HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pwilson@gandalf.ca (Paul Wilson(Toronto-Sales))
Subject: Re: Gavage (Don't read this during lunch)
Keywords: Beer bile
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:21:01 GMT

In <1992Oct2.133155.28291@xgml.com> emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow) writes:


>This is a followup of interest only to those who were into the nose
>jewellry a few folks were making out of surgical tubing in Montreal
>last summer.  I never saw it myself, only heard about it, so if I've
>been taken by a net hoax, excuuuuse me.

>I picked up the summer Nose magazine a few days ago for its article on
>the Jim Rose sideshow.  Jim Rose has taken the concept of the 19th
>century traveling band of freaks and updated it to a post-modern 20th
>century traveling band of freaks.  Instead of setting up on a grassy
>field at the edge of town, they tend to play bars, away from the
>impressionable eyes of young children and Jesse Helms.  But check this out:

>	    One modern addition to the show comes from an oddball
>	pharmacists from Montana, who pumps a quart of beer,
>	ketchup, chocolate syrup and a raw egg down a tube into his
>	throat via the nasal cavity, using a device known as
>	_Gavage_ [Explanation that the Gavage was designed to
>	force-feed Irish hunger strikers; Crowley's is more
>	dramatic]...

>	    Once the swirling fluid is pumped into his stomach, Rose
>	pulls the plunger and sucks it all back out, much to the
>	delight of spectators.  He then pours off pint glasses of
>	the stuff, and invites guests to share swigs of it with
>	some of the freaks onstage.

>	    "When I started this show", Rose concedes, "I couldn't
>	have imagined that I could offer people a glass of bile,
>	and that someday we'd be using crowd control to keep them
>	off the stage!  I can't believe it."

Seen it myself.  All except the raw egg, maybe they weren't in season.
To keep this on a juggling topic, the show also included a juggler
of fire-pins (?correct term) who also did a good fire-eating and 
tesla-coil act,  a broken-glass eater, a guy with a needle addiction,
and many other strange sights.  Has to be seen to be believed, though
I don't advocate it for the faint of heart, nor those with good taste.
It was *all* genuine, at least to my quite skeptical eyes.
--
Paul Wilson 416 698 3649
pwilson@gandalf.ca
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 17:27:38 EDT
From: John Johnson <JXJ101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: Five ball tricks.
Distribution: rec

One fairly easy five ball trick is to throw one ball fairly high, catch the
other four (two in each hand), and then go back into a normal five ball
pattern.  This probably shouldn't take much time to learn if you can start
your cascade quickly and accurately.

                                    -John
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: emp@xgml.com (Eric Promislow)
Subject: Gavage (Don't read this during lunch)
Summary: Leave me alone.  I'm just reporting it.
Keywords: Beer bile
Organization: Exoterica Corporation
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:31:55 GMT


This is a followup of interest only to those who were into the nose
jewellry a few folks were making out of surgical tubing in Montreal
last summer.  I never saw it myself, only heard about it, so if I've
been taken by a net hoax, excuuuuse me.

I picked up the summer Nose magazine a few days ago for its article on
the Jim Rose sideshow.  Jim Rose has taken the concept of the 19th
century traveling band of freaks and updated it to a post-modern 20th
century traveling band of freaks.  Instead of setting up on a grassy
field at the edge of town, they tend to play bars, away from the
impressionable eyes of young children and Jesse Helms.  But check this out:

	    One modern addition to the show comes from an oddball
	pharmacists from Montana, who pumps a quart of beer,
	ketchup, chocolate syrup and a raw egg down a tube into his
	throat via the nasal cavity, using a device known as
	_Gavage_ [Explanation that the Gavage was designed to
	force-feed Irish hunger strikers; Crowley's is more
	dramatic]...

	    Once the swirling fluid is pumped into his stomach, Rose
	pulls the plunger and sucks it all back out, much to the
	delight of spectators.  He then pours off pint glasses of
	the stuff, and invites guests to share swigs of it with
	some of the freaks onstage.

	    "When I started this show", Rose concedes, "I couldn't
	have imagined that I could offer people a glass of bile,
	and that someday we'd be using crowd control to keep them
	off the stage!  I can't believe it."

