HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: gln@cs.arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell)
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
Subject: Re: True-crime ?
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:58:12 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson

In article <xa27-151292133953@ura-bruce.uchicago.edu>, xa27@midway.uchicago.edu (Bruce Law) writes:
> 
>  I would think, when the murder rate alone is considered, that this group
> could share current stores in the news, current unsolved murders and the
> like. Maybe not, but I for one started reading this group thinking along
> these lines. ..
> 
> Just my two cents worth. .......
> 
> 
> ==================================


 OK - I'll give you one. About 3 months ago they found the amputated arms
of a young college girl here in Tucson in a garbage bin. She had
disappeared after a concert downtown. The rest of her remains have yet
to be found. 

 A day and a half later they found a woman's decapitated head in Phoenix.

 A report last week claimed that California authorities found the 
amputated arms of a woman (I'm afraid I have forgotten where in Cal this
happened.

 They haven't made any connections yet in these cases but let's face it, until
the guy is caught or until the numbers get too large to ignore they are
not about to admit they have a serial killer who preys on young women
and rips them loose in the southwest.


			gln
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime
From: ptee@jyu.fi (Tuomas Eerola)
Subject: Re: Once again...
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 09:34:59 GMT

Well, I've been looking for something weird, and this sounds pretty cool,
but how about personal flavour?   I mean, add some dates of your own
"killing sprees" and wonderful side-notes about how much you appreciate
this-and-that serial killer...     and there you have it!

	Yours



-- 
	Tuomas Eerola		   "Music, ho! music such as charmeth sleep."
    Jyvaskyla University				    -Shakespeare
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: frye@amcl10.math.stolaf.edu (James E Frye)
Subject: Lawn Ornaments
Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:46:44 GMT

Here's a shenanigan I haven't seen discussed yet:

We regretfully never pulled this one off, but I still think it is a 
pretty good plan.  Thought I would share the idea for discussion, anyway.

Background:
Both my roommate (Tony) and I are Minnesota natives and attend Saint Olaf
in Northfield, Minnesota.  However, last summer, Tony worked in
Jackson, Wyoming, while I nearly accepted a job in Boca Raton, Florida.

The Plan:
The idea was to find neighbors with plastic lawn elves, or other such silly
lawn ornaments.  The pink flamingoes are a bit too generic; look for 
something with human characteristics, if possible.  

After locating such friendly lawn ornaments, "borrow" them for a while.
Since we were leaving the state, what we planned to do is take along the
lawn ornament, and take pictures of it at famous landmarks across our
fine country.  Next, develop the film, and periodically send home a letter
from the lawn ornament, discussing what a wonderful vacation it is having,
et cetera.  Imagine the looks on the owners' faces when they get a letter
from their lawn elf, and a picture of the elf at Mount Rushmore, Old
Faithful, Disney, and so on.  Send a letter home about once a week.

The problems with this are:  1) It is hard to find ornaments such as these,
2) If the victims know you, your cover is blown; therefore, one of the
sad things is that you never really get to see the reaction of the victims.
(Although, if you do this to a "Friend of a Friend", you at least get a
second hand account.)

This can also (obviously) be done to just one person, but since we were 
both planning to go out of state, we wanted to give the neighbors something
to talk about.  Too bad I never left!  *Sigh*

Oh, and the final kicker of the shenanigan is to return the elves at the
end of the summer, thus causing great wonder by the owners as to exactly
*what* their elf has been doing of late....  Anyway, returning the elf
also moves this from the realm of pranks (theft) back to a harmless
shenanigan.

James

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: "David E. Boyce" <dave@twg.com>
Subject: Shenanigan in a gun shop (the next time)
Sensitivity: Personal
Encoding:  16 TEXT 
Conversion: Prohibited
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Conversion-With-Loss: Prohibited
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:57:59 GMT

I went to a gun shop to buy a pair of ear protectors, the kind that fit over
your head like earmuffs. When I tried them on, what I could have done but 
didn't think of it was to wait a few moments, then verbalize one side of a
conversation.

