HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ramaconachy@vaxsar.vassar.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,alt.tv.simpsons
Subject: Re: The Simpsons in U.S. culture?ex
Date: 15 Nov 92 07:12:03 GMT
Organization: Vassar College

In article <1992Nov14.180528.19002@nntp.hut.fi>, jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
> I like the TV series The Simpsons a lot.  I was wondering how people
> in USA perceive it - what audience is it watched by, do people like
> it, at what time and on what networks is shown, and so on?
> 
> I remember George Bush said that a typical U.S. family is not like the
> Simpsons family - it seems it must be an important part of U.S.
> culture when the president of the country refers to it in speeches.  I
> don't think I've ever heard the Finnish president to refer to TV
> programs in his speeches.
> 
> Here the series was recently moved to 5 pm on Saturday afternoon, just
> after Star Trek - a silly thing to do in my opinion.  The TV channel
> might have a strange concept of the target groups of both Star Trek
> and Simpsons, I dunno.
> 
> How about the newly elected president, does he have a different
> opinion of Simpsons?  Did this come up during the campaign?  Here they
> just aired the episode where Bart was chosen a career as a police
> officer (by the central computer) and encouraged by this he had a
> succesfull (though short) career as a school cop - got part of the
> loot and all that.  I heard that the new president strongly supports
> police forces.
> 
> //Jyrki
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From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bush's Mom Dies...
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:20:53 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


In article <1992Nov22.175309.25575@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
>I don't know about you, but I think it was awfully poor taste of them to put
>Barbara Bush on the one-dollar bill before she died.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Louis Rukeyser.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Re: Sweet Nothings from Finland ( was Re: More Women Than...)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1992Nov19.043014.8806@nntp.hut.fi>
	<1992Nov19.180417.2786@ns.network.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:16:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.180417.2786@ns.network.com> muchow@zebo.network.com (Jim Muchow) writes:
>I really
>wanted to acquire a bit of that deeper understanding of my native land 
>that you seem to have.

Deeper understanding?  You either are confusing me with someone else
or there's something deeply wrong with your perception.

>For some reason, I think your comment is pointless bit of rhetoric that
>says little and means less. 

Yes, it means little.  But you're wrong, there wasn't any rhetoric in
it.  Just a pointless generalization of one person's opinions to the
whole culture of a nation, like is so common here.  Someone seemed to
agree with the result of the generalization, though.

//Jyrki
From: beg@ogura5.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Mirza Muhammad Ajmal Beg (ogura))
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Ranking of Universties for Electrical Engineering
Date: 20 Nov 92 02:59:28 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.usa
Organization: Electr. Eng. II, Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan

I would be very grateful if someone could send me most recent ranking
of American Universties for graduate studies in Electrical Engineering.
Looking forward for an early response.
Regards.


Ajmal Beg
(beg@yocto.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
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		  beg@ogura6.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Subject: Re: To the Clinton supporters
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 03:25:29 GMT

In article crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun) writes:

<re: somebody's (a bit overzealous reaction to jailing Leona Helmsley)>

>That arrogant cake-eater was tossed in jail for not paying $1,500,000 dollars
>in taxes over the course of ten years.  During those ten years she did pay
>$350,000,000 in taxes.

William:  I'm with you 100% on this one (late in the conversation also,
I'll bet) but I said much the same thing when the announced the jail term
on the news.

Nobody benefits.  If anybody wanted to improve things (and perhaps Leona's
perspective of the world if one feel's her's is in error) they could have
had her fine and time commuted if she built a center to help people and
was made to work there instead of going to jail.

I can almost guarantee that each of us (including everybody working for
the IRS) has erred by the same percentage (or worse) on their tax return
from time to time.

tom
From: cbas38@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: BBC World Service frequencies required
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:43:02 GMT
Reply-To: meenanp@esvax.dnet.dupont.com
Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster


