HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Subject: Re: The Unmasking of the Faux Cindy
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization
	<CINDY.93Jan9170421@solan10.solan.unit.no> <28305@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
	<H.eg.Xe2rI8HsjBM@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:28:47

little gator queries:
>>  +Steinar, of course, is my husband, and Stein is a troll (not of
>the
>>  +stuffed variety).
>then what variety is he?
>if he isn't "stuffed", then he isn't a nonbio or taxidermed.  is he
>biological, fictional. or what?

Biological, of course.  Mind you, i wouldn't recommend a live troll as
a pet for anyone.  They combine the troubles of a newborn baby with
the IQ of a chihuahua.  But they're a lot of fun, once you get them
toilet trained.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no
 Trondheim, Norway

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.bio
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: My mother the gorilla
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 03:18:33 GMT

scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator) opines:
>In <ll3vnuINN18g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, Peter van der Linden writes:
>>common.   Perhaps all primates (inc the Archbishops of York & Cantab)
>>have at least 95% of DNA in common.    Perhaps all mammals have at least
>>75% in common.   After all, the DNA gives the instructions to build a
>>hairy, warm-blooded, four-limbed, live-young-bearing, milk-giving, tongued
>>creature, and the rest is just fine-tuning.
>whales are mammals, and they don't have four limbs.

Platypi are mammals, and they don't bear live young.

ObUL: The Platypus was originally considered a hoax, until
a live specimen was produced.

Jon "What's a group of platypi called?" Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: ekman@netcom.com (Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear)
Subject: Re: The Fame Game
Organization: Home for the Terminally Infirm
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:30:21 GMT

In article <+5#3b3j@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
> I don't know anyone famous. 
> 
> Does anyone else not know any famous people?

I know a lot of people who are not famous.  Is that logically
equivalent?  I dunno.

Let's see...there's Myrtle Froodnik, who grows potatoes up in Klamath
Falls, and Fred Kritch, who works in the gas station in Marysville....
-- 
Crossly the Glad-Eyed Bear              ekman@netcom.com
Home for the Terminally Infirm, Redwood City, California
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Dead Cat - other stolen object
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:18:18 GMT
	<C0Bv2n.Jtq@panix.com>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
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>
>>Somehow, we got the bright idea of peeing into our
>>empty milk cartons, though disposing of them was a
>>precarious matter.  One evening, Eric put his pee-filled
>>milk carton on the sidewalk just outside the front door.
>>When we got to work the next day, it was gone.
>>
>>We continued this practice on an almost daily basis
>>for the rest of the summer, and without fail the tainted
>>cartons would disappear.  We never did figure out who
>>took them or why.

my guess is whoever took them never did figure out why someone was leaving
such bizarre litter in their neighborhood, and was just cleaning up.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)
Subject: Re: Phone Calls at 2/3 the Speed of Light
Keywords: phone, telephone, speed
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:25:12 GMT


this whole sequence of postings about the speed of light reminds me of
such an excellant story that even though it's not directly related, I ask
the net-folk to bear with me.

The late Admiral Grace Hopper (known for being the originator of the term
"bug" in computers) was interviewed in a puff piece on CBS's "60 minutes".
She described how she was having trouble explaining to her less than
brilliant non-technical types why there was a delay when using satellite
links.

According to her, she went over to one of the maintanence shops and "I
asked them to cut me a nanosecond" (a millionth of a second).  THey cut
her a piece of cable approximately one meter long.

(This, of course, represented the distance that light, or radio waves,
traveled in a nanosecond).

She woudl then go around with her cable, and explain to people that "there
are a lot of nanoseconds" between the earth and the satellites.

danny (wait for the echo) burstein

dannyb@panix.com

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: wvhorn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William VanHorne)
Subject: Re: General Hooker and whores (FAQ)
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:27:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.235135.11197@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.223420.15308@netcom.com>, jmoody@netcom.com (Jim Moody) writes:
>>
>>Is it possible that this stems from a famous incident in the civil war
>>when, I believe it was Hooker, was so outraged at the behavior of
>>Southern women in the occupied cities toward Union Officers and troops
>>that he issued an order stating that any woman who insulted a Union
>>officer was to be treated as a lady of the town, or a lady of the streets?
>>
>	That incident happened in New Orleans.  Probably would
>have been 'lady of the boulevards'.
>
Yep. New Orleans it was.  The general was Benjamin "Beast" Butler.