"At last! We can talk without all those interruptions."

"Where? You mean now? OK. Just a minute."

Then take them off and look the salesman in the eye and say: "They're 
great! I'll take them. No I don't need a bag. I'll wear them, thaanks."

David Boyce

No .sig file. This posting is my own and does not reflect my employer's
opinions.
From: lightnin@bernoulli.WPI.EDU (Reality's Comic Relief)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Lawn Ornaments
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:03:31
Organization: DeityCo: Major and Minor Deities Placement Agency
NNTP-Posting-Host: bernoulli.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: nuke@reed.edu's message of Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:07:35 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:07:35 GMT, nuke@reed.edu (Bill Newcomb) said:

nuke> frye@amcl10.math.stolaf.edu (James E Frye) writes:
>Here's a shenanigan I haven't seen discussed yet:

nuke> [great idea]

>Oh, and the final kicker of the shenanigan is to return the elves at
>the end of the summer, thus causing great wonder by the owners as to
>exactly *what* their elf has been doing of late....  Anyway,
>returning the elf also moves this from the realm of pranks (theft)
>back to a harmless shenanigan.

nuke> Don't forget to get it a hawaiian shirt and a pair of
nuke> sunglasses, maybe even a suitcase with the appropriate stickers
nuke> (i.e., none of the places the thing ever wrote from), and leave
nuke> it thusly dolled up.

The only problem, it's been done.  I remember reading about it in a Reader's
Digest, or some such.  Then again, it could still be fun to do, and it gives
you an excuse to roam around the country, which is a good thing.

-lightnin
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: cstringe@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Net shenanigan
Organization: Indiana University, University Computing Services
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:44:08 GMT

Why bother with a news group? Can't get off a mailng list? Well then,
enjoy it. Be a good member. Post! Anything and everything. Free
associate. Tell about pets you had as a child. Answer questions with
nonsense. Discuss your favorite cartoons. Disagree with everyone.
Agree with everyone. Subscribe the mailing list to another list.
Eventually you'll get off the list and have fun too.


----
Chuck Stringer
E-mail cstringe@ucs.indiana.edu



Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: mnoell@reed.edu (@#$!!*#@!)
Subject: Re: Lawn Ornaments
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:34:14 GMT



	We have a travelling lawn ornament of a sort here at Reed.  It is
called the Doyle Owl.  It was originally part of a neighbors lawn, but there is
a tradition of stealing it and taking it travelling when you leave Reed.  You
are supposed to send photos back to Reed fromof the Owl wherever you go. No
one knows where the owl is right now, but it has bee to Japan, the Eiffel
Tower, Disneyland, and I'm told, has even been photographed in the changing
room of James Dean. The Owl is in a Tears for Fears video far all you MTv'ers.
God knows what famous people the Owl has met. . .   Oh, and the Owl is three
feet tall and weighs about 300lbs.  I wonder how the got it up the Eiffel Tower
:)

Maximum
From: 2691deedyj@vms.csd.mu.edu (Jane Deedy)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Wow, look at her shenanigan!
Date: 13 Dec 1992 22:04:19 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2691deedyj@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

In article <Bz7vpv.3FI@news.udel.edu>, pearl@brahms.udel.edu (Jennifer L Martin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.191118.61969@cc.usu.edu> slgsn@cc.usu.edu writes:
>>I must admit something:
>>I am a shenanagin!
>>Amen.
>>%!!$C
>
>Did I miss something or am I just being me?
>
You are just being you!
>

+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
|  Jane M. Deedy              |  "A census taker once tried to test me.  |
|  2691DEEDYJ@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU  |  I ate his liver with some fava beans    |
+-----------------------------+  and a nice chianti."                    |
|  Cell #13, Milwaukee Inst.  |   - Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter,  |
|  for Deranged Students      |     _The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_           |
+-----------------------------+------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: caperkin@ursa11.law.utah.edu (Charles Perkins)
Subject: Re: Theoretical divergence
Summary: Major points in condensed form
Keywords: key slot knob flange jamb turn
Organization: University of Utah College of Law
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 22:00:12 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.034840.1166@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> tlund@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas Lund) writes:
...
>   H        H       A   A       N NN      N   D       DD
>   HHHHHHHHHH      AAAAAAA      N   NNN   N   D       DD
>   H        H     A       A     N      NN N   D       DD
...
OK! and you can all stop e-mailing me ascii pictures of hands now too.
Sheesh.  See if I ever post again.


