HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
Subject:  Praying in Space 
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.waves,alt.gopher
Organization: Castle WetWare Philosopher and Sniper
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 10:04:27 GMT

jle@locus.com (John Elghani/10000000) writes:
] In article <1VXoNB12w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
] >khan@davidsys.com writes:
] >>  When muslims start living in space stations,
] >> they would still be able to pray towards Makkah.
] >>   You see, the direction towards Makkah is
] >> determined by considering an invisible 'pillar'
] >> rising from the Kaaba, to an infinite height.
] >>   This is based on my knowledge of today.
] >
] >Yeah, but I was talking about a wheel-shaped station, like in 2001.  One
] >which rotates so as to get artificial gravity.  Fix a torch to the rim of a
] >bicycle wheel with duct tape, spin the wheel, and watch where the torch beam
] >goes.
] >
] 
] To both idiots that wrote the above:
] 
] The direction to Mecca is a form of Unity.  There is nothing in
] islam that says that you'd be incapable of praying if you were unable
] to locate the direction of Mecca.  


Are People REALLY this slow?

Come on, an infinte line in a curved space....

All you have to do is face in the direction of
the intersection, and there is NO MAJOR PROBLEM.

We will merely need to properly orient space stations
so that they point towards one of the places where the
infinite line will criss cross backthrough the black holes....

Get REAL!!!!!

For persons who should have some sembalance of awareness
about things that have been in occurance during some portion
of this century.... y'all are really slow on the UPTAKE....

Ever notice that WormHoles were NOT called PorkBarrells,
as that would me they could NOT be used for the pious to
orient themselves during prayer....

WakeUp! Smell The Methane, and point in the direction of
the nearest worm hole and bow gracefully before the divine....

ciao
drieux


ps: This ranks number two next to people who frivilously
orient their sense of morning to the juxtaposition of one
obscure star and its meager little sattelite....

How Ever are you Earthlings going to get off planet?


-- 
I Do Not Believe in .sig files
as they are such a Known Waste Of BandWidth,
And Therefore Not a Morally UpRight Choice.
But I Can See the HideousHienousHandOfHeteroSexualityBehindItAll.
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: poser@vxdsyc.desy.de (Till Poser)
Subject: Re: seattle
Reply-To: Poser@vxdsyc.desy.de
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:14:55 GMT

In article <1992Jul26.150621.1@msscc.med.utah.edu>, finerty@msscc.med.utah.edu (I_AM_NOTHING_AND_KNOW_EVEN_LESS) bites the big 'un:
|>In article <1992Jul24.162824.11671@nmsu.edu>, sabbott@nmsu.edu (SDA) writes:
|>> 	\\\\\sean/////
|>	hey poser, i almost wanted to respond to this with a flame but then i

    I resent that!


       Till Poser         Internet: poser@vxdsyc.desy.de
-F35- ZEUS DESY/Freiburg  Bitnet:   POSER@DESYVAX
bldg.1b-235, Notkestr.85  Hepnet:   VXDESY::POSER (13313::Poser)
   D-2000 Hamburg 52      Tel.: -49-40-8998-2004
From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Do not use this machine
Keywords: All hands on deck
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:21:39 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: Bugs-R-Us


There is a hot air hand dryer in the toilets at Waverley Market, and
there is a sign on it that says

                +-------------------------------------+
                |   MACHINE WILL STOP AUTOMATICALLY   |
                |        AFTER REMOVING HANDS         |
                +-------------------------------------+

I left with wet hands and intact wrists.

-- Ken "It's quite unambiguous" Johnson


-- 
                          ////  Ken Johnson, A I Applications Institute
We won't be meeting again ////       80 South Bridge, EDINBURGH EH1 1HN
On the slow train,        ////                 E-mail ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk
On the slow train.        ////     phone 031-650 2756  fax 031-650 6513
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: My favorite post of the week.
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:38:51 GMT
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

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From: stoll@ocf.berkeley.edu (Cliff Stoll)
Newsgroups: alt.security,rec.arts.movies
Subject: Re: Cuckoo's Egg (Was: Re: Sneakers (Upcoming movie about "hackers"))
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:24:40 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility

Linda Snow writes:

>>Actually, it was made into a PBS show.  I think it may have been
>>an episode of Nova.  The author of the book (whose name completely
>>escapes me now) 'starred' in this re-creation of the book.

