HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us (S. Mudgett aka little gator)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Possible UL alert(was Re: Videotaping rapes)
Date: 28 Sep 92 12:11:40 GMT
	<qm0nvdc.barry@netcom.com> <1992Sep25.151924.12450@cs.yale.edu>
	<1992Sep25.203226.9366@news.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
Organization: gators 'r us
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.03 Rev. Apr 14 1992

In <1992Sep25.203226.9366@news.columbia.edu>, Charles Lasner writes:
>
>But for most of us, we have 8 fingers on both hands.  The rest is, as they
>say "all thumbs" so it's quite natural to use base 8.
when i was about 9, i figured out how to count on my fingers in base 5(one
hands for ones, the other for fives.) i could get up to 30 that way.
-- 
-- little gator aka s. mudgett     email: scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us
-- friend of a gator is a friend of mine
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jeq@i88.isc.com (Jonathan E. Quist)
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Organization: INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation, Naperville, IL
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:50:06 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.211126.10616@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>Thanks to all those e-mailing me on the etymology posting about the movies
>and TV.  There are a few corrections and additions:
...
>The movie City Beneath the Sea starred Stuart Whitman and Robert Wagner, and
>featured Robert Colbert, who played one of the three crew members on the ship
>in Amazon Women on the Moon.  (The others are Laird Creagar and Joey Travolta,
>who was carrying the monkey.)  The movie was apparently an attempt to recycle
>some of the special effects (and actors) of both the movie and TV version
>of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; all three are Irwin Allen productions.

You forgot to mention that Robert Colbert was also one of the stars
of "The Time Tunnel"; one of the early episodes was set on board
the maiden voyage of the Titanic, which was of course at sea...

Come to think of it, the premise for "The Time Tunnel" wasn't entirely
unlike that of "Quantum Leap", except that they didn't know how to keep
it going for more than one season.  (You can only do so many dinosaur
episodes...)
-- 
Jonathan E. Quist                              INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation
jeq@i88.isc.com  '71 CL450-K4 "Gleep", DoD #094        Naperville, IL
        There are many things a person should experience in a lifetime.
       Among them are an infant's first cry, and an infant's first laugh.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: "Normal" body temperature
From: mcirvin@scws1.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:46:16 GMT

dkmiller@unixg.ubc.ca (Derek K. Miller) writes:

>I think the Celsius scale IS in the scale of human experience - water freezes
>at 0 (important to know for everything from mixing drinks to sticking
>your tongue on metal poles) and boils at 100 (ditto for tea, pasta,
>and to prevent scalding yourself).

Being a US citizen, I was a Fahrenheit chauvinist for "daily use" type
applications (0F and 100F are more or less the extreme limits of coldness
and hotness on the US east coast from DC to Boston,  with the hot end 
somewhat more common around DC) until some Canadians pointed out to
me that in Celsius, ten-degree increments correspond roughly to major
subjective categories of temperature.  Zero is quite cold; 10C is cool;
20C is comfortably warm; 30C and above is hot.  I use this
as a mnemonic when interpreting Celsius temperatures now.  It makes
a certain kind of practical sense. 
-- 
Matt McIrvin, posting nonsense again 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: bill.dehaan@rose.com (bill dehaan)
Subject: ATM Transactions
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 04:06:04 GMT
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Date Entered: 09-26-92 23:00
In message <1992Sep24.160343.8911@nsscmail.att.com>,
cel@nsscmail.att.com (clayton EDward LEIHY iii) writes:

cel>Once when I went in to use an ATM, I discovered that the previous user
cel>was still "logged in" (their card was in the slot and the selection menu
cel>was displayed).  Interesting question:  If I had withdrawn this
cel>customer's cash, would I be a Bank Robber??

No. You would be guilty of Fraud (at least under Canadian statutes).

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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Stone Age Sex
Date: 27 Sep 1992 18:49:24 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

scm@harvee.billerica.ma.us writes:
  +
  +> "but Otzi is the first known homosexual
  +>man that enjoyed being fucked. ...
  +
  +i don't see how they could tell whether he enjoyed it.

Yep, might have been the first evidence of necrophilia.

Terry "Or bad felching?" Chan
--
Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Carpe Per Diem
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlb10@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Subject: Re: Famous Alumni (was "Lost In Space" was CLEARLY better)
Reply-To: jlb10@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:56:13 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.145455.20590@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael Urban) writes:
|> >>
|> >>Does anyone else know someone famous who went to their college, or know
|> >>someone who does?
|> >>
|> 
|> I don't know why I am playing this, but it is sort of relevant to the
|> Subject: line.  Bill Mumy (pronounced Moomy, btw) of Lost in Space was
|> in my highschool graduating class (Hamilton HS 1971).
|> 	Mike Urban

I take it you are the author of all these legends we keep on hearing about
in this group? That makes it two famous people in the class.