-- 
 .8Chuck .2Socrates
 perkins@ursa11.law.utah.edu
 "I drank what?" "Pepsi." "Oh."
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: krupski@ravel.udel.edu (James John Krupski)
Subject: Re: Lawn Ornaments
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:26:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.071949.7708@pixar.com> good@pixar.com (100% natural and hypo-allergenic.) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.154644.9070@news.stolaf.edu> frye@amcl10.math.stolaf.edu (James E Frye) writes:
>:Here's a shenanigan I haven't seen discussed yet:
>:
>:We regretfully never pulled this one off, but I still think it is a 
>:pretty good plan.  Thought I would share the idea for discussion, anyway.
>:
>:
>:The Plan:
>:The idea was to find neighbors with plastic lawn elves, or other such silly
>:lawn ornaments... [and take it on vacation]
>
>It's been done.  The woman whose lawn elf took the trip across the country
>has been on more than one late night talk show with the polaroids that were
>taken of her elf at the Grand Canyon, in Hollywood, etc.  It was an inspired
>idea and a thing of beauty.  But it has been done.
>		--Craig

It's on the FAQ list over on alt.folklore.urban, along with a zillion
other bizarre things.

			-Slippery Jim
From: qasama@banach.WPI.EDU (John Grossi)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Dialing random numbers
Date: 17 Dec 1992 20:56:05 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: banach.wpi.edu

In article <BzBGuw.Ext@news.udel.edu> pearl@brahms.udel.edu (Jennifer L Martin) writes:
>In article <1992Dec14.223925.4627@nmsu.edu> dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman) writes:
>> If I recall correctly,  1-800-PENISES (or something related to male  
>>genetalia) is the national number for Orkin Pest Cntrol. 
>>
>
>Pest control . . .hhhmmmmm....Actually, that could be quite fitting in
>some circumstances . .. .   
>
>jenny
>
>
try calling local numbers they can be much more fun.....
382-5968
277-4653
879-6877

and other such numbers can be fun

john


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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: novick@spot.Colorado.EDU (Andrew Novick)
Subject: lucky contest winner(s)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:14:18 GMT

Several years back, a friend of mine pulled a great scam:

Smiley's (a downtown laundramat) had a drawing with cash and other
prizes - people just filled out the entry blanks and put them in
a box over the course of a few weeks.  My friend TOOK the box home
and called a BUNCH of people, telling them that they had won
and to come down to claim their prize at a certain time - imagine
the chaos when everyone came to claim their "prize"!


Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: black@jazz.concert.net (Rob Black)
Subject: A tall tale shenanagin
Organization: MCNC Center for Communications -- CONCERT Network
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:03:51 GMT

Next time you're at a party or with a group of friends gather them around,
tell this story and see how many of then you can get!


You won't believe what happened to me up at the A&P store (or Kroger or
Safeway or whatever you have) the other day! I was the third one back in
line and the woman who was at the front paying for her groceries dropped
a dollar on the floor. Well, the man behind her and in front of me picks up
the dollar and sticks it in his pocket! She says, "Excuse me but I believe
that's my dollar!" He says, "Oh no it's not!" So they start squabbling over
the measly buck!!

