HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: the lost cause
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: THE REAGAN ERA IS OVER, THE END IS NEAR!
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:39:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department at Rose-Hulman
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: jd-next.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu

In article <1993Jan22.004755.13947@bsu-ucs> 01jwwitty@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu  
writes:
> In article <gerald.727642733@gerald>, gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com  
(Gerald Oskoboiny) writes:
> > 01jwwitty@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
> > 
> >>If not, you may have just shown your ignorence.
> > 
> > This is my favorite Usenet sentence of the week.
> 
> Go to hell English teacher wanna be. Do not pass go, do not collect your
> worthless life savings of $100, go straight to hell with your overused  
flames.
> > 
> >>JEFF WITTY
> >>ARMY R.O.T.C.
> >>a.k.a. PROUD SOLDIER OF THE US ARMY
> > 
> > I"M SURE THE U>S> ARMY COULDN"T BE PROUDER TO HAVE YOU ABOARD< JEFFY.
> 
> 1. "Have you aboard"--Thats the Navy, dick washer.
> 2. Why the ">"'s and the "<"'s? Accidently hit those keys while beating  
off?
> > 
> > Gerald
> 
> Good. You used only your first name. Your last would be a flame in  
itself.
> 
> JEFF WITTY
> ARMY R.O.T.C.
> a.k.a. PROUD SOLDIER OF THE US ARMY

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. This has to be the best of the genre yet.

$100,000 quatloos says he is really proud of the number of pushups he can  
do.

Enjoying the fan mail, Jeffy? 
--
************************************************************************
 the Lost Cause                       jdavidso@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
(hardwaire guy extraordinaire)       MACTech,NeXTtech; NeXTmail accepted
                      "Everything is relative."
************************************************************************
From: hoppie@nemesis.East.Sun.COM (Tom Hopkins)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: AMAZING INVENTION
Date: 23 Jan 1993 00:19:45 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc., Billerica, MA. 
Distribution: world
Reply-To: hoppie@nemesis.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: nemesis.east.sun.com

In article 1776@scott.skidmore.edu, croth@scott.skidmore.edu (catherine roth) writes:
>i am posting this from a computer i made out of bacon bits and a
>spoon.

But is it a 16 or 32 bacon bit machine?

And how did you manage to safeguard the spoon against the Uri Geller
effect?

-Tom Hopkins <hoppie@turbo.east.sun.com>

Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: rigler@dao.nrc.ca (Michael Rigler)
Subject: REPOST: Funny Noises
Keywords: timing is everything (sigh)
Reply-To: rigler@dao.nrc.ca
Organization: DAO/CADC .
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 21:52:03 GMT

     Guys!  Guys!  I gotta tell you what just happened!

     Okay, I was down at the beach surfing right?  Minding my own
business, tinking about how MISERABLE this world is, catching these 
glassy 5' tubes, getting hungry,...etc, and feeling sort of GUILTY 
about getting thrown out of my ECK class because I missed one lousy 
PAYMENT, although you'd THINK that after a YEAR they'd show you some 
LENIENCY--but I digress.

     Anyway, so there I was surfing when all of a sudden I became 
aware of this peculiar noise.  Sort of a rhythmic swishing sound 
which I realized had been going on for quite some time and which, 
as I listened in terror, built up to a deafening roar.  Then I was 
violently yanked into what I can only describe as a seething vortex 
of light and shadow, in which I was painfully scoured for an inter-
minable length of time until I began to see the most fantastic 
visions:  

     Grit and foam became YIN and YANG.  I saw the great Wheel of 
Life, including my own death and futile rebirth into yet another 
cycle of MISERY.  I even fancied I saw myself stepping into an 
impossibly ornate elevator and pressing the button marked '6.'
And throughout this whole experience I felt myself "bound" to the 
world of my everyday existence by an elastic "cord" attached to, 
or emanating from, my ankle.  Just when the pressure became unbearable 
and my sanity began to slip from my grasp, that cordlike sensation 
somehow pulled me back!

     After that, I guess I panicked.  I got out of the water fast 
and the bizarre swishing noise faded away while I ran home.  But 
what the hell was it anyway?
 
