HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kji+@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU (Kathi Iannamico)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: poll finals
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:40:57 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Originator: kji@SPEECH1.CS.CMU.EDU

Okay, I retrieved this from rec.arts.comics:


In descending order:(Some specified specific authors, eras, etc)
(Not all lists had 10 items)

Top Ten:(no. of votes)

Calvin & Hobbes(38)
Far Side(29)
Foxtrot(21)
Doonesbury(18)
For Better or Worse(16)
Peanuts(14)
Bloom County(10)
BC, Mr. Boffo and Robotman(8)
Dilbert, Shoe, Mother Goose & Grimm and Baby Blues(7)
Pogo(6)

5 votes:Fusco Bros
4 votes:Bizarro, Spiderman, Arlo & Janis, Luann and Hagar the H.
3 votes:Prince Valiant, Crankshaft, Overboard, Garfield and Sally Forth,
        Wizard of Id, Andy Capp
2 votes:Drabble, Tank McNamara, Eyebeam, Frank & Ernest, Ernie, Tumbleweeds,
        Sylvia, Funky Winkerbean, Zippy, Blondie, Life in Hell, Outland,
        Adam and The Fast Track
1 vote:Go Die, Mutt & Jeff, Non-Sequitor, Cathy, Rose is Rose,
       Middleton, Ernie Pook's Comeek, Herman, Angriest Dog in the World,
       Sibling Revelry, Marvin, Buckets, Rubes, Walnut Cove, Little
       Nemo in Slumberland, Mafaldo, Fabulous Furry Freak Bros., Baby
       Boom, Barnaby, Jumpstart, Big Nate, Safe Havens, Callahan,
       Dr. Wegener's World, Cartoon Summary in National Review (not all
       original to NR), Science Classes, Elwood, Krazy Kat, Larger than
       Life, Arnold, Willy & Ethel, Mr. Geech, When I was Short,
       Dykes to Look Out For, The Neighborhood, Leonard & Larry, The
       Addams' Family, Ziggy and Dick Tracy

Hope I didn't miss anyone.
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From: mudcr@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (David C Roller)
Subject: Re: Peanuts: Can Snoopy Talk?
Keywords: peanuts
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:37:54 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.214107.7652@descartes.waterloo.edu> kbnguyen@descartes.waterloo.edu (Khanh Nguyen) writes:
>	A friend and I was discussing the other day about if Snoopy can
>talk to others, or when he talks, do others hear?
>
I don't know how else he communicates but he does type and other
characters read it.

He also has been Linus's Lawyer.  You know a lawyer is a mouth piece.

oh well
just writing out loud.
Dave


Organization: Sophomore, Design, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 21:54:34 -0400 
From: "Jonathan D. Lyness" <jl6e+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Pogo - help!

Does anyone have a listing of the book compilations of the old Walt
Kelly _Pogo_ strips? Most of the original books came out during the
1950s, and a reprint series or two was issued in the 1970s - does anyone
have a partial or complete listing of all of the books, or a listing of
which different reprint series there were? 
Any help would be appreciated; thanks in advance!

-jon
From: elgaard@diku.dk (Niels Elgaard Larsen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: C&H translated where? (Was: Re: Needed: COMPLETE)
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:00:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

taube@oregon.uoregon.edu (Christian Taube) writes:

>In article <53938@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4646a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Beauchamp) writes:
>>My younger sister came back from a semester studying in Mexico with 
>>a C&H book called "Calvin y Hobbes 4". Wonder how many other languages
>>they've been translated into.

Danish.
In Demark the names are ``Steen'' and ``Stoffer''. Steen (english: stone) is
an ordinary boys name. Stoffer can be a short form of Christopher but is also
a hint on the fabric, Hobbes is made of.

C&H appears daily in the paper ``Berlingske Tidende''. 
This week this paper had a funny article aboult why Donald Duck (Anders And)
is much more popular in Denmark than Mickey Mouse --- something with danish
self-irony vs. american egos. 

