HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
Subject: Re: Total Perspective Vortex--Re: spew, blah...
Summary: hi
Keywords: whine
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:35:34 GMT

In article <vgm3rvr@rpi.edu>, liebea@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman) writes:
> In article <1993Jan23.175510.23629@scorch.apana.org.au> jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn) writes:
> >For  those  who dont know what the Total Perspective Vortex is it is a
> >machine that shows how important you are compared to the rest  of  the
> >universe,  ie.  shows  u  as  a small dot...  It is meant to make u go
> >crazy of something.. I haven't got the books with me at the moment...
> 
>      If you must know, it kills you AND destroys your soul, from the horror
> of your sheer insignificance compared to the whole universe.  The priniciple
> it's based on doesn't work.  It depends on the fact that everything in the
> universe affects everything else in some way, so you can reconstruct the
> entire universe from a piece of cake.  The problem is that when many
> different things act upon a single object, it's impossible to tell what
> different causes are responsible for the result you get.  Here's a simple
> analogy: I tell you that there are several numbers and they add up to six.
> You can't figure out what the numbers are from that.  The six may be the
> result of a one, a three and a two, but as far as you can tell, the universe
> (the number six) consists of all two's.
>      Anyway, I think that people are important no matter how small they are.
> 
> 						-Adam

I like your atitude.

	Aliza
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu (Polar Bear)
Subject: Re: crack snapple pop
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:16:02 GMT

gabe.p.torok (gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com) wrote:
: 
: Awesome - you're my kinda person.  In Junior High, I was in THE MUSIC MAN 
: as a townsperson, and MICADO as Pitti-Sing.  Last year I was in 
: ANYTHING GOES as an angel, and I was in the play HARVY, and now CINDERELLA.
: I know the part you're talking about - it's histerical!  My sister was in  
: DAMN YANKEES, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, and THE WIZARD OF OZ.  We're a pretty 
: musical family.
: 
: 
: 			Aliza
Who were you in "Harvey"? I was an electrician, so I didn't have parts in our 
school shows, but I probably knew them better than anyone since I had cues 
everywhere. We did a variety show every fall, a one-act for competition in the
winter, (my junior year, '91, we won states) and then a "spring play" which was
full production. We did "Mr. Flannery's Ocean" (hysterically funny and also
heartbreakingly sad) and "St. Patrick's Day" (memorable quote: "St. Patrick's 
health! Your Honor's health! STRONG BEER FOREVER!") for one -acts, and then
"Charlotte's Web" (Charlotte mixed up her words during the matinee, putting up
terrific before Some Pig, throwing the entire show into confusion) and "Harvey"
(see, I DID have a point) for Spring Plays. The only time I was ever ON the 
stage was for the variety shows; my band was in three of them.

I could tell stage stories forever.
--
Polar Bear                          i won't be a monkey in anyone's zoo
pjmorse@amherst.edu                 and i won't get fazed, whatever you do
pjmorse@unix.amherst.edu            "hit him again, he's crazy"
                                                   -ride
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Andrew's sig
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:21:23 GMT

Byte me - is that like bite me from MST3K?? Anybody watch that??
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: dum dee doo
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:42:40 GMT

Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:

|From jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
|>Spew Spew Spew Spew??

|    (R) (TM) (c) 1993 - Andrew McCallum - All Rights Reserved

(c) without the copyright ie. (C) Copyright 1993, is  meaningless  and
will NOT hold up in a court of law...

so.. Spew, Spew, Spew.... Bah!


-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
	

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Day
X-To: GABE.P.TOROK
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:35:00 GMT

>ya know, you're gonna get sick soon(as if you're healthy now)if you don't
>listen to your body.  Then again I'm dog tired, but still up.  Aw, don't
>listen to me.  I'm babbling.

    I had mono last year because I tired myself out.  It's still lasted me,
and sometimes I tire myself out to the point of throwing up.

>Andrew - if ya ever don't feel wanted, just remember how boring this newsgroup
>would be if it wasn't for you.

    I'd like to think that it's not me.

>>     On the way back I was given the Spanish Inquisition by a group of girls
>> on my bus.  "How old are you?", "Where do you go to school?", "What's your
>> last name?".  Bah.
>>
>And what's wrong with that?

