HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tien58@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Michelle Tien)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Yay!  Finally good things happening!
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:44:53 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

No, let me change that ... GREAT things happening!

1) I got picked to go on a "educational and cultural" exchange with
Moscow State University ... two weeks for only $450 (incl. airfare!)

2) I got a summer job offer today!  Finally!  No more stress and depression
over not having any plans for the next 3 months!  And I'll be making $11.25
an hour ... a bit better than my $5.95/hr work-study job with the university!


				YAY!
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Subject: Good News!
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 00:52:06 GMT




No more goddamn hockey in June!

What a great hockey season this has been!

-- 
  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill University         C program run.  Run  
  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA          Program run! PLEASE!
Ever wonder how Worf got to be Security Officer on the Enterprise when the 
Capt gets kidnapped from the bridge every two episodes and Troy Beats him up?
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: sbuckley@fraser.sfu.ca (Stephen Buckley)
Subject: Re: Wonderful Weather!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:09:56 GMT

PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>I'd much rather read a posting about the arrival of spring than one of
>Richard's ugly comments (or stories).

  :)


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  sbuckley@sfu.ca       /  shareware.  if you agree with them, you are required 
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   1-800-REALITY      /      further upgrades available to registered users.
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dorothy Westphal)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Re: Wonderful Weather!
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:34:52 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.

In article <rauser.702692194@sfu.ca> rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:
>mortoncp@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Christopher P Morton) writes:
>
>>We've got great weather here in Indiana (knock on wood)
>
>>Sixty degrees and sunny.  It's wonderful!
>
>
>
>   Gee, Chris, we really care...NOT.
>

Who let HIM in?

>--
>Richard J. Rauser   "Now is the winter of our discontent
>rauser@sfu.ca        made glorious summer by this sun of York."
>WNI                                    -Shakespeare
> 
>


-- 
Dorothy Westphal, Sunnyvale, Calif. % Just when things are going your way...%
westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com   %               they get even better!   %
From: les@brahms.udel.edu (Matthew Re Templeton)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Spring is springing...:-)
Summary: Much happiness :-):-):-)...&c
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:35:14 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware

Yesterday, I didn't even bother with a jacket.

Today?   Aaaahhhhh.  65 degrees...think I'll break out the shorts and t-shirt.

Maybe I'll even grab the baseball glove after Physics....


Hope everybody has weather like this!

-- 
!Matthew Templeton    !Quote of the month (April):      		       !
! les@brahms.udel.edu !"A woman needs a man, like a fish needs a bicycle,      !
!{This space for rent.! When you're trying to throw your arms around the world"!
! Dial 1-800-IVOIVOD} !   -U2 (on the story of my life :-)  REGISTER TO VOTE!!!!
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: zzzk@nyssa.CS.ORST.EDU (Ken Eshelby)
Subject: A new Friend!
Summary: I have a new friend
Keywords: new friend
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 07:12:09 GMT

  I've recently made a new friend.  She's in my sign language, and we are
  going to practice signing together frequently.

  Today just sparkled for me!

-ken
From: maxwell@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Mark Story)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: BAD NEWS
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:27:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: yuma.1992Apr09.222745.45933
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

We are living human beings.
From: MVIKMAN@finabo.abo.fi (Redhead)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Re: going diving
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:02:28 GMT
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

> Well the good news got better, I lived through it.  Dove 95' to a ship which
> was sunk and it was like something out of Disneyland.  The number of fish and
> how friendly they were, 3 rays went cruising by and a huge eel was hiding in
> the bow poking his head out as divers went by.  Went to 114' to dive around
> a old plane and the night dive was very good.

Wow - sounds like some fun!

> BTW, I can imagine how spring in Finland is, I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska
> for a while and after a winter of -50 F, I recall a spring day when it was
> +21 F and everybody was out in the sun.  I bicycled to work that day because
> it was so "warm".

:-)
Well - I think I was a bit too optimistic last time I wrote... Right now we
have quite nasty weather here, and lots of snow ... again. Urgh!

I still hope for spring to come, though...

Micha
From: stewahd@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: YEAH...
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:39:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: wkuvx1.1992Apr13.113934.1322
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

Mail order for the GreatFul Dead starts TOMORROW...
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: parksd@source.asset.com (Don Parks)
Subject: Re: Wonderful Weather!
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 13:45:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Asset Source for Software Engineering Technology

In article <92099.081055PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu> PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>I'd much rather read a posting about the arrival of spring than one of
>Richard's ugly comments (or stories).

It is good news, for me, to see that there still exists some truly
beautiful people out there in alt.good.news.  I strongly agree with
your opinion stated above.