So here they are arguing over the buck and the man just goes nuts and starts
to choke the woman! I know, I know, I should've jumped in but it all 
happened so fast...... So next thing I know, this woman comes out of the
bread aisle yelling, "Artie, Artie, oh no, you've snapped again! I told you
to take your medicine!" So apparently the dude was some kind of mental case.
While this woman was yelling all of this, another man hops up from the back
to help get Artie off of the woman. So Artie starts choking the man. The
store manager had called the cops and had gotten into the fight when Artie
starts choking him right as the cops show up. I don't know how the cops got
there so fast but they help subdue Artie and lead him away. Isn't that 
incredible? All of us bystanders were really shocked! You might have seen
the article about it in the paper yesterday. Right under the ad for the
A&P the head line said.....


                      "Artie Chokes 3 for a dollar"!!!!!!!!

Get it? When they realize thet were suckered in they'll die. this story has
never failed for me. Feel free to add whatever extra embellishments you feel
are needed!

Rob

Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: dunnjo@spot.Colorado.EDU (One Monkey in an Infinite)
Subject: Re: Dialing random numbers
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:41:21 GMT

dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman) writes:

>One boring night, a few friends and I tried calling 1-800 (toll free) numbers  
>which spelled out "interesting" words.  Many combinations (1-800-WET-C*NT0 and  
>                                                                Ogden Nash

late one night a friend and i went through a bunch of magazines calling the
1-800 numbers for conversation.  most operators hung up as soon as they 
figured out our plan..  but a few were very nice.  we asked them the weather,
(hot in pheonix, i remember), and chatted about their job. the strangest thing
was the fact that most wouldnt ( or couldnt) tell us what the number was for.
they would ask "would you like to order?" and we would reply "i dont know,
what are you selling".  some just hung up, while others would admit to
having no idea what they were selling.  

john


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* " If you worship the wrong god        *    John Dunn                         *
*   you can't help but be a jerk."      *    dunnjo@spot.colorado.edu          *
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Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: dchiasson@mta.ca
Subject: Net Shenanigans
Reply-To: dchiasson@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:52:06 GMT


A good newsgroup to raid is alt.transgendered. They get pretty irate when you
post something in their group. Their responses are good for a laughor two.
The takeover is actually in progress as of now. Join in on the fun.


							-Rascal
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: rusty@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Hall)
Subject: Re: Finals Laughs
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:46:00 GMT

In article <bacchus.724067793@mcl>, bacchus@mcl.ucsb.edu (Graham Linn) writes...
>I was sitting in my Soc. 152 [Human Sexuality] Final today here in Sunny
>Santa Barbara, when after ten minutes of stress, someone stood up and started
>screaming "Fuck this!  This test sucks AAAAAUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH!" at which point
>he threw the test down the aisle and ran out of the 800 person Lecture hall.
> 
Regretful for the student that flipped but it did happen....

Some of the departments at the University of Maryland at College Park 
use to have most of the classes take finals at the same time.  The 
scene of this crime of insanity was Cole Field House (the basketball 
arena).  Out of the blue during the Chemistry final a student flipped 
out and just sat there screaming her head off like a loon.  I found 
out later in the week from the T.A. for the class that the student was 
a honor's major who was overwhelmed by all the information for so many 
classes and running on a major lack of sleep.  They had to take her 
out of the place on a strecher.
From: slgsn@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Wow, look at her shenanigan!
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:11:18 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

I must admit something:
I am a shenanagin!
Amen.
%!!$C
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: shralp@camelot.bradley.edu (Jamie McDonald)
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Net shenanigan
Organization: Bradley University
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:07:04 GMT

Robert.T.Warfield@dartmouth.edu (Robert T. Warfield) writes:

>Basicly, I sugest that we choose a really stuffy group, then post
>articles at right angles to the discussion.

Or, alternatively, we go to something like talk.bizarre and begin a
very serious discussion... a death-penalty debate or the like.


--
shralp@camelot.bradley.edu                      Jamie McDonald  <><

I wouldn't be paranoid if everyone didn't pick on me.
From: norbert@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James)
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Trick questions...
Date: 16 Dec 1992 19:54:21 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu


Try this one next time you're at a party....
you need some change for this little trick....
Obtain or have a quarter a nickel and a penny....