  At the end of the article Jim Rose mentions that a couple of new
freak acts will be joining the sideshow soon, including a chainsaw
juggler.  Now that's gross.
-- 
-- Eric Promislow--emp@xgml.com--Exoterica Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: garys@iscp.bellcore.com (Gary Seubert)
Subject: Re: Clubs
Organization: Bellcore
Distribution: all who care
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 15:21:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.200939.22222@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, miller@quiver.enet.dec.com (Brian A. Miller) writes|> |> In article <1992Sep29.180200.27756@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, amorgan@csd-d-3.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog) writes..|> >In article <1992Sep29.030449.26448@newshost.unh.edu> 
|> 
|> 
|> >  [stuff deleted]
|> > 
|> >Oh, IMHO a "one time investment" is a little unlikely.  My clubs are
|> >fairly beaten up after about 2-3 years.  You will likely be buying
|> >clubs for the rest of your life.         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
|> >>  Edward F. Keisling 			"Time flies when you don't know w|> > 
|> 
|> I'm not sure I agree 100% with the above statement.  Clubs get beaten up
|> and abused.  It's a fact.  However, with the clubs that Dube makes, at least,
|> there are several parts, including a wooden dowel, plastic, end knob, screw,
|> one or two staples, etc.  When the decorative outside of the club begins to
|> wear, you can always replace the tape holding it on and/or redecorate the club
|> without replacing it.  
|> 
|>    [stuff deleted]
|>
|> The bottom line is, you don't always have to replace your used clubs just
|> because they get beaten up a bit.
|> 
|> --BAM, the Juggler
|> aka Brian A. Miller 

I'll second (maybe even third and fourth) Brian's statements.  My first (and
only) club purchase was a beat-up set of Dube European short-handles.  I
got them in a package deal with some magic stuff, a devil stick and a single
cigar box (don't ask me what I'm ever going to do with one!).  Well I stripped
the Dubes down and cleaned the body of each with DiDi 7 (it's the ONLY use 
I've ever seen for that stuff).  I decided what colors I wanted (when Brian
used to send out Color Catalogs!) and, for $7 per club, I got COMPLETE
refinishing items ($4 for the vinyl and handle wraps; $2 for a new knob;
$1 for a new end).   The pieces were all cut to exact size and include all of
the tape necessary.  In fact, each piece of tape (clear vinyl and/or the
black for the edges) was pre-cut to the proper length and stuck on the
corresponding piece so you couldn't go wrong if you tried).

Never having re-finished clubs before (and receiving no instructions with the
package) was no problem.  My only error was in not specifying "short handles"
so the new handle wraps were not quite right.  Having saved the old ones I
had removed, I just made a pattern and traced it on the new wraps and
trimmed them down to the right size and shape.  As a result, the clubs look
GREAT and, since I rarely drop them (sic.), they should last me for ages!

yraG

Jack of all trades ... Master of several(tm)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: mccaugha@duncan.cs.utk.edu (William Douglas ( Doug ) - The Juggler ( me ) McCaughan)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: insurance (was Re: Juggling accidents)
Date: 27 Sep 92 00:19:05 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mccaugha@duncan.cs.utk.edu (William Douglas ( Doug ) - The Juggler ( me ) McCaughan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu

In article <1992Sep22.200649.20305@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>, duane@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Duane Starcher) writes:
|> 	I have never broken a key on a computer keyboard with an errant
|> throw, but my main juggling partner reported his experience on the road
|> with a friend doing street shows.  In one of them, he dropped a kid.  I
|> believe they were passing it (him/her) with other objects.  It was a
|> miscue between them and the kid was shaken but uninjured.  Needless to
|> say, they cut that part of the routine.  Have you seen the ads for
|> insurance for street performers? 

Yes! In JW a long time ago and I think we discussed it here awhile back so
instead of going to the archives (as that info is probably out of date),
can we discuss this one again?