Can anyone do better than that?

John

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: mikkelson%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Craig Shergold
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.
Date:  5 OCT 92 08:47:19    


Craig Shergold's story turned up in the _Los Angeles Times_ last Friday (in the
Business section, yet):

Chain letter:  The chain letter asks help "toward making a little boy's dream
come true."  A 7-year-old with an inoperable brain tumor is trying to build the
world's largest collection of business cards, the letter says, urging
executives to send cards to an Atlanta foundation and to pass the letter to 10
business associates.
   The touching letter is making the rounds in executive suites throughout the
country, landing on desks at GTE, American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Blue Cross,
Metropolitan Life and Nordstrom -- to name only a few.  There's only one thing
wrong here.  The letter isn't true.
   Turns out the boy named in the letter, Craig Shergold, is alive and well. 
His "inoperable" brain tumor was removed last year.  An Atlanta foundation,
Children's Wish Foundation International, was collecting get-well cards for
him, but the campaign ended nearly two years ago.
   A hoax?  The Atlanta foundation says it is a big mistake.  Spokeswoman
Stephanie Smith said somewhere along the letter-writing chain, greeting cards
became business cards.  And apparently word of Craig's recovery didn't spread
far enough.
   Smith says the foundation isn't using the cards to solicit donations, or
develop a mailing list.  "We wish it would stop," she said.

 - snopes

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From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell)
Subject: Re: Green Cheese
Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 23:33:38 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.070554.522@echo.philips.nl> dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:
>I don't know whether it is a real myth, I only have heard of a green cheese
>moon in some sort of a logical proof (obviously fake proof :-)
>I have forgotten the real 'proof' but it is something like:
>
>Theorem: the moon is made of green cheese
>Proof  : there are two possibilities:
>         1. the moon is made of green cheese
>         2. the moon is not made of green cheese
>         Now we now that the moon is moon is made of green cheese (see
>         the Theorem, why would we want to try to proof a false Theorem :-)
>         so possibility 2 is not true, leaving only possibility 1 which
>         clearly states that the moon is made of green cheese.
>
>Is this the reference you were looking for ? Is this a Dutch joke only ?

Do the Dutch like Jerry Lewis also?

Ted "shouldn't this be cross-posted to rec.humor.funny?" Frank
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          ted frank | thf2@midway.uchicago.edu | standard disclaimers
         the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: snopes%club33@stlth.enet.dec.com (snopes)
Subject: Re: Fine Art 
Organization: Will work for food, but not for DEC.
Date:  5 OCT 92 08:12:14    


In article <1992Oct1.233552.12344@gagme.chi.il.us>, 
  pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader) writes...

>On that note, have you ever heard the one about the house behind the farm
>couple in Grant Wood's "American Gothic"? Supposedly it's a house of "ill
>repute"... PV

As I recall, Tom and Roseanne Arnold recently purchased the Iowa farm on which
that house is (or was) situated.

 - snopes

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: kkr42091@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (QUEEN ZENOBIA!)
Subject: Re: Mixed up translations
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:12:56 GMT

dolf@echo.philips.nl (Dolf Grunbauer) writes:

>Wasn't some Japanese car no success in Spain because it's type name is
>something like masturbation in spanish ?

>Once FIAT (Italian cars) tried some car called Croma on our dutch market,
>but we already have (some sort of) butter called croma, so the car was
>no big success.

>Didn't one of the advertisments of Coca Cola or Pepsi which was something
>like: "brings back the youth in you" or "for a new generation" translated
>into Chinese wrongly and when translated back to english it was something
>like: "Brings back all your (dead) ancestors"

And the Grapes of Wrath book by Steinbeck was translated as The Angry Raisins.

I dont remember if into Chinese or Japanese, but i believe Chinese.
-kimberli roan

>Dolf
>-- 
>   _ _
>  / U | Dolf Grunbauer    E.C.H.O. Development    Digital Equipment Enterprises
> /__'<  dolf@echo.philips.nl  dolf@toet.echo.tds.philips.nl
>88  |_\ mcsun!echo.philips.nl!dolf                         Was Dat voor niets ?
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Radar Cars (was: stupid cop tricks & t)
From: rdale@cstp.umkc.edu
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 05:20:36 GMT
 <1992Sep16.223135.15976@rchland.ibm.com> <1992Sep17.185227.26488@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <1992Sep22.105848.15676@garland.bt.co.uk>
Organization: UM - Kansas City, Computer Science

> cars and take a freeze frame image of the number. I think the legal
> flaw in this system is that the DRIVER is legally responsible, not 
> the owner. If you can inject some doubt as to whether you were actually

	The local tax-vaccuming city government is looking into buying
(a/an?) such a unit.  The company that sells them requires a $50,000
non-refundable deposit.  If the city doesn't buy the unit, it's out
the fifty grand.  That's an awful lot of tickets!