---Bill "666" VanHorne
From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:54:17 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

nigel@kathunk.phaedrav.on.ca (Nigel M Burnett) writes:

[in reference to exploding Pintos and such...]

>Imagine my consternation when I realized I was *behind* a Pinto in a 
>toll-booth line-up and can see an Audi 5000 pulling up behind me.

Were you driving a VW at the time?  

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dick "the Very Worst place to be in an accident" Joltes	joltes@husc.harvard.edu
Hardware & Networking Manager, Computer Services 	joltes@husc.bitnet 
Harvard University Science Center

"Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some
sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him..."
From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Norman Travels??
Keywords: Spaghetti,Hastings,TheBlackHand,1066
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 03:00:05 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:

> In article <rhamilt.726445888@husc.harvard.edu> rhamilt@husc10.harvard.edu (R
> 
> >I recently heard someone claim that the Normans (of 1066 fame), before 
> >arriving in northern France, were in fact for awhile based in Sicily. The
> >claim was that they based themselves in Sicily while marauding in the
> >Mediterranean, and then moved to France when they found better pickings 
> >in the North. Can anyone out there confirm/deny this?
> 
> I heard Norman is a contraction of North-men, or Norse-men, ie the Vikings.
> They certainly did get around a bit.
> 
> 
> 
>         Never believe an experiment until it is confirmed by theory 
>     Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England    (44|0)61-275-6033  


In the 11th century, Moslems had conquered Sicily and Southern Italy.
  The Papcy hired a Norman prince, Roger, to kick the moslems out.  Which 
was done, but then Roger doublecrossed the Pope and setup his own kingdom 
there.  Actually he was probably one of the better kings around at the 
time and had a lot of scholars, Xian, Moslem and Jewish set up shop there 
in Sicily.  The Popes hated him for some reason.
I forget exact dates, ect..  Try Andrew d. White's "The History Of The  
Warfare between Science And religion".  I think there was a pretty good 
description of all of this in that book, if your nearby by library is 
lucky enough to have it.



Pope Charles

--
popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX, (713) 481-3763
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson)
Subject: Re: African-American-top
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:27:24 GMT

In article <4830@moscom.com> de@moscom.com (David Esan) writes:
>In article <C09FJK.K7r@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:
>>The only thing I could think of was making all nouns neuter.  Other
>>languages don't have neuter nous; everything is masculine or feminine.
>
>Not true.  Russian has neuter nouns as well.  

Er, since this is the first I've seen of it, I assume there wasn't a
widespread misunderstanding.  I meant "there exist languages without
neuter nouns" not "German is the only language with neuter nouns".

Ben "Sorry to inject some facts" Jackson
--
"The direction of the eye, so misleading...
 The defection of the soul, nauseously quick." -- Pearl Jam, _Garden_
Ben Jackson, ben@ben.com, bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.drugs,alt.rave
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:15:35 -0500 
From: "Alan S. Ferrency" <af1x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Druggie Post-teens suck pacifiers (Nuk-Nuk!)
	<C0nsp3.34p@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>

>>I suspect that perhaps a small fraction of the pacifier-sucking kids are
>>involved with drugs, and the rest just do it cause it's "cool."  Not that
>>I claim to understand the kids that think looking like a baby is way >>nifty
>>neato, but I think the actual drug-users in this group, if any, are few.
>
>2 years ago my roommate turned me on to acid.  He had a 'binky' (brand
>name of his pacifier).  We all thought it was cool and everyone got
>one.  Frankly, I'm disappointed to see 2 different articles making
>reference to it in Newsweek in December.  I thought it was a *very*
>local phenomenon--not some crazy/out_of_control/rich_kid/freak thing
>that is big enough to make Newsweek a couple of times....  I love my


I didn't know this was big enough to make newsweek, but I know it's not
a local phenomenon.  I remember a gathering I went to during January of
1991 I believe...  One huge thing there was pacifiers.  Another was
Moxie.  So together, you got a bunch of silly people drinking Moxie out
of baby bottles.  I'm not sure about pacifiers, but Moxie is definitely
still in with that crowd (although I'm not... I never really was, come
to think of it...)