I really want to get some insurance of sorts. Does anyone have any suggestions,
good experiences, bad experiences, etc?

|> They didn't have any and sweated it out for a while.
|> duane@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

-- 
...doug <mccaugha@cs.utk.edu> USA    | The past 23 years have been a |
                                     | helluva trip, but honestly, I |
                                     | am ready to come down now...  |



Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (Milo)
Subject: Re: Plug for an IJA Advertiser ...
Followup-To: rec.juggling
Organization: bgsu
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:07:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.200229.26915@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>,
garys@iscp.bellcore.com (Gary Seubert) wrote:
> business cards for jugglers:
> 	Total cost:	$40.90 for 1,000 cards
> 
> 		This includes postage, two colors (red and black) and
> 		two illustrations (clubs and balls on one end and a
> 		hat with a rabbit coming out of it on the other) and,
> 		since it's an out-of-state purchase, no sales tax. 
>
For those of you who, like myself, are students on thin budgets, many
universities have a print office.  I produced a logo and text myself on a
Macintosh and laserprinted the copy for the card.  BGSU office services
printed 500 (single color) cards for less than six dollars.  Granted, my
cards aren't extravagant, with embossure, raised ink, or expensive card
stock.  But since I'm a student, I will need cards with a new address and
phone in less than a year, and shows are limited by my busy academic
schedule.

Milo/BGSU Juggling Club/JuggleMania
<<jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu>>
"It's like...it's like...it's like
 SOMEthing, I just can't think of it..."
 (Calvin and Hobbes)
From: mccaugha@duncan.cs.utk.edu (William Douglas ( Doug ) - The Juggler ( me ) McCaughan)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Juggling while typing (was Re: Todd Smith's address)
Date: 26 Sep 92 23:43:59 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mccaugha@duncan.cs.utk.edu (William Douglas ( Doug ) - The Juggler ( me ) McCaughan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: duncan.cs.utk.edu

In article <1992Sep20.132001.5867@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>, duane@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Duane Starcher) writes:
|> 	Welcome to the network, Todd.  One more computer-literate
|> juggler comes aboard.

Ditto!

|> 	For those hoping to get you through Internet, I believe your
|> full address will have to be:   76450.245@compuserve.com
|> If this is not correct, perhaps someone will volunteer a better format.
|> 
|> 	How about developing beanbags for computer users that can be
|> juggled safely while working at a computer, even with a cup of coffee
|> next to the floppy drive?

Get Gortex juggling bags and crude oil-thick coffee (no splash and should
it spills you can pick it up before it damages anything - oh, other than
your fingers.)
                                     
|> Duane Starcher             *             a                  a      
|> Memorial University        S           n                n  
|> St. John's, Newfoundland   T               d                 d
|> Canada                     E         a               a   
|>                            R           _  _a           _   _a
|>                            E           0 /             0  /  
|> (duane@morgan.ucs.mun.ca)  O        C_/@           C_/ @ 
|>                            *           |               |
|>                                  O   _/ \_        O  _/ \_
|> 
|> 

-- 
...doug <mccaugha@cs.utk.edu> USA    | The past 22 years have been a |
                                     | helluva trip, but honestly, I |
                                     | am ready to come down now...  |



Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ben Fulton)
Subject: Re: IJA Chairman Perry Rubenfeld on Internet
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:47:43 GMT

In <1992Sep16.101434.7563@ac.dal.ca> nextug@ac.dal.ca writes:

>Just received a note from IJA Chaiman, Perry Rubenfeld, who
>has taken the electronic plunge into Internet. Although he
>currently does not have access to Usenet and rec.juggling he
>is contactable at <perry@SYS6626.bison.mb.ca>. He encourages

He could also receive rec.juggling by email by sending a request
to moocow.  No, not *all* those people are actually from Indiana!

-- 
ben                                     fulton@silver.ucs.indiana.edu

"A tight bunch of bastards who want to win while loving each other"
- Dave Hasbrook, about the Indiana Ultimate team
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: jimm@ghoti.iit.edu (Jimm Grimm)
Subject: BIG REFUND!!!   (money money money)
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 19:11:40 CDT

Hi everybody!!

	Do you think college students should have to pay taxes?  Our
House of Representatives is trying to decide that matter right this
minute.  It is VERY IMPORTANT that you write them a letter and help
them to decide!

	Until 1986, scholarships, fellowships, stipends, etc. were
not taxable.  The Tax Reform Act of 1986 changed all of that.  Now
they are considering repealing that section of the Tax Reform Act.

	If approved, the bill will be RETROACTIVE.  That means that

*******************************************************************
YOU COULD RECEIVE A REFUND OF ALL SCHOLARSHIP/STIPEND RELATED TAXES
YOU PAID SINCE 1986!!!
*******************************************************************

You would just need to file for a refund within one year after this
law is passed.

