HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.fan.biff,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: BIFF LIVES!  (Was: Re: THE SMILEY FACE AND C3)
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:38:31 GMT
Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: University of Arizona

In article <1992Nov12.063937.10731@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jfurr@nyx (Mr. Furr) writes:
>In article <sbq1apb@rpi.edu> downec@rpi.edu writes:
>>OK, LET'S PUT THIS THING TO REST.
>>
>>I DON'T KNOW WHO PUT THE SMILEY FACE 
>>ON THE JEC WALKWAY, BUT I DO KNOW WHO
>>PUT THE 'C3' THERE.
>>
>>IT WASN'T CARY 3 AND IT WASN'T THE DARK
>>KNIGHTS.
>>
>>CARY AND BRAY ARE GEEKS.  THEY WOULD 
>>THINK OF ANYTHING TO DO BESIDES PROGRAM
>>A COMPUTER OR SOMETHING GAY LIKE THAT.
>>
>>I'M NOT SAYING I DID IT BUT I AM SAYING
>>THAT I KNOW FOR SURE WHO DID IT.
>>
>>CROCKETT 3. . .end of subject.
>>
>>CSD

me, too!

-- 
What signature?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: omitchel@jarthur.claremont.edu (Ocie *crow* Mitchell)
Subject: Re: Pranks
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 09:09:43 GMT

In article <9211120631.AA01587@polar.bowdoin.edu> cwilbur@polar.bowdoin.edu (Charlton Wilbur) writes:
>Aardvark says:
>
>>Boy Charlton, you are one crazy, wacky guy! How did you ever come up with
>>the great idea of turning things upside down? That is so incredifucking 
>>funny!  Thanks for being you!
>
>Had I wanted a flame, I would have purchased a disposable lighter. Get a
>life. Find something else to do with your time.
>
>Charlton
>

Now this is all well and good, but turning all the furniture upside-down.  Now
there's a prank worthy of mention :P


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From: cwilbur@polar.bowdoin.edu (Charlton Wilbur)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Pranks
Date: 12 Nov 1992 00:32:06 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Aardvark says:

>Boy Charlton, you are one crazy, wacky guy! How did you ever come up with
>the great idea of turning things upside down? That is so incredifucking 
>funny!  Thanks for being you!

Had I wanted a flame, I would have purchased a disposable lighter. Get a
life. Find something else to do with your time.

Charlton



       
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: chrisbee@nick.csh.rit.edu (I live in the water!)
Subject: The entire campus does it. . .
Summary: Kinda like Venice
Keywords: Bricks, Swamps, Mud
Organization: Computer Science House @ RIT
Distribution: nat
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:20:08 GMT

I attend Rochester Institute of Technology in western NY and
we have more than just a few sinking buildings. Every one of
the buildings is made of brick (I mean EVERY) and the campus
property is essentially a filled in swamp (the nature trails
behind school still spend a good portion of the spring under
water).  Well common legend has it that every building is 
slowly going downn year by year, and if you look at the base
of the dorms it is fairly apparent. However the Academic side
of campus is on a little more solid ground so some of their
buildings don't sink as much, but what can I say, we're on
the flood plain of the Genesee river.

the wayward chrisbee
-- 
chrisbee@nick.csh.rit.edu****************cleric/magic-user2,1

Let's take something whose whole purpose in life is to be
unhealthy and give it the veneer of dietary worth.
From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: The dead roommate myth...
Date: 13 Nov 92 01:03:06 GMT
Reply-To: wag5@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <6974@news.duke.edu> dkelly@bio4.acpub.duke.edu (Dianne Kelly) writes:
>
>It's also reputed to be true at U. Chicago. However, my husband (also a U. C.
>grad) once called up the Registrar's Office to see whether or not it was
>really true. It's not.
>							Diane Kelly
>							dkelly@acpub.duke.edu

	No way it could be true. If they had that in effect, there would
be fights over who would get to be ranked first at graduation.  There
would be too many 4.0's from all the suicides.  Ever read 'Misery Loves Comedy'
by Ivan Brunetti? Most of those cartoons are reflections of life here.

				John
From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: The dead roommate myth...
Date: 12 Nov 1992 19:11:55 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu
Keywords: roommate suicide, 4.0, death, hangnails, lemurs

franklir@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ryan J Franklin ) writes:

>In article <1dseadINNg8i@gap.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
>>cyclist@hubcap.clemson.edu (Barry Johnson) writes:
>>>Does anyone out there know of any college or university that supports
>>>the (some think mythological) rule that if your roommate commits
>>>suicide, you will automatically be given a 4.00 GPA for the semester?
>>
>>The University here has that policy.

