HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
Subject: Re: Eating Dogs
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:54:47 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.153420.15895@hubcap.clemson.edu> jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes:
>I remember when I lived in Philadelphia back in High School.  There was
>this cult group called MOVE.  They had something like 30 people living
>in a small row home.  The had baracaded the house like a fort, installed
>a machine gun nest on the roof, set up loud speakers and shouted
>obscenities all night long at the neoghbors.  They were rumored for the
>longest time to be capturing stray dogs and cats and eating them.  The
>local news did an investigative piece on them and got pictures of the
>people cooking and eating a dog.  Eventually the people were reported to
>be hauling dirt our of the basement.  The police finally tried to evict
>the people from the house and run them out of town.  This lead to a
>shoot out that lasted 2 or 3 days involving something like 100 police.
>The fire department brought in water canons and they tried to knock the
>house down with the people still inside but the had built it up like a
>fort well enough to withstand this.  They finally ahd a helicopter fly
>over the house and drop a bomb on it.  It blew up and started a fire.
>The firemen refuse to fight the fire until they were sure everyone
>inside was killed by it for fear of their own lives.  They calculated
>that from the amount of dirt hauled out of the basement of this house
>the cult was diggin tunnels uner the city to come up inot peoples
>basements and rob them and kill them.  They calculated that these
>tunnles could stretch on for four city blocks so they let the fire bunr
>everything over four city blocks around the house to assure that anyone
>hiding down in the tunnels would be killed and not come up and kill the
>firemen.  Then the put the fire out and rebuilt the hundreds of houses
>they burned down and reimbursed all the fmailies for theit losses.
>This was a poor neighborhood but the families were all given seriously
>expensinve cars and fancy homes and all sorts of luxuries to replace and
>compensate their losses.
>
>Essentially, the city moved MOVE.
>
>anyone else out there from Philly around this time and remember all
>this?

I'm feeling somewhat humor-impaired today, and I'm sure I'm missing something,
and it's not April 1st...

You *are* taking the p*ss, aren't you? (Please say yes...)

The Wisp.
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: Re: Kimberly Dunning, or "Whatcha talking about?"
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:13:45 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.234209.26583@nevada.edu> tierney@nevada.edu (TIM TIERNEY) writes:
>Okay, here's the story.
>
>Her name is Dana Plato.  She had a big time drug problem and partied a
>lot, ridding herself of all that money that she had made from the show.
>
>She had been living in Las Vegas and couldn't find *any* work in showbiz,
>so she was working as a car-hop taking laundry from cars that pulled up
>to an Al Phillips Dry Cleaners (a local chain) here in Vegas.
>
>She was a regular customer at a video store and one day decided to rob
>it.  The clerk didn't believe her at first but gave her the money and
>then called police.  

And told them "I've just been robbed by Kimberly from Different Strokes."
The whole thing was caught by the security camera, I think.

>Supposedly, she has stated that she will soon be starring in a review
>type show at the Rio Hotel here in Vegas.

Didn't she pose nude somewhere along the way?  Or was that a different
childhood star trying to rid herself of her wholesome image?
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Subject: Re: Death by sneezing
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:20:07 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:

>Obul: we all don't see colors just the same way at all, but since we can't
>describe it we are all assuming that we see it the same way.  In fact this
>is a "natural conspiracy" because unbeknownst to us, we all have quite
>different color vision [...]
>cjl (is my red your green?)

This idea is something I came up with, so far as I know, independently
when I was about nine, and from talking to many people it appears to
me that the "is my red your green?" question is something many kids
suddenly ask themselves around that time.  I'm fascinated by the
fact that it's always *color* that is involved.  We don't tend to
ask ourselves "is my perception of high notes your perception of
low notes?" quite as easily, or, for that matter, "is your experience 
of playing basketball my experience of being buried in guacamole?"