>His name is Cliff Stoll.
>He used to pop up on the net from time to time.
>In fact, his e-mail address is listed in the book.


Zooks!  I still do pop up on the net, when not answering e-mail.
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rp -- yeah, but does he read t.b?
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
Subject: Re: BUSH
Reply-To: dsh@csl36h.csl.ncsu.edu (Doug Holtsinger)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 02:41:02 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.224852.1@msscc.med.utah.edu> 
finerty@msscc.med.utah.edu (I_AM_NOTHING_AND_KNOW_EVEN_LESS) writes:

> the types of abortion in which limbs and head etc. are visible 
> enough are late 2nd and 3rd trimester abortions which
> constitue a very small percentage (sorry no data for this). 

Sometimes these fetuses are born alive after an abortion attempt.
From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: short shameful confusion
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:30:22 GMT
Organization: Tegra, Inc., Billerica, MA
In-reply-to: alchemy@cs1.bradley.edu's message of 27 Jul 92 13:34:32 GMT


In article <alchemy.712244072@cs1.bradley.edu> alchemy@cs1.bradley.edu (verb dog) writes:

   This weekend, I misread an anti-abortion bumper
   sticker as:

     Motherhood Is A Food Profession

   It wasn't until I had considered such possibilities
   as roast fetus, fried fetus, fetus stir-fry, and
   fetus dip that I got close enough to the other car
   to realize my mistake.


MURDER IS MEAT
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Goodbye.
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:09:00 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test,soc.religion.christian,rec.music.christian,alt.slack,alt.religion.kibology
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA


                                                         7/30, 1992
Dear Talk Bizarre readers,

For some time now I have engaged in vile and contemptuous behavior in
this newsgroup. I have followed up to cascades and maliciously altered
Followup-To lines.

Recently I have come to accept and receive Jesus Christ, The Son of
God, Firstborn from the dead as my Lord and Savior. He is the Way,
the Truth and the Life *now* and forever. He is God's first and
last Word. Jesus *is* the Word of God. He saves from death,
eternal damnation, and from fear. Believe in Jesus and *live*. He
is the only narrow gate to the Father, God. He is the link between
Creation and God. Receive Him. I did - He makes me *new*. As a
result, I am unsubscribing to talk.bizarre.

In Jesus' Name,

rp
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.politics.bush,misc.test,alt.politics.clinton
From: crussel@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Carol A Russell)
Subject: Re: BUSH
Organization: The Ohio State University
 (25337-buoni) writes:
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:38:12 GMT

Who would ever suggest that it would be up to Clinton OR Bush to come up with a
cure?  Do you mean that a politician, businessman, or lawyer would have the 
medical research abilities to do that?  Wow, they are all powerful, aren't 
they?

I don't ask for the unreasonable from politicians and presidents.  An attitude 
that fosters understanding, caring would be nice, though.

Carol
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:23488 alt.flame:11396
From: milliken@athena.cs.uga.edu (Brewmeister)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.flame
Subject: Re: GOOLEY FOR PRESIDENT!
Date: 27 Jul 92 03:44:03 GMT
Followup-To: misc.test
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <62847@cup.portal.com> lordSnooty@cup.portal.com (Andrew - Palfreyman) writes:
>Hey, Gooley, would you like a running mate?
>	
>	How about a dry one?
>						--@lS
>						predictable
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>Well, then, how about a mating run?
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> -- ASK

Hey Andy!  This is why you're in everybody's fucking killfile, shithead!  You
posted this al-fucking-ready!  It wasn't funny then; it's not funny now.  It
never will be funny.  Neither will you.  Pull your incredibly inflated head out
of your smegma encrusted anal cavity and take a fucking hint, dickcheese!