HEY WAIT A MINUTE!  You don't think...?  Naaa-aa-aa-aah.

-= Michael Rigler =-
From: tbrann@black.ox.ac.uk (Tony Brannigan)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: dream
Date: 24 Jan 93 21:23:24 GMT
Organization: Oxford University, UK
Originator: tbrann@black

gill@maths.tcd.ie (james nolan) writes:
>I have a dream,a dream of mutant killer teddy bears.
>They are everywhere,I nead help,Please someone help ME!

This isn't a dream, it is Real Life(TM).
And they don't want to kill you, they want to do something much worse,
so kill yourself now, before They get to you.

T
-- 
"And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, | tbrann@ox.ac.uk
  we who never let each other sleep above it."  | u90afb@ecs.ox.ac.uk
   Marina Tsvetayeva 1915                       |
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: mrx@annexia.esd.sgi.com (cloaking the constant k)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: malignancy
Date: 26 Jan 93 02:28:49 GMT
Organization: the theory that jack built


snow fell in the room.  the kind of thing that
it was, it did.  it grew.  he didn't dare move 
closer, because he knew what could happen if his
presence were detected.  from behind a bank of dials
he watched blue veins creep snake-like across the 
grey tissue.

he could hear its heart muscle pumping, large now,
bigger than his head.  it writhed, pressed itself 
against the interior of the thick glass cylinder, one
lidless eye staring out at him across the white-
dusted tiles.  he guessed then that the cold wouldn't 
contain it much longer.

he was in the hallway when he heard the glass
shatter.  he ducked his head and ran for the
pneumatic shaft.  his fingers stabbed at the
chrome buttons as the earth trembled and then
gave way beneath his feet.


from a distance, one might have mistaken it for
an explosion, the tell-tale mushroom of a small
atomic device.  except that the cloud did not
disperse, and there was no fire.  only close
inspection with binoculars might have revealed 
the rippling grey folds flesh and sinew pushing
free of the laboratory's wreckage.

and the thousands of lidless eyes.



		mr x

		it came, it saw, ...
--
mrx@annexia.esd.sgi.com
rmr@sgi.com
From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: give to the needy
Date: 24 Jan 1993 07:31:16 GMT
Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
NNTP-Posting-Host: nasdaq.intel.com

In article <63608@mimsy.umd.edu> kimy@cs.umd.edu (Yong-Mi Kim) writes:
>of humour, but I find it as funny as corneal lesions.

Um, Yong-mi, hon, your ears are on the *side*
of your head.

				--Blair
				  "Nice eye-patch.  Makes you
				   look like a pirate."
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: S S C
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:06:06 GMT

In article <7263@ac13.cs.nps.navy.mil> rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite) writes:

>         I have *ZERO* compassion and sympathy for those cops
>         who claim they got cancer from using radar guns.

What puzzles me is that these characters are claiming they got testicular
cancer from a *handheld* device.....


-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
Windows NT documentation: "Command to change password    CTL-ALT-DEL"
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: depression
From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:08:09 GMT
Reply-To: rmkhome!rmk@merk.com (Rick Kelly)

In article <1993Jan24.231206.19694@netcom.com>
           gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) writes:
>It's worse than usual today.
>
>Maybe I should give it something.  An artichoke, perhaps.

Or absinthe.

Makes the heart grow fonder.

-- 

Rick Kelly    rmkhome!rmk@merk.com    merk!rmkhome!rmk    rmk@frog.UUCP
From: gj@prg.oxford.ac.uk (Camilla Shand)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re:  fur coats
Keywords: feek, weeble
Date: 28 Jan 93 03:45:04 GMT
Organization: Rosalind's Genuine Original Handmade Farmhouse Kitchen Company
Comment: oh, oh, oh, ahhhhhh....
X-Mailer: mail-news 2.0.3

