HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score update)
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:36:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.153417.16668@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:

>Score:      Vultures   Ravens   Deer/Ticks    Barbie/Ken    Rednecks  
>								      

>Oh.... One other incident here at Oak Ridge.....  Last year, an experiment
>
>Los Alamos   N/A        x        N/A           N/A           N/A    
>Brookhaven   N/A        N/A      x             x             x
>Oak Ridge    x          x        x             x             x
>
>            Radioactive
>            Wildlife
>Los Alamos   N/A
>Brookhaven   N/A
>Oak Ridge    x (frogs,
>             anything 
>             herbivourous)


>Any additions?  Perhaps someone from Hanford or Savannah River might like
>to add their 2 cents?

How 'bout this:

		Monster Trucks
		All The Rage
Los Alamos	???
Brookhaven 	X!
Oak Ridge 	X



>Oh.... One other incident here at Oak Ridge.....  Last year, an experiment
>heavy-ion type of physicist was working late, calibrating a detector with
>a radioactive source.  Well, somehow he got some of it on the floor of his
>lab, and thence onto his shoes, and made it past the geiger counters at
>the entrance to his lab without it being immediatedly spotted.  Well, the
>poor bozo was having an affair in town.  So after work he went to her 
>place, and did several of the usual things people do when they are having
>affairs.  Well, the next morning, someone at the lab discovered a trail
>of radioactive footprints all over the building, and Health Physics (hah,
>what a misnomer) were called.  They figured out who'd been there the
>previous evening, and where he might have gone, 
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

They figured this out by deductive reasoning or did they have
instruments with an inside track?  :)



>and then the men in the 
>radiation suits showed up at the lady's apartment to give it, and the
>conjugal bed a thorough sweep with their geiger counters. 

I rather doubt that they in fact were wearing the infamous "white
suits", but it sure makes for a more entertaining tale.


> I am not sure
>what they found there, but I am sure the reaction of the loving couple
>would have been most amusing to see.


Sounds like your tale has been slightly embellished, but it's still a
good one!

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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: New Job Angst
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:07:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug13.200332.9752@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>In article <1992Aug13.181435.29786@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>>>sorority rush started saturday, and they're everywhere! aaaaaigh! bowheads,
>>>and proto-bowheads! 
>>
>>proto-bowheads?...does that mean they can still be saved? Or are they a lost
>>cause already?
>
>
>i don't think they can be saved unless someone force-reads them something
>like the lyrics to julie brown's " 'cause i'm a blonde" ...(because they
>probably can't read themselves..)

A total lost cause then...call in an airstrike, start over, it'll be easier....

As for Julie Brown, well, I kind of always liked the "Homecoming Queen's got a
Gun" song...

Speaking of Bowheads-In-Training, I saw Buffy The Vampire Slayer this weekend.
Very Camp, quite funny and the dialogue could easily become the BowHead's
Bible.....

---Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"Welcome to the Politically Correct States of America. Please turn your mind
in to the nearest oppressed minority pressure group. It will be returned to
you once we've decided what you can think"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score Update)
Keywords: (perhaps grotesquely rotund, spheroid, fragrant and radioactive)
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 22:15:45 GMT

Hey!  Is my newsfeed back yet??????
???????????????????????????????????

In article <1992Aug19.141459.12631@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>
>I've posted this in my office, Meech.  May I suffer the same
>bureaucratic pressure from above that the other poor guy got for having
>far side cartoons in his office.  You forget one critical category
>though:

I have a photograph of a couple of Oak Ridge computer engineers standing
holding manuals in front of our Intel IPSC/860 hypercube, to which I added
the caption:  "The staff of the Engineering Physisics and Math Division
attempting, once again, to fix the hypercube."  A little tongue in cheek
humour doesn't do any harm, and can even help let off steam.  I think that
other guy is working for bozos, and should move on.  By the way, when I posted
that picture, the hypercube was crashing many many times per day. It's still
up, and no one is seriosly offended.


>Locals have intolerable accent that makes them sound like escapees from
>a bad cartoon
>
>Brookhaven    X
>Los Alamos	?
>Oak Ridge	X
>Stanford	?
>

This is one place where I may disagree.  That southern drawl makes the
women sound very sexy, even though they are just Barbies.  Trouble is
that they almost never say anything interesting.  An intelligent woman
with a southern accent could own me.  I would have no defence. 

What's the Brookhaven accent like?  I'm sure everyone has seen Cops in 
Memphis, but I don't know if there's ever been a Cops in Brookhaven 
episode.