    Nothing, except that they were 13-14.

    Well, I guess 14's not that bad.  Marsha is probly 14.

>>     Anyways.  Exams are coming up, and I really haven't started to study.  I
>> guess I'll have to start tomorow, or I'll be pretty dead.  Well, not really.
>> Most of the exams are pretty easy, except for math and music maybe.
>>
>I haven't started studying either.  Ack.  Music?  Why's that hard?

    I've told you, haven't I?  It's 15 minutes long...

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: Andrew runs this newsgroup!
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:54:50 GMT

petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire) writes:

|>You should try alt.folklore.computers; just don't post for the first
|>six months unless you know what you're talking about, and you don't.
|>Believe me. The people who hang around there are the people who WROTE
|>the Usenet software. The people who DESIGNED the net.

Why is it soo good then??

|Guess what ? some of us are here....

Oh Well.. Hi!

-Jared
-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: party
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 15:42:07 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality


Who here lives in the north east north america?

Want to throw a net.party?


--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX | The number PI (3.14...) and all included
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net | digits are (C) 1993 by BigCorp, and use
                            | without written consent is prohibited.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: kurnik@lds.loral.com (Timothy J. Kurnik)
Subject: Re: looking for ....
Reply-To: kurnik@lds.loral.com
Organization: Loral Data Systems
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:47:48 GMT

In article 26506@sbcs.sunysb.edu, jsimmons@cs.sunysb.edu (Jason Simmons) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.123938.6278@lds.loral.com> kurnik@lds.loral.com writes:
>>In article m6ZqXB4w165w@mertwig.uucp, daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>>>
>>>Is there anyone out there in Nassau county?
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
>>>daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
>>
>>
>>
>>Nassau County where?
>
>It's on Long Island, New York.  BTW, I'm in Suffolk County (Dix Hills),
>also on Long Island.
>
>Jason Simmons


I have a friend in Massapequa(sp?), Long Island...does that count?

-T.J.


Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton)
Subject: Re: Bleeps
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:08:36 GMT
Keywords: praetertranssubstantiationalistically

In article <1993Jan27.171047.20443@zooid.guild.org> Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>From morton@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Brent Morton)
>>Trying to convince people not to swear (especially teenagers) is a waste of
>>your time. For those who just can't bear to see those terrible words, I suggest
>>using a kill file.
>
>    Or a TCAN, for those who have the power.

Phew... you should know about that. TCAN'ed Andrew.

-- Brent
morton@artifis.gaul.csd.uwo.ca, among other more exotic places.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: subject lines (& message content)
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:08:54 GMT

daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker) writes:

|Could people please use relevant subject lines?!

And some of the content has been below average lately...

-Jared
-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
	

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: Stuff
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:40:22 GMT

bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus) writes:

|There was a discussion about religion back about 500 posts.  At 
|least, people were mentioning their religion.  I'm an atheist.  I 
|was born into a catholic family, but I don't follow that any 
|more.

Yeap.. I started the thread... it seemed to take off  for  a  while...
and  I  noticed  that age in relationship thread is still going... hmm
anyway..  I'm  agnostic (yeah I know most of u know, but Chris said to
post)... hmm I couldn't go all the way  and  say  I  DONT  BELIEVE,  i
stopped at doubted...

|I had a girlfriend, and it was a long-distance relationship.  I 
|live in MD and she lives in NJ.

You are totally blind I gather?  What is it like not being able to see
people??  I've always wondered... I dont judge  people  on  what  they
look  like  but some people I think people judge from first sight, ie.
first impression...

-Jared
-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
	

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: Greetings!
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:36:30 GMT

bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus) writes:

|My name is Chris.  I'm attending my first year of college as a 
|music major.  My interests include:  Swimming, snowskiing, 
|playing piano, listening to music (classic rock, some metal, some 
|pop/top 40), making people laugh, etc.  I've been playing piano 
|for nearly 15 years.

Hi Chris,

   	You have been added to the user list also now...  What  is  it
	like listening to your mail??

-Jared
-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: ignorance about the workings of the Net
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:17:25 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

//We're all really boring, but not all of a sudden.  I've been logging on here
//every 15 minutes practically, to see if there were any new messages.  Where'
//everybody go?