If you believe gooley@netcom.com (Mark. Gooley) he heard some woman 
complaining about the pointlessness of "wearing the skins of dead 
animals."  So mr x flails around with a celestial spanner and makes
a delicate and subtle adjustment to cosmic mechanics with monumental 
climatic alterations.  Me, I have no joke, only a spelling ember.
___
I just like saying "residual climactic alterations could be handled"
From: mbm3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MARTIN BERNARD MUSHRUSH)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: funny names for private parts
Date: 23 Jan 93 06:09:59 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1993Jan23.035511.21218@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jws5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (J
USTIN WINSLOW SOLONYNKA) writes:
>(JASON GIRARD) writes:
>>Hi,
>
>No, not right now.
>
>>    An ex of mine out Penn State wrote to say that she's taking a sex ed class
>>    and has an assignment to think of names for male and female private parts.
>>    She asked me to help her think of some, so I'm asking you guys for some
>>    interesting names!  Anyone??
>>    Jason
>>                      Anarchy-it's the only way to live!!!
>>                               jcg2@lehigh.edu
>
>I'm beginning to understand why Lehigh is on so many killfiles.
>
>sol
>--
>
>Okay now, "sol."  I know who you are and where you live.  Maybe this guy's
really looking for private part names.  Jason, look, just call them all Fred.
"Anarchy-it's the only way to live!!!"- What a joke.  I bet you're a rebel.
-M.

>
>
>
>
>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: the zen of 'rn'
Keywords: left, deft, neft, feft, cheft
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:31:11 GMT

>what the hell is this fray?

That's rn segviolating, which is its way of telling you to use trn instead.
-- 

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Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (fun fun fun boy)
Subject: electrical signals in plants will make me rich
Summary: i wish i had a pieces of a fruit called a red. 
Keywords: doodz
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:42:04 GMT

so, we had journal club today. this post-doc presented a cool paper 
in which they showed that when a plant (tomato plants here) was 
injured due to a bug chewing on a leaf or something it induces genes 
which code for protease inhibitors. the bug eats these and then gets 
a bad case of indigestion. the paper correlated a current flow from 
the damaged region to rest of the plant with the induction of the 
genes. so, it seems that somehow this current is inducing 
transcription. way cool. anyway, i'm more interested in the current 
that is generated upon injury (any injury, not just a bug chewing..). 

i figure i can build an electric car that will run on the current 
generated by these plants. all i have to do is fill the trunk with 
plants and just beat on them when i want current to make the car go. 
yeah. it will be sort of like a solar powered car but the plants will 
be the solar cells. i figure plants with the biggest leaves will be the 
best since they can photosynthesize the most. of course, i'll prob 
have to buy new plants every other day since they will fairly well 
abused to keep me at a happy 50 MPH.
--
			PJF--->Biochem. grad student
			      PUBLIC ENEMY #1
From: grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Termite of Temptation)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: short shameful confession
Date: 28 Jan 93 08:28:48 GMT
Organization: The Church of Pat
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

In article <1993Jan27.185721.21281@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jjh4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JANE HORVATH) writes:
*whenever old reruns of 'the love boat' come on, i always sing along to the
*theme song before turning the channel.  mostly to annoy anyone else who might
*be in the room, but partly to amuse myself.
*
*-jane
*
*i do the same thing when 'three's company' comes on

This is not shameful.  You should REVEL in the fact that you knwo all the
words and sing out loud, sing out strong.  You should watch the entire
episode.  You should have a screaming orgasm if it is a Charo episode.  You
should scream yahoo, because you know that love is exciting and new.
Never, EVER be ashamed that you know the Love Boat theme.  Ditto about
Three's Company.


Mark "Fuck!  I'm great!" Lippert 
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: jvogel@math.rutgers.edu (jeff vogel)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: The title of my next book.
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:01:58 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

The Little Penis That Could.

					- Jeff Vogel
					Rutgers Lit.
From: osa@wilbur.unh.edu (Bart Simps.. er.. Oktay Ahiska)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: An alarming item to see while taking backups
Date: 27 Jan 93 12:28:50 GMT
Distribution: talk
Organization: Springfield Elementary School
NNTP-Posting-Host: wilbur.unh.edu
X-Advertisement: Use Emacs
Comments: Feelings of inferiority and superiority are the same.  They
	both come from fear.



  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Jan 27 03:59:55 1993
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch

Meaning I should take backups more often?

