HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus)
Subject: Cut that out! (was Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available)
Summary: St. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band soundtracks, $0.99 per gross 
Keywords: locksmith door
Organization: Taligent, a little subsidiary of two really big companies.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:52:17 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.012649.25775@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>I assume they serve the same function as cutout records.  Now can someone
>explain the business reason why both records and CD's are cut at all?

Basically, something is cut out so that it will not be returned to the
record store in which it was purchased, or to the record company.
There are a few cases where something is cut out:

1. The record company gave the item in question away as a promotional
   item, and doesn't want a store returning it for credit.

2. The record company deleted it from its catalog, and is dumping the
   excess at exceptionally low prices, and thus wants to make sure that
   they never, ever see them again (and assumes that the record store
   feels the same way).

3. The record store would have returned the items, but the record
   company said, "nah, we'd just destroy them.  Cut them out and we'll
   give you credit."

In cases #1 and 3, the items in question shouldn't be resold, but the
practice is so widespread that most record companies don't really care
that much (the numbers are pretty low, anyway, and they're not losing
much or any money).  In any event, the reason is the same: to "damage"
the item enough to make it non-returnable, while leaving it basically
sellable.
--
-- Christophe

"Be calm.  Look cute."
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From: stame@emunix.emich.edu (Stewart Tame)
Subject: Re: catching bullets with the teeth
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:16:09 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.211347.2741@crd.ge.com> salantel@wsqtb9.crd.ge.com writes:
>I heard from coworkers, that on tv they showed a man who could 
>catch a bullet fired from a gun with his teeth.  Supposedly the
>gun was statically mounted and carefully aimed, and the bullet 
>would pass through things like a piece of paper or a glass pane
>to prove it was no sleight of hand.
>
>While I believe that these people saw this on tv, I can't believe 
>that someone can really catch bullets with his teeth.  Anyone
>got the scoop on this?
>

Hmmmmm . . . the bullet catch is a standard of magic.  Quite a number
of magicians have died from things going wrong with it, most notable
among them perhaps was Chung Ling Soo.  I've seen one magician actually
perform this.  It's not popular, just a classic.  In these cases, sleight
of hand *is* involved.  I do seem to recall reading, however, about some
fool who actually tried to catch a .22 caliber bullet with his teeth on
the old "That's Incredible" program or something.  I don't recall if he
succeeded though . . . 

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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: Banks + Short Term Car Loans = Scam?
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:37:44 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


>|> Of course, you get to walk away from a
>|>bad mortgage on an overvalued property, so you probably should!

Two words:

		Credit History
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From: hellmann@cs.scarolina.edu (Douglas R Hellmann)
Subject: Re: Orange Julius (Re: Moxie, submarines)
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:05:37 GMT

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

>In article <1992Jul24.174340.17256@acuson.com> lawson@acuson.com (Drew Lawson) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul20.171402.1190@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>>In article <14b25cINNs9p@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock) writes:
>>>>In article <1992Jul17.175713.12754@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>>>
>>>>[...]
>>>>
>>>>>I think that's Orange Julius you're thinking of.  What's in their little
>>>>>powdery ingredient that's added to the orange juice and ice?
>>>>
>>>>Malt powder, I think.  I think there's milk in there too.
>>>>
>>>>-carol "mall walker" o
>>
>>>All Juliuses I have been to don't use milk.  Just OJ, Ice, and the mystery
>>>powder, all blended together.
>>
>>>cjl (No, O-Julius doesn't taste like chicken)

I have a friend that worked at an OJ, and he told me that the
ingredients were just OJ, Ice, and powdered SUGAR.

Doug Hellmann
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Subject: Re: Sanity
From: CDRESSER@eagle.wesleyan.edu (CLAYTON J. DRESSER)
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:01:38 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Wesleyan University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20In-Reply-To: smb@ulysses.att.com's message of 22 Jul 92 19:09:20 GMTLines: 28

In <16999@ulysses.att.com> smb@ulysses.att.com writes:

> In article <1992Jul21.175314.14659@news.cs.brandeis.edu>, st890270@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (LUCIFER) writes:
> > I have heard of how a couple of Psych Grad students decided to see how long
> > it would take a mental hospital to determine that they were not insane, once
> > they were committed. To this end, they fake the symptoms of schizophrenia (sp)
> > and are commited. Once in, they act perfectly normal. The institution does
> > not deem them sane. They finally get out 6 monthes later, after several
> > friends come forward to tell the hospital that it was an experiment.
> 
> I've seen the same story.  I *think* that what I saw was a news story,
> probably on the AP wire, written more or less contemporaneously to
> the incident.  But I'm not certain of that.
> 
> The version I heard had some more parts -- that the other patients realized
> that they were sane, even though the doctors didn't.  Also, the experimenters
> were deemed uncooperative because they kept insisting to the staff that
> they were sane.