-- 
Copy this .sig and just say noe to big-brother's monitoring of public bandwidth
*Bush Quayle conspriacy JFK cocaine LSD heroin marijuana AK-47 Iran Iraq Libya*
*Sandinista Contras Panama Noriega FBI CIA NSA Secret Service fixed-elections *
*Neil Bush S&L coverup potatoe wiretaps search & seizure bill of rights dead  *
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	)
Subject: Re: Magic Johnson
Organization:  University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Date: 30 JUL 92 13:57:19    

In article <lucy.712354833@sfu.ca>, lucy@beaufort.sfu.ca (Lucy Chan) writes...

>heim@vms.macc.wisc.edu (JOHN HEIM	) writes:
> 
>>With a name like that how can you expect him to NOT be promiscuous?
> 
>Yeah, I've always lusted after guys named Ervin.

Ya, right.

Anyway, it sounds like an X-rated fairy tale - "The Magic Johnson".  
It's about a guy that saves a talking horse from being sent to the 
glue factory and in return he gets ... well, you can figure it out.

I can see it on 'Fairy Tale Theatre'.  "The Magic Johnson" narrated by 
Shelly Duvall.  Mr. Ed would play the talking horse.  Let's see - who 
could play the lucky guy?

John "Ervin" Heim
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rjones@dsd.es.com (Ray Jones - Perp)
Subject: Re: Homework for Newbies
Reply-To: rjones@dsd.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:00:14 GMT


they're coming.  i sense the hundreds of tiny footfalls outside the house
where i hide, upstairs and down a hall, with my knees touching my chest and
my back to the wall, crouching opposite the room's only entrance... the
sound of a door creaking comes to my ears, my whimpers match its pitch
almost exactly.  they're downstairs now, but they know where i am; they're
just playing with me.  they have plenty of time, after all.  i'm the only
one short of it right now... deadly short, actually.  but Smurfs...  they
live forever.  plenty of time to kill us humans.

-- 
                                          Ray Jones
                                          rjones@dsd.es.com
From: russ@math.okstate.edu (Russ "Random" Smith)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: short studious confession
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:50:04 GMT
Organization: Aggie? What precisely is an Aggie?

I responded to mjd's C questions with answers.  I did not do perfectly.

-Random
and worse, I don't know why I told you this

-- 
Russ "Random" Smith
+----===Comedy!  Sudden, violent comedy!===-----------russ@okstate.edu--------+
|  Godfather of the Random Gang; Diplomat of the Brotherhood of Evil MUDders  |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.test,alt.cascade
From: oe@csc.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
Subject: Re: toast
Keywords: M M M M M
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 04:55:45 GMT

Brewmeister writes:
>>)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Marmalade.
>>)>>>>>>>>>>>>>Marmoreal.
>>)>>>>>>>>>>>>Mont Martre.
>>)>>>>>>>>>>>Monroe Doctrine.
>>)>>>>>>>>>>Maroney Award.
>>)>>>>>>>>>Mutlu Prize.
>>)>>>>>>>>Maltese Falcon.
>>)>>>>>>>Malpighian corpuscle.
>>)>>>>>>Manon of the Spring.
>>)>>>>>Man of War.
>>)>>>>Mather, Cotton.
>>)>>>Mann Act.
>>)>>Menarche.
>>)>Manny, Moe, and Jack
>>)M3 Money Supply.
>>)Morgan le Fay
>)Moe, Larry, and Curly
)Monty Python




>-- 
>Copy this .sig and just say noe to big-brother's monitoring of public bandwidth
>*Bush Quayle conspriacy JFK cocaine LSD heroin marijuana AK-47 Iran Iraq Libya*
>*Sandinista Contras Panama Noriega FBI CIA NSA Secret Service fixed-elections *
>*Neil Bush S&L coverup potatoe wiretaps search & seizure bill of rights dead  *

oe@csc.canberra.edu.au        This is now a philosophical, non provocative
Look Once...         .-)      signature.
   Look TwEyece..    .-) .-)       
      Half See...    .-)
From: cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: one line bio: David
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:57:47 GMT
Reply-To: cj@eno.corp.sgi.com (C J Silverio)
Organization: SGI TechPubs