Don

P.S. But then again, I guess that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
                         (or something like that...)
-- 

Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: troye@cs.mcgill.ca (Troy ENGLISH)
Subject: Re: Wonderful Weather!
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 09:09:31 GMT

In article <sbuckley.702857396@sfu.ca> sbuckley@fraser.sfu.ca (Stephen Buckley) writes:
>PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>
>>I'd much rather read a posting about the arrival of spring than one of
>>Richard's ugly comments (or stories).
>
>  :)
>
 Doesn't everyone out there wonder what it must be like when these two
 meet in the halls? And let's face it it's kind of hard to avoid people
 in SFU .,..where you gonna go? (oh yes, you can go hide out in the
 woods but eventually you have to come back out again)

 I hope that when Rauser sees Buckley that Rauser starts running around
 pretending to be a vampire....

 Even if Rauser's vampires don't seem to have anything to do with the
 classical vampire except the small thing about blood. And hey, don't we
 all have our fetishes?

    

-- 
*****************************************************************
--Your naive idiocy makes me very angry -- Job (The Lawnmower man)
"I want to lie Shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice"
--Part of Themesong to Red Dwarf
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: sbuckley@fraser.sfu.ca (Stephen Buckley)
Subject: Re: Wonderful Weather!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 18:57:42 GMT

troye@cs.mcgill.ca (Troy ENGLISH) writes:

>sbuckley@fraser.sfu.ca (Stephen Buckley) writes:
>>PXF3@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>>
>>>I'd much rather read a posting about the arrival of spring than one of
>>>Richard's ugly comments (or stories).
>>
>>  :)
>>
> Doesn't everyone out there wonder what it must be like when these two
> meet in the halls? And let's face it it's kind of hard to avoid people
> in SFU .,..where you gonna go? (oh yes, you can go hide out in the
> woods but eventually you have to come back out again)

> I hope that when Rauser sees Buckley that Rauser starts running around
> pretending to be a vampire....

> Even if Rauser's vampires don't seem to have anything to do with the
> classical vampire except the small thing about blood. And hey, don't we
> all have our fetishes?

  hey troy, i hope rauser does do that, it would make my day, especially
since i have the ungodly-disgusting anti-honour of having read his personal
(immature) e-mails to me.  i would just laugh to finally seem him in person.

  and hey, more good news, troy, i know you, we worked with gerri sinclair
in 1986.  wow, small world/net.

  maybe i should take richard out to lunch.  i promise not to take him
for a walk and push him off the mountain, down onto the rifle range
at the bottom of the cliffs.

 :) :)

Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: bbs@neb.uucp (BBS System)
Subject: Re: School...
Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 22:50:45 GMT

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What in the **** was that?!?!?! And I'm 13 this is the TEEN base so I
just hope I'M not out of place.
 
                           -=][=- MaD DoCToR -=][=-
/s
Geez I hate this editor
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Posted by BBS User: T.j. Mannos
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: S7985203@deimos.ucc.umass.edu ( )
Subject: Think of it like this (was: minors access to contraceptives)
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:27:29 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

Ok, look at it this way.

Many kids are too embarrassed to go to the drugstore to buy condoms or go to a
doctor to get put on the pill.  So what do they do?  They don't bother doing
either of those things. They have sex without any protection increasing their
risks of catching diseases and getting pregnant.  

BUT, if contraceptives are given out at school, they will take them and USE
them...DECREASING the risks of disease and pregnancy.  Do parents really want
the schools to NOT hand out condoms and let their children get sick or pregnant
instead?  Which is more important?  Their POWER or the safety and well-being of
their children???


Christy
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: bbs@neb.uucp (BBS System)
Subject: Re: Minors right of access to contraceptives?
Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:25:01 GMT

Condoms - education - learning - about - condoms - education...
 
Hmm, there seems to be a concept in there...
-----
Posted by BBS User: Andy Dalrymple
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: simmonsb@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dazed and Confused)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: School...
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:49:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: netnews.73806
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

>Hello is anybody here? This isn't a very active conference.

>                           -=][=- MaD DoCToR -=][=-
>Posted by BBS User: T.j. Mannos

Yeah, this fellow is right! What happened to this group? If ever since the
big *Mr* Kim fiasco, this group has been about as active as my sex life. 
It's been such a long time since someone posted to here, that I FORGOT that
I was subscribed to this newsgroup!

Well....