>Well, someone has to ask, I guess.  Can you post the proof of this, with
>references, page numbers, etc.?  You might very well be the first person
>to successfully document a 4.0-for-roommate-suicide policy at a major
>college/university.

Of course, these things aren't documented--at least not in the literature
that we students receive.  It is a matter of policy, but it is most likely
handled on a personal case-by-case basis.

You are not going to find any University, probably, that documents these
things out in the open.  Suicide is not a pleasant topic and is no doubt
one which the administration would like to avoid.  It is not nice to
talk about suicide policy, even if it does exist.  Perhaps it is not in
good taste to openly diplay such a policy.

Besides, unless someone is planning to commit suicide, in which case you
might attempt to become his roommate, the existing policy will be
applied whether or not you knew about it previously.  Of course you can
be reassured that if your roommate does commit suicide (or just plain
die, I suppose), that the deans will do something to make it a little
easier for you to cope.  What exactly this is will vary from college to 
college.

Again, it is not documented, but I have heard that it has occurred a number
of times.  (Well, it is probably documented in teh secret dean files.)

keith
From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Omar and buffalo hair.
Date: 13 Nov 1992 14:25:21 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu

    During a conversation about Omar's bio:
	I said "People at the University of Buffalo care."

	Omar: Buffalo hair?  I'm don't think many people in the universe 
	      would have buffalo hair.

	


	Omar's apparent translation:  How many people in the universe have 
				      buffalo hair?




        				-Daemeon, Keeper of the Omar Archive
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.college:2830 alt.religion.kibology:4526 alt.config:6685 alt.alien.visitors:8067
From: bjornts@ii.uib.no (Bjoern Tore Sund)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college,alt.religion.kibology,alt.config,alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: alt.fan.omar
Date: 6 Nov 92 02:02:23 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen

In article <1992Oct30.180807.19785@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:
|> In article <1crojcINN4he@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
|> >Ok, so how does one go about becoming a new group?
|> 
|> This was such a great straight line, I had to let Kibo take it.

I want to take it to....

The answer is: Becoming groups is something that amoebas (sp?) do.
	1. If you're an amoueba, you'll instinctively know how to become a group.
	2. If you're not, forget about that, and find some more realistic goal.

-- 
    ___   ___
__  |__)   |    Bjoern Tore Sund (BT)   Quote: "Nothing!"
    |__)   |    bjornts@ii.uib.no              - Marvin

P.S. Sorry about that, Kibo, if you _really wanted to take it yourself, but I couldn't
help myself. It _was_ a "great straight line"! :-)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: THE SMILEY FACE AND C3
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:17:49 GMT


In article <sbq1apb@rpi.edu> downec@crockett1b.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Stevan Downey) writes:

> OK, LET'S PUT THIS THING TO REST.

> I DON'T KNOW WHO PUT THE SMILEY FACE 
> ON THE JEC WALKWAY, BUT I DO KNOW WHO
> PUT THE 'C3' THERE.

	REALLY?  THAT"S SHURE GREAT |)00|)!!!!!1!!!!!1!!!!!!111!!

> IT WASN'T CARY 3 AND IT WASN'T THE DARK
> KNIGHTS.

> CARY AND BRAY ARE GEEKS.  THEY WOULD 
> THINK OF ANYTHING TO DO BESIDES PROGRAM
> A COMPUTER OR SOMETHING GAY LIKE THAT.

> I'M NOT SAYING I DID IT BUT I AM SAYING
> THAT I KNOW FOR SURE WHO DID IT.

> CROCKETT 3. . .end of subject.

> CSD

Honestly, you don't need to yell.  My ears are falling off now.  And
may I ask, Are you a freshman?  

--
Tig Stone
(oldman@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
...Programming a Computer or something gay like that.
From: dkelly@bio2.acpub.duke.edu (Dianne Kelly)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: leopold and loeb some more
Date: 9 Nov 92 18:24:54 GMT
Reply-To: dkelly@bio2.acpub.duke.edu (Dianne Kelly)


HOW could anyone be at U. Chicago without hearing about Leopold and Loeb??

	The book and movie that come closest to being the "best"
fictionalization of the Leopold and Loeb murder case is _Rope_. I don't
know who wrote the book, but the movie is directed by Alfred Hitchcock
and is really good. See a local DOC member for details.
	Speaking of Hitchcock, did you know that's the dorm they lived in?

