HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: friedenb@boswell.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Good News - Vacation
Date: 27 Sep 92 02:13:05 GMT
Reply-To: friedenb@boswell.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg)
Organization: College of Engineering, Michigan State University


I found out this week that I am going to Israel for winter
vacation (December/January).

I also got a scholarship ;^) to defray some of the cost of the
trip.

I hate to sound like a travel brocure, but I really enjoy going
there.  It wil be 20 days of relaxing (and a bit of studying),
thousands of miles from my computer, my University, and my 
parents ;^)

Now that's what I call GOOD NEWS!!!


Gedaliah Friedenberg
-=-Department of Mechanical Engineering
-=-Department of Metallurgy, Mechanics and Materials Science
-=-Michigan State University

                   
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr))
Subject: Re: Me and my girl
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:35:18 GMT

: >
: >	I believe that one is ready for a lasting love only when one can be
: >happy for others who love. Because when you can be happy for others, you truely
: >love and accept yourself. Loving yourself is good news!

Die, rat bastard.


	: 
: Hate is my constant companion... it is spleen that allows me to focus.
: Speaking of which, I'm currently sick and my spleen is enlarged as a 
: result... Wow... you can never have too much spleen.
: 
: 
: -- 
:  Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) ----- SOMETHING NEAT SHOULD GO HERE.
:  "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
:   Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
:                   --- M. Burns  "Treehouse of Horror II"
From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Re: Me and my girl
Date: 3 Oct 92 14:54:09 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1992Oct3.033518.28744@nuscc.nus.sg> matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Mcinnes B T (Dr)) writes:
>: >
>: >	I believe that one is ready for a lasting love only when one can be
>: >happy for others who love. Because when you can be happy for others, you truely
>: >love and accept yourself. Loving yourself is good news!
>
>Die, rat bastard.
>

Uhhhh.... you left in my signature underneath someone else's snivelling
honey-coated tripe... could you please edit a little more carefully in 
the future?  I don't get it... are you calling me a "rat bastard" for
my spleen commentary or the above guy a "rat bastard" for outstepping 
the bounds of syrupy, candy-coated swill that the Geneva Convention 
places on even Hallmark Cards...

>	: 
>: Hate is my constant companion... it is spleen that allows me to focus.
>: Speaking of which, I'm currently sick and my spleen is enlarged as a 
>: result... Wow... you can never have too much spleen.
>: 
>: 
>: -- 
>:  Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) ----- SOMETHING NEAT SHOULD GO HERE.
>:  "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
>:   Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
>:                   --- M. Burns  "Treehouse of Horror II"


-- 
 Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) ----- SOMETHING NEAT SHOULD GO HERE.
 "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
  Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
                  --- M. Burns  "Treehouse of Horror II"
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From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] King of the Ugly Ties")
Newsgroups: alt.good.news,talk.bizarre,alt.flame
Subject: Re: A good night's sleep
Date: 5 Oct 92 18:39:52 GMT
	<FRANCIS.92Oct1143112@galois.dogwood.atl.ga.us>
Followup-To: misc.misc
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: francis@dogwood.atl.ga.us's message of 1 Oct 92 18:31:14 GMT


When I was eightteen, one of my roommates put a pea in my bed.  Even
though I was sleeping on top of ten mattresses and ten feathger quilts,
my skin was so sensitive that I tossed and turned all night and was
black and blue in the morning!

Now fuck off, all of you.
--

                And for to se, and eek for to be seye
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu 
Newsgroups: alt.good.news,alt.evil
From: awells@fenris.claremont.edu (Adam "Servo" Wells)
Subject: Re: Yea!  I passed!
Keywords: Yea! I passed!
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont CA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 04:17:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.184915.23481@ncsu.edu> kirkland@stat.ncsu.edu (Laura Kirkland ) writes:
>
>
>Yea!  I passed my comprehensives!  So the only obstcle I have for
>obtaining a Master's degree is a couple of classes and my orals!
>Yippee!!
>
>Plus, I had a fun weekend of not studying!
>
>Laura   

Congratulations, Laura.  I think that I speak for a whole bunch of people,
or al least myself, when I say, I wish you well in your future
masters-degree-holding life.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do!! :)

Adam

Newsgroups: alt.good.news,talk.bizarre
From: ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering)
Subject: Re: A good night's sleep
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 21:12:34 EDT
Organization: The Screen of Blackness

In article <FRANCIS.92Oct1143112@galois.dogwood.atl.ga.us> francis@dogwood.atl.ga.us (John Stracke) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.011804.26568@sj.nec.com> bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987) writes:
>
>>crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>>>I slept great last night.
>[...]
>>>This morning as I was getting dressed, I glanced out the window.
>>>The building next door was gone.  
>>
>>You woke up?  Amateur.
>>
>>A few years ago, my next door neighbor's house caught fire in the middle
>>of the night.  My window was on the second floor facing the house.  Two
>
>In college, I lived in a dorm; for two years, I was in a room with a
>fire alarm right outside the door.  It went off relatively often, and
>*never* woke me up, nor could my roommate.