A friend of mine who lives in the DElaware/Philadelphia area  is
looking for SW frequencies so he can pick up the BBC World Service,
particulary soccer on a Saturday.        Anyone with any information please
e-mail him direct as he cannot get access to this newsgroup.
His address is   	meenanp@esvax.dnet.dupont.com

cheers in advance
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From: gaf5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Gail A. Fullman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Bush's Mom Dies...
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:02:09 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <carlos.722449985@morgan>, carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Miguel Borges) w
rites:
>thor@daimi.aau.dk (Torsten J|rgensen) writes:
>>irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>>>A say day -- Bush's Mom died today of a stroke (she was 91).
>>>My condolances to all that are affected...
>>Who is Bush?
>
>She's not dead.  I saw her on CNN the other day.  She was welcoming
>Hilary Clinton to the White House or something.
>
>Barbara Bush _IS_ George Bush's mother, right?  Or is she his
>_grandmother_?
>--
>   ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>  // C. Miguel Borges               A.K.A.                Carlos M. Borges //
> // carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca                    carlos@garfield.cs.mun.ca //
>///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Barb and George are married, as in husband and wife, as in Barbara is the US's
First Lady.  Dorothy Bush, who just recently died, is George's mother.

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|   Manager - ADMO     |
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From: gaf5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Gail A. Fullman)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Reagan dodged the draft!
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:36:07 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <92322.1411262893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, 2893684@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (and
y) writes:
>
>   There has been talk of whether Clinton is compotent to lead the Armed Forces
> as he is a "draft dodger". Clinton used legal loopholes to avoid fighting in
>a war he opposed. Dan Quayle used legal loopholes to avoid fighting in a war
>he supported. Ronald Reagan used a legal loophole (acting in war movies, an
>"essential service") to avoid the draft in World War II yet the people
> complaining about Clinton had no objection to Reagan's fitness to lead the
>military or send people into battle. How odd.
>
Things that make you go Hmmmmmm!

Seriously, my opinion of Clinton is that he won't be so trigger happy to get
into a war:  Ronnie swaggered around like he had a six-shooter on his hip (but
can you imagine where Saddam would be today if Ronnie had been president?).

With nuclear bombs being built in Middle East countries, Far East countries,
how can Georgie claim we and our children can go to sleep better at night?
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Subject: Bush's Mom Dies...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:01:48 GMT

A say day -- Bush's Mom died today of a stroke (she was 91).

My condolances to all that are affected...


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| irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu | space aliens currently in residence in the USA.   |
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From: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: U.S. BORN NOVEMBER 15, 1777
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:34:22 GMT
Organization: Univ. of South Florida, Math Department

In article <1992Nov11.205238.2283@cnsvax.uwec.edu> mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
>
>
>
>                      UNITED STATES BORN NOVEMBER 15, 1777
>
>               Most people, including Astrologers, believe that the 
>          United States was born on July 4, 1776.  But the Declaration 
>          of Independence did NOT create a "union" of any kind.  It 
>          created thirteen independent colonies, independent from Great 
>          Britain AND INDEPENDENT FROM EACH OTHER. 
>
>               What DID create the United States was the signing of the 
>          ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION.  And this occurred in YORKTOWN, 
>          PENNSYLVANIA on NOVEMBER 15, 1777. 
>          
>               And THAT is the date that must also be used for CORRECT 
>          Astrological considerations of the birth of the United 
>          States. 
>          
>               NOVEMBER 15TH should be made another NATIONAL HOLIDAY! 
>
>
>               UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this 
>          IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. 
>          
>                                          
>                                   Robert E. McElwaine
>
>          


On the creation of the United States ....

Copulation = Declaration of Independence

Conception = Articles of Confederation

Birth = Ratification of the Constitution

Terrible Twos = administration of John Adams

Adolescent identity crisis = civil war

Loss of virginity = WW1
 (Many leftists allege virginity was actually lost in 
  Mexican-American war, or at least the Spanish-American 
  War)

Misspent youth = the 20s

Hangover = the 30s

Formative adulthood crisis = WW2

Adult mission in life = clobbering those Russkies

Midlife crisis = going on right now

Astrologers are invited to make of all this what they will.

-----Greg McColm
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun)
Subject: Re: To the Clinton supporters
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 20:33:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Data General Corporation, RTP, NC.

In article <jyc.721859719@Leland> jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
>crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun) writes:
>
>   [regarding tax cheat Leona Helmsley]
>
>>That arrogant cake-eater was tossed in jail for not paying $1,500,000 dollars
>>in taxes over the course of ten years.  During those ten years she did pay
>>$350,000,000 in taxes.  I'm sorry but I can't get upset over someone who pays
>>350 million in taxes instead of 351 million.  She should have received our
>>thanks not a jail sentence. 
>
>   Well I can get plenty upset about someone who's so greedy that she has
>to add to the umpteen millions she already has by robbing more millions
>from the public till -- which means from my pocket.
>
>   If you honestly want to express gratitude to greedy millionaires for
>paying any taxes at all, may I suggest that you send a hefty check to
>the IRS, along with a letter explaining that you're concerned about all
>those rich people groaning under their tax loads and would they please
>deduct an amount equal to your check from the tax bill of the fat cat of
>their choice.  But don't expect me to give away my money for that
>purpose.