-me
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer)
Subject: Re: Upside-down burglar
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:45:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.142349.16346@adimail.uucp> tel@adimail.uucp (Terry Monks) writes:
>Cynthia Kandolf (cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no) wrote:
>: 
>: There is no such note as E-sharp.  One half-step above E is F.
>: Sometimes you will see an E-sharp written on a piece of music, but
>: it's to be played as an F.  There is no key called E-sharp on a piano.
>: 
>I believe this is wrong. If you name the notes in the triad for C sharp
>you will say C sharp, E sharp and G sharp. There is no F in the key of
>C sharp. The keys on a piano are immaterial, as you know, there is no
>E sharp key on a trombone either.

Right - any brass player worth their mouthpiece will know that a E-sharp
is a different note than an F, and that an A-sharp is different than a
B-flat. On the piano, of course, those dweebs can't tell the difference
which is why trumpet players are worth so much more than piano players.
Remember that next time you have a choice between dating a mere pianist
and the more god-like trumpet player (or if you can't find one, the 
very acceptable trombone player).
-- 
John Switzer               | "What we have here is a failure to 
                           | masticate."
Compuserve: 74076,1250     | -- MST3K's Dr. Clayton "Firebrand" Forrester, 
Internet: jrs@netcom.com   | after TV's Frank is unable to eat his 13th turkey.
From: jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Date: 8 Jan 93 06:23:09 GMT
Organization: Virginia Center for Lemur Fandom, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA (subscribe to alt.fan.lemurs TODAY)

In article <1993Jan6.194626.16170@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>
>Speaking of the Saviour, what is His middle name?
>
>I've heard:
>
>1) Jesus H. Christ

It's He/Him/His, depending on whether you want the subjective, objective,
or possessive Christ.  Really.

          (__)                                           
          (oo)                                                     Joel Furr
   /-------\/                                     jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
  / |     ||                                            Blacksburg, Virginia
 *  ||----||                                                             USA
    ^^    ^^
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <8441@news.duke.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:44:39 GMT

fls@econ.duke.edu (Forrest Smith) writes:
>What about vegetable parts?  Wasn't the corn cobb named after Ty?

No. Corn was originally named by Indians for Willie Mays.

ObIndians: With the new stadium, the tribe will only have 45000
empty seats, rather than 65000.

Jon "You call it corn, we call it Maize." Papai
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage? (was: Gay Likelihood)
Date: 9 Jan 93 04:19:03 GMT

dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
>Please explain how those of us who don't fool around with
>anyone and don't do drugs, etc are going to contract AIDS?

By being raped.  No one is absolutely safe from that.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: vince@gda.cadence.com (Vince Gibboni)
Subject: Mixing drinks
Keywords: Lemurs
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:39:37 GMT


        In the course a study I've been assiduously conducting on the effects
    of alcohol on humans (not to mention _in_ humans), the subject of mixing
    drinks keeps coming up (occasionally along with the drinks). I keep 
    meeting people who insist that if you stick to one particular drink
    or type of drink (wine, beer, etc.) for the duration of a drinking
    session, you are less likely to get sick than if you indiscriminately
    mix different types of drinks. It seems to me this must be a wide-spread 
    legend. Why should your body care if you're drinking rum and cokes or 
    whiskey and sodas or both - alcohol is alcohol, right ?  Seems like 
    you probably just tend to mix drinks when you drink more (or drink more 
    when you mix drinks), which makes it _seem_ like you get sick more often 
    when mixing drinks. Anyone know the Truth on this one ?



--
                                                         vince@gda.cadence.com

    "Good night, Wesley. Good work. I'll most likely kill you in the morning."
        - The Dread Pirate Roberts (an early Cadence manager)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Craig Shergold
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:51:03 GMT

The Craig Shergold story was making the rounds at work today (it came to us
from a customer, on official letterhead).  When I sent out my copy of the
Craig.shergold file, I got back an interesting response.

One of my colleagues suggested that we get together and put Craig
_back_ into the hospital - then everything will be fine...
-- 
Paul Tomblin (I don't make or state policy for this company)
"Does that include the toaster disk drive and printer" - Dilbert
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Police spread inflammatory UL
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 01:49:03 GMT

The city of Durham, North Carolina, home of Duke and N.C. Central Univer-
sities, the N.C. School of Science and Math, several hospitals, and some
famous tobacco companies, is currently embroiled in a seething political
dispute because of a UL spread by the city police department.