	There are several problems.  The person driving the car may not
be the owner.  If the driver is wearing a disguise (ahem!), then the
owner may be asked to ID the driver.  If he/she can't do it, the ticket
is thrown out.  Also, and this is the big one -- the unit does NOTHING
for enforcement.  The speeder goes merrily on his way.  The big fear
of speeding is seeing that patrol car pull you over.  It slows down the
rest of the traffic, too.  Take away that patrol car and you don't slow
down the speeders.  You also don't catch the drunk drivers, either.

	One of the stories circulating is that a California (maybe it
was Oregon) driver received a ticket and a picture of his car.  He
sent the police a picture of a $50 bill.  They sent him a picture of
some handcuffs, and he paid the fine.  Pretty funny!  I can't verify it,
though.  I recall reading it in the RADAR newsletter, though.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: jlb10@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Subject: Re: Make a friend today, send a postcard to Oz ...
Reply-To: jlb10@cl.cam.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:31:02 GMT

The following message was posted all over soc.culture.* groups.

I think this guy deserves death by Shergoldification.

John

In article <1992Sep30.043352.8464@cc.uow.edu.au>, bernd@cc.uow.edu.au
(Bernd Wechner) writes:
|> I just started to stick some old postcards on the wall at home and found
|> it growing into a very interesting collage, or wallpaper of sorts even. A 
|> great deal of interest value and a dash of nostalgia for me personally as 
|> well. Now although I had a fair stack, I was a little surprised at
how small 
|> a postcard is and how large a wall is. 
|> 
|> So, I'd like to invite you to send me a postcard for which I will:
|> 
|> a) be eternally grateful
|> b) send one back (if desired)
|> c) invite you around for a cup of tea, a chat and even to stay a few days 
|>    (if you like ...)
|> 
|> Just think, you'll make your mark on my wall, and my life, and maybe
|> even make a friend for life. Or then again, maybe just a postcard for
|> your own wall ;-).
|> 
|> To join the revolution, just mail a postcard to me here:
|> 
|> Bernd Wechner
|> 5 Charles Avenue
|> Minnamurra 2532
|> Australia
|> 
|> Remembering to include your own name and address if you like and see
|> what interesting things you can add to that. 
|> 
|> All the best then, and here's hoping we have some friendly people with
|> some motivation in the audience tonight ;-).
|> 
|> Ciao,
|> 
|> Bernd.

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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.fandom,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Date: 1 Oct 92 04:50:24 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Sep30.160714.28668@oracle.us.oracle.com> mfriedma@uucp (Michael Friedman) writes:

>
>What really got me was how in the years since the twentieth century
>they apparently lost the secret of seatbelts.

Didn't the CAGE ST:pilot have seat restraints?

cjl
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: pratta@rpi.edu (Anthony Edward Prattico)
Subject: Re: the weight of the water
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
	<1686EE9CD.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU>
	<schumach.717637767@convex.convex.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 02:56:11 GMT

In article <schumach.717637767@convex.convex.com> schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:

>In <1686EE9CD.MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU> MJFORRES@SUVM.SYR.EDU (maurice) writes:
>> 
>>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.
>
>Indeed. I never saw an emergency shower with a drain at Caltech
>or at U of WI/Madison, either.

RPI doesn't have drains for the hall showers, but I imagine that in other 
places, like the clean room, they must to prevent contamination.
From: catstyle@deja-vu.aiss.uiuc.edu (Jason R. Heimbaugh)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Raunchiest?  General knowledge needed...
Date: 6 Oct 92 00:29:20 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

From alt.sex.movies:

In article <1aonpkINNdtv@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> tyu@ecst.csuchico.edu (    ) writes:
>>  I know it's a little off-topic, but I'm wondering (generally) what's the
>>raunchiest thing they can show in a pornographic magazine?  I know ejaculate,
>
>I was looking at a Hustler mag when I was a kid, about 13, and they were
>doing a pic./article about Time Sq. N.Y.  porn rap booth called
>talk to a dead girl, or feel a dead girl, something like that,
>they had a very pretty body of a dead girl with a cute pink
>embalming fluid in her, and all made up, so guys can reach into
>the hole in the glass to feel her up, then masturbate. 
>I don't think that was raunchy since I see pictures of dead girls
>in Time mag when they do articles about Central American war or
>other wars. But it was out of the ordinary, It would have been
>more raunchy if the body was dismembered or something so people
>could ejaculate at the concept but any way ... dead girls don't
>turn me on, they are very cold and feel like play dough.