May I suggest that you take all your tax forms from last year and run, do not
walk, to the nearest office of the IRS and have them audit you.  If they find
that you owe them $20 more than you paid, immediately submit yourself for a 15
year prison term.  



===============================================================================
William Crosmun
crosmun@dg-rtp.dg.com

===============================================================================
"The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and
 act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it."
			  
                                      P.J. O'Rourke - A Parliament of Whores

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,soc.penpals
From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Question on Thanksgiving...
Followup-To: soc.culture.usa,soc.penpals
Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:56:04 GMT

miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes:
>	Can anyone tell me when Thanksgiving is?

In the U.S., the 4th Thursday in November.  Canadians have a date in
October.

> Is it celebrated
> all over America at the same time?

Modulo timezone differences, yes.

OK, fellow-Brits.  How many times have *you* had an American ask "Do you
celebrate Thanksgiving in England?", and what was the average time before
they sheepishly realized the mistake, if at all?  I usually reply: "Yes,
but we call it Harvest Festival".

So, Morgana, do you have Thanksgiving in Australia?
-- 
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Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Subject: Re: Trigger happy or gun crazy?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:06:20 GMT

In article <92324.11462834AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET> <34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET> writes:
>In article <1992Nov15.070850.23148@adobe.com>, pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) says:
>>
>>In article <1992Nov13.151402.14929@menudo.uh.edu> nagappa@Rosie.UH.EDU writes:
>>>Last month a Haloween trick-or-treater was blown away for just stepping
>>>into the wrong house.
>>
>>Of course, it was more than a week before Halloween, but why
>>bother with minor details like that?
>
>And why, pray tell, was this individual entering ANY house unbidden?
>And what the hell has Hallowe'en got to do with it? Would it be
>different at Chinese New Year? Good grief!
>

Well, the circumstances surrounding it would be.  They were wearing
costumes, apparently scared this guys wife, the guy grabbed his gun,
the 2 kids went to the sidewalk.  The guy yelled "freeze", the Japanese
exchange student took a step towards the guy.  The guy pulled the 
trigger killing the exchange student (Yoshi?).

It sounds like all the facts have not been revealed.  Why would someone
clearly (and deadly) overreact that way?  What caused his wife to be
so scared - enough to tell her husband to get his gun?

Something doesn't make sense.  Unless the impression I have gotten from
living all my life in the same kind of neighborhood as that one I saw
on the news, was wrong, gun owners tend to be a bit less trigger 
happy than that.

I will wait and see.

And to those Japanese worried about the 'danger' of the USA.  Don't be,
it may have more firearms than Japan, it isn't as dangerous as the Media
hypes it. (never is...)


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| Brent L. Irvine         |These opinions are the opinions of the majority of |
| irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu | space aliens currently in residence in the USA.   |
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From: rcsmith@anagld.analytics.com (Ray Smith)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: southern culture ?
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:27:35 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation - Systems Engineering Division


ebstokes@maxwell.crd.ge.com (Ed Stokes) writes:

>I am a displaced southerner, born in NC and lived there 28 years,
>but now residing in upstate NY. I visited Nashville last week,
>and was really _stricken_ by the cultural differences. It wasn't
>my first visit "home", but maybe was the first one where I've
>been open to the uniquely southern vibes. Getting into long
>friendly conversations with total strangers in restaurants,
>airports, etc. just doesn't happen in New York...

>Is anyone interested in discussing this topic ? Any displaced
>southerners ? Are you homesick ? How do you "fit in" with
>your adopted culture ?

>Ed Stokes
>ebstokes@crd.ge.com

Howdy Ed,
	Great suggestion for a thread.

	Well you have a displaced southerner here.  I am originally from 
Alabama (Birmingham and Huntsville) but have lived here in Maryland for 14 
years.  I came up here with the Army and stayed after I met and married 
a "local".  