Instead of logging in every 15 minutes, ask your friendly sysadmin
(sysop) when he polls for news. Then, log on after every poll is
completed.

//That's an interesting question. It seems like a whole slew of messages
//come in at once. I guess it's better than alt.kids-talk was a year ago
//when there were three messages total.

I suggest for you to read the Managing USENET Nutshell handbook. It
would explain all those things.


Would everyone here who knows a lot about the network please email me
so we can form a subculture. (Ha Ha Only Serious)



--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: How old art thou?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 18:33:56 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

liebea@vccnw05.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman) writes:

>      I'm 23, and I have no time to be reading newsgroups.  Please suggest
> how I can change this.  A lot of articles I may be interested in expire
> before I can get to them.

Talk to your sysadmin, or

% telnet nyx.cs.du.edu

And set up an account.


--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX       Coconut seashells whispering to me
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net         "Forever, forever, my Coda..."
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: vacation
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:13:16 GMT
Keywords: I need one.

gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok) writes:

|I need a vacation.  How about the carribean, or maybe Hawaii.  Yeah - Hawaii.
|That sounds good.  Has anyone been there?  I was once, for three days on 
|the way to Australia.  I had more fun in Hawaii.

Australia is a boring place... I agree

|		Aliza
		Jared


-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
From: daniel@mertwig.uucp (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Greetings!
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:05:18 EST
Reply-To: daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net  (Daniel Drucker)
Organization: Abnormalities of Reality

bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus) writes:

> I'm blind, and I use a speech synthesizer to communicate.  It 
> speaks what comes over the modem.

How fast? I mean, modems run 2400-14400 baud, and no one speaks that
fast!

And can it say the following word correctly? xyzzy

That should have been zih z.



--
Daniel Drucker        N2SXX | The number PI (3.14...) and all included
daniel%mertwig@uunet.uu.net | digits are (C) 1993 by BigCorp, and use
                            | without written consent is prohibited.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: My day, your day, right away, hey, hey, hey, hey, <blunk>..
X-To: ALL
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:47:00 GMT



    Exam week.  It's about just as fun as christmas.. for me anyways.

    It's fun what you can do with exams that you know that you're going to
do well in, like chemistry. (I'm doing well because it's my second damn time
around, BTW) I made tons jokes on my chemistry exam.
    Then I had a weekend, where I did nothing except monitor the boards for
new mail.
    Then I started to study on Sunday for Math, and I realized how little I
knew about the subject.  I freaked out, and then went back to the computer.
    I went in on monday and studied for about 2 hours and then wrote the
exam.  They told me that I couldn't use my graphic calculator, so I had to
use this little thing that's hightest function was square root.
    I have no idea how I did.  NO idea....  I'm in no mood to take math for
the third time.
    Today I wrote English in the SPED (Special Ed.) room for two hours.
They let me do it on the comptuer, which turned out really handy although I
heard that it pissed everyone else off.  Oh well.  Fuck them.  I'm going to
get %70+.  I went back and changed my essay totally around.  I also
spellchecked it.  Oooo... The envy I experienced when I came out of that
exam and told my friends why I wasn't in the english exam.  He he he...

    Music tomorow.  A promise of hell.  I haven't practiced anything, and
it's a ton of stuff.  Uhh...

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: ???
X-To: JFOX@SUMAX.SEATTLEU.EDU (
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 22:15:00 GMT

From jfox@sumax.seattleu.edu (<-----Shadoxx----->)
>Where is everybody? I got on this thing tuesday after MLK-day and there were
>        at least 150 posts. So where the hell is everyboby now?

    Yeah.  No kidding.  I'm just waiting for the next mail spew.  They seem
to come every week or so.


    I don't beleieve that everyone decided to stop posting, and I had some
replies that I sent out...

