HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: anson@netcom.com (Anson Kennedy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Anyone heard this one? New UL?
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:08:58 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

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

[stuff deleted]

>I have a rule of thumb that I live by in reading usenet articles.  When
>I am reading an article and the first page is lined with ">"s in column 1,
>I immediately hit the 'n' key (with rare exceptions) because this immediately
>tells me that the poster is an irresponsible quoted-text (ab)user. I
>suspect that I am not the only one who does so either.  So if you want
>people to take your messages seriously, take the extra 2 minutes to 
>compose them more succinctly.

You're right, you aren't the only one who does this.  I do, too.

Of course, if someone wanted to sucker us in, they might quote a small part
of the text and put their reply on the first page, but have the remainder be
endless lines of quotes...
-- 

Anson Kennedy                                                   anson@netcom.com
Secretary of the Georgia Skeptics (but don't even THINK I speak for them!)

"If you don't watch the violence,    \           "If I had been the Virgin Mary,
you'll never get desensitized to it."  \                I would have said 'No.'"
-Bart Simpson                            \  -Margaret "Stevie" Smith (1902-1971)
From: cjf@cs.uq.oz.au (Colin Fidge)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Canadian Government Prostitutes
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:14:04 GMT
Reply-To: cjf@cs.uq.oz.au


This story recently appeared in an Australian newspaper.  The alleged 
incident was supposed to have occurred in Melbourne.  No names (other
than "visiting Japanese dignitary") or dates were given.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: cbarker@dxcern.cern.ch (Carl Barker)
Subject: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 11:47:47 GMT

Hello.

This is a story you've probably all heard before, but I would be interested to 
know the reactions.  The story is this:

One morning a man wakes up with a splitting headache and an upset stomach.
Feeling a little concerned about this, he goes to the doctor.  Subsequent tests
reveal that the man has a bullet in his stomach.  Aparently what had happened
was that someone, probably a burglar, had shot the man in the back of the head
during the night while he slept.  The bullet, instead of going straight through his skull had bounced off a bone and lodged in his throat, then made its way
into his stomach.  The impact had mildly concussed the man, so he was totally
unaware of the incident. 

Now I'm dubious about this for a number of reasons.  One of these is that
surely there would have been blood on his pillow from the head shot, which no
kind of hangover would leave.  The man must surely have realised from the blood
that something was up.

Any comments?


Carl Barker

Humerous Disclaimer No: 1:
"Me, a representative of CERN?  I'm not even representative of the human race."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: College Pranks (Was Re: Vacation Time!)
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.tech
Keywords: Ditch Day, vanishing room
Organization: Between a rock and a type specimen sheet, Boston.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:04:37 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.011611.25599@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>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.

"Dammit, Jim, why is any object we don't understand always called a thing?"

                      -- Dr. McCoy, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"

"Doctor, to refer to the object as an oodlywump would be illogical, asshole."

                      -- Spock

"I'm not only a member of the Hair Fleet For Men, I'm also the Captain."

                      -- Kirk

"Beam me up, Scotty, there's alt.alien.visitors down here!"

                      -- Kibo

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available
Keywords: locksmith door
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:56:40 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.225908.7043@dscomsf.desy.de> hallam@zeus02.desy.de writes:
>In article <Brq3EG.41A@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil
>Gustafson) writes:
>
>->There is no physical reason that CD's and CD-ROMs cannot have data on
>->both sides, and no reason that two-sided readers could not be made.
>
>->The printed matter on the wrong side is of little import: you can't
>->see it when the disc is in the drive.  One-sidedness is a cynical
>->marketing ploy.
>
>Rubbish, a CD is produced by pressing out holes in a very thin sheet of
>metal. It is an inviolate rule that holes on one side will be holes on
>the other. The cost of making the CD is the cost of the presser and the
>rest of the parephinalia. The only reasonable way of making a 2 sided cd
>would be to make 2 ordinary ones and stick them together. This would not
>save money.
>

Rubbish yourself.  It's not holes so much as dents, but that's not the 
issue.  The way to make a two-sided CD is to start with a slab of plastic
with aluminum on _both_ sides, squinch the data in, and add protective
coating.  More expensive than a one-sided disk, but not twice as expensive.
Less packaging to deal with.  Less space consumed.

The CD size was chosen, according to reliable UL, to play long enough to
hold a reasonable performance of Beethoven's Ninth.  A two-sided one
could hold most Italian operas, leaving only Wagner fans to change
disks in the middle of a performance.

Two-sided playback gear would of course be more expensive, but frugal
foks could just turn the disks over by hand.

The reasons for CD's having one side are, as I said, mostly marketing
reasons.

