HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: Net Gender - was AFU person of the year?
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1993Jan11.205631.8015@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:53:50 GMT

derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>
>So styri@nta.no AKA YuNoHoo may be male or female, black or White, Christian
>or other.
>
>Wait! I've got it! S/he's Michael Jackson!
>
>>YuNoHoo  "AFU person of the year? What is wrong with the Terries and
>>          the odd net.goddess?"

Unfortunately, YuNoHoo has left a clue to his/her real identity
by occasionally posting under another pseudonym 'Haakon Styri'.
What a 'Haakon Styri' is, is unknown.

>From: styri@balder.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
>From: styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
>From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
>From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)

ObUL: The SS hired archaelogists in attempt to legitimize the Nazi regime.

Jonathan "Not named Kamens." Papai
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:33206 rec.sport.baseball:37410
From: de@moscom.com (David Esan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth Candy Bar
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:35:42 GMT
Organization: Moscom Corporation, Pittsford NY

In article <1993Jan8.213043.7416@photon.com> jbn@photon.com (Joe Naiman) writes:
%Allegedly the Baby Ruth bar was named for President Cleveland's daughter,
%but since Cleveland was out of office for decades, it's popular belief
%that the Curtis Candy Company wanted to avoid paying the Yankee slugger
%royalties and claimed that it was named after the President's daughter.

And then Dave Eisen writes:

%This raises the more interesting question of where Babe Ruth
%got *his* nickname. Was he named after the candy bar? After
%President Cleveland's daughter? Or was Ruth's nickname merely
%a curious coincidence?

I know this AFU, but - don't you think a little research is called for?

Grover Cleveland (as all us USAians know) was the only man to be 
president for two non-consecutive terms.  He is also the only president to
get married in the White House.  This was a major social event in those
pre-TV/Radio/Record Player/etc. days.  So was the birth of his daughter Ruth.

Cleveland was president from 1885-1889 and then from 1893-97.

The Baby Ruth Bar was introduced in 1893, and named for his daughter. (Fast
work for Old Grover).

George Herman Ruth was not born until 1895.  He was called Babe because he
was so young when he began playing, his manager was required to become his
guardian.  I would suspect that the nicknaming was helped by the name of the
candy bar.

"Hey look at those babies on the other team."
"Yeah, look at that big one named Ruth."
"Oh yeah! Baby Ruth."  <following by streams of laughter>.

In any case, George Herman did not begin a professional career until he was
at least 16 or 1911,  and his fame did not truly begin until a few years later.
By this point the candy bar was out for more than twenty years.



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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Late breaking potential UL!
Date: 8 Jan 1993 18:26:39 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

RE  Jesus H. Christ
  
jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (J. Furr) writes:

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

No.  It's for "Honest."  Jesus used it when he was running his
carpentry shop.

Terry "Who wrote that?  Nigel?" Chan
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitche
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:47:14 GMT

bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan) writes:
: 
: Picric acid was used in most Ontario high school chemistry courses in
: the 1940s and 1950s. The problem with it is that over time (years), the
: stuff crystalizes and becomes _very_ explosive. It's no longer part of

Not true. What happens is that it gets contaminated with various metals.
These metals combine with the picric acid to form very sensitive picrates.
It is these picrates that hare the hazard.

Picric acid is a secondary high explosive. It is a secondary explosive
because it is not easy to initiate the pure chemical by shock, friction
or flame.  It is a more powerful explosive than TNT.

: any cirriculum (sp?) but some of the stuff is still sitting around in
: old labs. In 1979, the fire department checked out our lab after a fire
: and found something like five or six GALLONS of the stuff. They took it
: out into the football field and and detonated it with a rifle. That
: stuff is serious, kiddies.

No way.  If that had happened, you would not have had a football field
left. There would have been a sizeable crater in the ground when that
much exploded.

By the way, a bullet does not detonate picric acid reliably. If they
did so, with some of it, they were fools. Was the football team able
to play, with picric acid and glass scattered all over the field?

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: African-American-top
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 10:33:52 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

bjackson@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) writes:

> Ben "I wonder how well Shakespeare reads in German" Jackson

OBUl: Goethe translates most of Shakespeare into German, keeping it rhyming and
scanning, and generally improving on the original.