There are also danish albums with C&H, but I stick with the english version.

-- 
         Niels Elgaard Larsen          
         Institute of Datalogy,        
         University of Copenhagen      
         E-mail: elgaard@diku.dk 
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From: taube@oregon.uoregon.edu (Christian Taube)
Subject: C&H translated where? (Was: Re: Needed: COMPLETE)
Organization: University of Oregon
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:46:34 GMT

In article <53938@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4646a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Beauchamp) writes:
>My younger sister came back from a semester studying in Mexico with 
>a C&H book called "Calvin y Hobbes 4". Wonder how many other languages
>they've been translated into.

I know that they have caught on bigtime in Germany, although as far
as I know they aren't carried on a daily basis anywhere. It's only
collections. And where they have them (some comic shops), the original
English collections are gone pretty fast.

Any other countries or languages?

Christian.
--
(If you want to see the bilder deepen your ear on the movietone!) FW 062.08
---- Christian Taube -- taube@oregon.uoregon.edu + taube@oregon.BITNET ----
-------------------- Scientific progress goes 'boink'? --------------------
Disclaimer: I don't speak for the University of Oregon, nor does it for me.
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From: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Reply-To: sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 16:11:42 GMT

My favorite is one that no one else laughs at, alas.  I have it on my
bathroom mirror and laugh daily, though:

Two policemen leaving a house.  One is carrying a rifle, the other has a
cat by the scruff of its neck, a pistol pointed to its head.  They are
carrying it to their police car.  Inside the house, looking out the
window, are a woman and a dog.  The woman says to the dog:

"And I suppose you think this is your lucky day!"

-- 
  - Steffan O'Sullivan		         sos@oz.plymouth.edu
From: domalley@unix1.tcd.ie (Slartibartfast            (alias Daniel O'Malley))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:04:28 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

In <7467@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:

>What is your FAVOURITE Far Side cartoon?


>	CAT FUD.

>	Oh please, oh please.


        AMOEBA PORN FLICKS

 	Yeah, yeah!
	Here we go!

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From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: With a bang, not a whimper (was Re: For Better or for Worse)
Summary: Cool student strip endings...
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:46:37 GMT
     <1992Apr9.200909.18338@udel.edu> <1992Apr10.203441.1115@craycos.com>
Organization: Leapers For a Better Yesterday

jrbd@craycos.com (James Davies) writes:
>There was a local strip in the University of Illinois student newspaper a
>few years ago that ended in a related fashion...about two weeks before the
>author graduated, all of the regular characters started dying gruesome,
>violent deaths.  The final strip ended with a global nuclear war.  It
>was great.  Guarantees no sequels, also...

We had a strip a year or so ago called "Leveled".  No one could figure out the
name until the last strip; all the main characters had gathered at a co-op,
which exploded.  There was a "voice-over" which said, "Today the Foo Co-op
was leveled in a gas explosion...."

Good strip.  One of my favorite running gags in that one was the guy who stole
a super-mega-instant-destructo laser cannon (name not exact :) ) from the UT
research labs and mounted it on his motorcycle. "Hey, asshole!  Get out of my
way!  Zzzzark..." Another good one: The girl who decides to sleep her way to
an A, and does fine until a friend runs up with the news that one of her profs
just died in mid-lecture.  Her eloquent response: "Damn."

UT has better than average luck with its comics, IMO.  After all, we DID
give Berke Breathed his start....

-- 
--Andrew Hackard                    Disclaimer: As usual, I wasn't consulted.
  andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu           

"The U.S. is the only highly industrialized nation that teaches eight years of 
 arithmetic, while others begin to lay the foundation for algebra and geometry 
 in primary grades."                              --Iris Carl, President, NCTM
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From: jgreen@modcomp.uucp (Joe Green)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Organization: MODCOMP, an AEG company
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:15:04 GMT

A man, wearing a chicken suit on his body, a birdcage on his head, springs
on his feet, and holding a large wooden mallet is standing on a street
corner.  Several people are lying unconscious along the street.  Two
policemen are standing in front of the man.  One of them, reading a small
card, says "Well, I'll be darned...I guess he DOES have a license to do
that."
--
Joe Green				jgreen@modcomp.UUCP
Modular Computer Systems, Inc.		modcomp!jgreen@uunet.UU.NET
					uunet!modcomp!jgreen
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From: hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
Subject: Re: Calvin vs Jason
Originator: hshubs@eff.org
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:00:45 GMT

In article <kun7b6INN24e@aludra.usc.edu> rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.023840.29405@udel.edu> wagenfuh@huey.udel.edu (Karl Wagenfuehr) writes:
>>OK, let's get some discussion here:  in an all-out exchange, who would
>>come out ahead, Calvin or Jason (of Foxtrot, of course; what were you
>>thinking?!).  Jason has an age advantage, that is true.  Maybe he
>>should be handicapped some way.  Calvin can enlist the aid of Hobbes,
>>and Jason can use Quincy.
>>
>>So, who wins?
>
[text deleted]
>
>  What I want to see is Jason and Calvin team up and clobber the stuffing out
>of Dennis "the Menace". I'm sorry, Dennis is way past his prime, and can't
>hold a candle to these two...

Yeah, but Dennis must be in his forties, no?  Much more experience, and I've
always thought of Dennis as more obnoxious.

How about Charlie Brown vs Ziggy?

-- 
Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.
From: hship@sw.stratus.com (Howard Ship)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Demise of Bloom County
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:56:14 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.

On the demise of Bloom County ...

I don't think Bloom County ever ran out of steam ... but Berke 
Breathed certainly did.  For the last couple of its years, it was
nothing but Opus and cockroaches.  If you read the older collections,
you see a much larger variety of characters ... much more
Milo, Binkley.  What ever happened to Cutter John and his girlfriends?
Milo's grandparents, that corrupt politician, the Royal Family, etc., etc.

By the end BB could have learned alot by reading his OWN older strips.

-- 
"Is that real blood?" 
Howard_Ship@vos.stratus.com
From: pfile@jaywalk.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Pfile)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: How would you do it? (was: Family Circus)
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:34:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: jaywalk.PFILE.92Apr15153431
	<1992Apr9.034353.4146@leland.Stanford.EDU>
	<JYM.92Apr15091614@remarque.berkeley.edu>
	<1992Apr15.190245.26115@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: /users/pfile/.organization
NNTP-Posting-Host: jaywalk.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of Wed, 15 Apr 92 19:02:45 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.190245.26115@leland.Stanford.EDU> jchokey@leland.Stanford.EDU (James Alexander Chokey) writes:


> Gary Hart photo.)  It had Billy holding his pet turtle and saying,"[Turtle's
> name]'s skin is all dry and lumpy, just like Grandma's!"  (I may not have
> the quote exactly right.)

>	   Jim C. <jchokey@leland.stanford.edu>


I'll never forget this one as long as I live. "Beany reminds me of 
Grandma - He's all gnarled and smelly!"

Or close. It was the "gnarled and smelly" part that had me laughing for
about 10 minutes.

rob pfile
pfile@sprite.berkeley.edu
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From: bobsoron@world.std.com (Bob Soron)
Subject: Re: New Comics-only paper? (was Chicago Tribune Comics Section)
Followup-To: rec.arts.comic.strips
Summary: Ah, for the good old Menomonee Falls Guardian and Gazette
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 04:41:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.035357.6226@eff.org> hshubs@eff.org (Howard Shubs)
writes:
>
>Has anyone ever published a comics-only (okay, with ads) newspaper?
>Also, are there any newspaper staffers reading this newsgroup?
>
>-- 
>Howard S Shubs      hshubs@eff.org      I don't represent the EFF,
>The Denim Adept     hshubs@BIX.com      but I do agree with them.

