HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:05:00 GMT
Organization: Will pay money for food.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Nov14.005127.10996@news.columbia.edu>, 
  lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...

>True, but my point in following up is that, as intimated by the poster, Clinton
>has no "clear mandate" from the people, most of whom voted against him.

When an incumbent president receives less than 40% of the popular vote, I'd
say that's a pretty clear mandate that the people sure as hell don't want the
guy, or anybody like him, in office again.

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Calvin/Hobbes...) 
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:04:11 GMT

wentzell@ace.acadiau.ca (LEEANN WENTZELL) writes:
: >As I remember it...
: >
: >Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea, 
: >and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honalee.
: >
: >Little Jackie Paper, loved that rascal Puff and brought him strings and
: >sealing wax and other fancy stuff.
: >
: >Together they would travel, on a boat with billowed sail.
: >Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puffs gigantic tail.
: >Knoble kings and princes would bow when 'ere they came
: >and pirate ships would lower their flags when puff roared out his name
: >
: >Repeat Chorus
: >
: >Dragons last forever, but not so little boys.
: >Painted rings and Dragon wings make way for other toys.
: >
: >One gray day it happened, Jackie Paper came no more, and Puff that mighty
: >dragon, he ceased his mighty roar.
                         ^^^^^^fearless
: >
: >C. Marie Riggins
: >Iowa State University
: >cmriggin@iastate.edu
: >
: >
: >
: His head was bent in sorrow
: Green scales fell like rain
: Puff no longer went to play along the Cherry Lane
: Without his lifelong friend
: Puff could not be brave
: So Puff that mighty dragon
: Just slipped into his cave
  ^^^^sadly   

Chorus - twice.

: Or something like that! Thanks for the memories!

I am surprised there are so many people who post here who even
remember PP&M - much less, memorized (somewhat) some of their
songs.

How many people remember the "Paul talk" cut on their "In Concert"
album?

Bill
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Calvin and Hobbes (a different theory)
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:54:10 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 17NOV199201320000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov, dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
> "In fiscal year 1991, government agencies classified as secret a total of
>  7,107,017 documents.  This marks the first time that the total number of
>  reported classification decisions in a year is a palindrome."

Actually, in FY 7061BC, there were 0 documents deemed "classified".

0 is also a palindrome.

---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
From: rapp@toffee.cns.udel.edu (Brian Rapp)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Obscene Functions
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:49:37 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark

In article <BPF=Lt=@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
>	"What rolls downstairs, alone or in pairs
>	 Rolls over your neighbor's dog
>	 What's great for a snack, and fits on your back
>	 It's Log, Log, Log!"
>

I am mortally offended by this obscene song.
Such grotesque functions have no place in our society.

	"Log Log Log of a GOOGLEPLEX is *TWO* !!!"

(Sorry, but singing the Log song is grounds for justifiable homicide.)

Need I include the weasely smiley face?  Nah, I'm not weasely at all.

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| Brian Rapp | rapp@freezer.cns.udel.edu | Ferret | "and many times confused"
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From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
Subject: Re: Toilet paper: over or under?
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:30:13 GMT

warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:

>In article <1dv33mINN39e@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU> Slinky & Nerfball write:

>-->  Well, we dunno about children or dogs, but if you're a *cat* it's
>-->  definitely easier to TP the whole house if your owner leaves it
>-->  hanging down over the front of the roll.  You just need to reach up
>-->  and paw on the front of the roll, and out it comes!  Wheeee!!!  Too
>-->  bad *our* human has already figured this out and puts the TP in the
>-->  other way now....

I can think of an easy solution for this problem.... and the TP stays as is.
I think it would be a cat-ectomy.  A catastrophe from a catapult, bought 
from a catalog.  Categorically catetonic.

By the way, if you want to save this file, cat it to the printer.
-- 
Dave Bushong, Wang Laboratories, Inc.   Amateur Radio Callsign KZ1O
Project Leader, OCR products            kz1o@n0ary.#noca.ca.na
Internet: dbushong@wang.com
From: hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: U of Chicago Radioactive
Date: 17 Nov 92 17:54:03 GMT
Reply-To: Henry.Troup@BNR.CA
Distribution: world
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada

In article <yenamand.721375430@micro>, yenamand@micro.cs.umn.edu (Murthy
yenamandra) writes:
|>I suppose as long as they weren't calling it the "Los Alamos Project"

The late John Campbell, editor of Astounding SF, noted early in the war
that a newsstand in Los Alamos, New Mexico, had become the single
biggest seller of Astounding.
               