You can even bet the person a equivelent amount of change
that they won't get it!

Say...
"Johns mother has three kids..."
(show person the penny)
"She names the first one Penny..."
(show person the nickel)
"She names the second one Nicholle..." (sp?)
(show person the quarter)
"What does she name the third one?"

The answer is  John of course...
"Johns mother has three kids..."

You would be amazed at how few people get this.. they
become so occupied with trying to figure out a name that
matches a quarter that they totally forget the first statement!

Only one person out of about a hundred has actually gotten it...
And even then it was just a lucky guess...
the person said...
"I have no idea... I don't know...how about...John."
They didn t remember the first line, they just grasped at a straw 
and happened to pick the right one...

Try it....

Tim
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From: jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY))
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
Subject: Re: Net Shenanigans
Date: 20 Dec 92 20:58:17 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host

In article <1992Dec20.035206.21289@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> dchiasson@mta.ca writes:
>
>A good newsgroup to raid is alt.transgendered. They get pretty irate when you
>post something in their group. Their responses are good for a laughor two.
>The takeover is actually in progress as of now. Join in on the fun.
>
>
>							-Rascal

There is a big diference between being a stupid bigoted prick, and a
shenanagan. Try again white boy... 

Oh, and right on the blackboard 1,000 times the folowing:

two, too and to.
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: jon@Turing.ORG (Jon Gefaell (KD4CQY))
Subject: Re: Fruit in an Elevator
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 18:50:31 GMT

In article <BzG6H8.G23@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> formula4@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Formula 409) writes:
>At our dorm, several of my friends began stockpiling citrus fruit and keeping
>it all in out refrigerators as we'd take the fruit from the cafeteria.  A
>bizarre elevator in the dorm closes on people in the doorway.
>
>Now that you have the setup, you may see some of what is coming.  The elevator,
>we decided, is a demonic god, so we tell people each time we ride it about its
>divinity, looking completely serious as we do so.  The elevator, we believe,
>accepts citrus fruit as a sacrifice, so we would occasionally put fruit between
>the inner doors and the outer doors so that when the doors close, it slips
>between the elevator and the shaft and is "taken up" by the elevator.  There
>is probably quite a large quantity of fruit in the bottom of the shaft by now
>as a result.
>
>We still had a lot of fruit leftover before we left for Christmas break, and
>our plan was to put all the fruit inside the elevator, covering the floor,
>as an ultimate sacrifice.  However, the day we decided to perform the ritual,
>the particular elevator was being repaired.  So we went to the girls side and
>VERY conspicuously (we waited outside the elevator for several minutes holding
>a sack whilst saying "Nope.  No fruit.  We don't have any oranges.  We don't
>know what you're talking about...") put the fruit in the elevator producing
>quite a nice effect.  The bad thing is, we couldn't stick around to see
>people's reactions as they stepped into aan elevator full of fruit.  I'm just
>hoping the pictures turn out okay...
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Color me a whiney politicaly erect socialist communist party pooper but...

Your treatment of food is an amazing example of the utterly debased nature
of the dominant social paradigm.

Unfortunately, a side effect of the disease you have (which we all have, or
have had in varying degrees) is the inability to recognize it. 
Newsgroups: alt.shenanigans
From: pearl@brahms.udel.edu (Jennifer L Martin)
Subject: Re: Dialing random numbers
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:54:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.072513.7414@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> lorenzo@spot.Colorado.EDU (Eric J. Lorenzo) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.093005.652@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth "the Lesser") writes:
>>
>>These stunts'll be a little harder once everyone has Caller ID....
>>
>Ahhh, not if people also get the Caller ID blocking option.  Which I think
>many will :*)
>-- 
>       --    O          The thrill is                   Eric J. Lorenzo
>     ---   </\_      not just in winning,       lorenzo@Rintintin.Colorado.EDU
>   ----  -\/\         but in the courage                  also @UCSU
>      ---   /_         to join the race    -?               & @Spot