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                                  Byte me.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: ...
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:17:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.162545.1751@scorch.apana.org.au>, jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn) writes:
>Andrew McCallum <andrewm@zooid.guild.org> writes:
>
>|From sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
>
>|>you never called her. Oh well, too late now, I'm going out with her. :-)
>
>|    Oh good.  I was planning to kill you.
>
>Thats a bit harsh...  tho.. how were u gonna kill him???
>
>|    I'm not worried.
>|    (Yes, I am.)
>
>Make up your mind!
>
I'm confused. Who's trying to kill me? Another assasination attempt? Oh
Geez, that means I gotta wear the damn bullet proof vest again. Then 'll
have to take my gun to school again, and the teachers always hate that.
<sigh>  :-)

>-- 
>			   = Jared Quinn =
>                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au
>
>		      "I want to break free..."
>	
>
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat...
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:26:25 GMT
Keywords: blah

gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok) writes:

|Howdy everyone.  Once again I'm here to tell you about my boring life.

Everyone has a boring life around here eh?

|I did get off from school today, which was very nice, so now there's 
|only 4 days till next weekend.  Geez...

Hmm Lukcy u... We haven't gone back yet :>

|What country in the music group QUEEN from - I'd never heard of them before
|alt.kids-talk. 

There  ENGLISH...   the've  been  around  for  ages...   haven't  done
anything  since  91  when there lead singer died...  see my email to u
Aliza... has heaps of info...

|Somebody besides Andrew should start spewing more - it makes this place
|more alive.

I'll think about what I can spew about...

|God, nothing interesting ever happens to me.                      

Same here...

|Better go before I bore the hell out of you.

We  already  have  bored the hell out of ourselfes... u wont make much
difference...


|			Aliza
			-Jared

-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
From: andrewm@zooid.guild.org (Andrew McCallum)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Andrew runs this newsgroup!
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:54:00 GMT
Organization: The Zoo of Ids
X-To: PETE LANCASHIRE

From petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire)
>>You should try alt.folklore.computers; just don't post for the first
>>six months unless you know what you're talking about, and you don't.
>>Believe me. The people who hang around there are the people who WROTE
>>the Usenet software. The people who DESIGNED the net.
>
>Guess what ? some of us are here....

    If you guys designed it, then you should be everywhere....

---
    .sig's are neat,                   | Andrew McCallum
    .sig's are fun,                     \ andrewm@zooid.guild.org
    .sig's tell where to flame someone.  |andrewm@terranet.cts.com

                        I think, therefore I spew.
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Sgt. Kleper)
Subject: Re: Exams are bleeps
Reply-To: sjk6119@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:34:24 GMT

Let me re-phrase that. Does anybody here have a Mac and like it? 
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn)
Subject: Re: gobble
Organization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:15:33 GMT

gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok) writes:

|> Yuk.. I wouldn't be able to copy with 5 mins of Bull before I  got  to
|> the  news..  tho I read my mail first if i have any ....  that reminds
|> me Aliza... did my email get to you?

|Yeah, I got it.  I didn't reply?  Oops, sorry.

Yeah I got your reply but there seems to  be  a  delay  in  the  email
getting  through,  where  as  mail  from  Bridget in NZ gets here real
quick,  so  does  mail  from most of the U.S., seems just u...  is the
system u use have dialup access to internet or a hard connection  like
the uni's??

this system is dialup

-Jared
-- 
			   = Jared Quinn =
                     jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au

		      "I want to break free..."
	

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: liebea@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman)
Subject: Re: Okay, here's one...
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:49:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.123536.23443@lds.loral.com> kurnik@lds.loral.com writes:
>
>My girlfriend and I had this discussion recently and I wanted to know what you girls
>and guys thought of it.
>
>In her house, she has several doors which are made of glass and that slide open
>instead of swinging open.  What are they called?
>
>I call them "glass sliding doors" because they are sliding doors made of glass as
>opposed to wood.  She says they're "sliding glass doors."  I guess because they're
>glass doors that slide.  I don't know...life's a beach!
>
>later
>-T.J.
>

     You answered your own question.  They're called "glass sliding doors."
They're called "sliding glass doors."  You call them one and she calls them
the other.  Each is correct for the reasons you stated.
     Of course, if swinging doors might have been put in their place, but
they had to be glass, it would make more sense to call them "sliding glass
doors."
     And of course, if sliding doors are required, but they might have been
made of kryptonite, they should probably be called...
     There's no need to finish that sentence, is there?

                                               -Adam...
					Do I have to finish this signature,
							either?
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk