HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
Subject: Re: a variation on the "aids mary" ul
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 13:49:08 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.045333.18616@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>, derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct1.152126.29323@nntp.nta.no> styri@nta.no writes:
|> >
|> >Just for the record, main source of male infection at present is unsafe sex
|> >on holidays abroad. Main source of female infection is unsafe sex with foreign
|> >men from high risk countries. 
|> 
|> I think your statistics are a little introverted.  I don't think the 
|> average African has much to worry about from having sex with a tourist from,
|> say, Baltimore.  Ditto the average African child born with Aids - possibly 
|> the fastest growing infected demographic group.

Guess I missed out a little something - this was the _Norwegian_ AIDS stats.
and nothing was stated about Africa except that there are Africans moving to
Norway (there are some high risk countries in Africa I assume).

Sorry for this, I hope Derek will be a little more satisfied with this little
addition. On a global scale I'll agree with Derek's view.

|> You also assume that these people then live a life of Celibacy and don't
|> infect anyone when they return home.
|> 
|> >(Source of this info is not the newspaper...)
|> 
|> What is it then,  the domestic tourism board!  Have your holidays 
|> at home this year.  EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD HAS AIDS!!!!!

Ah - the source, the source... There was a lecture on this at the Univ. of
Oslo (Fac. of Med.). Didn't attend myself, but got the info from the lecture
notes. (Ok, almost as good as a FOAF, but this _is_ a.f.u, isn't it?)

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From: rosso@roscoe.csd.sgi.com (Ross Oliver)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: True origin of superglue, was: Superglue origin an UL?
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:38:41 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Sep28.173822.27881@colorado.edu>, crosby@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (CROSBY MATTHEW JAME) writes:
|> I have heard from *several people* that Cyanoacrylate (superglue) was originally
|> invented by mountain climbers as a quick fix for wounds/cuts/gouges/etc.  Is
|> this true?  It sounds very ULish....


Cyanoacrylate was invented by researchers who were trying to make a better
adhesive for optical elememts (complex optics such as zoom lenses for 35mm
cameras consist of many separate pieces of glass glued together). They
put one particular formula between two glass prisms to measure its refractive
index.  They didn't count on the instantaneous setup time, and ruined a
$200,000 measuring device.

This info comes from a book I once read about famous accidental discoveries.
The book gave names, dates, etc.  Unfortunately, I don't even recall the
name of the book.  Another interesting story in it was that all three
of the modern artificial sweeteners, saccarrine, cyclomate, and aspartame,
(please don't flame my spelling) were discovered by sloppy lab techniques:
lab technicians licking their fingers after spilling some of the chemical on
their hands.


Ross Oliver
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From: iacovone@zeus.franklin.edu (Daniel R. Iacovone)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Organization: Franklin University (Columbus, OH)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 19:33:07 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.160957.14572@hubcap.clemson.edu> jlysagh@hubcap.clemson.edu (james joseph lysaght) writes:
>derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Sep30.010604.5451@javelin.sim.es.com> tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>>>premise is absurd.  mr. bradbury didn't have much imagination.  much of the
>>>show resembles current day technology, science, society, whathaveyou with just
>>>a few teasers of 'what the future might hold'.
>This is because the makers of Star Trek actually consult with NASA
>regarding the plausibility of theories expressed so that there is some
>miniscule basis in relaity to make the show interesting.
>
>>>impossible distances in mere hours.  why don't they (crew dweebs) just
>>>teleport old brains into newly grown young bodies? 
>
>It wouldn't sell as a TV show, people would have problems with that
>concept.  Besides, what do you do with the young brains in the young
>bodies? 
>
>>> why is
>>>there only one language spoken in the galaxy -- 20th century english?
>Actually all the aliens speak their own languages, we hear everything in
>english because the crew carry universal translators so that everyone
>can understand each other so that they do not have to learn new
>languages.  There are scenes where you see aliens speaking an alien
>language such as klingon and are given subtitels whenever there is no
>one with a universal translator around to do the translating.

I like it also.......So what if their mouths do not go when they
are speaking like a bad Japenese Godzilla movie...It is much better than
most of the regular prime time shows that are on regularly.