Back in the '70s, two weekly papers from Menomonee Falls, Wisc., were
almost nothing but comics. The Gazette carried continuity, non-humor
strips, the smaller Guardian carried humor strips. The first thing in
each issue of the Guardian was the wonderful "Conchy," by the late
Jim Childress, which had much of the flavor of Calvin and Hobbes,
though its premise was completely different (a bunch of beachcombers).
Childress, who syndicated his strip himself, committed suicide while
the strip was at its peak (though it never circulated to more than a
few dozen papers). The Guardian also carried Charles Barsotti's great
"Sally Bananas," "Broom Hilda" back when it was funny, a lot of the
great ones.

These days, most comic book stores carry magazines like "Comic Relief"
and "Comics Revue," which aren't as good, aren't as well-done, and
feature less interesting strips. Unfortunately, the folks from Wisconsin
were ahead of their time.

bobsoron@world.std.com
"With Velcro, gravity is obsolete" -- Mister Boffo

P.S. to Howard -- tell Larry and everyone I said hi.
From: a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu (Art Velasquez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Family Circus and Nancy
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:47:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


    In article <1992Apr7.223612.20866@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, 
flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) writes...
: 
:Nancy still exists?!  I hadn't seen it in so long, I just assumed that
:someone put it out of our misery.  Well, since "Andy Capp" and
:"Broomhilda" still exist, I guess it should come as no surprise, but
:still...
:
     Well, yes, Nancy's still around.  At least it is in the Bryan-
College Station (Tx.) _Eagle_.  However, its original creator,
Ernie Bushmiller, died a few years ago, and was replaced by someone
I can't remember at the moment.
     Talk about the living dead... ;-) 

#     Art Velasquez                         a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu     #
#     Nuclear Engineering Department          Texas A&M University     #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
#     "You're pretty uppity for a sidekick.  Watch it, or I'll         #
#      start calling you Artie, or...or, SOMETHING-LAD!!"              #
#                                    _The Tick_, issue 10              #
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From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Keywords: far side gary larson
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 22:39:23 GMT

(append /pictures/ascii/cow)
"Hey, wait a minute!  This is grass!  We've been eating grass!"

"Oh my!  What a cute little maggot!"

+-------------+
|SLITHER      |
+-------------+
|DON'T SLITHER|
+-------------+
From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Comments on Many Strips
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:03:32 GMT
Organization: Leapers For a Better Yesterday

jsw21124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph S. Walker) writes:
>First of all, it's high time there was a group like this.  Bravo!
>I'd like to see some kind of discussion on which newspapers have the best
>comic sections.  I'll start out by nominating the Chicago Tribune; it runs
>a lot of strips, including 90% of those that people talk about as really good;
>more importantly, it runs ALL the strips at a halfway decent size.  I'm always
>amazed when I pick up a different paper and see the tiny boxes they squeeze
>strips into.

The San Antonio Express-News has a pretty good comics section, though the
boxes could be bigger.  Alas, they didn't carry Bloom County--of course, this
means they now don't have Outland, so it balances out.   .5 :)

>Now let's see if I can't start some arguments.

Undoubtedly...

>detest SNUFFY SMITH and FRED BASSETT, 

I actually like Fred OK, if only because I think basset hounds are so cute.
But some of the running gags (like the vicar's chess game, and the bridge
games) hit close to home--but in the funny bone.

>WALNUT COVE: The Tribune just recently started running this.  It's not bad, and
>I was wondering if someone could fill me in on it.  How long has it been 
>around?

Oh, yes!!  I have one of my favorites tacked to the wall:

(paraphrased) Dad is chewing out son. "You mean to tell me you got a D in
algebra because the girl next to you wears tight sweaters?  Andrew (*), you've
got to learn to concentrate harder.  Just pretend she's not wearing a
sweater." Son: "That's how I got the D."

