area they will find it. Notice I'm not holding my breath.
>  
> --
> Josef Grosch         | It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town...
> joeg@gagme.chi.il.us |       New Yorker by birth, Minnesotan by choice 
-- 


They're called *blotters*, this is LSD on whatever.
The tatoo part is UL cuz you'd lick the picture right off. :-)

(Who me ??? ;-)

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From: slb3y@cc.usu.edu (Punk Rocketeer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Fabrikant case--did it happen?
Date: 20 Nov 92 13:44:33 MDT
Organization: Omega:  The Final Solution

In article <1992Nov19.234532.4940@unislc.uucp>, dw@unislc.uucp (Dan
Wright) writes:
> As I recall the sl is short for "student login".

     Something like that.  Depends on who you ask.
> I wrote:
> :      Utah State University, 30 May 1993 at about 4:52 p.m. MST.  A
> : grad student climbed to the top of the business building with a scoped
> : deer rifle and began shooting at random targets.
> 
> The tower of the Old Main building would have been a more meaningful and
> symbolic perch for the mad sno^Hiper.  And rather than random targets,
> didn't he have Cooley in mind, or Dinerstein, or maybe Hurst?

     What would I^Hhe have against these people?  Besides, the CS
people are in Old Main now, so sno^Hiping at them from the bell tower
would be difficult.  Business is the tallest building, thereby
providing better coverage of campus.

> : He was reportedly under a great deal of stress after his thesis
> : was graded 'F', thereby denying him graduation.
> 
> Stress, perhaps, but he must already have been mentally challenged
> to have submitted a thesis worthy only of an 'F'.  Too many Free
> Beers at the White Owl?

     They give out free beer?  No matter, the stuff still tastes foul. 
(fowl?  like chicken?)  And it's the sheer brilliance of the thesis
that made it incomprehensible to the committee.

> : Patrick "not a true story . . . yet" Clark
> 
> I shall inform the USU Alumni Association they needn't go to the expense
> and effort to print up a membership card for P.C.

     Too late.  I got my BA here.

>   -- Dan Wright (USUAA card carrying member)

Patrick "Waldo and two weasely symbols were deleted from this article"
Clark
-- 
Patrick S. Clark | "Well!  Peanut butter! . . . or so it seems."
Email is life!   | --Calvin 
Utah State University doesn't care what I put here . . . I hope.
From: rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (Rowan Hamilton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Famous Americans on Christianity
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:43:09 GMT
 <mjenkins.721786253@cunews> <1992Nov17.144530.28387@urbana.mcd.mot.com>

mscott@charm.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Mark Scott) writes:

>In article <mjenkins.721786253@cunews>, mjenkins@alfred.carleton.ca (Michael Jenkinson) writes:
>|> In <2825@israel.nysernet.org> warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein) writes:
>|> 
>|> >Was anyone famous ever a Christian?
>|> 
>|> How famous? Does Amy Grant count? How about Billy Graham?
>-- 
>Here's a few that I can think of off the top of my head. These are all people
>who have openly professed a deep commitment to Christ. (please excuse the
>spelling errors)

(long list deleted)

Gee, I didn't realize how many of my life long idols were christians.
Maybe I'll have to convert.
-- 
Rowan T. Hamilton                         "To dig this is to groove on
hamilton@huhepl.harvard.edu                   hella shit."
hamilton@fnald.fnal.gov                   - casey@wackenhut.com
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