Anyway, the cost of making new CD's is now less than the cost of making
new records.  I haven't seen many CD's in the $1.99 cutout bins, though.

phil


-- 
|play: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG; {ames|pyramid|vsi1}!zorch!phil                |
|work: phil@gsi; sgi!gsi!phil            | Phil Gustafson                   |
| "Don't believe in ads.  Don't believe in government.  Watch yourself --   |
|  everybody is trying to screw you!"  Bill Gaines, 1922-1992               |
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,comp.dcom.modems
From: olsen@xn.ll.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Modem tax back
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 14:13:19 GMT

tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook) writes:
>there was no "tax" in 1987.  What happened was that when the FCC set
>carrier access charges (these are payments made to local telephone
>companies by long distance carriers) they decided to termporarily
>exempt data networks.

You implicitly assume that the original access-charge decision was
right.  The problem is with the access charges themselves.  They are
used as a mechanism to subsidize local telephone service, and are
therefore unfair.  However, since long-distance voice service has
traditionally subsidized local service, and since competition has
dramatically lowered long-distance rates, this continuing subsidy has
drawn little opposition.  (It's invisible to the caller, since it is
built into the long-distance rates.)

But, data transmission has no tradition of paying such a subsidy, and
therefore the injustice of the access-charge system is apparent when
the FCC tries to extend it to data traffic.  Don't assume that because
voice callers are being ripped off, that it's OK to rip off modem
callers too.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong)
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:04:07 GMT

cbarker@dxcern.cern.ch (Carl Barker) writes:

>Hello.

>This is a story you've probably all heard before, but I would be interested to 
>know the reactions.  The story is this:

>One morning a man wakes up with a splitting headache and an upset stomach.
>Feeling a little concerned about this, he goes to the doctor.  Subsequent tests
>reveal that the man has a bullet in his stomach.  Aparently what had happened
>was that someone, probably a burglar, had shot the man in the back of the head
>during the night while he slept.  The bullet, instead of going straight through his skull had bounced off a bone and lodged in his throat, then made its way
>into his stomach.  The impact had mildly concussed the man, so he was totally
>unaware of the incident. 

I heard several people last month (who didn't know each other) say
that some guy got shot in the head with a crossbow and lived
through it - even to the point of taking the thing away from his
assailant who was about to fire a second one.  It was supposedly
his roommate (probably his ex-roommate, by now).

He could see the point of the arrow pushing on the skin of the
inside of his forehead, supposedly.

It sounds too bizarre to be true, but if it was in the paper, several
people saw it and believed it.

Dave "if it's in the Enquirer, it must be true" Bushong
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard this one? New UL?
Organization: Famed Parquet Floor
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 20:19:19 GMT

In article <BrwF1J.3Hs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:
>Please, and this message is to *everyone*, when you include original
>text in your followups, EDIT it to only include the parts which are
>relevant to your reply.  Write in things like [stuff deleted] if you
>wish, to show that you are not quoting the original post verbatim, if
>you think it's important to do so.

For the record, the _very first_ thing to edit out is the poster's
signature.  I really hate it when someone quotes a long, graphics-
ridden .sig, especially when another long, graphics-ridden .sig (or two)
follows.

Phil "Four lines, please" Gustafson
-- 
|play: phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG; {ames|pyramid|vsi1}!zorch!phil                |
|work: phil@gsi; sgi!gsi!phil            | Phil Gustafson                   |
| "Don't believe in ads.  Don't believe in government.  Watch yourself --   |
|  everybody is trying to screw you!"  Bill Gaines, 1922-1992               |
From: mayers@cemmva.cem.msu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: offensive phrases ("Rule of Thumb")
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:34:21 GMT
Reply-To: mayers@cemmva.cem.msu.edu
Organization: MSU_Chemistry

In physics, there are a few hand and thumb rules for fields, both magnetic
and electric.
-Anson "injecting facts into this newsgroup again, and I was trying to cut
back!" Mayers
--
ObDeadSig
From: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Date: 30 Jul 92 07:26:56 GMT
Reply-To: tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation

In article <25014@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (JOSEPH T CHEW) writes:
> You can get along without a surprising amount of certain parts of your 
> brain, as long as major blood vessels don't get holed in the process. 
> This can be observed intuitively by thinking about brain tumors, lobo-
> tomies, and so forth. 

I read one (supposedly true; from the Book of Lists) story of a guy who 
attempted suicide by drilling holes in his head, presumably assuming one deep 
hole would do it.  I think it took five.

I'd imagine somewhere adound hole 3 he wished he'd used another method.

> 
> 'Tis said that knowledgeable and craftsmanlike suicides put the 
> muzzle in the mouth, which not only gives a greater chance of
> hitting mission-critical portions of the brain but also misses the
> thick, hard parts of the skull.  (Small caliber rounds might, under
> some circumstances, fail to penetrate the skull.)  Putting the gun
> to your head, even at the temple, is theatrical but suboptimal.