Henry Troup - H.Troup@BNR.CA (Canada) - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
	     Only eleven more shopping days 'till St. Andrew's Day!
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: warren@nysernet.org (Warren Burstein)
Subject: Re: Toilet paper: over or under?
Reply-To: warren@nysernet.org
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 00:51:01 GMT

Depends on whether you're in the Eastern or Western Hemisphere, of
course.
-- 
/|/-\/-\       In real life, the Vice President chastises Murphey Brown
 |__/__/_/     for her morals.  Bill Clinton plays the sax on "Arsenio
 |warren@      Hall."  Though "Batman Returns" is fiction, it's not too
/ nysernet.org much stranger than truth - Caryn James, The New York Times
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: tcg@mayo.edu (Thomas Gerber)
Subject: Re: UL Alert:  Blue blood!!
Reply-To: tcg@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic/Foundation Rochester MN Campus
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:36:38 GMT

In article 24372@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com,  billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>
[stuff deleted]
>
>A quiz for the bored. There are veins in the body that do carry
>oxygenated blood. For two Shergold "blue blood" points - name
>them.
>
>Bill

It's rather sci.med, but what the heck ... The four pulmonary veins carry oxygenated blood.
Now, what are my two Shergold "blue blood" points good for?

                                         - tcg



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From: dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Will pay money for food.
Date: 18 Nov 1992 21:22 EST  

In article <1992Nov18.223459.3424@pixel.kodak.com>, 
  young@serum.kodak.com writes...

>	HA!  __I__ still have the album!!!

  What's an album?

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: rcnixon@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (russell.nixon)
Subject: Soldiers breaking wind
Keywords: bridges
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:01:30 GMT

I remember hearing some time ago (TM) that the Bronx-Whitestone bridge
between the Bronx and Queens in New York City was designed by the same
person who designed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie).  The
story went that when the TNB failed, a large truss beam (friends, *you*
can throw away that truss..I digress) was added to the bridge at the sides
of the deck to increase its mass and ridgidity.  I can vouch for the
presence of the truss which does look like an afterthought, but is the
story true or is it another sinking library.  Inquiring minds want to know!

Russ who can't make up his mind whether or not to have an opinion
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From: vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vance Kochenderfer)
Subject: Those whacky, flakey, Satan worshippers
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 23:45:15 GMT

Here's a good tidbit that appeared in last Friday's Collegiate Times
(Virginia Tech student newspaper)  reprinted w/o permission:

SATAN-WORSHIPPING BOY SENT HOME FROM SCHOOL

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. - A 14-year-old boy was sent home from school for
wearing a "Batman Returns" Penguin T-shirt.
     James Bateman was told to change on Nov. 4 by Colorado City School
District Principal Lawrence Steed.
     Bateman's mother said Steed believed the T-shirt was inappropriate
and that it represented devil worship.
     Danny DeVito, the actor who portrayed the Penguin in the movie,
read about the incident in a Los Angeles paper and has sent Penguin
merchandise to Bateman.
     According to DeVito's publicist, "Danny was very upset to know that
his character was being connected to devil worship."

Vance "Penguin?  Pittsburgh?  Coincidence?  Order the
       Time-Life Conspiracy series, and decide for yourself" Kochenderfer
Virginia Tech             |   "You want to get ahold of Mrs. Potter? I don't
vkochend@nyx.cs.du.edu    |    know, she's awfully ticklish.." -Groucho Marx
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
From: david@infopro.com (Dragon [David Fiedler])
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Calvin/Hobbes...) 
Organization: InfoPro Systems: Writers, Consultants, and Dragons
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 02:12:58 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

>>: >Repeat Chorus
>>: >
>>: >Dragons last forever, but not so little boys.
>            live

A dragon lives...