Where's doc?  I'm sure this meets his criteria for a snuff film.

CatStyle
jrh@uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: "Lost In Space" was better
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:39:10 GMT

In article <pM2-ZX-@engin.umich.edu> ldoering@engin.umich.edu (Laurence Doering) writes:
>
>Larry "Och, Cap'n, I tried shovin' a weiner in the warp drive, but it 
>didna' do a bit of good.  Would you happen to have a wee bit of mustard
>on the bridge?" Doering

Analysis Mr. Schlock?

It would appear that Mr. Snot will have to eat his weiner without mustard.

cj "see ya on Hollywood Squares" l

obGoal: Bleached Blonde in Red Convertible on Planet Schwartz.

obQuote: "Aint I somethin'?" Captain Jerk.

I'm a doctor, not a scriptwriter.
From: PAPAI@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Jonathan Papai)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Is the electric chair an Edison publicity stunt?
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:42:09 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University


Exerpt from _The Columbus Dispatch_   (a "legendary" paper)
Saturday, September 26,1992  p. 3C.

Headline: Inmates help revive man shocked by electric chair
Author: Jim Massie
Affiliation: Dispatch Staff Reporter

Two prisoners helped revive a prison employee who was shocked
while doing maintenance work on the electric chair in the
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility near Lucasville.

[chair known as Old Sparky, JPP]

.... "He was working to refurbish the execution equipment and
received a shock, " Kornegay said.  " Two inmates helped in
responding to it.  The employee did manual resuscitation.  The
two inmates did mouth-to-mouth."

"We are preparing for an execution, not a particular execution but
an execution," Kornegay said.  "We routinely have execution dates
that come and go because all of the inmates involved are in
various stages of appeals."

She said 118 men and three women are awaiting execution in Ohio.
The states last execution was March 1963 in the Ohio
Penitentiary.

[end exerpt]

ObFact: O. Henry did time in the old Ohio Penitentiary.


J.P. "You took out the fuses, didn't you? " Papai
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From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Disco "Snuff" Recording?
Date: 27 Sep 92 00:53:14 GMT
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1992Sep26.173524.29974@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <1992Sep26.061423.19757@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>obJamesBondFact: Charles Lasner is not related to George Lazenby, the only
>>one-shot James Bond in the popular series of movies.
>
>Don't forget Woody Allen.

Or David Niven or Peter Sellers or William Holden or Charles Boyer or even
Orson Welles (who won't play James Bond before his time).  Most people
don't consider "Casino Royale" (the movie) to be part of the popular movie
series, since it's a parody of them.

ob Hollywoodfact: I am related to someone semi-famous in Hollywood.  My 
mother's first cousin was Helen Mack, whose most famous role is starring in
Son of Kong with Robert Armstrong, star of the original King Kong (and
also Mighty Joe Young).  Fay Wray refused to do the sequel, thus giving Helen
her "big break".  Bruce Cabot, the hero of King Kong and Helen Mack made a
*** movie in 1939 The Mystery of the White Room, arguably her best film.
Interestingly enough, the director of all three of the Robert Armstrong
monkey movies was Ernest B. Schoedsack, who is credited with giving a career
start to a young special-effects man who worked with those who did King Kong,
named Ray Harryhausen.  Ray Harryhausen is generally considered the "source"
for all SFX people today (Douglas Trumbull, John Dykstra, etc. will pay
homage to Ray Harryhausen as their mentor, etc.  These are the men who
did the effects in 2001, Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.)

cjl
From: larryh@cabezon.uucp (Larry Huntley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: gary larson committed
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:00:25 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Logic Modeling Inc of Beaverton Oregon

In article <1992Oct5.120346.5106@ms.uky.edu> fehr@ms.uky.edu (Jeff Davis) writes:
>-- 
>Coach Jeff Davis <davis@keats.ca.uky.edu> Season: 1-5 Lifetime: 1-7
>Ask me about my 1 game win streak!

	So, Jeff; how about this one-game winning streak?  How long did
	it last?

	- Larry Huntley
-- 
         (larryh@lmc.com)         | She made champagne out of 7-Up and
     Logic Modeling Corporation   |       cheap wine.  A chemist! 
          Beaverton,  OR          |  - "Earth To Doris" [Was (Not Was)]