-- 
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From: Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Computer theft
Date: 9 Jan 93 19:45:55 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service

>wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo) writes:
>>Supposedly the programmer assigned the dummy account an unlikely name
>>begining with Z (something like Zzyz), and he was caught when the bank did
>>some sort of promotion that involved giving a prize to the two people with
>>names at the beginning and end of the account list.

According to Thomas Whiteside, author of "Computer Capers" (New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell, 1978) (much of which had appeared as a New Yorker
magazine article), the unlikely name was "Zwana".  Page 33.

Of course that was before the New Yorker decided it wanted to stop 
publishing interesting articles and concentrate on knocking the National
Lampoon out of the Guinness category of "Most Cartoons Published that
Contain the Word 'Shit' in the Caption."

ObUL:  A poor little English girl who lives in New York is, or should be,
dying of cancer.  To cheer her up, please send a box of your shit to:
Tina Brown, c/o wherever Yoko is throwing a party tonight, N.Y.C., N.Y.

B. "If she thinks I'm renewing my subscription, she's shit out of luck" T.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: quentin@spike.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Quentin x6506)
Subject: Re: Dead Cat
Reply-To: quentin@spike.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 17:45:33 GMT

In article <18311@bcars664.bnr.ca>, hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA (Henry Troup) writes:
|> A variant detected here (about spring 1990) was the man with a dog
|> cleaning up the yard of frozen dog droppings.......[rest deleted]

How was the dog helping, with his mouth?

Quentin "Dude with truck posting to the net" Neill
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From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Net Gender - was AFU person of the year?
Date: 12 Jan 93 10:33:46 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

In article <1993Jan11.205631.8015@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz
(Derek Tearne) writes:
> [...]
>
> Ah, so YuNoHoo is a self proclaimed 'odd net.goddess'.  One wonders exactly 
> how 'odd'.  After all they can do marvelous things with surgery these days.

No no - I've never claimed deity. It was Cindy who used to be `net.godess'
in AFU. But then there were complications after the Shift-key transplant
and she appeared to be an ordinary mortal. (Now that she have proved her
mortality, does she become net.godess again?)

You sure mix things up. I'm just a keeper of a copy of the AFU archive.
I haven't even claimed to be a Terry-in-training.

---
YuNoHoo  "but I do try not to post smileys in this group"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Epileptics and computer games
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 18:54:44 GMT

Some time ago there was a thread where epilectic sezures caused by
tv monitors was discussed (among a zillion other things). Scanning
the usual pile of papers in search of useful information I found a
story about Nintendo games. The story comes from Britain, and some
minister of consumer affairs, Lady Denton, has requested a report.
Daily Mail seems to have published a story about several incidents
in the UK.

And, in Norway all Nintendo games on sale have a warning that using
the game may cause an epileptic seizure in predisposed persons.

I remember somebody posted an article claiming that this was a
rare event. What's the background for the above story? Are there
any US reports on this? If not, is that due to the US using 60 Hz
and Europe using 50Hz? Is this just another stupid newspaper UL.

---
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          for these weird stories"
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Why care what percentage?  (was: Gay Likelihood)
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 23:55:10 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <17982@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>In article <BzoG7o.3p6@umassd.edu> pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU writes:
>
>>    You should have read my AIDS post. Duesberg says there is no peer-reviewed
>>paper which proves the HIV-AIDS _hypothesis_. Is he right?
>>    He says modern AIDs is caused by the hard drug lifestyle of malnutrition, 
>>sleeplessness, and chronic tension, classic causes of immune deficiency.
>
>Then how come all the hemophiliacs getting cryoprecipitates prior to
>the advent of HIV testing of the blood supply got AIDS?  And now
>that we do test, they aren't getting it anymore.  And before the
>epidemic, none of them got it.  Duesberg is an idiot.

Yes, this is like saying that you can't _prove_ that smoking cigarettes 
causes cancer.  There is no _proof_ of either hypothesis - however in
both cases the enormous amount of statistical evidence implies a causal
relationship.

Anyone who still thinks AIDS only happens to 'bad' people and 'good' people
are safe hasn't been paying attention to public service broadcasts.


