HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert McGrath)
Subject: Re: Psychic Surgery
Reply-To: mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:57:03 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.162855.1@eagle.wesleyan.edu>, jtulli@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes in part:
|> In article <1992Aug5.222455.8659@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu (Robert 
|> McGrath) writes:
|> > In article <1992Aug05.172151.8612@brtph560.bnr.ca>, ritz@brtph95.bnr.ca 
|> > (Charles Ritz P215) writes:
|> > |>    Does anybody have any recommendations concerning a good
|> > |> psychic surgeon?  A friend of mine will be needing surgery
|> > |> soon and he wants his surgeon to be schooled in the latest
|> > |> methods of psychic surgery.  
|> > |> -- 
|> > |> 
|> > |> Charles Ritz   The opinions above do not necessarily represent the
|> > |> BNR, Inc       views of my employer, but they should.
|> > 
|> > Is this a joke?
|> 
|> i don't mean to dig this up out of the graveyard but i'm just starting to catch
|> up on the back-articles.  i just want to say that i think this is a not-so-nice
|> response to a sincere question.  the group is called alt.paranormal, right? 
|> there are some people here who believe in the reality of "paranormal
|> phenomena".  there are some people here who don't.  personally, i believe in
|> psychic healing and if i knew a good psychic surgeon (which i don't, sorry) i
|> would have sent or posted a sincere response.  i don't think the comment "is
|> this a joke" was at all justified in the context of an answer to a sincere
|> question posted to an appropriate newsgroup.
|> 
|> yours in dismay,
|> 
|> Jude

Myself, I like to ask rather than assume.  You assume you know what 
the poster intended.  I do not know what the poster intended.  I might
point out that the original poster didn't reply in any way, so why
are you so defensive?  Maybe you should try to give other people
some room to live in.

Plenty of people post silly things designed to provoke arguments,
or to see if people will believe them.  I'm sorry if this comes 
as a shock to you, but not everyone on the internet is "sincere" 
at all times.

As to the original question, I simply can't believe that ANYONE, 
EVER, under any circumstances, would be so ill-advised as to accept
medical referrals, *psychic or otherwise*, from an internet news 
group.  You may as well just kill your friend yourself as to take 
advice from such an unreliable source.

-- 
  Robert E. McGrath
  Urbana Illinois
  mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal
From: blythedr@infonode.ingr.com (Dennis Blythe)
Subject: Re: what a joke!
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 08:03:12 GMT


Subject: Re: what a joke!

 I am sorry I have to disagree. I believe that there are some people that are 
squeezing money out of any gimmick that they can come up with. I also 
believe that some people experience strange and unexplainable circumstances.
I for one think that the majority is a hoax but that does not rule everything 
out. I have had one unexplainable experience in my life and I hope it to be 
my last. 

  When I was 13 ( 1979 ) my parents were picking my brother up from work.
My sister who is four years younger than I were alone in our house , which
was built by my parents. we had lived there one year.
While we were getting ready to go to bed at about 9:00 on a school evening I
was in my room standing in front of my mirror, brushing my hair. That was
when I heard someone weeping in another room. Thinking that it was my sister 
upset about something I opened my door and went to her room. I asked her what 
was wrong and why she was crying, she said she was not. I was puzzled for a 
moment As we were standing at her door way across the hall we heard a squeeking 
sound where my brothers room was. We both walked together and stood at the 
doorway of his room and looked in. 

  The hallway light lit up enough to see that the corner of his bed was 
bouncing as if someone invisable was siting on the corner edge of his 
bed and boucing on it and making it squeek. My sister and I looked
at each other in disbelief. We ran to my room and huddled each other until my 
parents came home. To this day my parents will not except what we seen. I my-
self would not have believed it if my sister had not been there to see it too.

  And for the record I would like to add that my mother as a teenager ( before
she had met my father) went to a local fair, and in good fun went to see a
palm reader. The palm reader said that she would marry a man that had the
same birth date as she. Well for your info my parents birthdate is march fourth
however the years are different. Two outta three aint bad!!!