There's something abot color that seems more arbitrary.  Perhaps it's
because we know about color-blind people, who can see but who have
impaired perception of color.  It's odd, though, that one sort of
perception would be particularly effective at making people ponder
the difference between the world, our sensations, and our descriptions
of our sensations.
-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
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From: scott@natinst.com (Scott A. Taylor)
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban, rec.military.mnemonics
Summary: SNAFU (sna' fu) n. ....
Keywords: situations, normality, coitus, direction
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:37:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.181531.25673@sunova.ssc.gov> Chuck Adams <chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov> writes:
>I'm looking for mnemonics for stuff like "FUBAR" (f**ked up beyond all
>recognition).  Is "SNAFU" a real word, or more of the same?  (It may stand for
>screwed 'n all f**ked up, or then again it might be Strange, Nerdy
>A.F.U'ers).............       ;-)
>

I've always thought (heard it somewhere) that SNAFU was a military acronym 
for "situation normal, all fouled (f**ked) up".

Don't forget to put scuba on your list (self-contained underwater breathing
aparatus).  Or are you only looking for ones involving disastrous situations
and four-letter words?

To take this in a different (but almost related) direction, as a youth I was
of the belief that the name of the rock group KISS was an acronym for
"Kings In Satan's Service".  Any basis in fact? Official statements by Gene
Simmons, perhaps?

>
>                      Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
>                 Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
>               Try Internet brand Tequila -  "A worm in every bottle"
>             Internet:  chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov  (aka 143.202.130.11)
>
>


-- 
Scott Taylor            |
(512) 795-6837          | "                              " -Marcelle Marceau
scott@natinst.com       |
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From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: What makes an urban legend work?
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:07:28 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

Just wanted y'all to know that the urban legend of yesteryear, "Microsoft
advocates killing of Jews", did NOT work.  My copy of Windows 3.1
(purchased in August) still will show the "offensive" string when you 
enter the appropriate commands.  MS didn't buckle under pressure from 
the religio-wackos after all....

(Quick how-to on what I'm talking about. From MS Windows, fire up a
Windows word processor: Write, e.g.  Select the Wingdings font. Now
type "NYC."  You should get the icons [StarofDavid,Skull&Bones,ThumbsUp]).
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."
From: news_for@ae.ge.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Different Strokes in Playboy
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:05:21 GMT
Reply-To: news_for@ae.ge.com
Organization: GE Aircraft Engines

Ted Frank recounts the "Dana Plato stupid crook story" :
>And told them "I've just been robbed by Kimberly from Different Strokes."
>The whole thing was caught by the security camera, I think.

>>Supposedly, she has stated that she will soon be starring in a review
>>type show at the Rio Hotel here in Vegas.

>Didn't she pose nude somewhere along the way?  Or was that a different
>childhood star trying to rid herself of her wholesome image?
She appeared in Playboy, giving a new slant to the title, "Diff'rent
Strokes."   The gifs appear in a.b.p.e every few months.


Paul "Only reads a.b.p.e for the articles" Joslin

ObUL: A well-known North Carolina basketball player tried to rob a local
burger joint.  The guy at the counter recognized him and said, "Hi,
Bubba".  Stupid crook says, "It ain't me, man."

-- 
     Paul R. Joslin     | 
joslin@c0223.ae.ge.com  | When you have a new hammer,
   +1 513 583 3537      | everything looks like a nail.
From: perry@Unify.Com (Perry Clarke)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Keywords: n
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:11:20 GMT
Organization: Unify Corporation

In article <1992Aug28.010638.26158@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Ted "what's Nova an acronym for?" Frank
>

Did I imagine that someone told me that the Data General Aviion is so called
because it is a combination of NOVA (backwards) and II (numan romeral)?

Meaning that the Aviion is the successor to the Nova but is completely
different!

This seems to me to be too contrived, even for Maahketing.

--
Perry Clarke                   perry@unify.com                 (916) 928 6287
Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA                   I speak only for Me, Inc.
From: ewan@eg.lucasauto.co.uk (Ewan Benson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Political ULs
Keywords: Super
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:11:39 GMT
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Facts-Are-Us (Not)

In article <1992Aug27.140139.12931@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
>
        Stuff about Dan Quayle deleted ..
>Dan may be able to tell a good joke and shake hands with the best of
>them (how else do you get to be a politician?), but this hardly
>qualifies him as the potential leader of the world's only remaining
>Super Power.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Now this surely qualifies as UL material !