>>: >Painted rings and Dragon wings make way for other toys.

	     wings and giant rings
>>: >
>>: >One gray day it happened, Jackie Paper came no more, and Puff that mighty
>        grey
              night

-- 
David Fiedler UUCP:infopro!david Internet:david@infopro.com or david@utoday.com 
USMail:InfoPro Systems, PO Box 220 Rescue CA 95672 Phone:916/677-5870 FAX:-5873
"Do I still have to sleep in the cupboard?"                        
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:47:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.202016.24690@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>: 
>: designs (note, most of the cheap 386SX designs *solder* the CPU chip in!),
>: but also in that Kingston board for use in upgrading a 286 machine to a
>: 486 albeit only 16 megs of memory maximum.  (This 16-bit 486SX chip,
>: the 386SX, and the 80286 all have the 16-meg limit due to the 16-bit memory
>: buss.)
>
>Why is it due to the buss? You can only directly select 64K locations with
>a 16 bit word. Multiply that by 8 bits (for 8 bit words) and you come up
>to less than 1/2 meg as the direct limit. Of course, by indirect addressing,
>you could address 64,000 pages of about 1/2 meg each or about 32000Meg of
>memory.

This is the way Intel designs busses, not an inherent limitation.  The 
prevailing support chips need it to be this way.  The "buss" in this
context refers to the common connecting path to the support chips used,
not necessarily the card slots themselves on the other side of drivers.  In
point of fact, they just did it that way.

The 8086 has a 16-bit buss, and can only address 1 meg due to address space
limitations of the CPU itself.  If you want to multiplex a buss to death,
then a one-bit CPU could address the universe, but I wouldn't want to wait
around for even one memory fetch.

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The hell with Lemurs,
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 07:26:23 GMT
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)

In article <1992Nov13.185221.19455@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
>In article <1992Nov13.024736.6838@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com
>(bill nelson) writes:
>>: Oh, great.  Next you're going to tell me that Old Yeller wasn't really
>>: sick, and they shot him just for the movie.
>>
>>Shot Old Yeller? Me thinks your memory is worse than mine. 
>
>Not only did they have to shoot a cool dog, they had to shoot him shortly
>after he saved them from a rabid wolf.
>
>That kind of thing is guaranteed to ruin your day.

"Shot my dog today."

"Was he mad?"

"Well, he weren't too damned pleased."

-- 

Rick Kelly	rmk@rmkhome.UUCP	unixland!rmkhome!rmk	rmk@frog.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:41:55 GMT

In article <NICKEL.92Nov18182206@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de> nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.125102.25706@news.columbia.edu>
>lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>
>>                                          ...(This 16-bit 486SX chip,
>> the 386SX, and the 80286 all have the 16-meg limit due to the 16-bit memory
>> buss.)
>
>One megabyte with each bit? :-)
>Of course the addresses are 24 bits wide.
>
>--
>Juergen Nickelsen

No joke implied or necessary.

The previous poster muddled up the relevant point.

Intel has confused what the notion of appending "SX" to the end of a
prevailing design actually means.  It appeared that the poster fell into
that trap as a result.

In the 386 world, SX means 16-bit smaller version.

In the 486 world, SX means co-processor braind-dead or missing.

But there is this 16-bit 486 chip (non-Intel) that therefore can't be
easily expressed in this notation.  486SX is what I'd like to call it, but
that isn't quite right, so it's a 16-bit version of a 486SX is the best
we can do.

With the exception of the 8086, all of this family's 16-bit buss CPU's
address a maximum real address space of 16 Megs.

cjl

Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:28862 sci.skeptic:19728
From: sjgreen@cs.toronto.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: Idiot theories abound (AIDS).
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:45:17 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto

carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
> In article <1992Nov15.162710@IASTATE.EDU>, danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A
> Ashlock) writes:
> >   Goddamnit could one of the SKEPTICS please construct and AIDS-was-caused-
> >by-the-govenment theory?  Then it won't be quite so silly.
> 
> OK, I'll have a go at it:
> 
[intriguing theory of Nazi developed AIDS deleted]
> 
> There.  How's that?

Good.  But I think that it NEEDS more ALL uppercase WORDS IN strange
PLACES.

Steve "The mark of a fine conspiracy theory" Green
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Snuff film?
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:35:50 GMT

ashall@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Andrew S Hall) writes:

I'm sure numerous people have flamed you for this piece of brilliance,
Andrew, but I'll add mine to the list.