						Meech


Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: storm@acca.nmsu.edu (Keith C. Estanol)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:39:23 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.140353.8757@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>In article <1992Aug17.210253.25954@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug17.160650.15173@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>>>In article <1992Aug16.014418.16237@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>>

[ don't accuse me of cascading ]

>ObAngst:everybody here is angsting about their boyfriends and girlfriends and
>PIBs. I just wish I HAD a girlfriend to angst over....
>

I hate to ask this, but ... What's a PIB?

>---Steve
>-- 
>Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org


Keith C. Estanol	    	| storm@ucsd.edu
UCSD, Cognitive Science, IGPP 	| storm@ucsd.bitnet
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"We don't want to be victims, on that we all agree.
 So we lock up the killer instinct, and throw away the key.."
From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:19:09 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug19.141001.20218@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.232441.10198@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>
(stuff about worshipful KaTeheads deleted)

>
>Okay, well the capitalization of the K and T would explain the big 'KT' one
>of the aforementioned KateHeads here has in his office carved out of carpet.
>I still don't understand it. Maybe somebody will bring some of her stuff with
>them to the mini-angstcon and expose me and I'll see the light.
>

certainly, steve! i will bring some KaTe! but we'll have to get a car with a
tape deck...
or a portable one with batteries...

ObAngst: i feel cruddy today and have for a few days now. might have something
to do with lack of food, but i dunno. someone nice has been feeding me break-
fast, though.

ObAngst2: the miniangstcon is in a coupla weeks. i am getting nervous...

bah (tm)

--
		-just give me what for,
	rachel perkins =  rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
      "Chastity..the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions...."
					-Aldous Huxley
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 06:23:44 GMT

Chuck Machala (machala@delphi.hc.ti.com) wrote:
: jeanette@hpmcaa (Jeanette Skelton) writes:

: >OK, I'll bite....even with an advanced engineering degree, I don't 
: >understand internal combustion engines. This isn't because I'm unable
: >to understand them, but because I'm too lazy to expend the effort to
: >learn about them. Furthermore, this isn't a sex-linked characteristic.
: >I work with mainly male engineers, and have noticed this same tendency
: >in men -- I've seen how long it takes an electrical engineer to hook
: >up a simple car stereo. Also, every time I go to my brother's house,
: >I have to set the timer on the VCR for him (that little flashing "12:00
: >12:00 12:00" really annoys me). So here we have two examples countering
: >your wild claims, which obviously proves that your assertions are false.
: 
: >Jeanette
: 
: Oh, _god_ do I hate that flashing "12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00... ad infinitum"
: but this is alt.angst, not .peeves. Anyway, a person (any sex) who can whip
: out a ten-dimensional superstring has no business changing the oil in a car.
: that's what epsilons are for. I've met plenty of EE PhD's who can't change
: a light bulb or program a VCR. Not that they can't do it, it JUST DOESN'T 
: INTEREST THEM! OH! OH!
: 
I've noticed the same thing, that is, that many (most?) engineers are 
mechanically useless....er...I mean 'challenged'.  Perhaps it comes from
keeping their heads in books instead of learning how to do REAL work.  It's
great to know the inner micro-current interactions in an op-amp, but if you
don't know how to use one in a circuit, you might as well give up.  The REAL
work in the world is done by the technicians.

ObAngst:  That one of the pin-headed engineers here will see this and take
offense.  Not, in itself, a problem, but it depends who they take their offense
TO.

--

Dave Hinz  -  Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's.  Obviously.
SAAB - Because you get what you pay for.
hinz@picard.med.ge.com
From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Accents
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:17:21 GMT
Organization: depressed


   On my remote control one can find a key used to promptly
remove any sound from the TV set. I call that key the "
Schlu"tter in english key" named after the local prime
minister. Reason: all Danish politicians speaks miserable
english with a very heavy Danish accent. A Danish accent
is _not_ something to proud of - it sounds awful.
   
   I have now learned to accept that these midleaged 
politicians can't speak anything but Danish. My hope
was that younger people (like me) had better English
skills. Then I saw an interview with Lars von Trier.
Parts of a press conference was shown with him speaking
English - this fine director, who has made exelent
movies in English, had an accent just a horrible as
that known from the representatives of the people.

   The final push was given by an interview with Michael
Binzer, lead singer in D.A.D., a good band with English
lyrics. His accent was ... lethal. This guy makes a 
living singing in English and yet he speaks it so bad.

   Never in my many years on this planet have I had a
conversation with someone only speaking English. I
fear my accent. Perhaps I should decide never to leave
the country and thus save myself from certain failure.