Ex:    Soap Operas
       Doogie Howser
       Rescue 911 (oopss...Maybe I should not include that one.)
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From: kgg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Kees Goossens)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:31:46 GMT
Reply-To: kgg@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Kees Goossens)
Organization: The Lavatory for the Foundations of Computer Science

Another marketing blunder. (Much better related verbally unfortunately.)

There was an Italian company doing genetic research. They called themselves
Gen Italia. Fine. They did well, and expanded abroad. There they did not do
so well...

Kees "balls-up" Goossens

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From: barth@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (barth.richards)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:30:21 GMT


In article <6549@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw+@pitt.edu writes:

> I think it's important to point out that while Lost in Space did NOT have
> a science officer, Dr. Smith did have a PhD.  Mr. Spock only had a Master's
> Degree from a trade-school on Vulcan.  Mr. Spock was also a licensed
> refrigerator repairman.


As I recall, he was also a licensed chiropractor.

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From: MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Date: 27 Sep 92 16:34:20 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University

In article <1686EE9CD.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
I wrote:
 
>
>In article <Yly-jdB@engin.umich.edu>
>ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
>
>>Actually, I've never seen an emergency shower with a drain.
>
>I'd like to nominate this for the afu motto.
>
>Oops, no that's not right.  What I meant to say was that my wife
>used to work with safety reports here at SU, and she tells me
>that all emergency showers are required to have drains.  But
>required by whom, she did not know.
 
I peered in the window of the recently remodeled chem lab upstairs --
not in the new Sci-Tech building but in the old chemistry building --
and there did not appear to be any drains under the emergency showers.
So I guess they aren't required.  (I had assumed that they would drain
into this great big tank they just installed in the basement.  Now I
don't know what that's for.)
 
Anyway, that suggests how the story got started:  Someone unaccustomed
to chem labs took a tour of the new building and thought, "Hey!  They
forgot the drains."  From there a simple game of telephone gets to the
story about the water seeping out around the bricks.
 
hand me a towel,
maurice
                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
From: rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:27:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Mnemonics
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

Sorry to burst anybody's bubble, but TANSTAAFL predates "The Moon is a Harsh
Mistress".  TANSTAAFL has *long* been an integral part of Economics courses.

Of course, Heinlein is as free to use TANSTAAFL as anyone else is.  (I wish 
the federal government would use it better!  The Prez and a large fraction
of incumbents are gonna pay for their free lunches in November.)


Regards
Ray Depew
Integrated Circuits Business Division
Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
rrd@hpfiqa.fc.hp.com
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From: starfish@stein.u.washington.edu (Sarah Skovronsky)
Subject: Re: Rainbow Head - Sports Fan
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:05:58 GMT

chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams) writes:

>I heard this morning that "Rainbow Head", the guy you have probably seen on TV
>at US sporting events with the rainbow colored hair and holding a "John 3:16"
>sign was for some reason in jail in California.  I have heard several times
>that there is more than one "Rainbow Head", that it is some kind of cult.  I
>have seen this guy (or some other freak that looks like him) on consecutively
>televised sporting events from opposite sides of the country, so it can't be
>the same guy.    Or is it?

I'm sure at least five thousand people have responded to this by now, but I
wanted to leap back into things here at afu so I'll add my response.

'Tis not a "cult," although I will admit those guys are strange.  Cecil Adams
does a good job of covering this in _More of The Straight Dope_.


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From: cfs@cowpas.waffle.atl.ga.us (Charles Stephens)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.fandom,alt.religion.
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:19:13 GMT
Organization: COW Pastures

jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes:

> What a stupid thread!!
> 
> "Clarabelle" was better than "Bozo"!!
> "Chimpanzees" are better than "Orangutangs"!!
> "Pintos" are better than "Mavericks"!!
> "James Buchanon" was better than "Andrew Jackson"!!
> "TRS-80" was better than "C64"!!

"Macs" are better than "PCs"!!

> Any more?? I think I've heard this thread before!!
> GET A LIFE!!

        They don't have lives that's why:

a.) They watch/read/role play Star Trek
b.) They read and post to the USENET

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> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Opinions expressed are mine, not IBM's.

        I never knew IBM people to have a heart nor have I ever knew IBM
to have an expressive opinion.