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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Amusing street names
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:38:37 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

alopez-o@neumann.uwaterloo.ca (Alex Lopez-Ortiz) writes:
  +
  +>But the original posting was refering to major cities of the WORLD,
  +>and every american knows that the world has 51 states, speaks english,
  +>and eats hamburgers.

hayesstw@risc1.unisa.ac.za (Steve Hayes) writes:
  +
  +What have I missed?

Canada.

Terry "Recovering Canadian" Chan
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com (Craig Becker)
Subject: Re: AIDS-rapist! (was: Why care what percentage?)
Originator: jlpicard@woofer.austin.ibm.com
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:35:36 GMT
Reply-To: jlpicard@austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Object Technology Products


cthulhu@vipunen.hut.fi (Otto Hyv{rinen) writes:
> dsegard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Daniel Segard) writes:
> 
> >      I had previously heard that AIDS infected individuals were
> >intentionally commiting rape so as to spread AIDS further.  Frankly I had
> >previously thought this was a varient of the "AIDS Mary" "Welcome to the
> >world of AIDS" sort of urban legend.  Are you passing an urban legend
> >here, or do you have any proof that people are spreading AIDS in this
> >method?
> 
> In Finland there actually was a HIV-positive African immigrant,
> who picked up girls at the restaurants and raped them later.
> And some of them did get HIV later. 
> 
> It was in the papers some months ago, but I have forgotten
> all the details. His name was mentioned and even his picture
> was in some tabloids. 
> 
> Maybe other Finns have better memory.
> 
> I remember thinking that it was too good to be true:
> a BLACK man raping WHITE girls and he had even HIV! 
> That's the stuff ULs are made of!

In Dallas, Texas, about a year ago there were newspaper and teevee
reports about a young black woman (named "C.J."?) who found out she 
was HIV+ and set out to pick up and infect as many men as she could.
She supposedly called up some local radio guy and met with him a 
couple of times and talked about her "mission". Lots of singles bars
posted warning notices about this woman, including a composite drawing
that the radio guy did with the police.

Don't know what ever became of the whole matter. Anybody else know
more?

Craig
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Unusual strength, IS:Mother Lifts Car Off Child. Uh huh.
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:00:23 GMT

sngoetze@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Sebastian Goetze) writes:
: 
: Well, I've heard it on the news, so it must be true :-) 
: On Paul Harvey's little 5-min cast of unbelievable (or at least
: widely unknown) but true stories. I don't remember the title right now...
: He's known to do some good research before he broadcasts anything, though.

Bah! Harvey is just as inaccurate as most other members of the news media.
Most of them care little for fact - all they are interested in is entertaining
their audience.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Subject: Re: AFU person of the year?
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: The Terry Academy
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 14:00:31 GMT

In article <joshm.726432911@crash.cts.com>, joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer) writes:
|> In <1993Jan6.132049.6116@nntp.nta.no> styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
|> 
|> >In article <joshm.726289905@crash.cts.com>, joshm@crash.cts.com (Josh Mercer)
|> >writes:
|> >> [er, no - he just quotes Jonathan Papai and nothing more]
|> 
|> >Hello? Is there an echo in a.f.u? Or, is it just Josh posting his
|> >own nomination as the "AFU person of the year?"
|> 
|> I added #'s 6 and 7.  I see now, with hindsight, the tremendous mistake of
|> using >s anywhere near the start of a line, since there's obvious confusion.

Yeah, clumsy typing like that have lost more than one satelite.
I should, however, take my part of the shame de to lousy reading.

My favourite is the guy who made a point of being able to adjust _all_
instrument on some satelite by adjusting the telemetry antenna that
was pointing towards the earth. Tricky thing was adjusting the antenna
back...

|> If you want me to be AFU person of the year, though, I would have no
|> complaints.  More stupid things have happened.

And, in article <1993Jan8.024340.14465@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
papai@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai) writes:
>
> Care to name just one?

How 'bout the following?

In artitce <1993Jan7.005322.8856@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz
(Derek Tearne) writes:
> [...]
>
> And that was styri@nta.no nominating YuNoHoo as person of the year

Good grief, proofreading this I notice Derek doesn't say _what_ kind
of person. I fear the worst, but what can I do. My asbesto suit is
still at the laundry.