Brian

--
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"Ah... 911, sorry wrong number, this is 912"      simmonsb@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
     -- Sgt. Wiggum on The Simpsons               University of Pennsylvania
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From: zane@infopls.chi.il.us (Sameer Parekh)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: Think of it like this (was: minors access to contraceptives)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 19:48:31 CDT
Organization: INFOPLUS support, Wheeling, IL

S7985203@deimos.ucc.umass.edu ( ) writes:

> Ok, look at it this way.
> 
> Many kids are too embarrassed to go to the drugstore to buy condoms or go to 
> doctor to get put on the pill.  So what do they do?  They don't bother doing
> either of those things. They have sex without any protection increasing their
> risks of catching diseases and getting pregnant.  
> 
> BUT, if contraceptives are given out at school, they will take them and USE
> them...DECREASING the risks of disease and pregnancy.  Do parents really want
> the schools to NOT hand out condoms and let their children get sick or pregna
> instead?  Which is more important?  Their POWER or the safety and well-being 
> their children???
> 
> 
> Christy

        Hence my plan to circumvent the administration and give out 
condoms MYSELF! *But* how will I make sure people don't take it just for 
fun ('cause funds will be limited) and that I get donations?

---
Sameer Parekh   zane@ddsw1.MCS.COM      zane@infopls.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: pkeenan@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Patricia Keenan)
Subject: Re: School...
Organization: UIUC Department of Psychology
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 05:29:34 GMT

simmonsb@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dazed and Confused) writes:

>>Hello is anybody here? This isn't a very active conference.

>>Posted by BBS User: T.j. Mannos

>Yeah, this fellow is right! What happened to this group? If ever since the
>big *Mr* Kim fiasco, this group has been about as active as my sex life. 
>It's been such a long time since someone posted to here, that I FORGOT that
>I was subscribed to this newsgroup!

>Well....

>Brian

 It's never been very busy unless you get a topic everyone is interested in, like sex, Jason Kim, stuck up people who brag about test scores which mean nothing(I'm living proof of).  Otherewise it's pretty boring if this is the only group you subscribe to. But since all of the people who post here are students in college or high school(with the exception of a 9 year old looking for a penpal in the wrong group)they don't have as much time as the other subjects with grad-students and other people.  

B.J.

Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: bbs@neb.uucp (BBS System)
Subject: School...
Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:39:26 GMT

MaDQuoTe:From: bbs@neb.uucp (BBS System)
MaDQuoTe:Subject: School...
MaDQuoTe:Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
MaDQuoTe:Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 13:36:27 GMT (Msg: 287)
 
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Hello is anybody here? This isn't a very active conference.
 
                           -=][=- MaD DoCToR -=][=-
-----
Posted by BBS User: T.j. Mannos
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: bbs@neb.uucp (BBS System)
Subject: Condoms, Sex, Pregnancy, Abortion, whatever we're talking about.
Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:31:31 GMT

I captured a post from Grasshopper on Software Exchage that you might
find interesting..
 
#23 Grasshopper (3) on Sun 23-Feb-1992  9:18a:
Dangit lemme put it in my clipboard, it won't work!!
Ok..
MQ>     PROVO__A fisherman found the body of a newborn baby girl in the
P
MQ> River Saturday.
MQ>      Detective Brad Leatham said he suspects someone threw the child
F***! Anyway, it has something to do about how a newborn baby girl was
found in a river and part of its umbilical cord was still attatched..
They said someone threw it in the river shortly after it was born. Then
Grasshopper said (let's see if we can get the MaDQuoTeR working!
MQ>Wouldn't the honesty of an abortion have been a better solution?
JusMQ> put yourself in the mind of the poor mixed-up new mothers' head
whe
MQ> this thing. Did society force this decision on her????? I feel
deepMQ> loss of that child, but ever so much more for that poor mother
and 
MQ> must live with for the rest of her life.
 
Umm good enough I guess..    
 
                         -=][=- MaD DoCToR -=][=-
                                 How sad!
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Posted by BBS User: T.j. Mannos
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: bbs@neb.uucp (BBS System)
Subject: Re: Minors right of access to contraceptives?
Organization: Nebula BBS - Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 23:22:58 GMT

MaDQuoTe: The problem with this, as I have experienced with my family
members 
MaDQuoTe: Catholic, the children take heed to the "Contraception is
wrong, aga
MaDQuoTe: God's command."  But totally ignore the rule that precedes it
"pre-m
MaDQuoTe: sex is a sin."  So, what we have here are Catholic children
still ha
MaDQuoTe: sex, but refusing the contraception, because it's a sin.  I
don't un
MaDQuoTe: the logic in this.  Oh, and of course, if the girl is
pregnant, we w
MaDQuoTe: everything "right" by having a shotgun wedding.
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My quoter doesn't work on this BBS!!! Anyway, if God didn't intend for
us to have sex until we were married he wouldn't have made us so horny..
And we would have the idea of having sex AFTER marriage and he would
have supplied a chapel. But now with all the crap that's going around
I'd rather get married first. But how are we supposed to reproduce w/o
sex? (Unless you're a plant or something..)
 