>
>Gary "here's my obligatory phrase in the middle of the name" Schroeder
>

ObUL: In the areas surrounding the Scottish Lochs which house(d)
Nuclear Submarines, it was common practice for a large
government cheque to arrive on the doormats of people recently
diagnosed with cancer related illnesses.

Ewan "Not Completely Unpowerful Power, Honest" Benson
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 weren't included, so I had to go back and   |
 buy some more" - Steven Wright              | ewan@eg.lucasauto.co.uk
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From: bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
Subject: Semen, NOT sailors!
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:31:12 GMT
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Date Entered: 08-26-92 19:24
In message <1992Aug25.101714.18221@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no
(YuNoHoo) writes:

YNH>I think I've read on one the 10cc album covers that the band started
YNH>out as 7.5cc, but upgraded their name when they got their fourth member.

7.5cc? Sounds like a motorcycle for a gerbil.

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: Sex on the Train
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:12:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.073309.8438@asc.slb.com> nichol@gest20.sinet.slb.com writes:
>
>	I read a short story in a recent international edition of
>Newsweek about a couple in a train in England.  Apparently they were
>having oral sex on the train and were pretty much ignored by the other
>passengers.  However when they were finished, the lit up cigarettes.
>This caused much dismay among the other passengers, some of whom
>complained to the conductor.  "I say, you can't smoke here!"  They
>were later arrested for indecent exposure or something like that.  

So?  What's your point?  It all sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

Regarding the actual charge, there has always been a dicotomy between 
the horrible things people do and the (usually) relatively trivial
things that we bust them for.  E.g.,  Al Capone.

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From: schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Just One Calorie...?
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:15:44 GMT
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973

In article <1992Aug28.231137.8710@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes:
>In article <mcirvin.715035613@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>>dternes@duke.cdc.com (David Ternes) writes:
>>
>>of a market is there.  I think they still make New Coke too, and
>>sell some.
>
>  I believe it is called Coke II, now.  My mother bought some, and I
>have a couple cans with me here.


Coke II: The Search For Taste

...or...

New Coke: How Can We Taste More Like Pepsi Without Actually Calling
Ourselves 'Pepsi'?


Y'know, at Disney, the Big Rule is "don't f**k with the mouse" (as
paraphrased by Harlan Ellison).  I would've thought that at the
Coca-Cola Bottling Company the motto would have been along the lines of
"you never, never, never, never f**k with the formulation of Coke".

The pin head who suggested this brilliant move must surely have been
dismissed.  Anybody heard any ULs about this?



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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: Of Butterflys and Hurricanes
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 00:48:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug24.112301.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
amconn01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
>Several days ago, while waiting in the dentist's office, I picked up a copy of
>Reader's Digest (it was that or Time) and read an article on why weather was
>difficult to predict. One of the reasons given was (and this is a paraphrase, I
>don't commit Reader's Digest to memory): A butterfly fluttering in Tokyo can
>cause a storm in New York two weeks later. I realize that this is a gross
>oversimplication of sensitivity to initial conditions in any long-term,
>multivariable modeling system, but is there any truth to this at all, if _all_
>variables can be accounted for? When I sneezed two weeks ago, did that cause
>Hurricane Andrew?

You probably read an excerpt from James Gleick's Chaos book.

A more serious article follows as a reference:
From Scientific Basis of Modern Weather Prediction
Joseph J. Tribbia and Richard A. Anthes
Science, vol 237, no. 4814
31 July 1987
pp. 493-499

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
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A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
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Subject: Re: Highest Channel
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:20:24 GMT

glitto@iastate.edu (Scott M Klabacha) writes:

>And, similarly, how high have people's cable channels gone/how many channels
>have they received? 

The highest number I've ever seen is in Fairfax County, Virginia,
where Media General has a 120-channel system.  Several of the channels
are blank, however, and most of the rest might as well be.  A few are
both unusual and potentially useful, like the channel that continuously
shows a weather radar display of the DC area, and the channels that
have arrival/departure monitor listings for Dulles and National
airports.