Big fucking deal.  When I was in college, my dorm was right across the
street from the Schuylkill Jackhammer Proving Grounds.  There was a
naval gunnery range just down the block, and on the other side of the
building was the rig where they test-fired the throttleable rocket motors
for the X-15.  

To top it off, my roommate used to rent our room out to a local band as
a practice space.  I'd be lying there in bed, and they'd plop the sound
board right down on my back, step all over my legs when they were running
patch cords, spend ten agonizing minutes trying to figure out why the
feedback was so bad, and then Avanga, the lead singer, would launch
into "Search and Destroy".

Even so, with jackhammers, rocket motor tests, sixteen-inch naval guns
just down the street, and Thalidomide Baby practicing every night right
next to my bed, I managed to sleep for fourteen hours a day and flunked
out of school.

ljd
top that, francis@dogwood
From: ranjit@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Re: A good night's sleep
Date: 3 Oct 92 07:29:12 GMT
Organization: Ng!
In-reply-to: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu's message of 24 Sep 92 15:38:24 GMT

In article <90230@netnews.upenn.edu> crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:

>   This morning as I was getting dressed, I glanced out the window.
>   The building next door was gone.  


Oh yeah?  I slept through the '89 San Francisco
Earthquake---

and when I woke up, my pillow was gone!

	-r.

--
"Trespassers w"   ranjit@grad1.cis.upenn.edu	mailrus!eecae!netnews!grad1!...
	The surface of the water where they move swiftly about in curves.
Newsgroups: alt.good.news,talk.bizarre
From: nking@unix1.tcd.ie (Nev's family recipe)
Subject: Re: A good night's sleep
Organization: Bagdad College of Technology 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:02:43 GMT

In <1992Oct1.011804.26568@sj.nec.com> bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987) writes:

>crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>>At some awful hour of the morning, I heard the most tremendous crash
>>I've ever heard (I live in the heart of Philadelphia, so I've heard
>>some doozies).  Glass smashing, stuff booming, just incredible.
>>I thought to myself -- "Huh.  Big crash."  And went back to sleep.

>A few years ago, my next door neighbor's house caught fire in the middle
>of the night.  My window was on the second floor facing the house.  Two
>fire engines responded, but the house was already engulfed in flames and
>they were unable to save the structure.  A policeman parked in the middle
>of the street and ran his siren for a minute or two to alert the neighborhood
>of the danger.  How do I know this?  My brother told me in the morning
>when I asked about the mess next door.  I had slept through it.

>And yes, I was sober.

Ha - thats nothing... I slept htrough a nigh of patriot missiles and
heavy shellin in the gulf war
From: mcsbc3ktp@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Re: Me and my girl
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:23:50 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

In article <1a89usINNb1p@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, nikita@cherokee.EBay.Sun.COM (Nikita Motalygo) writes:
> 
> 	This will probably gain me some flames, but here goes, anyway...
> 
> 	I believe that one is ready for a lasting love only when one can be
> happy for others who love. Because when you can be happy for others, you truely
> love and accept yourself. Loving yourself is good news!
-- 

Sounds like a load of garbage to me Nikita, I like the name though!
(No joke, I'm serious!)

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Newsgroups: alt.good.news,talk.bizarre
From: francis@dogwood.atl.ga.us (John Stracke)
Subject: Re: A good night's sleep
Organization: National Science Center Foundation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:31:14 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.011804.26568@sj.nec.com> bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987) writes:

>crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>>I slept great last night.
[...]
>>This morning as I was getting dressed, I glanced out the window.
>>The building next door was gone.  
>
>You woke up?  Amateur.
>
>A few years ago, my next door neighbor's house caught fire in the middle
>of the night.  My window was on the second floor facing the house.  Two

In college, I lived in a dorm; for two years, I was in a room with a
fire alarm right outside the door.  It went off relatively often, and
*never* woke me up, nor could my roommate.

--
/===========================================================================\
|John (Francis) Stracke         |My opinions are my own.                    |
|Natl. Science Center Foundation|===========================================|
|Augusta, GA                    | We want forty million helicopters         |
|francis@galois.nscf.org        |  and a dollar!--"Dinosaurs"               |
\===========================================================================/
(Formerly francis@dogwood.atl.ga.us,francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu)
-- 
/===========================================================================\
|John (Francis) Stracke         |My opinions are my own.                    |
|Natl. Science Center Foundation|===========================================|
|Augusta, GA                    | We want forty million helicopters         |
From: rjmical@ntg.com (RJ Mical)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: Commercials
Date: 5 Oct 92 17:39:43 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group, Inc.  Palo Alto CA

These days, the only television I watch (Star Trek:TNG and The Simpsons) 
is stuff I've videotaped, which I do so I can watch the shows I like 
at my convenience, and so I can fast-forward through the commercials.  
Sometimes I'll leave the commercial on while I'm using the break to get 
some drink or use the facilities or maybe scrape some crumbs out of those 
little doily things you rest the teapot on.  As soon as I sit back down, 
I fast-forward through the rest of the commercials to get back to the show.  