   My prison is 42000 km^2 big.
-- 
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| Jesper Lauridsen      |      Life is a spectator sport  | 
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From: Bruce.Tindall@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: Closed restrooms as a symptom of the decline of Western Civilization
Date: 19 Aug 92 23:24:31 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In New York City, they are putting coin-operated portable toilets on
some sidewalks.  For 25 cents you can go in and do your business, but 
the doors open automatically after 15 minutes to discourage people with
nowhere else to sleep from sleeping in them.  It's morning in Amerika.

Ultrix(tm) SAS/BAH(tm) Release 6.07 Beta Test Version 
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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 10:22:33 GMT
Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Reply-To: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit)

zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:

> There used to be a band calling themselves "Windscale Frogs", but
> TheAuthorities renamed the place "Sellafield" and it didn't rhyme.

"Sellafield frogs." Nope, you're right, it doesn't.

Then again, neither does "Windscale frogs". Perhaps I've missed something
here....

						- k
-- 
Craig Harding            kilroy@acme.gen.nz             ACME BBS +64 63 3551342
"Jub'f Xvob?"
From: reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: alt.angst angst
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:54:22 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Aug18.134946.8278@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.010438.7028@beaver.cs.washington.edu> boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>>sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>>>boesch@cs.washington.edu (Eric Boesch) writes:
>>[stuff you've seen once before & stuff you've seen fifty times before deleted] 
>>The alt.angst equivalent of Muzak; I bet someone could program a
>>computer to do it better.
>
>Damn! he's finally figured out his purpose and who he really is.
>**ALERT** **ALERT** All personnel within range of the Boesch unit
>please apprehend and de-activate immediately. We have had a massive

Oh, NO!  I have this awful feeling that I am within range of the
Boesch unit.  I can't handle the responsibility!  Oops!  what if
he is a superuser?  Another angstoid.  (I liked that one)

Bob Reinstatler    reinstat@u.washington.edu
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu (SaintMeechTheChaste)
Subject: Re: National Lab Syndrome  (Score Update)
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:00:11 GMT

In article <1992Aug22.230119.3526@cs.tulane.edu> matt@crawfish.math.tulane.edu (Matt Hopkins) writes:
>THIS one paragraph RIGHT HERE causes me no end of angst:
>
>In article <1992Aug22.221545.7252@utkux1.utk.edu> kovarik@utkux1.utk.edu  
>(SaintMeechTheChaste) writes:
>> 
>> This is one place where I may disagree.  That southern drawl makes the
>> women sound very sexy, even though they are just Barbies.  Trouble is
>> that they almost never say anything interesting.  An intelligent 
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> woman with a southern accent could own me.  I would have no defence. 
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (they DO, indeed, exist!)
>
>I'm SO glad you reminded me of it.
>

Not so many around around here. In 3 years here in TN, I have only
met 5 southern women I would describe as intelligent, and of those,
2 of them have absorbed the Barbie mentality, and act stupid so that
they can conform to what is normal around here.  And both prefer
men they must speak to like to puppies.

I guess the crux of the matter is the difference between being bright, and
being intelligent. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines intelligence as the 
ability to learn and understand, or to deal with new and trying situations,
relative intellectual capacity, that is the capacity given to study,
reflection, and speculation.  Brightness to me implies being smart, 
quick-thinking, but lacking depth, or insight.  In superficial encounters
it is easy to confuse brightness, and intelligence.  It is by making this
distinction that I have whittled the number down to 5 only, even though
I am including in this sample the student population of the university.
I think this low number is a result of the cult of inferiority and ignorance
that has infected the people here.  People here actually believe they
are no good, and stupid, and that is what is their biggest problem.

						Meech
From: nexus@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Arseny Nikolaev Markov)
Newsgroups: alt.angst
Subject: Re: After Death Mints
Date: 17 Aug 1992 19:42:00 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

machala@delphi.hc.ti.com (Chuck Machala ) writes:

>ABienek@acorn.co.uk (Alex Bienek) writes:


>>Ah well, at least we can be comforted by the thought that, assuming there is 
>>no life after death, our moment of death and the end of the Universe will
>>effectively be one and the same point in time, from our perspective, and hence
>>those remaining will not have time to enjoy their immortality.