---
His coworkers probably think he hasn't heard them, but 
David knows they've been calling him "Uncle Fester" 
behind his back.
---
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: And you thought t.b. was pathetic (part II)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:43:53 GMT

No, talk.bizarre has a lot of dumb shit posted to it. Stuff that is so 
heinously unfunny, uninteresting, etc, that it makes you cringe. Surely,
I think, rec.humor.funny, which is moderated, would be funnier. I mean, 
someone actually reads and approves these jokes.

BUT THEY SUCK WORSE THAN WAVEY DAVEY'S POSTS....

From: kwm4958@cs.rit.edu (Kevin W McAuley)
Subject: these are all mine...
Keywords: original, chuckle

	* do you think people in wheelchairs complain if you leave
	  the seat up?

	* i don't really care if the cows do come home just as 
	  long as they don't rent the room above me.

	* do you think eddie murphy's first words were
	  mumafufa? ... just curious.

	* what if sheep realized when you were pulling the wool over
	 their eyes?

	* if i knew then, what i know now, i could of screwed up 
	  better.

--
Selected by Brad Templeton.  MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com
Attribute the joke's source if at all possible.  A Daemon will auto-reply.


From: mrspoc!apple!mrspoc.transact.com!itkin@apple (Steven List)
Subject: Solution to Parents
Keywords: chuckle

[ I don't know where this came from.  My mother gave me a photocopy with
  no attribution.  But I liked it! ]

                                  Children!

                                Tired of Being
                                   Harassed
                                   By Your
                               Stupid Parents?

                                  ACT NOW!!

                             Move out, get a job
                            Pay your own bills...
                             While you still know
                                 Everything.
-- 
THIS CLUNKER IS OLDER THAN THE FUCKIN HILLS GUYS.
HA HA HA THIS SHOULD BE SENT IN TO "FAMILY CIRCUS"
HA HA HA

From: ndd@bal1.mc.duke.edu (Ned Danieley)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Market Penetration (original)
Keywords: original, smirk, sexual

In the Sunday, April 19, edition of Parade Magazine, it is reported that,
even though the Japanese use about 600 million condoms a year, they
only imported about $2200 worth. Talk about a lack of market penetration!


HAW HAW HAW. Wow, and you thought adding "in bed" as a follow up was funny.
These jokes are SCREAMS. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

perhaps we should start talk.bizarre.funny and invite the clarinet.com
dork to moderate it for us. HAW HAW HAW. Gotta stop readin this newsgoop
or ill die laffing.

-rob


Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:22619 alt.sex.carasso:109 alt.fan.gooley:33
From: jfw@jfwhome.FUNHOUSE.COM (John F. Woods)
Subject: one line bio
Organization: Misanthropes-R-Us
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:44:27 GMT

Rising over the ashes of civilization, a mission of marmalade.

Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:23030 alt.cascade:1516
From: davepat@flash.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Dave Patterson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: Not Hemmingway
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:38:41 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre

In article <l671cgINNriv@alcor.usc.edu>, echeverr@chaph.usc.edu (5150) writes:
>In article <13526@auspex-gw.auspex.com> johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul14.210454.1163@tc.fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) quotes about 80 lines of Simons article and then writes:
>>>>Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
>>>>                                        -- Holmes
>>>Sherlock?
>>Braindead?
>Wavey?
Gravy


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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton
From: waldbyjf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (The Automatic Waldby)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: 100 words
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:34:34 GMT
Reply-To: waldbyjf@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

I am Corruption,
Thumbing it back to Thanatos.
My skin ripples maggots beneath the meat.
When I laugh, my lips dribble just a hint
 of acrid anticipation churning,
And void the husk of my last meal.
You shrink and multiply in the row 
   of beetle eyes dotting my spine.
My mind not in the driver's seat
   as I flay you with powerful strokes.
Do you remember?
I, smouldering with the ardence of Anti-passion.
My need to spoil.
My will to spoil Everything.
Turn every dream inside out 
  and shake it for loose change,
Just to buy another pack of smokes.