	Even if you have never received a fellowship, scholarship, 
grant or stipend, you might in the future.  This bill affects all
of us.  And our children.  And that affects us too cause we're the
ones who are going to pay for their school!

	Contact your state's representatives.  You can call
800/347-1997 for information about your state's representatives,
or call the House of Representatives directly at 202/224-3121 for 
information.  The number of the bill is HR 4418, and it was 
introduced by Tom Lewis, a Representative from Florida.

	So write a letter!  Have your parents write a letter!  Have
your aunts and uncles and grandparents write a letter!  Have your
dog write a letter!  Give this note to all of your classmates!  Email
it to everyone in the country and have them do the same!  This is not
a chain letter--this is real!

Sincerely,

Jimm Grimm
jimm@ghoti.iit.edu

Following is a copy of the proposed bill HR 4418.
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Arthur Chandler)
Subject: "Indian Jugglers" painting
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:58:17 GMT


   I don't know who might be interested in this, but I culled it from
Forbes Magazine, July 6, 1992, page 109.
  Talking about English "Exotic" painting in the 19th century, the
article mentions "Indian Jugglers" (1820) by James Green, is a very
curious piece, historically and esthetically.  Green never travelled to
India but saw a troupe of Indian jugglers in England.  The picture
(left) epitomizes the English taste for exotic India."
  The photo shows the painter's owner, a New York jewelry designer,
sitting next to the painting.  The painting itself, which shows a ball
juggler and (I think) a sword swallower, is clearly visible.  Wouldn't
it be nice to borrow this for an IJA convention sometime?
From: ewn@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Re: The record list
Date: 28 Sep 92 00:06:11 EDT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cornell University

In article <1992Sep26.211016.11921@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>,
amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog) writes: 
> I just noticed this from the July 1992 record list (I don't know
> if it has been corrected on later ones).
> 
> 14 Club, 4 Person Line              Martin Frost
>  (2 Facing Each Direction)          Jim Hugunin
>                                     Scott Stanton
>                                     Alex Kunczynski     3/4/92     0:45 AJA
> 
> These upstanding individuals are from SCJ *not* AJA.  Credit where
> credit is due and all that.
> 
> C Frog


While we're on that subject, how do I go about submitting a new devil stick
record?  I recently topped the listed singletap endurance time.

						Michael Baswell 
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: amorgan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Crunchy Frog)
Subject: Re: Five ball tricks.
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: rec
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:13:48 GMT

In article <HARRY.92Oct1192720@vladimir.harlqn.co.uk> 
  harry@harlqn.co.uk (Harry Fearnhamm) writes:
>I am attempting simple five ball tricks at the moment, and would
>appreciate some advise:
>
>(1) Tennis - is it simply a five ball cascade with one over the top,
>ala 3 balls?  Is it simply in the timing of the other four that gets
>the tennis one to be grabbable each time it comes down?

Yep.  You can't actually get the timing exact (because one ball is
going over the top and travelling farther) but there is enough
slack time in 5 balls that it doesn't matter.

>(2) 1/2 shower - timing again?  Should the hand doing the low throws
>hold onto the balls a teensy bit longer, because the flight time is
>shorter?

I generally throw simultaneously with a 5 ball half shower, one ball
going to *about* 6 ball crossing height, the other to about 4 ball
crossing height.  You can build up to this by making occasional throws
over the top.

>(3) How on *earth* do you do Mill's Mess? is it analogous to 3 ball,
>with a false shower in each direction, or is there some subterfuge
>involved?

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!  Might I suggest learning 4 ball MM first?  5 ball
is *almost* impossible, I have only met a couple of people who can do
it for even a cycle or two.

>(4) Are there any easy (;-) tricks that don't have a three ball
>analogue?

Well, I like the 3 high exchange (toss up 3, do a quick exchange of the
two in your hands and continue).  Try occasional back crosses, half
pirouettes, reverse cascade, 3 in one hand 2 in the other, 66661, etc.

>AAMA.

C Frog
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: jimm@ghoti.iit.edu (Jimm Grimm)
Subject: HR4418
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 19:42:11 CDT

102D CONGRESS               H.R. 4418
   2D SESSION

  To ammend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore the prior law
              exclusion for scholarships and fellowships.
 