>>Alex.
>> 

>So you want a few thousand more years of angst? Wow! I'm impressed. Just think
>what it would be like living with billions and billions of other virtual 
>immortals. The single _biggest_ problem facing the world as a whole is over-
>population. And you would like to end the only possible remedy for this
>problem?! 
>--
>                                 ROMANES
>                                 EUNT 
>                                 DOMUS
>Chuck Machala - Semiconductor Process and Design Center - Texas Instruments


Actually that wouldn't be the real problem, Chuck. Don't forget that
evolving humanity on the edge of immortality will probably be spread on
zilions of worlds in the Universe. The problem will be then facing the
most powerful source of Angst, the Cosmos, the Void per se.


the NEXUS>
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:42:42 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.221909.13507@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins) writes:
>In article <1992Aug19.141001.20218@linus.mitre.org> sokay@cyclone.mitre.org (Stephen J. Okay) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug18.232441.10198@peponi.wcc.govt.nz> hobbs_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz writes:
>>
>(stuff about worshipful KaTeheads deleted)
>
>>
>>Okay, well the capitalization of the K and T would explain the big 'KT' one
>>of the aforementioned KateHeads here has in his office carved out of carpet.
>>I still don't understand it. Maybe somebody will bring some of her stuff with
>>them to the mini-angstcon and expose me and I'll see the light.
>>
>
>certainly, steve! i will bring some KaTe! but we'll have to get a car with a
>tape deck...
>or a portable one with batteries...

I'll bring my walkman and minispeakers....They're pretty loud(I can hear them from
10 feet away here in the machine room and they're turned up halfway), so they
should work.......I've yet to see a rental car w/ a tapedeck.


>ObAngst2: the miniangstcon is in a coupla weeks. i am getting nervous...

You're not the only one....but I think it'll work out...maybe..

----Steve
-- 
Stephen Okay  sokay@mitre.org
"You see, I'm kind of this control freak who likes to create his own
personal hells before the real one can get to him. I like to beat hell
to hell so to speak".--Spalding Gray "Monster in a box"
Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: steve@cse.fau.edu (Steve Smith)
Subject: a girl in McDonalds
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:54:14 GMT

This was a message I sent via e-mail but I think it belongs here.



I saw a really cute (by my--according to {friend1}, strange--definition) in
McDonalds today.  She had really short blonde hair (fake? didn't look like
it) ({friend2} calls it a butch haircut) and she looked kinda boyish (mostly
cause of the hair) but she had nice breasts.  I kept looking at her--perhaps
her friend (anorexic false red hair type) noticed and told her or perhaps
she noticed herself but we caught each other looking at each other a couple
times.  Ever since I have been thinking how I gotta find a girlfriend.

Where are all the cool girls?  (ie cool && someone who I would have something
in common with)  I'd like to blame FAU's cultural deadness for this but
I don't think that is the problem--merely an obstacle.

What should I do?  I have to meet more people.  Besides clubs there are
no good places to just hang out around here... during the day--where is
there to go?  I don't want to spend all my time in front of these silly
computers.  (I've long known that meeting girls over/through computers
is a very poor and unlikely circumstance)  I wish there were a nice
unmarried math major or something. (I knew some very nice/interesting/
intelligent/attractive/friendly ones last semester but they graduated and
were already married anyway.)

There should be coffee houses and bookstores and cool places to eat and meet!
What is not clear around here is that college is *so* *much* *more* than
classes, professors, and finals.  I don't know how I know this but I do.
I need to go to boston or chicago or CA or somewhere where there is some
culture--some people under 80!!!  Thank god I only have 3 more years...
I am counting the days and I will be working my ass off to go somewhere
where I can feel at home--where I can live.

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Newsgroups: alt.angst
From: storm@acca.nmsu.edu (Keith C. Estanol)
Subject: Re: fat smelly boyfriend
Keywords: fat fat fat smelly smelly
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:51:05 GMT

In article <Bsurv9.Ezv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> shulick@kiowa.ucs.indiana.edu ("sam hulick") writes:
>In article <1992Aug12.004149.17524@nmsu.edu> storm@acca.nmsu.edu (Keith C. Estanol) writes:

>Keith!  What are YOU doing here? :)

Posting, whaddya think? ;)

>Yah yah. :)  MUCKs suck, dude.  This town is really cool.  Come out & visit &
>we can party in Peoples' Park. :)

Mann.. I'll try, i'll be up in Illinois probably, if I go anywhere.
Come swing by and pick me up. ;)

MoreAngst:
I've discovered, much to my dismay, as others have discovered, that
if one souce of angst disappears, another walks right up  and takes
it's place.  For example: Once you've gotten over the 'oh my GOD,
she's cheating on me' angst, you then get the 'oh my GOD, she knows
I'm a jealous bastard and is leaving me forever!' (insert wailing
sound here).   

pfah.

Keith C. Estanol	    	| storm@ucsd.edu
UCSD, Cognitive Science 	| storm@ucsd.bitnet
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"We don't want to be victims, on that we all agree.
 So we lock up the killer instinct, and throw away the key.."