	As for being homesick, I reckon you could say I am. I still
consider Alabama home and we plan to move back that way in a year or two.

	The worst part about fitting in is that I have lost most of my accent.
Luckily it only takes a day or two of being around my kinfolk to get it back.
I still go out of my way to talk to folks and usually if the folks are being 
difficult I can slip into my "grits and fatback" routine to draw them out.
Kind of devious but most of the folks here take themselves entirely too
seriously.

-Ray
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From: phd85@seq1.keele.ac.uk (D.H. Holden)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Foreign TV Shows
Date: 21 Nov 92 14:03:05 GMT
Organization: Keele University, England

From article <1992Nov20.001442.9006@ac.dal.ca>, by petrel@ac.dal.ca:
> In article <1992Nov17.034221.24071@mtu.edu>, aderidde@major.cs.mtu.edu  (Adam DeRidder) writes:
>>   I find it interesting that American shows and movies are shown all over the 
>> world and yet in America we don't have any foreign shows (excluding the odd 
>> British program on Public Broadcasting Stations. 
> 
> The main reason:
> 
> Why to buy the foreign shows when the American shows are the best? :-)
> (the same goes, to some extent, with other arts...)
> 
> Piotr Trela

    Apart from the language advantage, English being the most
    understood language, (ignoring chinese, which is good if you live
    in china.) The American TV market is the biggest in the world, and
    can thus finance program that smaller countries just can't afford
    to.  Not that this necessarily better program, but when you have to
    fill 24 hours a day with television , using a cheap American import
    is going to be more cost effective than producing your own pap TV.
    Here in the UK speaking the same language, using US tv become an
    even more attractive propersition, However I would n't say we were
    in the least bit saturated with it, and what we do get is usually
    the cream of the crop, e.g, Cheers,Law and order, LA law, Rossanne
    etc...  most of the pap gets show late evening to early morning,
    interspersed with the home grown pap.

   Dave H. 
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bush's Mom Dies...
Date: 22 Nov 92 17:53:09 GMT
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <carlos.722449985@morgan> carlos@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Miguel Borges) writes:
>thor@daimi.aau.dk (Torsten J|rgensen) writes:
>>irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine) writes:
>>>A say day -- Bush's Mom died today of a stroke (she was 91).
>>>My condolances to all that are affected...
>>Who is Bush?
>
>She's not dead.  I saw her on CNN the other day.  She was welcoming
>Hilary Clinton to the White House or something.
>
>Barbara Bush _IS_ George Bush's mother, right?  Or is she his
>_grandmother_?

I don't know about you, but I think it was awfully poor taste of them to put
Barbara Bush on the one-dollar bill before she died.

Ted "at least I'm not allergic to socks" Frank
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From: miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,soc.penpals
Subject: Question on Thanksgiving...
Date: 19 Nov 92 00:30:53 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University




	A general question to the world....


	Can anyone tell me when Thanksgiving is? Is it celebrated
	all over America at the same time?


	Thanks,

	Morgana
	miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au
From: irvine@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Brent Irvine)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: To the Clinton supporters
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:51:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxtoEK.70w
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

In article <jyc.721859719@Leland> jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
>crosmun@crosmun.rtp.dg.com (William Crosmun) writes:
>
>   [regarding tax cheat Leona Helmsley]
>
>>That arrogant cake-eater was tossed in jail for not paying $1,500,000 dollars
>>in taxes over the course of ten years.  During those ten years she did pay
>>$350,000,000 in taxes.  I'm sorry but I can't get upset over someone who pays
>>350 million in taxes instead of 351 million.  She should have received our
>>thanks not a jail sentence. 

>   Well I can get plenty upset about someone who's so greedy that she has
>to add to the umpteen millions she already has by robbing more millions
>from the public till -- which means from my pocket.

I agree whole heartedly!  Thanking someone for stealing?  Shudder.  What
is the world coming to...

>   [Note to Randroids who are about to start pounding the table and
>screaming that taxes are just stealing anyway so how can it be wrong if
>one person avoids them and thus gets robbed less than another:  save it
>for your dorm bull sessions.  I live in the real world, and in the real
>world I have to pay tax, you have to pay tax, and if you don't pay your
>share then I have to pay it for you.  Period.]    

And hopefully the delinquent goes to jail for it (and pays interest and
penalties in addition to the amount).
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