>It seems like people who deny the existence of snuff films have forgotten about
>Faces of Death. While no one (that I know of) was killed for the purpose of the
> videos, it certainly shows people dying.

If no one was killed for the purpose of the video, IT WAS NOT A SNUFF FILM.
I don't see what's so difficult about this concept.
-- 
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:44:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.213820.15799@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <15NOV199216055498@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov> dpm1960@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (snopes) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov14.005127.10996@news.columbia.edu>, 
>>  lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...
>>
>>>True, but my point in following up is that, as intimated by the poster, Clinton
>>>has no "clear mandate" from the people, most of whom voted against him.
>>
>>When an incumbent president receives less than 40% of the popular vote, I'd
>>say that's a pretty clear mandate that the people sure as hell don't want the
>>guy, or anybody like him, in office again.
>
>It's about time someone stated this (obvious) fact.  The real point is
>to see just how far Bush has fallen.  From looking absolutely unbeatable
>(I.e., major landslide likely!) after the Gulf War, to actually *losing*.

Yes, consistent with my post.  There is no clear mandate for Clinton.  As the
proverbial story goes (a UL in itself?) even a town dogcatcher running against
the guy would win.

Face it: Clinton didn't win; Bush did lose.  The only mandate Clinton has is
to not be another Bush, or he'll be out in 4 years too.  That's not what we
usually mean as a clear mandate, just a negative example.

Futher, the high turnout for Perot indicates that many didn't want either of
them.  I seriously doubt that anyone took Perot as a viable candidate, so
it would appear that most of the Perot vote is a protest against both Bush
AND CLinton.  And remember, Perot pulled out of the race, and then back in.
Can anyone doubt that he would have gotten even more of the votes had he
stayed in consistently?

cj (throw out all professional politicians) l
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From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
Subject: Re: Smoke cigarettes -- leave early!
Keywords: Park all day here, they never check
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 05:47:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.042248.14259@unlv.edu> robert@unlv.edu (Robert Cray) writes:
>What I can't figure out is the large number of kids, especially teenage
>girls that smoke these days.  The other day I saw two girls, about 13 and
>16 years old eating dinner at Wendy's with their father.  After a while,
>the girls got up, moved to the smoking section, and started smoking.  Dad
>stayed put.  Some time later one of the girls came and said to her father
>"if you think we're young to be smoking, look at him" and pointed to a boy,
>about 12 smoking, so at least he objected, even if he didn't do anything
>about it.  Several weeks prior to that I saw the cheerleading squad from the
>best high school in town, almost all smoking.  This in a rather trendy
>neighborhood too.

To prove that nobody can tell them what to do.  :)

Increasingly, smoking has become something that people start at age
12, in order to look grown up, and try to give up around age 18,
_again_ in order to look grown up.

Although the adult population as a whole is rapidly abandoning
tobacco, someone recently pointed out that recent movies have an
inordinate number of heroes who smoke.  Look at it -- although the
supporting characters don't smoke, the hero often does.  Even Walt
Disney's _The Great Mouse Detective_ has a scene where Basil has a
cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

DeKalb County (eastern Atlanta, Georgia) has just banned smoking in
malls.  I think this is a good move.  Around here, malls are where
teenagers gather in order to pressure each other into smoking.


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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: The Fabrikant case--did it happen?
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 07:21:46 GMT

Ray Dunn (ray@philmtl.philips.ca) has been posting news about the
Fabrikant case in soc.culture.canada and sci.research.careers from
time to time.  He just posted a November 12 article from the Montreal
Gazette.

It seems that Fabrikant has been saying in court things like "...this is
a unique crime in which the perpetrator of the crime is the victim of
the crime", and naming various university notables whom he says he
will call as witnesses to show that "they have to be on trial, not me".
So far this is all pre-trial hearings; Fabrikant has been ordered to
stand trial on 4 counts of first-degree murder and other charges, the
trial date to be set on January 5.
-- 
Mark Brader			"After all, it is necessary to get behind
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 someone before you can stab them in the back."
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com		-- Lynn & Jay, "Yes, Prime Minister"

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