The net effect:  the only time my television plays commercials is when 
I'm not there to see them.  This pleases me.  

"The major's not here, so you may go in to see him now."  

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
-RJ Mical   (e-mail me at rjmical@ntg.com)                       How's Annie?
"I didn't do it ... I wouldn't refuse to deny that I had dismissed       Whfg
    the thought of not doing it, but I didn't do it."   -Joe Frank  frrvat vs
"When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my       lbh ner
    age in a year.  I thought, 'If this keeps up, by time I'm six      cnlvat
    I'll be ninety.'"   -Steven Wright                              nggragvba
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Subject: Re: Me and my girl
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:38:33 GMT

In article <1a89usINNb1p@male.EBay.Sun.COM> nikita@cherokee.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
>
>	This will probably gain me some flames, but here goes, anyway...
>
>	I believe that one is ready for a lasting love only when one can be
>happy for others who love. Because when you can be happy for others, you truely
>love and accept yourself. Loving yourself is good news!

Hate is my constant companion... it is spleen that allows me to focus.
Speaking of which, I'm currently sick and my spleen is enlarged as a 
result... Wow... you can never have too much spleen.


-- 
 Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) ----- SOMETHING NEAT SHOULD GO HERE.
 "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
  Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
                  --- M. Burns  "Treehouse of Horror II"
Newsgroups: alt.good.news,talk.bizarre
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: A good night's sleep
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 23:08:04 GMT

In article <X!3-GDB@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
  [ many sleep stories deleted ]
|Big fucking deal.  When I was in college, my dorm was right across the
|street from the Schuylkill Jackhammer Proving Grounds.  There was a
|naval gunnery range just down the block, and on the other side of the
|building was the rig where they test-fired the throttleable rocket motors
|for the X-15.  
|
|To top it off, my roommate used to rent our room out to a local band as
|a practice space.  I'd be lying there in bed, and they'd plop the sound
|board right down on my back, step all over my legs when they were running
|patch cords, spend ten agonizing minutes trying to figure out why the
|feedback was so bad, and then Avanga, the lead singer, would launch
|into "Search and Destroy".
|
|Even so, with jackhammers, rocket motor tests, sixteen-inch naval guns
|just down the street, and Thalidomide Baby practicing every night right
|next to my bed, I managed to sleep for fourteen hours a day and flunked
|out of school.

   ...and if you tell the kids that today, they won't believe it.

Are the X-15 engines as loud as DC-10s warming up with the tail pointed
at your hotel room?

(At the Seattle-Tacoma airport, as it happens.)





-- 
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.
"...I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down, then I
thought 'One of us is in real trouble'." Davey Allison, re: a 150MPH crash
From: tien58@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Michelle Tien)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news
Subject: A relief from senior year stresses
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:37:08 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

My good news: I've been invited by two companies to interview with them,
and I'm having a party on friday ... only the second time I've had a chance
to have fun since the semester started!


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From: bigdave@texas.tdd.sj.nec.com (David Sweeney  x2987)
Newsgroups: alt.good.news,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: A good night's sleep
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:18:04 GMT
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California

crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford) writes:
>I slept great last night.
>
>At some awful hour of the morning, I heard the most tremendous crash
>I've ever heard (I live in the heart of Philadelphia, so I've heard
>some doozies).  Glass smashing, stuff booming, just incredible.
>I thought to myself -- "Huh.  Big crash."  And went back to sleep.
>
>This morning as I was getting dressed, I glanced out the window.
>The building next door was gone.  

You woke up?  Amateur.

A few years ago, my next door neighbor's house caught fire in the middle
of the night.  My window was on the second floor facing the house.  Two
fire engines responded, but the house was already engulfed in flames and
they were unable to save the structure.  A policeman parked in the middle
of the street and ran his siren for a minute or two to alert the neighborhood
of the danger.  How do I know this?  My brother told me in the morning
when I asked about the mess next door.  I had slept through it.

And yes, I was sober.

--
Dave Sweeney     bigdave@tdd.sj.nec.com
(c) 1992 Witless One-Line Followups Ltd.
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: shteinbo@acs.ucalgary.ca (Boris Shteinbock)
Subject: test
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 23:00:16 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


just a test
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
From: kjc7435@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.J. Cater)
Subject: Report info on latchkey children sought
Originator: kjc7435@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 02:37:17 GMT

I am doing a report on Latchkey Children (I was one myself from
age 7 to age ten) for a Human Behavior class here at RIT and am
VERY interested in recieving either further info. about this
topic, e-mail from fellow latchkeys/ex-latchkey children, or
resource/research material/sources.