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From: eeopensh@cybaswan.UUCP (j p openshaw)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: American view of justice
Date: 3 Oct 92 17:16:24 GMT
Reply-To: eeopensh@cybaswan.UUCP (j p openshaw)

>However, I think the widespread belief that "we allow rapists and
>murderers to go free on technicalities" is largely ULish.  I seem to
>remember it being discusses some time (in this very newsgroup) and
>apparently the belief far exceeds the reality.  I am sure some of the
>lawyer types here can provide some figures.

Rubbish, it happened every other week on `Starsky and Hutch'.

John (who hopes Captain Dobey has had a coronary by now) Openshaw.

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From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Craig again...
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:44:44 GMT

In article <1355.2ac70b3d@atlas.nafb.trw.com> tmullen@atlas.nafb.trw.com writes:
>
>
>I recieved several responses to my request for info on how to stop the 
>Craig Shergold story...   My next stop is to drop copies off at the 
>newspaper office.  Their response to my phone conversation with them 
>was along the lines of "Yea, Sure...",   maybe with some references
>and phone numbers they might believe me... 
>
>Oh well, I least I'm giving it a good try.

Maybe we need to petition Jay Leno to get Craig on The Tonight Show...
or better yet, have Craig give a press conference, and get all the
major news services to put out the message on the same day.

Yeah, we could organize the first annual Craig Shergold Day!  And for
weeks before hand, the greeting card stands at every grocery store
in the country would have a special display of Craig Shergold greeting
cards:

Cover:
	A poem for Craig:
	Roses are Red,
	Violets are Blue.
	I heard you were ill,

Inside:
	but you've had quite enough mail already,
	so I'm sending this to a friend of mine instead.

	Happy Shergold Day!


(Uh, before anyone even thinks about selling this idea:
	(c) Copyright 1992, Jonathan Quist, all rights reserved.
		(licensing available :')
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From: chuck_adams@qmail.ssc.gov (Chuck Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Oranjelo
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:50:15 GMT
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory

In article <1992Oct5.204437.24237@cs.yale.edu> smith-jeff@CS.YALE.EDU (Jeff
Smith) writes:
>In article <Bvnv3z.BC@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> mhr@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Mike Reaser)
writes:
>>In <1992Oct03.144232.3407@rose.com> bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
writes:
>>
>>>I went to school with a girl whose father was Darcy, and her mother was
>>>Arleen. They named her Darcaleen. Needless to say, she was nicknamed
>>>"gasoline" and "kerosene" everywhere she went. Yes, I can imagine
>>>parents being that unfeeling. Or stupid.
>>
>>
>>When I lived in Noertheast Florida 10 years ago, a city councilman in
>>Jacksonville named Clanzel Brown passed away.  I cannot remember the names
>>of all his children, but some were Clanzedric, Clanzanetta, Clanzeria,
>>and (I think) Clanzanna.
>
>At my high school we had a set of female triplets whose last name
>was Tracey.  And (you guessed it), they were all named "Tracy."  Their
>full names were:  "Tracy Traci Tracey", "Tracy Lee Tracey" and "Tracy
>Leann Tracey".  Mom must have still been on the Thalidomide when she 
>came up with those.

I guess that was better than what Bozo the Clown named his daughter:  Bozetta.

                      Chuck Adams,  WB5WRR   (The Chuckster)
                 Not an official document of DOE, SSCL, URA or EG&G
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From: j_manes@vger.nsu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 27 Sep 92 11:53:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.190057.13519@geovision.gvc.com>, pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin) writes:

> One further observation - Japanese car manufacturers pander to the US market
> - that's why Nissan was Nissan all over the world, except when they called
> themselves Datsun (in the North American market).