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From: prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 14:56:06 CST
Organization: Fennec Information Systems, Houston, Texas USA

whoffman@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Walt Hoffman) writes:

> 
> Is there a list of locations for VR machines?  I played one in Las Vegas
> at Caesar's Palace in January but haven't heard of any in the Southern
> California area.  I expected the amusement parks (Disneyland, Knott's
> Berry Farm, and Six Flags Magic Mountain) to have them but the high cost
> of the machines must be driving them away.
> 
> If a list doesn't exist, I am willing to compile one from inputs from the
> net.

I have a list here:
 
                  The Underground in Berkeley, Ca.
                  Union Station in St. Louis (they have 8 machines!)
                  Crestwood Plaza in St. Louis (must be rich over there)
                  Quaeters Arcade in Kirkland, Wash.
                  South Street Seaport in Manhattan
                  Dave & Busters in Dallas
                  Los Cerritos Mall in Cerritos, Ca.
                  Springfield Mall in Springfield, Va.

well thats the list the list Horizon Entertainment sent me. If you have
the chance do go, its well worth it!

 prisoner


--------
Kyle Thorson  <prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com>
Fennec Information Systems and Computer Consulting, Inc. 
11504 Hughes Rd. Suite 131 - Houston, Texas USA 77089 - (713) 479-3107 Data
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From: merlin@fennec.sccsi.com (Lorne Naff)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 19:12:58 CST
Organization: Fennec Information Systems, Houston, Texas USA

prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson) writes:
> I have a list here:
>  
>                   The Underground in Berkeley, Ca.
>                   Union Station in St. Louis (they have 8 machines!)
>                   Crestwood Plaza in St. Louis (must be rich over there)
>                   Quaeters Arcade in Kirkland, Wash.
>                   South Street Seaport in Manhattan
>                   Dave & Busters in Dallas
>                   Los Cerritos Mall in Cerritos, Ca.
>                   Springfield Mall in Springfield, Va.
> 
> well thats the list the list Horizon Entertainment sent me. If you have
> the chance do go, its well worth it!
> 
>  prisoner

  I have it on rumor that the Dave&Busters in Houston has one also.  Mike 
Mansfield AKA Illithid Braineater went there and tried it.  Will get more 
info from him...
   /// & ///


--------
Lorne Naff  <merlin@fennec.sccsi.com>
Fennec Information Systems and Computer Consulting, Inc. 
11504 Hughes Rd. Suite 131 - Houston, Texas USA 77089 - (713) 479-3107 Data
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
From: mike@highlite.uucp (Mike Wiik)
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Organization: Gotham Communications Research
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:58:37 GMT

prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson) writes:

|mike@highlite.uucp (Mike Wiik) writes:
|> FYI the Time Out arcade here in Springfield, VA has the HERO
|> game now available on the Virtuality machine, in addition to
|> the DACTYL NITEMARE game.
|> 
|Mike: how much better are the graphics in HERO than in 
|DACTYL NIGHTMARE?
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Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
From: ajredmer@netcom.com (Akila J. Redmer)
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 01:28:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: alt

Here is a list of locations where Virtuality units are installed as of June.

California	Time-Out, Cerritos
		University of California, Berkeley
Conneticut	Conneticut Post, Milford
Illinois	Enchanted Castle, Lombard
Missouri	Exhilarama Preview, St. Louis
		Union Station, St. Louis
New Jersey	Spaceport, Woodbridge
New York	Southstreet Seaport, New York
Texas		Dave & Busters, Dallas
Virginia	Time-Out on the Court, Springfield
Washington	Quarters, Kirkland

I do have addresses and phone numbers for all these, I just didn't feel like
typing them in.  Let me know if you need any specific ones.

AJ

Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
From: sbarber@panix.com (Steve Barber)
Subject: Re: MONDO 2000 conference on the WELL
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:12:07 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <1992Aug16.201543.3688@u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:

>This is a subscription service.  Costs are $2/hr plus $10/month.
>The WELL is one of the premiere conferencing systems worldwide.
>Very high quality chatter.  You can register online.

Sorry, dude, as of August 1, 1992, the WELL is now $15/month + $2/hr.
On the other hand, they have outbound Internet now.