Please send all replies via e-mail to:
"kjc7435@ritvax.isc.rit.edu".

Thanks!
Best wishes,

Miss Kerry Cater.
From: bz820@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher M. Paulus)
Newsgroups: alt.kids-talk
Subject: Re: test
Date: 4 Oct 1992 10:00:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


Your message came through loud and clear.

Chris
-- 
Chris Paulus
Baltimore, MD
bz820@cleveland.freenet.edu
CompuServe:  71541,1617
Xref: sparky alt.child-support:3429 soc.men:17397 soc.women:17431
From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: alt.child-support,soc.men,soc.women
Subject: Re: Dad-Kid Divorce Prohibition: Use vs Abuse
Date: 7 Oct 92 01:34:01 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: boris.wpd.sgi.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Sample (zzz@u.washington.edu) wrote:

> Everyone knows that you cannot legislate morality.

"Everyone"? Obviously not, if you look around these days..

> The real way to stop dad-kid-divorce abuse is to bring it above ground
> -- MAKE IT LEGAL -- and advertise against dad-kid-divorce  =ABUSE= (NOT use).

This is *not* just a moral question..

Regardless of the morality and the what not of divorce, there is one
brutal piece of reality involved: the kid.

Drug abuse, unusual forms of consensual sex (euphemism alert!), and
what not, are matters either solely in the purview of one adult, or
two consenting adults.  "Dad-kid divorce" is *NOT* - there's one
helpless, unwilling and definitely non-consensual party involved.

Almost by definition, the problem of supporting kids in a divorce is
nearly insoluble.  Support of the child is a joint responsibility, and
is not something that can be easily achieved when the parents are
going their own ways and (often) have it in for each other.

"Easy" solutions, like the ones being bandied around here ("Dad-kid
divorce" indeed!) and the legislatures and courts around the country
(the "dad is *always* responsible, regardless of any circumstances"
"solution") are all generally unworkable.

Solomon himself would be hard put to solve this one in these days of
deadbeat dads and child-abuse cross-allegations.  Chances are, if he
brought out the sword, both parents would rather the kid be halved
than let the other have it.

Certainly *I* have no easy solutions to what is a giant national
tragedy.  I do have long laments on the alarming rise in the divorce
rate, and the totally casual attitude that most Americans have towards
divorce, but that's fodder for some other post..
--
Shankar Unni				E-Mail:	shankar@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics Inc.			Phone:	+1-415-390-2072
Newsgroups: alt.child-support
From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
Subject: Re: What a Problem!!!
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 14:42:19 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.140209.1748@walter.cray.com> jsw@cray.com writes:
>
> Hinted at during 'mediation' by the ex's attorney.... 
>My son pulled a crock pot of hot chili on himself a year and a half prior
>to the divorce. Her attorney pointed out that this WILL be discussed during
>the trial. I happened to be within 10 ft of the child when it happened. 
>Momma as usual, was not home.

	Like when my ex let my 1 1/2 year old son fall down an entire
	flight of stairs.

	I guess it only counts if its the father.  Mothers only make
	*HONEST* mistakes.

-- 
	Alan Yasutovich
	"inquiring  (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
	I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
	Tick Tock.....Tick Tock......Tick Tock .....Tick Tock......
From: joe@zx11.cactus.org (Joe Senner)
Newsgroups: alt.child-support
Subject: Re: Another Irate Dad Kills
Date: 30 Sep 92 03:48:33 GMT
Reply-To: joe@zx11.cactus.org
Distribution: world
Organization: NOT

allanc@cluster.cs.su.oz (Restless Wanderer) writes:
]I do not post often

and it shows.

]Why in christs'name do you guys WANT to procreate?
]Guys claim they get dumped on.
]Women claim they get dumped on.
]Why not just do the right thing and stop this stupid reproduction nonsense.
]Economically ,we'd all be better off.
]Standards of living would rise  and crimes of child abuse/custody would be
]solved .

it has nothing to do with wanting to or not wanting to have kids. tell me
about something in your life that is your driving force, your reason for
living and I'll then be able to put it in terms you'll understand.

]I do NOT understand why anyone would want kids.

and you probably never will.

-- 
Joe Senner -- joe@zx11.Cactus.Org                                   Austin, TX
      "Nuclear weapons can wipe out life on earth, if used properly"
                                   -- Talking Heads
From: kingsley@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com (Kingsley Morse)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 23:55:59 GMT
Subject: Forced Fatherhood Survey Raw Data
Organization: HP Western Response Center