ObUL: Everbody knows someone who knows a Terry

---
YuNoHoo  "AFU person of the year? What is wrong with the Terries and
          the odd net.goddess?"
From: wichers@husc4.harvard.edu (JJJJJust JJJJJohn)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Sodium in gas tank ( was: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters)
Date: 8 Jan 93 03:57:41 GMT
Organization: The Harvard Lymph Node Fan Club

In article <7JAN93.21001965@isdres.er.usgs.gov> rhadden@isdres.er.usgs.gov writes:
>        I remember one story (true or not, now I can't remember), where on
>an arctic adventure, the bad guy(s) put sugar in the gasoline to prevent
>pursuit of the snowmobiles. The good guys drained the tanks, added water
>to the gasoline, and shook it up. The sugar dissolved into the water, the
>water was seperated from the gasoline by centrifugal force, and the gas
>replaced in the snowmobiles and the bad guys brought to justice. If it
>isn't a true story, at least the logic is good, even if the engineering
>wouldn't work.

I think this was from Alistair MacLean's _Night_Without_End_.

In one of George Hayduke's _Get_Even_ books (and in Abbey's _Monkey_Wrench_
_Gang_), Karo syrup is suggested instead of sugar. Of course, Hayduke also
suggests putting styrene in the oil...

--John "Karo always clogs *ME* up" Wichers

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From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Kidneynapping report
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:02:39 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 27173@nntp.nta.no, styri@balder.nta.no (YuNoHoo) writes:
> According to Ekomed documents they sell 600 kidneys annually. The
> Sklifosovskij hospital, however, does not report that many deaceased.

According to my calculations (which I can email to anyone on demand),
they'd only need 300 deaths to sell 600 kidneys.

Brian "Maybe the rest ended up in pies" Scearce
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              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
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                                 "That'd fit."
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:33114 rec.arts.startrek.misc:13479
From: klg@panda.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Sex, the Final Fronti
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:40:39 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Duke University, Nuclear Medicine

In article <1993Jan6.013855.19324@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com writes:
>But Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were in "Space: 1999", not Lost in Space.
>They also had parts in "Mission: Impossible". Amazing coincidence;
>"Space: 1999", "Mission: Impossible", Martin Landau, and Barbara Bain *all*
>have colons.

  Legend has it that Martin Landau, and Barbara Bain, had some intestinal
problems which resulted in colostomies.  They now, of course, have
semi-colons.

k "punctuations R us .!,?"
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From: tketchum@oregon.uoregon.edu (Tim T Ketchum)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Potential UL?
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:43:20 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tketchum.uoregon.edu

I just heard a story that sounds like it could possibly be an UL.  
Has anyone heard this? (I haven't read the FAQ laterly)

The story goes as follows:   A father of a friend of a friend (FOAFOAF) was
nearing retirement in the Air Force.   With just a few months to go, he
found himself with nothing to do.  Since he had to do _something_ to pass
the time, he took to taking any correspondence that came in, copying it
once and then filing the two copies.  Eventually he does retire.  Several
years later he visits his old post, and there are 20 people working there
whose job it is to make and file 2 copies of everything!

Well?

Tim "haven't read this group lately so I don't have anything to say"
Ketchum
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Subject: Re: The shifty-eyed shifty-shaped Odo
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <C0pM2v.52q.1@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:40:07 GMT

rhuss+@EDRC.CMU.EDU (Robert Huss) writes:
>	Really, that part of the episode is full of holes:
>5.	Why are we discussing this on a.f.u. anyway?

Yeah, we all know that discussions of _deep throat 9_, _babylon 5_
and _space rangers_ belong more appropriately in r.a.startrek.misc.

ObUL: Does anybody have some good muffin recipes?

Jon "To boldy go, where no mann has gone before" Papai
From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Microwave Fun
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:19:12 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <1993Jan6.221754.22052@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
 
>1) Microwaves are not airtight.

So true.  After all the average microwave is somewhat smaller than the 
average air molecule!

It's two products in one, It's a wave - it's a subatomic particle.

Derek "Oh you meant microwave _ovens_" Tearne



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From: smb@research.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: A chip on the shoulder
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:25:09 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1993Jan12.041020.2933@midway.uchicago.edu>, pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers) writes:
> These days, we are more enlightened, and what we do is put a battery on
> our shoulder...

Or some sodium chloride.  Either way, you can be charged with ``salt
and battery''.