Actually, this may well have been in the news.  It is not only not a UL but it
is accepted as true enough to be in the pyschology textbooks (that's where I
learned of it).  The only difference (and an important one for the study that
it involved) was that it took 2-6 weeks, not six months for the participants to
get out once they started acting sane.  BTW, they didn't have to act very
insane to get in.  All they did was walk up to the doctors and complain of
certain recent acute symptoms such as hearing voices or feeling paranoid.

Clay
From: lmh@world.std.com (Larry M Headlund)
Subject: Re: Sanity
Summary: Punchline to Sanity UL presented. 
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 16:41:53 GMT

(story of sane researchers posing as patients in mental hospital deleted) 

	A punchline to this story which I always heard but which has
not been mentioned here is that the _patients_ recognized the researchers
as "normal" immediately.
	This sounds sufficiently like the "blind people have acute sense of
smell/hearing/touch" story but I'm willing to listen to facts.
	Was this little tidbit in the original materials or was it added
later?
 

-- 
Larry Headlund  lmh@world.std.com    Eikonal Systems (617) 482-3345
From: pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Montykins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Do the Hokey-Pokey
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:18:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of California, San Diego

In article <l7gk6pINNate@male.EBay.Sun.COM> jimj@cleanplate.EBay.Sun.COM (James D. Jones) writes:
>
>It's always been the hokey-pokey here in Amurrica.  If it'd been "hokey-cokey,"
>Nancy Reagan and Tipper Gore would probably have condemned it for its
>subversive sex-drugs lyrics ("Put your whole self in--HUHHN-Put your 
>whole self out--UHH") 
>

Did you know that when Tipper and Al Gore were married, they chose
the Beatles' "All You Need is Love" to be played at the ceremony? 'S
true. I swear.

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (You put the cat in. You put the cat out. You put the cat in and
you shake it all about. You bathe in antiseptic and you turn
yourself around . . .)
-- 
  "Windle shook his head sadly. Five      | pashley@sdcc13.ucsd.edu
exclamation marks, the sure sign of an    |  [Not a UCSD employee]
insane mind."                             |
     --Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_      |
From: moursund@hpcvnb.CV.HP.COM (David_Moursund)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 09:32:48 PDT
Subject: Re: help please, when did Isaac Asimov die?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

>
>Sorry folks ,
> Asimov was freeze dried 2 hours before his official _Death_.
> Attempts will be made to reconstitute him in 2437.

  Wow!  You mean he was alive for 2 hours after being freeze dried?
  What a man!!!

  dm

>-- 
>#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
>#                     Lawrence Finkel: lxf8351@hertz.njit.edu                 #
>#   "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."   #
>#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------#
From: sgs@grebyn.com (Stephen G. Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: out of 5 doctors
Date: 29 Jul 92 22:35:41 GMT
Organization: Agincourt Computing

In article <1992Jul28.114506.41934@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> brnt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:

>Actually, this brings up some questions I always had that Ivory soap 99 44/100%
>pure claim:

>	1. Pure what?  Pure acid?  Pure dog snot?  Hardly enticing claims.

Trivia item:  "Pure" is a Victorian euphamism for dogshit.  Check the
OED!

Now you know!

-- 
Steve Smith                     Agincourt Computing
sgs@grebyn.com                  (301) 681 7395
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."
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From: cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster)
Subject: Re: Agnostics and Athiests
In-reply-to: brad@clarinet.com's message of Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:20:23 GMT
Organization: pubs
	<1992Jul23.002021.12133@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
	<1992Jul23.194846.12902@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
	<1992Jul23.212023.1246@clarinet.com>
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:19:38 CDT

Brad Templeton writes:

   I think people put too fine a point on this.   Agnostics proudly stand up
   and say that there is no way one can know for sure, but the fact is
   that the vast bulk of them do not believe there is a god, and thus
   in my book they are athiests, (literally non-theist.)
  ...
   Most athiests and agnostics are the same.  They think there is no god,
   they admit it is possible but unlikely and that nobody knows for certain.
   There's no difference between them.

This is confused.  You're muddling the difference between "I don't believe
in God" and "I believe there is no God".  One position states the question
is indeterminate, the other states a position on one side.  Remember,
"don't believe" doesn't mean "disbelieve".


Agnostic position:

  "...there is no way one can know for sure..."