The Durham police announced that a teenage street gang had prescribed
as its initiation rite that prospective members must kidnap and rape 
a white woman.  (Note that the race of the gang members was not mentioned
but was clearly implied.)  As with all UL's, there were many details,
all vague:  the gang was operating in the northern part of the city,
the attacks took place in shopping-center parking lots, two (or five)
women had reported such rapes but had refused to press charges because
of the trauma of appearing in court, etc.
 
Well, now the police say there are in fact some rape victims who do
not want to pursue the cases, but there is no evidence of any connection
between the various cases, and no evidence of gang involvement.  They
defend their earlier warnings as attempts to protect the public safety.
Many African-American citizens of Durham (and others) are understandably
irritated, to say the least, because the official police warnings served
to perpetuate the old "black boys rapin' white women" racist stereotype.

See any recent issue of the Herald-Sun (Durham) or News&Observer(Raleigh)
for further information.

ObMoreDurham:  In the mid 1960s, local rumor had it that Durham had the
highest venereal disease rate of any city in the U.S.A., which made us
wonder why at that particular moment in history the Chamber of Commerce
expended megabucks on TV commercials proclaiming "Durham's Got It!"

ObEvenMoreDurham:  Durham is home to the street whose name is annually
voted "Best Street Name" in a regional newspaper's contest: Wa Wa Avenue.

ObAFUDurham:  A former president of Duke University is named Terry.

Bruce "former Duke alumnus" Tindall

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From: Terry.Smith@f870.n800.z3.fidonet.org (Terry Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Etymological matters (was Re: African-American-top)
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:45:59 GMT


 da> referred to in the neuter. The word for a young boy is "das Knabe",

 Quatsch!..   like the word for boy in English is youth or knave.:-) The more
 common word is DER Junge.
  Ref: Langenscheidts Tascenwoerterbuch, Neuasgabe Neunzhen Hundert Dreiund-
achtsig
Thorens Schmidt.

 * Origin: Elizabeth Park BBS (3:800/870.0)
From: fred@page6.pinetree.org (Fred Ennis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing signs 
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 10:13:24 -0500
Organization: Page 6, Ottawa, Ontario +1 613-729-9451

> Well in good old Holland they have a round red sign with a picture of a dog 
> pooping in the middle, with NO diagonal red stripe !! Yes thats right 
> folks, if your dog want a poop then this is the place to drag it. Unfortunate

In Ottawa we have green signs with a line drawing of a dog, a pile of 
dogshit, and a bag.  Arrows go from the dogshit to the bag.

The pictograms are designed to tell you that it is OK for your dog to 
shit if you put it in a bag.  The sign neglects to tell you what to do to 
the bag.


--
Fred Ennis, fred@page6.pinetree.org

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From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: Architecture (Was: Architect Suicides)
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:34:44 GMT
Organization: st. alfonso's pancake breakfast

In article <1993Jan8.202159.18520@leland.Stanford.EDU> yorrick@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Lincicome) writes:
>In article <1993Jan7.195204.14496@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>speaking of Kresge, is there any connection between the Kresge at MIT,
>>which has walls, and the Kresge at the international music camp and school
>>of music at interlochen, michigan? this kresge auditorium looks a great 
>>deal like the MIT one, but without side walls. who was kresge?
>
>Don't know what the other Kresge auditoria look like, but Stanford has one
>too.  Fairly nice, although I can't seem to do very well on exams in there.

well, i doubt if i could do a reasonable ascii representation, but it's 
sort of reminiscent of a large piece of cloth weighted at the corners and
billowing up in the middle. the MIT one has walls under the curved roof,
and the Interlochen one doesn't. that help?

bah.
i am the asciibo!



--
		    -just give me what for,
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From: cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: origin of which side of the road to drive on
Date: 10 Jan 93 12:44:43 GMT
Organization: /home/ludviga/cindy/.organization

YuNoHoo writes:
>I believe the transition went quite well. The govt. oiled the
>propaganda machine and brainwashed all the Swedes just like that.
>
>ObUL: During the transition the govt. managed to slip in a lot of
>      subliminal messages, changing other aspects of the society.

ContinuationOfObUL: This is when Swedes learned to believe that ice
cream is supposed to taste like frozen margarine.

-Cindy Kandolf
 cindy@solan.unit.no 
 Trondheim, Norway