In a Harlan Ellison story whose name currently is escaping me 
("Lonelyache"?), the main character placed the muzzle against his eye.  
Sounds both theatrical and optimal to me.

Terry Carroll - tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com - 408/992-2152
The opinions presented above are not necessarily those of a sound mind.
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:20210 rec.arts.books:13533 rec.arts.sf.misc:2302 rec.humor:24965
From: jamesc@swapsdev.state.state.COM.AU (James Cribb)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.misc,rec.humor
Subject: Re: Mandatory negatives (was Re: Agnostics and Athiests)
Date: 29 Jul 92 23:58:37 GMT
Organization: Group Treasury, State Bank of NSW

Oral-B make toothpicks and call them `Interdental woodsticks'.
From: styri@hal.nta.no (YuNoHoo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Organ muggers
Date: 27 Jul 92 11:42:51 GMT
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Bohemians and Globetrotters, Unlimited

In article <1992Jul22.201035.29965@PA.dec.com>, snopes writes:
>
> I read about third worlders selling the odd kidney, but not about any who have
> them involuntarily ripped out.  There's a world of difference.

I've been on holiday, so I've not been able to track down the following
news item that I was told appeared in a national paper here in Norway.
However, the headline was:
				"Surgeon steals kidney!"

Guess I know the rest of this news story, but I'll try to find it for the
benefit of a.f.u and myself.

ObUL:	Person visits France. The last part of the visit he's constipated,
       but is relieved just before he's going to leave the hotel. Really
       fills up the lavatory bowl, but - alas - it doesn't flush. This is a
       tidy and polite fellow and after several attempts he walks into the
       corridor and finds a maid. Unfortunately she doesn't understand neither
       english nor german. Finally, the poor fellow drags her into his room
       and toilet. He points at the huge pile of feces and tries to flush,
       and - it works. Person checks out of hotel and leaves as fast as...

---
YuNoHoo
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Anyone heard this one? New UL?
From: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 00:30:42 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <BrwF1J.3Hs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jvmg9796@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doc) writes:
>I have a rule of thumb that I live by in reading usenet articles.  When
>I am reading an article and the first page is lined with ">"s in column 1,
>I immediately hit the 'n' key (with rare exceptions) because this immediately
>tells me that the poster is an irresponsible quoted-text (ab)user.

Without defending Bill (he is more than capable of defending himself), the
'TAB' key works admirably (at least in [t]rn).

-- 
Hugh Grierson             Fujitsu New Zealand - Software Development Centre
NEW IMPROVED ADDRESS: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz        Speaking for myself, etc
Watch this space.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kasprj@isaac.its.rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Subject: Re: "Green Death" Beer
Reply-To: kasprj@rpi.edu
Organization: The Big Wedge 
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:48:31 GMT

In article <BrpuGI.CK@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, phil@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Phil Gustafson) writes:
|> But the UL I'm writing about was this:
|> 
|>   Some time ago Rainier ran a series of radio ads featuring Ranier
|>   Ale recipes.  The spokesmodel?  Green Beth.
|> 
|> Ha.  Good ad agency.  Fire with fire, and all that.
 
 Is this the same Rainier Beer that advertised in Seattle with the slogan:
"Around Here, It's Rainier"? 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: smith@panther.adelphi.edu (Jim Smith)
Subject: Re: Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard
Organization: Adelphi University Swirbul Library
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:24:37 GMT

In article <3466@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu (TJ Wood) writes:

>In article <1992Jul21.050353.16352@walter.cray.com>, matt@cray.com (Matthew Marchese) writes:

>> I came across a piece titled, "Stooge's Wives". In it one of Curly's wives
>> is portrayed in an interview as claiming that Curly's trademark cry of,
>> "WooWoo" originated during the sex-act as the aforementioned Stooge
>> acheived orgasm. 

>This sure does make me wonder what "Moe! Larry! The Cheeze" means.

>Terry "Pie Fight!" Wood
>-- 
>        INTERNET: tjw+@pitt.edu         BITNET: TJW@PITTVMS


Oh yeah!  And wasn't it Curly who said: "If at first you don't succeed, 
keep on suckin' 'til you do suck seed."  Woo-Woo indeed.
From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Straight Dope III" ????
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:59:37 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <1992Jul23.212317.15625@CERIS.Purdue.EDU> jheath@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Jim Heath) writes:
>
>Does anyone know if there is going to be another Straight Dope
>book?  I have the first 2.
>-- 
Yes!   There was 4 year between the publication of SD & MSD, but it's been
about 5-6 years since MSD.  There has to have been enought columns for a
third collection.

What about a third Big Secrets book?