--
...so the whole story is completely untrue... big hoax! ha ha ha....
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:46033 alt.cascade:3756
From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: my all-time favorite porno movie title
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:40:25 GMT
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
X-Newsreader: rusnews v0.98

>>>>ramboner
>>>"Spurtacus".
>>The Fountainhead....
> On Golden Blonde.

"Creamer Versus Creamer"


mathew
[ As mentioned in "The Fisher King"... ]
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:46634 alt.non.sequitur:1025
From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.non.sequitur
Subject: The Thixotropic Mind
Date: 26 Jan 93 21:32:56 GMT
Organization: Inst. for Epistemological Pathology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

The Thixotropic Mind

A good word is a joy forever.

Pain is pressure.  Anxiety is pain.  Shame is pain.  Self-hate is pain.
Pain is pressure.

Rigidity; inflexibility.  There is no other way to do it.  There has 
never been another way to feel.

You!  What are you doing?!  And what the fuck are you looking at, man!  
You think you're better than me?  You think you're so hot?

To kill even an animal, one must see them as different from oneself.  If 
one wants to have an enemy, one must believe there is something other 
than oneself.  Different.  Yeah, I'll say you're fucking different.

Where are we?  It's dark and I'm scared.  
I think we're lost again.  It's hard to be sure of anything at the 
moment.

Inflexibility begets further pressure.

When the pressure is abruptly removed, the thixotropic substance returns 
to its liquid state.

He hasn't moved in the last two days.  At first I thought he was just 
depressed.  Then I thought he was dead, but I checked his pulse and 
breathing.  I rolled him over on his back and he just stayed that way.  
That was about 18 hours ago.  Then I called you.  He still hasn't moved.

Could take a month, could take ten years, could never happen.  Any idea 
what triggered it? 

No.  No.

Actually dying of shame is an accomplishment peculiar to Americans, 
or so claims William S. Burroughs.

  -- Clifton

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- Dissecting personal psychopathology at the edge of the 20th century -
From: jws5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JUSTIN WINSLOW SOLONYNKA)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: electro-ejaculation
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:19:50 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <r=k3-l@rpi.edu>, engleh@rs6421.ecs.rpi.edu (Mongoose) writes:
>electro-ejaculation
>
>zzzzzt, splat!!
>
    Mongoose, Heather?
    Man, I thought this was going to be just another porno-movie title.

justin sol  |  see the cat?  see the cradle?
jws5@lehigh.edu
-- 
Xref: sparky talk.bizarre:46054 rec.arts.movies:38161 alt.cascade:3757
From: an072@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Richard White)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,rec.arts.movies,alt.cascade
Subject: Re: Out of Context Movie Reviews
Followup-To: talk.bizarre,misc.test
Date: 22 Jan 1993 19:49:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


grendel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (The Termite of Temptation) says:

>I loved Ishtar 
I loved Brenda Starr

rp -- call and raise.
From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: proceedings of the american shuffleboard society
Date: 23 Jan 1993 09:27:35 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley CS Dept.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cobra.cs.berkeley.edu

"I'm sorry, sir, but we only have volumes 6 thru 13 and 16.
However, we do have a ping-pong conference from 1975."

c
From: rpwhite@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (rpwhite)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: 10 word TS Elliott poem
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:20:04 GMT
Organization: Monterey Bay Yacht Club, Monterey CA


       I will show you bizarre in a handful of posts.
From: ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: 10 word monday morning blues
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:33:08 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

dennist@sw.stratus.com (Dennis Tetreault) writes:


> Woke. Yawned. Stood. Stepped. Pain. Snake. Screamed. Fell. Convulsed. Died.


Well, I woke up this morning. It wasn't worth it.


<<  Adrian Ogden -- "Sic Biscuitus Disintegrat" -- ano@csres.cs.rdg.ac.uk  >>
From: sme3@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (SCOTT MATTHEW ESTRIN)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: cj's piercing
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:43:26 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <lvh.727810693@uctgeo>, lvh@uctgeo.geo.uct.ac.za (Leon van Heerden) w
rites:
>fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton) writes:
>
>>A friend of mine wanted to get an "unusual" piercing.  "Why don't you
>>get your nose pierced?"  I asked.  "Oh, that's too *normal*."  She
>>replied.
>
>
>Nipple, eyelid (to be really bizarre) or genitals unusual enough for her?
>
>Leon
>
Check out REC.BODYART, or something like that.  It's really sick what they
discuss there, but seems to be in tune with what you're looking for.