-- 
Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Faces of death
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:17:33 GMT

snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes) writes:
: 
: In article <c28nbpbc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, 
:   csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~) writes...
: 
: >> Yes, and never mind the cited articles written by career linguists who have
: >> spent years and years studying eskimo languages, that explain just how and
: >> why this claim is balderdash.  If the evidence doesn't fit your theory, just
: >> ignore it.  You can "prove" anything that way.
: 
: >You should know...
: 
:  Ha ha.  Somebody would actually have to provide evidence before I could 
:  ignore it.  Perhaps you'd like to break tradition and cite a reference
:  or do some research or something. 

Yep. It would be interesting if he could - seeing that none of the police
forces in the world have been able to do so.

Bill
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Gold coins (Was: Re: You are humble and loveable.  CHOMP!)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:18:18 GMT

me@csri.toronto.edu (Daniel R. Simon) writes:
: 
: It appears my statement was slightly ambiguous.  What I meant to say was that
: I doubted that gold coins had been in *common* circulation at any time in the
: *recent* past.  As far as I know, fairly trustworthy government-backed 
: currency of low intrinsic material value (paper money, for instance) has been 
: the norm for quite some time (certainly in North America, and also in Europe, 
: with rare, short-lived exceptions).  Gresham's law would therefore dictate that
: any coin made of an intrinsically valuable material such as gold would rapidly
: have exited from common circulation, even if given the status of legal tender.
: Was the ten-dollar gold coin really in *common* use as legal tender in 1837?  

Gold coins (including the ten-dollar coin) were in circulation into the 1920s,
at least. They only went out of circulation when the government took our
currency off the gold standard and made it a crime to possess gold. Before
that time, our national currency had been based on valuable metal - you could
turn in a paper certificate anytime and get gold or silver in return.

Bill
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Highest Channel
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:06:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.184014.21827@news.iastate.edu> glitto@iastate.edu (Scott  
M Klabacha) writes:

>And, similarly, how high have people's cable channels gone/how many channels
>have they received? Out here in Iowa, the channels dry up with number 36 
>(unless I've mis-hooked up something and that's all I'm receiving)...back
>in Orland Park, Illinois, we get cable up to channel 53 (and I think all 52 of
>them have something on them, even if it's nonsense like bulletin boards).

TCI of Buffalo had 60 channels, while the suburban systems (Jones Intercable,  
Adelphia, etc) usually stopped at 36, although there was often the stray  
channel up around 60 or so.

Back in the late 70's, before all the satelite networks took off, most cable  
systems had 12 channels, and cable served primarily as an alternative antenna.   
Programming was usually just local stations, a public access channel or two,  
and a camera fixated on a clock or a thermometer.  

I was jealous of friends living in Canada, because at the time most cable  
systems north of the border had 36 or more channels.  Usually what the  
Canadians did was simply zap as many over-the-air channels as they possibly  
could and pipe them through the coax.  As I remember, Rogers Cable in Toronto  
had over-the-air channels from Toronto, Buffalo, Rochester, Erie, Syracuse,  
Hamilton, Kitchener, Waterloo, London, and so on ... the great majority of  
stations were from the States, however.  When I went on a ride to Toronto, all  
the rooftop antennas were pointed toward Buffalo, which gave me some sort of  
indication about what Canadians thought of CBC and CTV.  

There's a cable system in Queens that has *150* channels.

obUL - Your cable system will carry the Sci-Fi Channel.  Really.  A friend of a  
friend told me.

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From: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Subject: Re: Political ULs
Reply-To: egl1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Elizabeth G. Levy)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 01:08:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.133839.4468@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kls4344@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>
>I have met Dan Quayle (please, hold the applause (and the applesauce too, for
>that matter)), and while I found him to be quite pleasant and cordial, he was
>neither particularly witty nor intelligent during our brief encounter.  But who
>knows, maybe away from the madding crowd and in the privacy of his own
>quarters he's a different man.

Dan Quayle: the Evil Genius Lex Luther in his quiet moments.



--
Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song
Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
			-- T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"
From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: The Flat Earth Society???
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:58:10 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
Reply-To: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.198
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4   

>Would you explain something to me, please?  How can something the size of
>a marble have features that are 5 miles high/wide/long?  Are we talking 
>about the small, glass spheres that many children play with?

No, we're talking about the Big Blue Marble, which, per the Alvarez et al.
extinction hypothesis, is still in the ring awaiting the next "shooter."

Joe "Apple would rather you called it the 'Desktop Marble'" Chew
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