I always heard it was because when the Japaneses first got ready to sell
these cars in the US, they wanted a name that would be different enough
to be noticed by American consumers.  So they contracted a German 
marketing agency with a reputation for such things, and told them they
needed a name within a month or less.  The Germans replied, "Dat soon??"
From: kristyp@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Presidential UL's
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:44:40 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <BvEE19.MwL@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> jdnicoll@watyew.uwaterloo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
>In article   writes:
>>calgary.ca!honte.uleth.ca!hg.uleth.ca!STD_FLEMING
>>From: std_fleming@hg.uleth.ca
>
>>I think the NSA is responsible for staffing the US government in the nuclear 
>> war situation you describe.  That's the UL, anyway.
>>
>>                                 -John "I'm a Canadian so it doesn't affect                                       me" Fleming
>
>	No, I believe FEMA gets to administrate during catastrophes. They
>are definitely in charge of making the contingency plans. 
>
>	The President is still  theoretically in charge, of course,
>barring communication difficulties.
>
>	How'd FEMA  do in Florida and Hawaii? Seems like a  good chance
>to  practice for  the  Big One.

From what I've heard on network news and CNN, FEMA took a lot of heat
for being unprepared and disorganized in Florida.  Seems as if they had
lots of warning (I don't think think the hurricane took anyone by surprise
though it's strength might have), and people thought they should have
been ready with aid sooner; I guess it took a couple of days to get relief
operations working, and that's mostly credited to the military and the
national attention.

The agency was supposedly much better in Hawaii; it wanted to redeem its
image, so it made sure to be prepared.

>James Nicoll

-Kristy


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From: landauer@morocco.Eng.Sun.COM (Doug Landauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Date: 2 Oct 1992 00:25:04 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: morocco

> There are some really unfortunate car name out there;
> Chevrolet CITATION?  Nice to name your car "traffic ticket."

As Steven Wright might've said if he'd thought of it:

    Two of my imaginary friends bought new cars today.
    A Charade, and a Mirage.
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Turd-slinging primates...
Date: 29 Sep 92 19:22:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <1992Sep28.232456.7912@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Really?  I thought they only did that at Herrell's.
>
>Ted "Herrell's is way cooler than Steve's even if I don't know how to
>     spell it" Frank

That'd be "Farrell's", Ted.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 14:15:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.024351.16713@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>Judd Nelson).  Honeymoon in Vegas, whose initials spell HIV, the virus
>that eventually killed Rock Hudson and Anthony Perkins, who starred in
>Fear Strikes Out, was Nicholas Cage, who is a much-underrated comic actor,
>as demonstrated by his work in Moonstruck, Wild at Heart, and Raising
>Arizona.

>th "doing a reasonably good cjl impersonation" f

Not really.  If you mention Nicholas Cage, who was the host of SNL last
night BTW, why not Francis Ford Coppola, and also Sofia and Talia (Shire)?

cjl
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From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
Subject: Re: Floor numbering
Keywords: College floors
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:03:56 GMT

J.Newman@icarus.curtin.edu.au (John Newman) writes:

>A prominent tourist hotel in Perth (built by Alan Bond for the
>Americas Cup in 1983) also has a curious arrangement for floor numbering:
>There are no floors 2 to 9. So it has:

These aren't legends, but never mind...

The designers of a new residential building in Trinity College here in
Cambridge had the bright idea of lettering the floors, so the rooms are
on floors A...E (or so).

The snag is, that following normal practice in Britain, the ground
floor is labelled G and the basement B. So, the lift has two buttons
"B". Fortunately, the buttons are laid out in the usual way, so you can
guess which "B" you need.

Ian
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From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Rice versus Birdseed
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:09:06 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

Well my friend got married the past weekend, and I got the rice/bird story
from the priest twice.  At the rehearsal (I was best man), the priest
asked not to throw rice, as he said it gets tracked into the church, plus the
birds eat it and they explode, soon there are dead birds all over the place.
He also asked not to throw birdseed, the problem is the birds don't eat it
the pesky squirrels do., and it also gets tracked in.

He repeated the story the next day to the wedding attendees though this
time he only mentioned the rice swelled in the birds' stomachs and killed them,
no "exploding".

I threw Alka-Seltzer instead :-)

-Mike "Boom - BoomBoom Kaboom! Boom" Moroney
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: gators 'r us
Subject: Re: Back in the saddle again
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:16:16 -0500

In <2593.2ac0dffe@vger.nsu.edu>, j_manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:

>Craig.  Hmmm...come to think of it, where is that Mrs. Field's cookie/Macy's
>red velvet cake recipe....?
it costs two-fifty to read that thread.
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