	And the murder was hardly a joke on their part. The two of them had
been speculating on how the "perfect crime" could be committed, and for
some obscure reason decided to do it. They then proceeded to do
everything wrong.
	Originally, the plan was to kidnap and ransom the heir to the Sears
fortune - who was conveniently at the U.C. Lab Schools. However, they
ended up kidnapping Loeb's cousin (also a Labbie) and killing him. They
dumped the body at Wolf Lake, and (mistake #2) Leopold dropped his
glasses near the body. When the body was found, so were the glasses; the
perscription was traced, and BOOM! Instant conviction.
	The really weird thing is that Leopold had been talking "theoretically"
about perfect crimes in one of his Law School classes _after_ the kid
disappeared. You'd think he'd have had the sense to lie low for a while.
					
								Diane Kelly
								Duke Zoology
From: 2b98pronovic@vms.csd.mu.edu (Ken Pronovici)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: OMAR Clone
Date: 13 Nov 1992 21:22:07 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2b98pronovic@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

We dont have an OMAR here at Marquette University in Milwaukee, but we have
a LARRY.  Last week, LARRY brought home a fat chick who spent the night, and
the next morning he "couldn't remember" what she looked like (Reagan
syndrome).  He's also quite philosophical.  Yesterday, he told us that 
life meant more to him than it did to us because he was too stupid to get 
a scholarship.  He also mentioned that memorizing facts for a history test 
was more difficult than interpreting a book for yourself, but we'll leave
that because he has a hard enough time reading the book.  Oh, and he got lost
on the way to the study area yesterday, but he wouldn't admit it.  This could
be a result of the "MASS 2000" he is taking to make himself HUGE. Well, I'd
write more, but he's in the room, and he hasn't realized why everyone's
laughing at him.

		Proudly attempting to carry on the OMAR tradition.....


			KEN
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From: tinkha@rs6422.ecs.rpi.edu (Andrew David Tinkham)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: The dead roommate myth...
Date: 11 Nov 92 22:01:38 GMT
Reply-To: tinkha@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

I've heard that it's true here at RPI, though from nobody official, so it could
just be rumors.
 Andy
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: bogus@andy.bgsu.edu (Aardvark)
Subject: Re: Pranks
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: bgsu
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:22:19 GMT

In article <9211120451.AA00968@polar.bowdoin.edu>,
cwilbur@polar.bowdoin.edu (Charlton Wilbur) wrote:
> 
> This was amusing. I did nothing that could not have been undone; anyone that
> went through and noticed more than one would have seen a pattern and been
> amused; and, if I had been asked (because the prof was fully aware that I had
> done it) I would have cheerfully undone everything. 
> 
> (An important note: don't do this to any random professor! I know the music
> department well. I've even got part of a mailbox in the music office. I know
> their senses of humor. That's the most important part.)
> 
> Charlton Wilbur

Boy Charlton, you are one crazy, wacky guy!  How did you ever come up with
the great idea of turning things upside down?  That is so incredifucking
funny!  Thanks for being you!

Aardvark
From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Omar again!
Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:26:25 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Reply-To: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu



		A bunch of us were sitting around in the computing center 
	reading my copy of Omar's .plan file and changing things to make them
	funnier and he happened to walk up and glance at my screen.  Noticing
	his .plan elicited a "Haaaaaaay!  Where did you get that?  Somebody
	broke into my account and I bet I know who it was.", from him.  We
	laughed for a second and I said, "Omar, can you say 'Photo.log?'"
	He said "How can you photo.log a terminal I've already logged out
	of?"  I had no idea what he meant by this since you can only photo.log
	your own terminal but I let it slide.  I then said " Omar, can you
	say 'finger zaidioa@nyssa.cs.rose-hulman.edu?'".  He then swore that
	he no longer even had a copy of this in his account.  He went over
	to find it and delete it.  I told him not to.  He said "What does
	it matter?"  I said (in my most serious voice) "It matters, Omar.
	It matters to people all across the country!"  (which, of course,
	is true)  After this he just had a cow about something.  He just
	shouted a bit.  He is still convinced that I broke into his account
	He was even overheard threatening to break into mine.  (Yeah, right)
	

					-Daemeon -Keeper of the Omar Archive
From: nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu (N.W. Choe)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: correction:
Date: 9 Nov 92 05:33:08 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Organization: Beaver Consulting Co.

A little mistake: you see, in article
<nwc1-081192134654@sl-mac-9.rh.uchicago.edu>, I wrote:

> on the whole Leopold and Loeb case. Did you know that Clarence Darrow
> prosecuted them? . . .

And then I got the library listing...

> KB915     Darrow, Clarence Seward, 1857-1938.
> .D25P7    The plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd, 23rd & 25th, MCMXXIIII,
> 1924        in defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, jr., on trial

I meant, of course, that Darrow DEFENDED Leopold and Loeb. I had written
"William Jennings Bryan" prosecuted them, and then realized my error and
forgot to change the "prosecuted" back to "defended". Any other ideas on
this story?