-- 
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<< Michael R. Brown    CS Graduate Student-Florida Atlantic Univ >>
<< Internet: michaelb@sol.cse.fau.edu                            >>
<< BitNet: m_brown@fauvax                                        >>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kathleen@thidwick.acs.calpoly.edu (Kathleen Luce)
Subject: Re: How many Grooves on an LP?
Organization: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:41:34 GMT

lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>This last-groove thing has appeared in a few random places: the British-only
>version of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.  (For the youth-impaired, 
>it is rumored that this album was recorded by Paul McCartney without his
>wife playing any of the instruments, including the unconnected microphone, and
>with musicians who probably never toured with Wings.)  This infinitely repeats
>a backwards message.  (Anyone happen to know what it is re-reversed?)
>
>And of course the obligatory CD question: rerelease of these on CD yields
>exactly what?  Would they just give you one cycle, 50, 500, 5,000,000?  OR
>some disclaimer about what a record once was?  Or just leave it out?

  Well, at just under 21, I suppose I'm one of the "youth-impaired"
you sneer at, but I'll put my two bits in anyway.
  According to most (official) sources, the bit at the end of Sgt 
Peppers isn't a backwards message, it's just a carefully assembled 
piece of gibberish.  Of course, the best way to test that would be to 
actually reverse the sound and see.  But according to Lewisohn in _The 
Beatles Recording sessions_, it took them an incredibly long time -- I 
seem to remember it being about 5 hours -- to get that bit right.  It 
seems to me that if it were just reversed speech, it would have taken 
much less time than that to do! 

The Sgt Pepper's CD plays the bit maybe 10 times, then fades out.

Kathleen
-- 
kluce@polyslo.calpoly.edu |  Robert A. Heinlein memorial service 7:00.
---------------------------       Barbecue 7:30.  No salt needed.
From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Bear eats child's face
Date: 31 Jul 92 03:11:35 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Institute of Marine Science

In article <bobk.712507591@slinky.NSD.3Com.COM> bobk@ESD.3Com.COM (Bob Konigsberg) writes:
>One friend, a part time park ranger found a family where the father
>had placed his kids on the back of a bear to take a picture of them.
>In this case, the ranger told them to get his picture and then get
>his kids off the bear's back.  Afterward the father (I believe) got
>chewed out.  Nothing grim happened but that's pretty close.
>
>The other case was from a friend of mine up in Alaska.  He saw a man
>throwing rocks at a moose in order to get the moose to look his way, so`
>that he could get a face-on picture.

That might not be dangerous, depending on where the calf is!  Get 
between a cow moose and its calf, and it will stomp you good.

There was a case a few years back of a big game guide and bear hunter
who spotted what appeared to be a trophy sized bear feeding on an
old kill.  The bear wasn't positioned correctly to get a good shot,
so the guide told the hunter to be prepared and he would go up
and attract the bear's attention to get it to move.  He did that.

The bear moved too fast for the hunter, and managed to kill the
guide before the hunter could kill the bear.
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Subject: Re: Anyone heard this one? New UL?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 25 Jul 92 06:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Version: Rodney's UUCP modules 02/11/90 V1.18


In article <711900428snx@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz> frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz
(Bruce Clement) writes:

> kja2192@tamsun.tamu.edu writes in article <1992Jul22.190029.2068@tamsun.tamu.edu>:
> >  Apparently this FOAF was
> > making love to his wife (doggie style) and the cat was watching 
> > on the bed from behind.  Watching the man's balls sway back &
> > forth got the cat's attention and it swatted at his balls.  The
> > man, startled -- obviously, thrust forward and put his wife's head
> > through the headboard of the bed.

> A similiar thing happened to me once in '78-'79, only we were doing *it*
> in the missionary position, it was claws in my buttocks, and my partner
> suffered no damage (nor did I, except to my pride).

STella recently posted in rec.pets.cats(or was it rec.pest.cats?) about a time
when she was doing it in the missionary position and her partner got kittened.
started a flame war to, because some silly people thought it was a sex story and
therefore shouldn't be posted in the cat group.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: CD Storage Density (was: Re: NetNews/CD - USENET News Available)
Keywords: liquor locker locksmith door
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:01:58 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.

>"data pits" since the laser could now "read" these smaller pits. They claimed that
>it would allow up to 4 times more data to be placed on a single side of a CD.

If this is true, I'm skeptical that they'd market it -- the average label
these days can't be bothered to even come close to filling up the existing
CD format.  We got fifteen-minute sides when LP's could well take thirty,
and we're still getting half-hour albums on CD's.  All too often when an
older album is released on CD (eg., Iron Maiden's Peice of Mind), we don't even
get the B-sides that were more popular than anything on the LP (eg., Cross-Eyed
Mary).

>Anyone know if the pits on a CD are arranged concentrically, or spiral out?

I'm moderately sure that they're a spiral.  If you look at a CD under an
SEB (Scanning Electron Beakoscope) you'll find that the TOC pits spell out
"Kibo is dead" in Sanskrit.

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