                      ----------------------

                 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                         MARCH 10, 1992

 MR. LEWIS of Florida introduced the following bill; which was referred
                to the Committe on Ways and Means

                      ----------------------

                              A BILL

      To ammend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore
      the prior law exclusion for scholarships and fellowships.

	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RESTORATION OF PRIOR LAW EXCLUSION FOR
             SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS.

	(a) IN GENERAL.--Section 123 of the Tax Reform
Act of 1986 (relating to scholarships), and the amend-
ments made by such section, are hearby repealed; and the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be applied and ad-
ministered as if such section, and ammendments, had never
been enacted.

	(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.--Subsection (a) shall apply to
taxable years beginning after December 31, 1986.

SECTION 2. WAIVER OF STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.

	If refund or credit of any overpayment of tax result-
ing from the application of section 1 is prevented at any
time before the close of the 1-year period beginning on
the date of the enactment of this Act by the operation
of any law or rule of law (including res judicata), refund
or credit of such overpayment (to the extent attributable
to the application of section 1) may, nevertheless, be made
or allowed if claim therefor is filed before the close of such 
1-year period.
From: jsanders@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (John Eric Sanders)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Whip Cracking
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:26:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvG88E.8MI
Organization: Math Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Are there any good books on the subject of whip cracking out there
that people recommend?  A friend juggler is looking to add this to
her routine and needs help.

Email to me or to holly@sun.sws.uiuc.edu

aTdHvAaNnKcSe


-- 
 The Jester (John E. Sanders)       jsanders@symcom.math.uiuc.edu       
 I have finally discovered the method to my madness.  Unfortunately,    
 there is more madness to my method than method to my madness.          
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
From: rdarwoon@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Dar-Woon)
Subject: Where to get juggling videos?
Summary: Video tapes - Where?
Keywords: video tape cassette
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:08:43 GMT

Hi.  I'm interested in finding juggling instructional tapes.
Just recently, I viewed one called "Who? Me? Juggle?" which,
although it was short, demonstrated some interesting 3-ball
tricks.

How about a video of Mr. Moschen?  Does one exist?
Sorry if this has been talked about already, it wasn't in the
FAQ list.

Thanks,
Rob.
From: mikelee@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Flying K's
Date: 5 Oct 92 04:04:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: OREGON.01GPL7OOVJ028Y6OGZ
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
X-Envelope-To: juggling@moocow.cogsci.indiana.edu
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT

The Flying Karamozov Bros. performed in Eugene, Oregon, last night in a
fundraiser for their traveling Chataqua show. I've rarely seen them indoors
-- I'm in their house band at the outdoor Oregon Country Fair -- so I'm
unsure how much of their act is new. (Their presentation was excellent, as
always. If you want a lesson in comedic timing, rent one of their tapes.)
What caught my attention was a sequence where they created a syncopated
rhythm by catching clubs with gloves, giving their catches a "slapping"
sound. (Tim taped small bells to his clubs for emphasis.) They did this in
4/4 and 5/4, the "Mission: Impossible" beat.

And once the audience was suitably impressed, they added a soft-shoe to the
routine.

Mike Lee <mikelee@oregon.uoregon.edu>
Fighting Instruments of Karma Marching Chamber Band/Orchestra
Yes, I live in Eugene. No, I'm not a hippie.
From: jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu (Milo)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: Juggle Ohio!
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:24:54 GMT
Followup-To: rec.juggling
Distribution: usa
Organization: bgsu

Come juggle with us on the campus of Bowling Green State University!

Located off I-75 in Northwest Ohio, meetings are held in Eppler South Gym,
5-7pm Friday evenings.  Email or call (419) 372-4783 for more info.  See
you at Fall Back to Akron October 10 in Cuyohoga Falls, Ohio.

Milo/BGSU Juggling Club/JuggleMania
<<jwc2001@andy.bgsu.edu>>
"It's like...it's like...it's like
 SOMEthing, I just can't think of it..."
 (Calvin and Hobbes)
From: STU_DAKEEFE@VAX1.ACS.JMU.EDU (Debonovitch)
Newsgroups: rec.juggling
Subject: ftp access
Date: 4 Oct 92 18:48:15 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Vms-To: JUGGLING

Is the FTP server at moocow working?  Every time I try to get on it, it
times out.

Debbie
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