  "...do not believe there is a god..." 

  "...it is possible but unlikely and that nobody knows for certain."
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^
                     This "leaning" isn't particularly in either camp,
                     atheistic or agnostic.

Atheistic position: 

  "They think there is no god..."


Agnostics, logically, are no closer to atheists than they are to believers.
Your point seems to be that agnostics lean toward atheism, but this is only
from the standpoint of believers.  I'm an agnostic and I don't lean toward
either atheism or belief in a god.

Chris Brewster
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From: rcnixon@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (russell.nixon)
Subject: ME-163 Komet
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 21:18:29 GMT

Well, after lurking for over two years, I'm finally posting a message.
The ME-163 Komet was a rocket propelled tailless delta.  The motor was a 
Walther bi-propellent rocket engine.  I believe that the two magic ingredients
were red fuming nitric acid as the oxidizer and aniline as the fuel.  Either
alone is pretty nasty and together the are positivly hypergolic!  The Komet had
a skid for landing gear and would often rupture the pure aluminium oxidizer
tank.  The red fuming would then make short work of the low-lying parts of
the late pilot.
Russ, whose ideas are his own.  No one else wants them.
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From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:07:38 GMT

sysmatt@aix3090b.uky.edu (James M. Simpson) writes:
: I've often wondered about the difference between "prescription" strength and
: over-the-counter versions of the same drug. For example, after a recent
: unanticipated dismount from an unruly steed, I was sent home from the hospital
: with a butt full of Toridol, and prescriptions for Tylenol/codeine (unavailable
: over the counter) and 600 mg ibuprofen (1 tablet several times a day>) The
: 600 mg ibuprofen requires a prescription ... 200 mg ibuprofen is available
: over the counter (Advil, Motrin, and lots of generic brands). Considering
: the inflated prices on prescriptions, it probably would have been cheaper
: to buy generic 200 mg ibuprofen and take 3 times as much. Is there any real
: reason for taking one strong pill instead of 3 weak ones?

If there is no other active ingredient, besides the ibuprofen, then there is
no advantage. There is a possibility that the prescription drug was enteric
coated - if so, then you would want to use an enteric coated generic.

By the way, you wouldn't be taking "three times as much", you would be taking
"three times as many pills". Just a quibble, nothing more.

Bill
From: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: SHOCKING STORIES
Date: 25 Jul 92 06:11:10 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Jul24.152007.250153@locus.com>, dwight@locus.com (Dwight Tovey) writes:

> was holding onto the antenna.  I've had electrical shocks before,
> but they were nothing compared to the RF burn I got that day.  I couldn't
> close my hand for a couple of weeks because of the swelling.

Aren't RF burns fun? NOT!

Think of RF burns as what you get if you put a Poodle in a microwave.
Having had a few, I can say first hand that they s*ck big time.  The worst
thing is that the burn usually shows up the next day.  So when they first
happen, they don't feel so bad.

So, kids, don't dry your hair in the microwave.  Or fluffy.  And don't
use 20 meters to cook your hot dogs, either.

Terry "Did Scotty get Anit-matter burns on Star Trek?" Wood
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Subject: Re: Time Zones (was Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising)
From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:01:44 GMT
 <1992Jul21.201015.3027@news.columbia.edu> <1992Jul21.234716.3294@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
Distribution: na
Keywords: Does anybody really know what time it is

mnolan@lpl.arizona.edu (Mike Nolan) writes:
>	It's even better than that:

>Where                   Summer             Winter
>Arizona                 MST                MST
>Navajo Reservation	MDT                MST
>Hopi Reservation        MST                MST
>The Navajo reservation is in four states (AZ, UT, CO, NM) all of which are
>on M?T, and follows the majority in going to MDT in the summer.  The
>Hopi reservation is contained entirely within the Navajo reservation, but
>only in the portion that is within Arizona, so they stay on MST.

That's lovely.  When daylight saving time started this year I remember
hearing about a town called Tuba City in one of these reservations
where there were at least two time zones during the summer.  Is it
in the Navajo one?

I know that the New Mexico part of the reservation contains most of
the fascinatingly numbered Route 666.  One of the Lodges (small houses
which are part of student housing) at William and Mary once had a
US 666 route marker on the front door.  At the time I didn't know
such a highway actually existed.

-- 
Matt McIrvin   mcirvin@husc.harvard.edu   Long live short .sigs
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: College Pranks (Was Re: Vacation Time!)
Keywords: Ditch Day, vanishing room
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:16:11 GMT

In article <42xx0yd@rpi.edu> kasprj@rpi.edu writes:
> 
> Some things I'd always wished someone _would_ toss down the stairwell:
> 
> - ALL the Courier terminals
> - the entire output of DAKA for one day
> - Kibo

What are Courier terminals?