-- 
Steve Barber                                             sbarber@panix.com
"The direct deed is the most meaningful reflection." - Bill Evans
The above is not a legal advice. It is, at best, a discussion of
generalities. Consult your attorney before acting in a specific situation.
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From: prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:42:10 GMT
Organization: Fennec Information Systems, Houston, Texas USA

bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash) writes:

>                              
> Yo, Kyle!  Where is Dave & Busters at?  I've been going to Putt-Putt on 
> Coit in North Dallas.  How about a thread on everyone's favorite places
> around the US?
> 
> Brian /-|-\

I have never been there my self... someone said it was in the north west 
part of Dallas... 

 -Kyle-


--------
Kyle Thorson  <prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com>
Fennec Information Systems and Computer Consulting, Inc. 
11504 Hughes Rd. Suite 131 - Houston, Texas USA 77089 - (713) 479-3107 Data
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
From: bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash)
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Reply-To: bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:30:43 GMT

In article <7FFPPB1w165w@fennec.sccsi.com>, prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com
(Kyle Thorson) writes:
|>mike@highlite.uucp (Mike Wiik) writes:
|>
|>> FYI the Time Out arcade here in Springfield, VA has the HERO
|>> game now available on the Virtuality machine, in addition to
|>> the DACTYL NITEMARE game.
|>> 
|>> HERO is a non-violent game in which you seek out the letters
|>> H E R O in 4 different worlds. The 1st letter is in some sort
|>> of maze resembling spaceship hallways. The 2nd letter is in
|>> an outside worlds with trees, a river, etc. Jump on the raft
|>> and move over to the shore. I didn't get to see the other 2
|>> worlds.
|>> 
|>> 	-Mike
|>> 
|>Great! now I just have to find a way to go to Springfield again! :> Does 
|>anyone know what games are playing on the VR system they have at Dave & 
|>Busters in Dallas? Mike: how much better are the graphics in HERO than in 
|>DACTYL NIGHTMARE?
|> 
|>   be seeing you
|>
|> prisoner
|>
|>
|>--------
|>Kyle Thorson  <prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com>
|>Fennec Information Systems and Computer Consulting, Inc. 
|>11504 Hughes Rd. Suite 131 - Houston, Texas USA 77089 - (713) 479-3107 Data
                             
Yo, Kyle!  Where is Dave & Busters at?  I've been going to Putt-Putt on 
Coit in North Dallas.  How about a thread on everyone's favorite places
around the US?

Brian /-|-\
From: brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Re: Best game places
Date: 21 Aug 1992 10:47:32 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: sahara.cs.utexas.edu

In article <78026@ut-emx.uucp> cblandy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Blandy) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.213043.26743@bnr.ca> bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash) writes:
>>Coit in North Dallas.  How about a thread on everyone's favorite places
>>around the US?
>
>Definitely Einstein's on the drag in Austin.  Although it's small, it's close
>to campus, has great games, and beats the pants off Le Fun down the street :)

Beats the pants off?  I don't think so.

Picture it!  (Sicily, 1928...)

LeFun opens earlier (9:30am vs. 10:00am) and closes later
(4:00am vs 12:00am?).

Many of the games at LeFun are cheaper, too; Total Karnage, for instance,
is 50 cents to start and 25 to continue at Einstein's, 25 for either at
LeFun.  Same thing for Terminator 2.

LeFun is much larger.  It even carried many great games that Einstein's
never did, such as Galaxy Force 2 and a six-player X-Men.  To be fair,
though, Einstein's had the foresight NOT to carry Time Traveller :-P
and also carries more pinballs, which are in better shape as well.

Okay, Einstein's does currently have Mortal Kombat, and maybe four or five
other gmaes that LeFun doesn't have right now.  It could have more if it
didn't insist on carrying 15-odd SF II:CE MACHINES!!  Ack-phtui!