--
Auto - Waldby
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: oe@csc.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
Subject: Re: one line bio
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 04:49:01 GMT

rone@nunki.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>bufalini@near.gis.psu.edu (Bruce A Bufalini) writes:
>>rone@aludra.usc.edu (Ron Echeverri) writes:
>>>milliken@athena.cs.uga.edu (Brewmeister) writes:
>>>>sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>>>>[ Nothing of interest.  Period.]
>>>And i thought _I_ sucked.
>>You do suck.
>And you swallow.
But one swallow doesn't make a Spring

oe@csc.canberra.edu.au        This is now a philosophical, non provocative
Look Once...         .-)      signature.
   Look TwEyece..    .-) .-)       
      Half See...    .-)
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Praying in Space
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:36:04 GMT
Reply-To: rpwhite@cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA

Ken Brown writes:
>Perhaps the "Praying in Space" discussion could be taken off the
>alt.gopher group?
Perhaps the "Praying in Space" discussion could be taken off the
misc.test group?

rp -- Just a suggestion...
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: How I spend my days at work, part two
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: talk
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:44:04 GMT

The Sun that I patch into is a 32-bit machine
that represents time as the number of seconds
since January 1, 1970.  That means the software
I'm writing for it will probably crash sometime
around February of the year 2106.

Mark

"hopefully, I'll be working for someone else by
that time"
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: djd33237@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Denny d'Alelio )
Subject: A short shameful confession
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:57:09 GMT

I staeyd up all night to clean my stove.  I used my roommate's toothbrush
to do scrub the cooked on grease from under the burners.  

-Denny d'Alelio

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Purveyor of Arcane Knowledge)
Subject: Re: Short shameful one line bio confession
Organization: The International House of Secretions
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 23:03:21 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.124348.13272@Princeton.EDU> greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak) writes:
*In article <1992Jul28.205334.17934@uwm.edu> grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Purveyor of Arcane Knowledge) writes:
*}Once, I seriously considered becoming a clown.  Really.
*
*But instead, you pirated a copy of that (buggy) career counselling
*software Ken Johnson was writing about, and it told you (not
*surprisingly) to become a leather technologist, so you work in a tannery.

Actually, I'm a Hide Processor Operator.  It's better than being a
Dumper/Loader.

So, put that in your pipe and smoke it.


Mark "I'm into leather" Lippert 
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:23640 soc.culture.british:10759 alt.sex:25268
From: scylla@ziggys.cts.com 619/262-6384 (Pam Matthews)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,soc.culture.british,alt.sex
Subject: Re: SEX
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:56:52 GMT
Organization: Ziggy's Den Of Iniquity, East of East SD CA

li@oracorp.com (Li Gong) writes:

} In<147136INNb76@early-bird.think.com> sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) writes:
} >Sexism, therefore. From the rugby fellas, who prefer to cavort around with
} >willing females rather than with men. 
} 
} Are you suggesting that a man who dates women only and marries women
} only is being sexism?
} 
        Actually, Li, Daan missed the whole point of the article about 
the rugby team.  In point of fact, she completely garbled it.
        The team was raising money by holding an auction, the winner 
thereof (the highest BIDDER) was to be granted permission to shower with 
the team.  However, were the highest bid to come from a woman, she would 
be granted a PRIVATE shower, and a FRIEND (presumably male) could shower 
with the team.  One assumes that the team was not consulted and that it 
was simply a matter of "the proprieties being observed."  Very Brit.

              scylla@ziggys.cts.com - BBS (619)262-6384
                 Ziggy's Den Of Iniquity 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: ask@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Amy Sarah Kahn)
Subject: GOOLEY FOR PRESIDENT!
Organization: The Rhode Island Internet Systems Cooperative Network
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 12:46:51 GMT

Hey, Gooley, would you like a running mate?
























Well, then, how about a mating run?

 -- ASK