(*) Undoubtedly, this is part of the appeal. :)

-- 
--Andrew Hackard                    Disclaimer: As usual, I wasn't consulted.
  andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu           

"The U.S. is the only highly industrialized nation that teaches eight years of 
 arithmetic, while others begin to lay the foundation for algebra and geometry 
 in primary grades."                              --Iris Carl, President, NCTM
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From: irving@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Myers)
Subject: Nancy = ?????
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:38:35 GMT


The only good of Nancy (now or ever) is a bad example.


My friends and I have always used Nancy format as the epitome of cunfused you
know,  "I feel like a Nancy Comic ---  Question Marks Squirting out of my
head."

-- 
Tom Myers, Programmer/Analyst				Email: t-myers@nwu.edu
Reingold ECG Center - Northwestern University
From: osyjm@coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: Needed: COMPLETE bibliography for C&H
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:01:59 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, College of Engineering, Bozeman MT, 59717

In article <1992Apr8.145629.25882@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:
>Don't forget:
>
>	-Scientific Progress goes Boink
>
>	and the new one,
>
>	-Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons.  Or somesuch.

I also forgot to add 

	-Something under the bed is drooling.
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@{cs,coe}.montana.edu
From: wiles@ultra.kodak.COM (Dale L. Wiles)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Neighborhood
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:08:32 GMT
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY

In article <1992Apr16.184603.6853@cbfsb.cb.att.com> dks@cbnewsf.cb.att.com
(douglas.k.steckel) writes:

   The times i've read this group I've seen nothing about The Neighborhood
   by Jerry VanAmerogen( I think). Is this strip still being written or
   published?

He's done writing them.  In the compilation "There Goes the Neighborhood"
(Cleaver title!) he says that he's now going try a new strip in a while, with
re-occuring characters.  On the last page he says good bye to everyone.

--
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From: sacass@unix1.tcd.ie (stephen andrew cass)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: The Best Far Side cartoon
Date: 15 Apr 92 10:25:15 GMT
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin


>In article <sacass.703156070@unix1.tcd.ie>, sacass@unix1.tcd.ie (stephen
>andrew cass) writes:
>|> Can anyone tell me what the one with the prehistoric men hunting the
>|> mammoth while one blokes spear misses and the caption is 'Air Spear! Air
>|> Spear!' means???
>|> 
>|> Steve
>|> 

>When playing basketball, if someone shoots the ball at the hoop and misses
>the thing entirely, people shout "Air Ball!  Air Ball!".

Wow! Living here on the opposite side of the BIG pond we don't get much
basketball, so thankyou the very MANY of you who explained this one to
me. I dug it out again and despite having had it explained found it VERY
funny. The expressions are priceless...
Steve -'I've never had to use ctrl-s on 'scan' before' Cass
ObLar: "Hey! Whats this, Higgins? Physics Equations?...Do you enjoy your
job here as a cartoonist, Higgins?"

Stephen Cass sacass@unix1.tcd.ie stcass@maths.tcd.ie TRINITY COLLEGE
DUBLIN, IRELAND. Oh yeah, like a 1st year undergrad really represents the
official views and opinions of TCD.*******THIS SPACE FOR RENT**********
"Million to one chances occur nine times out of ten." - Terry Pratchet 
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From: cs902060@ariel.yorku.ca (GEOFFREY E DIAS)
Subject: Re: ``Reality'' of Hobbes (was: "Reality" of C&H)
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 03:24:20 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.181754.4722@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> s442236@nexus.yorku.ca (Wayne Goring) writes:

>
> How about this one.I recall in one book Hobbes takes a picture of Calvin
> sneezing.The picture had Calvin's hands in it so he could not have taken
> it.The camera shown did not have a timer on it.
>
>  ( someone probably can prove wrong though )


	The picture could be part of Calvin's imagination. I recall one
time they were taking various pictures of Hobbes in different poses,
which we saw from Calvin's perspective. We also saw his dad's perspective,
which saw a stuffed tiger looking the same in 10 or so different pictures.

	As for Hobbes being a real tiger, he sure shows some traits of a 
stuffed animal. Take for example busted seams, and baths in automatic
washers.

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