                           -=][=- MaD DoCToR -=][=-
"Matramonio ANTES DE Sexo!"
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Posted by BBS User: T.j. Mannos
Newsgroups: alt.child-support,alt.dads-rights
From: shedevil@vix.com (Anne P. Mitchell)
Subject: Re: what's fair?
Organization: Fathers' Rights & Equality Exchange
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:14:53 GMT



Hmm..I thought I'd posted this some time ago, but I never saw it here,
so if this ends up being redundant, please forgive me.

I have always thought that I would like to see a child-support formula
that looks like this:

The locality (be it state or county) sets a $ amount [let's call it
X].  X represents the amount it costs to provide the basics for a
child.  Child support would be X plus a certain small percentage of
the NCP's income...this would be the "sharing in the other parent's
income/wealth" factor.

This is a fairly easy thing to do...the Federal Gov. regularly
promulgates cost-to-raise a child figures.  And they are MUCH lower
then what the states are currently awarding.

-- 
    LOOKING FOR: Michael Hobson, Alex Craven, David Runyon, & Lorna Taylor
I am: Anne Mitchell, mom, law student, shedevil@leland.stanford.edu or @vix.com
     	  founder of FREE, the Fathers Rights and Equality Exchange.
 The fathers' rights paper & FREE files available via ftp: gw.home.vix.com;/pub
From: RARCINIEGA@thor.nafb.trw.com (R_ARCINIEGA)
Newsgroups: alt.child-support
Subject: response to Alan Yasutovich wonderful self insight
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:14:00 GMT
Forwarding-Host: acs@dogear.spk.wa.us
X-Disclaimer: Opinions are those of originator


	This message is directed to Alan Yasutovich for giving such a won-
	derful heartfelt feels(or lack there of)about his "son" and "past
	life". You my friend are a classic example of a selffish, concided,
	think of only myself person. My list could go on but since you go/
	went to MIT, you get the picture. I feel sorry for that you let the 
	divorce and your ex-wife get in the way of establishing a reltation-
	ship with your "son" or stranger as you put it. When you and your 
	present wife divorce I hope your atitude would be the same as in 
	your first break-up. Thanks to you and your unwillingness to become
	involved in your "sons" life, he will probally be just like you.
	HAVE A GOOD LIFE IN YOUR NEW ONE........
From: root@dogear.spk.wa.us (Bob Kirkpatrick)
Newsgroups: alt.child-support
Subject: Re: knee-jerk reactions
Summary: Equity - what a concept
Date: 11 Apr 92 07:02:59 GMT
Organization: Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA

In article <1992Apr8.233159.1777@memstvx1.memst.edu> thrushea@memstvx1.memst.edu writes virtually anonymously:
>
>If the logic is that when the NCP is unemployed, the child support
>payments should be dropped or reduced, then it follows logically that
>if the the custodial parent becomes unemployed, the payments should
>be increased.  Also, consider that when one is unemployed, one is NOT
>let off the hook for credit card payments, mortgage or rent payments,
>car payments, etc.  Why should the child suffer first?  The rule is -
>save at least 6 months salary so you can cover stuff - after that,
>negotiate.

Yes, you'd be right IF there was a realistic split of the costs of child
raising --a concept which is presently laughable.

As long as child support is income based instead of actual-cost based,
there are going to be a lot of payers getting screwed, and a lot of
payers who will feel (with good cause) that the CP having to tighten the
belt is righteous irony.

There are an awful lot of men out there who pay child support in such
exhorbinant amounts, that there is no reason at all for the mom to be
employed.

>Yes, I have been unemployed - and no, the child support payments
>were not increased.  In fact, they've never increased at the rate
>specified in the agreement, and the one time I spoke to an Assistant
>D.A. about it, he laughed at me - said I was lucky to be getting
>anything!  So much for the law.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like you just said, I didn't have a
job, and so it was my ex's job to be my unemployment compensation. Does my
question sound cruel? I've been ordered to quit a job and get one that paid
more so I could pay more.

Have you?

-- 
Bob Kirkpatrick                      "Stone cold."
Dog Ear'd Systems of Spokane, WA      ...and I thought I knew you so well."
root@dogear.spk.wa.us                                           
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