Scott
-- 

---
This is my signature file.  D'ya like it?  Huh?  Huh?  Do ya?  Do ya?  Huh?
                                                    -sme3@Lehigh.EDU
From: echeverr@scf.usc.edu (5150)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: A day in the life of ...
Date: 25 Jan 1993 20:49:35 -0800
Organization: <censored>
NNTP-Posting-Host: girtab.usc.edu

In article <1993Jan23.165155.11990@lut.ac.uk> L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk (Lloyd Wood) writes:
>When I grow up
>I want to be
>Older.

When I grow up
I want to be
Armed and Naked.

5150
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
From: truth@sage.cc.purdue.edu (I am always right.)
Subject: Clearing the good name of******STICK*******
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:51:14 GMT

There seems to be some confusion between the STICK, and
the Blammo LOG.  I would like to take this oppotunity
to clear this up.

This STICK is just something I found one day, while walking
around, minding my own business.  I noticed it, "lying there
like a piece of used cheese," so I took it with me, and gave
it a home.

I began to realize that STICK (that's what I named him) did
not seem very happy there.  I realized that I needed to make
him feel more useful, but the only uses I could think of for
him entailed my going outside.  I HATE going out in the 
winter.  

So I decided to sell him to a loving home, where it is nice 
and dry.  A family that could find a good use for him.  
Someone who will take him out and bash a few skulls with 
him.  He needs to feel strong.  

LOG is a product that is intended to be a children's toy.
STICK needs an adult to take good care of him (although I
strongly recommend using him on children -- he likes that,
and admittedly, so do I).

I decided to sell him because I do need a modest amount of
money.  You see, I found a rock yesterday.  The uses for this
incredible discovery seem ENDLESS!!! (Evil, sinister laugh.) 

Any similarities to the MASS PRODUCED "LOG" product are
strictly coincidental.
From: english@alicudi.usc.edu (Joe English)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: bliss
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:35:40 -0800
Organization: Nerds of Action
Distribution: world
Reply-To: joe@trystero.art.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: alicudi.usc.edu


In article <josh.727644147@pogo>, josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes) writes:
|> I have finally managed to get my kill files and select files to
|> the point where even 272 unread t.b. articles are quickly pared
|> to 25....

Wimp.

This morning there were 1,270 articles (I've been away for
awhile).  It's down to 28 now.  Read every single one,
except for a dozen or so 100+-liners that didn't grab
me after two paragraphs.

Of course, it's taken all day.


--joe@trystero.art.com

  not feeling guilty at all, since I came to work on MLK day.
From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Rictus Hep Posts a Newbie Followup
Date: 21 Jan 93 13:08:37 GMT
Followup-To: talk.bizarre
Organization: William's Wonderful Wonky Widget Warehouse


He spends ten minutes trying to work out where the newline key is on the terminal. Unable to find it, he goes ahead without finding it.




-- 
Son, all the pretty, intelligent, healthy     #    Ken Johnson, AIAI,
young women are taken. It's a basic rule of   #    80 South Bridge, Edinburgh
the universe, and if you don't like it, go    #    Tel 031-650 2756 
somewhere else.        -- my dad  1906-1992   #    Fax 031-650 6513
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.prose
From: rwd4f@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Rob Dobson)
Subject: Re: Post-It(R) Notes
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:30:42 GMT

In article <77215@apple.apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes:
>
>I am quite convinced that part of the user acceptance testing of the
>Post-It Note was to make sure that the notes stuck well and detached
>easily from a wide variety of human skin surfaces.
>
sorry to inject reality [tm] into the nice heinous discussion, but the
real story is: post-its were an accident. some genius 3-m scientist
made an adhesive he thought would stick REAL well. it didnt; it only
stuck ok. the real genius figured out how to market this failed adhesive.
and now, god curse his soul, he is rich and i am poor, but i do use
of lot of notes.