All in all, they're about the same; Le Fun's a bit better, in my opinion.
'Course, Einstein's DOES have a 10-dollar-bill-to-quarters changer.  :-)

Paul Brinkley
brinkley@cs.utexas.edu

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From: cblandy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Blandy)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Best game places
Summary: (Was RE: HERO ... virtuality)
Date: 19 Aug 1992 18:01:37 GMT
Followup-To: alt.cyberspace
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <1992Aug18.213043.26743@bnr.ca> bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash) writes:
>Coit in North Dallas.  How about a thread on everyone's favorite places
>around the US?
>
>Brian /-|-\

Definitely Einstein's on the drag in Austin.  Although it's small, it's close
to campus, has great games, and beats the pants off Le Fun down the street :)

-- 
---
                 Chris Blandy        |       Computer Science major
          cblandy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | The University of Texas at Austin
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
From: mike@highlite.uucp (Mike Wiik)
Subject: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Organization: Gotham Communications Research
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 05:06:19 GMT

FYI the Time Out arcade here in Springfield, VA has the HERO
game now available on the Virtuality machine, in addition to
the DACTYL NITEMARE game.

HERO is a non-violent game in which you seek out the letters
H E R O in 4 different worlds. The 1st letter is in some sort
of maze resembling spaceship hallways. The 2nd letter is in
an outside worlds with trees, a river, etc. Jump on the raft
and move over to the shore. I didn't get to see the other 2
worlds.

	-Mike

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From: cblandy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Blandy)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Re: Best game places
Date: 22 Aug 92 05:56:14 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin

In article <l9a40kINN7m5@sahara.cs.utexas.edu> brinkley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Brinkley) writes:
>Okay, Einstein's does currently have Mortal Kombat, and maybe four or five
>other gmaes that LeFun doesn't have right now.  It could have more if it
>didn't insist on carrying 15-odd SF II:CE MACHINES!!  Ack-phtui!
>
>Paul Brinkley
>brinkley@cs.utexas.edu

OK, so Einstein's doesn't 'beat the pants off' Le-Fun, but the only reason
I agree now is because you pointed out the SF II:CE problem.

IMHO, Street Fighter II is the scourge of modern society :)


-- 
                 Chris Blandy        |       Computer Science major
          cblandy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu | The University of Texas at Austin

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From: elrond@rivdell.UUCP (SysAdmin)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 20:17:05 CDT
Organization: Rivendell BBS / Hou, TX. / +1 713 941 2236

prisoner@fennec.sccsi.com (Kyle Thorson) writes:
> bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash) writes:
> > Yo, Kyle!  Where is Dave & Busters at?  I've been going to Putt-Putt on 
...
> I have never been there my self... someone said it was in the north west 
> part of Dallas... 
...

I saw it on my may throught to OK City, it's right off of 45 on your way
through Dallas.

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From: cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace
Subject: Re: Best game places
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:16:48 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <78026@ut-emx.uucp> cblandy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Blandy) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.213043.26743@bnr.ca> bcash@crchh410.BNR.CA (Brian Cash) writes:
>>Coit in North Dallas.  How about a thread on everyone's favorite places
>>around the US?
>Definitely Einstein's on the drag in Austin.  Although it's small, it's close
>to campus, has great games, and beats the pants off Le Fun down the street :)

Actually, I like having both of them close to each other. Einstein's has a 
better soundtrack and generally better games, while Le Fun has -more- games
and a coke machine. :> 

Only problem; Einstein's just chucked a bunch of their games and got a -huge-
four-player motorcycle game, "<something> 8-hour", which is expensive and
never in use. Methinks someone screwed up when they got a 75 cent machine 
with a time limit......


-- 
    "Well, do you ever get the feeling that the Story's too damn real
                        and in the present tense?"
               Christian Wagner - cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
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From: whoffman@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Walt Hoffman)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberspace,rec.games.video.arcade
Subject: Re: HERO Game out for Virtuality
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:28:22 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

ajredmer@netcom.com (Akila J. Redmer) writes:

>The whole HERO experience serves as a very good introduction to immersive VR
>and what it has to offer.  I reccommend it to those of you who are curious
>about what VR can be like.

>AJ Redmer
>Executive Director, Virtuality Group
>Spectrum HoloByte/CyberStudio

Is there a list of locations for VR machines?  I played one in Las Vegas
at Caesar's Palace in January but haven't heard of any in the Southern
California area.  I expected the amusement parks (Disneyland, Knott's
Berry Farm, and Six Flags Magic Mountain) to have them but the high cost
of the machines must be driving them away.

If a list doesn't exist, I am willing to compile one from inputs from the
net.


-- 
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