What is DAKA?

What is a *thing* called Kibo?

Leader Kibo may be called by many names, but not a thing.

cjl
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From: jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc)
Subject: Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:49:18 GMT

billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:

>Also note - They do not say that the dentists ONLY recommend Trident gum. 
>They could just as easily recommend some other brand of sugarless gum

Actually I believe the ad says that 4 out .... recommend sugarless gum for
their patients who chew gum, not Trident in particular.  
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Time Zones (was Re: Mis-applied physics in advertising)
Keywords: Does anybody really know what time it is
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:17:20 GMT

In article <mcirvin.711817304@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
>I know that the New Mexico part of the reservation contains most of
>the fascinatingly numbered Route 666.  One of the Lodges (small houses
>which are part of student housing) at William and Mary once had a
>US 666 route marker on the front door.  At the time I didn't know
>such a highway actually existed.

Get your kickses on route six-six-six.

cj "I never saw Alienses" l
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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
Subject: UL Sighted
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 23:44:50 GMT

The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has had to reposition
and move many of their books this summer.  It appears that the
structure can't take the weight of the books.

I am not making this up, but I can't vouch for the Chicago Maroon.

ObUL: The kite that briefly appears during the intro of the David
      Letterman show says "GE Sucks" in Japanese.  Unknown whether
      a computer has yet to translate it.
-- 
                      ....................................
                      ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
                      the university of chicago law school 
                      official member of the cultural elit
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:22:55 -0400 
From: Mary Rose Campbell <mc3d+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: st. jude wants to buy me a car

 mjforres@rodan.acs.syr.edu (maurice) writes :

>I finally got my very own copy of the "With Love All Things are        
        
>Possible" letter.  I don't know if this is consistent with the various 
        
>versions of the letter that have been posted here, but the one I got is
        
>rife with typographical errors.  Here are the last few sentences       
        
>reproduced verbatim:                                                   
        
                                                                        
       
>IN 1987 THE LETTER WAS RECEIVED BY A YOUNG WOMAN IN CALIFORNIA.  IT WAS
        
>VERY FADED AND BARELY READABLE.  SHE PROMISED HERSELF, SHE WOULD RETYPE
        
>THE LETTER AND SEND IT ON, BUT SHE PUT IT ASIDE TO DO LATER.  SHA WAS  
        
>PLAGUED WITH PROBLEMS, INCLUDING EXPENSIVE CARE REPAIRS.  THE LETTER
DID        
>NOT LEAVE HER HANDS IN 96 HOURS.  SHE SINALLY TYPRD THE LETTER AS      
        
PROMISED AND GOT A NEW CAR.                                             
         

Maybe those weren't typos, but proof that Dan Quayle was somewhere in
the chain.

mrc
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From: chris@state.COM.AU (Chris Keane)
Subject: Re: How many ways to make a Whopper<r>?
Organization: Group Treasury, State Bank of NSW
Date: 21 Jul 92 04:22:37 GMT

jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:

>jra@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth) writes:

>>So, the number of possible combinations is:

>>  4^10 (condiments) * 4 (cheese * bacon) * 2^8 (specials), or

>Ah, but certain combinations are illegal, such as "vegetarian" and "triple
>meat", so this would reduce the number of possible combinations.

So I guess the only way to find out is to make them all.



regards...                                                 
Chris "What Amazon Basin?" Keane. State Bank NSW        ph. +61 2 259 4459
Unix Systems Administrator   (Group Treasury)     chris@rufus.state.COM.AU
Disclaimer: These are my own opinions, but I'm insane. What's your excuse?
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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Custard/Silver Spoon Synergy
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 23:29:42 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.201352.2018@ipsa.reuter.com> pki@ipsa.reuter.com (Phil King) writes:
>My mother-in-law was teaching me how to make custard the other day, and
>she claimed that it was essential that a rubber spoon be used.  Any one
>else ever heard of this?  Is there a pseudo-scientific explanation for
>why this should be so?

Well, you could use your hand, but a spoon is usually cleaner.
-- 
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From: kevind@pogo.wv.tek.com (Kevin Draz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Left - Right
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:27:47 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

In article <1992Jul21.153809.26507@public.sub.org> peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
>This was also brought up as a question in a german TV show: Why does
>everything run counterclockwise, when humans are involved?

Coriolis effects from the earth's rotation.  Try going to the Southern
hemisphere, you'll find just the opposite!

:-) :-)

KD
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