Over the Midway to you, Ted.

N.W. Choe, nwc1@midway.uchicago.edu
5454 South Shore Drive, Suite 318
Chicago, IL 60615
312.702.4605
From: v201lrxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NOWHERE MAN)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Millard Fillmore rules!
Date: 10 Nov 92 16:57:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

There's also a Grover Cleveland Highway in Buffalo. Both Fillmore and Cleveland
are Buffalonians. Seems Buffalo has an affinity with presidents.....McKinley
was shot here, and Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated here a few days later.
Millard Fillmore also has a Buffalo hospital bearing his name. All this, and
he was president, too, as well as the first president of UB! O Joy! O Rapture!
Never since James K. Polk have we had such an awesome president!

mike
From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: The dead roommate myth...
Date: 13 Nov 1992 08:25:51 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
NNTP-Posting-Host: punisher.caltech.edu

wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner) writes:

>In article <6974@news.duke.edu> dkelly@bio4.acpub.duke.edu (Dianne Kelly) writes:
>>
>>It's also reputed to be true at U. Chicago. However, my husband (also a U. C.
>>grad) once called up the Registrar's Office to see whether or not it was
>>really true. It's not.
>>							Diane Kelly
>>							dkelly@acpub.duke.edu

>	No way it could be true. If they had that in effect, there would
>be fights over who would get to be ranked first at graduation.  There
>would be too many 4.0's from all the suicides.  Ever read 'Misery Loves Comedy'
>by Ivan Brunetti? Most of those cartoons are reflections of life here.

Well, the students aren't ranked here, so that problem is eliminated.

keith

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
From: fnord@panix.com (Cliff Heller)
Subject: Re: The dead roommate myth...
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:20:22 GMT
Organization: Right Bleedin' Church of Libertine Obfuscatology

In <1dseadINNg8i@gap.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:

>cyclist@hubcap.clemson.edu (Barry Johnson) writes:


>>Does anyone out there know of any college or university that supports
>>the (some think mythological) rule that if your roommate commits
>>suicide, you will automatically be given a 4.00 GPA for the semester?

>The University here has that policy.

prove it.

EVERY college student has heard this.  It is such pervasive freshman
folklore, it is almost frightening, but let's see some official
documentation regarding the policy.



-- 
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From: h2m@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (JA)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: The dead roommate myth...
Date: 12 Nov 92 22:24:17 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1992Nov11.210706.26588@hubcap.clemson.edu>,
cyclist@hubcap.clemson.edu (Barry Johnson) writes: 
> 
> Does anyone out there know of any college or university that supports
> the (some think mythological) rule that if your roommate commits
> suicide, you will automatically be given a 4.00 GPA for the semester?
> 
> Barry...
> -- 
> Personal Theory:  Socks are the larval form of wire coat-hangers.
>    
> Barry Johnson, Clemson University, CTS.   cyclist@hubcap.clemson.edu   

I've heard that told here, but if you take the 4.0 option, you don't have
to finish the class, and you earn 0.0 credit hours for the semester.
So, you have a 4.0 in every class, but 0.0 hours and your GPA is:
(4)(0)==0  no great gain......
later....
justin
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From: mcmurtrey@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Fire Alarms...
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:47:14 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1d3qi5INN43e@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU writes:
> I used to go to University of Missouri Rolla.  This was during summer
> session. 



        I went to UMR for 3 years and remember several episodes like that.  

        Wasn't TJ Hall also sinking at a rate of 3 inches a year?  I always
thought that an Engineering college could do better....

        Gotta go teach Process cost accounting. Later......


                                                Diana McMurtrey
From: v064lnev@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Avatar)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: World Trade Center sinking!!!
Date: 4 Nov 92 08:19:00 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.college
Distribution: usa
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <jwc2001-031192153626@m248-33.bgsu.edu>, 
jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (J Cannon) writes...
>I went to the World Trade Center and took the four-dollar ride to the 107th
>floor, to hang out with all the other tourists.  [...] I have an
>acute sense of spatial relations.  It was on the 107th floor of the WTC
>that I noticed that the building is leaning!  Sure, it may not be a serious
>lean *yet*, but give it another hundred years and that place is toast. 

No.  Skyscrapers, such as the World Trade Center, are designed to sway with the
wind.  The total wind force against the total surface area of these structures
is immense!  If you do some research, you will find that the World Trade Center
was designed to sway, in order to lessen the chances of the super-structure 
collapsing in high winds.

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